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openEarl grey tea commercial Live Action TV
A You Tube commercial I used to see all the time, for a tea company, in which this dude was dressed as like an 18th century aristocrat called "Lord Earl Grey" and gets punched out by a regular looking dude. The regular dude then says something about how people who feel intimidated by fancy tea companies should buy from this company instead.
openShow about a girl who was trained to be a violinist by a deaf man. Live Action TV
I vaguely remember this show that took place in Asia about a girl who was taught to play a violin by a deaf man. The girls rival got jealous and paid someone to beat up the deaf guy
open Dutch edutainment series Live Action TV
I'm looking for the name of a Dutch edutainment series, I remember seeing in the 90's. It was a puppet show with and human that taught about computers. As far as I know the human main character was caught in the computer world and only returned to the "real world" in the last episode after being deleted for not being useful. I'm pretty sure the series was a Spiritual Successor to Ik Mik Lore Land
, or at least aired after Ik Mik Lore Land had ended
openBusy boss babe has to hire a lover to seed her. Live Action TV
A made-for-TV movie about a busy chief of a company who's so busy running the place that she's too tired to date. Wanting a baby before menopause kicks in, she actually hires a stud to be on staff. His whole purpose is to provide fresh baby batter, and he's made to take a fertility test during hiring. The boss lady is a raven haired no-nonsense type similar to Stephanie Zimbalist, and the stud she hires is a ruggedly handsome type that isn't a Casanova Wannabe, similar to Gil Gerard.
openTime Traveller Needs Rare Ingredients Live Action TV
Someone from the past travels into the present day. They need to make a potion or spell of some kind but they tell the person in the present that the ingredients are impossible to get.
It then turns out the ingredients are all common spices in the present day (things like saffron, nutmeg etc) and they were just very rare and hard to get in his time.
I think the spell was needed to defeat or trap a villain.
openTV sub-plot Live Action TV
All i can remember of this show was the sub-plot. They went to the one of the female characters hometown for an episode and discover that she was a pagent queen. The female character and her mother had a strained relationship because of it. It seemed the mother was using the pagents to make the dad come back or something like that. eventually the situation did come to a head, and the female character ended up going off on her mom.
openold british series for kids ? Live Action TV
really cant recal much about it, not even sure if it was only a movie, or multi episode tv series. But it was around early 90ties and had a british (definitely european) feel to the programme. The plot seemed to be around monster like adults chasing children around an old house and nearby land. The 'monsters' were something like a snail humans? i recall them dripping water or slime? and the kids had som magic stones that they needed to hold for protection? under some circumstances the stones emmited a rainbow and the rainbow from 2 (not sure if 2 or more) stones had to join in the air in order to win over the monsters
openAsian live action kids show with a yellow mascot Live Action TV
The stand-out memory is the two mascot characters- one yellow and one orange. They looked vaguely doglike with hats and sneakers. It also featured human characters and musical numbers (there was one such segment with a young woman and an old man dressed up in frog suits). I would have seen it around 2006-2008.
The mascot looked like this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/YwVvXxR
(My very own artistic depiction)
openLive Show Within a Show Gets Censored Live Action TV
I'm pretty sure I saw this when Malcolm in the Middle was on my living room TV one time. A scene took place at a live show, and a word sung by the performers got bleeped out.
openA Weird Sketch Comedy Special Live Action TV
For years I have tried to find this comedy special that I can remember watching once as a kid on TV, so it was probably in the 90s or very early 2000s. I'm fairly certain it was a one night special and not a show with multiple episodes. It had different sketches with different mediums. I can vaguely remember a framing device connecting the different sketches, which was a kid in a bedroom watching the sketches, or maybe playing them as a game, on his computer.
There was a live action sketch that I think was shown in multiple parts throughout the special. There was a guy inside a booth, I think he might've been an attendant at a parking garage or a gas station. Somebody would come up to him with a complaint about something, and then he would be incredibly annoying and unhelpful. One of the people complaining turned out to be a locksmith, and at the end of the sketch, he figured out how to get into the booth and all the people that complained earlier rushed in and beat the attendant up.
There was a parody of Gumby, called Gumbo, who was animated in claymation. He was made of Gumbo, or something really spicy, and he was in some kind of restaurant, and for fun he would rub himself onto the bread of some of the customer's sandwiches then run off, and then watch as the customers ate the sandwich and their mouth would catch on fire.
Another sketch was done in CGI and parodied fighting games at the time. The sketch was in first person, like a first person video game, and the player character had to fight some muscular tough guy in an arena. They get to choose their own weapons, and the muscular character got to choose between a bunch of guns and explosives, while the player character had to choose between gag weapons, like a feather, or something.
And I can also remember the special ending with characters from all the sketches dancing in the boy's room from the framing device. Please tell me this actually exists and I didn't make it all up.
opentrue story episode Live Action TV
Hello,done around mid 2010s, early 2010s,this case episode it was about a guy who went to a party with his girlfriend in an animal costume (he wasn't a furry) then brought his girlfriend, and took her to these parties, but then to a of these he cheated on his girlfriend with another, she found out and they broke up, does anyone know what the episode of true story is?
open90s British Science Show for Kids Live Action TV
Hiya everyone. There was this really great science show for children that ran in the UK some time in the mid to late-90s. It was presented by an older British guy who got around on a bike while wearing a bright pink bicycle helmet. Of the things he demonstrated I remember one where he poured wax over mercury to show how completely smooth mirrors started being made, and another one where he showed how physicists discovered the existence of the nucleus using gold. It was really good, but I've never found anyone outside my immediate family who remembers it and I've searched for it (even just the title!) online every way I can think of but no dice. Anyone have a clue? Thanks for any help.
openCollege Murder Mystery Show Live Action TV
Please help me find this one show. It was about this blonde girl who gets pushed off a balcony and dies at a party and her friends are all suspects. Each episode focuses on everyone’s motive for why they could potentially be the killer. One character was trans and the dead girl found out about it. Another character used to be her friend but she got her mom fired. Another guy was lying about coming from a rich family and the girl found out about it. Another guy was a famous actor or something and they were dating and he thought she was pregnant. Also the killer ended up being the main character who we follow through out the series. Her reasoning for killing her was that she had a best friend who committed suicide because of the blonde girl and she wanted revenge. Also there was a guy who had schizophrenia and was always recording things and he and the main girl get into a relationship. Please help me. I’ve been trying to find this for so long but I’ve gotten no luck.
opendetective/criminal involved show Live Action TV
I've seen en episode of a TV show but I don't remember what it was exactly.
Part of the story is as follows:
A lawyer comes to visit the protagonists.
A rich man died and left a will to display his diamonds for Christmas at local museum.
Lawyer worries about gems to be stolen and asks for increased security.
During the exhibition, a young child with his grandmother tries to touch the jewelry.
This immediatly gets attention of people but it was not a theft. Just small happening.
When the exhibition is over and the jewelry is checked, it turns out to be fake!
The culprit who stole the jewels turns out to be the lawyer.
Progagonists point the lawyer because all information about the story (a rich man, diamond, a will... ect.) was only coming from the lawyer and He was in position of advantage to infrom the case and therefore can easily manipulate the scene.
The lawyer gave some money to the kid and made him touch the diamond. This is revealed after the case is solved.
I thought it was 'White Collar (USA network, 2009~2014)', but I guess not.
Thank you for all your efforts in advence!
openDown on the bayou! Live Action TV
This could possibly have been a sketch in an ensemble kids show, maybe Nickelodeon, possibly 90s/early 00s, though that could all be wrong, tbh. Literally all I remember is the running gag was an exaggerated exclamation of "down on the bayou!"
openAustralian kids tv show, maybe supernatural Live Action TV
Lol accidentally posted this in the wrong forum first
Im trying to remember an Australian kids show from late 90s/early 2000s. I don’t remember the premise at all but it was definitely set in a beach town and centred around a group of kids who might have been cursed by a sea star/shell artefact thing? There was also definitely an episode where the main characters brother got the bends after diving and he has to spend a couple of episodes in a pressurised chamber thing. Definitely not Ocean Girl or Round the Twist!
openSome british sitcom Live Action TV
I can't remember much about it. I do remember there was an episode that parodied The Prisoner and the main guy gets increasingly annoyed with the white ball following him around. I think in the beginning of the episode he crank calls a plumber in the middle of the night about a bad leek (yes, a leek) in the bathroom, but I might be mixing up shows or episodes there.
openCannibal Woman Who Lives in a Cave Live Action TV
I've searched everywhere on the entire internet and cannot find the show/movie this scene is from. To the best of my recollection there were 2 guys who were in a forest or jungle and they come across a cave. A normal-looking woman lives inside and invites them in for food. She gets some meat and brings it back to them and they begin to eat it. One guy remarks how good it tastes and the other sees that a piece of meat has a tattoo on it, indicating they're eating a person. They look at the woman, who smiles and shows that she has sharp cannibal-point teeth. The men freak out and run away and see other people tied up in the cave as they try to escape. The woman laughs in the background. I was born in 1990 and I was a kid when I saw this, so it's from 2000/2001 at the latest. There's a scene from Wrong Turn 2 that's similar to this, as well as Green Inferno, but those aren't what I'm looking for. Someone on TOMT said they vaguely remember the scene and think it's from some dark fantasy or sci-fi show. Thanks!
openFamily in a tend Live Action TV
I'll explain to you, as a child in the early 2010s, or saw on TV a scene of a man with children in a tent,they were in a room of their house, and at a certain point, inside an animal, and then each scene showed a shot of an animal different from the other, the only one I remember is a parrot, perhaps white,please help me find.

its lowkey live action and animated so theres this groups of friends that are teens 3 boys and 1 girl or 2 boys and 1 girl where they find a game where they use a vr headset to transport into this vr game where they have their own vr characters i think they are a band as well, anyhow they all wield music instruments as weapon the girl uses a microphone to sing and scream and guys uses guitar and drums(a bit sexist why can't girls play the guitar or drums anyways) where the sound waves help them kill or idk zombies they also encounter other bands/groups that wield music instruments and they fight and compete what so ever i hope u can find it ive been going crazy i know its not a lot of description is the best i can do