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openToyline, Web Cartoon, Online Game, about creatures that live and fight inside computer chips. Videogame
I remember back when I was a kid around the mid-to-late-2000s, there was this line of toys that was about microscopic creatures similar to dust mites that live inside silicon and come alive to fight when a silicon chip is being used. There was also a web cartoon about a kid that discovers them and tells his science teacher or something and he also tells his friend about it and I think they mention a Kool-Aid oath. The toyline included detailed figures of the bugs, as well as a Digivice type electronic game based on the thing the kid from the webtoon made that discovered the dust mites. There was also an online game that I think used codes found on the figures, as well as a second version that didn't require the toys. There was also a series of You Tube videos made by the evil science lab from the webtoon showing the dust mite being killed in various ways. I think it had the words "nano", "byte", or "bug" in the name. I know this is a lot of stuff to look for, but if anyone could at least tell me the name, that would be great!
Edited by BrodyTroperopenAn Edutainment Game about Frogs (UNSOLVED) Videogame
Back at my Elementary School, there was this Activity Center game that starred an Older Female Brown Frog and her Younger Male Green Frog friend. If I remember correctly it was a series with two installments.
Edited by WolfThunderopenGirl’s Childhood Cartoon Film
So I have an extremely vague memory of a cartoon I used to watch as a child in the early 2000’s. It followed three girls who led secret lives where they were fairies or spies or something. It was very similar to Winx Club, W.I.T.C.H. or Totally Spies, but I don’t think it was any of these three. I had a toy wand that was from the show’s brand and it was a pink “fairy”/magic wand that was round in the middle and clear, so you could see little colored balls stacked on top of each other in the wand’s entire handle. I think they might have been removable, but I’m not sure. It was kind of an anime-style show, but not sailor moon. Please help!
openKids bedroom is pushed out of apparment, colour 80s/70s TV episode? Film
I saw this when I was very young, hence why my memory is blotchy and it may not be a film, could be a short or a TV episode.
A boys/childs aggressive dad ( or another male figure) chases them into their bedroom, where the kid slams and locks the door on the man's face. The kid hides in their bed, while the man starts pummeling on the door with his fists, shouting and cursing. After a few seconds, the walls of the room start to shake. The room starts to shunt and after a minute, it literally is pushed out of the apartment block where it falls and lands on the street a few floors below. The kid is fine. He gets out of the bed, looks up at the hole where it used to be and then runs away. There are some other people around on the street but they don't interact with the boy, other than looking in confusion at the scene.
This was colour, live action. And likely American ( due to the appartment block but it could be a foreign film with similar architecture). This would have been mid 1990s at the latest I'd think as I was very young when I saw it. I remember being scared of the scene as it was very tense.
EDIT; Edited the title, as from some additional info from a friend, I think this is an episode of a anthology TV series
Edited by ToastyBunsopenPlease help me find this show, and this movie. Live Action TV
There is a movie and a show I am looking for. 1. The movie was live action, probably from the late 80s to early 90s. All I can remember is that there were 3 siblings (I believe), possibly and older brother and sister, and then a younger sibling. They either traveled back in time and made friends with dinosaurs, or they some how met the dinosaurs in present time, but I'm leaning towards the time travel.
2. It was a live action tv show, again probably from the early 90s. It was a group of kids that would go with this bear, human sized bear, on adventures on his flying bed. One episode they went to the wild west to find out who stole a bag of cookies or something? It kinda felt like a knock off of Barney.
Thanks in advance!
openBook about superpowered teens Literature
So, it might be R. L. Stine, might not. But what I remember was that these 6 kids all shared a Chemistry calss. When the teacher walked out of the room, the jock got up and started pulling a bunch of exotic looking chemicals out of the usuallylocked cabinet, and started mixing them all together. The concoction started fuming at an alarming rate, and some students opened up windows. The fog filled the room, then just as quickly dispersed. Afterward, 6 students received superpowers. Superspeed, x-ray vision, invisibility, walking through walls, producing water from one's fingers, and the ability to grow and shrink one's height. They become a motley crew of friends and discover the gym teacher(?) was an alien of some sort that had to consume the rubber / plastic from the gym balls in order to maintain his human form. The students fight him and defeat him and I guess go about their student lives.
It was at least 5 years ago, so that might help with the publication date. Idk. Anything is welcomed.
Edited by CloverErnestopenGas dispencer committing suicide Western Animation
Where is this image from? Probably a Disney cartoon. The only things I remember are the scene on this picture (gas dispencer shooting himself) and some burning oil wells.

open2000s or Earler Dental Cartoon Western Animation
I remember in kindergarten watching this animated movie (this would have been in the 2000s but it could have been made earlier) about dental hygiene, and there were these kids who went on an adventure and there was a villain named Sorcerer dePlaqueula or something. There might have been a Captain Planet Expy too.
At one point the villain trapped the kids in a cave via magic and it made their teeth rot or something. I also remember at the end the kids sang a song, where the few lyrics where part of the chorus was "Visit the dentist regularly!"
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
openrevolutionary with long nose Western Animation
looking for a cartoon from the 90s probbably the 80s about an underground revolutions in a kind of futuristic world which they use some laser swords , thier leader and the main protagonist is a cool long haired character with long nose
open"Daddy's Little Girl?" (still unsolved) Film
Family film, live action, circa I don’t even know, late 1990s? (A lot of my rediscovered forgotten media is from 97 specifically so maybe then, but no guarantees.) Possibly/probably relatively obscure, so if this rings any bells to anybody let me just say you're awesome. Anyway, the movie is about, or at least features, a girl, 12ish years old, whose father is a comic book artist.
There’s a scene at a birthday(?) party, at a backyard (possibly with a pool?); there’s a live 60s-esque rock band who’ve been hired to perform, singing lyrics along the following lines: “ooh, she’s daddy’s little girl” (trying to search these lyrics only turns up an unrelated song.)
- It might be a cover of "You're a Big Girl Now" by The Stylistics but if it is the songwriter is uncredited on imdb so.???
The other kids there are teasing the girl because of something in the latest issue of her father’s comic book. It’s a vaguely TMNT-esque publication, with similar art style and anthropomorphic animals as the characters, and the Master Splinter-type character has his adopted-daughter-type figure start wearing a training bra now that she’s growing up; all the girl’s friends recognize this as being a thinly veiled stand-in for the girl’s own blossoming into womanhood, the father writing his own relationship with his daughter into the comic.
That's about all I've got. Thanks.
Edited by PretzelsopenVHS show confirmed to be lost media?! Live Action TV
Okay, so I noticed users named Tiara
and clxtro
making YKTS queries about a show on VHS. I noticed it shared similarities to a query I saw several months ago, and have now located that query - it's posted by a third user named Kyle92
. Since three people remember this, it's more likely than not to be a show that existed.
From the info given by all three queries, it's a live-action show about a bear (it seems to be a full-body puppet bear similar to Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House) who had a flying bed that he would travel on with some children. If this show had more than one episode, the episode the three queries point to is about the bear and the kids traveling to the wild west to help a cowboy look for some cookies for some reason. At least one of the queries says it's on VHS, so it might be a direct-to-video series.
I decided to point this out because, again, this show definitely exists if there are three users who remember it, but it's very much lost media since we don't even have the name of this series yet. Any further info about this show that you can remember or find is highly appreciated. Thanks.
UPDATE 8/10/21: Someone finally pinpointed the piece of media these people were looking for; it's called The Numberland Trail.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenA western animation show about a detecive helped by three ghosts Western Animation
A few years back I watched a western animation show which featured a detective being helped by three ghosts who lived in a castle where an older relative of his was. He helped solve supernatural cases and one of whom ivolved a vampire. Any ideas ?
openFanfiction of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Web Original
A short story fanfiction: Pinkie Pie and Rarity share a hot tub, Pinkie Pie is in there to soothe her tummy ache from eating too much black licorice, and only too late does Rarity notice the "Out of Order" sign. When Rarity realizes exactly where the bubbles are coming from, she has a Freak Out and gets hauled away in a straitjacket. I'm pretty sure I read it on fimfiction.net
Seven bumps and counting...
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenKids' show, Sick dragon cured by kids
Hi. I'm STILL looking for a old childrens program that aired prob sometime between 2000-2009 in Sweden. I can't remember any names, characters (except one) or titles. I can only remember one character and a sentence he/she said in one episode. I know it isn't much to go on but I clearly remember the character being a dragon. I think it was purple, but I can't say for sure. There was ofc other characters too, kids, but I can't remember anything about them. I think the dragon and the other characters were animated. I don't remember if the kids' parents ever apperad but they're usually there. The dragons' voice was kinda high, and that's why I think it was a female dragon. And it spoke, of course.
(And yes, males can also have high voices but it's more common amongst females. And in kids shows male animal characters are usually assigned with deep voices and vice versa, so kids can tell the genders apart. Anyway, the dragon was big, around as tall as an adult. And it wasn't wild, it lived with those kids in their house.)
I clearly remember one sentence that it said, in swedish. It said "Ta det lungt. Min mage är ingen berg- och dalbana". Roughly translated, "Take it easy. My stomach isn't a roller coaster". In the episode where it said this, the dragon was sick. So the kids somehow shrunk themselves, ventured into the dragons stomach and made the bacteria/virus go away. Don't ask how they did it, I can't remember. But they had a map of the dragon, and when they entered the dragon they almost fell down in it's stomac acid. That's when they noticed they held the map upside down, so they turned around and eventually found and delt with the virus/bacteria. And that's all I remember. Does anyone recognize this? Pls help.
Also, during the years (2000-2009), shows featuring dragons comes and goes, so to save some time I made a little list of those shows. Of course, NONE OF THESE SHOWS are the one I'm currently looking for.
Draken Lilla blå draken Riddare Micke (Mike the Knight) Jane och draken (Jane and the Dragon) Florries drakar (Florries Dragons) Draken Digby (Dragon Digby) Doktor Mcstuffins (Doc Mc Stuffins) Bumbibjörnarna (Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears) (olika drakar förekom då och då/sometimes different kinds of dragons would appear. Though those episode were rare.) & (Bolibompa)
PLEASE help me find this. I've looked for years without any luck, and I'm tempted to give up, but it just won't get out of my head...
Edited by Pepsilovin-pikaopenPokemon Fan-Artist Web Original
Anyone know the name of this fan-artist? They're Japanese and have a Pixiv, or at least they did several years ago. They're a Pokémon fan-artist who draws a lot of fanart of Red and the Kanto characters. I remember one comic took place in a tournament and showed Sklya as a little girl.
openBook from my childhood-deeply disturbing Literature
It was a children’s book about a kid with a tragic backstory (maybe he was an orphan?) and all he wanted was to try an apple. I think he ended up getting the apple but ultimately did not get to eat it — I think because bullies kicked it in the gutter?? It took place in an Asian country I think.
openChristian novel about a novelist, from about 20 years ago Literature
This is a novel I saw in a Family Christian store some time between 1997 and 2003. It would have been in softcover. (Edited to add: I think the cover design was dark-colored and kind of minimalistic, but I might be wrong about that.)
The back cover summary had something to do with a successful writer of "immoral" books ("immoral" probably wasn't the word used, but that was the implication) who had become an Evangelical Christian and was dealing with the conflict between his public image and his new faith. (Possibly also dealing with the moral dilemma of continuing to receive royalties for his objectionable backlist, but I don't know if that was mentioned or if it's just something I inferred.)
I thought it was by Randy Alcorn, but unless I've failed a spot check, Alcorn doesn't seem to have written a novel like this. Possibly it was shelved near Alcorn's books, so the author's name may have started with an A.
Edited by CracktopusopenAudiobook Description of Chinese Water Torture
As a kid in the 90's and early 00's, I listened to a lot of books on tape. I recently remembered one odd snippet that I can't seem to put in any sort of context, but I'll try to describe as best as I can:
A slow and calm woman's voice described various methods that ancient societies used to interrogate or torture spies and prisoners. The narration didn't go into too much gory detail, just a general overview of how nasty warfare and espionage was in the past. As the voice described Chinese water torture, the sound of dripping water could be heard in the background. As she finished describing how the torture would slowly drive prisoners insane she paused for a moment, and a male voice started to shout some Foreign Sounding Gibberish. (It was probably meant to sound Chinese? I don't think it was actually Mandarin or Cantonese so much as a guy yelling vaguely Asiatic sounding words.) The narrator said something to to tune of "this one sounds ready to talk," and with that the section on Chinese water torture ended and the narration moved on to another topic.
I have no idea what on Earth this could have come from. The weirdest thing is that I'm almost sure it was produced as children's content? Everything from the lady narrator's tone of voice to the theatrical flair of the whole clip was clearly aimed at kids. If it sounds familiar to anyone please let me know.
Edited by LeporidaeopenFantasy kids book Literature
I remember reading this rather weird kids book way back in 2005/06. It's about this boy who apparently is very special and has to be returned to his long lost parents. Some weird creatures have to help him get back as there are a lot of 'forces' [I don't know exactly who] who are trying to kill him. Now this next part I remember really well : So there's this quiet old lady knitting something by a fish pool. You know she's evil when she silently stabs one of the fish with her needle. I really hope it's part of the same book. Oh, and at the end, the boy instantly recognizes his parents and runs so quickly towards them, his feet barely touch the ground. I, as a kid, had tried running in such a manner because of this.
Edited by pirette16

Hey! So basically i was looking at recommendations of what to watch after Pretty Little Liars, and I read a description about a show where people (I think they were teenagers) jokingly plan a murder and then someone gets murdered in the exact way they plan? Please help me find out the tv show name!