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I briefly watched a segment of a TV show that shows a man using a drill. I think he lays his chin to a platform (plywood?) and drills upward to him. His chin got penetrated by accident. This might be a comedy sitcom show because I remember hearing a laugh track in this scene, and the scene is viewed like that. Or maybe it's not comedy and it's something intentionally serious. This was viewed around the 2000s decade.
Edit: Most likely this is Mad TV. Thank you.
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It's a short story. I read it in the 1980s, but I think it dates back further, to when computers were a new thing.
It's a science fiction story set in a future where all records have been computerized. The protagonist is the victim of some small error (a false overdue notice from the library, something like that), and when they try to get it corrected, things get worse and worse until their entire life gets destroyed (and maybe they wind up dead?). And the whole time to people in charge of the computer system insist that of course it's more reliable than human record-keepers and never makes any mistakes.
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A book (set either between World Wars or after World War Two) where an American family moves into a haunted castle in Britain. I mainly remember a scene where the ghost is clanking his chains along the hallway when the father goes up to him and hands him a can of oil, saying they'll work wonders for those noisy chains of his.
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A Chinese story, where an artist creates pictures more beautiful than real life. The Emperor has the artist brought to him, telling him that ever since he saw his pictures, life has lost all meaning for him, since nothing is as beautiful as the paintings, so he's going to have the artist killed (he eventually escapes via Portal Picture).
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Yo, another newb here. I remember the basic plot from a book I once read, but cannot remember the title. I think I managed to pull out every detail that I remember. Here it is:
It is a Science Fiction story. Man has colonized Luna (lunar colony is now seperate legal entity from Earth) religion of all sorts has gotten out of control on Earth, and now earth based science is stalling. Lunar science is still advancing at breakneck speed. That is just background. There is a small research expedition to mars. They have established a semi-permanent base/colony, but they still require regular resupply from Earth. Earth government is threatening to shut them down, when they discover remains of extinct Martian Civilization. Religious establishments and governments on Earth rail harder to get martian expedition shut down. Mars expedition leaders go to moon to ask for aid, lunar government says "yes, if you can proove that the ancient buildings are real and not natural formations". Foreward thinking religous leader has idea to go to mars, and declare that martians fit within canon. He dies, but just as he does, he finds what reveals the location of the martian graves. He dies before he can tell the others. Explorers get into fight, one falls down, and sees what religous leader saw, stops fight, and another discovery is made when an object impacts with martian surface, revealing microbial life under martian surface. The life dies quickly, due to exposure to environment to which it did not evolve. Explorers have idea to bomb surface of mars, putting dome over craters to let an atmosphere form and protect the microbes, letting them evolve and rebuild mars's environment. They call it the "Million Year Experiment". End
That's about all I remember. You guys got anything?
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Not exactly TV, but a web series. It was one of Cracked.com's series, either Does Not Compute or Cracked TV. I'm looking for a specific episode, and I don't have the time to go through all of them and it's driving me nuts.
So, Michael's sidekick Clippy is a clip of something obnoxious, like just constant screaming or something. Michael asks Clippy something, cut to screaming or whatever, cut back to Michael, who says, "Oh, I forgot, you're insufferable in this episode."
Any help? Anyone?
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The story is that a boy goes to his local library and takes a book out for the summer, but he has to sneak it out or negotiate with the librarian or something and the book only opens to the first page which has math questions, and is phrased as a princess being trapped in either a dungeon or a tower... and she can escape if she answers the guardian of each floor's questions which are all math questions, he says something about a prank with putting toothpaste between pages? and it remains sealed shut until he does the math questions on it, and he gets really into it and when the princess or him needs more paper or something, and he gets it, it appears in the book and at the end, it reveals that the princess in either in a world inside the book or something and he returns the book to the library at the end, or not?
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I don't know if this film was released in theaters or if it was made for television.
I saw it on television in the 1990s (USA), and I think the characters had hairstyles and clothes to match 90s styles.
It was about some teenage boys at a summer camp. The protagonist (who I think was blonde) really didn't want to be there. He was put into a cabin with several bunkmates, and one was a troubled kid who usually wore black clothes and slept upside-down (and I think he had red hair). He said something about it being because that's the way bats sleep. I don't know if that guy was supposed to be goth or emo or depressed or what, but he acted weird and usually refused to participate in group activities at the camp. Also the weird kid always had a toothbrush, and he was very possessive of it. He usually had it in his mouth and he would talk to it and claimed that it talked back to him.
I'm not sure about this, but the summer camp might have been for delinquents. The protagonist kid had to teach the others to work/play together, and to be proud of their group, even if it was a summer camp for rejects. So there was a sports competition or something, probably against other summer camp groups, and the kids had to learn to work together to compete against the others. At the end of the film, the weird red-haired kid showed a very drastic change of personality. He no longer acted depressed, he participated in sports, he was much more extroverted, had higher self-esteem, and I recall that the protagonist asked him about the toothbrush he had in his mouth. The red-haired kid smiled and said something like, "You know, toothbrushes sometimes say the darndest things!" and then threw it away to signify that he didn't need it anymore since he had learned to make real friends.
I tried searching for this with no luck. Anyone know this one?
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Young adult or possibly middle grade novel where the main character's parents were divorced because they were both gay, and remarried/partnered with someone of their preferred gender. IIRC, they weren't portrayed particularly positively, although it wasn't anything to do with their orientation, just the fact that they were viewed through the lens of an angsty teenager.
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A book where the blurb at the back talks about a girl travelling between alternate universes where she exists in each one, and she keep travelling to find her way back or escape her boyfriend or find a better one or something, and after a while either she fears, or that it happens that she forgets details or her original life, like her name, her parents, etc, it has a listing of some of her various names...
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A book that's basically Future Imperfect illustrated in black-and-white, presented as an archeologist exploring the ruins of post-apocalyptic America. The one that sticks in my mind is a corpse reclined in front of a TV, the narrator thinking it was some form of religious altar.
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I think it was a short story. The plot is that a habitable planet is discovered, and a colony ship is sent there, with the colonists in cryosleep since they won't be there for centuries. However, before they get there (but hundreds of years later), FTL Travel has become possible and the glaxy is much more populated, including the one the ship was headed on, and the colony ship is now basically useless.
Does that ring any bells?
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I'm not sure if this should go in the Music category since it's about a music video I saw on MTV.
Many years ago I saw a music video on MTV in the mid-1990s. I don't remember much about the song that played. I think it was some kind of electronic music (kind of like Orbital or The Crystal Method) but I could be wrong, and I remember the same syllables being repeated, but it didn't sound like English. In the video, a young girl would wander aimlessly and observe the world around her. She carried with her a cube shaped block, except that the cube was hollow with a square-shaped hole right through the middle. Like a cube with two opposite sides removed. When the girl looked through the cube, she would see something similar but different. I don't recall any of the things she looked at, but the viewpoint perspective would shift from third-person to the girl's first-person perspective, and then show the cube being lifted to her field of vision and what appeared through the cube's aperture was different from what she saw with her normal eyes. I think she would first see something mundane, then when she looked through the cube she would see something fantastic or surreal. At the end of the video, the music stops but the words are repeated. Again, it didn't sound like English, and it showed that an old woman was singing those words to a sleeping girl. I think the song was called Lullaby or something but I could be wrong about that. Lullaby being the only word I have to go on, it is very difficult for me to search for this on the web. I only saw this video once and it was probably 17 years ago or something like that, so I might have misremembered some things.
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This was a book on tape. We got it at a garage sale around '93 or '94, so it could have been made anytime before that. It was a sort of musical, where they would tell the story for awhile, then some character or another would burst into song. It was a christian story. There was a pirate, but he was all good and friendly and not very piratey. And there was a missionary, I'm fairly certain. Beyond that, it's rather fuzzy. I think it was part of a series, but we only had the one tape.
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It was a computer game, from probably the late 90's. It involved pirates, and (I think) consisted mainly of various mini games. Like, you would see the deck of the ship, and you could click on various things and characters, which would either take you to a new area, or would say something humorous. There was a girl pirate who would say "What are you doing?" and some animal, I think it was a mouse, said "Ahoy there."
I don't know if it was a Mac or PC game, as it was on my cousins' computer, and I don't remember what they had. I also can't remember what any of the mini games were. One may have involved shooting things with a cannon.
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There's an indie(?) fighting game I discovered a couple months back on You Tube in the form of a compilation of instant kill attacks. It showed around 6-8 characters with monstrous designs, but not classical movie monsters. The ones I remember are:
- A ghostly girl resembling Sadako from Ring.
- A slender woman in black who turns into a spider for her instant kill.
- A giant worm with a fanged mouth.
- A humanoid creature with tan/brown skin, long claws, no facial features other than a grinning mouth. Looked sort of feminine as well.
- A short humanoid figure with a white face and three large black dots for the eyes and mouth. Sort of like those "bobblehead" nature spirits from Princess Mononoke.
I saw it on television. It looked like a film but might have been part of a series of made-for-TV film.
It was many years ago, probably early to mid 1990s. I only saw a few minutes of it. The setting appeared to be an English boys' school where the boys wore uniforms. The boys spoke in with a British accent. One boy bullied by other boys, and the bullies had put a sign on his back with the word "biter". The victim was unaware of the sign on his back, walking through the corridors when another boy suddenly asked, "Is your name Biter?" and the victim boy didn't know what he was talking about until he was told of the sign on his back.
I only saw this one scene, I remembered it for many years because I thought it seemed so ridiculous. When I watched this as a boy, I thought it seemed a very odd thing for a bully to do, and I also thought another boy would be a fool to think that the kid's name was Biter and he was wearing his name on his back.