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resolved No Title Literature
Technically this was a book on tape. I remember that this was a single story told from twenty or so different points of view (the story progressed linearly, but each new chapter was told from the point of view of a new character, some of which were inanimate objects). I also remember that each character was voiced by some celebrity, but the only one I can remember was Geena Davis as The Mirror (her first line was, "I am perfect.") Any help?
resolved No Title Music
In a recent episode of Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, as Harmony Bear performs a heartfelt song, Grumpy Bear pulls out a couple of candles, which he and a human girl named Joy start waving. I feel like this is something I have seen in a music video or something of the sort somewhere before, but where? Or might it just be a general reference to "Candle in the Wind"? (NB: The episode, "Sad About You" is currently available on The Hub's website for viewing.)
resolved [FOUND] DineAndDash music video Music
Song from the mid 1980s. I thought it was "Come On Eileen" or "Celtic Soul Brothers" by Dexys Midnight Runners, but having just seen those, I'm wrong. (Unless there's more than one version of the music videos?) The band in question are all scruffy lower class people like DMR presented themselves as in their "Eileen" period.
The video starts with the singer/main character in a small restaurant/diner having a meal. He sees a friend out the window and leaves, non-verbally telling the owner/waitress that he'll be back shortly to pay for his meal and leaving a package to demonstrate his commitment to coming back. He goes away and has a grand ol' time, and singing whatever song it is. We occasionally cut back to the diner where the waitress is getting concerned. Late that night, at more or less the end of the video, the waitress opens up the package to find it's just some old newspaper (or something), he never planned to come back!
I know this sounds kinda like A Ha's "Take On Me" but it isn't that.
Edited by randomsurferresolved [Solved] Film
Okay, either no one found it or i missed but... There was a movie, live-action. Which i hardly remember anything but the ending. All i remember is that it involved climbing atop the clock tower, and the Hero was a male. Evil witch or queen, controlled it and made everyone around her age fast with each passing hour. The hero failed to climb to the top, and the ring he had on him, which had a small diamond, fell from his hand, and diamond fell out, falling down and lodging itself between gears. Thus stopping cursed clock and saving "almost" everyone. The hero aged so much that he was an old man with long white hair, and looked about 90. After clock was destroyed he regained his youth and so is everyone else.
Edited by Rioresolved No Title Western Animation
I think it's Western Animation.
There was a kids' cartoon way back around 2000-2002. It had ghosts as characters and a haunted house setting. No, it wasn't Casper.
I remember an episode being about one of the ghosts finding a weather machine and using it to annoying the other ghosts by changing the weather repeatedly.
I know that's really vague, but tell me any suggestions you can find of it.
resolved No Title Film
Okay, i'm looking for a movie probably. The only thing i remember is that it had some kind of underground world, filled with people that were ordinary humans at some point but spent too much time there. One thing about them is that if light would shine upon them they would shrink into their clothes, and in the dark would again regain their form. One of main characters spent too much time in there, and was also affected by this as his hand shrunk in his sleeve. I also remember (and i think it was the same movie) that there were a kid with his hands *glued* to his face, like Home Alone poster. And some jerk ripped his head off, threw it in basket and replaced it with small pumpking. The end of the movie was, that main character climed out of underground world to find himself on the beach, i think in another city. And a little before that he was told that he shouldn't worry about turning into one of underground dwellers, he just had to spend some time out in the sun or something.
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
I remember one scene. But i have no idea where this scene came from. It involved a teen-looking dude in a cell. And some other guy (for some reason i think he looked like Dumbledore). This dude grabs iron bars and just squeeses them hard. Then there was some cheap effects (it was something old, many years before Potter mind you) and iron bars suddenly became so rusty, that nearly turned into dust. And this dude bent them, so that they could escape the cell. That other guy said that it's his power that can speed up time of items he touches or something. That's all i can remember.
resolved No Title Film
I'm looking for a film. All that i can remember that it had something like a book, made out of many pieces. And the villian was collecting them. I think he wore some kind of full body suit, which hid his face and features. The last piece was on the space ship of main characters and at some point of the movie began glowing and floated in the air. I remember chase scene or something like that, after which it was revealed that the Villian was someone Main Characters had been looking for all along. A father of one of them. I think he was part of some group that went missing, and that was probably why someone had been looking for them. I know it's too little but... The book was like an alien artifact or similiar and was (i think i do remember) it was always open.
resolved No Title Music
I've got two, though one is pretty much a lost cause.
1. This played on a country station, maybe 10 years ago. It was sung by a male, and it was about finding a buffalo nickel, and realizing it only had three legs. I think I only heard it once, and I've been trying to figure out what it was since then, so I don't have much hope.
2. This, I have no idea how old it is, and can't even remember if it was sung by a man or a woman. The lyrics that I can remember (probably incorrectly) are: "I won't give up blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank I let you down" This is the chorus, I'm fairly certain. For the life of me, I can't remember the lines in the middle. I was reminded of this by Red's Feed the Machine. The line "We fall in line" has a similar tune to "I won't give up" (or whatever that first line is).
resolved No Title Literature
Trying to recall a recent children's fantasy novel - maybe published about a year ago, certainly no more than three years at the absolute outer limit.
The two main characters, pretty sure that they were a girl of probably around 8-10 and her younger brother, were in a plane crash, and when they awoke, found themselves in a place where they were granted their every desire, but only for a day. They then had to either try to escape or join the people of this new world that they found themselves in, and chose to try to escape. A fantasy adventure story, with chases and escape sequences, and I'm pretty sure that the result was that it was All Just a Dream, but there may have been some sort of twist.
Oh, and it's possible that the younger brother was deeply disturbed by the decision to demote Pluto from being a planet, as it meant that things he felt were fixed and certain no longer were, though it's entirely possible that's something I read in a completely different story.
Edit - never mind, I managed to find the answer myself. No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko, published February, 2011.
Edited by JMQwilleranresolved No Title Anime
A manga about a girl named Enma, sent from the Japanese Celestial Bureaucracy to various places in time to yank people's skeletons out before they cause thousands of people to die. Over here it's simply called Enma, but I can't seem to find the English name (it's not Hell Girl, though Names The Same).
resolved [SOLVED] Film
An animated children's movie I saw in the 90's. It was about these spiders who wore clothes and went to school and played in a band. The smallest spider was the underdog/hero of the movie and played a piccolo. The others wouldn't let him join the band. The spiders go inside a human home, are spotted, and are captured in a glass jar, except for the smallest. He has to get the others out before they run out of air. Unfortunately, he ends up outside, and has to get back inside the house first. He tries climbing a waterspout, but it's raining and he's washed away. When the rain stops, he tries again and gets to a window, then goes in through a gap in the window. The jar with the other spiders is on that windowsill, along with a bunch of other stuff. Small-spider finds a way to break the jar, by pushing a baseball, which topples a ruler, which hits the windup mechanism on a Godzilla toy, which walks forward and pushes the jar to the edge of the sill, where it's easily toppled. After everyone has gone back to school, they all play a cover of "Itsy Bitsy Spider".
Edit from 9 years later: Solved! It was "The Real Story of Itsy Bitsy Spider" (aka "Spider Junior High"), part of "The Real Story of..." series
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resolved No Title Film
A movie with witches, magic, kids, and a talking cat.
Edit: Wait, never mind, I found it! Hocus Pocus
Edited by Twiddlerresolved No Title
EDIT: I know that it's been years since I made this post, but I did find the game I was talking about a while back. Turns out it was called "Darkland", and it looks like it never got a full release. Glad that mystery has been solved!
Okay, I'm looking for an older PC game from the early 2000s. If I remember correctly, I only had a demo of the game, but I remember a bit of it. I downloaded the game from a site called Happy Puppy, if I recall. I think the site's down, now, but it was pretty much a place where you could watch Video Game trailers and download demos.
In the game, you control a blue-colored ball, kinda' like a marble, around a very dark, grim world. There weren't many bright colors and the music was pretty quiet (assuming that there even WAS music). I can't remember the title, but 'Darkball' or 'Darkworld' sound familiar. Two levels I remember seeing are a field or hill of some sort with houses/trees, and a really dark cave.
If I recall, the ball you controlled actually had a name of some kind + was considered female, and the game itself was quite difficult. Of course, I could be wrong.
Sorry about having so little information. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it, because this has been bugging me for years, now.
Edited by RaineSageRocksresolved SImba + Book of the Jungle + Bambi expy? Western Animation
I think this show was produced from that era in the late seventies/early eighties that saw a lot of collaboration between French or Belgian animation studios and Japanese ones. It has actually been answered once here on the previous version of this page. The French version borrowed several character names from the Book of the Jungle. The most striking feature was an odd "magical power" of the main characters, a lion cub and deer foal, who had marks (stars and leaves) in the shape of the two Dippers that would appear on their chest.
Edited by Circeusresolved No Title Anime
This is a dubbed anime I saw on TV maybe 2-4 years ago. I can't remember what channel it was on, but the visual quality of the show tells me it had to have been produced sometime after 2000.
The scene I saw was a teen/young adult male on a game show that risked the lives of its contestants. I don't mean like what is described in the Deadly Game trope — it seemed pretty similar to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with the dim environment and single hot-seat gameplay, just that the stakes were much higher for some reason I'm not aware of.
In any case, it's a trivia game show (or at least that stage of the game show was a trivia game), and the scene was framed like watching an actual game show, with the character centered facing the camera and images overlaid in the corners to show information to the home audience. Whenever the character was unable to answer a question correctly, the answer appeared in a window in one of the upper corners (I think these were actually not translated). The only question I can remember being asked is (paraphrasing) "At what temperature is water the most dense?" and I think the answer that was shown is 4 (degrees Celsius, presumably). The character performs rather mediocre at this game and gradually becomes more stressed, even yelling out "I don't know!" in response to a question at one point.
Anyone have any idea what I might have been watching?
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinresolved No Title Anime
There was an anime I saw on Australian television when I was younger (early 1990s or thereabouts).
The main thing that sticks in my head was that there was a device that allowed a person to walk through solid objects like walls, but while you were using it you couldn't breathe because the air molecules didn't interact with you any more than the wall molecules did. I think one character got around it by wearing something like scuba gear, and there was a scene where the device was given to the hero's robot buddy because breathing wasn't an issue for him. I remember when one of the characters walked through a wall, while his eyes were inside the wall he seemed to be standing in a void full of swirling colours.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?

Song about Albert Einstein. May have been in a cartoon of some sort maybe around the late 80s or early 90s, but I just don't know. Only lyrics I can remember were "Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein, MC squared, MC squared," performed repeatedly to the tune of "Frere Jacques."