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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.)
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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A movie with witches, magic, kids, and a talking cat.
Edit: Wait, never mind, I found it! Hocus Pocus
Edited by Twiddlerresolved 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.
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It was on probably in the late 90s or early 00s. There was this one normal guy, and everyone else was some kind of monster or creature. The only thing I remember happening in it was the guy talking about aglets. That sticks in my head because that cartoon was the only reason I knew what an aglet was.
I'm fairly certain it was a series. But for all I know it may have been a movie.
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I'm trying to remember the name of this one game for MS-DOS. From what I can remember, it's like this: You're a driver or something for some bullet train-thing and you have to destroy enemies and stuff with this plasma-gun thing that's mounted on top of the train and you also have to avoid obstacles at high speeds. When you lose, there's this FMV cutscene where your player character screams (I think), there's some sort of explosion, and then you see this rotating truck stop-esque sign saying "You Lose" or something similar.
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This is a book I read as a kid about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. One section of the book had pictures and descriptions for various hypothetical other planets, like a low-gravity one, a high gravity one, a jungle one, an ice one, and a gas planet where life floated around in the atmosphere. The illustration from the latter was used for the cover, showing a whale/manta ray type creature on a bluish background.
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Takes place in a women's prison in the early 1900s, the main character went to jail for stealing millions in jewelry under the command of a man who took her in as a child after her father died. A woman who works at the prison, who is relatively well-off, convinces the warden to let the prisoners put on the Pirates of Penzance.
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I need to know about a film that I saw as a child, but I can't remember the name. I had it on VHS, and the plot went like this:
'Two children, a boy and a girl, if I recall correctly, somehow enter a world of talking Loch Ness monster-esque creatures named after emotions/personality traits, like 'Happiness' or 'Pompousness'. If I recall, the Pompousness character was the main villain, and had two henchman. There was an elf-like, old man who seemed to act as a leader for the Nessies. And there was some sort of ship, as well, but I can't remember what purpose it served.'
Does anyone have any idea what this was called?
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There was a YA (probably) book I read in the mid-90s or so. The main character was a girl (pre-teen or teen), who moved from Milwaukee (random specific detail, eh?) with her mom and brother, to some small town.
They lived in an older house that would creak because it was settling. Somewhere nearby there was an abandoned mine that either she was trying to convince her brother was haunted, or vise versa.
I seem to recall that one of them had planted this tape recording of ghostly cries in the mine to try to scare the other.
At the end of the book, the ground was so unstable (due to the mine?) that the house settled all a-whack, breaking the gas line, which caused the house to catch on fire.
I'm not sure when it was written or who wrote it, but I might recognize the title or the cover if I saw it.
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This guy somehow ended up many decades into the future, I think it was some sort of accident that brought him there. He meets this woman who teaches him about the society he's ended up in. Nudity is no longer taboo, free love is the norm, there's no such thing as marriage anymore, if you say you're married, you are, polygamy is not frowned upon. It's got some Zee Rust elements, like moving sidewalks, and it was very Mary Sue Topia-ish.
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I believe that this was a game for the Sega Dreamcast (or PS 2 or Gamecube). It was a Driving Game where you drove around what I think was San Francisco (I think there was a Fisherman's Wharf), you earned these point things called "Kudos," and you could drive cars from the Opel brand. I don't remember much about it other than that, but I'm pretty sure those were all in the game.
As for the date, I reckon it came out sometime around 2000.
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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?