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openLate 90's/early 2000's live action children's show with giant story book set Live Action TV
There was this TV show that I watched when I was really young. Episodes were really short and the set was a giant story book that opened up. I remember that there were many compartments within the story book with bed that could pull out from the story book. I watched this in Canada but it might have been from the USA as well.
Edited by No37openDisney TV show from the 2000's Live Action TV
All I can remember is 1 episode of the TV show, I think it was the first episode, and possibly the last. I'm almost certain that it said New in front of the Title like it usually did with new episodes. Anyways, what I remember from the episode Is at least 2 or 3 people sitting in a stadium when they hear on a radio that a nuclear bomb is going to be dropped somewhere in their area, but they don't panic because they think it's probably not going to hit them, but then shortly after the bomb lands directly on top of them. That's all I remember from the episode right now, but I could probably remember more if I tried. I think it was on the Disney Channel but it's possible that it was something else like Nickelodeon.
opentrying to remember a fantasy style tv show i saw as a kid Live Action TV
i saw this show (kids/teens target audience) when i was younger sometime in the early to mid 2000's i think: what i remember was a group of teens got a power each and i seem to remember that they had colours associated with the powers. i think one of them had the black associated power that let them see far away and like down corridors and round corners if you know what i mean by that. the only other thing i remember i recall is it having a somewhat oriental theme to it. (edit) it kinda reminds me of power rangers but i don't think it was and i think there was two sisters one older and one younger who were like the main characters of the group with the older one being like the stereotypical group leader .
if anyone has any idea what show i'm talking about it would be a great help to know what it was called
Edited by jampixelopenStrangely dark picture book? Literature
I may be misremembering but I was read this children’s book when I was very young and remember parts of it vividly; a disgraced baseball player takes over a town and makes everyone’s life miserable, eventually the main character’s mom’s head is seen stuck in a spiked garden roller or something because of the baseball player? I remember it being very dreary in tone and color palette, definitely not suitable for children.
openSad Computer Short Story Literature
I read this short story a couple of years ago, but it's probably at least a few decades old. It's a speculative fiction work where everyone has to enter absolutely EVERY detail about themselves into this computer system thing, which in turn predicts all crimes that people are going to commit. In the story, the protagonist (a guy) is an adolescent whose dad is called in because it's been predicted that he'll commit a crime, but the details that the government have don't add up. The protagonist gets a bunch of vague instructions to go places. By the end, it's revealed that the computer system thing was really overworked and sad and wanted to shut itself down. However, since shutting down the computer was a crime, it had to report that it would happen — but it purposely obscured the details to make sure its mission would succeed. The main way it did this was to pick a kid/teen to perform the action — since teens are listed under their parents' entries in the crime system thing, the dad would be called into questioning while the child went to a bunch of sketchy places to shut the computer down.
openNo Title Print Comic
The book was about four kids, led by a young black girl, who can travel to a different dimension through a magic(?) movie projector. They are locked out if the projector is off, and they jam it to keep it on with an action figure, which subsequently breaks. There is also blue goop that can possess people and zombify(?) them. It was in the kid’s section of the library, but was a bit creepy for the kids that were there. I really would appreciate it if anyone found it. Thanks!
open[SOLVED] Gory flash game starring a cat Videogame
Back in the days when I was muddling around on Y8.com, I stumbled upon the category "Blood". I have no why I clicked on it, and this one game that stands out in my mind even many years later is this one game (I think series?) of this zombie/Frankenstein's monster/mummy/whatever cat with huge eyes, and blood was just everywhere in the thumbnail(s?). I don't have enough specific info to even search it up in Google.
Edited by Monolaf317openComedy About a Guy Testing a Suit Anime
Some time ago, I remember there being an anime series on Amazon Prime where the basic premise was that a young guy got a job testing a purple Ultraman-esque suit for a toy company or something. It's since left Prime and for the life of me, I can't remember the title. Anyone have any idea what show I'm talking about?
openCD-ROM Children's Encyclopedia (UNSOLVED) Videogame
When I was young, I had a children's encyclopedia on CD-ROM that had a host called Annie (short for Annuit Coeptis), a female, floating green pyramid who looked like "the weird pyramid thing on the back of the dollar bill," as she described it. She had a floating round eye where the Eye of Providence was, and introduced herself and explained the meaning of the Great Seal upon bootup. I think we sold the disc at a flea market. And yes, I'm asking mainly because Bill Cipher reminded me of her.
Edited by rjd1922openCartoon. Magic wands shaped like a wooden spoon and a star. Had to enter ‘password’ to use magic Western Animation
Help please. Have tried searching in vain for the name of an old cartoon. The story centres around this woman who has magical powers. She lives with her father. Her wand has a star at the tip and his is shaped like a wooden spoon. Both of them are ‘password protected’ in that you have to move the star or spoon bowl around in a certain combination in order to be able to cast any spells. The cartoon is about an evil wizard trying to steal both wands and their unlock codes in order to use them in a scheme. I also remember a scene where the daughter is in a shop and they sell these coloured balls which I think are supposed to be enchantments. She runs into a man and has a meet ute where they knock all these balls down and try to sort them out. Please help, can’t find anything throughout the google.
Edited by SantaryopenShort story about aliens and evolution Literature
This was from a sci-fi anthology omnibus I read many, many years ago, but this one story stuck out in my mind particularly.
As far as I can remember, it involved an alien civilization on a distant planet that was going through its industrial revolution. One female alien who's some kind of struggling playwright discovers fossils of extinct creatures and becomes a sort of Charles Darwin equivalent, travelling around her planet and collecting evidence to support the theory of evolution while debating her theories with various religious types. At the end of the story, she stages a play about the evolution of their species, and becomes a big success.
openYA Sci-Fi Book Literature
I read a book many years ago and I'm attempting to track it down now to re-read it.
Here's what I remember: The protagonist is a woman who works for some sort of agency (I think it's intergalactic) and she's captured by an enemy race. She makes a comment about having her hair cut short when she's imprisoned because in the enemy's culture that is a way to humiliate or shame women, though it doesn't bother her. The part I remember is from her point of view and she continues to tell the story from what she can see/learn while locked up.
That's the most specific thing I recall, but there is also something about her working with another agent, a man who is either inexperienced or has done something disgraceful, making her unhappy to be stuck with him (the story may flip to his point of view for some chapters?). In the end, he takes their ship and uses it to somehow defeat the enemy, I think by self-destructing the ship to blow up their base or city, killing himself in the process but saving the female agent and presumably everyone else...
Any ideas? I believe it is a young adult novel and it may be out of print. Also, I can't promise it was ever published or available outside the United States. Not a lot to go on, I know, but I'd appreciate any titles anyone can suggest. Thanks!
Edited by SnowRobinopenGirl falls in water? Anime
Ok so a girl falls in water,sacrificed to an ocean god or something, and her friends start looking for her? There were boats and a kid with white hair. And no it is not Bride of the water God.
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openA cartoon about animal kids who are taught by a tree. Western Animation
I can't remember much but there was this cartoon I used to watch about anthropomorphic animals living in some jungle-esque village and the children there, in human clothes were going to an outdoor school being with their teacher being a walking talking tree and his son.
I remember there being a squirell girl in a red jacket (I think), a fox boy, mouse twins, rat twins, an older mouse who wanted to be treated as a grown up one episode
openTV Show about a lawyer and his girlfriend that owns a store/shop(sell candles) Film
This Show featured a lawyer and some other guy(i think its his brother) as well as the lawyers girlfriend that owns a shop/store that sells like candles and so forth in one of the episodes there is a new Zumba class above that causes her shop to shake, I recall one episode when the boyfriend get her a spa day and she gets in a fight with a lady that works there and they and up in court and they play the security footage of them fighting. Does anyone know this show if you do please help. Not sure of the medium.........
Edited by BawdyPosseopenGang related anime i think Anime
I am trying to find an anime I remember watching awhile back. Most of it is vague but it was about some kind of gang I think with all members being forced to where their symbol on either a earring or necklace. The symbol was half the yin yang like a ball with a curvy tail there was also a hole in the middle of the circle. it started off with a girl returning home to them or something. Thanks so much and I hope to get an answer.
openTabletop RPG - Lantern as weapon.
I remember reading a PDF for a Tabletop RPG a few years ago wherein one of the classes was some sort of city guardsman with the improbable weapon of a lantern. Apparently it was an elite position of some sort, and I think the lanterns were specially crafted, with properties besides being melee weapons, but that's all I can remember. I don't even know the franchise it was from or the system they used.

I'm going nuts trying to remember this tv show. It was short, can't remember if it was cancelled or it only had 1 or 2 seasons maybe. It was an old guy (I could swear it was Morgan Freeman, but I'm probably wrong, since IMDB didn't bring anything up when I searched for him), that started rounding up a group of kids with paranormal powers. They could talk to ghosts, or see the future. It was a depressing group, I think they were introverted, or attempted suicide or something like that. I know, my description isn't the best, but I can barely remember the show. I think I remember the old guy being in a wheelchair, and the co-protagonist was a redhead, that kept refusing to join the group.