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From Tropaholics Anonymous Live Action TV
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- One literal Lifetime Movie of the Week has one of these for a son who'd been beating his mother, engaging in a few Freudian slips in his near-Motive Rant at which the guy he's talking to nods in an irritatingly smug, see-what-you-said-there way.
- Another has a woman going to one for co-dependents after finally being forced to admit that her husband is a sex addict and that she's enabling him.
Monster inflates kid's head Film
Someone posted this on Reedit 5 years ago, and have not received an answer, but some guesses, none correct of course. The user inquired this film was mostly from 80s to 00s, maybe it was a TV show or movie. A group of kids, don't know how old, are seen outside on a sunny day, and we see the monster (cannot remember the description). The monster catches one of the kids and inflates their head like a balloon. The effect as they remember was rather cheesy, so perhaps a bit disturbing. The movie is *not* It, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, or Stitches (as two suggested) (though it was quite similar to the head explosion scene). I just replied to the post, very surprised usually someone cannot reply to a post from that long ago, so they might see my reply, but I was hoping you knowledge buffs can help someone out. I suggested 'the Monster Squad', perhaps it was a 'Goosebumps' or 'Are You Afraid of the Dark' episode. Please help! Thanks much.
- Not the Airheads commercials
Stage Play
A young man lives with his mother. A young woman with her father. They share a very similar relationship with their respective parent. The man and woman fall in love, and the woman points out the similar parent-offspring relationship, 'just as I have or am with my father, you are with your mother.'
I cannot remember what type of musical it was, probably a drama. The only scene I can recall was one where the son was with I think with the woman or his mother, she went up the stairs, got mad about something, and threw the book downstairs from the railing.
I am sorry, this is not much to go on, but hopefully this will spark some ideas. Thank you guys.
DC Animated Movie with snake body horror (SOLVED) Film
I remember as a kid, when I walked into the living room one time, I saw a scene in one of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies films, and there was a scene where a woman with green skin was shot with a needle, and it caused either snakes or dragons to start coming out of her skin while she was in pain. It scared me, to say the least. What movie is this?
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Help with a song Music
It has a lyric about tracks and hunting. It's not hungry like the wolf.
A book containing this quote Literature
A book containing the below quote (not an exact match, but an approximation based on what I remember): "There are three kinds of people in the world: The honest type, who would go to the police and hand over any money they find on the roadside even if it's just a penny; the crooked type, who would lie even if it benefits them little, and if you sleep with your mouth open, they'll try to pry off your gold tooth and sell it. One of my relatives is such a person. But most of us are in-between: People who might lie when it conveniences us, and people who tell white lies to ease the awkwardness."
P.S. It's not Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," although there's a similar dialogue that happens between Andy and Red.
Possibly just an arcade game Videogame
So I remember there was this game at Scandia which I really liked. It was an FPS with a very cartoony feel and I think you could play it against bots or against a second player. It's possible it's just an arcade game with no PC or console version but I am still curious. I think the name of the game started with an R
Remix of ATC "Around The World" Music
There's this remix of the song "Around The World" that I swear was called something like "VX remix", but I can't find it anywhere. I searched through 20+ remixes on youtube and none of them were right.
Wierd remix of "Yashar" by Cabaret Voltaire Music
I am trying to find a weird remix of the song "Yashar" by Cabaret Voltaire. It was sped up a lot, kind of techno-y, and didn't have the "The seventy billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?" sample from the original. I found it on some obscure (no longer in service) site where you could download songs, so it might have just been something they made themselves, but I'd still like to find it if possible.
Dinosaurs and Schizo Tech Film
I saw on TV in the late 90s what I think was a movie (or possibly TV show) involving some manner of prehistoric adventure. I distinctly remember only a few things: 1. I know for sure it was either in or after 1997 and before the 2000s. 2. In one scene, several adventurers (mercenaries?) are being attacked by some sort of pterodactyl-like flying monster. They are dressed somewhat like pirates (tunics, breeches, leather boots, etc) and when they are attacked, one of them drops some kind of glowing gem out in the open when they run for cover. Their leader orders one of them to go out and retrieve it, but instead he uses a gun to threaten another subordinate and make him try to get it instead. As soon as the mook runs out to grab the gem-thing, the monster swoops down and grabs him. 3. In another scene, there's a black monk or priest of some kind who seems to be fighting a velociraptor-like dinosaur that's trying to enter a room (of a temple or something) through a dimensional-portal.
I've tried using every combination of keywords you could take from this to search on Google, but so far haven't come up with anything.
CGI-Animated movie, little inventor, Peanut butter apparatus
A CGI-animated movie must have been around 2008, a young boy is an inventor who has built some kind of peanut butter-machine, an adult (his father or adoptive father or something) however has a terrible peanut allergy. This must have been a scene from the beginning of the movie.
"Shake the cloud, Nanny" Western Animation
Unfortunately don't have much to go off of, but it was a 2000s young children's show that aired in Australia featuring a narrator that would roughly once an episode talk to this (I think) non-human side character that could float in the sky or piloted something that could fly. The character was called Nanny and the narrator would always say "shake the cloud, Nanny", then Nanny would repeat its name like a pokemon and shake the cloud for some forgotten reason.
This has been racking mine and my dad's brains for over a decade now
Artist(s) that refuse to publish their lyrics? Music
I once saw an example on this site that said something along the lines of "XYZ band doesn抰 allow their lyrics to be published online because they want to be mysterious." Is there anyone like that? It抯 not Gorgoroth.
Book with humans using crab-like tanks/mecha to fight winged humanoids Literature
Fantasy type book set in a world where humans use crab-like tanks/mecha to fight winged humanoids
- Main character is a girl who works on tanks/mecha that have crab-like legs that are used a mobile platforms against a race of Winged Humanoids (possibly other races but they main featured ones)
- Main character is daughter of sort of government approved prostitute who soldiers are encouraged to use in order to have more more babies to replace the population losses caused by the war. Mother is obese as she has a lot of children and the government rewards her large amounts of chocolates and alike. Main character is embarrassed about this.
- Government agent approaches the main character about discovering why their tank/mecha keep getting ambushed. She discovers that the Power Crystals are giving off detectable radiation and that it can be hidden by covering it in tar.
- A rival girl talks a guy into getting rid of the main character under the auspices that main character could be government spy monitoring them. After the Main character is captured by the winged humanoids, the government agent tells them that the real spy was a man posing as a homeless Peeping Tom who was camping outside the showers of he facilities.
- The winged humanoids take the main character to tower of iron that was naturally formed from a volcanic eruption.
British kids show about a grey donkey Western Animation
I saw the intro on You Tube the other day. It looked like it was from around the 80s, and I think the donkey had a name starting with D. I think his sidekick was a bear or a gorilla, and the theme song didn't seem to actually mention anything directly related to the show, it just had a message along the lines of 'just keep trying' or 'friends are always there for each other'. I think there was one scene where the donkey and his sidekick lay down under a tree.
Silly "horror" web game Videogame
A few years ago I stumbled upon a rather silly "horror" flash Point-and-Click game that I had no idea how to beat.
It was from a first person POV and you began in some underground passage of sort. If you didn't move quickly and shut a door behind you a ridiculous Humanoid Abomination with crossed arms would pop from under the screen. Still it was rather funny than scary.
If you managed to get away succesfully you ended up in a dark forest of sorts with multiple paths to go. One led you to an area where a black humanoid figure with eyes all over it was scuttling erratically. If you poked it too eagerly it engulfed the entire screen while suddenly acquiring a mouth. It proceeded to trash-talk and then kill you. That's all I remember.
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I know this is REALLY VAGUE but I need some help...
See. There was this game series where the developer got horrified by the critics of his work pointing out that the best way to get results on his game was to be as horrible and immoral as posible, stealing, killing, you know the drill. To this he then course corrected to give rewards and perks to playing the game in a noble and caring way.
I really want to find this one again. I learned about it on TV Tropes so its definitely here.
3D online base defence game with humans vs aliens/monsters Videogame
I remember my brother and me playing this a lot probably around 10 years ago, ish? It was online multiplayer, no voice chat, just text.
The setting was a generic grassy/rocky hill environment. The teams were humans ( I think vaguely scifi-knight ish?) vs monster-alien sorts with a bug/reptilian vibe? Nothing super unique. The classes were the standard soldier, stealth, healer, magic and I remember the monsters' big tank class being the "Behemoth": A slow moving, giant ogre with a club - tended to be used to smash buildings. I think the humans had a tank. The bases had different buildings supplying health, upgrades, weapons, classes and there was a top down build mode for one lucky player.
I think you could also play it with NP Cs and just build your base and have the computer control the enemy, whilst sending out your own units. Might have been labelled a "practice mode".
We probably would have downloaded from a website like kongregate or similar; it was it's own client, not part of website.
I don't think it was related to War Hammer but was likely trying to mimic that sort of game.
Movie or TV show about a... Satan orb? Live Action TV
There was a show or movie my dad was watching when I was a kid, and all I remember about it is that there was this silvery little orb, about the size of a tennis ball, that was at least implied to be the antichrist. I very vividly remember an older woman in a graveyard who touched it by accident and started bleeding to death from her nose and eyes. That's all I remember, but I was thinking about it recently and wondered if anyone could help me figure out what it was.