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Reposted from another Forum.....hoped folks nerdlier than I could assist.
From the NYC area back in the late 80s, VERY early 90s, possibly only 1990.
I guess it technically wasn't really a show, but more like bumpers introducing movies and such on WWOR channel 9 before it was a network affiliate. Although it could've been some other channel, either WPIX 11 or Fox 5, but I doubt it was on channel 5.
In any case, the guy was a mad scientist, and he would do stupid things before introducing the movie outright or coming back from commercial. He had a mute executioner/hangman named Chompsley or something.
I had a tape of the original Godzilla (the American version intersplicing Raymond Burr) and I remember it so vividly but I can't seem to find any info on it now.
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I'm trying to find this great show that aired on G4 a few years back. All I can remember is that it was kinda like a Soap Opera/Comedy, and that it mixed live action with footage from different video games, mostly MMO's.
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I remember some old PC game from like the early-to-mid 90's.
The main character was this female pilot (who becomes a cyborg partway through the game after an accident or a sabotaged mission or something) flying around a city for all or most of the missions, blowing up enemy vehicles and like mines/bombs/whatever. It was 2D, the perspective was directly overhead and I think everything was pretty much grey and brown. You got different vehicles for different missions, like helicopters, bombers, fighters etc. Mission briefings and debriefings were done with character potraits and green text on a black screen.
I was fairly young at the time so some of the details are probably off.
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Im trying to find a comic version of Faust. Not sure if it was in Heavy Metal, but it was definitely in an anthology. It showed the story of Faust through the eyes of his servant who he promises to free to become a student at university while he is under sway of Mephistopheles whom he summons through the dark arts. But of course it isn't the already tainted soul of Faust, Meph is after, but that of his virgin and saintly male servant, who of course, loves his master. Meph offers to release Faust, for that of the servants soul. Great artwork, have no clue who wrote it or inked
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I cant remember a tv show it was anime and it started with a guy around 17 and finds this kid at his door with a blue book and the kid has blonde hair and hornes.The kid was around 8 and the guy cant read any of the strange words on the book.Later another guy comes along with a weird looking kid and asks for a battle since they both have books that look the saem and then the guy can read a part of the book and when he does the blonde kis shoots a blot of lightning out of his mouth.Can anyone remember?
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Looking for TWO pages about websites:
1) You Tube channel about four/five "critics" who review stuff. All I know is that one of them (a woman) was absent for several videos for being too violent.
2) Website about a reviewer who reviews movies. All I know about him is that he really hates The Lion King!!!
Please somebody help me!!!
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I only read the start of the webcomic, so I don't remember much in the way of plot, but the main character was a blond, very feminine-looking male who apparently goes into different worlds when he sleeps (I believe the second part was only implied). There's some kind of imprisoned queen, perhaps a fairy, and he's been chosen to save her. The title "Hero" may have come up. The beginning is either in gray or he's in a dungeon with said queen, or possibly after he gets out of the dungeon it's gray. I think there's also an evil doll with stuffing coming out of his neck that the boy sews up. At some point near the beginning he passes out and two fairies watch him and wonder how such an unsatisfactory kid is supposed to save the queen.
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Anyone heard of a book involving a woman turned into a mosquito? She was the wife of a peasant, when she died she was taken to a shaman who took a drop of blood from the man and revived her. Eventually she ran out on him for a richer man but the husband asked for his blood as the shaman warned him of this. When she lost the drop she became a giant mosquito. She hunted for her husbands descendants for hundreds of years in order to get his blood and turn back, draining failed candidates completely. She's pursued by the shaman who had become a giant yemen dragonfly to kill her as a natural predator.
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I'm not sure if this is where you ask about specific episodes of shows, but two queries if so: 1) Stephen Fry once quoted an exchange from Star Trek TOS ("Somebody out there is saying the best three words in the universe." "What words, Captain?" "Please...help me.") Which episode is this from, because I've seen them all and don't remember this from anywhere. 2) And what was the episode of Diagnosis Murder where Mark Sloan got framed for murder, and the first part ended with another character welcoming him to 'hell'? I missed the second part and this has been bugging me for years.
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I think this was an animated film, it involved some animals that live under a tree or something and then their little animal village is gassed or something and one of their friends gets sick saving their parents and the other animals have to go looking for a cure, pretty sure one of the characters was a badger and there was a scene with diggers at one point though I could be mistaken, saw it when I was very young (so during the 90's) could have been released before then.
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This video on Child Prodigies that is an Absolute Crowing Moment of Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpp71tpehg
Anyone knows which show?
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This is a commercial from circa 1993. The product that is being advertised is a laxative medicine called Senokot. Another detail that I remember is that the commercial used the song "I Feel Good (I Knew That I Would)" in it. Could you help me find any information/videos for the commercial?
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Show that used to be shown in India in the mid-90s. Featured as prominent characters several balls in space. They had different personalities and were launched off the spaceship from time to time. One of the balls used to yell "Geronimo" upon launch.
I've been trying to find this for many years now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Anand
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I recall a fantasy webcomic, pretty much a standard fantasy setting. The part that sticks out in my mind the most is a female elf travelling with a human male. At one point they had sex, put the elf is upset about, wishes it never happened, and made the human forget with magic. after he finds out what had happened, he is very upset and feels he has been raped, while she doesn't seem to see anything wrong with her actions. I know there was more to the story than this, but I can't seem to remember it.
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I can't find a delete button so disregard this. It's Final Fantasy Legend 3', on the gameboy if anyone was wondering. found it right after I posted this.
An old (16-bit?) video game, possibly the SNES, existed about 10-12 years back. The plot was kind of like the SNES F Fs and it was definatly a RPG: the world is slowly flooding from some kind of portally thing, and characters can be 'fed' items mosters sometimes drop to turn into thing like the monsters, with abilities. Kind of like Gau's Rages from FF 6, but for everyone. You start on a smallish island, and travel off it is via a 'float' spell, which unlike in FF, summons a floating rock which you ride.
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On So Bad It's Horrible, there is an entry with no link. Can someone find an upload of it?
- A group of ads for Hot Pockets (which is thankfully, now long-gone) depicted people eating a Hot Pocket on the street and being subjected to the same kinds of discrimination and abuse that American minorities suffered from prior to and during the Civil Rights Movement - all because they were eating the advertised product without using a plate. So if someone eats these Hot Pockets in public, people will harass them both physically and verbally and write threatening messages on their houses with a caulking gun?
Another anime series I saw in the middle of the day in Japan in the early-to-mid-80s. Thinking back, it's sort of like Maison Ikkoku, focusing on a sweet, tall sexy black-haired lady and a guy on the mold of Godai and Lum's Ataru. There were occasional nude-shots of ladies (including the lead female character). The episode I got to watch was the one where there was a challenge between the boys and the girls. Not sure if it was between dorms or between boys-only and girls-only schools. Each would send a representative to sneak into the other dorm/school and steal some agreed artifact. The lead guy was the boys' rep and a big lady was the girls'. While the big lady just plowed herself through the defending boys, the male lead got himself seduced by the skimpily-clad girls (who kept slipping their tops off to him). He let himself play a game where he was chasing the girls blindfolded, but ending up getting hit by the girls on the head. By the end the girls won, the lead lady was feeling sorry for the unconscious lead character, apparently imploring the students to end the rivalry. Oh yeah, there was also some big dog that kept frothing in the mouth that somehow fit in the series. I also recall the closing credits, where there were different shots of the leading lady in various poses while the leading guy sat sulking on the side. The 2nd to the last shot of the lady was of her nude backside. Then the frothing dog came out, scaring the lead guy from his place, and the ending credits ended with the smiling fully-clothed lady carrying the scared guy.