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openA reality show about a black female matchmaker
The reality TV show was about a married black female matchmaker that would match up her clients and help them find love. It came on in the mid 2010's I believe. It was on the same time the millionaire matchmaker was airing as well. It was short lived though. What is the title?
openYouTuber who uploaded dubs of popular anime Web Original
There was once a YouTuber I watched back in 2023. Being a fan of dubbed anime, most of their content consist primarily of dubbed animes like Jujutsu Kaisen, Horimiya, Bleach, etc, and was one of the main reasons I subscribed to their channel in the first place. Their channel was taken down in early 2024, something I didn't notice until now. While it was very obvious why the channel was gone, the fact it happened very sudden and quickly meant no one had enough time to archive the videos prior to the termination. I couldn't even search up their name; all I do know is that it's initials are "VG" and the "V" stands for "Vail" or "Vial". Even the Wayback Machine only archives my channel layout from 2022, and even then the subscription bar leads to nothing. Does know this channel and what was their name before they left YT?
openPainting program for kids Videogame
Years back, I used to play this on this kids' paint program on my parents' computer. I remember that it had a wood-grain border around the picture, you could either draw or do some flood-fill painting (IIRC), and the sound for undoing a mistake was a cartoonish voice saying "Whoops".
Does anybody remember what it might be? I don't remember the name, and I doubt it was a version of Kid Pix, because it looked and sounded different.
Edited by DongwaChanopenNo Title Live Action TV
(Possibly a film broadcast on TV.) Long, long ago—probably between 1965 and 1970—I saw a program that involved a villain who could not be killed because he had removed his heart and hidden it in a safe place. Thus it was an instance of the Soul Jar trope. Here's what else I think I remember (no guarantees): The setting was lavish and baroque, like something from the Arabian Nights. The bad guy was a ruler or a wizard (or both). The protagonist(s) was/were young; no more than teen-age. It was shown during the "family entertainment" block that used to exist on Sunday evenings.
All very vague and so long ago. Does anyone else recall something like this?
resolved Trying to figure sources of Korean media from an ancient meme Live Action TV
Well somehow I had a nostalgia trip back to the later 2000s and noticed this particular Korean meme of Rainbow Tylenol. Problem is, I don't know where the heck they managed to get their memes from. What were the names of those shows were used in the creation of this meme?
resolved Detective Story That Becomes Sci-Fi Horror
A short story that starts out as a detective story, then it's revealed the killer is actually an alien that can flatten and extend its body so locked doors aren't a problem, then while it's gloating the detective reveals himself to be an alien as well (can't remember if they were the same type) and defeats the killer.
Edited by Chabal2openDID Anime scene Anime
I once saw a scene in an anime where three women had apparently been sentenced to death. All three had their hands bound in front of them in a futuristic version of stocks and the woman selected to die first was obliged to bend over so that her stocks would lock into this pillar thing, the effect being sort of like a pillory, only with her neck exposed for the headsman’s axe. Just as the executioner was raising his axe for the chop, the women’s male ally managed to intervene and save all three.
openImmortal old man who wants to die Film
My sister remebers seeing this movie a couple of years ago. Her memory is vague, but she is completely sure it's live action and she was sad for a while.
She only remebers the ending (take it with a grain of salt). The old man says that as he's immortal having friends is useless and he has assisted to many funerals, so he'll rather be alone or is condemned to be alone (or something along those lines). She remembers him saying it as he stares through a window / the window is close and the camera "spins".
Something was up with his immortality, but doesn't know if she's filling the gaps or if it actually happened in the movie.
Thank you.
openBoy talks to wall cartoons Live Action TV
A US TV show possibly from the early 1990s. I was about a boy who talked to animated cartoon characters on walls and would go on magical adventures, I think.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
open"Swim Club" webcomic created by a troper Webcomic
First of all, I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but I'm out of ideas and I've been trying to find this comic for a while.
Around five years ago, in the TV Tropes forum, a troper named Muttx SC mentioned on the forum they created a webcomic called Swim Club - a story set in the eighties about teens in a high school swim club who find some sort of portal to a horror dimension in their school pool.
I think the person abandoned the project after around 100 pages. I can't find any information about them or the comic, no real names, archived pages, online footprint or nothing. The troper is no longer active (and might've just joined the site to promote the comic, which is kind of a dick move, but that's a different issue), so it seems like the comic's disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Does anyone have any idea of where I could find it?
And again, sorry if I'm using this feature wrong, I'll drop it if that's the case.
Edited by Mac_RopenVillage game from late 2010s (deleted?) Videogame
Hello, I remember a village game that was probably on most phone and tablet app stores back in the late 2010s. It might have been deleted, I don’t know.
It is closest to the game Virtual Villagers in its gameplay. You would try to grow this community and see it progress. The villagers were cartoony humans.
The map had a river in the upper part and land everywhere else. There was a major quest where you had to save a child that was in a basket. The child was supposed to be in the river and you had to craft a thing to help them get out.
I’m pretty sure it existed.
open"The Tidys"? Western Animation
I vaguely remember a British children's TV show from at least the 1990s that I think was called "The Tidys". I could be wrong. Don't remember a thing about the show itself, but the theme song pops up in my head every now and then. The title came up in the song.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
open"Happy Family" Western Animation
I remember having a tape once of a show. I suspect it was American and probably from the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was about a family; white, two parents, two kids - a brown-haired boy and a blonde girl. It was very grounded in tone and the art style was sort of simple, nothing special, but I swear the characters had fairly simple faces.
I remember there were these musical interludes - only one stands out in my head: The kids are waiting for their grandmother to arrive at their house, which then cuts into a imagine spot where the grandmother is driving an old horse-drawn covered wagon while the song "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountains" is sung in the background as Grandma winds around roads on said mountains.
Hope that's enough to go on. Any help appreciated, thanks.
Edited by DoctorInkopenFrom Mars to the Stars Literature
I'm not sure if I'm remembering a forgotten piece of media or just having a recurring dream, but here goes:
A number of people are either living on Mars or travel there, and either find or build a device to let them Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, which is one-way and an allegory for death.
Tone of the work feels like it would have been written in the 80's or earlier, genre sci fi
openMan injured in factory machine Literature
My aunt was reading it and read a bit aloud to me but that was ages ago and now we don't remember what it was and I'd love to finish it.
I think it was a short story or novella and based on the opening it seemed fairly light in tone; don't know if it stayed that way. A man fell into or got caught up in some kind of machine in a factory and got injured but, again, I remember the tone being light so maybe not too seriously injured? I think he was pursuing legal action.
resolved Specific Doctor Who episode - Mandela effect Live Action TV
In which episode of Doctor Who did the Doctor tell Amy about the Mandela effect? He didn't call it that, but he talked about how people sometimes have memories that don't match up with reality. I'd like to get that quote.
resolved 80's horror film involving escaped monsters on remote planet Film
A 1980's movie where a ship lands on a remote, always-night planet (think the Derelict planet and LV-426 in the Alien franchise) with hidden monsters of various types infiltrating the ship. Said monsters are escapees from 10,000 year old evils in a can left there by aliens. A key scene in this movie takes place in the opening— an earlier ship that lands, and during a photo-op, one of the two spacesuit-clad passengers SITS on one of the sealed evils in a can, with predictable results (specifically, we see a small section of the canister dissolve, and minutes later, he starts convulsing and spitting out mists of blood.)
resolved Mickey Mouse comic Print Comic
I once had a Disney characters comic of 3 stories, the first ("Let's Get Kraken") and the 3rd featuring Donald Duck, and the 2nd featuring Mickey Mouse. It's the 2nd one and the 3rd (striking cuz I found it from this site, mentions Gemstone publishing.) that I'm having trouble finding the titles of.
- The Mickey one starts with Goofy's interview. When he's told to interpret some ink blots, one design in particular hypnotises him, and the interviewers as well. The aim of those hypnotised seems to be to get more people hypnotised, including the police force (Officer O'hara included) and collect equipment, especially black paint cans. Then they board a spaceship that Mickey follows on, he finds that they'll paint on the moon, and that the mastermind is the Phantom Blot (this is where I first knew of him, btw). He maroons Mickey on the moon, who mops up the design, but almost goes unconscious until an alien helps give him oxygen and finish cleaning faster. Then the alien gives him a space skiff(?) to depart, and helps the spaceship of ex-hypnotised folks to land safely. I know the Phantom Blot is a recurring enemy, but I can't find "moon" or a relevant use of "alien" on Mickey Mouse Comic Universe.
EDIT: Okay, looks like all I needed to do was dig a bit deeper still. This site gives the exact book I had in its US publications list, and the 2nd story is called "Blot Clot".
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenHorror host who had a downloadable show on Itunes Live Action TV
He dressed like stereotypical vampire.
Most of the movies where either public domain (such as Wasp Woman, which I watched) or indie short films.
In same episode as Wasp Woman, it included a promo and clips from the Troma movie Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, also dating to 2006. He also interview someone from the film, but I don't remember who.
One other film was a short about Jack-O'-Lantern people trying to turn human into more Jack-O'-Lantern people, and a woman trying to stop them.
There's this game I played like twice as a kid, and all I remember is:
anyone else remember this?