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I remember seeing an anime movie awhile ago, but I didn't catch the title and only watched it for a few minutes. I think there was some sort of war going on, and the pilots were mid-to-older teen boys. I think they were stuck at that age, and they had to be in order to fly the planes. There was a girl who was their boss, I'm pretty sure she was a heavy smoker. She was also the mother of a little girl who came to visit, but the girl thought she was her sister. It had a sort of CGI style combined with the anime and the CGI was more apparent in the aerial scenes.
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It was a sitcom with no laugh track, taking place in an earlier decade, and the main character or narrator was a youngish teenage boy. I remember a couple episodes featuring his older brother's attempts to impress an (Austrian?) girl who was a foreign exchange student.
In one, the brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where the brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In another episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady footrubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life's stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. (All played for laughs, of course.) Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
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This wasn't actually a cartoon but a fanfiction for Avatar, the Last Airbender (I noticed there wasn't a fanfic category). It was an AU fic set in the late 1930s in East Asia, starting with Sokka and Katara as Mongolian vilagers, Aang as a recently-thawed Tibetan monk, and Zuko as a disgraced member of the Japanese Imperial family and colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army. I left off when they wound up in China due to Aang learing to use one of his powers and meet Suki and her band of resistance fighters. Sokka was a big fan of swing music, Appa was a motorcycle, and Momo is a real-life rodent. Azula is in charge of Unit 731, and is a rival to Zhou. Aang had some spritual visions which I'm half-sure were premonitions of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Very well-written and mature. Can anyone help me out?
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A Muppet-type show that I saw in the '90's. The characters were Muppet-kids. I think the title was something like "Wimsey's House". Or someone's house.
I remember one episode where the phone was ringing, one kid was calling for someone to come answer, but ending up answering it herself. That led to a giant box being delivered to their house, which the kids then tried to hide by pushing it around.
Another episode involved a fashion contest of some sort, with the kids going "Ta-da!" as they presented themselves. The girl who was judging gave each of them a small prize for whatever category she had deemed them the winner of. The youngest one, a boy, won "Most Colorful". I think his name was Bo. The last one to be awarded a prize was a boy, who got progressively sadder as the others were awarded, until it was his turn and he was assured that he WAS deserving of a prize.
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This was a sitcom with no laugh track that aired in the early 2000's. It might have had 'Oliver' in the title. It took place in an earlier decade, maybe the 50's. The narrator, one of the main characters, was a youngish teenage boy. He may or may not have been the titular 'Oliver' (if 'Oliver' was part of the title at all, of course).
I remember two episodes, both featuring narrator-boy's older brother's attempts to impress a girl. This girl was probably an exchange student and may have been Austrian.
In one episode, older-brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where older-brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In the other episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady foot rubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
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This was a movie I saw in the 90's. It was about two aliens who were stranded on Earth and separated; they may have been brothers. One alien was found by a family living in Africa. The family had two brothers in it who were both children. The other alien was taken in by the government and experimented on. One of the human brothers is taken away, either by the authorities or by criminals. At the end of the film, both the kid and the alien are returned to the family, with the aliens slowly shuffling up to each other (I think they were injured/exhausted) and the human kid running up to his family and being embraced. I think the movie was called Nuki, but I'm not finding anything under that name. Nuki, or whatever the word really was, was also the name of one of the characters - I think one of the aliens.
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Movie I saw in the 90's or early 00's. A guy sees a light in the night sky and develops powers after that. He sees into the future, heals quickly from injuries, does large calculations in his head quickly, pushes objects telekinetically when his hands get close to them, and can hear and decipher radio signals. He sends a message to officials saying that he's cracked their code and tells them to improve it. They do so, but he's still able to crack it. He's only trying to help them, but they see him as a terrorist and call him "Rogue". He sends them an email saying "i'm not rogue i'm not rogue i'm not rogue i'm not rogue...(etc.)" In the end, he finds out from a doctor that he has a brain tumor and weeks left to live. The doctor says that it could be removed, increasing his lifespan to months, but he would run the risk of losing mental functions. He chooses not to get the surgery.
Also, I remember a scene which may be from this movie or a different one, where a man is being questioned/tested and he rolls a pencil back and forth with his fingers without touching it (telekinetically). When his interviewer asks him how he's doing that, he replies that they're all made of the same stuff. "Wood?" "Energy, Bob." ('Bob' is probably incorrect.)
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This was a stop motion show that was on Teletoon in the early 00's. It was on before Futurama, I think. It was a fake news show that parodied all kinds of things. The two news anchors were a brown-haired man with an ordinary, simple name, and a blonde woman with a long name/lots of middle names/hyphenated last name. Her first name was Debbie Sue, I'm pretty sure.
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I know what this book is called, but I'm having a hard time tracking it down, so does anyone know who the author is? It's a children's book, and it's called When Pigs Fly (99% certain on this). It's about a girl who wakes up in a strange land. It's mostly Earth-like, except for some mythical creatures and reality-bending storms called 'grunters'. The only visible sign of a grunter is it causing pigs to float off the ground. The stronger the grunter, the higher they float. (This is important.) Grunters not only cause improbable things to happen, but also affect people's minds, such as turning them absent-minded or cranky. As an outsider though, the protagonist is unaffected by the grunters.
The story is about her trying to get home. With the help of an elderly couple and other townsfolk, she finally does find a way, which is spelled out in an old children's rhyme. (I can actually recite the whole rhyme from memory, if that would help in any way.) She climbs onto a pig's back during a Force 10 grunter (the highest), flies into the sky with it, and wakes up at home.
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I saw an episode of this cartoon once, probably in the 90's. It was about insects, and the main characters were skateboarding insect teenagers. In the episode I saw, the insect kids' elderly neighbour or grandfather or something had accidentally gotten sick from poison. It made him change colors. Oh, and I think he might have been an absent-minded professor type, I'm not sure. Anyway, the kids go to a weevil lady for help, and she makes them go collect ingredients for an antidote. One was a tooth from a Venus flytrap, one was a petal from some flower, and one I forget but I think they ended up running away from a bird after getting it. The weevil lady makes the antidote and gives it to them in a bottle, but while they're skateboarding back to deliver it, they accidentally drop it and it breaks. They go back to the weevil lady and she offers to heal him herself, but for a price that she doesn't name yet. She returns with them to the guy, and she kisses him on the nose or the forehead, drawing the poison out. In the end of the show, the kids are teaching her to skateboard, and as she pushes off, they wonder why she asked for this in return for her help. Cue the weevil lady chasing after the professor-guy on the skateboard and teasing him, saying "How about another kiss?"
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This guy somehow ended up many decades into the future, I think it was some sort of accident that brought him there. He meets this woman who teaches him about the society he's ended up in. Nudity is no longer taboo, free love is the norm, there's no such thing as marriage anymore, if you say you're married, you are, polygamy is not frowned upon. It's got some Zee Rust elements, like moving sidewalks, and it was very Mary Sue Topia-ish.
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I believe that this was a game for the Sega Dreamcast (or PS 2 or Gamecube). It was a Driving Game where you drove around what I think was San Francisco (I think there was a Fisherman's Wharf), you earned these point things called "Kudos," and you could drive cars from the Opel brand. I don't remember much about it other than that, but I'm pretty sure those were all in the game.
As for the date, I reckon it came out sometime around 2000.
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I need to know about a film that I saw as a child, but I can't remember the name. I had it on VHS, and the plot went like this:
'Two children, a boy and a girl, if I recall correctly, somehow enter a world of talking Loch Ness monster-esque creatures named after emotions/personality traits, like 'Happiness' or 'Pompousness'. If I recall, the Pompousness character was the main villain, and had two henchman. There was an elf-like, old man who seemed to act as a leader for the Nessies. And there was some sort of ship, as well, but I can't remember what purpose it served.'
Does anyone have any idea what this was called?
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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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There was a YA (probably) book I read in the mid-90s or so. The main character was a girl (pre-teen or teen), who moved from Milwaukee (random specific detail, eh?) with her mom and brother, to some small town.
They lived in an older house that would creak because it was settling. Somewhere nearby there was an abandoned mine that either she was trying to convince her brother was haunted, or vise versa.
I seem to recall that one of them had planted this tape recording of ghostly cries in the mine to try to scare the other.
At the end of the book, the ground was so unstable (due to the mine?) that the house settled all a-whack, breaking the gas line, which caused the house to catch on fire.
I'm not sure when it was written or who wrote it, but I might recognize the title or the cover if I saw it.
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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.
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Takes place in a women's prison in the early 1900s, the main character went to jail for stealing millions in jewelry under the command of a man who took her in as a child after her father died. A woman who works at the prison, who is relatively well-off, convinces the warden to let the prisoners put on the Pirates of Penzance.
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This is a book I read as a kid about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. One section of the book had pictures and descriptions for various hypothetical other planets, like a low-gravity one, a high gravity one, a jungle one, an ice one, and a gas planet where life floated around in the atmosphere. The illustration from the latter was used for the cover, showing a whale/manta ray type creature on a bluish background.
There's an amnesiac boy with a keyhole in his chest, and he meets a girl. That's all I remember.