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I'm looking for a movie that was either early 90's maybe 80's that had people dressed as evil birds that swooped down on these children in a park as they ran for a white door. The door was standing alone in the park. I originally thought it was from the labyrinth but I reviewed the movie and couldn't find the scene. I think there may have been a large teapot in it too. Please help.
Come to think of it they may have been ducks that were trying to kidnap the children. I think it may have been a brother and sister in the story. I think there was one nice duck that was helping the kids escape but my memory is fuzzy as I was only really little at the time.
I'm pretty sure the ducks were wearing clothes and I think there were royal ducks with guard ducks too.
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A children's special on Passover that aired on PBS 10-17 years ago. I remember it had puppets, Jim Henson style (and no, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Sesame Street special), and they told the story of Moses. I distinctly remember the scene where they get the lambs' blood to put on the doorways, it looked something like this◊.
And I'm not 100% positive on this, but I feel like there was a framing device where the puppets were with real people at a Seder and the puppet who played Moses asked what Passover was all about, so they launched into the story.
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Bumping this from the ykts archive. Can anyone identify it from Buck Rogers or anywhere else? I seem to recall that the speaker who identified the "homemade apple pie" had something of a US southern drawl (whether it was the character or the actor I don't remember).
Original query: A Sci-Fi TV series from the '70s; don't think it was Buck Rogers In The25th Century or Battlestar Galactica but it was in that same genre/timeframe. Protagonists had a really big ship, and in their arboredum they had the only apple trees left anywhere. They served it to some guest humans once.
- This is delicious. What do you call this?Homemade apple pie.
Response #1
- Possibly The Starlost? It's got a Big Ship and arboretum-like domes, but I don't recall anything about apples. [2013 response to response: I'm pretty sure it's not this.]
Response #2
- Actually, I seem to recall that being Buck Rogers. I think I have that episode on tape somewhere and I distinctly remember that line.
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Short lived tv series from one of the US networks, I think was in the mid-90s. It was a Law Procedural which took place in the then-near future, anywhere from the late 2000s to maybe 2030?
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There was this one series of shorts, probably made in flash, that I saw earlier than 2008. The main character was this yellow guy, stocky with no clothes on, really cartoonish, like a comic strip character. One scene had him climb out of a house or something, then it grows big and starts chasing him like a dog. In one scene he loses all of his skin and only his skeleton remained, but then his skin came back like a big ball of putty and slowly and fluidly engulfed his skeleton, bringing him back to life (it was gorgeously animated and kind of trippy). He had a car that comes to life, and at the tail end of one of the shorts, it stands on his hind wheels and gives the main character a hug. It didn't have much of a plot: the scene was always changing, there was no background, just solid blue. It felt sort of like the animator was using the cartoon as an excuse to show off his awesome flash skills. The shorts were hosted on a professional website, probably the website of the animator himself, but I don't know if you could find the shorts on youtube or newgrounds or something.
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i would really appreciate your help. The show i am searching for was from the early 80's. Im from Australia, and it was on in weekday afternoons on ABC. If anyone is familiar with ABC afternoon shows back then, they usually aired shows for the younger audience earlier, then shows suited more to young teens. this was in the young teen bracket. i think it was on around the same time as chocky. I can remember it being a BBC Thames production, but i could be wrong. From what i remember the show had a dark, horror/paranormal feel to it. It was a live action television series. The two main characters were a young boy and girl. The show took place in an English country town near the sea. There were some evil slime monsters that looked about the size and shape of a hay stack - they were green and made a noise like spit being forced back and forward through clenched teeth (sorry). I can remember they traveled through slime tunnels and i think the children could access these tunnels through hollow trees. I think i remember the children both had a glowing stone each - the boys was a light blue and the girls was pink. I think there were also adults trying to catch the children who could turn into slime creatures too. They could access the slime tunnels from the ocean. I can remember a scene with one of the adults half transformed into a slime creature and his head was a big blob of green slime. I think the children could also keep the slime creatures at bay with the gems. im unsure. I think in the slime tunnels you could also see tree roots. The monsters and special effects were not CGI. I appreciate anyone taking the time to read this and i hope someone could help identifying this show. i have searched for years trying to find some trace of this show. I have found 2 possible entries on the internet from people asking about this series, both times the people were deeply affected by their memories of this show. It was terrifying.
EDIT - huh actually just stumbled on it.... After 20 odd years of searching - under the mountain.
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Does anyone remember a Sesame Street special about a star falling from the sky and then befriending Big Bird? (The star, once fallen, is a girl.) Maybe a Christmas special? Probably late 1970s.
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I remember watching this animated movie as a kid, so it most likely came out in the 90s. It was about this group of animals living in a forest. One of them was a skunk and her parents were killed by this gas or something that had been released in the forest. The skunk went to their home to find them and she was almost killed by it too but the other animals saved her.
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This may have been an animated film, but I'm pretty sure it was an animated TV series. All I can remember from it was that there was a villain with powers centering around water, and at the end of the episode I remember, he'd been captured, with guards proudly boasting he'd never be able to escape from here. The camera pans over to a small table in the cell, with a glass of water standing on it, which begins to rise and contort...with the obvious implication that he's going to escape immediately after the episode's end.
I'm quite fuzzy on those details too, I'm afraid. He might have had the power of plants instead, and dropped a seed into a glass of water, which rose and grew...all I can remember is that a villain escaped from prison off-screen using a glass of water.
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I remember reading a book in 2002-2004. I believe it was a children's book about a girl with voluntary mutism, probably about 300 pages long. The girl lived near a lake or the ocean and one time she was on it in a storm with her father. He told her to be quiet until he returned, but he died before coming back, and so years later the girl still hadn't spoken. The only other parts I remember are her going fishing [and maybe putting the fish on a stick/in a bucket on a stick?] and remembering herself singing in her church choir and wondering what she would sound like currently. The cover might have had a night sky on it, but I could be confusing it with a different book.
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I have three:
1. I read a really weird book when I was about nine-ish (so around 2003) about a boy whose parents were sick, so he went to live with an older male relative. His parents both had a disease that made them smell like waterbottles(?) And turn yellow. They were prescribed 'happy pills' and ate ice cubes shaped like presidents. I think the relative lived in the wardrobe. Then... I think their house burned down and they just hid in the bathroom and took 'happy pills'. I don't know if they died or not. And the butler knew that they were in a book. It was very strange. They were shortish chapter books and I think there were three of them.
2. I also remember a book about a girl with really huge eyes who was switched at birth with a boy from a really boring family. She had a thing where when people winked at her she HAD to wink back and when she went to meet her real dad he knew it and winked at her to prove that she was his daughter. But no one had ever winked at her before so she didn't know. And she had an aunt who lived in a house made of books and she had to answer questions about books to get in. That's all I remember. It sounds a bit odd now.
3. The last one is a short story from a collection of scary stories for children. It was about mannequins in a mall that only moved when the protagonist blinked or the lights went out, like weeping angels. I think he snuck into the mall at night on a dare.
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Need help to identify 80s children TV series...
Bits and pieces incl:
- Boy and girl protagonists who do not know each other
- Both had visions of an alien city of sorts, one sketched it out and the other sculpted it or made a model
- They finally met as they travelled to sort out the vision
- Both had a stone/gem
- They threw their stones which met in an arc in the sky (countryside setting)
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I remember this as a kid's book, but judging by the illustration quality and the impression that you're just supposed to know who these characters are, it could well be a cartoon tie-in. There's a cat who hangs around a junkyard with his gang, one of whom is purple and named Laverne, and he vies for the affection of a female cat with his rival.
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There was this one anime featuring RobotGirls using The Powerof Rock, and it aired around 2011-2012. I remember there was a page for it, but I'm not having any luck.
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Hi guys, im from Barcelona and i need some help!!
For many many i've been trying to remember a cartoon movie i watched on the 80's, i was 5 or so, and so i cant remember much...Just that:
- the main character was the youngest of two brothers - the young one was weak, short, ugly, with moustache...the other was the opposite - both were superheroes and dressed a red suite, superman style... - instead of the "S", their suites had a thunderbolt or similar - they had to rescue a princess from a tower - the tower was on an island full of guided rockets thad had an eye in their point - the rockets didnt explode, but somehow they could poke and hypnotize you
Now that i've written it, sounds reeeeeally weird!!! :p but i hope someone can help me with that!!!
Gracias!!!
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I believe it was a movie in the late 90's or the early 2000's. There's a man, his wife, and young son/daughter in the car. They are smiling happily until suddenly a truck hits the car. I think this was a flashback because I vaguely remember the man visiting the graves of his wife and child. Anyone know?
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All right, this one has been bugging me for 20 years. Back when Nickelodeon used to show shorts as filler when they had extra time after a program (like "Housecats", "Grace" and the "Sports Cartoon" series), there's one short I think I only saw once, but which I've always remembered. It had a little boy who was bored or overly imaginative or something, and imagined himself into a huge monster, body part by body part. His older sister walks in and exclaims "Ick!" Then she talks him back into his normal self, gives him a kiss on the cheek, credits roll. I remember the credits having black and white photos of the crew, and the names may have been handwritten. From my memory, the cartoon was animated in a scribbly crayon style, and it may have been voiced by actual kids.
I am almost positive that the sister's exclamation "Ick!" was the title of the short, though my memory can't pin down if it was spelled "Ick!", "Ickk!", "Ikk!" or some other way.
I saw the short back in 1992 or 1993 at the end of an episode of Danger Mouse I had taped, and found it unsettling enough that I rewound the tape to before the short so that the next episode I taped would record over it. I never saw or heard of it again, but when I first watched Aaah! Real Monsters and saw Ickis' ability to get bigger and scarier, for some reason it made me think of that mystery short.
I've spent the last 20 years trying to find out anything about it. Over the years I've asked about it in various places online, and nobody seems to remember it. I think one person mentioned it in a comment on a You Tube video of another Nick filler short (I think it was "Grace"), but the video and the comment have since been deleted. But the fact is that someone else on the Internet besides me mentioned it, so I know I'm not imagining it/going insane.
Does anybody, anybody, remember this Nickelodeon short at all?
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There was a show from what I would believe was the 90s. It had a kid who would I believe enter into a cd for an edutainment show which used the catchphrase knowledge is power a lot. No clue what the name to it was.
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I'm looking for an old animated (70s or 80s) movie from either Korea or China, that tells the story of a girl that lives alone with her father (I think the mother died when she was born or something) and for some reason has to sacrifice her own life in order to save him. The sacrifice involved her throwing herself from a ship in order to calm a sea monster or something, but she is rescue from some kind of mere folk. Their prince later marries her and she visits her father to tall him she is okay. The style was a little similar to Nezha nao hai.
Live action, probably a movie, possibly a TV episode. A kid thinks he's from another planet. Maybe he really is? I don't know. He's an odd-looking little dark-haired boy who wears sunglasses because he can't tolerate the bright sunlight of Earth. His first day of school is a disaster, and there's a scene with the teacher or principal meeting with his parents.