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resolved Black teacher dreams of a world where teachers are treated like sports stars Live Action TV
Saw an episode of what looked like an American series about the late 90s/2000s
- I think most of the cast were black
- There was this news report about an athlete getting a huge salary and some lady says that teachers should be paid that sort of money
- This teacher has a nap and dreams about a world where teachers are treated like sports stars - complete with NFL style commentators for their classes and slow motion replay when they draw on the screen
- He was teaching something like snails or something and he fakes eating it then the there was a replay showing how he palmed it
- He was considering getting a new contract for a whole heap more money this little girl tries to give her meagre savings to get him to stay
resolved 3-D animated childhood-ruining YouTube video (FOUND) Web Original
(MATURE CONTENT AHEAD. I swear this isn't a creepypasta.)
I remembered watching this old youtube video when I was eight years old. I don't remember the title, but I remember this video clearly. It was a 3-D animated parody of Donald Duck, and it starred him and his nephew, Louie. All of the dialogue was in text to speech, with Donald himself having an ungodly deep voice.
The video opened with Donald telling his nephew that it must be hard to live without a mother. I don't remember exactly what was said afterward, but I do remember Donald mentioning that Dewey got himself a homeless man as a roommate, while Huey was seen outside fisting a dead deer.
This is when the weird part came in. Donald suggested that he become Louie's mother, and proceeded to put on a dress. At this point, Louie said "Uncle, please put your clothes back on." Donald didn't do as he asked; instead, he forced Louie to "suck milk from his mother's breast". Which he did.
After Donald was done doing more acts that I can't really say on this forum, he tucked Louie into his bed and whispered this before he closed the door:
"Sleep tight, my baby. Tomorrow, we'll start over."
The video ended with Louie hanging by a noose on a tree in the backyard.
Edited by YuriHaru567resolved Artists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
resolved Small girl waits in her haunted room. Videogame
I remember a gameplay video of an indie game where a small girl was supposed to wait in her room for her parent to come home. But the room was haunted or something and depending on your interactions with it, there were different outcomes.
The graphics were minimalistic, looked like hand-drawn and the environment was mostly white.
resolved 1930's cartoon with villains tormenting the cartoonist who drew them Western Animation
I asked the uploader which cartoon it's from, and I haven't gotten a response yet.
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Sad video game music Videogame
What's the background music in this part of Schaffrillas Productions's Steven Spielberg movie ranking? I know I've heard it in some game before, most likely an SNES JRPG.
resolved Mobile game about trying to connect living jelly(?) Videogame
I remember playing this one mobile game about trying to connect what I think was a bunch of square living jellies? It started on just a table and after each chapter it would get larger and larger in scale. I remember that on what I think was the 2nd to last chapter they added a gimmick that let you clone the jelly.
resolved Creepy, surreal game on Newgrounds Videogame
There was this game I played on Newgrounds years ago (maybe 2-5 years). You're playing as a psychic who is tasked with (actually, more like forced into) solving murders by reading the victims' minds.
Every time you look in someone's head, you get this very surreal scene of warped imagery and faces. You have to pay very close attention, because one of the faces that appears is the murderer's face.
Then you get a view of a police lineup, and all the characters are very Gonkish. You have to pick the one whose face matches one of the faces in the victim's mind. Whichever one you choose gets the electric chair.
If you guess wrong, your boss - who seems to be a normal human, but he's covered in shadow - tells you that You Have Failed Me, and that he would do the paperwork to fire you, but what he's about to do is easier. He then shoots you to death, and you get a Game Over screen.
The whole game had a pixellated, monochromatic art style, like the Game Boy. Does anyone know what this game is?
resolved White haired guy with psychic headaches (solved) Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking, blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
edit: found it, Goku: Midnight Eye II - sequel to Goku: Midnight Eye
Edited by jormis29resolved Puppet Airship Live Action TV
I seem to recall a show (possibly educational) about these puppet animals who lived on an airship.
There were transition scenes where I saw the airship rendered in CGI.
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2resolved *This anime thanked international fans for piracy* (SOLVED) Anime
I can’t remember the name, but I remember reading Wikipedia a while back and this page was about an anime that was "too good to last".
It mentioned how I the last episode, the crew thanked all the people outside of Japan that watched it illegally. All I remember is that it’s from the 2000s.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanresolved Picture book about ghosts (Found) Literature
A long time ago, I got a picture book about ghosts that has since been lost. It had 3 short stories in it:
- 1st one was about a small ghost hotel and how its staff must try to stop a greedy businessman from taking over and turning it into his own giant luxurious hotel (with the ghosts as special attractions).
- 2nd one was about a ghost girl attending a ghost school and her efforts to become a proper scary ghost.
- 3rd one was about a ghost man who haunts a small old TV (bought for a boy after his previous one breaks) as he desires to become an entertainer. Problem is, he fails at everything he does.
resolved (Solved) Children's Book: A Mother Must Weave Her Hair into a Jacket for a Whale Literature
I'm looking for the name of a fantasy/ fairy tale picture book where a mother has to rescue her son from the ocean. She strikes a bargain with a whale, who asks her to cut off her long, dark hair and weave it into a jacket for the whale to wear in the cold ocean. In exchange, the whale will help her rescue her son. The whale also promises to give her a magic remedy that will regrow her hair after she has cut it off. The mother begins work on the jacket, but finds she doesn't have enough material. She asks the whale for the hair re-growth remedy, and she cuts her hair off again (leaving her bald or with very short, scraggly hair she covers with a scarf). The mother finishes the whale's jacket, and is able to bring her son back home safely.
I do not know when this book was published. The illustrations were mostly done in dark colors, possibly in pastel or chalk (there was a soft, blurry feel to them). I believe there was a mention at the beginning of the book that it was based on an Asiatic fairy tale, but I haven't been able to find any fairy tales that match the story I remember.
Edited by Leporidaeresolved Book recommendation site that ranks books according to various metrics Web Original
Metrics include amount of sexual content, weird vs. conventional, complicated vs. straightforward, and a whole lot of others I've forgotten about, so you can get very specific about the kind of book you're looking for. You can also sort books by country. I found If I Fall, If I Die through that website, and I think they also have a page on An Unkindness of Ghosts.
Edit: Found it! It's whichbook.net.
Edited by Madison14resolved Fan song for Maximum Ride? Music
There's this fan song for the Maximum Ride series that my sibling and I loved when we were kids, but don't remember the name of or where it was posted. I don't know all the lyrics, but I do remember the chorus:
Nevermore, I will fight to the end/ If you want something you don't pretend/ Not a piece of your game, not part of your lie/ Don't tell me you don't know I'm Maximum Ride
There was also a pre-chorus part that went:
Trust you nobody trusts you/ My game you'll never win it/ Let me guess, he's the first to die?/ Well just 'cause you can read minds/ Doesn't mean it's true, doesn't mean I care/ You know he's mine
I've tried asking some people in the MR fandom itself, but nobody seems to know of this song. If anyone here has any idea what I'm talking about, I would be so incredibly grateful for the name of the song/a link to it - it's been driving me crazy for almost two years now.
Edited by MissGemKnightresolved Kids' movie where orphans adopt a dog, then are adopted and must hide it from their new parents
I believe the orphans were sisters. They're taken from the orphanage by a well-off couple that's met them a few times before and moves them into their swanky No Animals Allowed apartment in New York. I think the movie ends with the landlord deciding to make just one exception to the policy after the dog foils some sort of crime.
resolved Bouncing Robots (Solved) Videogame
Does anyone remember this game?
It is an RPG where you start with a round Robot Buddy, and whenever you get into a random encounter, you have to bounce your robot on the walls to tackle your opponent and defeat it.
Edited by ElBuenCuateresolved Make Mona Lisa smile
I can't remember if this was a children's book or a video game. It features Leonardo da Vinci, who is almost done with the Mona Lisa, but can't paint the mouth because his model won't stop sulking. The protagonist's goal is to cheer her up so Leonardo can finish the painting.
Edited by Madison14
Flipped through a horror graphic novel somewhere during the 2000's, most likely black and white
Family finds a black stain on a wall in their home that can't be cleaned, removed or covered up.
Anger and madness start spreading amongst the family. May have caused the Murder-Suicide of a neighbour and his Mail-Order Bride
The stain starts growing with the bloodshed and I thinks leads to the protagonist burning down the house to destroy the stain
jormis
Edited by jormis29