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openGame Show Parody from 80s/90s Live Action TV
I believe I saw this on Comedy Central in the mid-'90s. Probably an SNL rerun from the late '80s or early '90s, but I'm not totally sure. I think it was a parody of Jeopardy, because the fake game show set was mostly beige/cream colors. The only thing I remember was a stoner/hair metal/Bill & Ted type whose every answer was an extremely long winded rant about finding a girl who dumped him and burning her house down.
Oh, and it goes without saying that Google is useless, because it just spams Celebrity Jeopardy skits everywhere.
Edited by WarriorsGateopeneducational english series Live Action TV
it was a live action series that taught english for kids. probably aired mid-late 2000s, in america at least. in the pilot episode (i think) the characters were in a cafe, and one of the mean characters said "see you later, alligator" and then used magic to spawn some alligators somehow. there were also cutaway segments, both animated and live action, and one of the live action segments was a rap explaining the difference between hard G and soft G, where one guy represented hard G and one guy represented soft G.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingopenSome british sitcom Live Action TV
I can't remember much about it. I do remember there was an episode that parodied The Prisoner and the main guy gets increasingly annoyed with the white ball following him around. I think in the beginning of the episode he crank calls a plumber in the middle of the night about a bad leek (yes, a leek) in the bathroom, but I might be mixing up shows or episodes there.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I remember watching a tv show when I was young. I believe it was a one stand alone episode of a series in 2011 (probably aired between then and about 2009. As it could’ve been a repeat)
It’s set in London, a man (late 20s) lives with his older landlady. There is a painting of a man (I think a serial killer he idolises) that he keeps in the attick and has hallucinations of this man up there.
He is obsessed with a model so he stalks her and gets the receptionist at her gym to sleep with him he kills her after. Bury’s her in the back garden. And throws her phone into a canal
Until the older landlady finds her body, he realises she knows and puts a pillow over her face in her sleep, but she has already died in her sleep.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’ve been hunting for this show for years now and had no luck.
open80s horror movie. Live Action TV
I definitely think this movie was a Full Moon/Empire feature and I remember seeing a scene from the movie on Deviantart, basically there was deadite-esque demon transforming inot a beautiful woman in a black outfit, like a black bikini/swimsuit, I cannot rememember the title.
open70s / 80s crimi TV show Live Action TV
I watched this (crimi?) TV show back in 1989. My memory of it is pretty foggy, but here is what i can rememeber: 1) - There was a woman who foud (in some sort of shop?) a photo that was parially covered by some graphic or painting, only showing eyes of the face that was on the original photo. The woman, fascinated by the photo retouched away the graphic uncovering the whole photo, revealing a girl´s face that was on the original photography. (i can remember the stare of that face, it scared a shit out of me when i was a kid.) 2) - the woman started to be obsessed by the photo somehow and (i think) she later discovered that this actually is a photo of a murdered girl or woman. 3) - the show is probably from 70s/80s 4) - possibly UK show or european show. 5) - this clue might me my memory palying tricks on me and it might be connected to some other show, but i remember an intro of a show where woman is chased by someone, and there is a shot of a dead girl laying on a floor made of white tiles (possibly empty pool?) 6) last clue is a Czech name of the show (if i remember correctly, i watched it as a kid dubbed in Czech language) which directly translates as something like "Murder in the Mirror" or "Mirror murder" Can pelase anybody help me to indentify this show? I am trying to remember it for more than 30 years :) :) :)
Edited by Kronos22openA UK commercial Live Action TV
It was live action, then a boy turned into a CG Monkey (I think it was that) and then stuff happened, which ended with the boy (Or the Monkey, I can't remember) falling from the sky and another person doing a art point with it, and then it turned back to the boy (or maybe to the monkey). I recall seeing it on nick Jr when I was young, it may be from 2011 or 2012. Happy Hunting!
openOld kids show from the 90s or early 00's Live Action TV
So there was a show that I had on VHS way back in 2004-2005. I think this show may have come out in the 90s or the early 2000s. It was live action and featured characters that were people in full body costumes (like The Tweenies). One of the characters was a tall orange or yellow guy who had a surfboard shaped like a star but he could fly around the air on it.
Every episode would open and end with a this puppeteered bird who sat in a nest above the characters' town, and I'm pretty sure he was the narrator.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I've been racking my brain for years trying to think of it.
Thank you!
openA british series involving an old woman going around the streets with her shi tzu dog Live Action TV
Does anyone know the name? Anyone who is familiar with the childhood shows from the Great Britain?
Edited by Rm74openSci-fi series maybe? Live Action TV
I remember the world being a snow wasteland. There being some train station.
The main protagonist had a red coat I believe. And he had some visions. He went to some Indigenous people that lived outside in the snow to talk about those visions if I recall correctly.
That's pretty much all I remember.
openA fantasy childhood series Live Action TV
Hey does anyone know a series which involved a young kid meeting with any various weird characters. I remember watching this in an Indian channel called pogo and one scene I remember from that involved a character using his nose to pour a hot chocolate into the cup? kinda gross though.
openFilipino drama about an angel falling in love Live Action TV
I remember seeing this drama a couple years ago, it involved a pair of girls whose dad died and went to heaven, the girls are taken in by their aunt who has a bratty daughter. One of the daughters gets a dog while the other gets lesson from an old lady I think? By the end of the first episode or so they're older teens/young adults (forgot which). A couple episodes later a jerk gets in an accident and an angel accidentally possesses his body, where the guy's soul ends up in hell. The angel ends up in a relationship with one of the girls, I think the one who got lessons. One of the episodes later the angel tries to get the original guy's soul back to his body by going to hell with another angel. I'm not sure how the series ended but that was what I remember.
open90's/00 sitcom Live Action TV
This one has been floating around in my head and I can't find it online. It was sitcom from the 90s or 2000s. The premise was that a woman in her 20s I think inherits her famous dads estate in LA after he dies. She may not have known this guy was her father. Her friend moves in with her at the house. For sitcom reasons there are 2 guys who live in the pool house which was payment for preparing the dads video will. From here I think it was just these two adjusting to living in LA.
I think it only lasted one season but I need to know that this sitcom existed and I didn't just make it up.
openNo Title Live Action TV
This is going to be pretty vague, so my apologizes in advance.
Ok, I'm pretty sure this show aired on Nick or disney and was a live-action drama (well, a kid drama I suppose). I don't remember much at all about this show except for one scene . The scene I remember is when the two main characters (both girls) first met- One of the girl's had stepped in a pile of gum and was trying to get it off her shoe when the other girl came up and either helped her or lent the girl her shoes. One was a blonde and the other had dark hair I believe.
I think the show was about how different the girls were as one was preppy and other was more of a tomboy. I think. haaa.
Yeah, it's insanely vague, but I'd love to remember what the hell this show is.
openTaxi Driver (2021 series) Live Action TV
Have you guys heard of the 2021 ongoing Korean series Taxi Driver (starring Lee Je Hoon from Signal)? (I earlier wanted to simply discuss the tropes that could fit the series and characters and the reviews of the series as a whole but I removed the question because I was worried I was breaking the suspension rules doing that out of context)
Edited by Rm74openMove to Heaven Live Action TV
There is also the underrated Netflix dramedy series Move to Heaven. It's about a ex convict uncle and autistic genius nephew duo who own a trauma cleaning business where they clean up the. deceased's belongings which leads to learning more about them and the things they left behind.
openShow about guy with big d*ick getting pantsed Live Action TV
Some dude get's pantas infront of his whole school and is mortified. In the trailer for it, the bully who pants him looks up at his body after pantsing him. Everyone is in shock because his willy is apparently very big.
I think the whole scene happens in slow motion
I am looking for the trailer with that bizzare scene.
I don't think it's The Hard Times of RJ Berger but I could be wrong.
[edit] found it, was wrong
Edited by IronAnimationopenMask Girl Live Action TV
Has anyone heard of the recent Netflix Korean thriller series Mask Girl?
openSome kids show, I think Live Action TV
All I can recall is that in the beginning of every episode, 2 girls introduce themselves before asking where this male character is and then said male character appears and says "here I am"
I remember in the early 90s, there was a VHS tape for children starring someone like Suzanne Somers or Goldie Hawn (I don't think it was either of them, but it was a blonde woman who was well known at that time.)
All I remember is that it featured lots of songs; one was about career ideas (e.g., astronaut, firefighter, doctor), and another was the song "The More We Get Together, The Happier We'll Be" where a bunch of kids were spending time in a park.