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resolved No Title Music
I'm not sure if this should go in the Music category since it's about a music video I saw on MTV.
Many years ago I saw a music video on MTV in the mid-1990s. I don't remember much about the song that played. I think it was some kind of electronic music (kind of like Orbital or The Crystal Method) but I could be wrong, and I remember the same syllables being repeated, but it didn't sound like English. In the video, a young girl would wander aimlessly and observe the world around her. She carried with her a cube shaped block, except that the cube was hollow with a square-shaped hole right through the middle. Like a cube with two opposite sides removed. When the girl looked through the cube, she would see something similar but different. I don't recall any of the things she looked at, but the viewpoint perspective would shift from third-person to the girl's first-person perspective, and then show the cube being lifted to her field of vision and what appeared through the cube's aperture was different from what she saw with her normal eyes. I think she would first see something mundane, then when she looked through the cube she would see something fantastic or surreal. At the end of the video, the music stops but the words are repeated. Again, it didn't sound like English, and it showed that an old woman was singing those words to a sleeping girl. I think the song was called Lullaby or something but I could be wrong about that. Lullaby being the only word I have to go on, it is very difficult for me to search for this on the web. I only saw this video once and it was probably 17 years ago or something like that, so I might have misremembered some things.
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".
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A kid's show from the 90's. It was probably on CBC. It was about talking boats. In one episode there was a boat who wanted to be a... I don't what. The job involved helping or directing other boats somehow. She also wanted a green tire to wear. But whenever she moves, she makes waves that push other boats around, and this gets in the way of helping. Then one boat gets stuck or something, and the protagonist boat tries to help. Her waves push him, and she realizes she can use her waves to push him to safety. So she does, and she gets the job and her green tire.
Edited by Twiddlerresolved No Title
I think it was a short story. The plot is that a habitable planet is discovered, and a colony ship is sent there, with the colonists in cryosleep since they won't be there for centuries. However, before they get there (but hundreds of years later), FTL Travel has become possible and the glaxy is much more populated, including the one the ship was headed on, and the colony ship is now basically useless.
Does that ring any bells?
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A book that's basically Future Imperfect illustrated in black-and-white, presented as an archeologist exploring the ruins of post-apocalyptic America. The one that sticks in my mind is a corpse reclined in front of a TV, the narrator thinking it was some form of religious altar.
Edited by Chabal2resolved No Title Videogame
I can't remember what video game this is. I'm pretty sure it's the kind of game where you have some sort of super meter you expend to perform special moves. One character has some kind of super prostration move; it expends the energy meter (if this game has such a thing), then the character does an extremely elaborate prostration animation, that can't be interrupted, does no damage, and leaves you completely vulnerable. The very definition of a joke move. I think it's probably a game made in Japan.
(If you're unfamiliar with it, prostration, in this instance, is submissively bowing down in deference.)
resolved No Title Literature
The story is that a boy goes to his local library and takes a book out for the summer, but he has to sneak it out or negotiate with the librarian or something and the book only opens to the first page which has math questions, and is phrased as a princess being trapped in either a dungeon or a tower... and she can escape if she answers the guardian of each floor's questions which are all math questions, he says something about a prank with putting toothpaste between pages? and it remains sealed shut until he does the math questions on it, and he gets really into it and when the princess or him needs more paper or something, and he gets it, it appears in the book and at the end, it reveals that the princess in either in a world inside the book or something and he returns the book to the library at the end, or not?
Edited by Maladyresolved Multiverse Alternate Self Travelling Girl Literature
A book where the blurb at the back talks about a girl travelling between alternate universes where she exists in each one, and she keep travelling to find her way back or escape her boyfriend or find a better one or something, and after a while either she fears, or that it happens that she forgets details or her original life, like her name, her parents, etc, it has a listing of some of her various names...
Edited by Maladyresolved No Title Western Animation
It was a cartoon series; not sure about the original language, which I saw around 15-20 years ago in Israel. The name was something akin to "Losers". It was about a family and their pets, 5-10 minutes long I think. One episode I remember was about them releasing a genie from a bottle. Apparently, the genie was a real failure in granting wishes, and was banished from his family until he could perform three wishes properly. So, wish one was to do homework for a kid. There were answers like "2+2=147", but the kid said he makes mistakes all the time. The second wish was bones for the dog - the dog was buried under a huge pile of bones, but the genie was told there is no such thing as too many bones for this dog. The third wish was for the genie to return home.
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Some rather forgettable movie I saw at least ten-fifteen years ago. It centered around a good brother and an evil brother, with constant flashbacks of good brother and his beloved, ending with her taking an arrow for him. There was also a scene of their father giving the good brother a magical sword... with the magic, apparently, being the ability to float out of a scabbard behind his back and into his hand. I remember that effect looking veeeeery cheap.
resolved No Title Literature
Young adult or possibly middle grade novel where the main character's parents were divorced because they were both gay, and remarried/partnered with someone of their preferred gender. IIRC, they weren't portrayed particularly positively, although it wasn't anything to do with their orientation, just the fact that they were viewed through the lens of an angsty teenager.
resolved No Title Film
I don't know if this film was released in theaters or if it was made for television.
I saw it on television in the 1990s (USA), and I think the characters had hairstyles and clothes to match 90s styles.
It was about some teenage boys at a summer camp. The protagonist (who I think was blonde) really didn't want to be there. He was put into a cabin with several bunkmates, and one was a troubled kid who usually wore black clothes and slept upside-down (and I think he had red hair). He said something about it being because that's the way bats sleep. I don't know if that guy was supposed to be goth or emo or depressed or what, but he acted weird and usually refused to participate in group activities at the camp. Also the weird kid always had a toothbrush, and he was very possessive of it. He usually had it in his mouth and he would talk to it and claimed that it talked back to him.
I'm not sure about this, but the summer camp might have been for delinquents. The protagonist kid had to teach the others to work/play together, and to be proud of their group, even if it was a summer camp for rejects. So there was a sports competition or something, probably against other summer camp groups, and the kids had to learn to work together to compete against the others. At the end of the film, the weird red-haired kid showed a very drastic change of personality. He no longer acted depressed, he participated in sports, he was much more extroverted, had higher self-esteem, and I recall that the protagonist asked him about the toothbrush he had in his mouth. The red-haired kid smiled and said something like, "You know, toothbrushes sometimes say the darndest things!" and then threw it away to signify that he didn't need it anymore since he had learned to make real friends.
I tried searching for this with no luck. Anyone know this one?
resolved No Title Videogame
Not just a video game, but a series of two or three promo videos for the game. It was a fantasy RPG with online co-op, and the videos had short snippets of gameplay as experienced by four players. The first player is a serious role player, but he's not very good at it. At one point, in reference to the area they're exploring he says something like, "The Cave of Darkness is a damp, dark, den of depravity!" The second player is a guy with a very effeminate way of speaking, who's more interested in looking at the scenery than slaying monsters. At one point he gets the other three to pose for a picture with him, which I think may have been intended to show off a screenshot feature the game had. The third player is a typical online idiot, refusing to wear armor and instead preferring to run around in his skivvies. The last player, and the group's leader, more or less, is a pretty average gamer who just wants to play the game, but he takes his teammates quirks in stride.
I'm pretty sure this was a console game for the PS 3/360 generation.
Edited by shigmiya64resolved No Title Music
There is this song I have been looking for since 2003. It is a hard rock song with a male singer and in the refrain he says something like "we need to renovate" or maybe "it's time to renovate" I am possibly remembering the words wrong but that was the general meaning of the lyrics: everything's old and worn out and we have to make new stuff.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved 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 Song called something like "Feeling The Pressure". Music
Techno song from 2005 or so. Singer was male and the refrain was something like "I'm feeling the pressure" I remember the song sounded kind of like "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode. For some reason I think the band name started with a P or Q but I could be remembering wrong.
Edited by Bootlebat

It was a computer game, from probably the late 90's. It involved pirates, and (I think) consisted mainly of various mini games. Like, you would see the deck of the ship, and you could click on various things and characters, which would either take you to a new area, or would say something humorous. There was a girl pirate who would say "What are you doing?" and some animal, I think it was a mouse, said "Ahoy there."
I don't know if it was a Mac or PC game, as it was on my cousins' computer, and I don't remember what they had. I also can't remember what any of the mini games were. One may have involved shooting things with a cannon.