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Song that says "As the day fades away" Music
There was this song I first heard on the radio in 1997. I would call it smooth jazz, or maybe soft rock. It had a female singer singing "As The Day Fades Away", which I'm pretty sure was the only lyrics in the song (at least I don't remember any others.)
Taunting someone with chicken clucking to call them a coward
What is the trope when someone imitates a chicken's clucking to call someone a coward (if it even is a legit trope)?
Edited by arisbochpop up book thats like weirdly grim Literature
it was like a pop up book with a lot of purple and black and there was like a brother and a sister and there was one page with a really really tall house. anyone know this?
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!
Edit - Some additional research turned up that the first part of the line originally came from The Forever War - "Tonight, we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." I'd really like to find the first source to use the latter "...I'll teach you X-1 in case I need to use it on you someday" part.
Edit 2 - Found one of the parodies here, a Robot Chicken sketch at 0:55. But what is that originally from? It's infuriating!
Edited by BeerBaronhorror 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?
Edited by Professional_NoobPixeline 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.
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 noodlesnook18th 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 Admiralakbar1Odd 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-StarflickerGuy 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.
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.
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
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
Similar to Dinosaur King but in another world Anime
It was some sort of childrens cartoon/anime, with a character design reminiscent of Dinosaur King. The main kid, a boy, had some sort of monster/creature like a pokemon or something. I remember in one episode, the creature ran in circles around a city to create a glass dome with layers of glass and something else to make a dome to protect it from a sandstorm or something. I am also pretty sure this show doesn't occur on Earth, but another univese/world, but I could be wrong. Not digimon, nothing that comes up under dinosaur.
Book about a punk and a wizard... Literature
Trying to recall the name of a book I read as a teen in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was set in a dystopian futuristic city, and followed a teenage punk scrabbling to make ends meet in the city. At the start of the book, he meets a strange old man who literally appears out of nowhere, and proclaims himself to be a wizard - and he decides to take our protagonist as his apprentice (I think after said protagonist tried and failed to rob him). Whilst the boy thinks the man is mad, both for the assertion of his magical powers and his stated goal being to conquer the world, he tags along with him. At the book's climax, the wizard summons a green, orc-like monster (making our protag realize he really is real) and makes his big attempt to basically kill the city's leader and take over for himself. The book ends with the two being dropped down into the tunnels beneath the city - which actually turns out to be good for our protagonists; down in the earth, the wizard can finally fully recharge his mana reserves. He declares the punk's world isn't worth the effort of conquering and opens a doorway to a new world, with our hero following him through, now committed to learning how to be a wizard himself. Does anyone know what book this could be? Also, would this count as an example of Mage in Manhattan?
Movie Where Man gets sent to life in prison for attacking his Wife's murderer Film
I saw this video on Facebook of a movie where a man gets life in prison for attacking the man that killed his wife, Grey.
All I know is that the guy who killed the wife is named Kovic...I don't know the title though.