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resolved No Title Live Action TV
A Muppet-type show that I saw in the '90's. The characters were Muppet-kids. I think the title was something like "Wimsey's House". Or someone's house.
I remember one episode where the phone was ringing, one kid was calling for someone to come answer, but ending up answering it herself. That led to a giant box being delivered to their house, which the kids then tried to hide by pushing it around.
Another episode involved a fashion contest of some sort, with the kids going "Ta-da!" as they presented themselves. The girl who was judging gave each of them a small prize for whatever category she had deemed them the winner of. The youngest one, a boy, won "Most Colorful". I think his name was Bo. The last one to be awarded a prize was a boy, who got progressively sadder as the others were awarded, until it was his turn and he was assured that he WAS deserving of a prize.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
This was a sitcom with no laugh track that aired in the early 2000's. It might have had 'Oliver' in the title. It took place in an earlier decade, maybe the 50's. The narrator, one of the main characters, was a youngish teenage boy. He may or may not have been the titular 'Oliver' (if 'Oliver' was part of the title at all, of course).
I remember two episodes, both featuring narrator-boy's older brother's attempts to impress a girl. This girl was probably an exchange student and may have been Austrian.
In one episode, older-brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where older-brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In the other episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady foot rubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I saw it in Russian, not sure what the original language was. It was probably a part of non-interconnected series (not long enough for a movie). The plot was that a woman hires an assassin to kill her brother. They go to the house where he is supposed to come next day and spend the night there (together). The next day, the brother arrives... in a wheelchair. The assassin says he can't do this, to which the woman replies it's fine - the plan wasn't to kill the brother. It was to kill the assassin, who was the one to put him in that wheelchair.
Edited by Omeganianresolved No Title Live Action TV
I have vague memories of a live action TV show I watched as a kid. I'm pretty sure it was about a small town, where strange things happen all the time. The opening title might have had the name of the show on a wooden sign, with a crow sitting on top of it.
The only two episodes I can remember anything about involved a) A kid appearing from nowhere, but this kid was actually a younger version of the father in the show. I think he had some sort of plan to blow up the science fair. b) A tamagotchi like videogame that became really popular, but everyone become devoted to the game's main character like some sort of cult, and they went to work in a factory for him... I think someone might have been trapped in the game as well.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I watched it in Canada in the late 1990s, on (I think) KVOS. It was channel 13 on the West Coast, when we were still using rabbit ears.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
Live-action TV, I think; or possibly a film.
A character sings "Everybody dance now!" and nobody dances. So then they get serious and command, "Everybody. Dance. NOW." and everyone starts reluctantly dancing.
One of those quotations that you can't Google because you just get the lyrics to "Gonna Make You Sweat".
resolved Show with puppet dinosaur Live Action TV
I remember some TV show (or maybe a movie I forget) in The '90s where this kid had a puppet dinosaur as a companion. At one point the dinosaur knocks over this container full of dead fish on him and he freaks out. Also at one point the dinosaur keeps singing "I'm gonna bite you". It seemed really dark for a kid's show. That's all I remember.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved No Title Live Action TV
Not exactly TV, but a web series. It was one of Cracked.com's series, either Does Not Compute or Cracked TV. I'm looking for a specific episode, and I don't have the time to go through all of them and it's driving me nuts.
So, Michael's sidekick Clippy is a clip of something obnoxious, like just constant screaming or something. Michael asks Clippy something, cut to screaming or whatever, cut back to Michael, who says, "Oh, I forgot, you're insufferable in this episode."
Any help? Anyone?
resolved Two TV Shows I Can't Remember which keep on bugging me for ages Live Action TV
I am looking for two shows that I remember watching when I was very young, but I can't remember what they are for the life of me.
1) A classic TV sitcom (sometime between the 1960s and late 1980s) with one episode having a scene in which a woman dressed in a blue dress and a bonnet falls in water whether by falling or being pushed into the water from a fight with another person indoors at a mall or at a party somewhere. Also, I think she may have fallen into a shallow fountain.
2) An early 2000s (short-lived, I think) children's TV show somewhat similar to Sesame Street (I think it was on either PBS, Nickelodeon, etc.) with puppets (both hand puppets and life-size walkaround puppets) and 2D animation. One episode includes kids (in either P Js or regular clothes) dance-sitting holding a toy (either teddy bears or a boat) in a classroom in front of a blue tarp or sheet held on by two of the mentioned "life-size walkaround puppets". NOTE: the whole song is played the first time; the second time is the same thing, but the video quickly fades to black and the credits roll while the song is still playing.
I have been searching for these topics for my entire life, and I still can not find anything. I remember watching them when I was in Gadsden. This is bugging me ever since, and I want to know what these two shows are.
Edited by bradleyangle@129resolved No Title Live Action TV
I briefly watched a segment of a TV show that shows a man using a drill. I think he lays his chin to a platform (plywood?) and drills upward to him. His chin got penetrated by accident. This might be a comedy sitcom show because I remember hearing a laugh track in this scene, and the scene is viewed like that. Or maybe it's not comedy and it's something intentionally serious. This was viewed around the 2000s decade.
Edit: Most likely this is Mad TV. Thank you.
Edited by ctempireresolved No Title Live Action TV
A comparatively short work for television, about 15 to 22 minutes. It depicts an Orwellian future with people living in sterile compartments with a huge viewscreen on one wall. The screen always has this looming image of this Supreme Overseer. One factory worker returns home, and goes into this Jim Varney goofball routine until the Overseer suddenly goes online and roars at him to "cut that out!" Ultimately, the Overseer grows disgusted with the goofball and the screen goes blank. Then the goofball goes all serious, puts on glasses and writes in a journal: "A man is not free until he can laugh at his oppressor. Today, I laughed at my oppressor." Anybody remember this one? Ideally, this would make a nice example for a YKTTW proto-trope.
resolved Kids in Space Live Action TV
I am trying to remember the name of this kids show about a group of kids who snuck aboard a spacecraft and said spacecraft wen through a wormhole and they need to get home. I remember there being adults on board, a man and a woman; also a robot.
And there was this one episode where the girl with rainbow hair could do like a sonic scream thing.
resolved 1990s TV ad (USA) Live Action TV
Early 1990s, I used to see a commercial on television. It was targeted for parents. The product advertised was a handheld, battery-powered portable video game that had many pre-programmed games. I don't think it used cartridges or game cards or diskettes or anything like that, it was just pre-programmed games. The screen was a black-and-white dot matrix, I'm pretty sure about that. It was advertised to have a large number of games ("over 300 games" or something) but I was under the impression that they inflated that number by including variants of the same game. For example, remember Tetris? Remember how Tetris had "Type-A" and "Type-B" gameplay? According to this advertisement, those were two different games. I think Tetris was actually a pre-programmed game (or some similar kind of falling block puzzle game at least).
Now what really makes this advertisement memorable is that the (male) announcer tells the parents, "NEVER buy those expensive video game cartridges again!!" and the picture showed a close-up of a hand dropping a video game cartridge into a wastebasket. I particularly remember that the game shown was the Super NES version of Street Fighter II. As a kid, I instantly recognized it because I owned that game and it was one of the most popular games at that time. This means the commercial I'm looking for was probably aired in 1992 or 1993. Even as a kid I thought this was absurd, because I knew that game cost about $70 and the announcer described it as "expensive" so it wouldn't make sense for a parent to throw it into the trash, even if they bought a new handheld device with over 300 games.
resolved a tv show where a man gets sucked out of a plane but a lady is saved Live Action TV
that's pretty much it....shes warned in a way to put her seatbelt on even though the man says it's not time yet and one of the stewardesses shakes her head when the man offers her the window seat
i feel it might have been an urban legend show ...
it was in color
Edited by Binditheskunkresolved witch and talking cauldron Live Action TV
There was this show I used to watch in the 90's about witch who lived in a gingerbread, together with her talking cauldron. I think it had a minimalist cast of about three character per episode and UI seem to remember the witch using "heads will roll." a lot, might even have been her catchprase. I'm also pretty it was a British show.
The Ginger Bread House page is no help since it only has two listings under live action and none are what I'm looking for.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Old show taking place in Ohio Live Action TV
The only thing I remember about the show was the end of its intro, where a voice would shout an echoing "Ohio!" I think it was a sitcom, but I'm not sure.
resolved [solved] Dennis Weaver made-for-TV movie about illiteracy Live Action TV
I'm positive that Dennis Weaver had a role as a truck driver supporting his family, but he was illiterate. His wife would have to make pictograms of his latest assignment so he'd know where to go and what to do. At a restaurant, the restrooms were labelled Sailors and Mermaids, and the trucker mistook the M in Mermaids for Men's ... whoopsie. It culminated in his trying to find the exit to Gloversville purely by the G, almost missing the turnoff, and causing a mother and her children to crash. He finally sought help by getting subsidized adult literacy classes. Does anyone remember the name of this movie? IM Db seems to have missed it.
Edited by oneuglybunnyresolved Deserted Island film-made-for-tv or movie Live Action TV
There was a movie or possibly film-made-for-tv I try to find the the title. Possibly made in the 90's. It was a bunch of teenagers trapped on a Deserted Island. It was mixed race cast, but I can't be sure. At some point, a bearded adult end up on the island and joins them. At some point, the adult say that things aren't so bad as he stared at the girls in a predatory manner. He eventually kidnaps one of the girls and the other teens rescue her. In the end, the adult is put on a makeshift jail and the teens comment, through narration, that they never thought that the first first thing they built would have been a prison. In the end, the teens learn to live together in peace as there was never any rescue. Any ideas? Thanks.
resolved Black teacher dreams of a world where teachers are treated like sports stars Live Action TV
Saw an episode of what looked like an American series about the late 90s/2000s
- I think most of the cast were black
- There was this news report about an athlete getting a huge salary and some lady says that teachers should be paid that sort of money
- This teacher has a nap and dreams about a world where teachers are treated like sports stars - complete with NFL style commentators for their classes and slow motion replay when they draw on the screen
- He was teaching something like snails or something and he fakes eating it then the there was a replay showing how he palmed it
- He was considering getting a new contract for a whole heap more money this little girl tries to give her meagre savings to get him to stay
resolved TV show about Human looking robot from the 80s and/or early 90s Live Action TV
As a child back in the mid-nineties, I can recall seeing an episode of a TV Show originally on the air (I believe either 80s or early 90s) about a robot that resembled an average human. The robot in question was played by an adolescent man (so no, this isn't Small Wonders). I can recall one moment in the episode in which the robot was trying to go through a metal detector, but obviously being made of metal, he kept making it go off. The robot even went down to his boxers and set it off and by that point the security guards assumed something was wrong with the metal detector and let him go.
Anyone know the title of the show?

It was a sitcom with no laugh track, taking place in an earlier decade, and the main character or narrator was a youngish teenage boy. I remember a couple episodes featuring his older brother's attempts to impress an (Austrian?) girl who was a foreign exchange student.
In one, the brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where the brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In another episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady footrubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life's stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. (All played for laughs, of course.) Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.