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openAsian movie, man drugs kids and kidnaps them Film
Hey guys, I am looking for an Asian movie where a guy kidnapped children, drugging them with a psychedelic mushroom soup. (it might also have a sequence where he gets a kid into a washing machine and closes the door, but we are not sure) Thanks in advance.
openA show for little kids to learn about words Film
When I was a kid, I watched this show where all the characters were storybook characters, except for the main character, his name was Wyatt. There was a team of kids, he was the leader. Someone else on the team was the princess from the princess and the pea. They did lots of spelling and stuff to teach little kids
openCat anime!!! PLEASE HELP
I'm not really sure what it's from, but it aired in the U.S. and was about this group of human shaped cats with little pets and this evil guy with a spiky large nose with an octopus or a cat or something as a sidekick. At the end of each episode the evil guy's ship thing would always sink. It was a very interesting..style of animation. It was a kids show, and the main characters would become a robot or something to save the city.
openClip From Creature Feature Song Music
So, there's a sound clip that plays during the Creature Feature song "Bound and Gagged", and I really want to know where it's from. The clip in question plays at the 1:52 mark, up until 2:03. If it helps, it may have come from a brief snippet of whatever was shown in this fanmade music video at that point in the song. (Around 1:56-2:01 in the music video.)
openEducational show with robot protagonists
I cannot really remember where I used to watch this show, but it was an educational show where 3 robots lived up in a spaceship orbiting Earth. Every episode, they would send a spherical ship piloted by one of the robots and research about phenomena on Earth. They where by themselves small enough that they looked like toys and people wouldn't notice them, specially since they where just using footage. I cannot remember anything else besides 2 episodes:
- The spherical ship got hit by a thunder and got thrown out close to a garbage can. The other 2 robots on the spaceship would try to find a way to return him to he mothership, which was only through an emergency return lever that got turned heads down due to the crash. Here, they teach about circuits. - The robot inside the spherical ship noticed that it goes through a lot of turbulance when going too fast. They then research about aerodynamics, about how different forms "cut" air, and how turbulance is generated by small "tornadoes" on the tail of each form when seen through a wind tunnel. When they tried with the "airplane" shape, it was seen that it cut air perfectly.
Edited by RockcrimsonopenDepressing Coming of Age YA novel Literature
I read this as a kid, and it left a big mark on me but I don't remember the name. The main character is a 12-year-old whose pride and joy is his bottle cap collection, which fills up his entire basement. When he turns 13, his father decides that this is a childish hobby and gets rid of it. The family sells the bottlecaps to a scrap metal dealer, who rips them off. At this point the protagonist gets pretty despondent. He doesn't really have any friends, but he goes to the mall and bums around with some people, and starts smoking cigarettes. This part introduces us to the nihilism of adulthood. After some crazy antics at the mall, he comes home, and the book ends on a sort of positive note- he manages to meet a few kids who are as unhappy as him, and finds some solace.
I think the book was written in the '80's, but not sure. It was definitely written before say 2002.
openTV screens with angels on them Live Action TV
My boss at work is trying to recall a TV science fiction series, probably British, around year 2000 or so.
She claims that it starts someone who looked like Peter Capaldi (roughly how he looked in Neverwhere era) as a private investigator who used multiple rooms of televisions/computers on each of which was an 'angel' avatar named Michael, Gabriel, etc.
No idea how many of those memories are correct, of course! She's pretty adamant tthey're right.
openLooking for a cartoon that I saw a decade ago Western Animation
I am looking for this cartoon that I saw like a decade ago, I don't remember much, all I remember is that the main characters were tools or items that were alive and running around. Like vacuum cleaners, couches and such. The drawing style of the cartoon was not like modern anime, the drawing was more like the old Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny cartoons. It was up and running at least from 2006, so that should eliminate quite a few candidates. Sorry for the lack of details, I really don't remember anything else : P
Edited by zvezda777openAlternate Dimension Fantasy Manga Anime
Ok, so I know that the medium says Anime, but I know this was a manga. My buddy lent it to me a while ago, and I since have moved away from him and cannot find a copy of it, or even remember what it was called.
So, it was about a girl who somehow gets transported to an alternate, magic friendly fantasy dimension. You know the type, kings, queens,dragons, dwarves, horses, fortresses, magic and swords. (See what I did there?) But anyways, she meets an elf sorceress who is on the verge of being killed, and the elf merges with the human chick. Time skip back to the human world, and every time the human girl blushes she transforms into the elf sorceress. I can't remember much else, but I do remember that I only read the first volume.
openA TRG LP
I remember that in one LP by The Runaway Guys, someone asks a question, to which Chugga replies (complete with a dumb voice) "Gee, I don't know. Let's look up Gamefaqs!", and Jon says something about people just watching them reading Game FA Qs. Does anyone know which series this exchange happened in? Or, better yet, which episode of said series?
openBook about family - father died in accident Literature
There is a book I read in mid 90ties (translated in obscure European language, so original might be even older) about a family with maybe 3 kids, oldest boy imho was main protagonist. The father had just died in car crash and there were some suspicions that car crash was not an accident. I think boy maybe were suspecting the mothers new boyfriend. Also there were a rhyme they sang and I cannot get it out of my head for decades. Since it is translated, I cannot find it, but it goes something like this "On Capri island sun, last pepper bell was iddling" Anyone, please?
open3d animated hasbro cartoon from 97 that mom doesnt remember much about Western Animation
there was this cartoon probably made by hasbro during 1997 that my mom doesnt remember much about. here is all she could remember of it: 1.it was 3d-animated, so that cancels out MLP. 2.it was set in prehistoric earth 3.it was about two factions locked in war 4.there was one of the bad guys who was an t-rex robot and 5.that same guy said"yessss" all the time. my little brother's cartoon block airs this very show that mom doesnt remember. he remembers that it is connected with another cartoon of hasbro's from 1984.and as i said, its not MLP. he knows most of the bad guy's names. i think its well-known because it won an award or so, so its fairly easy to find info on it.
openOh god please help
Okay so I've been trying for the better part of a decade to remember what this cartoon is...it aired either in the late nineties or early 2000s on Teletoon, and it was about a white stag (deer? That was strangely female despite the antlers?) who was rescued by a man. She offered either to grant him wishes or come to his rescue if he was ever in peril, something along those lines. Naturally, he'd end up in some peril at least once an episode, and the white stag would have to come save him. I believe the name of the show was the same name as the white stag.
It might have been originally from the 1970s or 1960s, possibly Russian or Japanese in origin and dubbed into English.
openHelp me. I think I’m mad Western Animation
So there was a kids show that was on Netflix around 2011 but was removed some time after. Like a few years i mean. I’ve been trying to remember the name for ages and it’s gotten to the point i have a small feeling it may have all been some kind of figment of my imagination. So please help. The show was about this boy who found a stone in his dad or grandad’s chest. Inside the stone was this panda dog looking monster that could become life sized and move when the person who holds it has imagination. Only in this odd world they could go to. I think the main character had two friends and they could get more stones by making monsters want to work with them. They had a few episodes i could remember. There was one where a suspected ghost haunted a castle or something but it turned out to be a monster or something, another episode were a town was about to be destroyed by a storm or something then the character’s learned how to make car window glass to protect the town and another one was when they were on a mountain with a snowstorm and they learned how to make an igloo and how it works. Then they meet a centipede monster and get it in a stone.
open'Mons genre cartoon/anime Western Animation
I'm not sure if it was a western cartoon or an eastern one, but I remember a Mons genre show airing on some channel. I remember it being The Hub (now Discovery Family). The main characters summoned monsters via summoning circles, at least at first. They also had an adult watching them summon monsters. Each monster had some kind of element, and they were given unique names by the summoner. I remember a girl named a purple monster Squeaky, and a boy named his monster something like Stinky, but I don't remember what it looked like. There was an episode where something was going on with a civilization of people who hated monsters of a particular element. When the girl summoned Squeaky, the people turned on her for having a monster of the element they hated.
openX-Men book about an Invisible Student Literature
It was about a student at the school, he was invisible and almost undetectable unless you knew he was there. He wrote a blog about himself and what was happening around him. At some point he snuck on a mission with Wolverine and someone (I think Angel); and near the end of the book he followed Wolverine as he left to go fight Sabertooth (An annual thing they do) and learns that Logan could always smell him. The kid was an artist (Using fanart/comic art). I'm pretty sure Cannonball was in the book too.
openGirl is hiding from her reflection in the mirror Live Action TV
Hello this was a long time ago when i saw this, but it was on TV. I don't know if it was a TV show or a movie, but the theme was horror i believe. There's a scene where a guy walks into this room and he see's a girl hiding in her room from a reflection in the mirror and it's the girl's reflection. The reflection of the girl looks angry. This is where i'm not quite certain, but the guy convinces her to either leave the room with him or confront her reflection in the mirror. That's all i can remember. Any ideas? Also i'm pretty sure it was from around the 80's possibly.
openOld cartoon network show I believe Western Animation
I remember watching a show where a kid was friends with aliens who lived in his attic or something similar and in one episode they went into the kids head and he had an brain freeze which almost froze them
openDisney Channel or Fox Family movie, 1990s, about wishing Film
I think I saw it on Disney Channel or Fox Family, 1999-2000ish. There were two sisters, the younger of whom wanted to wish upon a star, but it was daytime. Older sister suggested she wish upon the sun, since it's a star. She does so wearing sunglasses and recites the rhyme "star light, star bright, first star I see today." There was a scene afterward where a high school boy is getting bullied because someone snuck a Barbie doll into the back of his bookbag.
I remember watching this cartoon that took place in space. I think the main character of it was a green alien and there was some brain or cloud with glasses. I also remember that the main character had a younger sister with a spot on her forehead that would glow when she was using some kind of psychic power. I also remember that in one episode the main character's little sister was messing everything up because she was "sick" or something and couldn't use her psychic powers or whatever they were.