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openCartoon -- boy uses laser to try to be cool
A cartoon I remember seeing on TV in maybe the late noughties or early New Tens. A boy is using a laser (I can't remember if it's Eye Beams, a Ray Gun, or something else) to zap random things, all the while declaring, "I'm cool!"
The part I remember the most vividly is when he passes by a restaurant or a store or something and zaps away some of the letters on the big sign, so the sign now reads, "CLOSED".
openDon't bo the title Live Action TV
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand main character isnt white hes aboriginal and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
openTrying to find tv show I watches
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand main character isnt white hes aboriginal and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
Edited by PeterdhillonopenLiterature/BlasphemousAndUnintentionallyRacistThingsKeatonAndWyattSay
No link to anywhere, Google search for quotes just gives the page back.
Does Blasphemous and Unintentionally Racist Things Keaton and Wyatt Say really exist?
openChildrens book where icecream mascots come to life, monster tries to eat protagonist girl Literature
This would have been 1990s, it was a book and audio cassette readalong. I honestly don't remember too much about the illustrations other than they were cartoony, possibly pastel-coloured.
In the story a young girl ends up in a grocery store where the ice cream mascots ( might have been other food but I specifically remember ice cream) come to life. There's definitely a "cool" penguin, possibly a robot too? They go on an adventure and at the end there's a monster that tries to eat the mascots and the girl. I vividly remember the song he sings when he tries to get her;
"Little girls are very nice, especially with peas and rice - I'll tell you what I'm going to do, I'll make you into a tasty stew!"
I can't remember what the monster was, other than it frightened me! It may have been a troll or a giant. The girl and the mascots escape.
I believe the narrator might have been Lenny Henry. They were very animated which is why the song stuck with me.
I've since lost the book and cassette, and the person who gifted me the item has passed away.
This might have been a UK only release.
openFamily in a tend Live Action TV
I'll explain to you, as a child in the early 2010s, or saw on TV a scene of a man with children in a tent,they were in a room of their house, and at a certain point, inside an animal, and then each scene showed a shot of an animal different from the other, the only one I remember is a parrot, perhaps white,please help me find.
resolved Relatively Modern movie or tv show Film
What I remember, is a family arriving to a town where everyone acts wierd (typical cult town) the main character is a Doctor with his family. After encountering a sacrifice wood altar at the woods he begins to suspect about the weird behaviours of the people in town. One night they wake him up and drag him to the caves, where monsters/creatures that live and lurk in the dark make him help them gave birth of one of this monsters/creatures that is pregnant, because he is a Doctor. The scene is very graphic and dark. The creatures only communicate with growl sounds, and if I remember well have dark-blue/blue skin. So, it's revealed, the "sacrifices" people of this town made were made to feed this creatures for safety.
openShow I watched as a kid
I watched a show that was an anime or a cartoon which had a scene that resembles the scene linked below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAqMIWmJVKw(start 4:11)
help?
openSuper Robot Wars series where Tifa Adill channels many spirits? Videogame
Hello! I remember seeing this certain Super Robot Wars game or manga where Tiffa Adill gets possessed by many spirits, most of them are male. Also, while being possessed her expressions changes and even her tone of voice as well, albeit more deeper.
Unfortunately, I could not remember which specific Super Robot Wars series/game/manga was that.
Edited by Billie1994openLive Action Movie Scene Film
A women enters a man's office and the man says shit. The movie is live-action, PG-13, realistic fiction.
openA horror film/anthology segment featuring a brutal ending Film
This might've been a full horror film, an anthology segment, or a short film. The decade is surely 2010s (or possibly 2000s?).
The story centers around some main characters (Adults? Kids?) in a cave, where things go wrong. But what I remember is the horrifying ending, which I will spoiler tag due to its violent nature: There were kids in that cave, either dead or controlled by a sinister force. They exit the cave and reunite with their parents, and all seems well... until they start killing their parents, maybe through cannibalism.
openLiterature/OnMyRadar
On My Radar seems to have been deleted from the internet?
Its quotev page seems to have been deleted and the sole editor hasn't made edits in 7 years?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Lolitroy
Can anyone confirm so we can Move to Darth Wiki?
openInternet compilation video Web Original
I've tried numerous times to copy and paste the information from reddit over to here but it hasn't worked so I'll try this instead: https://imgur.com/Wld38gq
openOld movie about doctor and disabled patients Film
It is an old, live action movie. I remember that at the beginning, a boy is shown to be struggling, with wobbly notes as that differ so much from notes on previous pages. His mom also said that she saw him point at a direction, saying 'Mom, mom' and never spoke again. That boy grows up, becoming a man with a disability. A doctor is the main character (I think), and I also remember the scene where a woman with the same condition as the boy I mentioned does not talk or respond, but when the doctor throws a baseball at her, she catches it. I've seen it once in psychology class in high school, and it now just went into my head. I hope those details will help me, and you, identify it. Those are all the details I can remember.
Edited by edgeofthelemschezopenMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
openI can't figure out this show Anime
Anime where main character and his two friends travel the world getting stones to find out they need to go collect the monsters they got them from now. In the final battle he starts losing and all the monsters turn on him. It wasn't a long show. Only two seasons. But i can't find it. Help pls
openThe Greatest Story Never Told comic Print Comic
The Greatest Story Never Told has an entry about a Marvel series that I just can't pin down, mainly cause it's written as vaguely as possible (I tried to find it so I could rewrite the entry to be clearer).
"A six-issue limited series from Marvel Comics told the story of a normal human who was down on his luck and borderline suicidal who gets killed right as an extra-dimensional big bad is opening a rift with a magic artifact intending to unleash the embodiment of Death upon the multiverse. His resulting passage through the gate closes it and bonds him to the weapon making him immortal and causing him to be reborn into another universe anytime he dies as only the weapon can end his life. He eventually foolishly returns the weapon to the Big Bad after getting a promise to leave Earth alone and return him there but upon seeing all the deaths occurring, sacrifices his life and dies a noble hero to end the Big Bad's scheme once and for all. Meanwhile back on earth, you see the heartbreaking disposal of his worldly possessions such as family photos in a trash can while being called a worthless loser."
Any guesses?
openReciprocal Actor Swap
(Theatre isn't an option under Select Medium...)
So, Frankenstein (2011) is famous for it's reciprocal Actor Swap, having Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. The 2013 Japan production of Mozart L'Opera Rock did the same, with Akinori Nakagawa and Koji Yamamoto alternating as Mozart and Salieri.
My question is, does anyone know of a third example of this — two actors, two roles, alternating? I know that double casting is common in a lot of places, and that there have been actors cast in multiple roles in one production, even playing both Valjean and Javert, but not where the only two actors both did both roles.
Does anyone know of another?
(Incidentally, Nakagawa has also played Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein (2014)).
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a novel about the library in Purgatory. Likely published in the USA sometime between 2000 and 2010, if that helps.
Edited by Sumanuil