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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 Videogame
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.
resolved No Title Anime
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I was casually surfing through the web, going through some anime-related sites and pages, and found a collage of 18 characters, each from a different series
. I would thank you perpetually if you could tell me who is the one in picture I, right under Son Goku. The character's design reminds me of the characters from Slayers and Lost Universe, but the character herself is very unfamiliar to me (can't tell whether it's because it's a character from those series but in an episode or season I never saw, or simply because it's from another series entirely). Thanks in advance, this curiosity isn't letting me sleep!
resolved No Title Videogame
There's an indie(?) fighting game I discovered a couple months back on You Tube in the form of a compilation of instant kill attacks. It showed around 6-8 characters with monstrous designs, but not classical movie monsters. The ones I remember are:
- A ghostly girl resembling Sadako from Ring.
- A slender woman in black who turns into a spider for her instant kill.
- A giant worm with a fanged mouth.
- A humanoid creature with tan/brown skin, long claws, no facial features other than a grinning mouth. Looked sort of feminine as well.
- A short humanoid figure with a white face and three large black dots for the eyes and mouth. Sort of like those "bobblehead" nature spirits from Princess Mononoke.
resolved No Title Film
90's, probably. Horror. There was some creature or entity killing people in this town. They would just vanish, leaving behind anything metal. One such object was a pacemaker, if I recall correctly. I think the thing was down in the sewers. I think it had a one word or short title, and I thought it was called "Entity" but IMDB is giving me nothing useful with that.
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Some animated movie I saw (not all of it) maybe 15 years ago. Not sure what was the original language. A boy and a girl are going on a quest to help a beetle recover an arm its grandfather or some other ancestor lost because of an evil woodcutter. I remember some fairy saying that the quest must be undertaken by two kids who never harmed anyone.
resolved No Title Literature
A short story,possibly by an Australian author, in which a conman sells a miracle glue that holds everything together... but only for four hours, by which time he is long gone. The conman runs into an inventor with a pair of functioning jetpacks, they both try them on. As they fly higher, the conman asks what he used to keep it together, the inventor replies he used the conman's glue, and the story ends just as the conman's jetpack falls apart midair.
resolved 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 [Solved - It was Siegfried and Roy all along] Western Animation
OK, this might be hard.
I rented it on a VHS back in the late 90s. It was a Swords and Sorcery show (the VHS had like 4 or so eps) and I remember it being pretty inventive in its designs. Kinda reminded me of pirates of Dark Water. Alas I have no idea where it could have aired. The art style was late 80s-90s, definitely not 70s. Could've been American or European, but probably not Japanese.
What I do remember:
- It followed multiple characters in multiple places.
- At one point there was this castle which was surrounded by a crack in the Earth, which no one could cross. And the hero had to prepare for some time and then jumped it with his horse.
- One of the villains was this monster, who had two faces in its palms (or its chest, my memory fails me) with one being female and the other male. It's main plot was corrupting some king or duke or something into taking some artifact somewhere and it appeared occasionally in its true form, while mostly being disguised as a woman or advisor.
Edited by Shirokurouresolved No Title Western Animation
OK, this was a show that aired on Cartoon Network UK in the 90s in the morning I think.
It was old 70-80 in style I think. And quite possibly French. Similar, but not Ulysses.
The premise was that there was this group of people on a spaceship that looked kinda like an AT-AT only with a more smooth oval head unit, which glowed red when it was talking (yes it talked).
Episodes sometimes had the team stuck on some planet/world and then ship would be out of service, they bum around and fix the ship somehow and jump to another world.
I can't recall the team at all, the only ones I remember are the bearded guy, who once stole some hover bike for a chase or something.
And the only character I remember clearly besides the ship was a woman, slightly tanned skin, dressed in white and wearing a white hat and she had this gold/light brown button between her neck and her shoulder, which would allow her to do telepathy, illusions or that kinda stuff.
Please help if you know.
resolved No Title Western Animation
It was an animated film I saw perhaps 15 years ago. I remember it featured a child (a girl, IIRC), a kind, older looking giant in whose pocket the child was hiding at one point, and a group of evil, ugly, troll like giants who were as big compared to the first giant as he was to humans.
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I saw a portion of a show or film from a channel which has a green logo, while visiting the Denver area. The format is quite unusual, as everyone are puppets with human-like movements, except in some shots. This means less stop-motion in most dialogue. It shows two adolescent characters riding a ski and/or a car through the snowy landscape. Then I see a scene in a dining restaurant nearby with few other characters. The restaurant has a toy train that delivers the food in plates to the customers. Then I see a scene with someone in a spaceship that landed around the snowy area.
I think it's made in the 80's because of the quality and the styles of the characters' hair and clothing. I seen this in the morning of July 16, 2011.
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This supposedly happened in Real Life, but I think I've seen it described as happening during the Crusades: a fortress is taken, and the remaining defenders are brought before the conqueror. In order to ensure his fame and prevent rebellion, he has all but one blinded, the remaining defender has one eye put out and his nose cut off, to lead the others back home.
Does anyone know what (if it even happened in the first place) the historical event is, or what work it showed up in?
resolved No Title Western Animation
I'm looking for a kids show I used to watch in the early 2000s.
Essentially, a unicorn controlled a land with a magical gate. Some other characters included a tiger and a dragon, but that's all I remember. The magical gate would sometimes appear in the "real" world whenever someone gets into trouble and needs time to think about his problems. He or she would sort things out in this magical land beyond the gate and would return to the real world once he learned a moral lesson.
I can almost recall two episode plots: one where a kid was in a race with a bus and one where a medieval knight had to gain the respect of his friends by capturing a dragon.
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This was a book on tape. We got it at a garage sale around '93 or '94, so it could have been made anytime before that. It was a sort of musical, where they would tell the story for awhile, then some character or another would burst into song. It was a christian story. There was a pirate, but he was all good and friendly and not very piratey. And there was a missionary, I'm fairly certain. Beyond that, it's rather fuzzy. I think it was part of a series, but we only had the one tape.

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".