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resolved No Title Literature
A short story,possibly by an Australian author, in which a conman sells a miracle glue that holds everything together... but only for four hours, by which time he is long gone. The conman runs into an inventor with a pair of functioning jetpacks, they both try them on. As they fly higher, the conman asks what he used to keep it together, the inventor replies he used the conman's glue, and the story ends just as the conman's jetpack falls apart midair.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I have vague memories of a live action TV show I watched as a kid. I'm pretty sure it was about a small town, where strange things happen all the time. The opening title might have had the name of the show on a wooden sign, with a crow sitting on top of it.
The only two episodes I can remember anything about involved a) A kid appearing from nowhere, but this kid was actually a younger version of the father in the show. I think he had some sort of plan to blow up the science fair. b) A tamagotchi like videogame that became really popular, but everyone become devoted to the game's main character like some sort of cult, and they went to work in a factory for him... I think someone might have been trapped in the game as well.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I watched it in Canada in the late 1990s, on (I think) KVOS. It was channel 13 on the West Coast, when we were still using rabbit ears.
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I saw a portion of a show or film from a channel which has a green logo, while visiting the Denver area. The format is quite unusual, as everyone are puppets with human-like movements, except in some shots. This means less stop-motion in most dialogue. It shows two adolescent characters riding a ski and/or a car through the snowy landscape. Then I see a scene in a dining restaurant nearby with few other characters. The restaurant has a toy train that delivers the food in plates to the customers. Then I see a scene with someone in a spaceship that landed around the snowy area.
I think it's made in the 80's because of the quality and the styles of the characters' hair and clothing. I seen this in the morning of July 16, 2011.
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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?
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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).
resolved No Title Western Animation
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.
resolved No Title Literature
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.
Edited by JMQwilleranresolved No Title Anime
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.
Edited by RaineSageRocksresolved No Title Film
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.
Edited by Circeusresolved No Title Anime
This is a dubbed anime I saw on TV maybe 2-4 years ago. I can't remember what channel it was on, but the visual quality of the show tells me it had to have been produced sometime after 2000.
The scene I saw was a teen/young adult male on a game show that risked the lives of its contestants. I don't mean like what is described in the Deadly Game trope — it seemed pretty similar to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with the dim environment and single hot-seat gameplay, just that the stakes were much higher for some reason I'm not aware of.
In any case, it's a trivia game show (or at least that stage of the game show was a trivia game), and the scene was framed like watching an actual game show, with the character centered facing the camera and images overlaid in the corners to show information to the home audience. Whenever the character was unable to answer a question correctly, the answer appeared in a window in one of the upper corners (I think these were actually not translated). The only question I can remember being asked is (paraphrasing) "At what temperature is water the most dense?" and I think the answer that was shown is 4 (degrees Celsius, presumably). The character performs rather mediocre at this game and gradually becomes more stressed, even yelling out "I don't know!" in response to a question at one point.
Anyone have any idea what I might have been watching?
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinresolved No Title Western Animation
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.
90's, probably. Horror. There was some creature or entity killing people in this town. They would just vanish, leaving behind anything metal. One such object was a pacemaker, if I recall correctly. I think the thing was down in the sewers. I think it had a one word or short title, and I thought it was called "Entity" but IMDB is giving me nothing useful with that.