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openNo Title Live Action TV
Hi, there is this one tv drama but its not english (language) drama. I don't remember if it's a german or russian or french drama but for sure it's not english or asian drama. Main character is a woman (I guess because it doesn't really focus on anyone's perspective). I think this is an old drama because I watched this around 2015@2016. The setting is not really modern.
I don't really remember much but this is what I remember :
1. main character married her cousin friend (I guess), she don't really like him but she married him because of her family (if I'm not mistaken) 2. her husband falls in love with her when he come over to her house (I'm not sure why he come over to her house) 3. main character don't really like her husband but throughout the drama her husband do try his best to win her heart 4. the husband (main character husband) is pretty popular even the teenagers has a crush on him 5. the husband is a successful man 6. main character has a scandal (the scandal is her boyfriend before she married but she still seeing him, or not I don't really remember) that took away her virginity 7. the end of the drama, main character accepts her husband love
openwhat was this show Live Action TV
This show had several people wake up in some fake western town. The only food served was Chinese food. They could not leave the town because of some invisible gate. It was a summer show that only lasted one season.
openGhost dad chineses Live Action TV
A chinese tv series where a widowed father is murdered and finds out he can come back to life temporary by electrocuting himself. He has 3 girls. His best friend is a cop. The dad is trying to solve his murder and help out his little girls. Aired in the 90s. Series ends with him going to heaven after resolving issues and his best friend partner adopts his kids.
openjapanese show about murder summer cop Live Action TV
I remember watching a show where there is a bunch of murders at a summer cop. A big plot point was there were no foot prints from the killer from the cabins. The male teen lead solves it by showing that the killer moved from cabin to cabin by swing the door and standing on the door knob and leaping from one door knob to another to move from one cabin to another.
openvoice in head Live Action TV
A episode of a horror anthology maybe. A comedian killed his accountant or lawyer. The voice of the murder victim is in his head taunting him. Comedian is backstage before he goes on stage for a set. Comedian tries adding ear swab to quiet voice. He goes on stage and voice in head says the audience knows the comedian is a murder business they can hear the voice. The audience is staring at him and comedian confesses to the murder in front of everyone. End scene comedian is awaiting execution with voice still in his head. Comedian asks is it time to guard since he wants to free from the voice in head.
openSOLVED! A - Team episode about two different gangs of criminals Live Action TV
Hi all,
Maybe some of the A - Team fans here can help me out with this.
The only thing I really only know is:
Our beloved team is 'fighting' a criminal (well, probably his whole gang or group). Then they find out he has an enemy (competitors, another criminal). This criminal is much more powerful. They team up to fight our heroes. Spoiler: The A - Team wins :)
But I can remember this very line:
At a certain moment it seems The A - Team is losing. Both criminals win. They think... Then the weaker criminal asks the stronger one: "When this is all over are you gonna get me?". Then the stronger one starts to laugh... After a few seconds the other one also starts to laugh nervously.
(Weaker criminal was a white person. Stronger criminal was a black person / Person of Color).
Edited by ththth10openTeen Nature-based Reality show Live Action TV
In the early 2000s I remember there being a reality type show with kids or teens where they had to do animal based challenges. They all wore brightly colored shirts and in one episode I remember they had to watch snakes get milked for their venom.
There’s a scene later where they’re all piled in the back of a van/car and they’re all laughing because someone farted and they can’t figure out who did it. Saying that one guy either did it to be funny and is denying it, or another guy farted in his sleep.
There might also be a part where they have to clean up hippo poo, but I’m not certain. Around the same time I remember watching Bindi the Jungle Girl, and Trading Spaces Girls VS Boys.
openPart of an opening narration, I think Live Action TV
I have a sentence stuck in my head that I think is part of the Opening Narration of a show. It goes like this: "And though some of us are more than mortal, most of us are not." I think it preceded a fantasy or SF show (really the only place where such a sentence makes sense), but I can't figure out which one. For some reason I keep thinking of Babylon 5, which did make use of opening narrations, but I looked up all the intros on Youtube and it doesn't appear to be that series. I'm not sure when I heard this sentence. It could be around 2006 but I could also be way off.
openBritish commercial from 70s that was aired on Johnny Carson Live Action TV
Hey, I’m looking for a 1960s or 70s (maybe 80s) British commercial for frozen fish fillets. In the commercial, a boy jumps out of a pool.
It was aired on Johnny Carson sometime between 1969 and 1990 (most likely around the 70s).
It was aired in the U.K. sometime between 1960 and 1989 (most likely around the 70s).
Also, it was NOT an Australian commercial, and NOT Irish.
It was NOT from America.
It was also a color commercial (not B&W).
Edited by TomJerryBugsDaffyDonaldopenKids show possibly from the early 2000s? Live Action TV
A kids show where one segment included the adult actors dressing up as animals and performing skits. One was with an elephant and a mouse and one was a variety of wild cats. It was on a small stage with a red background.
Edited by dolo591openKids show about gnomes with puppets? Costumes? Live Action TV
It was a live action show from the late 90s or early 2000s about a boy who was friends with an elf or a gnome man. The elf or gnome man looked like an old man with moustache and beard and was either a puppet or a full body costume and mask worn by a very short performer. He had a red hat I think. The gnome could do magic and would cause mischief? And maybe only the boy could see him. And the gnome man had a gnome wife? Was the gnome man the boy's grandpa? Potentially could be an Australian or British show.
openSoft Drink Commercial ca. 1990: Can't Wait! (Glug Glug Glug) Live Action TV
The sound bite "can't wait, glug glug glug" is in my head, and I can't quite remember why. I think it was a scene in a commercial where a giant pitcher was orbiting a planet, which then came to life and drank it.
Does this ring a bell?
openLiving Ventriloquist Dummy/Puppet of a Pale Woman in a Suitcase Live Action TV
It would be from late 80's, 90's or very early 2000's. It was broadcast on British TV and was British. I remember a man in his home who had a suitcase and when he sat by his window in his living room a scary ventriloquist dummy of a woman came out of the suitcase. The puppet was alive, pale faced, red lips and I think red cheeks too. She spoke to the man, much to his suprise. I can't remember any lines of dialogue but the man either got angry because he thought he was being tricked or he was scared. He stuffed the dummy back into the case, left the house and threw it over a small stone bridge into a river or canal. When he got back to his house he made a cup of tea and went back into his living room which was now really, unnaturally dark. The suitcase was back (I seem to remember the suitcase moving by itself and letting itself back into the house) and the puppet came out and spoke to him, this time very angry. I'm not sure what the out come of the man was but I imagine it wasn't good. Does anybody have any ideas?
openHomemade shoes? Live Action TV
Driving me crazy there was a scene from a comedy tv show or movie where someone was forced to wear homemade shoes and the shoes didn’t have a left or right and the guy wearing them kept falling. Help please! 😅
Edited by JeremySoloopenAn Old Nickelodeon Live Action Sitcom About School (2016-ish?) Live Action TV
This is a vague memory, and alot of the things I recall about this can be completely wrong, but I'm desperate, so here we go.
Back in 2014-2016 when live action shows on Nickelodeon were starting to gear up, there was this one specific show about a young white girl going to high (?) school. It had a basic premise, really, but it caught my attention, considering I'm more of a animation fanatic. The girl (who's name I cannot remember), had two friends, one black with glasses who was smart, and another who was your basic 'attractive' love interest in teen media, he had blonde hair. Basically, the girl moved to a newer grade, and her friends didn't want to associate with her again? I don't know to be honest, but it had narration, and I'm sure you can imagine it.
I remember a line, one specific one that stuck with me, however: "A+++/A plus, plus plus!" which I believe was said by the black friend while pointing to said plus' on the paper.
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please don't be afraid to help me out, here! And I'm sorry for describing people based solely on skin color, my memory's really foggy.
openRecent show about a woman and relationships Live Action TV
This is definitely a recent show within the past year or two and I can only remember this scene but it goes like this- This girl goes out with her friend to the bar to help her hook up with a guy but the main girl doesn't want to hook up that night. Then her friend finds a guy and goes home with him. Meanwhile main girl is talking to this guy at the bar and tells him right away she doesn't want to hook up and he seems okay with it. When it's time to leave he asks to just share an Uber with her and he says no worries I don't want to go home with you it will just be cheaper. They get in and he jumps in and says to go to her address first. When they get to her apartment she says bye but he starts to get out and she again says no to him but then he asks to use her phone charger so she agrees to let him up. He goes into her room to charge his phone then he starts trying to make out with her but she doesn't want to obviously and he hits her across the face. Then her friend comes out due to the commotion and he realizes they aren't alone so he starts to panic and apologize but the main girl is more pissed than scared at this point and just kicks him out. She doesn’t realize how scary it was until the next morning. Any help would be amazing!
Edited by FawnLilyopenCrime or detective show Live Action TV
Searching for a crime/detective show, vaguely remember there being parters (a male and female) and (I think in the first episode??) the male gets caught in a pretty serious explosion. The title sequence/opening had an mri of a brain scan.
openHitmen making music videos Live Action TV
I remember a group of three hitmen who record their killings then make music videos to shoe to the clients with the footage. Can't remember the show its from though
openPlayground Safety Video Live Action TV
There was this weird video I watched in elementary school where a dog or bear or something taught kids to be safe on the playground. Part of it was animated. In one scene, some boy brought a knife to the playground to show his friends.

Around 2011 to 2012 I remember this show, I think it was for teens, that had a opening with creepy music and I remember it also had a frog leaping in slow motion and 'occulty' symbols. The only thing I seen in the show was someone somehow getting trapped in a mirror. I think it was on CW, but I might be wrong.