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resolved Stop motion
It had claymation cats that could shapeshift and they are often curious. It was geared at children and was aired on Milkshake in the UK (perhaps a rerun)
Edited by Diamondeye218resolved Monster released by sounding a bell Western Animation
As the name suggests I'm looking for a cartoon that I saw in the 90's in the Netherlands that featured a monster sealed in a large bell. I'm pretty sure the monster was released when someone rang it and they recaptured the monster by ringing the bell while the monster was touching it.
It wasn't "When the night bell tolls" from Conan the Adventurer as the monster looked more like a flying humanoid lizard and they didn't destroy the bell at the end of the episode.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Romeo and Juliet sitcom episode by way of superheroes. [Solved.] Live Action TV
There was a high-school sitcom with a laugh track, and an episode built around a production of Romeo and Juliet. The initial plan is minimalist as all get out (a confused actor doesn't have a sword, and when the director insists, starts to whap another actor with his script), and then... somehow, one of the main characters echoes his little brother's idea of doing it with superheroes, the director is actually intrigued by the idea, and... last I knew, it had gotten as far as colorful "superhero" costuming.
EDIT: On a note that probably won't help anything, right, it was one person in charge who was doing the play with nothing, and another somehow coming in who said, you're not doing that, are you?
Edited by Caswinresolved Slice of Life Child Star Anime? Anime
When I was younger I was watching this show but I can't remember it's name. Here's what I remember about it.
- It's main female lead was a young girl, middle school age I wanna say. Generally upbeat and nice. I think she was an actress of some sort? I do know the main hook of the show was that she was a child star of some sort. - The male lead was around the same age. He was surprising edgy up to and including self harming which the female lead found out about early-ish in the series. I forget why he was doing that. - There was a tiny car featured either in the opening and/or in transition scenes. I think it was orange? - I think the female lead had a large family who generally were used for comedy? - The show had to have been released before 2016, I suspect it was released during the 2000s but am not certain on that. - I think it was also a very long series, 50+ episodes. - It might have been based off of a manga
resolved A cartoon called Lilly(?) Western Animation
In the late 2000's/early 2010's, I remember my grandson watching a cartoon called something like Lily about a titular girl who travels back in time and ocassionally into fiction. Anyone know what show this is?
resolved fictional unaired police procedural pilots [SOLVED] Web Original
there was this tumblr blog that just posted summaries of fictional pilots of police procedurals with absurd premises (set in caveman era, starring particular political figures, etc.) and occasionally describing works that aren't police procedurals as though they were. i'm pretty sure it has its own tvtropes page but i can't find it. i think it was called something like "the police procedural archive"
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingresolved Movie poster from this picture? Film
Does anyone recognize the third movie poster from the left in this picture?
https://freeimage.host/i/WGJnm7
I can tell the others are Army of Darkness, Star Wars: A New Hope, The Thing, and Blade Runner, but I don't recognize the other, and the art is way too simple to figure out what it shows, but I figured someone might be able to recognize the style or character?
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resolved [Solved] Tanks with (optional) anime girls Videogame
After being in the Xbox Insider program for a while, I got the chance to try some early versions of some games. This was one of them.
In the game you control a tank/APC of one of five countries (USA, USSR/Russia, Canada, France and Denmark, I think) and fight against bots, either in teams or solo in a wide variety of maps, which can be either day, night or rainy in some cases. Since it was in early development, it didnt have arcade or story mode. You just choose a tank, map, settings and started playing. You could also play in multiplayer, but only in one map that looks artificial (unlike the offline maps, who look like battlegrounds, either in nature or the middle of some cities).
A bit unrelated: I remember this guy who had its tank look like Pikachu and was the best between all the players. In half an hour, he died only once, while he alone killed me at least 6 times.
The anime part is completely optional: you can have anime voices, anime graphics, anime-looking tanks and a hud with an anime girl, or normal voices, real-ish looks and no hud.
The box art showed the title with a close-up of 4 girls, from head to shoulders/chest: one of them had a beret, another was smiling while next to her was one that looked bored and the last one had brown skin. They were fully dressed with military uniforms, either as a tank commander or some general that gives orders. Im not sure if one of them had an eyepatch.
The game is also on Steam (or was, I cant find it).
Edited by Braylovskyresolved Can't remember this old brittish show
Don't no much about it I think it was called kicking it its not the martial arts american show its a teen show I remember a kid took this girls phone out of her bag and started to spread rumours and every one turned on her then the kid put the phone somewhere and every one found out it wasn't her another thing I remember a american kid joins in to play football aka soccer and he's not good at it then they put him in goal and he's good at it beause he plays basket ball he he's good at catching if it was roughly in the 2000-2005
Edited by Peterdhillonresolved Spooky song in meme video, sounds like video game music Web Original
Does anyone know the name of the spooky music in this meme video
? I asked the uploader, and they didn't know. I guess they reuploaded this from another website or something.
It sounds like something out of a video game, possibly one of the Mario Party games.
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Name of song Music
Does anyone know the name of a technoish song. It goes "Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh oh oh oh." I hear it a lot when I'm watching sporting events like hockey games.
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resolved [Solved] Stranded on a lonely island Videogame
Again, as part of the Xbox Insider I tried some games on development. This is the second and last of them.
You start the game and choose if you are either a man or a woman. After that, you are inside what looks like a private jet. Everything's good, until turbulence kicks in and you crash on a tiny island. And from that point onwards, you do your best to survive.
Some gameplay elements:
- You see your stats in your watch.
- Eating too much coconuts makes you sick with diarrhea.
- You can craft your weapons, tools and almost everything, since the game tells you what you need to make them.
When I realised that I didn't managed the island resources in a smart way, I tried to swim to a another island that looked pretty close (Do not do this in real life. Distance in océans are very tricky). A shark bite my ass and I started to bleed.
When I reached the other island I was dying, and tried to get something to patch me up. In the way I found the skeleton of another human, and a wild animal that attacked me. After killing the animal I just waited to die. And that happened.
After that the game showed me the message Thank you for playing and didn't let me play again.
Some days later the game dissapeared of my console without a trace. Any idea?
Edited by Braylovskyresolved FanFic.DaphneBlueVelvet
Bad namespace capitalization, vanished editor
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Does it exist? Else Darthing.
resolved [Solved] Cartoon about monster kids Western Animation
I remember seeing this show on Disney channel a couple of times, the main character was a guy named pepe, he has purple skin with tall pink hair, a grandma who's really good at magic, a girl with pink skin and black hair, a jock with a tiny head, and a pair of conjoined twins, one of which is stereotypically French. Every episode focused around a different kind of monster. I think it may have originated from Spain? not sure.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved Homestar runner cartoon Web Original
I'm looking for a cartoon where Strong Bad has missed a bunch of developments in the other character's lives and ends up freaking out thinking he has somehow traveled to the future only for the end to reveal he spent an entire year, maybe longer, bouncing a ball against the wall. It wasn't a sbemail and it took place during the winter
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Netflix - Two Families “Share” a House Live Action TV
Hi everyone!! So to preface I saw about an episode of this back in like 2019-2020 and it was in Spanish (but I can’t remember if I put on Spanish dub or thats what it’s originally in). It was comedy-drama about a wealthy family going broke and having to live in a house connected to another family, but they have this feud. The other family works in a sea-side market and I think the kid of one family likes the kid of the other? I believe they were also both single parents, one of all girls and one of all boys. It is not “The War Next-Door” fyi. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
resolved Character with a funny fighting stance. (SOLVED!) Western Animation
Okay, I know that this one is weird but heard me out: Is Lady Furst's animation in this video
(time mark is at 0:32 seconds into the video) a reference to an old cartoon? I swear I know of a character that adopted a similar fighting stance in an old cartoon. The only hint I could give is that it might have been from the early 50's all the way to the late 90's.
PD.: It was Donald Duck.
Edited by megagutsmanresolved Comic about genetically modified female bodyguard Print Comic
As the description says, she's a body guard for her rich family that rules a large part of the world after an economic crisis. I think her name was Forever or something like that. In the setting, the world is ruled by a few families and they each have these special bodyguards (like forever). Also her family has control over advanced medical research which they use to make her and as their main bargaining chip.

I'm looking for an animated series about a child superstar. He had red hair. I don't know if his name comes with "Spectacular" or something.
I can't tell if it was a Nicktoon or a Canadian show, but it was aired on Nickelodeon Southeast Asia at around 2005-2007.