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resolved All I have is a clip of melodramatic child death.
I am looking for the film or television show this clip on Twitter came from. It’s a very melodramatic clip of a father teaching his child to ride a bike while the mom watches, and then the father is hit by a skater, leading the son to ride away and be hit by a car. It’s just very goofy. Here is the link:
https://x.com/shitpostgate/status/1845981665190961638?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A
resolved Scene at Stock Exchange Film
Is there a movie where one character brings another to the pits at the New York Stock Exchange and rhapsodises about how it's a site of pure, unfiltered capitalism?
resolved Cartoon with Colourful Bears Western Animation
When I was a teeny tiny child, I had a video for an All-CGI Cartoon starring a cast of colourful bears. The whole world was a bit trippy tbh and I think rainbows were involved? If I'm not mistaken, I also owned at least two plushies of characters from the show. I just can't put a name to it...
ETA: After further investigation, it turns out I was thinking of Jellabies (Or Jellikins, as I knew it)! Disregard, locking.
Edited by Riolugirlresolved Adaptation of Snow White
I remember a Live Action adaptation of Snow White that widly diverges from the fairy tale ; she crashes the wedding of the evil quee with a rapier and all the dwarves in tow, the Queen has an Of Corset Hurts scene (and something about a lucky wedding dress?) and in the end the Queen reduced to an old woman tries to poison Snow White in her wedding with an apple. I recall Snow White cutting the apple with a fruit knife. I think the movie was filmed in around 2010. Does anyone know it?
resolved Paaaaraaaadise! Music
Can anyone make out what the song is this toy clown fish is singing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB-h6OBCdFk
I remember looking at and listening to this toy in a Cracker Barrel store nearly 20 years ago, but my mind has been stumped trying to identify this song. Unfortunately, the potato quality of this video doesn't really help, but even so, I remember the recording used for the fish was rather unintelligible anyway (as is usually the case with cheap talking/singing toys); I just know that the loop ended with that elongated and stretched out, "Paaaaaaraaaadise!"
resolved Kid's book with a girl who sees ghosts Literature
This is a middle-grade book which was published no later than 2012. I remember a lot of things about it but nothing that shows up on web searches.
There is a girl who moves with her mom to a beach town and she sees ghosts. I can't recall if this is a new ability or not. There are several ghosts, and one is a slightly-older girl who is still wearing the costume she died in- fishnets are involved. This ghost also dyed the protagonist's hair (blue?), which the protagonist ends up liking and at the end of the book, she and a living friend dye their hair "Screaming Sally's Punk-Rock Pink." Also the girl's mother is an artist who does some sort of beach-themed souvenirs.
I don't think it's Saranormal.
resolved looking for stopmotion film Western Animation
The premise of the film is about astronauts trying to stop an asteroid (possibly a spoof of Armageddon) It was a comedy and was most likely R rated since it had some raunchy jokes
resolved Horror Comic about a house that lures Print Comic
A comic whose first half is about a house that lures people from the neighborhood inside in various ways. One man is lured inside when his winning lottery ticket blows into the window an when he gets in he finds himself in the office for the destruction of losing lottery tickets and is stuck endlessly searching for his ticket in a sea of others.
The other half is the backstory in which a woman's child is buried up to his waist in the cemetery and eaten by grave worms so she gives up her soul in a magic ritual and gives birth to a horde of monsters that go out and cease the people of the town.
resolved Trying to find a video game I saw a video of. Videogame
Oh boy, will this ever be a long shot. It's been long since I last saw this, so excuse me if my memories are vague. Also, yes, I'm trying to find a work that isn't a foreign TV show or cartoon of some sort for the first time.
So, back when I was younger, I saw a YouTube video of some kind of a video game. For starters, the video game was possibly a Japan-exclusive game, which probably explains why I can't find it. The game is a 2D platformer, and the levels looked like the insides of anthills, or ant farms, or something similar to those. I'm not sure what the player character looked like, but he/she/it could climb up walls in these anthill-like levels, so he/she/it was probably an ant. The only other thing I can remember is that there was also a world map, which was a big island, I think. As for what console this game was on, I certainly have no idea, but I think it's an arcade game.
Again, sorry for the extremely vague info, but that's all I can really remember of it. I really can't confirm if this was just a dream I had, but who knows? Happy searching either way!
UPDATE 10/01/24: I think this is, in fact, something I dreamed up.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperresolved Superhero romantic comedy
I remember a live action romantic comedy from the early 2000's with an everyman office worker protagonist who's caught in a live triangle between his long-time partner and a female superhero. She has a Wonderwoman-esque transformation sequence that changes her hair colour. At the end of the movie he ends up with the old live interest, who has gained superpowers on her own. There's a joke about breaking the bedroom wall during sex. Does it ring any bells?
resolved Cheerleaders by day, superheroes by night
I'm looking for this early 2000s animated movie about a trio of cheerleaders who when they drink their water bottles, they become crimefighting superheroes.
I watched it on Disney Channel. The movie was either Canadian or French/Italian.
resolved Mother Deliberately Stops Baby's Development Literature
I only read about it here but can't remember the page, it might have been a novel or short story: A sci-fi story where humans discover immortality and it becomes accessible to all. One woman is dicovered to have used the process on her own baby (making it unable to grow older) so she could take care of it forever and the baby would never outgrow her.
resolved Which episode of Beetleborgs had Noxic dreaming about possessing a bulldozer?
So, I was reading the Wikipedia page on Series/Beetleborgs when I noticed this line:
"In a dream of his, Noxic took control of a bulldozer with his head and tried to destroy the Beetleborgs. He later used this same technique to take control of Ghoulum, when he went bad from the "Bad Potion." "
Does anyone know what episode this was in? I would look myself, but the show's first season alone has 53 episodes.
resolved Pebbles Quest Web Original
I know the name of the series and its creator (Atastic on Youtube), but I wanted to verify whether or not it has an existing page here. It's a series of short cartoons about a diminutive knight who vocalizes in train whistle noises. I did search the wiki already, but since none of the earlier cartoons have the series title in the name and there was a spiritual precursor in MasterQuest, I figured it could've had a trope page made under a different name.
Edited by KiriKresolved Movies in Creature Features show intro Film
I can identify most of these movies, but not these three. Do they seem familiar to anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIOgP09zD0
(Almost forgot the link)
1:14 woman with long brown hair wearing some strange bra (solved!)
1:15 blonde woman dressed as Alice falling down some rabbit hole like thing (solved!)
1:26 blue (?) bald person with glasses (solved!)
I tried so hard finding these on my own but no luck. Can anyone please help? Thank you.
Edited by thestormtrooperresolved Pollination song Web Original
I remember seeing this old You Tube video at least ten years ago, it was this children's song about pollination and kind of cheaply animated. The lyrics went "Pollination, pollination, the process of a plant", something I don't remember, then "dogs and birds and man."
resolved 1990's Fighting Game Videogame
I'm trying to find the name of a fighting game I came across a demo of as a kid. I remember it being around the same time I found a demo for Tekken 2, so it was in the 90's. It was on PS 1, and being a demo, I could only select one of three characters. After choosing my character, they, being in the top-left corner of the screen, would tilt their head towards the centre of the screen and make a sound (not sure if it was either laughing, or saying something in their native language). Then there would be a quick select of their opponent (in the top-right corner), and said opponent would also turn to the centre and (I think) say something in their native language.
resolved Remix of ATC "Around The World" Music
There's this remix of the song "Around The World" that I swear was called something like "VX remix", but I can't find it anywhere. I searched through 20+ remixes on youtube and none of them were right.

So it's a manga about a girl who is like the princess of a kingdom or something. There's two brothers who vy for her affection and they're rivals. But something happens and she needs to collect a bunch of people who have elemental abilities to save the day?
There's also a plot point about, I think, the girl having a sister put in a coma and also one of the brothers did something evil but it's okay and he's forgiven. I ate that shit up when I was 14.
I think it's a 3-volume manga. I tried to find it at my local library but it wasn't there.
EDIT: I figured it out, it's Time Stranger Kyoko!
Edited by MissRoboto