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I remember seeing a few episodes of this cartoon as a kid in Iceland in the nineties, but that's all I know about when/where.
It was about these little dogs, except they had wheels instead of legs. My mind insists they were actually rollerskates that had been 'anthropomorphized' into dogs (canimorphized?), but that might just have been what I thought as a kid; I also vaguely feel like they may have been toy cars or something. In any case, they were definitively dogs on wheels, so if you're thinking of something about dogs that did not have wheels, that's not it.
I'm pretty sure they lived in a junkyard. The main character was red, and I'm pretty sure he had an old mentor figure as well, but I don't remember any of the plot. I think I only ever caught an episode or two and always wanted to see more.
Anybody remember anything like it?
Edited by antialiasisopenNo Title Western Animation
This show is a stop motion puppet animated series about a pig and his seagull friend. The show was always about the pig character speculating and imagining what would it be like to be in different professions and situations. Every episode would begin with the pig in his house thinking like: "I wonder what it would be like to work in a circus/work as a barber/be an astronaut/stay a night at a haunted house/get cast-away on a deserted island and so on. Then it would show the main characters in that situation and comedy would insue. Other characters in the show were a beaver who was basically the antagonist, the seagull character (who wore a pilot's hat) and I remember a snake wearing a fez. Does anyone know the name of this show and what country it originates?
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I remember this show that might have been on disney or something. These 2 kids has some machine that could bring back historical figures in the past. Once they brought Mata Hari and Helen Keller or Anne Sullivan. There was a character named Faye that was different. I think it ran during the 90's or early 00's. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
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Hey there, I have been looking for a certain film I saw years ago (safe to say nearly 10 years probably). I can picture exactly how it looked, so I recall it was likely a movie made in the 70s, given the style. It was about a disease or sickness that came over a town of people. Anyone infected apparently turned evil and power-hungry (not certain what powers or exact features it gave them) and made them overthrow the current mayor. They donned hoods and roamed around like members of a cult. More and more people succumbed to this.
Our hero was a Caucasian white guy who teamed up with another group of uninfected people, as well as a woman who rescued a young African-American boy from the "cult". One distinct scene near the end I remember was the guy invading a house, throwing a home-made grenade into a room, thinking a bad-guy was in it. It turns out the kid was tied-up in there, and the blast killed him (which they showed on-screen, not too gory, some blood from mouth, eyes open).
The ending of the movie was most memorable for me. At nighttime, our hero is running out of a building with a bottle of cleansed blood, into a courtyard. He defends himself well with some machine-gun, but one cultist shoots at him from a window. He stumbles back into a fountain, where he stands against the centerpiece through the night until daylight; the fountain becomes dyed with his lifeblood from his wound(s). The remaining party drives up to him in a jeep and comes to his aid, but he only kept himself alive long enough to guard the cured blood. He hands it to them in a fumble. It drops but doesn't break. They take the bottled blood with them, implying it will be used to try and cure or save other victims of the outbreak, leaving our hero dead in the courtyard; there is nothing they can do but try and prevent others from dying too.
This movie reminds me most of Monolith's Build engine video game FPS Blood, since it involves hooded cult members who wield machine guns and bombs, and blood can be used as a cure.
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What the music being played at 0:43-0.53.
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Okay this is a bit different, but I'm looking for a genre of music here and I didn't know where else to ask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=kcPSmFhmhJ4
This is the only example I can find without knowing the name, I'm thinking of the genre with the whole doobeedoobeedoo thing. I want to hear more songs like it. I think it's scat, but I don't know. I'm at an embarrassing loss here. And I don't mean comedy. Hope you can help.
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Trying to remember the name of a book I saw in a shop a couple of years back. it had a picture of the Silence of the Lambs poster (deaths-head moth) on the cover, and it was called something like "1001 Unforgettable Movie Scenes" or something.
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I remember finding this animated short that was based off a short story (I believe it's Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"). There was an abandoned house with an automated voice saying something and mechanical hands serving food and cleaning it up. There might've been a narrator too.
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A kid's horror book, from a guy who I understand did a lot of them. It was about a cursed three-cent piece with a colorful backstory involving cavalry in the Civil War - I think this was the first book I read that mentioned what swaggering idiots nineteenth-century cavaliers were. The main character is a boy with a female best friend and a taxidermically stuffed owl. He may have worn the three-cent piece around his neck; I remember cringing when Lord Of The Rings first mentioned Frodo doing likewise.
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This one's been bugging me for years now. About two or three years back, my brother and I saw a really, really weird animated show, all CG, involving three shoes playing skip rope with their laces and arguing about who one of them had a crush on, and a door that spoke like a Sassy Black Woman. This all took place in a meadow of some sort, and the shoes and door seemed to be the only sentient beings there. This was in the US, if that helps. It was early in the morning that we saw this but we have no idea as to what channel it was shown on, although we know for certain it couldn't have been Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, or Cartoon Network.
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Two Books:
1) Book about an American War Crimes Investigator or Prosecutor who, following the collapse of East Germany, investigates possible war crimes committed by the East German Government but discovers a decades old secret about a SS Officer who replaced the dead son of an American Kennedy-like family with his own son (the son is now running for President). The antagonists bodyguard murders people for him but he refuses and blackmails him when he discovers the secret mistress who he was sent to kill, has a five year old son with the antagonist. Another thing that I remember is the fact that the protagonist, at the end, says he'll reveal the truth in a book he's busy writing. Oh, and, the antagonist kills his SS father (now an elderly old man) in the forest 'cause he he doesn't want the truth to be revealed.
2) Book set in the present(ish) day about about a woman who takes a job looking after a wealthy Business man's 5-year-old nephew and falls in love with the man but he rebuffs her 'cause he's busy (his brother was killed and he's trying to save the business). In the end, he accepts her proposal of love.
Please help me!!!
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These two are probably pretty popular, but I have no idea what the names are. I saw them both about ten years ago. Both live-action.
1. A boy who might not know that he's a robot... well, is, and for some reason someone's trying to get rid of robots. This one 'woman' android gets hot oil poured on her and her face melts away. For some reason it was reminiscent of ET for me, maybe it was made around the same time?
2. All I remember about this is that there was the bubble thing from the "Sorry" board game and I believe a little boy. Maybe the pieces on the game board moved by themselves? I believe it was scary; for me as a five year old, so not like horror, but something was a little creepy about it. I don't remember very clearly.
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A weird little show for kids that might've been on PBS or HBO. It was in CGI and the characters were aliens or blobs or something. Maybe like blue Flubbers? It wasn't Boohbah, those doll things look way too creepy. It seemed to be pretty silent and there were only 2 (or maybe 3) characters in a surreal empty place. The only episode I remember is when they discovered little rainbows appeared if you sprinkled water (from a watering can or something) and the sun was shining through it and they were on the correct side of the stream...this was all kind of understood through body language. I think they floated off on this little bubble thing at the end too.
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A fiction book featuring a moose riding man that had physic powers
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When I was a kid in elementary school, in the early 90s, in the United States, every once in a while our class would watch a videotape of a program about an African-American teen girl who hosted a radio program where kids could call in with problems. The girl used a wheelchair, and she also had a couple of co-hosts. The only specific moment I remember was that one boy called in to the show to complain about his teammates who were practicing for a sporting event. He said that it was like the other kids were cripples, and the host, the one in the wheelchair, was offended. She was so offended she couldn't keep talking, and one of the co-hosts had to take over.
I don't know if these were tapes of a TV-show or if they were like a school thing. It looked like the sort of program you might see on PBS. Anyone know what it was called, or anything else about it?
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This is an animated series I think I saw in the late nineties or the early 2000s. It took place in some sort of underwater kingdom and the main character was (I believe) the king's daughter. She could communicate with a whale who acted as a sort of mentor to her occasionally. The plot was about protecting several Power Crystals from an Evil Overlord type who I think was referred to as a "space wizard". The "space wizard" looked like a huge, underfed fetus with four arms and horns and was confined to his base. He could send his spirit (which looked like a shadow) out to do his bidding and I think he at one point tried to possess the heroine's father. The villain had two lackeys, one was a female antropomorphic lizard thing and the other small, yellow, winged being with no feet who pulled a Heel–Face Turn at some point. Any ideas?
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It's a film I saw several years back and is probably from the early noughties. It's set around christmas time with a large family, I think with several kids who've returned from uni for the holidays. I thought Freddie Highmore was the main character, but after perusing his imdb page it seems this can't be the case. Anyway, the boy either gets a present for christmas and tries to return it, or is trying to buy one, either way he ends up in a shopping centre. There is something strange to do with a small cube or box, it might be that it is a bomb. This is literally all I can remember. The house is the part I recall most vividly - it was slightly victorian or steampunk-ish in appearance and it had a spiral staircase around the living room. Actually, the whole house might have been circular, might I'm not sure about that. Thanks.
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Found this scene
◊ (of a guy attacking a cop with a really big and gross arm), and I am just wondering where it is from?

There was this movie, in like this Jim Henson style. It had this kid who was really young, running away from bullies in like a warehouse, and than he was transported to this magical world, with the aforementioned creatures, and the plot revolved around these four people, the Jim Henson style folks, and there was this princess who in the end betrayed the kid, but the kid managed to turn her back to good. The memory is very hazy.