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A webcomic set in Japan, really dark... Yaoi tones... A recurring image was that of this creepy yellow smiley face that sort of looked like this O_o and the mouth was stitched. Mention of anarchy... Very sexual in nature.
The main character was abused by his father, and another of the main cast was a gay, male Ganguro.
Edited by Miao93openNo Title
Hello...I remember that is was a horror movie, or, maybe a show of a series, were there is an empty, winter town, and there is this monster that pops up, and eats the people slowly and stays hidden. There is a scene in a hotel, a scene were they find a finger in a meat grinder, and then the Government shows up, and they confront the monster, with a scene saying something about the Lost golden army of china. the monster pops up with the puppet'd people, sadly I've forgotten how it ends. In color, 2000/1990s ish.
Thanks in advance...
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Video game Ok, can anyone remember a platforming pc game that involves you controlling a bug where you have to go through various levels which usually involve colored gates you have to open to continue? I remember there was a playroom level, and a backyard level that involved giant sprinklers. As well as a special level where you were sliding through a pipe.
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Looking for a film which is set in a school/college. There's an art student who's handing his work into his teacher, it sort of looks like this◊ album cover, but in pencil and drawn on tracing paper. Somehow it gets ripped up. While this is going on, the school is having windows broken. It turns out that the main character is punching the windows, but can't remember doing it. He has his hands bandaged up I think. At the end, his friends tape back up the picture and give it back to him.
It was probably made in the late eighites to late nineties. Saw it on the BBC around 10 years ago.
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I used to watch this show that somehow involved banished royalty, it involved an Evil Chancellor somehow. The main character was the royalty and he got a chick with him at some point. There was some kind of magical McGuffin that was inside a large rocky place, but it was flooded while he was retrieving it and he had to leave it to escape. I think. That was an early episode, and the rest also involved getting some kind of powerful magic so that he could return home.
Oh, also it was on Nickelodeon, quite late at night.
Edited by ZashiopenNo Title Film
I'm trying to figure out the name of a strange movie that I saw a clip or trailer of a few months ago. I think it's from the nineties or early 2000s. The main character was a fat man who was schizophrenic or mentally ill in some way who wears headphones and may or may not be homeless. I think it was shot on video tape and has a very unconventional structure. I saw it while looking for films similar in style to those of David Lynch. Some of this description might be wrong but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
Edited by wfletchopenNo Title Western Animation
OK, this one's for a specific character. I could be hallucinating, or this could be from another medium, so keep that in mind. There's this character in The Simpsons who's a very bad doctor, seedy. And every time he appears, he says "Hi everybody!", and they all say "Hi, dr. [his name]!"
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which donald duck cartoon did this screencap come from http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/07/25/donald-duck-suicide/
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An animated tv-series. COULD have been an anime, but I am not sure. The characters were all anthropomorphic felines. Only their heads were animal-like, the rest of their bodies (apart from the fur) were human. The protagonists were three typical Adventurer Archaeologists: Always hunting treasures in ancient ruins, at least one of them dressed like Indiana Jones, seemingly living in the first half of the 20th century, ect. They were two males and one female. Interestingly, the female was more anthropomorphic than her two male companions: (Caucasian) skin-coloured instead of fur-coloured, and with a less protruding and less animal-like muzzle.
Edited by LobsterMagnusopenNo Title Western Animation
I remember watching a cartoon when I was little that I think was on the Disney Channel at one point. It was about two cars (or something like that), an little which I think was red, and a bigger car that I don't remember the colour. All I can remember was that the little car wasn't allowed to play near the train tracks. At one point the little car decides to rebel, dons a raccoon-skinned cap and drives off to the tracks. I think he ends up getting hit by a train, because the next scene I remember was about the little car being in hospital.
I'm not sure whether this was a real cartoon or just a weird dream that I remember, but I think it was an old Disney Cartoon.
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Does anyone remember a TV pilot called "Things That Go Bump"? It was about a division of the New Orleans Police Department that concerned itself with ghostbusting, and it had a cop named Bumpstead as its protagonist. Never made it to a series, but I found out what it was only last year or so. I'm just trying to spread the love and see if anyone else knows about it.
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This might be a little too vague, but I'll try: The main character goes on a guided tour through some caverns... only the tour guide is just driving in circles, going through the same cavern over and over again, and calling it something else each time, and the main character never catches on. I'm unsure if this was part of a regular show or just a one-off short, but I kind of suspect the latter. I remember the animation style was pretty simplistic, with little in the way of backgrounds, and it may not have even used any colors other than black and white. I saw it as a kid, so it's probably not from any time later than the early 90's.
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I'm trying to find out if I'm just crazy or if this was actually on the air at one point. It could have just been a Canadian thing, or it could have been international (or it could have been a Candle Cove/Eldritch Abomination thing)... This was in the late-80s/early-90s or so.
Anyway, there was this girl (I think her name was Hope), and an evil witch/queen/something. The witch had a henchmonster (fuzzy brown puppet guy) called Erg (possibly spelled differently, but pronounced as I spelled it). There was also a talking waterfall/spring/pond/well/something. I think it was probably either a well or a waterfall, because I seem to recall if being an alliteration with the word 'wise' or 'wisdom'.
Edited to correct 'canned' to the more accurate 'called'.
Edited by OmegaX123openNo Title Western Animation
I watched a cartoon years ago set around Baker Street. It was centered around a group of street urchins, two in particular (a boy and girl) who lived in a boat moored to a dock. They went around solving some crimes or other peoples troubles. They caught and sold rats for some money. It had a catchy theme song. (something about "How do they munch?/How do they munch?/How./do./they./munch?") - word might be different it was years ago. Any ideas?
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Does anyone remember this kid’s show? I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM. I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
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Saw this anime on TV when I visited Japan in the early-to-mid-80s. A group of 4 or 5 people, each having a huge bike/trike/bike-with-sidecar of his/her own, led by a sexy black-haired lady. Their vehicles can combine into one giant mech. (Each vehicle is big enough for a person to fit into when it transforms for combining.) They seem to lean on the spy/cloak and dagger stuff and then they form the giant robot for the climactic battle of the episode. Been trying to look for this for decades.
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Only saw the end of this film on TV more than a decade ago, maybe even 2 decades ago, and my memories of it may have changed. It was about a kid who seemed to be trained to be as an escape artist. When I got into the show he is apparently making his escape from some kidnappers. I remember him contorting his body to get off his cuffs. By the end he gets out and is being chased by the crooks. He hides inside what seems to be a public mailbox. A suspicious crook drops a knife inside and the kid gets hurt, but does not shout. Once the crook leaves the boy comes out and goes his way, dropping what seemed to be some origami or small artifacts on the road. And that's how it ended. Anybody knows this?
Kids catoon that I saw on Australian Nickelodeon (no idea if it was on US Nick as well or not) in the mid-90's. Set somewhere in Africa, main character was a teenage boy (dressed in an orange shift thing), accompanied by a neurotic rabbit-man and a girl who was human at night and a gazelle during he day. They were on some sort of quest, guided by two water spirits/deities (a male and female, spoke in unison, appeared in rivers as humanoids with bodies made of water and orange/yellow/red masks) against an evil fire spirit/deity.