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openLooking for a (possibly) educational film! Film
Hello! A friend's mom is looking for this movie, and this is about all we know about it. This movie was about an Inuit brother and sister, probably made in the 70s but the possibility of it being made in the late 60s or early 80s isn't ruled out. The sister was the older of the two and may have been narrating the film, while the brother was about 7 or 8 years old. The film may have focused on them exclusively and there may not have been any other characters.
The siblings seem to have been lost somewhere in the Arctic, and there was a scene of them going fishing for food, but the boy refused to eat the fish because he felt bad for it. The movie was a kid's movie, apparently not a documentary but it may have been educational. It was live-action and in color. It's not apart of the Netsilisk Eskimo series and may have been about more than an hour long. Any help or information is super appreciated! Thank you!
Edited by the_coldest_neptuneopen(SOLVED) Doctor Who episode with a room that had skeletons in it Live Action TV
There was one Doctor Who episode that scared me as a kid. Well, actually, several, but I know what most of them were, and then there's this one that I don't know the title of. And no, this moment wasn't listed on the show's Nightmare Fuel page last time I checked. It was an episode of the new series (considering how old I was at the time, it was probably either a 9th or 10th Doctor episode, though the slight possibility of being an 11th Doctor episode is there, and the scene that scared me involved a futuristic looking room filled with skeletons (the episode earlier showed the same room, but the people were alive. The room with skeletons may have had ice in it as well, but I don't remember) and then it showed a girl screaming in a somewhat dark room.
Does anyone know what episode this was?
Edited by KingofNightmaresopenHorror/Scary show? help! Live Action TV
For the life of me, I can't find this show please help me. I remember very distinctly being scared out of my mind in the mid to late 2000s by this show that told scary stories. I can't remember if these were separate episodes or if they told multiple stories in one episode. The two stories I remember are as follows. A girl goes to a thrift store or some kind of second-hand store and buys a dress, that night she goes out with her boyfriend and wears the dress. She goes onto the dancefloor and starts dancing, then she starts to feel sick, she sits down, and eventually passes out. you then get a glimpse of the girl on an autopsy table and we're told that the dress was given to the store because the last girl to wear it had died. The second story is that of a man who gets on an airplane. As he's sitting in his seat he begins to hear a noise. He calls the flight attendant who leans over to inspect the window where he thinks the noise is coming from and suddenly the window breaks and the flight attendant is sucked through the window and ripped apart. The man is left there covered in blood spatter and we the audience get a shot of outside the plane while a leg clad in a heel falls to towards the earth. Thanks so much for your help I'd really appreciate if we figured this out!
openAnimated TV show episode - crickets "booing" a performance Live Action TV
This is from an American (could be Canadian...) TV cartoon series, leaning more towards adult viewers and relatively recent (i.e. previous 10 years or so). The character is doing a live performance in a theatre and when he is finished the camera pans to the audience. It's full of crickets (the insects) and it's quiet for a moment and then all the crickets start yelling "booooo". The funniest twist on the "disinterested-cricket" trope I've seen.
I just can't remember the show and no matter how much I google variations on this, I can't find it. Anybody out there who can help me?
Thanks
Edited by WFHProcrastinatoropenChildrens’ graphic novel about kids with superpowers
I remember reading this one graphic novel as a kid. I don’t remember what it was called, but I do remember many specific details about it:
- A bunch of kids with superpowers were all born at the same time.
- The protagonist’s superpower was his ability to scream very loudly.
- The beginning, which showed the protagonist as a newborn at the hospital, had a gag where he screamed so loudly that his scream was heard not only around the world, but in space as well.
- The hospital was called “Cloud 9 Hospital”, with there being a Visual Gag in which his scream called some of the text to fall, causing it to read “Loud Hospital”
- The kid had trouble restraining his voice, with him practicing with drink glasses.
- He eventually got detention for causing so much trouble at school because of his voice.
- The kid got detention not only on the weekend, but on his birthday.
- He ended up with a bunch of other kids in detention, where they learned that they were all born on the same day, and that they all had superpowers (what they were, I don’t remember).
- I think there was some more stuff that happened after that, but I don’t remember much of it. The only scene I clearly do remember was the kids using their superpowers to help people. The protagonist used his powers to alert the pilots of two planes in the sky that were going to collide.
- I think the story ended in a treehouse?
- I also think the book had a sequel that had to do with evil lunch ladies or lunch food or whatever.
openStrangely dark picture book? Literature
I may be misremembering but I was read this children’s book when I was very young and remember parts of it vividly; a disgraced baseball player takes over a town and makes everyone’s life miserable, eventually the main character’s mom’s head is seen stuck in a spiked garden roller or something because of the baseball player? I remember it being very dreary in tone and color palette, definitely not suitable for children.
openNo Title Print Comic
The book was about four kids, led by a young black girl, who can travel to a different dimension through a magic(?) movie projector. They are locked out if the projector is off, and they jam it to keep it on with an action figure, which subsequently breaks. There is also blue goop that can possess people and zombify(?) them. It was in the kid’s section of the library, but was a bit creepy for the kids that were there. I really would appreciate it if anyone found it. Thanks!
openSad Computer Short Story Literature
I read this short story a couple of years ago, but it's probably at least a few decades old. It's a speculative fiction work where everyone has to enter absolutely EVERY detail about themselves into this computer system thing, which in turn predicts all crimes that people are going to commit. In the story, the protagonist (a guy) is an adolescent whose dad is called in because it's been predicted that he'll commit a crime, but the details that the government have don't add up. The protagonist gets a bunch of vague instructions to go places. By the end, it's revealed that the computer system thing was really overworked and sad and wanted to shut itself down. However, since shutting down the computer was a crime, it had to report that it would happen — but it purposely obscured the details to make sure its mission would succeed. The main way it did this was to pick a kid/teen to perform the action — since teens are listed under their parents' entries in the crime system thing, the dad would be called into questioning while the child went to a bunch of sketchy places to shut the computer down.
openPokemon Fan-Artist Web Original
Anyone know the name of this fan-artist? They're Japanese and have a Pixiv, or at least they did several years ago. They're a Pokémon fan-artist who draws a lot of fanart of Red and the Kanto characters. I remember one comic took place in a tournament and showed Sklya as a little girl.
openComedy About a Guy Testing a Suit Anime
Some time ago, I remember there being an anime series on Amazon Prime where the basic premise was that a young guy got a job testing a purple Ultraman-esque suit for a toy company or something. It's since left Prime and for the life of me, I can't remember the title. Anyone have any idea what show I'm talking about?
openChristian novel about a novelist, from about 20 years ago Literature
This is a novel I saw in a Family Christian store some time between 1997 and 2003. It would have been in softcover. (Edited to add: I think the cover design was dark-colored and kind of minimalistic, but I might be wrong about that.)
The back cover summary had something to do with a successful writer of "immoral" books ("immoral" probably wasn't the word used, but that was the implication) who had become an Evangelical Christian and was dealing with the conflict between his public image and his new faith. (Possibly also dealing with the moral dilemma of continuing to receive royalties for his objectionable backlist, but I don't know if that was mentioned or if it's just something I inferred.)
I thought it was by Randy Alcorn, but unless I've failed a spot check, Alcorn doesn't seem to have written a novel like this. Possibly it was shelved near Alcorn's books, so the author's name may have started with an A.
Edited by CracktopusopenCD-ROM Children's Encyclopedia (UNSOLVED) Videogame
When I was young, I had a children's encyclopedia on CD-ROM that had a host called Annie (short for Annuit Coeptis), a female, floating green pyramid who looked like "the weird pyramid thing on the back of the dollar bill," as she described it. She had a floating round eye where the Eye of Providence was, and introduced herself and explained the meaning of the Great Seal upon bootup. I think we sold the disc at a flea market. And yes, I'm asking mainly because Bill Cipher reminded me of her.
Edited by rjd1922openCartoon. Magic wands shaped like a wooden spoon and a star. Had to enter ‘password’ to use magic Western Animation
Help please. Have tried searching in vain for the name of an old cartoon. The story centres around this woman who has magical powers. She lives with her father. Her wand has a star at the tip and his is shaped like a wooden spoon. Both of them are ‘password protected’ in that you have to move the star or spoon bowl around in a certain combination in order to be able to cast any spells. The cartoon is about an evil wizard trying to steal both wands and their unlock codes in order to use them in a scheme. I also remember a scene where the daughter is in a shop and they sell these coloured balls which I think are supposed to be enchantments. She runs into a man and has a meet ute where they knock all these balls down and try to sort them out. Please help, can’t find anything throughout the google.
Edited by SantaryopenBook about superpowered teens Literature
So, it might be R. L. Stine, might not. But what I remember was that these 6 kids all shared a Chemistry calss. When the teacher walked out of the room, the jock got up and started pulling a bunch of exotic looking chemicals out of the usuallylocked cabinet, and started mixing them all together. The concoction started fuming at an alarming rate, and some students opened up windows. The fog filled the room, then just as quickly dispersed. Afterward, 6 students received superpowers. Superspeed, x-ray vision, invisibility, walking through walls, producing water from one's fingers, and the ability to grow and shrink one's height. They become a motley crew of friends and discover the gym teacher(?) was an alien of some sort that had to consume the rubber / plastic from the gym balls in order to maintain his human form. The students fight him and defeat him and I guess go about their student lives.
It was at least 5 years ago, so that might help with the publication date. Idk. Anything is welcomed.
Edited by CloverErnestopenGirl’s Childhood Cartoon Film
So I have an extremely vague memory of a cartoon I used to watch as a child in the early 2000’s. It followed three girls who led secret lives where they were fairies or spies or something. It was very similar to Winx Club, W.I.T.C.H. or Totally Spies, but I don’t think it was any of these three. I had a toy wand that was from the show’s brand and it was a pink “fairy”/magic wand that was round in the middle and clear, so you could see little colored balls stacked on top of each other in the wand’s entire handle. I think they might have been removable, but I’m not sure. It was kind of an anime-style show, but not sailor moon. Please help!
openShort story about aliens and evolution Literature
This was from a sci-fi anthology omnibus I read many, many years ago, but this one story stuck out in my mind particularly.
As far as I can remember, it involved an alien civilization on a distant planet that was going through its industrial revolution. One female alien who's some kind of struggling playwright discovers fossils of extinct creatures and becomes a sort of Charles Darwin equivalent, travelling around her planet and collecting evidence to support the theory of evolution while debating her theories with various religious types. At the end of the story, she stages a play about the evolution of their species, and becomes a big success.
openYA Sci-Fi Book Literature
I read a book many years ago and I'm attempting to track it down now to re-read it.
Here's what I remember: The protagonist is a woman who works for some sort of agency (I think it's intergalactic) and she's captured by an enemy race. She makes a comment about having her hair cut short when she's imprisoned because in the enemy's culture that is a way to humiliate or shame women, though it doesn't bother her. The part I remember is from her point of view and she continues to tell the story from what she can see/learn while locked up.
That's the most specific thing I recall, but there is also something about her working with another agent, a man who is either inexperienced or has done something disgraceful, making her unhappy to be stuck with him (the story may flip to his point of view for some chapters?). In the end, he takes their ship and uses it to somehow defeat the enemy, I think by self-destructing the ship to blow up their base or city, killing himself in the process but saving the female agent and presumably everyone else...
Any ideas? I believe it is a young adult novel and it may be out of print. Also, I can't promise it was ever published or available outside the United States. Not a lot to go on, I know, but I'd appreciate any titles anyone can suggest. Thanks!
Edited by SnowRobinopenHand stuck in teeth
I'm trying to find an old film in which a man is playing with a large set of plastic teeth and gets his hand stuck in them. He tries, unsuccessfully, to get his arm out. Then a woman knocks on his door and he answers, his hand still stuck in the teeth.
openGang related anime i think Anime
I am trying to find an anime I remember watching awhile back. Most of it is vague but it was about some kind of gang I think with all members being forced to where their symbol on either a earring or necklace. The symbol was half the yin yang like a ball with a curvy tail there was also a hole in the middle of the circle. it started off with a girl returning home to them or something. Thanks so much and I hope to get an answer.
It's very possible I'm confusing multiple books. But I think this book might have been in the Wheel of Time series maybe? And maybe the main character is friends with a dragon? But again, maybe I'm mixing those parts in from other stories.
The parts I'm clear on is that it is a High Fantasy book about an Assassin. The part I remember the most clear (I think near the start of the book) the main character assassin is in I believe another assassin's lair or office I think and he thinks something to himself along the lines of, I better be on my best behavior and careful, because if he has half as many booby traps as I have in my office I'll never get out of here alive
or something like that.