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resolved Episode of Space Cases I only remember one scene from Live Action TV
There was this one episode of Space Cases from season 2 that I only remember one scene from, but it stuck in my head for some reason, so I want to know. All I remember is that a couple characters (I think Suzee and the other girl) had to drink some really unpleasant liquid (I forget what it was and why they had to do this, again it's a really vague memory) and I think Suzee volunteers to do so on the grounds that she's older. Again, sorry for being so vague, but it's something I only saw once about 30 years ago (I'm not even sure if I saw the whole episode or not.)
resolved Commerial with the William Tell Overture Live Action TV
The Commercial was a song set to the William Tell Overture, specifically the end part and it was about a guy's life. I don't remember all the lirics but one of them said "...And find a nice girl and say 'I do,' and have 3 kids who look just like you." and the final part before the end of the commercial was "You can handle anything becuse you're a man." before ending. Basically, I think it was for a mens razor, and I beleve it aired in the 2000's. Anyone can help me find it?
resolved Man gets head stuck to canoe comedy sketch Live Action TV
I remember watching a skit from a 90s Canadian Sketch Comedy show that I don’t remember the name of.
The general plot is that there’s a superhero whose whole shtick is his head is stuck to a canoe after being struck by lightning. He then stops a robbery of a hair salon done by a Harmless Villain. Those are the concrete details I remember, and it may have been part of a series.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1resolved crime tv show with apathetic male lead who finally gets affected by a crime scene Live Action TV
i'm looking for a crime/detective tv show from around the 2010s, with an apathetic male character who i think is the protagonist.
i saw a clip of this show on tiktok months ago but i can't seem to find it anymore. what i remember from this clip is: a team of crime investigators is standing in front of a large building, discussing the crime scene inside of it. they talk about how it was a especially horrible massacre, and i think someone warns them that the scene is so ugly that they're not sure everyone can handle seeing it. so, they call for this guy who's apparently very apathetic towards everything and isn't affected by crime scenes, and they tell him to go inside first so he can come back and tell them how it is. he comes back covered in some blood and looking a little disturbed by what he saw, and i think he passes out right after
i'm pretty sure he also says that there's no bodies inside, only the blood, which everyone thinks is crazy cuz the crime happened only a while ago and there is no way the murderer could transport all the bodies so fast.
i think the mc is a white guy with black hair, and the main cast also includes a black bald man and a white woman with brown hair (which i know is how the cast of every crime tv show looks like but anyways)
resolved Countdown Show? (SOLVED) Live Action TV
There was this TV show I remember from my later childhood (2013-2014). It was a show that had Top 20s of a topic depending on the episode. One episode I remember seemed to be about embarrassing injuries, such as someone falling off of a ball, and someone licking a metal pole that had something sharp on it if memory serves me right. The latter scared me and I couldn't go on.
Another episode was about "Dukes of Havoc", which was my favorite one. One had someone blending stuff in a blender, even a medal. Another had a dog tearing stuff up, even mentioning that things were different for that entry because "this duke is a dog." Another segment featured "Rotate Your Owl
", which I had no idea back then was by Weebl. One more segment I was told to leave the room for during my first couple of viewings involved a whale corpse having.......something ejected from it at a high speed.
One more episode was for "Homemade Heroes" which counted homemade inventions. All I remember was this edited car, though I don't remember how it was edited.
Edited by KingofNightmaresresolved Son's transports to the world of his deceased father's TV show Live Action TV
I remember a TV mini-series or show about a man whose father, the creator of a popular children's TV show, had died recently and attends the funeral at his childhood home. However, as he tries to participate, he keeps being transported to the world of his father's show and interacts with the characters. Spoilers for the ending, the son takes on the show's helm and helps continue it much like his father did. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
resolved 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 Solved it's madan senki ruykendo Live Action TV
As the title says I'm looking for an sentai esque show that I don't think ever got adapted. In the first episode the main character comes into town and sees the police force prepare to fight of foot soldiers. The secret base is under the police station and the boss is under cover as janitor in the station. They use keys, stolen from the bad guys who use them to create monsters, to create new weapons/ powerups and their morphers are also their talking weapons. The hero uses a sword the other member a gun and eventually a third member using a lance or spear showed up.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved puppetshow? Live Action TV
I'm looking for an American/English tv show I watched in the 90's in the Netherlands. It was about a family of rabbits or something like that and their neighbors. I'm pretty sure the neighbors were the main characters. Also in one of the house was a mouse holes in which the villains lived who were looking for a magic crystal. I think it was a puppetshow and it definitely wasn't a movie
resolved 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 [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 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 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 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 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 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 Spy Show Live Action TV
Alright, so, there's this old show about spy kids that juggled with school and work and they were a part of MI... 6? 7? There were three main characters and their mentor, and... I think it was on Disney XD? Not sure. It's probably from around the mid/late 2000s.
resolved 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
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?

It's a swedish/finish noir-ish show it takes place in the winter there's a cop looking for a killer they bring in a cop/detective from a different area to help the female cop/detective. He gets a red coat at one of the department stores in the town. There's an old killer(he's probably 60-70yrs old) who is locked up in a mental institution and the sister of one of his previous victims works at that institution (no one knows who she is) with a big black orderly ? In one episode the sister and the orderly ? are sparring in a small gym not sure if it's a part of the institution. It only had 1 season and was on Netflix for awhile then removed (I think some point between 2016-2022) I think it had the word "Dead" in the title but it isn't "Deadwind". I've been wanting to go back and watch it for a year or so on and off but can't find or remember it. I'll add more details if I remember any.
Edited by Verticalswamp445