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You Tube Poops

an American Dad You Tube Poop that has the Oingo Boingo song Weird Science in it
a You Tube Poop based on the Rockos Modern Life epsiode "Fortune Cookie" (it wasn't this one)
One of my friends once showed me a You Tube Poop that was one of the few poops that every really made me laugh, and I have never been able to find it since then. It's a Caillou poop in which, amoung other things, scenes are editted together to make it sound like Caillou says to his black friends, "What's up, ni**as."
I recall this one Robotnik poop that started off with this Ninja Turtles video, and the girl who raises her hand says "TRY SOME!" in George the Volcano's voice.

Western Animation

An Argentine cartoon (or somewhere in South America) about an alien, gory and probably Inspired by South Park, it was made in the 90's
So basically there is this couple (or at least a one sided romance, but it is a man and a woman), and one is in a coma. The other puts a virtulization helmet on the comatose one's head. They then visualize their lives together before the comatose one dies/has the plugged pulled on them. I'm not even sure if it is animated, but I rememeber it being in English and live action would look awkward with this story I think.
Does anyone else remember this claymated show? The point of the show is that there are this two small robots or something and they live in this steampunkish environment, which is supposed to be some sort of workshop. Every episode some bigger robot (or something) starts telling them a famous fairy tale, but it falls asleep midway. The two little robots want to know how the story ends and they re-enact their version of the fairy tale's ending using all kinds of junk in the workshop to build props and sets. Their version is always very different from the actual story. The episodes were rather short, 7 minutes max, and there were no dialogue, only the big robot spoke. I clearly remember seeing an episode that featured The Emperor's New Clothes, if that helps.
where does this come from? (the animation, not the music)
This was an educational cartoon (15 minutes long, I think) about probability I watched in a school assembly, back in the 1970s. It was about a nebbishy guy who saved the life of a magical creature (might have been a wizard, might have been a leprechaun). In return, the wizard/leprechaun gave the man a magical wishing amulet. It had a catch, though: it was half-red, half-blue, and each half had a specific probability of activating (50/50 when he first got the amulet, though the wizard/leprechaun changed the probabilities a few times during the story, with the chances being heavily in favor of blue by the end). If the blue half activated, he turned into whatever he wanted, which usually was the lantern-jawed superhero Probability Man. If the red half activated, it turned him into something random. (He changed back after a few minutes either way). I remember a scene where his girlfriend (who he'd told about the amulet) jumped out of a tall building, so his superhero identity could save her on live TV and become famous, but the red half activated and he turned into a bed instead. (So she was unharmed, but very disappointed in him - and he could still talk while turned into a bed). At the end (after the amulet had been set to have the blue side activate the most frequently), the narrator said something to the gist of "But even a high probability still isn't a certainty, so every now and then..." and the red half activated, the character turned into a dog, blinked at the camera, and ran off into the distance. Overall, the animation was rather scribbly and 1970s-PBS-y, if that makes any sense. "Probability Man" brings up no matches in search engines (other than a sci-fi book by the same name), and neither does any combination of probability / amulet / superhero / educational / cartoon, etc. Any ideas?
An education video produced by an oil company. It illustrates the different economic systems (communism, capitalism, etc.) in use on a community of islands like Java. They must trade with neighbors for other goods as they develop, including, iirc, sheep, diamonds, wood, and potatoes. It is rather punny, and heavily dated.
This one's really bugging me, it's an aquatic themed show where one of the main characters, a scientist, becomes a black/white merman whenever he's submerged in water. It also featured a female villain from an evil organisation who I think had short red hair and had an eyepatch. Before you ask, it's not Tigersharks.
Okay, I remember watching this movie some time in the nineties, before I was six. My family thinks it may have been a dream and since I can't find ANYTHING about it, it may have been, but back then I didn't dream that sort of stuff. I remember it was sort of a Pied Piper plot, with the Piper some (maybe black) guy with a guitar and the rats could talk, and he made them all jump into a lake. After that, he took the entire town's kids up into a mountain. There was some white kid who could also utilize the Power of Rock or whatever, and at some point they make a rainbow-music-sparkle bridge across a chasm inside the mountain. Then the kids decide they want to go home, so the white kid uses the guitar to make the Sue!Bridge again. But when he's walking across he drops his pick, resulting in a Disney Death and he's brought back by the power of Love and Rock. It might have been a dream, but my dreams at the time usually didn't turn out so...cartoony. If anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about, please tell me. This has been haunting me for at least ten years. I'M NOT INSANE!
- No, no, I think I know what you're talking about! It was this crazy psychedelic Pied Piper movie that I'd totally forgotten about before I read this, I remember all the things you described. I think I rented it some time in the nineties...curses, I can't remember the name! I do specifically remember "The Power of Love and Rock" or somesuch, though...
  - OP: Yes! YES! I'm not insane! THANK YOU, MYSTERIOUS CONTRIBUTING TROPER PERSON!
Some TV series that aired on the mid to to late 90's, which could have been based on a comic book. The plot was that a race of green humanoids guy was trying to invade Earth, but the main character and a group of other rebels (one of which was a Fiery Redhead) fought them. The good guys had a big blue spaceship they used to travel between dimensions. One part I remember in the first episode is when one of the alien guys (who has a blue helmet) gives a gun to an abducted child and tell him to clean the counduits of their spaceships. There was also another one when the good guys get assaulted by a two-headed fire-breathing dinosaur; a short clip of the dinosaur was included in a PSA here in Québec.
- No idea of the title, but think I see exactly what you're speaking of. The Big Bad's daughter was in love with the hero, wasn't she? And the worst of the bunch was not her dad, but The Dragon. I think it's the same series as the diving helmet one below.
There was this animated movie I saw a few years ago, but I don't know what it was called. The main character was a mouse named Infinity, and there was this school run by his father or something. And a female mouse friend who is good at playing the violin came to live with them, and the school had a new strict teacher. The other pupils at the school other than Infinity and his female friend were a bunch of anthromorphic numbers. And they weren't happy with the new teacher, and would rather just play music. And then Infinity and his female friend discovers a secret underground library and a magical book. And the strict teacher witnesses this and later goes back to the library... Does anyone know something about this?
A Claymation short that aired on Teletoon (I think it was shown as a part of another show). The story was that a race of underground worms things were stirring shit in some desert-like place up and a group of "good" animals (one of which was a green snake) try to fight them. They succeed, but at the end, one of the good animals gets cornered by two worms on a cliff and drop to his dead. Apart from the sound effects and the ending music, it was completely silent, or so I remember.
where does this animated sig come from?◊
I faintly remember watching a creepy French ( I think it was French, I'm not sure) animated show ( it was a show, not a short) about a villain with a cool yellow mask that had occult powers and was using them to ruin the day, but a team of paranormal investigators ( I think it was a guy, a gal and their boss) always foiled him. It was very dark in tone, the villain had a creepy mechanical doll ballerina/music box that he would watch dance saying "yes, dance for me" or something like that, the closeup of the doll was also featured on the closing theme which gave me some nightmares.
I'm looking for the animation called something like "History of USA" or "Hidden history of USA", although I may be wrong. It started as a non-animation with some old guy who introduced it and then it begins. I remember a scene in which cowboys were shooting to some spaceship(?) in sky. There was a Moon(?) base and invaders from this base were attacking on village (there were battles with lasers, etc). I watched it on youtube or video.google.com a year or two ago. I don't know why but I think it was produced in some Scandinavian country (but it was in English).
Does anyone know where this scene◊ comes from?, I saw it in a signature at the Youtube Poop forums (I think the animation came from eastern Europe/Russia or Latin America)
Animated special or episode of a show from the late 70s or sometime in the 80s. Must have seen it on TV sometime around 1986. Remember it had to do with dragons... the dragons were being hunted to extinction and the last dragon is befriended by a young girl, I think. Had a sad ending to it from what I remember. Something about dragons had to disappear, because that was just the way of things. And no, it was not Flight of Dragons.
- You reminded me of something from my childhood that there's a small chance of being the same thing. I never got to see it in full, but it was about a young girl who manages to befriend a dragon. The only scene I really remember is where a girl explains that an item from the dragon's hoard that he can't identify is an hourglass, prompting a response (paraphrased): "Our glass? It's my glass!"
An animated fairy tale show called something like [soandso's] Fairy Tales. Everything was narrated by one guy who also did the voices. Rapunzel wished she had a fancy name like "Diane" but her dad said they couldn't afford it. When Rapunzel sang it was the narrator doing this freaky yodeling thing and she would come right up to the camera so you could see her uvula and crazy eyes. It was Nightmare Fuel to the max.
- Fractured Fairy Tales?
  - Fractured Fairy Tales was a segment on Rocky And Bullwinkle, and the version of Rapunzel they did doesn't match the OP's description at all.
An short animated film (that I'm sure was on an actual reel, played on a projector) about a Dr. Frankenstein-type scientist who constructed a creature with which to terrorize the villagers. The twist is - the creature is a giant birthday cake. The monster would sneak down to a village, knock on the door of a cottage, they would ask "who is it?", and the monster would reply "It's not the cake!". Then it would eat them. I saw this in the early 80s. It may have been Canadian, but I've searched at and inquired with the National Film Board, who don't know it.
An episode of a series — I can't even remember for sure if it's Western Animation, but I think it was. Anyway, the plot of the episode was that one character managed to use some sort of pre-made foodstuffs or food ingredients from some company to make the perfect food, so he/she sends the recipe to the company; however, one ingredient was from a competing company, so they removed it. Thus, the recipe as printed instead resulted in an inedible mound of salt and lard. Any idea what series and episode this is?
I remember watching a Christmas special in my youth about a anthropomorphic band of teenage dogs and one of the dog's father (who was white with a black spot on his eye) didn't want him to be in a band (because he was in a band once and knew of the bad side of the music industry) and because of that they were estranged then that dog's father became a Mall Santa
I think it was a short animation thing I caught on TV years ago. I think it was German, but I might be wrong. Anyway, I only recall that either a small child, or a pre-teen girl was watching something on TV involving a cow dressed like Moses with swirly hypnotizing eyes. I think she then took a pair of scissors and cut off a plant. Later on, an older girl, maybe sister came along, saw the plant, took the pair of scissors, and cut off the younger girl's fingers while she was sleeping. All I remember after that was that it ended with the younger girl looking at the sky. Oh and that in between scenes, the screen would turn black with German text (which I couldn't read so I have nothing to help out with)
The details are a bit muddled, but here it goes..A delinquent boy, who has a stuffed animal Companion Cube and an older male relative who owns a toy store, goes to school one day and sees that there is a beautiful new girl who is actually a doll from some imagination land where toys come to life and is powered by the imagination of children. She is looking for The Chosen One or something, but the boy accidentally gets chosen(which is not what the girl wanted.) and ends up in the magical world. He then has some adventures with his stuffed toy, who is alive in this world, but is sent back somehow. An evil force then takes over the magical world, and shuts down the machine that powers the childrens imagination, thus slowly killing everyone in the magical world and stealing the imagination of all the kids in our world, including the boy, turning them into dull zombies. But the boys stuffed animal persona in the other world just manages to slip into our world and snap the boy out of the trance and the save the day. I have no idea of the title, but I think it has something to do with Toyland or Imagination. It looked like it had late-90's style animation, and was a full-length movie.I saw it on tv(Cartoon Network, I believe) years ago, and can't seem to find it now.
So, there was this cartoon that I saw once or twice in the 90's, and I think it was about this guy and this girl who were in... maybe some kind of alternate dimension or different planet or something? I remember an episode where the guy gets caught by some sort of underwater people and the queen messes with his biology so he has to breathe water, and he has to wear a diving helmet full of water until they fix him. Also, towards what I think is the end, the girl gets away from one of the pig-like soldiers by saying that the device he's holding is a "Bingo Bomb" from Earth. Any thoughts?
- I remember seeing this too. The underwater breathing of this episode was due to a collar the underwater queen had made him wear. But she was not the series' Big Bad. Also, one of the good guys was a scientist; it's thanks to him that the collar could be removed at the end of the episode. The series tech level was most probably The Future.
I recall watching a show sometime in the 90s. It was a cartoon about a woman whose father/grandfather/uncle (not really sure) had recently passed away, leaving her his house and a few other things(and characters). He had been an explorer, going all around the world and finding weird stuff. Living in his mansion were a Voodoo witch doctor who had a talking shrunken head on a stick and a monkey-boy who was a 'missing link'. My vague memories of the woman indicate she was a fairly strong female lead, but came with an annoying fiance who looked at all the cool stuff she'd inherited with only an eye for the financial value of it all. It may or may not have been called "Link", but that's pretty much the worst possible title an obscure show can have for someone trying to Google it for more information.
A movie about two dogs and a staircase with the stairs numbered 1-10. The numbers went missing or something and the dogs went on a quest to find them back. I believe they pulled the staircase along in a wagon.
The hero of this series looked somewhat like Numbuh One from Codename Kids Next Door, only no glasses, and he was a street urchin who wore a too big dark (black?) suit and a tattered top hat. The premise of the show (or of only one season?) was that he and his band of friends had to locate a baby elephant's lost mother. More: the opening consisted on the aforementioned kid walking across the screen with lots of empty cans tied on a string.

Literature

Very old fantasy book I read when I was young. Sort of generic, and the title had the word "Storm" in it somewhere—like Stormwizard or something. And there was a character who had the title of Stormwizard or something similar. Anyway—plot elements. There's a guy and his little sister. Turns out they have the potential to be powerful psychics (just a type of magic in the setting). The younger sister gets kidnapped, and the guy offers himself and the bad guys release the girl. The dude ends up being the student of the hot evil women, yada yada. Another character, the son of a pyrokinetic, presently dead, needs to get his own pyrokinetic powers awakened (pyrokinesis is extremely powerful, but all the users burn themselves while using and heal immediately; the pain drives them batshit insane) so he goes to the Stormwizard (or whatever he's called). Stormwizard used to be best friends with the pyrokinetic father knows how insane that shit is, and gets pissed when the son of the pyrokinetic approaches him. He eventually comes around, the son gets pyro and terrakinetic powers. The awakening process is weird—to unlock the dudes power, he's taken into this hi tech bunker and placed in a capsule or something, and in another capsule, a mole gets immolated(symbolic, no?), and bam—pyroterrakinesis. Anyway, the ending indicates that all the powers are the result of aliens leaving their technology behind. That's all I remember. It's been bugging me for years. Any help appreciated.
A story of the fantasy genre. I found it in a locker room and only got to read about half of the first chapter. The main character had a chicken pastie and a raspberry pastie for his first lunch on the road. That's literally all I remember about it.
This was a story I read a while ago... It was written like a "report" (so for a long time I thought it was real), and it was someone piecing together the evidence that proved (IIRC) P.T. Cruisers were being used to make robots. The copy I had was really thin (but it never really "ended", so I think it was a promo or... Something), and it had a black and white cover. There was also a section with pictures in the middle, I think. ~Lora
Second one is that there's a boy and a girl, brother and sister, who runs away for some reason, and they join up with this man who has a magic hat. I remember two events in the book: 1) they convert the wagon they were riding in (it was late 1800's - early 1900's, I think) to a hot-air balloon to get money. They do this by selling everything on board, and the person who bought the thing that, with its removal, made the wagon take off won something. They sell everything, but the wagon still doesn't take off. A young girl liked the drawings in the sister's drawing pad, and she offers to pay for the pictures. The sister rips her drawing pad in half, so to have the blank paper for more drawing later. She tosses the drawings to the little girl and the wagon takes off! Now, the brother wanted to impress people or was jealous that the magic hat liked his sister, and wanted to try pulling something out of the hat. Unfortunately, what he pulls out was the ropes holding the wagon to the earth and the brother, sister, and man goes up into the sky. 2) After this event, the sister feels lonely or sad or something dark and the hat gives her a black crayon. The sister thinks it's so she can draw out her "darkness".
I remember a YA story in which a group of kids have a weird but very nice neighbor who beautifies their block with lots of flowers. Then one day they find out that he's an alien and the flowers were really receivers for a teleportation device that was going to take their entire block to an alien zoo. Of course Adults Are Useless and don't believe them, so they listen in on his conversations with his superiors and find out exactly when the teleporter will be activated, and so they secretly just before the teleporter is activated dig up all the flowers and replant them around the alien's house alone.
- It sounds like the kind of thing Bruce Coville would write, for what it's worth.
  - I read this around the same time I read a lot of Bruce Coville books, but it wasn't Bruce Coville.
- It sounds a little bit like a Bailey School Kids plot, although they never really had definitive evidence that the strange adults were really aliens/werewolves/whatever.
  - I'm fairly certain the book wasn't at all part of a series. I do know however that at the end of the book they're watching TV and suddenly the signal changes and their neighbor appears in his alien form, telling them that they were very smart but that the aliens would do it again somewhere else.
This was a children's book that I *think* may have been on Reading Rainbow (or some sort of Edutainment show, anyway... It was on the TV), and it had an African-American girl in the south, and she had a "pet" firefly (or something like that). A man "kidnaps" it, and she goes into the bayou at night to get it back.
I'm looking for a children's book from the 70s that contained the line " Marvin Moose sees something funny; Ten Toucans in the Treetops.
There's a book where there's a boy and a girl who go to a shop with a strange man in it. They buy a frictionless pan from him but it actually has no friction and keeps slipping out of their hands. It has Universe in the title, I think.
There's a boy who finds out he's a werewolf. The book has the transformation as being all person to all wolf. There's some dude who comes for the boy and tells him about his transformation. The dude is a werewolf with black fur. They head to a restaurant and even though the boy is a vegetarian, he's so hungry that he eats a burger. He's in the werewolf camp, or whatever and they give him a new set of clothes so when he morphs out of wolf form he's not naked. He lopes around with the pack in wolf form and they fall asleep in a dog pile, but when he wakes up they're all human and he notes how normal it felt being piled on top of each other as a wolf, and how awkward it feels as a human. He was shocked at how cruel the pack was to the omega. The omega was a female.
There's a little girl whose name I think was Clarisse, and she turns into a cat one day for no apparent reason. She goes on lots of adventures as a cat.
A science fiction short story. There was some sort of expedition team to what I believe was Mercury. There had been another team that had gone years before, and at some point along the way this team finds their remains (with their skeletons' faces visible through the space suit face screens). There's also a point where they're trying to cross a crevasse of some sort using their vehicle, and I think several of them die when it collapses and buries them.
I actually remember the cover of this one: it has a picture of a girl making the 'gun' motion with both hands (you know, clasping your hands together with the pointer fingers making the barrel?). The whole story is about how she's planning on killing her ex-best friend because she thinks he killed her twin brother. When she asks anyone about her brother's death (he was shot) they simply sigh and tell her it was an accident- which of course convinces her that they're covering for the friend. She takes a gun and goes to the friends house and tries to kill him. He tells her how her brother actually commited suicide while the friend was in the same room. She has a bout of Heroic BSOD and fires off the gun. A minute later the friend's aunt comes upstairs to see what the noise was, and faints when she sees the gun. Turns out the girl had missed the friend entirely, and he tells his aunt that the gun was a toy and that there isn't anything to worry about.
This is a young adult novel I read some 10-15 years back, don't know how recent it was back there. The main character is an android probe from an alien race, sent to Earth to find another android probe who has gone rogue. The main character has a box that contains the consciousness of his sister (can't remember if it was his real sister or it was just a term they used to emphasize their bond) and that can make a high-pitched sound to scare the bad guy's mooks away. The protagonist makes friends with a human girl, who shelters him in her house. In the end, the bad guy is defeated when the girl sets the self-destruct on the protagonist's ship, lures the bad guy in it, and then teleports to the bad guy's ship, leaving the bad guy to die when the protagonist's ship blows up. Oh, and the protagonist and the bad guy look almost precisely the same, since they and their ships are mass-produced, and this causes some trouble for the human girl, until she figures out a way to tell the two apart. That's all I can remember.
An anthology of "original" fairy tales, from my earlier school years. Had pictures in them. One story was about a fairy who grieved about her wings being torn off. She finds a mermaid who helps her get a new pair of wings. That's one of many stories all in one book, was probably meant for elementary schools. Similar mermaids made appearances later in. And their lower half looked more like pebbles than scales.
I'm desperately trying to remember the source of this (likely somewhat inaccurate) snippet of conversation about somebody planning an assassination:
Guy 1: "Just remember, Jack Ruby got caught." *leaves the room*
Guy 2: *muttering to himself in annoyance* "Well, of course Ruby got caught. He assassinated Oswald on national television, for God's sake.
This goes all the way back to first or second grade (1986 or 1987), so it's definitely a children's book. I'm pretty sure these were short stories, or at least chapters that didn't have much to do with each other. All the characters are Funny Animals, and the main character—I think probably the title character is a Doctor Doolittle-ish lion who solves all the other animals' problems. The one that I remember most clearly is about a Siamese cat who goes to the lion-doctor for help because his (the cat's) identical brother keeps doing bad things and setting him up so he gets in trouble for them. The doctor invents some kind of potion that makes the good brother into a reverse Siamese cat, dark with light points, so that everyone can tell them apart. It ends with the former bad brother coming to the doctor because now the good brother is so unique that everyone's paying him all kinds of special attention, and the doctor sketching a purple Siamese cat with orange points on his notepad.
A short story from Cricket magazine (IIRC). There's a girl who is considered "weird" by people. She sells weaving and stuff, and she has a cloak that is implied to turn people invisible (I think). In the end it turns out she's a werewolf of some sort. It had a second part in the next issue (or something).
Another one from Cricket magazine. There's a woodsmen guy and his wife, and they don't have any kids (I don't remember if they can't, or just don't.) The man is walking around the woods, when he finds a golden cocoon. He takes it home, and his wife puts it in a cradle by the fire. The next morning there is a baby girl in a golden wrapping with purple eyes in the cradle. She grows up, but she can't touch this plant for some reason. She ends up doing so to save her father, and turns into a butterfly. Any ideas? Even just the issue of that Magazine would be nice. X3
A story in which a professor needs to get his memory erased in order to live with the native population.
A very strange fantasy story set in a place where everything ran on the Life Energy contained in human bones, and The Undead were regular parts of society. The main character was supposed to guard a diva, but got affected by some sort of spell and kidnapped her, killed her and mutilated her body a bunch. (He kept hearing the phrase "Do you hear the bones?") Then he was hospitalized, recovered, and was hired to investigate what exactly happened to him. His coworkers included a ghost-like thing (I think it was called a wraith or something) and a zombie, and he fell in love with the zombie. He ended up getting killed and brought back as a zombie himself.
I read a fantasy novel for very young children, once. A tulip grew out of a boy's head. That's pretty much all I can remember of it.
The cover had a rider atop a horse with no front legs. This becomes a prominent character.
I remember reading a children's/young adult's sci-fi book about a team of archaeologists on an alien planet with an extinct civilization of giant bugs, and they find the remains of a human. Through time-travel shenanigans, it eventually turns out that the human remains were from another member of the team who also went back in time to do evil stuff.
- Wow. I think you're describing the same book I came here to ask about. See if any of this sounds familiar: The archaeologists are investigating the last days of an alien (humanoid?) civilization, by using belts (or wristwatches?) that let them travel in time while remaining invisible (but not immaterial) to the locals. They visit some sort of art gallery/museum, where a female archaeologist remarks on an especially impressive painting. In the climax, the peaceful society is ravaged by a horrific swarm of giant flying insects, which destroy one of the team members' invisibility/time travel devices. The bad guy you mention is killed outright by the bugs, so his device is grabbed as a replacement. Back in the desolate present, they recognize the painting in the ruins of the museum. Now, who can match this with a title?
A children's book I read a few years ago. From what I can remember, it involved two kids... I think... and a giant fig tree of some kind, and they were traveling through time trying to find three lost seeds from the tree. It was set in Australia, because I remember that they went into the past and accidentally ended up bringing along a convict girl, and I remember that they went into the future and found one of the seeds there, and it was all machinery and lasers.
A fantasy novel, set in modern Britain where a teenage boy goes on holiday to the country. The only things I can remember about it are that the boy meets the Green man who is then killed. There's a joke about how he doesn't know where eggs come from and he compares getting the magic items to computer game power ups. One of them is a spear that can pierce any shield and there are two others.
A sci-fi novel, possibly part of a series. The book was about the invasion of earth by an alien race which (I think) turned out to be either humans from an alternate history, or aliens that were remarkably similar. They had managed to create ships to travel across space (and tech to sling asteroids around), but I think that they hadn't discovered microtransistors or something like that, so their technology was all valves and steampunk and that. I remember that one of the first chapters, set in some monitoring base or military bunker in Berlin, ends with the base being suddenly obliterated by an asteroid hitting Germany (flung by the aliens, which do this to other major military bases and population centers). I think the story itself concentrated on some humans on the run.
A children's sci-fi book, about a form of cyberspace which starts to mix with real life. Bits I remember include; a bit where a character notices that their shoes in real life are filled with sand (they had been in some sort of desert/wild west area in cyberspace). The other bit is more memorable; it concerned one of the characters who maybe developed the cyberspace, who developed some sort of OS or computer system to rival Windows, and had a chip implanted into their brain - but someone in the company had implemented a trojan or virus into the chip, so he would occasionally hallucinate weird-ass stuff. One memorable sequence in the book: chip-guy is in a meeting ogling some lady or other, noticing that her fingernails are painted metallic silver - and so were her fingers, her hands, her arms... spreading all over her until she became completely metallic - and then she began to melt... For some reason, that sequence stays fresh in my mind.
A short story set in a British boarding school, I think a Catholic school, where the narrator is a boy who steals things. He steals some copybooks from a classroom just for the hell of it, and the whole class gets beaten with a slipper because he won't confess. Another boy, a bully, tries to intimidate him into confessing by saying he saw him do it, but we know he's only guessing because he gets the details wrong. Towards the end he either steals or thinks about stealing a green plastic eyeshade belonging to another boy — he talks about how beautiful he thinks it is. I think the title might have had "smile" in it — there's a theme about the main character smiling to get out of trouble or smiling to get people to leave him alone.
I've been trying to remember the title of this book I read when I was in middle school. It was a collection of short stories, but I only remember two of them, and very vaguely. The first story in the book was about this mother of two teenage girls, and she felt like she didn't understand them. The older daughter won a huge cheesecake at this arcade-like place, and the mother, in an effort to understand her daughter, tried to make friends with the cheesecake. She also locks up the television, so the older daughter gets her mother a movie-of-the-month club subscription (since the mom loves The Wizard Of Oz) to get her to bring back the TV. The other story I remember was either the last or close to last, and was about this boy whose mom was running for town council (or something like that), and her opponents put out an ad against her that used a Monopoly motif. All the stories had a kind of weird, dystopia-lite feel to them.
I'm trying to remember the title of two picture books I read sometime in the. . .second grade? Third? (So late nineties).
A group of magically inclined wild children live out in the forest. They each have special qualities(one who talks to crocodiles, one who plays with snakes, one who lives with tigers, etc.) and the main character is a little boy who rides clouds. Eventually, some lady comes and tells them; "Hey! Try this civilization stuff, it's pretty good and you get warm beds". All the kids except for the cloud rider go with her and become civilized. When they return, they find that all the snakes and crocs and tigers and things don't want anything to do with them, and - that's all I can remember. I want to say it ends with cloud-boy giving a bittersweet goodbye, but I'm not sure.
The second one I read earlier, and so is even more vague. A guy (whose name is never said. It may very well have been in the 'you walk up to here' sorts of narration) finds himself in an abandoned town. Its a large, circular stone city and it's nighttime. He walks around and realizes that he knows that place, and that he used to live there. There's a cat that appears throughout the story, usually discreetly in the background. The story ends with the guy walking up the front steps to his old house and finding himself a kid again, and his mother is making dinner. I want to say he wound up in the town due to some sort of air balloon accident, but I could be wrong. Help?
What's the title of this story, taken from the Nightmare Fuel namespace? (Hint: it's from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
(...) Like one story, which I might've messed up the details of in my mind since it's been a while, where a guy buys a cabin, sees a strange hole in the floor and seals it up. Every day he hears scratching at his door and I think the hole might've come unsealed or something. And then the story cuts to the fact that today only a burnt chimney stack is left. That just rushed back to my head now. Lovely.
A story from an anthology I remember reading from way back. The plot was similar to Monster House, but had adults instead of children in it. The vampiric house seemed to feed off of the love and care that went into maintaining other houses. In the end, a couple of adults set fire to it, and it grows wings and flaps screaming before crashing and burning to death.
A novel about a world where a virus cause people to partially merge with technology, mobile phones, computers, guitars... The main character ends up with a computer monitor for a face and a keyboard on his arm. Later it turns out the virus was manufactured by a drugs company. A think the main character was named 'pixel face' or something similar.
A man goes to the doctor because he has a creature living inside him. IIRC, it was a salamander of some sort that leapt down your throat. The only way to get rid of it was to find someone who truly didn't believe that you had a salamander inside you. Then it would leap down their throat. As it moved through the school, everyone learned of its existence, leaving this guy as the lost non-believer. So the doctor, naturally, doesn't believe him. The man is cured. The story ends with the doctor sitting (on his desk?) and trying to get used to the feeling of the salamander.
A girl lives in a boarding house with a huge bush blocking the window. There's supposedly a ghost living there who smells of honeysuckles. One day, a mysterious man comes to stay there. He was implied to be a ghost or angel. At one point, the girl follows him into the cemetery, where he plays his violin. Then he goes into a restaurant. She follows him and has some biscuits or chips shaped like stars. Then she can't find the restaurant again. There was also an author or poet or professor of some sort who would lock himself in his room. I think his name was Mr. Rosenthal.
Book with a scene where one character is captured? by opposing characters who want to know how many people live wherever the first character is from. He answers with things to the effect of "(a large number) but (most) of us are under the age of sixteen" and "(a few hundred) and we play bingo every week, the prize for the cover-all is a turkey", the captors try to get him to quit yanking them around because they don't particularly want to beat the info out of him but he shrugs because he won't just give the info up despite them giving him the chance.
A Romance-ish novel about an orphan girl who is very attractive except for her one eye points in the wrong direction. She is bought and raped by this guy and gives birth to a baby on the same night as a nearby rich woman who loses her baby. So one of the servants goes and buys the heroine's baby so that the rich husband won't find out, and hires the heroine as a wet nurse. The rich guy has some sort of attraction to her, but she also has a younger suitor who is the "safe" choice that she ends up with.
There was this children's book about a young girl who helped out an elderly man who lived somewhere in her neighbourhood, and it was implied that he was God. He had lots of TV screens and at one point she saw inside her own home and saw her dad making curry and the cat getting some of it. And he had a model of the earth with a reset button and his house got robbed and the robbers almost did reset it. Um... yeah.
I don't know for sure if this was a book. I think it was. A family of... crows? Hides in a chimney because a Peregrine Falcon chased them. The dad (I think) left every day to eat corn and store it in that special bit of anatomy to vomit later for his family...
When I was in grade school in the late 90s, we were read a book I'm convinced was titled The Gizmo. It had two boys who come across a small, strange, multipurpose device, possibly at a junkyard, which turns out to be of extraterrestrial origin. For some reason, they put it in the circuit of their crystal radio, and it gains the ability to listen in to the alien ships. Previous searches for this book turned up nothing. Searching just now I find one that would have only been a few years old at the time by Paul Jennings. However, the internet is not forthcoming about the plot, other than the protagonist steals a gadget and it actively ruins his life. Anybody more familiar with this book who can tell me if this is the one? I don't think we heard the ending.
Youth book, read in 1970s/written probably much earlier than that. Similar to Wind in the Willows in that it's an non-anthropomorphic animal world and the main character goes to jail; I think for a murder he didn't commit. He breaks out of prison and tracks down the real killer. Main character (or major supporting player) is a flying squirrel, who bemoans the fact that he's really only a "gliding" squirrel and not truly flying.
I'm trying to track down a slim volume of three illustrated short stories I remember from yesteryear... The first story was set on a planet called something like Rokell, and there was some basic plot nonsense about rescuing a missing explorer, but the main point of the story was to go on a cook's tour of a seriously weird ecosystem. Trees with wire instead of bark, flying V-shaped creatures in various colors with holes big enough for a human to hide inside, some kind of chamber inside a volcano where tentacled things sat in rows and passed strange things back and forth around a pool of lava... At the climax the volcano erupted and sent huge green glowing seeds floating down on the landscape. The second story was something about an undersea colony, with airlocks and artificial gills and so forth. The third story involved a space traveler discovering a desert planet covered in odd rock formations, then returning to a space station only to discover that a saboteur was loose. It turned out that the rock specimens he'd brought back were alive and sentient and causing havoc, as rocks so often do. I also distinctly recall a scene (illustrated I think) of his ship clinging to a bigger one using magnetic discs on the ends of long arms. As I recall, the cover of the book was mostly brown, and the illustrations had a 70s/80s limited-color heavily-inked look to them (the undersea or spaceship illustrations were entirely in shades of green and blue, the desert planet was all in yellow and brown, etc...) I have no idea who wrote it, or even if all three stories were by the same author. Possibly an Australian book.
A children's novel set in an island nation similar to Haiti or Jamaica or somewhere else in the Caribbean. The main character's were a young girl, her grandmother and her best friend/brother (one of the two). The friend goes on to become a banana-republic dictator over the island (possibly still as a kid, possibly as an adult) and has a mix of modern military dictator and medieval king imagery, living in a castle but wearing modern clothes. A magic bird may have been involved.
A young adult novel which I think involved some kind of ghostly mystery. The only thing I remember about it is a scene where a girl (I think) is playing an old recording of the song "The Old Gray Mare" and the player gets stuck on the "many long years ago..." part of the song, and those lyrics keep repeating over and over.
Takes place on Halloween, deals with magic, something about a magical marble or glass globe? The protagonist calls upon the power of Morgan Le Fay at one point and transforms into her? Some line about how she takes off her Halloween costume and feels the heat beneath it escaping into the cold night.
A couple of kids go forward in time from an ice-cream shop - everyone's bald and they have to wear bald caps to hide their hair. One of the antagonists is named "Mac Maxta"
Young adult novel where two young girls find out they have psychic dreams, albeit ones that generally rely on some sort of visual pun rather than directly showing what will happen. In one of the dreams, a classmate is seen boarding a plane with a plate full of jello, then the plane crashes. As it turns out, the girl in question was in a plane crash on the way to playing a concert with her cello. Later one of the girls is trying to find out what happened to her father, and dreams about him riding a flying metal disc around a futuristic race course. It turns out he's become a radio disc jockey. When one of the girls first discovers the power, there's a gag where someone tells her she's psychic and she gets offended, confusing it with psycho.
- I, too, have read this book, and the lone detail I can recall is that the shared dreams happened every nine nights.
A fairy-tale type story, quasi Thurber, about a princess forced to perform three quests by a villain who is holding the prince captive. The villain has a groveling assistant named Grovel, to whom he tells about the dangers he didn't tell the princess about, dangers which actually prove to be harmless (the snakes are both small and nonvenomous).
A really frigging weird novel about a detective-slash-do-anything-guy in the far flung future. The first half of the book is him trying to find a missing businessman, which is mostly an excuse to wander around the bizarre, Crapsack World future. The second half is him hiding the businessman in a bizarre, MindScrewy place where the Somethings exist, which show you aspects of your own mind and insecurities. There were a lot of weird little details I remember from it - every town was an explicit Planet Of Hats, including Sound, where nobody was allowed to utter a word (the protagonist catches a train with a young couple going home to have "passionate, silent sex"), a city populated by cats (where the protagonist's cat comes from), and others I can't remember; walls could change appearance and talk (and were usually very childish, the protagonist tells his apartment to behave itself when he leaves it); all businessmen and women had sleep surgically removed (including the protagonist's love interest); and the scariest thing in the whole book was a manifestation of the protagonist's... something... as a knight on a horse made of meat. Now, if I could only remember the protagonist's name, I could Google it, but all I have are you guys.
A young adult Sci-Fi novel, sold in England. Set in a Knight Templar dystopia, a city sealed of from the apparently devastated earth by a dome structure. The immortal residents are forced to wear outfits that make then look like the robot from Metropolis, dreams and memories of the outside world are banned. The main characters are a pair of twin sisters with a telepathic bond, one is to be executed for thought-crime. They escape and find that the outside world is fine after all. The villain is one of the twins mentor, who starts of as a father figure until he decides that Utopia Justifies The Means.
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's "Useful Idiots", by Jan Mark.
  - Sounds similar, but no cigar.
- Sounds close, but no cigar. This was a lot less specific about the whys and hows of how the world had gotten to that state. I also now remember that 'execution' process involved being taken to a bizarre mock-up of a farm, stripped of the suit and left to die on the surface.
A kids' fantasy novel titled "Dream______" (one word, I think) that reminded me of the TV series The Dreamstone. The main character was a boy who may have been named Rufus (that being the name of the main character from Dreamstone but I think it was a similarity between the stories). In the beginning of the story his cousin/friend/female-relation-of-some-sort was kidnapped by evil nightmare creatures, so he went off to rescue her; that was the main plot. Ended up on board a flying ship - I think all the crew were animals and one of them was definitely a pig. Towards the end we learned that the nightmare creatures used to be good dreams but were corrupted by the villain. That's all I can remember about the plot. I read it in about 2000 but I think it was fairly old at the time. It was illustrated and I'm pretty sure the flying ship was on the cover.
Fantasy, probably aimed at the YA or child set, but I can't remember. I do remember that I read it in middle school, though. The main character was a human boy raised by badgers. At some point, he has to set out, and... do that thing fantasy heroes have to do, accompanied by his badger-family. It involved collecting Plot Coupons. He met a girl, too. It was ostensibly set in the "real world," but there were elves hiding underground. At the end, there's an "author's note" where the author recounts "hearing" the story from an old man he met on a hiking trip or something, who was heavily implied to be the boy. Otherwise, all I remember.
Another YA book, but this one not a fantasy. A girl is always moving from place to place with her older mother. She has standard coming-of-age experiences. One I remember is where she spends all night making out with a boy, and gets bruises all over her neck; instead of being worried, her mother finds it funny and tells her how to hide them. Near the end of the book, she discovered that her mother wasn't her real mother, but actually a former nurse who kidnapped a baby from a hospital because Her Biological Clock Was Ticking and then went on the run with the kidnapped baby.
A book in which a boy goes through some sort of portal and ends up in a world with giant ants. He meets a girl with purple hair from a futuristic world who has a nifty forcefield-generating energy belt, who is looking for her brother. I think they meet up with a third character as well. Near the end he asks for a lock of her hair to remember her by, since he doesn't know anybody else with purple hair.
YA novel, about a small village where werewolves kept appearing (and I think killing livestock or something). The main character felt a strange sort of kinship to the wolves. At the end of the book there's a beautiful white wolf that gets shot, and it shapeshifts into her mother when it dies.
This was a paperback fantasy book I checked out of the library about...ten years ago, I think. It begins with a young man who's been hospitalized by some injury, and he's also the prime suspect in a murder. The thing that put him in the hospital is the same event when the murder took place. He can't remember whether he did it or not, and I think he had inherited some money from his rich father who had recently died. He ends up getting transported to this fantasy land, but I can't remember much about the book beyoond that. I don't think I ever finished it. There might have been another plot about a girl who was from the fantasy land and who was training to be a priestess (maybe?), or I may be just getting two different books confused.
In my middle school they had this trilogy where these two sibling, guy and girl, has to save their town by getting a silver M being in the possession of a woman who also happens to be legion. After getting it, they awake the legion army and race back home to put the M in the belltower so that they can prevent the destruction of their town. This is book one, then book two starts with town getting destroyed and the survivors having to migrate. Then, after a number of things like hallucinations and killer mosquitos, they find this other city. Not sure what exactly happens, but then the guy protagonist is told he is special and has to train to beat the legion chick once and for all. There's also a bit where the guy is so lost and out there he sits there pondering the texture of an egg.
- the first part sounds a lot like the windsinger trilogy... not too sure about the rest of it though.
Book I read in late Elementary School. It begins with a girl who is in a school play playing the part of a tree, when all of a sudden time stops and a fairy comes up to her and gives her a watch. The watch turns out to be a portal to some sort of fairy world, and has a picture of that fairy world on its face. When the girl touches the surface of the watch, she falls into the fairy world. The numbers on the watch appear to be floating around the landscape for a while, but they disapear. The girl finds out she is supposed to catch fairies, by trapping them and saying "We are one." She finds a fairy in a flower, who turns her into a bumble bee. Another fairy tries to catch her for her bumble bee fur, but accidentally turns her back into a human. This fairy had a blue triangle on her neck, which was supposed to indicate that she was a counter fairy, a rare type of fairy that could undo other fairies' spells. The girl ends up sitting on her when she turns into a human, says "We are one" and the fairy is stuck going on adventures with the girl for the rest of the book, even though she initially doesn't want to. The girl ends up meeting other human "fairy finders," with whom she goes on adventures, defeats a big bad, and gains a pet salamander. It is implied by the ending that there would be a sequel or a series.
I had some kids' books about some group of baby dinosaurs who I swear were in pants or diapers or something, and there was one where they were making fun of an archaeopteryx who ended up flying and saving them later or something.
A picture book where a little kid got switched with a baby aardvark at the zoo because his grandparents had really, really bad eyesight. I just want to know the title.
This is from the late eighties/early nineties, what I can remember is that a woman from a future where everyone has mental powers sends the soul of her son back to the present to hide him from some evil dude. For some reason (that I can only assume is made clear in the book, and I have forgotten) she dumps him in the mind of an autistic teenage girl, and he teaches her to use her own mental powers which were causing her autism and she teaches him to enjoy coffee. if this rings a bell I would be deeply grateful for the name of the book and/or author.
Somebody is compelled to enter a strange portal and ends up in a world filled with giant ants. He meets a couple of companions, one of whom is a woman with scifi energy shielding and bright purple hair looking for her brother. Anybody know the name or author?
A YA science fiction novel that must have come out in the mid-90's about two guys, one of which is the narrator, the other is his friend who is a computer genius named Aaron Zinger. The plot involves Aaron discovering a way of using his computer to time travel. I also recall that his screenname was A 2 Z.

Anime and Manga

I'm just curious, but in this image (at the far right) Maylu/Mayl mentions Miyuki Chan In Wonderland but does the image come from that show or another one, oh by the way the one to it's left is a close up of this scene (middle picture in first trio set from bottom of page) in Mega Man NT Warrior where Mega Man.EXE and Roll.EXE have to jump down a giant hole.
So, the premise of this one anime is about cooking. I think it's shounen, but I can't tell - anyway, I only know in this one episode this one guy challenges the protagonist (boy) to a fight involving cooking. Apparently, he puts a star on his wrist for every chef he's beaten...anyway, the challenge is to make something with three types of eggs...and eventually they all try to figure out what kind of eggs were in there...and something about rice wrapping. And I think the boy won. Oh, and this might be Korean, but I'm very sure it's Japanese.
I had a VHS tape my grandma recorded from the 80's; among other things it had the first Unico movie and The World Of David The Gnome on it. But it also had a commercial for what I recall as an anime version of The Snow Queen. I looked up various adpatations but can't find the one I remember.
A show that was shown on fox kids around 2000-2003 in the UK. Someone's house got shrunk, and they flew around in space.
A show that either I saw an article on or was All Just A Dream. The main protagonist used a big orange Mecha, probably Eva-like. He has a big Limit Break, (I think that's the right trope) which somehow steadily ate from the souls of his cyborg friends (Who don't use the Mecha when this happens) with each successive use.
- That's definitely a show, my SO says it sounds familiar to him too, but he can't recall what it was. If he remembers I'll let you know.
An old-ish anime. A guy, possibly inhuman, yells "You're DEAAD! You're dead MEEEAAAAT!"
Some anime, possible Western Animation, all I remember about it is that one scene consisted of a man with brown spiky hair a lot like Higsby running back and fourth across the screen, one arm sticking out at the same angle as a Nazi salute, but with a fist, and the man was yelling "Action go! Action go!" in some fancy way. I'm starting to become more convinced that this was from Mega Man NT Warrior
I saw this anime in the mid-nineties, but it's probably older than that. I watched an Arabic dub so I don't know the original character names. I remember a beautiful blonde woman (named "Rim"), a brown haired woman (named "Nawal") and a pig-tailed girl who wore a brown sailor fuku. There was one scene were "Nawal" cried and collapsed next to a carousel at night.
I think this is anime, but it could be Western Animation. A boy and his father end up in what seems like a somewhat-African area with lots of (stereotypical) tribes, and they get separated. The boy meets a girl around his age, and the girl had been in the area long enough to forget everything about where she came from (she's quite obviously not a native to the area). Later, the boy and his father are reunited, and there's something about a mad dictator-wannabe with a nuclear device. The nuke explodes (with the dictator locked in the room with it), and the boy, his father, and the girl are sent to somewhere with dinosaurs. Occasionally there will be random characters or background bits sketched in, Art Shift style. This was at least a decade ago, possibly more.
When I was a kid I saw two anime's on video-tapes from rental office:
- One was obviously not Galaxy Expres 999, but it also was about train traveling in the space, and has a number 777. This train was protected by Super Robot, called the same name like the show - I don't know it's original name, only polish - "Sokół 7" wich would mean "Falcon 7" in english, but I'm not sure it was correct name. This robot has 3 patrs, that were starting from first, last and middle carriages, and conductor was looking like skinny guy from Yatterman villains trio. There was also little boy with his mo, as two passagers, that has more screentime than any else passenger.
- In second anime there was three of heroes fighting aliens with the help of Super Robot called, as I recall, Omega. I remember that their tem pet was a robot, that in in one episode (first on the tape) said that gou in trenchcoat who is alone on the empty field may be an alien spy. One o the trio's members was a girl, and her mother was somebody important in the staff responsible for their robot. In one of the episodes in was revealed that she was an alien spy who put some device in robot's head and survived jump from it. Girl's real mother was kidnapped by aliens, ad was killed in some kind of explosion in space, or something like that. Also, in another episode one of heroe's (The Lancer type-guy) meet his old friend from army, who stolen his gun.
As a kid I saw this obscure 70's or 80's anime where aliens crash near the main character's home. I think the alien princess knew her father was impersonated by the villain and the villain had a cyborg henchman in a trenchcoat and fedora and an Iron Man-esque mask who was either not such a bad guy or did a Heel Face Turn.
Space superhero team. Early 1970s or earlier. The main antagonist was an evil conquering alien race named the Falta (or maybe that was the name of the planet). In one episode, the Falta send a Worthy Opponent called the Falcon of Falta, who dies and is buried on a tropical island by the protagonist team. Caveat: that showed in Brazil, so in your country the alien race could have a completely different name.
This troper remembers watching an anime in the 2nd or 3rd Grade about some humans about to cut down trees (For money I'm guessing.). But in the forest were several animals and two fairys I believe. It was for Earth Day. It looked like it was from the 70s-90s, and it was a movie. It kind of resembled Animal Crossing.

Webcomics

What if Oz was real? The dead body of Scraps is found so some organization sends a group into a portal thing above Gale household. Do any of you know what webcomic that is/was? I can't remember thus cannot refind it.
It was about anthropomorphic emotions. I remember love was drawn as a heart (of course) and hormones (spelled "hormoans") was a weird little bug like thing with huge eyes. I read it years ago so I'm a little fuzzy on the details.
- Oh, god, I'm almost sure I know the one you're talking about, but I can't remember the name, either. Did it have Hunter S. Thompson as a guest star at least once?
It was a manga-ish style webcomic about magical girls who controlled the elements, but all the characters had Turkish names because the artist was from there.
A slice-of-life comic hosted on Deviant Art, with very clean and professional-looking artwork, about a four-year-old girl in the 1950s. There weren't many strips and most of them were just sweet anecdotes without a real punchline. I remember one involved her doing laundry with her mother, and maybe there was one about playing in the rain.
A Mega Man Battle Network Sprite Comic where the first game is portrayed with a Cyberpunk bent. The author appears as Sean (the Big Bad of the second game) and makes a big to-do about the comic being made in Adobe Fireworks. The title may be a Shout Out to Snow Crash or some other cyberpunk literature.
- If it is about Maylu, then the comic is called Sakurai Diaries, if it is not about her then I don't know
  - No, not Sakurai Diaries - this one isn't even a Bob And George side-comic. And we don't call her Maylu. (Interestingly enough, both Sakurai Diaries and the comic I'm looking for use the Japanese names, though the target used Higsby as Higure's surname.)
A comic I went to the webpage to, but never found time to read. It had a tagline like "Where people find love", and had two girls commenting on it, with one saying "But there's only one guy. Who's going to find love?", and the other saying "Uhm...", implying it was a Girls Love comic.
Two girls are attacked by a demon, claiming one of the girls is an angel destined to save the world. The other girl throws herself in front of her friend. The girl supposedly an angel exchanges her life to save her friend. The friend wakes up with no memory of the other girl, but then a girl who looks like the other girl appears at school.
- Is is Misfile?
  - No, because the comic I found was well before that started.
A bizarre Feghoot comic about a sci-fi would where a facility grows Artificial Humans to produce some sort of liquid sustinece. It was narrated by one of these creatures, and the final scene had him escaping by crashing through a wall and revealing that he looks like the Kool-Aid Man.
I'm looking for a specific comic, I think I was linked to it from here. It was a "No items, Fox only, Final Destination" joke, with the punchline being about sex (as you do). I think it was stick-figure style, but as far as I can tell it's not from XKCD.
The premise of this comment is stuck in my mind: "HE'S a cantaloupe! SHE'S a rabbit with a heart of gold! Together — they fight crime!" Though it's possible it was the cantaloupe with a heart of gold. IIRC, it was called "Bunny and Cantaloupe", but Google is failing me on this.
I'm looking for a rather obscure webcomic here. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I'll try my best. The comic revolves around these two fox furries, brother and sister, both of whom are descended from a Goddess of some sort. Both of them also have a fair number of tails (the actual number eludes me). The two steal a magic ship that uses super-colourful roses as its power source in order to get enough power to travel to heaven. And yes, I'm perfectly aware of how weird that sounds.
I'm trying to remember an old, old, old Sprite Comic, from back in the Bob And George days when they were all the rage. I can't remember much, but I do remember it mixed Mega Man sprites with sprites from the Sonic games, and that the main characters were called Blitz and Krieg. That's as far as I remember, and I've found nothing in repeated searches.
I remember this photo comic made with Lego photographs and Photoshop that used the setting and characters from Star Wars, but the plot diverged wildly and got very weird. I remember one part on Endor where the Imperials had ships that turned into bridges or something, and later there was a Rebel (?) named Jesus. It wasn't Irregular Webcomic.
- Legostar galactica maybe ? [1]
  - Nope. This one had the Star Wars characters as the main cast. If it helps, it started with Luke on the Second Death Star.
A webcomic, in strip format, about a lesbian librarian. It used a lot of clip art, and I think it was on Livejournal.

Web Original

I remember this really cute flash animation about a girl (or maybe it was a bunny?) on a train. The text was in Japanese, and the entire thing turned out to be a story about how the girl committed suicide and ended up on the train to Hell, and all the other cute things were just small glimpses of Heaven. Yes, it was sort of a Grotesque Cute thing, from what I remember.
It was technically not entirely a comic - it was text with pictures. A guy with brain cancer keeps dreaming about a different London. Then he drowns or hits his head and wakes up in the other London, which is full of monsters, and there's a lot of stuff about how his mobile phone doesn't work right. He gets rescued by this woman with some kind of power (possibly something to do with growing spikes from assorted limbs) and her partner and there's some kind of anti-monster extremist army. When I stopped reading it, they'd just holed up in an abandoned church, and I think there was something going on about controlling giant machines based on the zodiac, but that could be faulty imagination.
A book where there was a spaceship and a teenager or child who was awake but wasn't supposed to be and a large population of people in suspended animation.

Live Action TV

I can't remember much about this, but I remember it ran sometime in the late 90's to at least early 2000's. The main character was this spunky, blue haired girl. The show would start (or end) with her talking to the viewer on a couch. She had two friends, who lived on a farm. One had red hair, the other I can't remember, but I know existed. I don't remember the channel, but I think it might have run in the early morning, when it was still dark out.
This might have been a show or a movie aired on TV. There was a female character named Max who had been brainwashed, and flicking a cigarette lighter in her face activated/deactivated her sleeper personality. At some point, her male friend/boyfriend figures this out. I'm reasonably certain I saw this in the early-mid 90s.
This show that aired on nickolodian, stories were two parters and one which I recall was about a family whose mother dissapeared and it turned out the mother was a mermaid or some other sea creature?
A Halloween special I seem to remember. It was heavily tied to halloween candies promotionally. I'm fairly certain it involved alien robots and a run-down old water mill that kids try to restart by skipping stones and one of the aliens eventually restarts. It was pretty heavily marketed at the time as well, I believe. It may have been a local thing, so it would've been in New York State.
I remember seeing this sci-fi series as a small kid, so it must be from the 80s. The show featured a young boy who had adventures in space. The only thing I remember clearly is the title sequence, which showed how he had ended up in space: someone or something dislodged his room (but nothing else) from his parents' house, and the room was floating in space. So when he opened the door to his room, all he could see was stars! The series also had a cyborg bad guy who was bald and had a scary, glowing cyborg eye. The show was most likely British or American.
I remember a live-action Canadian (I think) Children's show that aired during the morning block on YTV during the early to mid-90s. It involved a bunch of puppet creatures who lived in a forest and had adventures, I think. There was also a metal puppet who looked somewhat like the tin man from the Wizard of Oz. I can only remember one episode, in which the characters were all preparing for a hail storm, and at the end of the episode, the hail storm came and they all ran off into hiding. For some reason that's stuck with me ever since, and I can't remember what the hell the show was.
This was kind of a variety show from what I remember, it was a Children's show that either aired on CTV or CBC in Canada in the mornings. As far as I know, it followed a group of children as they went around the downtown of their town and went to a bunch of different buildings (well, different sets) and did a bunch of different activities/ sang a bunch of songs. I remember that the last place they always went to was the ice cream parlour and everyone who was in that episode met back up again and sang a final song.
An ad for a show. A narrator said something about a fallen angel, and the corresponding scene showed a winged woman landong on a car, with unspread wings, eyes wide open and no injuries whatsoever.
This show has to be from the early to mid 1980s. I swear it was on Nickelodeon. All I can remember is these children (possibly young teens) being abducted by aliens and held prisoner. They break out with the help of different aliens on the ship and use the ship to get back to earth. The final shot - that has preyed on my mind for decades - is of them looking at earth from the control room and talking about how they don't know how long they've been gone because of relativity.
A British series where the protagonist was a young man who went to school. There may have been an evil teacher with powers. Strange things were happening in his town. One of those was that there was a cave that seemingly allowed passage through time - another boy from King Arthur's time came through there and eventually decided to go back. I think it may have ended without resolving what happened to him.
One episode of some show. Can't remembered when it aired. One recurring thing in this episode is that a blond woman dreams of chasing someone. The music is building up to something, then the woman wakes up, and the music just stops. no slowing down, no Record Needle Scratch, the music just goes to an abrupt halt. This happens multiple times with the same dream throughout the episode.
A show that was puppet (maybe). It had one of the puppets/characters getting a magic eraser that could erase anything in the puppet (maybe)'s land. He erased one of his friends, and that... That is all I remember.
- There's a very early episode of Sesame Street in which Ernie erases the Cookie Monster. Could that be what you're thinking of? Summary here: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0008
  - That isn't it... It wasn't Sesame Street, it was a lot darker, both in reality and mentally. Thank you for trying, though!
A show about a TV show host who lived with a bunch of living puppets, who he naturally also uses as sidekicks in his show-within-a-show. So, basically the same basic premise as Scorch, but that's not what it was. One of the puppets didn't have arms, which was a plot point in the one episode I saw: A network executive comes to the main character and insists he get rid of "the one with the arms". The armless puppet, who was something of a Jerk Ass, initially was pleased upon overhearing this because he thought the executive meant to get rid of everyone else - the rest of the cast had to explain to him that "the one with the arms" probably meant "the one without the arms". I think in the end, the host convinced the network to keep the armless puppet in the show by claiming he was a role model for handicapped people.
- Greg The Bunny, maybe? Were the puppets supposed to be for a children's show? Was there a "Count Blah" who the execs tried to make urban by making him "Count A'ight"?
  - I'm pretty sure it wasn't that: The puppets were supposed to be a children's show I think, but on the other hand, I remember it being a bit older than that show, it was a plot point that no one was supposed to know the puppets were alive, and the puppets were all fairly humanoid.
This was a scene that switched between an opera-like show and some woman. In the opera, there was a woman who stabbed a kid. Then and there, it cut to the random woman, who was now screaming with bloody hands. Cut back to the opera, and the actress has red ribbons for blood effects on her hands.
There was a historical edutainment series (or maybe a one-off TV movie) shown on the Disney Channel in the late Eighties about a modern-day teenager who keeps going backwards and forwards in time. Only two parts stand out in my memory today: in one segment, set in 1900 or so, he drives around in a automobile that has a tiller instead of a steering wheel. In another, set in the early-to-mid 1800s, he rides on a primitive locomotive, then gets off somewhere, and somebody comments that he must be a blacksmith because his face and clothes are covered in soot.
It was a disturbing British crime show with flashbacks to WW 2, where a group of soldiers who found a German soldier, castrated him and left him to bleed to death were being killed off in the 90s/00s because of secrets they had. That's all I can remember.
Tokusatsu show: Aired in the 1970s in Latino America in Spanish. Title was (I think) "Esper" but that may have been made up for the dub. It's about a little boy who acts as a superhero with a spacesuit that flies to him when called. He battles evil invaders, unaware that his own parents are aliens themselves (but good ones.) One episode had a creature brought from Jupiter to fill Earth's atmosphere with some explosive gas. Anybody know the Japanese title?
Really obscure one, I am afraid. A live action science-fiction show, British, had two episodes. Was really more educational than plot-driven. A bunch of scientists were doing genetic research in the future on a space station or spaceship. A journalist somehow got on board and tried to convince them what they were doing was wrong and immoral. The show really just consisted of these folks arguing with each other. They had a computer that could make simulations of people from the past, like Galileo or T.H.Huxley, who joined in the debates. In the end the computer takes over the whole station, and the camera pulled back to show the space station was deserted, and kept pulling back until we could see the TV studio, which was also deserted. This would have been about 1980.
- Not familiar with it, but the story, region, and time period makes it sound like something Dennis Potter would have written.
A sketch comedy show, in English, but I don't remember which English-speaking country it is from. There were a series of sketches about Kermit the Frog, in which a girl would ask Kermit why he never stands up, and then she would try to pull up the Kermit puppet, and something funny would happen. One time she pulled the puppet off the puppeteer's arm, and the bare arm kept on talking and complaining that she had stolen his clothes. Another time she forced the puppeteer to stand up, and he was dressed like a giant Kermit. This would have been from the 70's, maybe the early 80's.
It might be the same show as the one with the Kermit puppet immediately above, but I remember a long complicated sketch about a Rugby team that only had six players because they thought 13 was unlucky, so they kept losing, but then they get some "bionic pills" but these turn out in the end to be vet pills for a dog. This one and the one with Kermit would have just been obscure, interchangeable sketch comedy shows, maybe the same show, I think.
A show about a family of immigrants to the U.S. In one episode they for some reason had to pass themselves off as a typical American family for a TV program that came to their house. The son had to pretend he was an astronaut. The mom by mistake put the dishes in the clothes washer. 70s or early 80s.
A show about an American family. A teenaged son liked to read the backs of cereal boxes. A teenaged girl kept saying "I don't get it". Some character (maybe the same teenaged girl) gave people speeches that began "look at your lives". Maybe this was a failed pilot? 70s or early 80s.
- I think I've seen that, too, but I can't remember the name, either. x.x;
I'm not sure if this was even a real program, but I remember one part of it. It was a non-English language, (I'm pretty sure) and it included a boy who was trying to hide from... someone, in some sort of warehouse or factory. Then he hid in a box, and the box was shipped off to the house of a little girl, who had been expecting some sort of expensive/elaborate toy. And he had to pretend to be a toy and have tea parties with her, and when he asked if he could run away, she got annoyed. Weirdly, I'm not sure if I really saw this or if it was All Just A Dream.
- You must have seen a French movie which got remade into an American film called The Toy, which starred Richard Pryor.
  - The Toy was based on a French film called Le Jouet. I suggest this is the film being sought.
  - (Not the OP) I haven't seen either version, so I can't be sure... but it doesn't sound right. From the summaries I've seen of each, Le Jouet is actually fairly close to the American version in overall plot outline, and would thus lack a little girl, and have a rather different story of how the lead character became a toy.
OK, an American TV show but I remember it from channel five's childrens programming in Britain in the late nineties (the programme may be older than that though). Aired on Sunday morning it was about a young man named Jessie who was in different time periods (like one episode in ancient Rome, the next in 1950 America) but he wasn't a time traveler. The show had a vaugely moralistic/Christian subtext, Jessie would say things like "Throughout my travels I have seen what pride does to people". I remember loving it and I would love to find out what it was called since I cannot for the life of me remember. Thanks.
- This is a long shot, but could it be Pappy Drew It?
  - No, thanks for trying.
I remember watching this as a kid, possibly on Nickelodeon. A children's TV show with this cute mascot character who was a snake named Jake and they were trying to feed him something. Worms, maybe? It may or may not be from a separate show, but I also remember this puppet character named Zoe who talked like she had a cold.
I remember a sitcom when I was little. All I remember about it was there was a family (maybe just a man and his wife), and whenever the man had a problem, he went into an area of trees in his back yard and got advice from various talking animals. I distinctly remember an alligator.*I remember it too, there were number of animals and in one episode his parot is the only other witness to a crime. He puts the parot cage under a sheet and has it testify in court. It isn't until the other lawer objects that the judge makes him take the sheet off the cage in a "dramatic reveal" as if a parot cage under a sheet could possibly look like a person. I just can't think of any thing that I could actually put in a search.
This was a PSA, possibly an EU one, and it was these two teenagers at a party, a guy and a girl and there's another guy looking at them from across the room. He walks up to them and it looks like he's going to dance with the girl, but dances with the guy instead.
- It probably is from the EU. No way in hell they would let that PSA run in America.
This was a Made for TV movie, and it concerned ghosts and an Unfinished Business / Due To The Dead plot. With a dash of Revenge thrown in I think. Two Starcrossed Lovers (at least I think they were) got in some sort of trouble. It was the 50's, the guy was a James Dean type with a leather jacket and the works, the girl was like Sandy from Grease, pre-Vamp makeover. Somehow or other someone wanted them (or maybe it was just the guy) dead, so they were both Buried Alive in an old empty gas tank beneath a gas station, and their car was also buried nearby in the soil. Cut to the future, where the ghosts are trying to find peace and rest by having their bodies dug up and given a proper burial. The way they are found is through a song which the car radio somehow was still playing, or something like that. The song was "their song" and it was Earth Angel. Ringing any bells? I also think the ghosts wanted revenge on the person who killed them, or perhaps their descendant, but I could be wrong about that part.
I remember this one show. It was a game show with I think Carmen Sandiego was in it. Before you go with the obvious, here is the kicker: The Carmen Sandiego look-a-like is in space, and hires aliens to... I don't know, rig the quiz. Usually something Bad happens and one of the contestents is sent... somewhere. The alien has something to do with it and the contestant's team mates have to rescue him. I could just be remembering a combonation of memories of the Carmen Sandiego game and Power Rangers In Space, but hey, I could be right...

Film

I remember seeing this on UK TV, probably sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. I saw it on at least two seperate occasions, but only ever saw part of it. The film was post-apocalyptic - not sure what the apocalypse was - and contained elements of both live action and animation. I think the animation took up more time than the live action, as well. The live action segments mostly followed one particular survivor in the ruins of an old factory of some kind; at one point he has a companion, but the companion is killed in a skirmish with other survivors, and he grieves for the loss of his friend. The animated segments were following a young girl and her Aloof Big Brother as they lived underground, and every now and then the girl would come to the surface and see the survivors, at which point she was portrayed by a live action actress. I never really followed the plot, so I only have these impressions to go on.
It's a movie where a girl is born as a "crack baby" (I think they used that term) because her mother was on drugs. She seems to have strange powers; I can only remember the scene when the girl is at school, holding a dead pigeon and rocking back and forth. The pigeon came back to life. This movie might be from the nineties or even eighties, not sure.
A movie set in a video store where it turns out one of the videos has subliminal mind control messages that make people act like zombies. At one point the main characters uncover a 50's b-movie with a similar plot (I think rather than vcr's the film-within-a-film used some sort of deliberately zeerusty funky looking portable projector). I don't remember much else other than that I saw it on TV once, and it looked pretty low-budget.
A biker movie from the late '60s-early '70s. What I remember is a scene about halfway through where the lead s go to see an ex-member of their gang, who's now an actor in Hollywood. They meet a producer, who wants them to be consultants or something on a biker movie. They think it sounds stupid, and leave. I particularly remember (I saw this in my teens on TV) that they also meet a young actress, who's suppose to be a sex symbol. She keeps looking over at one of the biker girls, who has VERY large breasts, and then down at her own chest. the biker chick later comments about how flat-chested the actress was.
Just remembered another random Horror film I saw an ad for when it was playing on my TV. It was a film where, to my memory, a man was brought in to watch a teen and a young boy, and he turned out to be a vampire or monster or psychopath. I distinctly remember one scene where a black shape that I think was supposed to be him descended from the ceiling of the apartment they were in. It was called something like The Sitter or The Babysitter, but none of the films I can find that have similar titles and were released before the early-mid 90s or so match up.
Another barely-remembered film from my childhood. It involved a weird alien — it was sort of an ugly "mound" from what I remember — and I'm fairly certain it was referred to as "Scuzzbucket" or similar at least once.
- Did it involve aliens coming out of a satellite TV and eating people? I swear thats the movie you're thinking of, but I can't remember the name either.
  - The movie with aliens coming out of the satellite TV is Terrorvision..
  - Then that's definitely not what I, the OP, was thinking of. My parents weren't terribly restrictive, but I doubt it would be something as blatantly non-kid-friendly as that sounds (including R rating)
  - I seem to remember the alien in question being pretty friendly — it just looked like a mound of decaying garbage — but I can't remember the film well enough to be sure, let alone if it had other aliens or what they were like.
- Was it possibly Fuzzbucket? Seen here? If not, thanks for jogging my memory of it! =P
  - Not unless my memory is waaaay off. The creature was less of a cute furry thing, and more an ugly mound of decaying vegetation or the like (all black and furzledy and such), possibly with a trunk or tentacle.
I vaguely recall watching an action movie on cable in 1993 or so about a group of people in the desert who were terrorized by an evil police officer in a souped-up car who was supposed to be the Grim Reaper or something. He was referred to as something along the line of 'The Deathrider', and while they're trying to escape from him, some kid comments that he killed his parents. At one point, a guy who is supposed to be Satan appears, looking vaguely like Michael Landon, and one point he talks to the main character and points to something in the distance with the metal horns gesture.
This may or may not have been a television show released on video, I don't recall. I think it might have been a movie. It was a horror film/show. The only part I remember is a girl in her bed, and vines crawl up around her and claw-like things come out from behind her and cage her while she's still in bed. Her parents hear her screaming from downstairs, drop some pots and pans, and run upstairs. They try to get the door open but they can't. That's all I remember. I've been told it could possibly be an episode of Goosebumps, but I haven't been able to confirm this. I think it was made in the early-mid 90's.
There is this Russian film I saw recently. It was not very old, probably made after 1992. The protagonist is a prisoner that ran away from a prison in Siberia (I think he probably is a political prisoner running of a soviet Gulag). He wanders in the woods, is winter, things look really bad. Suddenly he finds a man staring to him: it is an old man, a Mongol tribal shaman. The shaman helps him out, even though he doesn't even speak Russian, and shares his food. They travel together for weeks or even months, the shaman teaching him survivalism in the tundra, hunting game, tayloring their skin and so on. He also teaches him in the shamanic ways, as the Russian learns a little bit of Mongolian. One cold night, the old shaman dies. The Russian bury him and continue his trip. He finds a great lake (Baikal? Balkach? Aral?) with stranded ships in the ice. In one of the ships there is a man, an old Russian mechanic. The guy tries to speak with him, but he soon finds out that he is totally crazy, alone in that ship. He continues his trip, and after great suffering, he finally reaches a village. He sees cars, icecats, trucks. Russian and Mongols in Western clothing stares at him, as he has a long beard and is clad on fur, with weird shamanic necklaces. It seems he thinks it twice, he don't belong anymore. He gives a turn, and walk back to the tundra. It was an AWESOME picture and, of course, quite better than it sounds. Any help will be appreciated. Oh, it's NOT Dersu Uzala, though it seems it borrows concepts from it.
A barely remembered opening scene: Under a red sky, a man in a white robe and a man in a black robe sit on opposite sides of a third character caked with mud, whom they address as mother. The man in the black robe urges her to awaken now, while the man in the white robe advises her to be patient and wait for the sun to rise. Cut to a scene elsewhere of a man and a woman having a conversation; I think they were on a cruise ship.
An ABC Family Christmas movie, early 2000s. There was a guy that was sort of a Man Child sent to live with a normal family (the mom might have been pregnant or the family had a really young child. It involved babies somehow) for some reason around the holidays... which is vague. One scene in particular involved the Christmas tree being put on the top of their car, the tree sliding off and injuring the guy in some way. Possibly amnesia.
Okay, another weird barely-remembered thing I saw on TV one day. It was a high school thing where the lead character had become a zombie or some such beastie. At one point, he attacked and ate part of what I think was a school bully, leading to an exchange along the lines of:
"You ate him?!"
"Only a little."
- I think this was from a different movie, but it might've been the same one. Another high school monster thing, this time with the character having an older vampire mentor who was apparently killed with a silver bullet... then turned up alive at the end, reminding the lead character that silver bullets kill werewolves, not vampires.
I remember seeing this film sometime in the early 90s or late 80s. It was an American movie about a crime novelist, who suddenly realizes he has a magic typewriter: whatever he writes with it comes true! Unfortunately, this means one of the villains of his books has come to life, and he steals the magic typewriter. Using the typewriter the villain does all sort of nasty things to the writer: first he turns him into a woman, and then makes him speak only by rapping (he hates rap music). At one point the writer raps about how awful it is that he can't scratch his balls (because he's a woman now). If I remember correctly, the movie had a sort of a vague film noir feel to it. It's also possible it was an episode in an anthology TV series like The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone, but the risque nature of the ball-scratching joke makes that unlikely. Also, I have looked through episode summaries of those two series, but I've found nothing that would resemble the plot I remember.
- The plot seems similar to Stephen King's Word Processor of the Gods short story. Check out if one of the adaptations listed on wikipedia is the one you're looking for.
  - No, none of the adaptations listed on Wikipedia is what I'm looking for. The 1960 Twilight Zone episode is obviously too early for the rap gag, and I've seen the other adaptations listed there, the thing I'm looking for isn't among them.
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A film I saw a snippet of on The Disney Channel once. All I can really remember is a scene in which a girl (and the audience) sees an "invisible" giant white anthropomorphic rabbit. Probably late 80s or early to mid 90s. The giant invisible rabbit bit sounds rather like Harvey, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't either of the major film versions of it.
I remember seeing an action flick about three years ago or so. It was probably Japanese or Korean. I can't remember much about it, except there was a man in red with white hair (the comparison to Dante occurred to me, except I think his clothes were a tad more flow-y) and there was a lot of martial arts fighting going on. I also seem to remember a plot about either aliens or some sort of superhumans. The movie looked fairly recent, 00-ish, at least. I also remember the pace being really slow for a movie of its sort, but that could just be me.
This film involved a running race. Along the way, there's a guy with a gun, who shoots anyone who crosses by, making him like the Boonta Eve Tusken Raiders in that regard. But this film is most likely a comedy, and is definitely modern-day Earth, and like I said, a running race.
A girl's home burns down with her mother and newborn brother still inside. The only reason the girl survived was because a man carried her outside (and got horrible burnmarks on his arms), but since no one else saw him it's assumed she committed arson out of jealousy over her brother. About ten years later when she turns 18, she hopes to be released from juvenile but is instead told she'll go to regular jail since everyone's still convinced she's guilty. Somehow she escapes and finds a priest - I think they used to talk regularly? After she leaves he talks to someone the audience can't see about how he has to break his vow and tell who the real murderer was. This gets him killed, and everyone assumes it was the girl. I think she starts getting help from a boy her age? There's also a cop attempting to find her. She finds the home of her and her brother's biological (rich?) father. She thinks he's guilty of the arson when she sees his burned arms, but while it turns out he did save her he wasn't guilty... It turns out the boy who helped her is her half-brother and the murderer. Their father met her mother in secret and started a family with her without anyone else knowing. When the half-brother found out about this he got so jealous he started the fire. After revealing this to the girl he tries to trap her so she'll burn inside. I think she's saved by the police and the half-brother dies in the fire? Either way it's implied her innocence has been proven.
All I actually know about this movie is that an absolutely bizarre song played over the credits, with lyrics like "It's like crabs in a bucket/when one climbs out the others try to suck it/back to the city, back to the street/back to the place where the poor fools meet", and I think maybe "One day you rob a gas station/next day you're the president of the nation." I just want to know what sort of movie could have possibly gone with that song.
- Google says the lyrics belong to a song by a guy called Lil' Flip, so there's a good chance the movie you saw it in is one listed under soundtrack here.
  - For a second I thought I finally had something to go on, but no. Lil' Flip, as far as I can find, doesn't have those lyrics. He does have a reference to "crabs in a bucket" in one song, but it doesn't contain any of the other lyrics I remember from the song (The Gas Station one is actually from my Mom), nor does the rest of the "Crabs in a Bucket" lyric even remotely line up with what I remember for that. Plus, it wasn't a rap song, and I'm fairly certain it was older than Lil' Flip's work. Sorry. Another line I distinctly remember is "Oooh, it's the American dream", which was repeated several times.
- I believe the song you're looking for is "Crabbuckit" by Canadian R&B group K-OS! IMDB says the song was featured in The Game Plan.
  - Still not the right song, but a bit closer to the right style. Film is way too recent — the one I'm looking for would have been on TV in the 90s — maybe 97 or 98. My sense of time is a bit skewed, but I'm sure it couldn't have been later than 2000. May have been a Made-For-TV or Made-For-Syndication movie, which might explain the difficulty figuring out what it or the song is. x.x;
A B-quality action/horror film named something like Death Train to Osaka, where a bunch of men with swords kill everybody on a train after their female leader's face is seen. It ended with them surrounded by police, and the woman saying "They shall never see my face," before cutting her own face off. I think it was from the 1980s or early 1990s.
A comedy revolving around two characters uncovering a tongue-in-cheek tabloid style alien conspiracy. The heroes sort of seemed like shallow parodies of Mulder And Scully, and are aided by an old black man and a redheaded woman with big hair, both of whom live in a trailer park near where they are investigating, and eventually both seem to get offed by the aliens (the redhead shows up again at the end somehow). The aliens themselves are greys who are deliberately obvious People In Rubber Suits, and have a Weaksauce Weakness to accordion music; prolonged exposure to it makes popcorn explode out of them. Two of the big bads turn out to be a man and woman they met earlier in the investigation, who catch the heroes snooping in their UFO and want to turn both of them part alien by feeding them rice krispies treats. One of the two is a perky Affably Evil real estate agent, so she not only explains the evil plan to the protagonists, she also takes them on a guided tour of the UFO, acting as though they were actually going to buy the thing. The good guys win, but make enough of a mess in the process to cause police attention - they reveal the conspiracy as a Sarcastic Confession and the police just leave them alone, although a reporter for a tabloid paper happens to be nearby and interviews them.
I remember seeing the trailer for one movie that had a Good Cop Bad Cop routine, where the protagonists switched roles every day at midnight, much to the confusion of everybody else.
I'm pretty sure there was a late-90's television movie on Australian TV. I'm pretty sure it was based on the "Full Frontal" TV show and the premise of the movie was a comedy spoof of horror movie cliches. The only parts I remember were an old woman sitting outside the house saying "I forget", the three main characters sharing a bed and the woman turning into a giant monster at the end. Any help would be useful
I saw a scene from a movie on TV, at least 15 years ago, maybe more. The only part I remember is, it's in an auto dealership. There's a guy (maybe Gene Hackman or someone of the same type?) standing on an empty, revolving platform, saying to another guy, "[First name], do you believe in a higher power?"
This is probably impossibly vague, but here goes: The main character is a young boy who gets transported to a fantasy world somehow. When he arrives, the first people he meets are an old man and a pair of identical twin elf-type characters. The old man consistently refers to the twin elves as though they were one person, much to the confusion of the boy. Early on, while trying to explain some back story to the boy, the old man consistently refers to the villains as "them", leading to an exchange along the lines of this:
Old Man: ...and it was all because of them!
Boy: Them? (pointing to the elf twins)
Old Man: No, not him, them!
There was a movie where some girl babysat some boy, and at one point, this troper believes during a scene where the girl was driving a car with the boy (these details may be off, unlikely though), she warned the boy about him possibly going to jail and being fed rats, and later in the movie, the boy showed care, probably love, for the babysitter who seemed to be in danger of going to jail herself, indicated enough by the boy saying that he didn't want her to be fed rats. Any idea to this?
- Adventures In Babysitting?
  - This troper just checked. No.
  - Definitely not. No conversations about going to jail in Adventures in Babysitting, and the sitter was not part of the conversation about rats (between her friend and a bus station employee). Also, Adventures had three kids, not just one, with one sitter.
This one got lost in the Great Crash of '07. A late 60s-early 70s comedy by the Monkees or someone similar featuring an invasion of 'flying sausages' (wieners glued to paper plates) which would take over your mind when you ate them? I remember a mix of Mod and hippie fashions, and some really bizarre British Invasion-esque musical numbers, but not much else. I think I may have imagined it, but I thought the same of the Star Wars Holiday Special for several years, too.
- If The Monkees are in it, it's Head.
  - There was nothing about flying sausages or mind-controlling food in Head. It must not be the Monkees, then.
Movie seen on TV in the mid-to-late 70s; based more or less on Muhammed Ali's life, but not the one where he played himself - the actor playing the Ali character was shaved bald. It ended with him losing a match, but there was epilogue-like text as he walked down the hall that he went on to win the world championship for a record third time.
A little girl(?) has a cartoon imaginary friend, who gets her out of some sort of scrape, and at one point someone (the imaginary friend?), does that thing where one does a pencil rubbing on a piece of paper in a pad in order to see what someone wrote on the sheet above it.
I remember a film poster from the 70's. It was in the style of Jack Davis (does a LOT of cartoons for advertising, especially movie posters, and is also a cartoonist for MAD magazine), it may have been by Jack Davis. It pretty much showed an orgy in progress, I think at a college campus, like it was a fraternity together with a sorority. The women were drawn very attractively, most of them topless. The men kind of looked like schmucks. There was a building in the foreground, and a LOT of people having an orgy around the building. I saw this in the London Underground (the London Subway system). Some of the movies advertised this way were pornographic (the ad at least was trying to give the impression that the film had a lot of sex in it). I have a feeling that the movie couldn't possibly be as good as the poster. Does anyone know what movie this was? Anyone know where I could see a copy of the poster?
- That sounds a lot like the Animal House◊ poster. It almost certainly was inspired by it, at least.
  - That isn't it, but certainly there are some similarities. I think you may be right that the poster was inspired by the Animal House poster. Maybe there was some sort of pornographic parody of Animal House? Another possibility is that I have merged two posters in my mind, the Animal House poster and another one. The poster I am looking for had a lot more women in it, and some of these were topless, others were showing a lot of cleavage. Most were making out with the men. There was a couple in the foreground, a man and a woman. My memory is that they were taller than the building (ie because of the perspective). I think that there would have been film posters used for advertising in England that perhaps were never used in the U.S. (Is there any possibility it could have been a different poster advertising Animal House?)
  - Can I do it...'Til I Need Glasses? perhaps?
  - Oh crikey. If that isn't it it's close. If it IS it then I did merge it with the "Animal House" poster. One thing I clearly remember is that at least one of the women in the poster was topless, in the sense of showing nipples. It's not clear from the links on the internet whether any of these women are showing nipples, does anyone own this poster?
  - There was also a porn parody of Animal House called "Natural Lamporn's Frat House" with an ad similar to what you described. The tagline: "It's the hottest frat at Faulk University—good old Faulk U.!"
A movie about a horse, or a boy and his horse, or something like that. It was being trained to be a harness racer, but couldn't be kept from galloping. Then at one point something happened on the track and all the other horses started galloping, except the protagonist horse.
This is going to be very vague, but bear with me. I saw it on TV around '92, '95 at the latest. It was a war movie; there was a scene with the hero talking to a nurse in something that was either a really large garage or a morgue. They kiss, maybe have sex. I think he rode a motorcycle. Then (or before it, my chronology is way off), he is climbing a mountain with an older soldier. One of them is bitten by a snake, I think in the arm.
A pretty new film that was used in a Mall to show the power of Vaio computers. I think it was a Slasher Film with the villain killing a man putting cream in his mouth and a Gory Discretion Shot when he gets close to a woman, using an axe. The villain was using a Snorkel Parka and his face was not visible.
A teenage boy is kidnapped by some grown men and a seductive teenage girl. His mom and sister find an email that was sent to him with a video attachment of the seductive girl stripping. His mom is all disappointed and the sister just goes "Well, most boys like this kind of stuff. Don't worry about it." The boy's jealous girlfriend arrives with his cell phone that has a text from the seductive girl asking to meet up. She then tells his mom and sister and the cops that the night before he disappeared, they were both at some kind of party and they had sex, and he forgot to take his cell phone. The mom then gets all angsty over the fact that he had sex, and the cops have the same attitude about it as the sister. There was also a scene where the rebellious brother starts crying in the kitchen and swipes some glasses onto the floor, breaking them.
Does anyone know of a movie where a guy gets turned into a sausage? I swear I saw a bit of something on TV where some man got turned into a sausage by someone else, and there was a lot of smoke afterwards.
- I know this happens in the story Badjelly The Witch by Spike Milligan. I know it has been made into a tv show, but haven't seen it to tell if its the one you're thinking of.
There was a film I saw on TV as a kid with one scene that stuck out. It was from the 1940s and involved gangsters, but I got the idea it was a comedy. The scene involved a man being forced at gunpoint into a dryer in a laundromat by some gangsters. They turned the dryer on and left, and the man inside screamed something that sounded like "Strawberry apple day-ay-ay-ay!" (I know I've got that part wrong.) It may have been an Abbott and Costello movie, because the man in the dryer either was Lou Costello or looked a lot like him.
On three seperate occasions I have watched this B-movie that used to come on the public access channel. It was about a group of American soldiers in WWII who befriend an furry alien. The soldiers protect the alien from the Nazis, who want to exploit it's technology. Notable scenes include the alien making a halogram of an attractive woman for one of the soldiers to dance with, another soldier punching out Hitler while being interrogated, and a final battle where the soldiers fight the Nazis with the help of more aliens, except that these aliens are blue and humanoid as apparently only the females of their species are furry. Every time I watched this movie, it always started with a scene showing the rest of the soldiers escaping into the forrest while the rest of their unit gets killed, I never saw the opening credits that revealed the title.
Here's one that I believe was from the 80s, as it was on a tape with several Care Bears episodes and a Rainbow Brite episode. It opened up with a man in what looked like old fashioned Renaissance-y like clothing giving a brief synopsis of the movie. It had something to do with a young girl getting lost in a forest in the middle of winter. Someone, who I'm guessing is Jack Frost or Old Man Winter since he has a staff that transforms anything that touched it into ice, saves her. There also another guy looking for the girl, and he attempts to get help from a witch or something, who lives in a house with legs.
I think this scene was from a movie made during either the late 70s or mid 80s, and I have no idea what it is. All I remember is a part where a girl, who is kind of a loser and also possibly poor, is invited to a costume party by one of the popular & wealthy girls at her school. She and her younger siblings and/or loser friends (don't remember which, but I think there were 3 kids) spend a lot of time making costumes. When they finally arrive at the party, they ring the doorbell and the door opens up...and everyone there is NOT in costume. They all point and laugh at the costumed losers. I seem to remember that everyone else was wearing private school uniforms, but I could be wrong. I checked the It's a Costume Party, I Swear! page of this site, but it's not listed there.

Fanfic

I remember a Final Fantasy fanfic from either the very late 1990s or very early into the new millennium. I've pretty much give hope of finding out anything about it, but here goes anyway. I remember that the fic featured characters from both Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII. The characters were desperately hungry and so they decided to go hunting for chocobos. They tried a series of increasingly crazy methods to try to catch chocobos, without any success. Pretty sure that at one point they even tried something like a comet spell, but the chocobo was charred too badly to eat. I think Ultros may have appeared at some point somewhere within the fanfic.
There was this Star Wars fanfic I read a long time ago. It started with this old cat lady who made predictions, one of which eventually ended up being the "chosen one" prophecy, except it was warped by centuries of oral tradition, and part of what it originally stated was that Anakin was supposed to change sides all along and Luke was the real "chosen one" who was supposed to defeat him. There was also something about "physical" vs. "emotional" warriors, which evolved into the "light side" and the "dark side". It was definitely on FF.net, but I've been unable to find it.
This tropette is embarassed to be asking this, but...About 10 years ago, I was looking up The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time fanfics, specifically the fight with Ganondorf at the end. I stumbled across...well, it was, I guess, a mix of the game and the manga; Shiek was male. And maybe it was a part in a series. It was a yaoi story, i think, and I was reading it cause I thought it'd just be a well-written retelling of the fight. It had Link getting defeated by Ganon, imprisoned, and all kinda bad happened. And Shiek was angsting over not being able to save his love. I remember it being well-written, but it seriously freaked me out. I'm positive it wasn't on fanfiction.net. I really remember two things aboutit. One is that waves of darkness slammed Link into the wall or something. The other is that Ganon grabbed Link's....thingy and asked him if he knew what it was.
This was/is a Slayers fanfic I read somewhere other then fanfiction.net IIRC. It had Zel going back to Seyrunn... For some reason, and attending a masquerade ball while there so that Ameli awouldn't recognize him. I think maybe he had promised he wouldn't see her for some reason, only I don't remember what that reason was. And, she was really depressed because he wasn't around. Yep, that's all I remember. Anyone have any ideas? Or did I lost it in the geocities/cites/whatev failure?
Not actually a fanfic, but a piece of original fiction published on a fanfic site. I think it may have been fictionpress.com in the anime section, but searching on there has come up fruitless. The fic is about all the girls from a kingdom joining some princess test to win the right to marry the crown prince. The main girl has lavender hair and I believe she may have cat ears and tail. She doesn't want to marry the prince but has some other reason for joining. The scene I remember vividly is when she sneaks some goodies from the kitchens and goes on a sugar high. She starts playing around with the prince and ends up chasing him through the orchard, jumping from tree to tree. After she calms down she's mortified to realize that she's committed a major faux pas and probably will be thrown out of the contest.
There was an old Invader Zim fanfic on the wormbaby.com forums. It had an Ancient Conspiracy involving Control Brains and, as with most fanfics, everyone was older. Also Zim had given up on trying to Take Over The World. And Red was an empath. Maybe it sucked—I'm not entirely sure any more. All I know is I've been going insane for the last several years trying to remember what in blazes it was called.
This one was a Tenchi Muyo fic that had Ryoko getting sick/dying. I don't remember alot except that it wasn't Cherry Blossems, she tries to phase through a wall at the shrine and instead hits it, getting bruises, and at the end Wachu turns into Goddess!Washu and heals her after she (Ryoko) has been kidnapped for a sacrifise. Or something. Thanks in advance for any info you may be able to give me!
A Gargoyles fanfic where two teens, a jock and an "ugly" shrinking violet on visit to the Aerie building on a school trip get turned into Gargoyles by Demona. He ends up with Demona (grudgingly) because the change has made him ugly even by gargoyle standards. She stays with the gargoyles in the building, and is transformed into a paragon of beauty. It had a second part where they're offered a chance to change back if they both agree, he wants to, but she's happier after tha change. This was in the "old" days of the internet (1998 ish), it may well be completely gone, but I've been wanting to re-read it for a while now.
A Naruto fansite that has a fairly snarky guide to places and characters. The Mist Village entry describes the "Bloody Mist" genin selection process which only one survives, and then riffs on the inevitable depopulation crisis it would lead to ("Mist's most popular-and only-restaurant, where not only do you get to cook your own fish, you get to reach into the river, catch it, and gut it. Just down the river is Mist's most popular-and only-laundromat.")
I read a Pokemon fanfic about what happened when one of Team Rocket's plans finally succeeded and they accidentally sent Ash to the real world. I remember their intention being to catch Pikachu, so they aimed at Ash, but Pikachu jumped in the way and its electricity affected the weapon in such a way that it caused it and Ash to teleport. In the Pokemon world, everyone thinks Ash is dead. In the real world, Ash runs into some street kids who want to rough him off, so he has Charizard protect him, but instead of the cartoonishly getting ashy for a few seconds, the kids end up with severe burns. Ash ends up in foster care and the people caring for him think he's making up the story about Charizard and that there was a freak accident. Ash is heartbroken, because no one can find his loved ones. Finally, he gets his Pokedex to work and he's able to contact Prof. Oak who comes up with a plan to bring him back that might end up killing him if it goes wrong. Ash grinds up a Thunderstone, mixes it with water, and drinks it. This ends up fooling the Pokedex into thinking he's a Pokemon and he's able to go back. After this happen, the man that cared for him is really exicted about the Pokedex and wants to use its technology or something. At the end, Gary teases Ash and tells him to face reality and Ash responds by shocking him and telling him he already has. I remember it had a sequel where Ash ends up in a crapsack AU where his mom marries Giovanni, takes the name Artemis or some moon or hunting goddess, and never gave birth to him. I want to say these came from a website called Oddish Forest or Caterpie Forest. The website also had original fiction with Pokemon attack names as titles.
- Well, I've been doing some looking, and having no luck. The only website I can find with "Caterpie Forest" as part of its title is "Frosterpie's Caterpie Forest" (caterpieforest.com), and it doesn't seem to have anything like that (at least, nothing that google could find, or that I could find through digging through older subdomains). If you could remember an exact quote, it would be tremendously helpful.
I remember a Final Fantasy VII fic, written in the late nineties with Revee as the new president of Shinra with either Cloud or Tifa as the vice president (they both helped him in any case, and the Turks worked for him). There was a running joke about people telling Reeve he needed a vacation and how he kept being pestered by Barret and Cid's calls. Vincent calls from the Shinra Mansion and they talked until Vincent stepped through some rotten wood and crashed to the floor below. Revee got Reno to drive him in the submarine to Lucrezia's Cave because he thought Vincent was there. I think Vincent arrived not too long after them (he wasn't hurt by the fall). The chapter ended with Reno "kidnapping" Revee, i.e. he called Cloud or Tifa to let them known he was taking Revee on that much needed vacation. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to get more updates, but I lost the website and misremembered its title.
Our page on Cowboy Bebop At His Computer includes this bit: "This troper fondly remembers a series of articles published by a major newspaper prior to the release of the fourth [Harry Potter] book, where the journalist announced 'sensational changes' at Hogwarts, such as the arrival of the new potions professor, a certain Lucius Malfoy. I think I've read that fanfic." Can anyone find the articles or the fanfic?
- While not the author of the quoted passage, I'm afraid it might have been a rhetorical hypothetical fanfic...
A Sailor Moon AU for the Ail and Ann arc in R where Luna tries to awaken Usagi again and is shocked to see it doesn't work. Instead she rushes to Mamoru's place and awakens him. I can't remember much more than Tuxedo Kamen fighting with a sword that turned out to be the moon rod, Usagi's equivalent of Moonlight Knight, and the last chapter explaining why Luna couldn't awaken her - something about how the Silver Crystal granted Endymion and Serenity's dying wishes at the end of episode 45, but my memory's a bit vague on that. It was supposed to get an epilogue, but I lost it before that happened.
I remember this Harry Potter fanfic, which was almost certainly on fanfiction.net. It was a collection of oneshots based on the premise of unusual pairings, involving pairings like Mc Gonagall, and (oddly) Lucius/Narcissa. The chapter that really sticks out however, was one where Snape and Lockhart were in a relationship... Snape was trying to breakup with Lockhart, except that given Lockhart's talent with memory charms, this scene had replayed itself over and over and over...
There's a certain Mega Man X fanfic that I remember reading a long, long time ago. Long story short, it was a novelization of the first X game, but expanded upon the universe quite a bit. It went into detail about Hunters that weren't Reploids, with the central human Hunter having a grudge against a sewer-dwelling Maverick that killed his father. I've yet to come up with anything in regards to the name, though.
- The only Mega Man X1 novelization I know is An Uncertain Future, part of Legacy Of Metal. It's more than ten years old, and it's been a while since I read it, but I do believe there were human Hunters (Zero's introduction comes to mind). 'Zat it? (Quick test: do you remember Reploid OCs named Cancer and Hazil? If so, it's this fic.)
  - Nope, that's not it. Sorry.
There was one story I remember...not exactly for any specific fandom, but it was written like a generic fairy tale and used analogies to make fun of various slash fic tropes, with anthropomorphic personifications of tropes that appear in slash fanfiction. For example, there was a character named Rape, who went to the Wizard of Mpreg to ask why everyone was afraid of him, and the Wizard had him change his name to Non-Con.

Commercials

A commercial from the US, very likely broadcast during the World Cup in 1994, that poked a bit of fun at the fact that Americans don't know soccer. A player (presumably from another sport such as football) accepts a pass by catching it and starts running down the field with the ball. The official blows his whistle and takes out a card (forget if it was yellow or red). The player thinks he's asking for an autograph and gratefully signs it. I forget what the commercial was actually for, but it was probably a soft drink.
This a commercial for some kind of purple product. The product had three letters, the first one being E, and the commercial probably featured people doing sports. I saw this one night on Fuel TV, I think.
This is a really famous series of ads, but I'm having trouble finding info on the internet. It was a series of late-90s "Smiths" chips ads from Australia. The ads showed a group of stick-figures talking about "Smiths" chips, and one ad was about stockpiling chips in the attic when the wife's parents came to visit.
Here's one that many of you probably won't remember at all. It's for a type of cleansing wipe, and it has a sort of superhero theme. To be more specific, there's this guy in a tuxedo, and he's tied to a chair in the Big Bad's lair. The Big Bad has an orange/red suit, and a black spikey mask (I think...it's been a long time). He and his henchmen are then surprised by a woman with pink hair, wearing a blue-and-silver outfit and make-up, who appears in the room and fights them all off. She then unties the man, before her wrist...thingy (it's hard to explain) beeps, and she leaves. She changes back into her normal clothes, and wipes the make-up from her face with the cleansing wipes. She then appears in a fancy dress, and the man (presumably her boyfriend) runs up and says something along the lines of "You'll never guess what happened to me." She shoots a knowing look at the camera, and the advert ends. Like I said, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
I'm positive this was an old Nike commercial, but I can't seem to locate it anywhere online. Some Football(?) player was talking about how the new shoes made him unstoppable- as it went on, he kept thinking of ways the opposing team might be able to catch him. Towards the end it was "Maybe if they had trucks? nah", and ended on "maybe if they had helicopters", with a fleet of Apaches chasing him down.
There's this one that this troper vaguely recalls. It has this teenage boy with a group of younger children, and they're all gathered around a fire in the woods like they're camping and the teenager is the chaperon. The teenager says something like "Let me tell you the story about the half-human wolf man!" One of the children says "that's stupid" and the teenager snarls at him, suddenly getting these huge animal teeth. While the kids scream and run, the teenager casually looks up at the sky, sees there's a full moon, smiles, and nods.

Music

what's the song at 10:47 to the end?
what's the song here?
I've always wondered what the song is in this video. The ending credits say it's from Meat Beat Manifesto, but I've searched every song from them I can and haven't found it yet.
What's the song in the background here? The creator says it was from Internet radio.
- If it helps, the internet radio is on [[www.di.fm this website]]. I can also tell you it's not dubstep, ambient, hardstyle, space music, nor gabber. Sorry I can't help you anymore, but I don't listen to that style of music. I suggest giving each station a week each. The songs there tend to circulate.
what's the song from 1:03 to 1:11?
Anyone know the name of the song played in the backgorund during the fight scenes in the Teen Titans episode "Winner Takes All"? One way to see it can be found here. (Warning- it's Megavideo). Is it something that they just made up for the show? Or was it out before? It's got this really cool techno beat....
A music video I caught one morning on mtv2 and didn't catch the name of: The song was uptempo melodic rock, but I really remember more about how weird the video was: It primarily consisted of a guy dressed up as Mickey Mouse and a girl in a blue dress (who was either supposed to be Cinderella or just a generic Disney Princess) in an urban setting chasing and attacking people. The Mickey was pretty much a guy in a black unitard and red shorts with a hat with ears on it, presumably that's just different enough to have not raised the ire of Disney.
Any of the songs excerpted in this video. Some additional info that may narrow it down: All 5 were included in a burned cd I recieved as part of a mix exchange the early 00's - of the songs I was familiar with on the same cd, the most recent ones were from 2002, so none of this should be anything much newer than that. The fifth track was a 7-minute post-rock-ish instrumental. The sender was from Texas I believe, and some of these may have been local acts.
A folkish song, but not by a folk group, IIRC. Didn't sound traditional It was from the POV of a young, idealistic soldier, in what felt like 19th century but could've been 18th or 20th. His unit stopped overnight at a house on the road, and he fell in love with a girl. Before they left, his veteran comrades raped her (and may have killed her, I don't remember), introducing him to the horrors that jaded soldiers can sink to.
This. It's obviously featured in Freespace 2, but I also heard this in an episode of ''Courage The Cowardly Dog', which makes me believe it originates elsewhere. I also remember a version where the chorus is song by male voices at a much lower key.
Whatever song this thing I made is modeled after.
The song I'm thinking of is from Phil Hendrie during his Art Bell bit. No, not Abba. http://www.derfy.info/unknownsong.mp3 (my webspace) is a link; you can hear it sometimes when Phil shuts up.
A Stop Animation music video, possibly Bollywood, that depicts these characters flying on a magic carpet. It looks like those stop animation Christmas movies you always see in ABC Family each year.
Probably an Instrumental Theme Tune from a movie. It had a soaring melody, strictly minor key harmonies, and was in 3/4 or 12/8 time (or similar, but definitely not Common Time).
A techno-ish song that was essentially a proto Stupid Statement Dance Mix, based around what I'd guess was originally some kind of infomercial/corporate training tape for a company selling meat. Samples of the announcers/actors were manipulated into saying things like "Pig meat, human meat, what's the difference?"
This is going to drive me crazy. I had a set of cds I used to listen to all the time when I was a kid. I know it had something to do with a fire house because they were red and it had a dalmation wearing a hat on the front. There were at least four cd/tapes. The only song I can remember being on there is that "Oh where, oh where, has my little dog gone?" one. This would have been made sometime in the early nineties or late eighties, I think.
This song. It's used as the theme song for a major antagonist in a Final Fantasy fangame entitled "Endless Nova"; as you could probably infer from the filename, said antagonist is named Quenlin. 95% of the songs in this fangame's soundtrack come from other video games (generally RPGs) while most of the remaining 5% come from anime, so it's my assumption that this is a song from some random video game or anime I've never played/seen and thus can't recognize. However, two tracks from this game were original pieces, so I can't be certain.
There's a song I heard once at a military awards ceremony...it was about a young American soldier, either 17 or 19, who was taken prisoner (in WWII, I think). The chorus was about the tiny flag he kept hidden, and how he said the pledge of allegience. I don't remember if he survived. Anyone know what it's called? I can't remember any lyrics to google.
I know a song of which I can remember the melody, but not the lyrics. It might have been Britpop, maybe Blur or Oasis. I'm not that good at sheet music, but it was something like these bars◊.
Okay, kind of a bizarre one, but it was a song I found on my old computer once. It began with a pulsing sort of rythm like something that would be during a war scene in a fantasy movie, and this first part had lyrics that were very hard to understand because they were spoken in a synthesized, low, gutteral voice that kept shouting something that sounded like "blood war". Then the voice goes "what kind of music was he listening to, anyway?" and the tune abruptly changes to fast-paced techno. I have no idea where this song comes from or what it's called.
I listened to Ravel's Bolero recently, and I swear I remember hearing a version of it with words, potentially from a musical. I don't really remember anything else...any clue?
what is the song from 2:36 to 3:10?
I saw this very surreal music video years ago in France, so I don't know if this song was only popular there or if it was imported... I can't remember it well anymore, but the music video involved a black screen with white drawing on it. A person - crudely drawn, kind of like a stick figure I think? - would be walking along, and a jagged shark-looking thing would keep popping out of the ground to accost him. The "music" was some really repetitive nonsense syllables if I recall correctly, something like "ba ba bey, mm ba ba ba mm ba bey" or something like that.
- This reminds me of something, but that's not a music video so it's probably not that.
  - Nope, don't think that's it, though there's some similarity in the style. It was definitely a music video, and it had a much more... angular feel to it. But thank you for trying!
I once heard a song on Performance Today that was an old sailor's pub tune. It had a lot of syncopation, and the percussion was the performer's shoes stomping on the floor. Anyone know what it could be?

Video Games

Once as a kid I distinctly recall reading a video game magazine, and it had a code or trick or glitch that one could use on one of the old, Genesis-era Sonic games (possibly Sonic 3). When sued supposedly it yielded a picture of a darker, monstrous version of Sonic with the title “Sonic the Human Hedgehog”. It was also possibly called “Dark Sonic” by the magazine. It is NOT the Dark Sonic from Sonic X, I know that much for certain, nor is it one of the later games in the series–this was Genesis, definitely. Maybe Sega CD, now that I think of it, but no later than the Sega CD. It may have been a joke or a hoax, but still I would like to know if it was real or not and if it was real, a link to some information would be nice. So far, I’ve tried searching for Sonic the Human Hedgehog and so far I’ve come up with fanart of a bishonen version of Sonic...which, while nice and cute and all, is NOT what this was. This was like the sonic version of Rambo: if I recall the picture correctly he was a big muscular thing, kind of scowling and with a vaguely human face, and actually less human looking than the normal sonic as a result, if that makes sense. I have no idea if this was real or not, but even if it was a hoax I’d like to know where it came from. If memory serves it may, MAY, have been Game Pro magazine.
When I was a kid, I played this arcade game. It involved old-timey planes, some of them bi-planes, fighting an evil dictator and his magical and technological armies. One plane had a weapon that looked like black iron balls, and some of the enemies included dinosaurs (triceratops) that shoot three-way fireballs, venus flytraps and one boss was a huge "genie" looking thing. Possibly the final boss. The dictator, if I recall, flew a bigger plane that hurled random stuff including power ups out as he laughed maniacally. A lot of people told me I was imagining it but I distinctly remember playing it. I have seen screenshots exactly once, but never the title.
It's an educational game of some sort.... I think it was about math. I barely remember it though. I know it was part of a series, and the game I'm thinking of starred these furry monster things. It took place in a Western ranch setting, and at some point one of the female characters (dressed up as a cowgirl) was singing in a saloon on a stage.
A game I found on one of those "1700 games for ten bucks" discs. It was actually a demo. A surprisingly complex space game, with numerous suns and planets on a black map. Planets and ships were represented by outlines in the players' colors; neutral planets were gray. You started with a triangle-shaped space-craft, and used the arrow keys (or wasd) to steer. Orbital mechanics were represented; you could fall into orbit around a planet, for example. The goal was to claim planets for your side, first by landing on them Lunar Lander style (in which case they changed to your color), then by building orbital stations, then by building and upgrading AI-controlled supply ships and defensive arrays. When you landed on a new planet, your other planets would automatically construct and dispatch supply ships which turned into orbital stations when they arrived. You or the AI could fire shots, which appeared as white dots at opposing ships or planetary bases to destroy them or drive them off, so there was a bit of a video-game shooter aspect to the game, but it was mostly strategic; you wanted to start with a cluster of worlds near each other that you could claim quickly, but you also had to prevent opponents from landing on them and taking them from you before they could protect themselves. There was a complex AI, and you could set each of your opponents to different attitudes (violent, maniacal, patient, and so on). The side colors were red, blue, purple and yellow.
- It was called "Gravity Well."
  - That's it; one problem though. I can't get it to work. Is there a version other than 5.2 available?
There was this game I remember playing in the computer lab at camp about eight years ago. It was multiplayer, where all the computers in the room could play against each other. Each player was some sort of fighter ship...thing, and we had to shoot each other down in this maze-like thing within a set period of time, and there were powerups which were like different kinds of squares hanging in the air, and there were also different maze-arena-things and different play modes (the only one I can remember is "Fox and Hounds", which was basically played like a game of tag). And all the graphics were pretty basic — the arena looked the same no matter where you were in it, and I think the ships were just solid triangular things in different colors. I've been looking everywhere for the game, but it's hard when I remember it so vaguely...
- "Descent" maybe? Or "Terminal Velocity"?
  - I searched the titles, and they're both way too detailed (plot and graphics) to be the game I'm looking for. Sorry. (Possible clarification: The one I remember is very similar to the description of "Maze War", but that's not it either.)
This is edutainment too. Mac II keyboarding game vs. invading aliens. You typed the name of the enemy and shot it down. There were several types of ships, you could type parts to build a backup base.
Possibly related to previous, Mac II game where you solved math problems in time to earn missiles, shots, and bombs for your jet to play 'capture the flag' versus helicopters, tanks, etc. There was another level/option to do the same thing for your race car (wrenches, tires, etc.) These were likely server-based, the Macs were diskless.
Related to the above, a knight who traveled the countryside, could buy food at varying prices (math WIN), had to answer the sphinx's riddle, these got me hooked on computers, I'm a tech coordinator now.
- In Sierra's Conquests of Camelot, you do play a knight, you do spend a lot of time in the countryside, you do have a moneypurse, and you do solve riddles (though I don't remember if the Sphinx's riddle is one of them), but I don't think this is the one you mean.
Some 3D Platformer released very early in the life of the PS 2/Gamecube/Xbox generation. The theme was a sci-fi/fantasy and the basic plot was that the race of the player character was enslaved by an Evil Overlord, and he set out to save them. A trailer for it was included in the Xbox version of the Defender remake.
An old Atari game, I don't remember which one but it was the generation just before NES. It was a side scrolling platform/shooter, maybe a little like a primitive Mega Man game. The background changed from purple to red. Some of the enemies looked like rotating swastikas, others looked like these weird pinkish clams.
PC game, likely dos. Was a platforming game with "liney" graphics. it had ball dispencers (i think they where blue). The background was likely white. I think it had green ladders. Platforms were thin lines. No idea if it had any sound.
A PC FPS released around the late 90's/early 00's. It began with your character on some sort of floating trains with no walls. After a few seconds, you'd get a cutscene of a guy in an armor saying something and then he'd fire something from his gun. Then your character would get hit by the shot and fall in the jungle below. I think you could ride on a futuristic motorcycle, but maybe that's my memory playing tricks. I thought it was one of the Tribe game but the game I remember definitly had an elaborate single-player mode.
Some sort of a top-down RPG that was on the Mac, in sort of a roguelike style. I remember there were buttons you could press in each dungeon to turn on and off the generators for good and evil creatures. And there was an editor that came with it that allowed you to make your own creatures.
There's an educational game from Keysoft or Sofkey or sdomething like that which I'm looking for. I remember someone dressed in a clown suit coming from a trap door and a clock thingie. The clock thingie had numbers you can click on which make various things happen. I remember 1 had a person with a bomb that blew up and 8 had a blonde girl who made a face and a goat noise would play.
A very old computer videogame where you play as this (top-down view), that black thing is your pistol. Your enemies are just like that but yellow and you move around collecting ammo, health and, of course, shooting. I also recall there were explosive boxes that'd give you an instant game over if shot. Thank you in advance.
This Mac game which was a primitive 3D space shooter- I think you had to fly through rings at one point, and maybe avoid crashing into planets or something. Anyway, the one part I remember was that there was a story scroll before the game started and it said something about the "Confederation".
- This is possibly one the games in the Escape Velocity series.
  - Not those, I've played those, and they're 2D. It was probably before that. It might have been on some kind of disk with a collection of games on it.
  - Could it be Space Rogue? (Although that had an Empire rather than a Confederation.) Do you remember if it was black and white, or color?
  - It was color. I don't remember the name Space Rogue though. I think the graphics had scanlines or something.
- Not Escape Velocity...Terminal Velocity. Shareware from 3DRealms.
Here's a really bizarre one: Many years ago the UK edition of PC Gamer magazine ran brief news item that read, and I quote from memory Polismans sidekick Dirty Chirchy is trapped on the Planet Of Women. Our hero selflessly offers his body for Chirchy's freedom. Is this The End?. There was a photo of a man who looked vaugley like a young Eddie Murphy. I presume it was some kind of Ero Game but the internet offers no clues.
A PC game (or perhaps it was Apple II, since I played this back in elementary school, on the same computers my classmates and I were playing Oregon Trail on). It was a bit of an adventure title, controlled entirely via text input, but with first person pictures of your current environment. The storyline involved something about you watching a game show and getting pulled into your TV, and then you had to explore various channels for some goal I never played far enough to find out about. One of the only other things I recall is that one of the channels you could explore was a constant storm of static that you had to wade through like actual snow. For reference, I was in this particular elementary school back between 89 and 94.
An old PC game where you controlled the basic five elements; earth, wind, fire, heart. That sort of thing however they were orbs of light (much like certain energy logos). Think it was called the elementals or Elements however such searches online hardly help. OH and I remember the music from the ballet The Nutcracker playing in the background to the point where when I hear the song The Sugarplum Fairy I think of this game rather than the ballet.
Okay, when I was a little girl in the 1990s, my dad played this game on a computer- Windows, specifically. I remember one certain scene where you recieved potions from a old dude who'd take them away from you if you clicked on him too many times and say something like, "Once is one time too many." It was in a maze or something...
A console FPS (I'm pretty sure) (first gen, I believe, but I don't know which console; this would be around ten to eleven years ago) in which you were basically invulnerable to everything the enemy throws at you—from machine gun fire to a giant (maybe a cyclops) boss swatting you. However, the levels always took place on a platform raised maybe ten feet above the ground below. Fall off, and you die, while fairies pick up your body and fly it up slowly.
I used to have a Spider-Man game on our computer, well over a decade ago. Probably DOS. It was a platformer where you put Spidey's skills to work moving your way around the area, avoiding baddies and such. Thing is, the only thing I can find that's even close is The Amazing Spider-Man, which for some reason seems unfamiliar. It doesn't seem to start in the same way I (vaguely) remember. The graphics seem tiny and stunted compared to what little I recall. So is there another similar Spider-Man game out there for the computer (I'm sure it wasn't just a ROM), maybe even an unofficial one, that you can think of? Screenshots would be appreciated!
I remember one game where you played as monsters and could choose from ones you had already defeated. In addition there was a green tube tank that could be used for fusing them. I specifically remembere there being one pink blob and I played it on the Sega Channel and would have bought it if we remembered what it was called. It was a fighter and I vaguely recall an isometric battlefield.
An old, (early?) 90s game, possibly RPG(-ish), standard fantasy setting, with topdown view and separate screens. I remember the first screen had three shops which looked like squares with pictures of what they were selling (shield/armor, sword, red cross). The next screen was up from there and split in the centre by water, which you could not cross. Some of the screens were special (I remember one of the screens was completely black and you had to navigate through a maze without seeing anything). I think you could get ships or something later on, because I seem to remember fighting water monsters or something like that.

Comic Books

There was a comic book series in UK from the eighties/early nineties, small pocketbook comics each one containing their own complete story. It was all old fashioned sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but somewere conan-esque sqord and sorcery, some post apocalyptic horror, and some old school pulp space opera. I can't remember what the series was called, and I'd love to put the Nostalgia Filter to the test. Can anyone help?
Does anyone know where this comes from? An issue of Justice League had a team-wide mind-switching happen. Booster Gold ended up in Wonder Woman's body. He spent the next twenty-four hours in front of a full length mirror. Of course, it's Wonder Woman, so who can blame him?
This is an issue of JLA where, on one of the first pages, there is a full page splash of Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, standing on top of a massive pile of prison escapees, in a super-prison, or at least maximum security, considering that all of the inmates were villains he and his team put there, with his uniform torn, his body beaten blood and blue, and yelling out the words (paraphrased) "Who the HELL stole my power ring?!"
- This is most likely JLA #34, collected in the "World War III" trade. It begins with exactly the sort of scenario you describe, except that Kyle doesn't yell anything. But his power ring has been stolen.
- This is the cover of JLA #34, in case it looks familiar.
  - Thanks, I've got a hold on this at the library. I'll let you know if it's right then, okay? X3
  - Okay, I read it... It doesn't have the scenerio, though... So either this was wrong, or the CMoA was severely exaggerated... ^^;
A horror comic book where somebody finds part of an animal (possibly a dog's head) which follows him. Most likely published as a book and not from a comics publisher. (Definitely not Watchmen.)
In Justice League Of America does Flash ever really have to wear a dress? Rumors are it's in some sort of "Issue 17"...
A comic series that was basically a Funny Animal based fantasy adventure parody, with intentionally anachronistic elements. At one point, in the one issue I ever read, a hog character fell asleep and started drooling, and a character who was a stereotypical longhaired "rocker dude" rodent (or possibly a rabbit?) complained of his "Maximum halitosis, dude!". I think it was the same rocker rodent/rabbit who also got on stage with a rock band to perform a song with a refrain along the lines of "what you see may not be me/ thanks to a thing called androgyny". It had to have been from the early 90's or so - I believe I was in middle school or late grade school at the time, and it was the first time I had ever heard of either halitosis or androgyny.
- I clearly remember the phrase "Maximum halitosis, dude!" from a cartoon, not a comic.

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My dad is an aviation engineer. In the '80s or '90s he once brought home a one-page comic that had been circulating at the office. It was "If each department got to build the entire plane its way," and showed humorous illustrations of planes that were all-wing, all-fuselage, all-electrical system, all-hydraulics, etc., emphasizing and satirizing in turn each of about 20 different elements of airplane design.
I don't even remember what type of media this was, but there was an actor who I believe was blinded, and he had these thin scars that extended vertically across and through his eyes as an unbroken line. I just thought that concept was awesome.
- That could be Shane Schofield, the main character from Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow series. He had similar scars to what you've described, though he wasn't blinded.
  - That wasn't it. I should specify I think it was some sort of screen media (film or TV).
A space-themed simulator ride. The main screen was shaped like Gurren Lagann-esque sunglasses. The spacecraft had to stop a meteor from crashing into Earth by flying into that meteor!
Target sold a merchandising line of school supplies with someone's name. The art was interesting, but I can't remember the name...or was it Wal-Mart that sold this line?
- Lisa Frank?
  - Doubtful It's probably more of a boy's name. It's probably only at a Florida Target
A very old internet advert for some kind of game. It featured an animesque girl with blue hair in pigtails, big tan fairy wings, and her arms sticking out at the camera.
A billboard I once saw on the way to Sea World. It had text that started with "Mermaids.", and also had "ENCHANTED LAND" in big letters. Or are they two separate, yet similar billboards?
Two from this troper, sorry. ^^;
- The first one was an Irish? legend. A guy married a fey wife, but she was always hurting as long as she could remember her previous life as a fey creature. The man would only be able to have the woman's heart and soul if he did the one thing that would prove his True Love. He ends up willingly letting her go back to her people, which proves his True Love, and she loses her memory of all that she had known as a fey, and comes to be happy with him.
- The second one may sound as though it has come from The Brothers Grimm movie- though This Troper knew this story before she saw the movie: There's a pretty lady who's a Rich Bitch. She steals a cloak/cape/whatever from a gypsy lady. The gypsy lady curses her, but the lady takes it anyway. The cloak/cape/whatever carries smallpox, and she gets it along with alot of people in her kingdom.
From Token Deity: "Sadly this troper can't remember what comic it was in, but she recalls a panel-drawn scene in which God and the Devil are conversing face to face. All that is shown are humanoid silhouettes, one probably male, the other definitely female. The clever thing is that the panels don't use the usual dialogue-balloons, just text in between the silhouettes, so it's never clear which figure is intended to be which."
I don't know if this is actually from something or just a random away message, but it ended with something like "My favorite song is the top 100 hits of the last decade compressed into one second.".
An entry at Facing The Bullets One Liner once said: "In Revelations, the Dark Magical Girl-esque heir to Christ's legacy caps off her self-sacrifice with the line, "Let's hope this goes better than last time."". Always wondered if that was a real show/game/fic/whatever it was.
I'm looking for a website that sells Halloween candy. Not the kind you give to trick-or-treaters, though. It had skull-shaped lollipops where you could choose the color and flavor, and some packages that came in coffin shaped boxes. There was also a page (testimonials?) that referred to "lucky stiffs" or maybe "happy stiffs." I think there might have also been a black cat character, at least on that page. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Doesn't fit any of the above categories! I remember a school curriculum or "unit" or "module" that some of us were shown in fifth grade, when I was ten, about 1979 or 1980. It had four filmstrips (some of you are too young to know what those were!) and a book to read. The topics of the four filmstrips were UFOs, Easter Island, Bigfoot, and Lemmings. The UFOs filmstrip included an "alien abduction" story. The Lemmings filmstrip was so badly done it gave me the impression that Lemmings lived in Latin America (instead of the Arctic). I have been looking for the name of this unit for some time. (I also wonder why we would be shown stuff like this in school, and what company it was that made stuff like this especially for use in school!)
A short (30sec-1min) animated music video, likely in Flash. The song was electronic-pop sounding with no lyrics. In the animation, three boys were lined up in front of three vertical stripes of color. First there was one instrument, and the first one would stretch his neck along with the music, followed by turning his smile upside down intermittently. Another instrument was introduced, and the second character started wiggling. Then a drum beat started, and the third character rolled his head in complete circles. It ended abruptly with a fourth character leaning in from the left and yelling at them as the music did a speedy arpeggio.
A website which would take today's news and filter it through programs which would replace terms in the text, thus creating fake sci-fi news.
This troper remembers having a large white plush dog with blue and yellow paw pads, red and yellow ears, yellow eyelids, a red tail and a bored expression. He recently found a photo of it but can't remember where he got it. He doesn't have it any more.
This troper remembers reading a piece of original fiction on the internet. I remember it was furry, as one character was a ferret and there was a dog(?) character trying to comfort him in a car after his friends died(?) and he (the ferret) was sobbing "My liege, I could've been them!" or something like that. Also, there were these Ridiculously Cute Critters and some Action Girl fighting things in an office. Flamethrowers/guns may have also been involved in the office scene. It may have been called Neoterrestrials or something like that because I remember seeing that phrase in the URL bar. It wasn't yiff from what I remember, too action-packed. I read this story around 2002.
This is pushing it a bit... but I can't remember a monster from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition. I think it was Ravenloft-specific, but either way, here's what I do remember. It was a form of zombie, designed to retain its appearance and intelligence. The "appearance" part worked too well — they were more beautiful than they were in life — and the intelligence part not well enough — they were intelligent, all right, but invariably homicidally insane, using their looks to get close to a person, then suddenly tearing them apart with hands transformed into grotesque, rotted talons when the time was right. I think their Glamour Failure was that the magic couldn't completely cover the odor of decay, so they'd sometimes still smell like a rotting corpse. There may have been a visual Glamour Failure as well that made them look like a conventional zombie, but I can't remember.
I'm really, really, really not sure if this was just a dream or a concept, but I'm sure I can remember it from some place...I can't remember what sort of media it was, but I think film or TV. The cast, or just one, had waited for a long time for the movie/last episode to end, and had an entire countdown, and as the countdown ended, this happened: "IT'S THE END! (awkward silence) ...now what? (credits roll)"
I saw a billboard once, it was on travel so I can't remember if it was Boston or Silicon Valley, but it was actually a billboard for beer but it was just a long Unix shell command. I'm a total geek so I got the billboard, and I thought it was brilliant.

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