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I'm looking for the name of a Discovery Channel special that aired sometime around 1996 or 1996. It was about Cambrian life, particularly those found in the Burgess Shale. They talked about opabinia a lot in particular, as well as anomalocaris, and some of the scientists in the program made a model anomalocaris with a working mouth that they used to test whether the animal could have made the W-shaped bite marks in some fossil trilobites. I also remember there was a part with an animation of the evolution of pikaia's notochord into a human vertebra. This special may or may not have had other parts that were about extinct mammals (either additional episodes or just later sections of the program), but I might be combining it with other programs I watched around that time, which is entirely possible—I was 7 or 8 and these kinds of shows were the only things I watched. It wasn't part of the Walking With Dinosaurs series, I know that. It came before WWD. This is driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of this thing, since I made my parents tape it and then I watched it at least once a week.
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In the 90s (in Canada) I watched a kids' show with a recurring craft segment. A guy would come in on his bicycle (I think) with a bunch of "junk" (you know — pristine pie plates, unused coffee filters...) and proceed to make some kind of sculpture, like a robot head. There would be music, but he didn't explain the craft — it was just "watch me assemble these random things into something you'll eventually recognize". Kind of like Art Attack, but way less epic.
(This segment may have been part of a show with "hands" in the title. I seem to remember two shows with a similar "feel" to them airing one after the other — this was in one of them. Another scene I associate with one of the other of these shows is a regular meeting of adults and kids in a library for some kind of story time and/or book club.)
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A CSI-like police procedural show where the main character is a detective (or captain, or lieutenant or whatever) who sees "ghosts" of the victim of the week. They aren't actual ghosts however, just hallucinations in the main character's head, so they can't tell him who the killer is until he figures it out himself, since he doesn't know. The ghost usually appears after he sees the face of the victim, and he talks with them to try to think out loud in order to figure out who the killer is. The 'ghosts' are aware that they are just constructs in his head, and they correct their behavior as he learns more about them. Since they are only in his head, other characters can't see these ghosts and he tries not to let anyone else know what is happening or they'll think he is crazy (I think he had already been taken off the force at one point due to a mental breakdown, possibly caused by the ghost thing, or maybe the ghost thing was a result of the mental breakdown.)
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A show I must have watched years ago, probably as reruns on the Sy Fy Channel. The only episode I remember was where a young woman travels through a hedge maze at her local collage, only to emerge on the other side to an empty campus.
Some weird stuff happens as the woman wanders around looking for someone, including her stumbling upon a man who killed himself by sticking his head in an oven in the cafeteria, and coming into a lecture hall where a professor babbles on about nonsense to an audience of students who the woman horribly discovers to all be dead.
Eventually she finds a sane guy, who maybe she knows( I don't remember) in the library. There he explains to her that an monster asteroid is on an unstoppable path to destroy the Earth, and that most people have either killed themselves or are hiding underground. The woman sees magazines and newspapers that confirm this, reveling that she's been transported to some sort of alternate universe.
She decides she might get back to her world by going through the maze in reverse, and the guy joins her to escape his doomed universe. They make it just in time, with the sirens starting, and a bizarre wind coming up. But, something happens to the guy that makes the woman lose him, and she ends up back in the normal, not-doomed world alone.
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A movie I saw on Disney Channel around the early-mid 2000s. It involved a Boogey Man kidnapping this teen girl's annoying little brother and her going after him. In one part of the movie, she talks to some black guy genie that gives her advice and she tells him to leave her because he's making her look crazy at a party.
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A very short-lived TV show from the late '90s/early '00s (definitely before 2002) about, I believe, a group of knights, one of which (the only one I remember distinctly) was black with blue armor. Other characters included a woman with glowing green eyes and a short, pointy-eared man (when I say short, I mean about two inches tall). Mc Donald's or Burger King had a toy line of it for a little while, which included pieces of a toy dragon that came with each character. I don't know what station it ran on, but I recall it being cancelled pretty quickly.
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It was a live-action I-think-it-was-British kids adventure show about a boy who found this egg-like spaceship in the sewers which took him into another dimension, where there was this wise frog-man with telekinesis and a blue super-fast proud-warrior-race-guy who got colder from friction or something (and had to remain cold or he could die, which nearly happened in one episode) who both joined up with the boy on his quest to go home. Also the boy could cause "glitches" where he could exchange his limbs with those of the other two guys (and a few others, I think). And at the end of the series it turned out his mother wasn't dead, but she was from that alternate dimension and returned there. The bad guy for alot of the series was some kind of expy of Darth Vader.
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I'm looking for a show probably from the late 90's or early 2000's. The only episode I remember is about the female main character and her boyfriend(?) who discover this woman's plot to turn people into dogs through this red/pink liquid. The boy is turned into a dog along with a bunch of other characters and the girl finds a way to change them back. I remember when she turned the boy back she poured the liquid in his water bowl and threw his clothes at him so she wouldn't see him naked. At the end they turn the evil lady into a dog using her own potion-thingy and she remarks that she "never really liked being human anyway." I saw this when I was around 5 or 6, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. I'm pretty sure everything is accurate, but please don't rule anything out if it sounds vaguely similar.
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I have never watched Buffy, so can anyone find a Youtube upload of when Xander calls himself a Butt-Monkey? Or the origin of Insane Troll Logic?
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Saw this on cable sometime in the 90's. I think it was a 10-15 minute segment of a larger show. Anyway, the story is that some high-school kid is in chemistry class, messing around with some pink and blue chemicals. He accidentally spills just the right combination onto a magazine laying on the floor, and the chemicals landed on the picture of a dog, which made a real life dog appear. He realizes what happened, and what's the first thing he does? Takes the chemicals home and grabs as many magazines as he can containing supermodels so he can make himself a girlfriend. His first attempt created a woman so huge she couldn't fit in the room. The second attempt only created the top-half of a woman because that's all there was in the photo. And the final attempt worked perfectly, except that the kid's friend/roommate or whatever only proceeded to cock-block him and take his new woman.
I remember the whole plot, but can't think of the name of the episode/show. This has been bugging me forever.
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It was a kids show late 90's and 00's a kid could turn his arm into different things, it was sci-fi and had a Mcdonalds toy line that went with it. Saturday morning cartoon, I only saw one episode sorry I can't give any more.
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There was this show I saw when I was younger, it was about this guy in space with two robots who watch movies in between skit comedy. I barely remember anything about it, except they tended to poke fun at the movies.
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It was a show that dealt with the paranormal. The main character was a guy (his name might have been Adam) who had a twin that died, but he thinks his twins is still alive (and he might be!) It was on FOX I think and it aired sometime around the year 2002.
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Okay, so I was in a Fry's with my mum yesterday, and she mentioned this British television show that was around (she thinks) twenty years ago. The main character was a professor at either Oxford or Cambridge, and he and one of his students investigated paranormal/supernatural shit. Either the student or the professor was a vampire or a werewolf or something like that. She thinks it was played here in America on PBS. That's all she knows about it. She doesn't remember what in the hell it was called, but she'd really like to know. (And I must admit, it sounds intriguing, so I wouldn't mind knowing myself.) Anyone have even the foggiest idea what that show was?
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This was a sitcom with no laugh track that aired in the early 2000's. It might have had 'Oliver' in the title. It took place in an earlier decade, maybe the 50's. The narrator, one of the main characters, was a youngish teenage boy. He may or may not have been the titular 'Oliver' (if 'Oliver' was part of the title at all, of course).
I remember two episodes, both featuring narrator-boy's older brother's attempts to impress a girl. This girl was probably an exchange student and may have been Austrian.
In one episode, older-brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where older-brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In the other episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady foot rubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
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I think this was a show on Nickelodeon about a girl who could turn herself to liquid. Pretty much revolved around her keeping this ability a secret. All That did something involving it at one point.
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I remember reading about this show in a Disney Adventures magazine in the early 2000's. There's a girl, and she goes to school, but she's also secretly a mystical ninja warrior or something. It mentioned her having a younger brother, wearing a medallion around her neck that protected her, and using her ninja skills for Mundane Utility, like getting to class on time, carrying huge armfuls of books, and knocking a cookie out of her brother's hand from across the cafeteria by throwing a tube of lipstick. (I don't know if she actually did these things in the show.)
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I remember watching an educational puppet show that teached kids how to speak French or Spanish, it was called rigolicol or something like that and there was a fish creature in it.
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It was a kid's game show on Nickelodeon back in the 90's that was obstacle-course based with a sort of Aztec theme to it.
This was a show with puppets. The puppets were dogs and one of them was a little bit older or wiser than the other dogs and kind of looked like a cocker spaniel or a poodle. They did arts and crafts, I think, and I remember there was one big building they always used to be in, as well as the courtyard outside the building which had a couple of big trees and stuff all around. That's about as much as I can remember. Thanks guys.