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openA group of students on a deserted island is being pursued by a pack of seemingly rabid stray dogs. Film
A group of students goes on a vacation to a deserted island, where the late father of two of them (they are brothers) left them a cottage. Shortly after arriving they ancounter a stray puppy. For a moment it seems they befriended it, until it escapes and leads them to an adult dog which attacks them. Soon other dogs join in on the hunt and the group has to fight for their survival and escape the island.
During their endeavor they discover an abandoned breeding station where they discover that the dogs are not rabid but genetically engineered.
openMovie about military cyborg dog (FOUND) Film
This was probably a family movie. Some scientists create a cyborg dog with an Overly Long Name which shortens to a neat acronym that sounds like a human name. It has human intelligence and can talk. The military wants to use these dogs as supersoldiers. At least one scientist doesn't want this and sends the dog far away, where it meets a human. Bonding ensues. In the climax, the dog makes a Heroic Sacrifice for the human, which leads to a speech about how robots can have souls.
I know it isn't A-X-L because the robot dog looked exactly like a normal dog.
Edit: It was A.R.C.H.I.E.
Edited by SerrafewopenStory About A Kid Getting Vivisected Literature
I haven't read this myself but I saw a post on tumblr where someone asked "did anyone else read a book as a kid where they like dissected a kid for his organs and he was aware the whole time, until they like took his brain and he couldn't physically be aware anymore? like? unraveled or something? unwound? whatever"
So yeah now I'm curious; is anyone else familiar with this particular story? Apparently the title is something close to "unraveled" or "unwound". They said they read it as a kid but that doesn't strictly mean it was from a kid's book.
openMHA/Steven Universe fusion power (Solved)
I'd like to find the fic that this post
is referring to. It looks to be set in the world of My Hero Academia, but a character has the power to do fuse people Steven Universe style.
openUnknown Tsugumi Ohba one-shot
Found this at Badass Back:
e: Yeah looks like Urooboe Uroboros.
Edited by AmonimusopenWalter White falls to sad music
Does anyone know the music that plays in this video
? Thank you.
openChildren's book with boy who kept turning into animals Literature
It was a children's book about a young boy, who I think wore a red sweater and glasses on the cover, who kept turning or getting turned into various animals; I believe at one point he was a kangaroo, maybe a pelican in another, and in one story fairly close to the end of the book (possibly the last one in the book) he turned into a green constrictor snake; I remember the book specifically phrased this last transformation as "constrictor snake". The cover was white with a picture of him and all his animal forms on it, and each shapeshifting incident ended with him turning back into a human, with each one being a closed story within the book. It's possible the boy's name started with either an H or a G, maybe Gilbert or Hubert. This would have probably come out at some point in the 70s or 80s, although I would have read it in probably the early 2010s.
Edited by Shubni-Sheoshumaopen(Solved)Magical Girl Crossover 3D Fighting Game Videogame
There was this 3D Fighting Game that had several characters from Magical Girl franchises, and at least a few who weren't but were Magical Girl-adjacent(such as Naga from Slayers). The main thing that I remember was that Cardcaptor Sakura had a super move(possibly an instant kill?) that sealed the opponent in a card.
Edited by RadayamopenEuropean cartoon about some woman oblivious to being pursued by admirers Western Animation
I remember coming across some random indie European (I think French, but I'm not certain of that) cartoon around 2 years while surfing on TV Tropes. The premise (and the basis of the gags) was about a young woman going about her daily life while being oblivious to all of the men lusting over her. No matter how aggressive and harassing those would be suitors were, it would always fly over her head. If my memory is serving me, I think it was also set in Paris, though it could've been in Venice or some other famous "romantic" European city.
From what little I can recall, the protagonist's design was essentially riffing on Jessica Rabbit (especially her red hair style and body form), with some Marilyn Monroe thrown in as well. The hand drawn animation was crude, and seemed to be essentially traced over live action backgrounds. I think it was made around the late 80s to early 90s.
There was also an episode featuring a mummy coming to life in a museum that the protagonist was visiting. That is all that I can remember from it.
Does any of this sound similar to anyone here? Any help would be appreciated, as I haven't been able to retrace my steps to find it again.
Edited by Jarl-of-the-woodsopenShort story about a girl meeting her malnourished doppleganger and planning on killing her
This was a short story I read in highschool, sometime from 2012-2016. It was about a girl (late teens? early 20s?) who met her doppelganger while going about her everyday life. Doppelgangers were an established part of her world: two identical people born at the same time, and if one died the other would immediately drop dead unless it was their doppelganger that killed them. Interacting with your doppelganger was considered highly taboo for some reason; the narrator mentions how when a man and his doppelganger ended up seated next to each other on a plane by pure chance, it was considered top priority to get them rescheduled so that they didn't have to be on the same flight.
The girl notices that her doppelganger looks to be in very bad shape- malnourished, skittish, and seemingly mute. She wonders what happened to her, and if the doppelganger might be a victim of human trafficking, a a drug addict, or something else. She sits her doppelganger down and goes to buy her some fast food, and as she's waiting in line for it becomes steadily more convinced that the only way for her to survive is to kill her doppelganger, as otherwise whatever her doppelganger is going through is going to end up killing her (and by extension, the narrator). When the narrator returns with the food, the doppelganger is gone, with the narrator reflecting that she likely realized that the narrator was going to try and kill her.
openPoetry? Literature
I was looking at Save Our Students when I remembered a book I read in middle school. The basic plot was that a high school kid brought in a poem he wrote in place of a book report, and this led to the teacher letting students bring in their own poems to read on a regular basis, with each chapter featuring a kid discussing who they are to the reader, the poem they wrote, and commentary from one kid (whose only trait I remember is that he really wanted to do a poetry slam). For example, one chapter had a girl talk about how her life experiences molded her into The Stoic and her poem was about her wanting others to "let [her] be stone". I don't remember specifically if there was a Save Our Students bent to it, but the kids were definitely inner city school kids. I want to try and find it again, but I don't remember the title.
openCartoon with bird teacher. Western Animation
A female bird teacher who was white and traveled around the world. Theme song mentioned Peru and other countries. Possibly aired on sprout.
Edited by s2003openBizarre movie commercial Film
I watched a Drew Gooden video about him searching for a movie he couldn't find and it reminded me of this movie ad I saw in either the space-themed 'Air Bud' or 'Chicken Little' on a CD years ago. Around 2006-2010?
All I recall was a guy bulking up into a weird CGI mech suit that looked like it was made of rags? Might be the Mandela effect, but its haunted me for years.
Edited by SkylaNoivernopenSummer's On Western Animation
I was looking through my childhood drawings and found an illustrated lineup of shows I had for an idea for a kids' channel called Tall Pop, a 'big kid's' version of British channel Tiny Pop. The shows were mostly pretty well known; MLP, Thomas the Tank Engine, Horrid Henry, etc. - but there was one show that neither myself nor Google can seem to recall, titled 'Summer's On'. It was illustrated with the face of a boy who had a tuft of long hair at the back of his head. Here's my bad childhood drawing of him:
And if anyone's curious, 'The Acorn Show' was a spinoff of the Australian kids' show Play School that I wanted to make back then. Here's the wiki if you're interested.
https://the-acorn-show.wikia.com/wiki/The_Acorn_Show_Wiki
open(Solved) YA novel that took place in the 90s Literature
Edit: It's called Breaking Point
by Alex Flinn. Thanks to jormis29 for the help.
I suddenly remembered a book that I read a few years ago in high school and can't remember the name of it. Here's some details, note that some of these might be wrong:
- The cover had police tape on it.
- Took place in the 90s; on some pages, there were pictures of a website that was very 90s-like.
- Main character's mom has trichotillomania (pulling hair out) due to the dad either walking out or dying.
- Main character is in high school and gets bullied by pretty much everyone because his mom works at the school (which is also the case for another kid whose dad is the janitor and he jumps off the clock tower due to all the bullying; I think the main character tried to stop him but failed).
- Main character makes friends with a guy who gets him to hack into the school's grade system and change a bad grade for one of his classes.
- The friend makes a plan to plant bombs in the air vents, but the main character chickens out and disarms them. He gets caught anyway and his friend doesn't get punished because there's no trace of him being involved. The main character's mom also makes him take a plea deal so he won't get into that much trouble for it.
openBirds in an airship Western Animation
I have another one show I can not remember. It was about couple of birds, they were rescuers, the couple was made from an owl, a woodpecker, hummingbird and flamingo, but I am not sure, I think I have forgotten one or more members of the team. They travelled by airship, in one episode it was pierced and they covered the hole by non-edible cake/bread/whatever it was. In one other episode (or it was the same?) they met two hedgehogs, which were arguing if it is better to jump or be in the middle of a road if vehicle goes through. I think in one episode they got Sixth Ranger, but like with the original couple, I am not sure.
Do somebody know this one? It is bugging me, that I know something, but do not know, what it is:/ Thank you for help:)
openObnoxious PC platformer (solved) Videogame
In the mid-nineties or so I found the box and manual for a PC game that leaned heavily into Mascot with Attitude, this time in the form of a wacky white rock musician with a huge screaming mouth and wagging tongue dressed in a backward cap, a white tank top and jeans if I remember correctly. The goal was to rescue his monster bandmates, the only one I remember being a reptilian drummer named Surf. The marketing was especially forced, starting with something like "Get lost hedgehogs, earthworms and donkeys! The real action platformer hero's here!". Clearly, the game went nowhere given how I've never seen any sign of it since then. I hope to find what it is so I can add it to the Mascot with Attitude article.
Update: I just found out it's Arcade America. Got a lot of details wrong about the player character's appearance but the line from the back of the box finally lead me to it. I swear I searched for it before and didn't find anything...
Edited by S-J-Fujimoto

A guy with his dog finds himself in a forest (after having a conversation with some sort of a robot in a shelter? possibly post-apocalyptic) next to an abandoned overgrown trailer park and a river. He sees a fin sticking out of the ground and realizes that a landshark is nearby, he distracts it by throwing an object and then flees towards a river, where he has to kill the landshark (which has a round toothy maw lined with tentacles) by throwing a grenade into its mouth. Might be a TV series instead of a film.
UPD: Found it, it was Love and Monsters
Edited by CommissarTarkin