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resolved Song similar to "Hazy Shade Of Winter" (solved, see last post) Music
This is gonna be a hard one but here goes: my dad had this record that I really liked to listen to when I was a kid circa 1990. There was this one song I really liked that was the final song on either side a or b (I forget if all the songs on the record were by the same group or not) singer was male, genre maybe rock or alternative. Can't remember any exact lyrics but I think the general meaning was something about no matter how hard he tries he can't do something. I think the band's name started with a D or a T but not sure.
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I'm trying to find a horror short story that I believe I first read after seeing it mentioned on this site. I know that I read it online, but Google has proved useless so far.
The story is from the POV of a wife who I believe is visiting her husband's parents for the first time. She is constantly thinking to herself how great her husband is, how in love with him she is, things like that, but the only dialogue we get from the husband is sort of flat and unimpressive. (I want to say the husband's name was also something really dull like Kevin.)
We start to realize that the husband is not this incredible dreamboat but something way worse - he has sort of hypnotized his wife into adoring him and caring for him - I seem to recall something about her clipping his awful toenails while she's in this hypnosis. Anyway, this all comes out after the wife meets her mother-in-law, and it turns out the husband's father has the same thing going - "hypnotizing" the mother-in-law to tend to him and take care of him when really he's kind of awful - even monstrous. The two women are alone together when they manage to figure out that they've been married to these toad-like, horrible men who have convinced them to be their caretakers. There's a sort of awful realization where the wife has flashbacks to taking care of her husband where she is able to see that he's ugly, charmless, the toenails, etc. etc.
As the women are realizing this they both turn to each other in horror and I think decide that they have to kill their husbands to break free of this awful hypnosis. I think they do end up murdering their respective husbands - I forget the murder weapon but want to say it's a shotgun or a shovel for the wife (POV character). Despite recalling the plot this much I haven't been able to find hide nor hair of this story - can anyone help me out?
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In this 90s-00s movie, a team of scientists makes a human from scratch by injecting blue fluid (possibly deoxygenated blood) into a nonexistent body. However, an accident causes the human to become savage and decompose. There are also dogs that are kept for experiments. What's that title again? It's at the tip of my tongue!
Edited by TroperNo9001resolved 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?
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An Edutainment Game that I loved very much as a kid. It was a camp where you could trace the constellations and make cave paintings with the flowers that you collect. The characters were a blue dog and a yellow puppy who would accompany you with your adventures. On the way, you could take photos of the wildlife and see if you can catch Wonder Rabbit, though the film was limited. Not only that, there was also a racing game a la Pooh Sticks. I'm not sure if it's Ranger Rick, though, because the park ranger's a human, not a raccoon.
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 Videogame
Another Edutainment Game that I loved as a kid, but sadly, didn't finish. In this game, a kid who was turned into a "wimp" (a green one-horned humanoid) has to rescue his parents by going to a haunted house. He investigates by jumping on ghosts with matching synonyms and antonyms to open the catacombs and piecing the sentences together with a typewriter. Along the way, he collects PlotCoupons, one of which is a styrofoam cup, that may hold the answers to the whereabouts of his parents. Probably not Jump Start, since its title is a generic "3rd Grade Reading," but if it has a specific subtitle, please let me know. Thanks!
Edited by TroperNo9001resolved No Title Videogame
Memories of my childhood flood in as I try to remember my favorite EdutainmentGames:
1. Which Pajama Sam game has the main character throwing a rock at the prison gate and wearing a pumpkin to sneak past the guards?
2. This other game is a science game featuring two green astronauts, both male and female, and a blue robot. There are songs about coke and the (then) nine planets and different minigames. There's one where you arrange the events in order; one where you sort the healthy foods from the junk foods, paint the eggs, and deliver ice cubes by freezing the water drops; a weather station where you dress up the blue robot for different climate conditions; and a size comparison chart where you line up other animals against the biggest, smallest, and longest creatures. Does this ring any bells?
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A live-action movie that's somewhat of a Spy Kids ripoff where the protagonist is a robot boy made by KineTech. In one scene, he plays with water, with predictable results. Can't remember the rest...
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Yo, another newb here. I remember the basic plot from a book I once read, but cannot remember the title. I think I managed to pull out every detail that I remember. Here it is:
It is a Science Fiction story. Man has colonized Luna (lunar colony is now seperate legal entity from Earth) religion of all sorts has gotten out of control on Earth, and now earth based science is stalling. Lunar science is still advancing at breakneck speed. That is just background. There is a small research expedition to mars. They have established a semi-permanent base/colony, but they still require regular resupply from Earth. Earth government is threatening to shut them down, when they discover remains of extinct Martian Civilization. Religious establishments and governments on Earth rail harder to get martian expedition shut down. Mars expedition leaders go to moon to ask for aid, lunar government says "yes, if you can proove that the ancient buildings are real and not natural formations". Foreward thinking religous leader has idea to go to mars, and declare that martians fit within canon. He dies, but just as he does, he finds what reveals the location of the martian graves. He dies before he can tell the others. Explorers get into fight, one falls down, and sees what religous leader saw, stops fight, and another discovery is made when an object impacts with martian surface, revealing microbial life under martian surface. The life dies quickly, due to exposure to environment to which it did not evolve. Explorers have idea to bomb surface of mars, putting dome over craters to let an atmosphere form and protect the microbes, letting them evolve and rebuild mars's environment. They call it the "Million Year Experiment". End
That's about all I remember. You guys got anything?
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A NES game where you play as a pig that has to shoot down wolves that fly using Balloonacy. It is parodied in Neopets in the minigame "The Usul Suspects."
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A Chinese story, where an artist creates pictures more beautiful than real life. The Emperor has the artist brought to him, telling him that ever since he saw his pictures, life has lost all meaning for him, since nothing is as beautiful as the paintings, so he's going to have the artist killed (he eventually escapes via Portal Picture).
resolved Movie with a ship (maybe) Film
There was this movie I never actually saw but read about. All I remember reading is there was this scene where the main character (who's name was Sarah something) masturbates while someone else secretly watches. Also for some reason I think the movie might have had something to do with a ship but can't remember.
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A book (set either between World Wars or after World War Two) where an American family moves into a haunted castle in Britain. I mainly remember a scene where the ghost is clanking his chains along the hallway when the father goes up to him and hands him a can of oil, saying they'll work wonders for those noisy chains of his.
resolved Movie about the civil rights era Film
This movie from The '80s or The '90s that had to do with racism and the Civil Rights struggle. All I remember is 1. the protagonist is a girl 2. the villain is her uncle or father. 3. At one point the girl's mother talks about a time when her uncle slammed a piano lid on this black kid's hands and broke them
Edited by Bootlebatresolved No Title Literature
It's a short story. I read it in the 1980s, but I think it dates back further, to when computers were a new thing.
It's a science fiction story set in a future where all records have been computerized. The protagonist is the victim of some small error (a false overdue notice from the library, something like that), and when they try to get it corrected, things get worse and worse until their entire life gets destroyed (and maybe they wind up dead?). And the whole time to people in charge of the computer system insist that of course it's more reliable than human record-keepers and never makes any mistakes.
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I'm going to try again (who knows maybe someone will recognize it now).
I remember watching live action fantasy film. The only scene i remember was a male protagonist ascending the stairs inside a giant clock tower. The man was young, had somewhat long hair (maybe golden hair), i think he had a sword. The insides of the tower (obviously) had all sorts of gears and constant tick-tack noises. I'm assuming that he was trying to reach an evil sorceress, who was in control of said clock tower. She used this tower to slowly age everyone around it, and as the "hero" entered the tower also began aging him. The aging did not affected the tower itself however. As the hero was going up, he was getting older and older until he collapsed on the stairs. He had no more strength to walk, and the only thing he could do is to look at the ring with diamond on it, that he had with him and which (i think) was given to him by his beloved (or something). But as he lifted the ring, the stone fell out of the golden crevice and dropped down the cracks in the wooden stairs. He tried to grab it but failed, slumping on the stairs waiting for death. However, diamond landed between clock tower's gears and jammed it. Tower broke killing the sorceress and restoring lost time, making both the Hero and every person affected by the magic - young again (but i think it didn't revived those that died under the effect of magic).
Can anyone remember it?

Song from either 2000 or 2001. genre maybe pop. Forget whether it had a male of female singer maybe both. The refrain said something like "we've rolled the dice, now I want you out of my life"