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I believe it was a movie in the late 90's or the early 2000's. There's a man, his wife, and young son/daughter in the car. They are smiling happily until suddenly a truck hits the car. I think this was a flashback because I vaguely remember the man visiting the graves of his wife and child. Anyone know?
Edited by DJROOOMBAopenNo Title Western Animation
All right, this one has been bugging me for 20 years. Back when Nickelodeon used to show shorts as filler when they had extra time after a program (like "Housecats", "Grace" and the "Sports Cartoon" series), there's one short I think I only saw once, but which I've always remembered. It had a little boy who was bored or overly imaginative or something, and imagined himself into a huge monster, body part by body part. His older sister walks in and exclaims "Ick!" Then she talks him back into his normal self, gives him a kiss on the cheek, credits roll. I remember the credits having black and white photos of the crew, and the names may have been handwritten. From my memory, the cartoon was animated in a scribbly crayon style, and it may have been voiced by actual kids.
I am almost positive that the sister's exclamation "Ick!" was the title of the short, though my memory can't pin down if it was spelled "Ick!", "Ickk!", "Ikk!" or some other way.
I saw the short back in 1992 or 1993 at the end of an episode of Danger Mouse I had taped, and found it unsettling enough that I rewound the tape to before the short so that the next episode I taped would record over it. I never saw or heard of it again, but when I first watched Aaah! Real Monsters and saw Ickis' ability to get bigger and scarier, for some reason it made me think of that mystery short.
I've spent the last 20 years trying to find out anything about it. Over the years I've asked about it in various places online, and nobody seems to remember it. I think one person mentioned it in a comment on a You Tube video of another Nick filler short (I think it was "Grace"), but the video and the comment have since been deleted. But the fact is that someone else on the Internet besides me mentioned it, so I know I'm not imagining it/going insane.
Does anybody, anybody, remember this Nickelodeon short at all?
Edited by TServo2049openNo Title Live Action TV
There was a show from what I would believe was the 90s. It had a kid who would I believe enter into a cd for an edutainment show which used the catchphrase knowledge is power a lot. No clue what the name to it was.
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I'm looking for an old animated (70s or 80s) movie from either Korea or China, that tells the story of a girl that lives alone with her father (I think the mother died when she was born or something) and for some reason has to sacrifice her own life in order to save him. The sacrifice involved her throwing herself from a ship in order to calm a sea monster or something, but she is rescue from some kind of mere folk. Their prince later marries her and she visits her father to tall him she is okay. The style was a little similar to Nezha nao hai.
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This is for a friend of mine, so here's his description:
"I read a book when I was younger, and I cannot remember the title or the author at all. If I’m right, there was a brother and sister, and they lived somewhere in England, I think (Cornwall?). It was rainy and they would visit (I think?!) ancient Egypt through their basement, and there were a few books based on this."
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A fantasy/horror novel where this girl is hearing demonic creatures call her name through her uncle's house. She eventually has to go down to their underworld, I think to rescue her uncle. She gets diverted by a romance with a werewolf whose name was something like Syldra, which is cut short when the main villain delivers her a box with clothing made out of said werewolf's skin. The main villain cut sort of a pompous-mayor figure. All the monsters fed off something; the werewolf was appealing because he restrained himself to happy memories.
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I remember one Genesis Game, I played it on Sega Channel. Anyway it involved selections of monsters and a fight on something chessboard like. It was isometric or top down. When you defeated an enemy they were added to your selection. There was a part in the game which allowed for merging of monsters in (a) big tube(s).. I remember a pink ooze being fused with some monstrous humanoid and the result being roughly that monster covered with the pink.
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When I was younger, probably around 2000-2005, there used to be a cartoon short on Nickelodeon (I think) about a man who sleepwalks. I was pretty sure it was called "Sleepman" or something like that and i think it was an ongoing series of shorts. The one I remember most vividly is something about him walking into a sprinkler? And also a dog is in there too? Does anyone know what this was?
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Either a film or a Made-for-TV Movie, I saw it on TV in the seventies or possibly very early eighties. Based on (if not specifically about) Muhammad Ali. Not The Greatest where Ali plays himself, it was a shaved-headed man who played the Ali-type character. (And of course, the actor was black.) I believe it ends with "Ali" losing the heavyweight championship, although there's a crawl at the end saying he regained his championship. Also, in the part of the film dealing with "Ali's" refusal to serve in the military during The Viet Nam War, there's a scene where friends and relations come to visit him just before he's shipped off to prison and, during the going-away party, a friend/relative/Nation of Islam member who looks similar to him takes his place (they switch clothes) while he gets bundled off by the rest.
EDIT on 3/10/13 - answering myself, I think it was The Great White Hope. To a sheltered under-10 with little knowledge of early 20th century history, it looked like it was based on Ali. But it was based on Jack Johnson, with a shave-headed James Earl Jones playing "Jack Jefferson." There's a scene where he's going to get sent up the river for having sex with a white woman & he escapes by getting someone else to pretend to be him - not for his whole stretch, just long enough to confuse the cops tailing him so he can leave the country. At the end he loses the fight, and I now sort-of remember that I wondered why they didn't put in a crawl about his regaining the championship (which Ali did), rather than there actually being one.
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Hello!
I'm looking for 2 live-action movies made sometime around the 80s-90s.
1) It had some children stepping into an alternate (and perhaps evil?) universe using mirrors? (Which had a ripple kind of effect, somehow liquid).
2) This one had a boy who was so scared by going into this haunted haused and seeing ghosts that his hair either turned white or fell off. Then he took a potion to make his hair normal but it made it grow endlessly long. (And maybe some one wanted it to make paintbrushes...?)
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Trying to think of the title of a film, I watched it sometime between 2003-2005, but it could have been made earlier than that. As I remember it, the plot revolves around two teenagers who conspire to commit the perfect murder, just because they can. They study the methods police use to analyse crime scenes, and obtain some of the plastic suits forensics experts wear to stop them contaminating the crime scene. Then they strangle a woman, try to leave nothing forensics can trace back to them at the scene, plant evidence to implicate the janitor at their school (for example they leave a hair from a baboon on/near the victim's body, knowing that the janitor keeps a pet baboon in his garage) and then they kill the janitor and make it look like a suicide. The plan fails because one of them vomited at the crime scene and forgot about it due to stress, and the police eventually figure out which one of them killed her because the one who didn't always wore a ring, which would have left a mark on the victim's throat when they strangled her.
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I remember owning this on Vhs back in 2000. It was a version of Alice in Wonderland. NOT the Disney one. It involved the Mad Hatter, The March Hare, and The Doormouse (who were the antagonists in this version) somehow escaping (I think it was some kind of teleportation) from a book (probably Alice In Wonderland). They were chasing a pair of objects from their tea set. I believe they were two tea-cups. Basically, the objects had come alive, and I think the Hatter/Hare/Mouse wanted to turn them back into regular inanimate objects.
The objects ended up with Alice (the same one from the book), and she decides to help them.
I think there was a scene with Alice's mother, or older sister at some point.
At the climax, Alice threatens the Hatter/Hare/Doormouse trio with something or other (I can't recall what) and it frightens them so much that they immediately shout something to the effect of "Alright! We'll go back! FOREVER!", and then teleport right back into the book.
That's all I can remember. If anyone knows what this was called, when it was made, or who was in it, that would be great. It was one of my favorites when I was little. (Oh, and if it's just called "Alice in Wonderland" please add some other details as well) Thanks!
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There was this animated sf series about aliens. They looked completely human, I think. They did have the ability to check if a human was one of them in disguise by establishing eye contact, and if the eyes changed that meant you were one of them. The main character was a young man who didn't know he had alien blood/DNA/watevsville.
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This was a kids/YA book I read in the mid-eighties. It was about three kids whose parents had to go away for some business-trip reason, and the kids were left with a woman who they all hated. I especially remember the oldest kid had a treasured collection of empty soda cans from around the world that took up a wall, and the babysitter made him get rid of them because brown recluse spiders could be nesting in them.
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This was a TV show from the 70s or early 80s. It was sketch comedy, and Canadian. (I'm almost 100% sure it was Canadian. It certainly wasn't British or American, but if it wasn't Canadian it would have been some other Commonwealth country where they speak English)
The sketch I remember was about the fact that Canada's Parliamentary debates were going to start being televised. The joke was that the TV executives wanted to change everything to make it more appealing for television. So they turned "Prime Minister's Question Time" into a sort of variety musical number. The two parties would come in, singing at first "doo doo doo doo doo doo". They each wore the colors of their party (Blue and Yellow respectively, if I remember correctly). Then the song went "Question Time! Question Time! We all love Question Time! There ain't no reason and their ain't no rhyme—its (beat, beat) Question Time!" Then someone from the opposition side would pose a question, and someone from the government side would deliver a punchline. Then everyone would sing "Yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak" and go back to the "question time" song. The only question I can remember the question (which I think was asked by a female member of the opposition) was something like "This government has been accused of being ignorant and apathetic, how do you respond?" and all the Government side stood up and said in unision "WE DON'T KNOW AND WE DON'T CARE!". The actual people from Parliament were not happy with these changes that the TV producer was suggesting, but then they foung out how much they would make, so then they all started singing "Question Time! Question Time!"
(I'm afraid I honestly don't remember whether it was the Blues or the Yellows who were the government (the other being the opposition), so we won't be able to narrow it down timewise that way!)
I think I had watched this show before, without actually realizing it was Canadian until I saw this sketch (which obviously does not portray the American system of government!). It could be the same as one of the other sketch comedy shows I have asked about here before (and which seem to have stumped everyone!)
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It's a stop motion animation or directly puppets, I can't really remember.
It was mid 80's to early 90's and shown in Australia. I'm pretty sure it was a pilot and the rest of the series never got aired.
It was about 2 different families of space farers in 2 different spaceships, a goody 2 shoes family and a family of pirates. The pirates were aliens and androids and wanted to get the good ship.
The only scene I can remember was that the mother pirate puppet was giving birth and the rest of the pirates were totally non plussed except for 1 that was assisting her with the birth. The mother kept screaming horrible screams and wasn't dealing with the labour very well so the guy that was assisting her got a crowbar to open up her stomach. Being traumatised by this point I'm a little fuzzy on the details but I think 2 twin monster babies emerged and ran into the air ducts.
When on the pirate ship the mood was crowded, almost claustrophobic. There was a lot of model junk around the place like old steel wool, and where it was clean it was all rusty steel corridors. It had kind of agoraphobic, dark feel that plasmo had.
To make it weirder I think pizza hut had some tie in toys. Am I just insane or did anything like this ever go to air?
oh god, describing this sounds almost like the candle cove story in creepypasta http://www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/
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combo of puppets and live action kids. an 80's show (pretty sure it wasn't 90's). Seen in Australia, might have been either british or NZ in origin. A kid kicks a soccer ball into a hedge, when he goes after it he finds that the ball has gone into a secret subterranean cave complex that is inhabited by puppets. The puppets capture the kid and put him in a cage, there are some sympathetic puppets that try and help the kid escape but he always ends up going back due to a moral decision that he has to make for his new puppet friends and ends up back in the cage by choice so that no one will get in trouble. I'm pretty sure there was a split storyline of his friend above ground trying to get him home, the friend may have at some point made his way into the cave complex and snuck around without the bad puppuets detecting him.
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For many many i've been trying to remember a cartoon movie i watched on the 80's, i was 5 or so, and so i cant remember much...Just that:
- the main character was the youngest of two brothers
- the young one was weak, short, ugly, with moustache...the other was the opposite '- both were superheroes and dressed a red suite, superman style...
- instead of the "S", their suites had a thunderbolt or similar - they had to rescue a princess from a tower
- the tower was on an island full of guided rockets thad had an eye in their point
- the rockets didnt explode, but somehow they could poke and hypnotize you
Now that i've written it, sounds reeeeeally weird!!! :p but i hope someone can help me with that!!!
Hi guys, im from Barcelona and i need some help!!
For many many i've been trying to remember a cartoon movie i watched on the 80's, i was 5 or so, and so i cant remember much...Just that:
- the main character was the youngest of two brothers - the young one was weak, short, ugly, with moustache...the other was the opposite - both were superheroes and dressed a red suite, superman style... - instead of the "S", their suites had a thunderbolt or similar - they had to rescue a princess from a tower - the tower was on an island full of guided rockets thad had an eye in their point - the rockets didnt explode, but somehow they could poke and hypnotize you
Now that i've written it, sounds reeeeeally weird!!! :p but i hope someone can help me with that!!!
Gracias!!!