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Noob, PhD
horror movie starting with a honeymoon and a piano falls on a lady Film
my coworker is trying to remember a horror movie that begins with a couple on a honeymoon trip. the husband is worried that he left the stove on at home, but his wife reassures him that everything's alright. then a piano falls on the wife. is this familiar to anyone?
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Pixeline Videogame
Played the first two games in the series as a kid. A cherry, feminine little girl with (in the Norwegian dub, at least) weird voice teaches kids about stuff in various screens and games. Also remember some of the songs (especially the bicycle one from the second game). An edutainment game series from the mid-90's from Denmark, similar to the edutainment games from America.
TikTok woodwind instrumental Music
What is the name of that woodwind piece that is used a lot on Tik Tok (especially on comedic videos). It is NOT "Tomfoolery" or "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys". I?m not on Tik Tok
Local Dead Guy/Pineapple
desert island, angry indigenous kid, and some kind of creature Western Animation
i was writing stuff and got reminded of this show i watched as a kid!
it was a short-form cartoon about a kid who lived with some kind of creature on a desert island. the kid might've looked like one of 'em Hollywood Natives and had dark skin and curly hair that went spiky whenever they got mad, while i don?t remember anything about the creature other than how the kid got mad at them often. characters were Speaking Simlish. i distinctly remember the kid yelling something that sounded like "hey! chobulay babulay!" at the creature in one episode bc it was a sort of inside joke among my family.
despite the similar theme of fantasy indigenous tribes, it isn't Qumi-Qumi
Edited by noodlesnook
Admiral Ackbar
18th century political cartoon with a Black Comedy Rape punchline Print Comic
I remember coming across a late 18th/early 19th century political cartoon, possibly around the time of the Napoleonic wars. I wanna say it was by James Gillray, or at least a similar artist from the same time period.
It featured two soldiers, two young woman, and an old woman (their mother or grandmother), with dialogue something to the effect of:
I was trying to find it as an example for Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, but no matter what combination of words I searched for, I couldn't find it.
Edited by Admiralakbar1
Mr. Green
Man jumps, son ceases to exist, short horror/sci fi story from a collection (still unsolved!) Literature
This is all I know:
1. Someone here said that they remember reading something like this. They cannot remember basically anything, except that the cover had a monochrome appearance, largely white with some design in the middle in darker color, covered about a quarter to a third of the cover, and was centered.
2. Someone on Yahoo answers said that Joe Hill (author of Dark Carousel) writes these type of stories.
3. I read this on a horror collection I downloaded in 2015-2017, it was fairly new then. I have tried searching on my Kindle and found nothing.
4. This occurs in the story. A man jumps off a building or balcony (quite possibly suicide), I think a father. The mother and son (how old he was I am not entirely sure) were watching news. Suddenly, the son's body slowly disappears, first I think his legs, then his arms, as this happens, his mother screams, "Eli (I think that was his name), look down at yourself ..." He was ceasing to exist. I cannot remember the ending, but knowing how these stories turn out, I think it was not a happy one.
5. I thought it was the collection, "the Seer of Possibilities - And Other Disturbing Tales" by Thomas O or "Choose Your Doom: Collected Short Stories - Picking Stories for the Apocalypse." Apocalypse seems quite familiar for some reason. Something is telling me that this is from one of the Twisted Endings books by author Timothy D Mclendon, but unfortunately, though I downloaded the entire volumes from Amazon, they were returned, for some reason, they are currently unavailable. I will check E-bay.
6. I asked this (of course here), Reedit, Booksleuth, Yahoo Answers, Do You Remember.co.uk, three horror forums, and I sent this in to my local library. The librarian who was probably the most helpful of anyone, asked this approximately to 500 librarians and not one knew.
Now, I know this is very vague, but I know this must seem familiar to at least someone here, I know tons read horror, and searching several of the queries, people here are quite helpful and have made tons of guesses, and half even led to correct answers, and the queries are even vague. Now, only TWO people have helped, and I wish more would, the majority of the responses are bumps. This is discouraging and I do not know who else to ask. I will find this out by myself if I have to, but as I said, I know several of you read horror, and this must ring bells for someone here. PLEASE HELP.
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Mr. Green
Stage Play
I saw this in the Village Theater around 2004-06. I cannot remember much, but this. 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 (if it was, it might have been a play), probably a drama. The only scene I can recall was one where the son was with I think with the woman or his mother, who 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.
Edited by thestormtrooper
Odd memory of an movie ad on the radio. Film
This is probably gonna be a hard one but when I was a little kid (this would be about late 80s/early 90s) I was in the car with my dad and this scary ad for a movie came on. All I remember for sure is hearing some woman screaming something like "We have to escape"! At the time I asked my dad why she was screaming like that and he said something like "This bad guy showed up at her house and had some kind of monster with him". Seeing as I was a little kid he might have been lying to me for some reason (e.g. maybe the bad guy was really a Serial Rapist or something and he didn't want to tell me about that sort of thing), but whatever it is, I'm still curious. I know this is really vague, but maybe someone can figure it out.
Serena and Lucky (horse girl graphic novel)? Print Comic
The mother horse dies in childbirth and the baby horse has to be sold because the farm is shutting down. There's a recurring thing about their noses being soft as velvet.
Does anybody else remember this print comic? Thanks for reading.
Edit to Add: Was in circulation in the 1990s.
Edited by Saint-Starflicker
Epicparadox
Guy says "that would be ridiculous" with a lisp Live Action TV
Alright, this is random as hell and not very specific at all but it popped into my head last night and it's driving me crazy that I can't figure out what it is.
It's definitely live action, I think TV, and made in the last 10ish years. I don't remember what it is or any of the context, all I remember is a white middle aged man (I think he's bald) with a lisp saying "hi kids!" and something like "that's ridiculous" or "that would be ridiculous". But he says "ridic-oh-luss" not "ridic-you-luss". And he has a slight southern accent I think. I was trying to remember any details, any at all, but all I know is that he was talking to kids. I can't even remember if there were any kids there or if he was directly addressing the audience. I think it wasn't a straight forward kids show, it was a parody of kids shows or something? This is so vague, I'm sorry, but if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
No Title Anime
it wasnt an anime as its known now but an animated kids show it was set around a bunch of kids in the medieval time in a renaissance type castle the characters that i remember where a fat girl with ginger hair that spoke like the looney toons tasmanian devil another girl who was the daughter of the king but liked hanging out with these peasants a bald kid who seemed to be the butt of all the jokes and a skinny old man who was always tied up in a jail cell
i remember one episode in particular where to impress her dad the main girl i mentioned before dressed the bald kid up as an eagle in the competition being held at some point the kid was offered a worm he had to eat and the weird girl previously mentioned ate one too because why not
was similar to a rugrats type style in a way
i watched this show when i was young in 2010/11
Edited by Gobonono
Bug zapper Western Animation
From an animated program, not sure if Western or Anime: A bunch of characters are trekking through the dense jungle. They are annoyed by swarms of bugs, but press on. One of the characters, who had magic powers or energy powers or something of the like, snaps their fingers or does a similar gesture, and all the bugs around them briefly flash as they are hit with energy, before falling to the ground, dead.
Lilliputian-sized people fight horde of goblin-type creatures Literature
Children's chapter book that was read in 90s but possibly older
- The main characters are lilliputian-sized people who live in fortress/castles in (I think) rubbish tip
- They live in a fortress because they come under regular attack from hordes of goblin creatures with green skin and red or orange hair
- There are multiple fortresses and they have an alliance to send aid to each other during the attacks by the goblin creatures
- At the start of the book, the horde attacking is bigger then usual and a group of the main characters are sent to the allied fortress to get help
- The group gets to the allied fortress but finds that the fortress has already been destroyed by the horde
- The group encounter two surviving knights of the fortress. The two knights ride cats - as in domestic cats. The others are shocked at this cause cats are generally seen as a danger to them but the knights raised them from kittens.
- The knights offer to come with the group back to their fortress, saying the cats are worth an army by themselves and the only reason they couldn't save their own fortress was because they were out on patrol at the time.
- They return to the fortress and defeat the horde.
mitziolet
Analog horror about nuclear war and fallout Web Original
The video was similar to a regular PSA about nuclear bombs and such, but it was somewhat stylized. It had a pinkish, 1950s-1970s-esque filter over the video. The sections of information had numbers in one of the corners, and some of the segments were missing. Near the end of the video, it shows a fallout shelter with a crack in the corner and radioactive particles that look like stock image germs seeping in from the crack, and eventually making their way into the shelter. At the end, it says something like "There are no winners in a nuclear war" or something like that.
I tried looking up 'nuclear war analog horror' on Youtube, but I couldn't find the specific video. Perhaps it got deleted
Children's Online Game? Videogame
So, this is a really random thing from childhood that popped into my head. I vaguely remember a series of online mini-games from the 2000s featuring commercial mascots. I do not remember all of them, but I just barely remember one where one of the mascots was a girl with I think blonde hair that had a spring for legs. You know, like those spring riders from children you see at the park. I think the goal of her game was to launch riders into the sky. I think the whole point of these mascots was they were naughty children turned transformed into ridiculous things.
I think there was a total of five mascots and I want to say they were for a juice pouch company like Kool-Aid or Capri Sun. Not sure which one. And I want to say there was a way to access these games from the Nickelodeon website, but they didn't actually belong to Nickelodeon
YA horror novel Literature
A group of teenagers and I think a horror writer go to a haunted house and take turns telling each other spooky stories, each of which take up a chapter of the book. At the end, one of the kids dies and another has their hair turn white from the trauma. I think some of the stories were the classic "babysitter gets a mysterious phone call" and "man with hook hand" urban legends.
Christian music TV show with a group of animated monster characters Western Animation
I remember years back I was flipping through channels and I stumbled across a Christian TV network playing this strange cartoon that starred these monster or ogre-like characters. I remember that, when I tuned in, a segment was ending, and the final joke of that segment was that one of them brought a bag of marshmallows, except it had some funny pun-based name (IIRC it might have been "smarshmallows"). In between the segments was live-action CCM music videos.
Does anybody might know what I am talking about?
Movie/show where a mentor withholds a technique
The quote is something like: "I know X ways to kill a man, I shall teach you X-1 in case I need to use that one on you someday"
I cannot remember the exact numbers which I think is why it's proving Un-Googleable (I'm getting answers to math questions and Bible verses). I feel like I've seen it imitated/parodied as well, but I'd like to find the original source of the quote. (Though if you know one of those works, feel free to share it since we might be able to trace it back to the original.) TIA!