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openStaring someone named Michael Live Action TV
I would believe it is a TV show or movie about a boy named Michael who is homeless and attends an elementary school where after his first day, a family of a different skin color takes him in and then cares for him while Michael try's to be resistant of the parent being so caring towards him. That is all that I remember.
openscary high school where crazy things constantly happen Live Action TV
It was a show where it was a group of friends in school (not sure which grade) and it was haunted/weird stuff just happened and in one episode i remember specifically they went to eat lunch. They saw it was instead full of green slime? If you ate it you would turn into a monster/mutant and their principal or teacher are it and he begins to terrorize them. Weird I know, in another episode I think the school was run over by ants/insects maybe. They all dressed like they were from late 90s to early 2000s. Very dark set, always creepy looking and old.
open1990’s Kids Show Live Action TV
I was almost positive it was an episode of Sesame Street, but it could have been Reading Rainbow. There was an episode where a young girl around 10 or so trains a dog to be a service dog and gives it to someone who is blind. It’s not the recent Brandis Sesame Street episode, but that’s the only thing that comes up when I have attempted to google it. It’s been driving me crazy!
openChildrens tv Live Action TV
I cant find it on google anywhere. It was on citv. Based in a kitchen. Involved many puppets one was metallic silver one was made from a mop. They had a feature in it called ‘in the bin’. Early noughties i think?
openDisney XD/Teen Nick? Live Action TV
It was a show about a blonde boy who had travelled the world. In episodes he recalls things that had happened to him during his travels, such as one episode where he flashes back to his time spent with monks and he slows his heart rate.
openSchool based show where classmates are absorbed into the computer Live Action TV
The classmates are absorbed into the computer, I think it was a game or something but it was about history. It was a boy and a girl. One episode they were in an old jail cell but escaped and at the end jumped off a pier into water. I think the teacher or kids figured out what happened and they also went in to save them.
openKids Show I think? Live Action TV
There was a show that I believe had segments and in between there would be a picture that would start very unclear (different methods were different colors, lasers, etc.) and as the voice over spoke, the picture would be moving side to side, up and down, etc and getting more clear. At the end it would come into focus and tell you what you were looking at. Anyone remember that show? I believe it was the late 80's and it might have been on hbo.
openTrying to remember a TV show, probably from late 90's to mid 2000's Live Action TV
I am trying to remember a TV show I watched as a kid. I remember it being a supernatural show, the main character was a girl, I'm pretty sure, and I remember a few details from some episodes: 1. There was an episode where I think they were playing with a ouiji board, and the name Chad kept coming up for this girl. She looked at her high school records and there was no boy named Chad there. But then one day she is assigned to write a school paper on the country Chad. 2. There was an episode where her bother (maybe?) hits a golf ball through the neighbor window, and he doesn't tell anyone, and it began to haunt him, the window looked like it was an eyeball staring at him, and one night he hears a golf ball upstairs, it comes downstairs and rolls next to him, and it's an eyeball, and then hundreds of golf balls appears and he gets buried in them. He then realizes it was an illusion. 3. There was an episode where the girl is caught in a time loop, on vacation I think. The family stops at a quick stop, and this is the time loop part. Her mom goes to throw away trash, but the bag breaks. Her brother gets his foot caught on something, at the same time the RV loses its breaks and starts rolling backwards. They stop the RV before it runs him over in plenty of time. They leave the pit stop, start driving again, only to come upon the same pit stop and the same things happen. The events keep getting worse, with the RV getting closer and closer to running over the kid. That's all I can remember from the tv show. I've been racking my brain trying to remember what show it is but to no avail. Would love to finally stop trying to figure this out. Any ideas of what this TV show was?
openTv show where character is trying to remember stuff Live Action TV
I’m trying to remember the name of a tv show where one of the characters is trying to remember something (I know, it’s ironic.)
I’m pretty sure that whenever the character remembers something he/she always says the line “I remember something!”
I’m not even sure if this is a movie or a tv show because it’s been so long since I have seen it and I don’t remember anything apart from that.
Thanks!
open2000's hbo kids show about ghost hunting Live Action TV
so there was this show that always startedwith this guy talking about the contestants and the locationand there always two kids per episode and they had to draw straws whoever drew the shorter straw went in first while the other one waited in a van but what happened was they went into these haunted places and whichever kid staid inside the longest would go up a spot to the next person in the chalengeand at the end of each season there was a championship one episode i remeber took place at a lighthouse and the first kid left within the first five minutes
openNon-English New Girl Kids Show Live Action TV
This was a kids (probably aimed at preteens) show which probably aired in the mid to late 2000's. It might have aired on Disney or some other channel. A new Poor Ugly Duckling (glasses, braces, blonde hair in pigtails) move to town with her single mother. She hasn't ever met her father. Falls for the Popular Guy (not sure if he was popular) who is the Rich Mean Girl's boyfriend or something. The usual stuff goes down and there's a costume party for everyone. The love interest and rich girl are wearing Mickey and Minnie themed costumes. I don't remember the main character's. Her mom was dressed as Batwoman or Catwoman or something close. There's a guy dressed as her male counterpart who may have been the mean girl's dad ( I don't remember correctly). The mom used to sing a melody the mysterious dad used to sing. The main character once went to the house of the Batman guy and heard him singing and playing the same tune on the piano. It may have been the other way round, but it was definitely in the guy's house. He was strongly hinted to be her father and was probably the mean girl's father, too. And that is when the show stopped airing in my country (after the costume party). I remember the main character being shown riding a bicycle in the opening theme. It was a drama and I don't think it featured much comedy. The kids were in their early or mid teens.
openDo you remember what this is from? Live Action TV
Ok so im fairly certain this was live tv. It was probably 90s, but it could of been 80s. Theres a bunch of people sitting in some diner and a man goes to the entrance and opens the door to reveal they are in outer space. Do you remember what this was from?
Edited by VulgarVespineopenTV SHOW Live Action TV
I once watched an episode of a TV show and cannot seem to remeber enough details to find it on my own. The episode went like this: There were teenagers (I believe 4 or 5?) and their parents, all lived in a small town (I believe). In the particular episode I watched, two of the teenagers (girl was blonde) that were in a relationship went to a small wooden home (it was also snowing I think), to have sex for the first time. They try it an night, but she got scared and cried, so they just slept. The next morning, they had sex afterall. When the girl went home to her family, her parents asked how she was (they knew she had had sex, but she wasn't aware of it) and they were glad it went okay. On that scene, she was wearing a brown turtleneck. On the same episode, her friend (I believe she had brown hair) gets tested to see if she also has a hereditary disease her dad has. The doctor tells her that in the case she doesn't have it she could have survivor's guilt, but she already knew about it. Turns out she didn't have it. PLEASE HELP!! IT'S BEEN 8 FUCKING YEARS I NEED TO KNOW!!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
openTV Show where the internet turns into an AI. Live Action TV
It was a show where some kid theorized the internet would at one point turn into an AI. As in a singularity would just form, and it eventually did. He gets the help along with some girl he likes to fight off the AI. I can't remember the show's name and google has helped nothing.
openWWhats this show Live Action TV
There was an episode of a popular tv show/movie that I watched where a girl was doing a privilege walk, or something similar to one, and she kept taking too many steps forward, to emphasis points, so one of the principals/teachers supervising took her away from the other students to talk with her. about any problems she may be having and to behave accordingly? Any help would be greatly appreciated
openSci fi show I think? Live Action TV
I don't remember much just that it was a kind of live action show I saw once around 98 or early 2000. There was like a teen main character and he fought aliens and he came back to earth sometimes . And other times he was on different planets. He was able to turn his arms into weapons and other things. I sort of remember one episode where he accidentally turned one arm into a fruit ? I've been looking for it for hours now because I randomly thought about it and now I need to know what it was called . Thanks in advance if you somehow know what I'm talking about .
openOnly remember one episode Live Action TV
Okay, there's a detective and they get a case about a man who died in an oven explosion. The man however was protected from the torso up by a fridge. His body was missing his legs. They looked into the man and found he had two houses with two wives who didn't know about the other. He also worked for the tax company and was secretly tracking a bomber (the same one that killed him) through the tax system. They then learned the bomber would attack soon and ended up stopping him. That's the episode but I can't remember what show it was, someone watched this and remember it?
openShow about a Mummy man? Live Action TV
On YTV, in the late 90's/early 00's. He was a king, lived in this family's attic, and he was kind of a jerk. He was supposed to do some Important Thing, or be forever unable to pass on properly.
openScene Where Woman Kisses Man on Hospital Bed Live Action TV
I distinctly remember a scene where the woman is happy about something or proud of her husband/boyfriend, and she jumps on him and kisses him as he’s in a hospital bed. The woman’s coworkers/friends run out to give them “privacy”. Soon after, if I remember right, the couple gets into a fight and breaks up. I could have sworn it was from Parks and Recreation, but I can’t find it anywhere! Help!
Edited by Andalite911

In the show it was a 15 ish year old girl and a similarly aged boy and a older man dressed as a scientist. They would debunk popular videos, show you how to prank people. It was always horror/scare themed. In one episode I remember they tell you hoe to rig red laser pointers in a bush to make it look like a monster was watching you. They also debunked that ghost video where the ghost jumps out into an alley for a few seconds then goes back inside and no one can explain it but they debunk it. They also taught how to make a volcano out of paper mache. The guy was probably mid to late 30s.