When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Find a Show:
openPolka song Radio
I heard a polka song on the radio. Super catchy but I can't remember the name. The lyrics of chorus are; as far as I remember something along the lines of "Hey there Mr.(name I can't remember) no one can polka like you can." that was a very poor version of Chorus. The song in general is about a woman complimenting a neighbor or someone she knows on how well he does polka.
Edited by JakthelaughingstockopenSteak Medallion... Radio
Old spot that aired on the radio. May have been an ad, may have been a public service announcement, I'm not sure. Really old, probably at least a decade or more ago. I don't really expect anyone to remember it, but I thought I'd try anyway. An announcer intones "This man is not a park ranger," and the man in question goofily comments "No, really! It's a steak medallion! Just put it around your neck!" The announcer continues "He cannot tell you anything."
openBritish panel show where guests play games they invented themselves Radio
Probably from the BBC, this show is a typical British panel show, except that there sort of is no premise. The shtick is that each guest — I think there were three on each episode — would bring a game of their own invention. The guests would mostly be British comedians, and the banter would be the focus. I think there was a permanent host, probably male. It's probably defunct now, but probably started and ended in the 2010's, running for at least a couple of series.
Bonus points if you know of a way to listen to it online (outside the UK); I listened to at least a few episodes only a couple of years ago, but somehow I'm blanking on most every element of this.
openShow with Janet Waldo Radio
One time when I was a kid, I heard part of an old radio show that was re-aired as a part of Those Old Radio Shows. I think one of the characters was voiced by Janet Waldo, because she sounded like Judy Jetson, and at one point she said, “We’ll pray for you.” Shortly after that line, a man was talking about something that someone could find somewhere, but I think there was a long censor bleep covering up his line for some reason.
openRock/Pop? Earthbound? Radio
Last night I was in my friend’s car and a song came on that I really liked. I couldn’t see his center console so I asked what the song was called and he said that it just said “Earthbound.” I had to focus on the song to actually make out lyrics and all I heard the male singer way was “Earthbound” It was a rock or pop rock song on a radio station that played a mix of early pop, rock, and classic rock. I just can’t find the song! It was really catchy
openSarcastic Christmas Carol Recording Radio
There isn't a medium for audio or cassette tapes, but I'm searching for an old Christmas Carol lesson from school with a super sarcastic narrator. One of the jokes he used to explain about literary exaggeration, was how no real child is as angelic as Tiny Tim, and an actual kid his age would not care if you died if you had no candy for them. Then he narrated the scary story from Charles Dicken's youth, Captain Murderer with sarcastic commentary.
openMid-2000s Alternative Station from Unknown Rival Radio
From UnknownRival.Real Life:
- This happened briefly in Seattle too in the mid-2000s. A new alternative station popped up with a lineup of D Js that was almost exclusively formerly with the alternative station that had existed in Seattle for around a decade and a half at that point, and their ads and listener testimonials repeatedly made a point of noting how the more popular alternative station sucks now. The more popular station never, ever acknowledged their existence and the upstart alternative station was gone within a year.
What radio station is this referring to?
openRadio sketch show, fairly recent? Radio
I was reading the page Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation and it reminded me of a radio sketch, almost definitely on BBC Radio 4, in which a man is applying for an office job, and when he doesn't understand what his job title means and is surprised they still have a tea-lady and ashtrays on the desks, his new boss explains that it's not a real office, it's a sitcom office, and is therefore based on vague ideas people who'd rather write sitcoms than work in an office have about offices, which are mostly based on previous sitcoms. Probably in the last ten years, maybe a bit earlier?
Even as I write that I feel like it sounds like it should be John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, but I don't think it is (they had the opposite, with a sitcom character in a "real" office). I don't remember any other sketches that might have been from the same show.
Edited by DaibhidC

Someone I know once described a podcast where each episode, they'd delve into some project that was either the result of the creator's ego trip (some examples I remember are Lady in the Water, Heaven's Gate, Battlefield Earth), spent a long time in Development Hell (e.g. Duke Nukem Forever, The Thief and the Cobbler), or were ripped from the control of the creator (e.g. Brazil). They don't remember what it was either.
Edited by KingWumpus