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ok so my daughter has been in search of a puppet show, ot sure if it actually aired, but was on VHS. There was about 5 or so puppets, kid like, that were all of different nationalities, one for sure was an American Indian, which just happened to be her favorite one. One episode was when they got a plant and it took over the entire room. We cannot think of the name of this show :(( We had it on VHS and she even had some toys, but for the life of us, we can't remember the name of the show. Does anyone recall it??? Thanks!!!
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I had this on a video tape when I was a kid, I have no idea where I could find it, if it was ever on TV, or if it was ever uploaded to Youtube. Basically it was a video of several Mother Goose stories with a Framing Device starring an old lady playing Mother Goose and her giant (about 6 or 7 feet tall) goose (cheap costume/animatronics/can't tell, it's been so long). Said goose's Verbal Tic was "Honk!" He could talk though.
The only two things I remember from this thing was the goose in town and there was a guy who talked with the goose. And the exchange went something like this:
- Guy: "I would if I could, but if I could, how could I?"Goose: "Hooonk!"
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Children's show, had little worm alien riding in little flying saucer with camera lens sticking out. Rest of regular charaters are two boys (puppets, iirc), and girl(maybe mid teens). Time/space travel thru portals. I think mainly space, the time may have been single ep. She spent first season in garage while boys were lost, second she travelled with them. Edit: the boys were lost on earth hopping portals, and learning about where the were. It seemed that was the edutainment angle. Edit: The gold/copper fly saucer was damaged so the little worm inside lived in a jar on the (human)girl's desk until she made/gixed the saucer. It was white plastic hen fixed.
One episode had the boy puppets travel to the old west, that was the one off time travel episode. They visited Cape Canaveral once, too.
Late 90's/early 00's
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This is another nonfiction book. They never get identified here, but I'll try another one anyway.
It's a children's book about space that I read in (I think) the spring of 1990. Roughly 4th grade reading level. What made it memorable was the final page, which was a "what if?" illustration with aliens. These aliens were stocky creatures wearing unitard space suits with tinted visors stretching over their heads and torsos. I made a drawing based on my memory of the illustration, which can be seen in the link below.
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I heard a song many years ago, which I assume is from a musical, off of a cassette tape. The lyrics of the chorus are roughly as follows:
"First you take a tiny sip of ale the thirst is slaked, but now the taste is stale To make it better, then you'd better have some cake Kiss the bitterness goodbye, but now your throat is dry!"
The song I think is called 'Cake and Ale' but it might be called 'Ale and Cake.' Anyone know where it's from?
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A film that I saw on TV where infiltrated aliens were using Hostile Terraforming.
Those aliens were vulnerable to high concentrations of oxygen, and could track down the heroes (a man and woman) unless they breathed periodically from an oxygen bottle.
It ended with all the alien leaders cornering the hero in some underground bunker, and the hero slammed an axe into an oxygen pipe, swiftly reversing the situation.
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There was this one book I remember when I was a kid, it had this girl and a witch. The girl agrees to help the witch with a spell that has something to do with he little brother (I forgot the what the spell was for it's been a long time.)and he gives him some of his Hot Wheels, and the little brother get very sick. I also remember a woman married a man the witch wanted to marry, so she put a curse on them, and they died eight years later. The little brother gets better in the end and she learn to love her little brother I also remember a vivid scene describing his Hot wheels melting. Any one remember it? Please?
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Computer game, was on the IBM PC somewhere in the early 90s (we had the computer in the house because my brother got to take it home from the high school during the summer due to good grades and fear of the school that there'd be a break-in at the school computer labs, and he attended from 1988 to 1992). It was a sci-fi RPG, I want to say with a limit of 4 members in the party. I remember there were sections involving traveling by ship and then kind of a dungeon crawl perspective when you boarded a ship or a planet. During conversations and battle, you got a static (maybe minor animation) picture of who you were talking to/fighting with.
Two images stick out in my head. First, early on in the game, you run into a lady aboard one of the ships who's obviously just gotten out of the shower and is wearing nothing more than a towel. Secondly, there was a way to fight a dragon, I think as a secret boss. I mainly remember it because my brother's friend hacked the game to get the best armor/weapons before fighting the dragon and he still got trounced.
^_^ Any ideas?
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Some weird movie I remember seeing a commercial for last year that was some sort of action film featuring William Shakespeare. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
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Trying to find this old-timey (30's-40's?) cartoon where a man and a woman went to some sort of "Wonders of Tomorrow" exhibit. I recall a lot of mechanical hands, one squeezed an orange to make juice, another set of hands placed a hot towel on the man and shaved him, and another set did something to a house.
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When I was in 5th grade back in '89, the teacher read us part of a story from a book whose name I can not recall for the life of me. From the little I remember, it involved some kids (I think they were brother and sister) exploring a large old house somewhere in the South. This particular house was part of the Underground Railroad. This old house (if I recall correctly) was portrayed as being sinister or "spooky". The teacher told us that at a later point in the story, the young kids would eventually happen upon the ghosts of slaves.
What I am very interested in knowing is what exactly the title of the book is.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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This was an 80's action-adventure show. It's about a guy who fights crime, a la Batman or Knight Rider, using his hawk-themed hang glider. They were apparently trying to be as realistic as possible, because the glider was the size you'd expect a real hang glider to be, and it folded up into a big collection of struts and fabric on his back when he was on the ground.
In the only scene I specifically remember, he was over a city, and didn't have anywhere to land. He wound up coming down in a river that wound through the city.
Edit: Almost forgot. Apparently, the glider actually existed at some point, because the shot of it going into the river was real, not 80's special effects.
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Years ago, my parents told me about a book called I-Ching, which was apparently was full of Things Man Was Not Ready To Know, and even drove some people to suicide.
They apparently had this book themselves years ago, but by the time I was old enough to want to tempt fate and read it for myself, we moved houses and they had gotten rid of it and other books.
Now, my question: Does this book actually exist? The only book named I-Ching that I know of is the Book of Changes that has listed predictions that you choose by flipping coins.
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I don't think I actually read the book, but I have a very vivid memory of reading the back cover description of a children's horror novel. This was at least five or six years ago, so it was written in the early 2000's at most recent. The book was about a place where the roles of dogs and humans were reversed, dogs had pet people and wild people ran the streets. I think the book was supposed to be about some kid accidentally wandering into this "town" or whatever, but I'm not positive. The front cover was a picture of a humanoid dog-lady putting a can of "Human Food" into a shopping cart. I remember she had a really creepy grin on her face. I thought this was a Goosebumps book, but I haven't been able to find it on any list of them. When I read the book cover I was in a used store, and I don't think this would have stuck with me if it hadn't shown up in a dream I had a few nights later. I know this is kinda vague, but can anyone help me? EDIT: I'm 99% sure this was a children's book, but I suppose there's a slim chance it wasn't. Please, any ideas about this are much appreciated.
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This is a bit old, but back in the early to mid 1980s Spotlight and/or Showtime had a fairly small number of movies and showed them to death.
The one I am remembering was set in an all boys (Catholic, one of the adults was a priest) school in Canada (not sure but I think out in the prairie). It was set during the late 1930s early 40s (near the end the graduating boys are planning to enlist and one of the teachers gets them beer). The whole thing was pretty low-key slice of life stuff. But I can't recall the title to save my life.
Oh yeah, there were twined scenes. The first of the hockey team singing "I;m looking over a four-leaf-clover" in the back of their vehicle on the way to a road game in the dead of winter. When the seniors have got the beer, the priest caught them while they were singing "dead dog rover".
Any clue? Is this better known in Canada (I'll bet it was a book first).
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I saw this several months ago on Youtube but forgot the name of it. This family goes on a vacation and something happens and they fall down a cliff. Now they have to live there with other people that crashed there.
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I'm looking for a series of books that I read as a four volume omnibus, about some sort of small race of creatures that lived beneath the floorboards of a library at a college and were discovered by a male student, and later also interacted with his female friend.
I remember them being by a well known fantasy author like iva ibbotson, though not her speceifcaly.
Thanks.
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Years ago, I saw a movie that I thought was The Aviator but it doesn't sound anything like it, other than involving a plane. There was this journalist and she was in New York City on some assignment when a giant robot comes by, but when she takes a picture of it no one takes it seriously. And then there's this pilot and I think they knew each other before because his plane's number is her name reflected. They go to an island and find a rocket that someone is making into a sort of Noah's ark. There's this whole thing where all of her film gets destroyed when they get trapped in a room with a bunch of TNT so she has to save her last picture for the mot incredible thing they find. I saw it a long time ago so some of the details are pretty fuzzy, but I think it was a relatively recent movie.
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There was this show I usd to watch on Cartoon Network that was about this CGI penguin living in a town with other CGI animals. The character designs were really blocky and cube-like. I have a feeling that it was originally Japanese, but I'm not sure. And I think the name resembled "Peccola", but I can't find anything resembling it if I try searching.

There's two I'm wondering about here.
One is a kid's book, it was green, and it had or featured a family who could make pottery and turn them into creatures. I think they tried to hide it from the main character, but other than that, I have no clue. I was reading it maybe in 2008? So, nothing in the past two, three years.
Two is a book on mythological creatures. I remember the book was red and yellow or red and white, and focused on four of the major ones— if I remember, it was Phoenix, Dragon, Unicorn and Griffon. It also had details on similar ethnic creatures (like the Unicorn had the Kirin) and stories to go with each one. I remember the Phoenix section also featured a story about kids and an egg they found. The egg hatched, after some troubles, into a Phoenix chick.
Any clues?