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Couple move into mansion looking for hidden money Live Action TV
I think it was a serialized series, kinda like "Amazing Stories" with the twist ending. Set in the 1800's, a young couple move into a mansion owned by a grumpy old man after hearing rumours about him hiding his fortune somewhere on the property - buried in the fields. They take jobs as maid and butler and while working, search away. Unsuccessful, the husband devises a plan for his wife to become "cozy" with the old, ugly man, against her wishes. At first, she is disgusted, but after a while she begins to enjoy it and slowly starts to pull away from her husband and get closer to the old man. I think her and the old man then decide to leave, leaving the husband all alone. The last scene is him digging in the field, with the background showing numerous holes dug.
Short historical fantasy story with a larval phoenix preserved in amber (solved) Literature
I ran across this story years ago on what I think was an online speculative fiction zine - I clearly remember the short story Wikihistory on the same site, but that hasn't exactly helped me find it again (it's all over the internet now). :P
- The protagonist is an archetypal Loveable Rogue, and one of a number of immortals wandering the earth, who rejuvenate themselves by draining prehistoric magic from insects encased in amber.
- The protagonist magically contracts Wolbachia from the insect he last used, begins slowly turning into a woman, and sets out to try to find a cure. (Among his contacts are another immortal who was previously infected but has long since accepted her transformation.)
- He uncovers an artefact in the possession of another immortal - a larval phoenix, in the form of the maggot which first hatches from the phoenix egg and consumes its parent's body, encased in amber yet still slightly alive, which has a dangerous amount of magic which should be able to restore him if properly used.
- (I think the lost panels from the Amber Room are mentioned too?)
- Ultimately the protagonist realises an alternative plan and embraces her new form and identity, instead seizing the opportunity to steal the phoenix from its current owner and reincarnate it.
Old CGI Cartoon About Robots that turn into diving gear. Western Animation
This is driving me crazy and i am starting to think i imagined this one. But it's an old CGI Cartoon where a bunch of kids explore the ocean by having pet robots turn into diving gear, which also gives them super weapons to fight against some evil guy with a punk hair cut.
It's also a big adventure with continuity and quasi-constant progression, The characters were: a cocky boy who could shoot cyclones from his chest, a reasonable that had some stun powers, her little brother who has submarine that he later turns into a robot, and a wannabe reporter girl that's never part of the action.
I remember watching it in french on teletoon, i can't pin point the year since i was really young.
Pretty sure it had at least two seasons, with the second one introducing an incompétent pirate.
Animated Paranormal Investigation Show? Anime
It was a case of the week type of show, with a small team. I remember the plot of two episodes
One episode had a actress who thought she was haunted but was being stalked by her assistant.
Another had a secret abortion clinic in a mall basement, and the ghosts of the fetuses were attacking the (usually teen) parents.
I can't find anything on this
itch.io visual novel Videogame
It was about purchasing an android and you would either romance it(?) or treat it as your child, everything was shown as a diorama and in the ending i got it was revealed that the entire story's framing device was that of a diorama presentation your android kid was giving in class. i think there was something about civil rights for the androids in the story too.
it was hosted on itch.io or gamejolt i don't remember which
Edited by masterpenguYoutube series about bunch of people trapped in rooms Web Original
I remember this series through a You Tube video on it, but I've forgotten the title of both the video and the series. So basically, it was a bunch of people, trapped in different rooms with different activities in there as a part of a reality show, or social experiment or something. One of the characters had access to a phone that could communicate with different rooms, but only one at a time and with the light on the phone line being lit up. The guy keeps communicating with the different rooms, until he reaches one where the item in that room...was a noose. I don't remember either the original series or the video I learned about it from, but if you have the identity of either, it is much appreciated.
Anti-Modern Anthology on Netflix Film
I saw this before I even knew Black Mirror existed, maybe 2008-2012? I believe it was on Netflix. It has a similar but different tone to Black Mirror. Instead of "spooky technology" the show seems to be critical of Capitalism, or at least modern work/life balance, society, and consumerism. I will attempt to recall two episodes that are fuzzy in my memory.
1st episode I remember is more vague. There is someone working on a floor, lets say floor 43 for the sake of it. Floors look upon the higher floors with respect, while demoting to a lower floor is seen as a disgrace and causes some individuals to commit suicide. The whole episode seems to have a narrative that develops around an intercom announcing promotions/demotions/and general announcements, as well as people from various floors coming to speak to the main character. I don't think the show ever explains what these people actually do for an occupation, other than trying to advance to the next floor and avoid being demoted.
The other episode is more clear in my mind. It revolves around a husband and wife who live in the suburbs in a very large house. The husband and wife live a very mundane consumer-culture lifestyle. The wife watches a show which advertises products that she always must buy and participate in. The show is a sort of read-along of a book which is supposed to be a recipe for happiness. The husband seems discontent with this lifestyle. After awhile, a family member/acquaintance of some sort needs to stay at their place, and this family member is a free spirit. He gradually, day by day, transforms their yard into a carnival of sorts. At the beginning of the episode, the family member is just playing basketball, or using a trampoline. But I seem to remember as it goes on and on he gets more and more things/people and it's like a carnival of entertainment. The husband seems to tolerate it only because he is envious of that lifestyle.
Eventually there is a breakdown in the episode where the wife's show about the book of happiness ends and the host of the show thinks the book ending is terrible, because the final message is anti-consumerist. The host begins screaming and crying with rage and discontent and so the wife follows along and is the same way. This causes the husband to break and he eventually leaves this life behind and tries to be more free-spirited.
I really hope I have provided enough detail as I'd love to watch it again since I have been getting into various anthologies such as Electric Dreams, Inside No. 9, and others.
Episode about Giant Bees Western Animation
Animated in the similar way as Ben 10 or TMNT, early 2000s. A group of investigators, might've been teens, try to solve the disappearances of people in a high school. Giant bees are abducting people and putting them in honey cocoons in the ceiling over the gymnasium. It's the only episode of this show I've seen.
Shmup game Videogame
It was available on the Xbox 360, had a Latin name, a red rose(?) logo with red text on a white background and was 2.5D.
Anime Music Video About Girl And Robot Music
So, there was this music video I saw in around 2009 that was playing on some rhythm game installed at a Chuck E. Cheese.
It was animated in an anime style and follows this girl, who was running through a forest before she suddenly slips and winds up tumbling into this abandoned building. The building isn’t in the best condition with wires dangling everywhere, and she ends up meeting this little spherical robot (closest image I can think of is One-One from Infinity Train but with a different color palette).
A bunch of bigger and more intimidating looking robots end up activating and chase after the girl and the little robot while shooting lasers at them. The little robot ends up forcing the girl into an escape pod while leaving itself behind. It ends with the girl crying as the building explodes while the escape pod flies away.
Haven’t seen it since and it’s been driving me crazy.
Edited by RabbitsAreNeatMS Dos Point and Click Game (Solved) Videogame
All I can remember about this game is that there was a tree house in the back yard. If you went in the tree house, one of the things you could do was drop food out the door. If you did, when you left, there'd be garbage on the ground, with ants going to it.
Edited by TylendalChildren's fantasy book with drawing and dragons Literature
There was a children's book- probably from 2010 or earlier- about a girl in a village learning magic. In order to control the magic, she had to be very familiar with the thing she wanted to control, so her mentor set her to drawing blades of grass and leaves in painstaking detail. At the end of the book, a dragon comes to town and the girl uses magic to fight it. At one point she uses grass to bind the dragon's feet to the ground.
Pro-capitalist sci-fi animated short film Western Animation
There was this cartoon short film that came out either in the 50s or 60s, and it was about how 'great' capitalism is. It had a very Raygun Gothic / Zeerust aesthetic, and I think it featured aliens (perhaps martians) as well. It was even probably sponsored by a gas company. I don't know if it's in the public domain. What is it?
Something about an age-changing carousel Film
I really only remember the end parts, because I don't think I caught the whole thing. I do remember distinctly that there's a magical carousel or roundabout or what-have-you that causes people to get younger or older when they ride on it.
I think the main group of protagonists were looking for some people, and when they found them they had turned back into kids. One of the protagonist kids (I can't remember if they were all kids or a mixture, but there was a kid) got on, went around, came back off as an adult, and was enthralled by the fact he had stubble now. Then there was a maybe-side character who got on and turned into a kid, I think in the post-credits he got put through the foster system or something? He continued to smoke and/or drink as a kid, it shocked them.
If it helps, the first kid I mentioned was white, and the second guy I think was black.
It's been in my memory for a long while, and I've tried several times to figure it out before. Maybe this will work
Edited by TrueEnderCGI Holiday Special Western Animation
I swear I vaguely remember a cgi Holiday special that I just can't seem to find. The details I remember are that it was about a little girl whose dog went missing and I think it makes her lose her Christmas spirit, and this fairy-creature-I-can't-remember tries to help her get it back (like A Christmas Carol but not really) while I'm pretty sure it also turns out the dog was abducted. That's all I remember, though.
Edited by RedBerryBlueCherryBike travel show Western Animation
It's About 2 anthro boys who travel the world on their bikes where meet a kid from the country thier visiting. I remember there was an episode about Australia and an episode about Brazil that focused on football and had this cool tv Goldberg thing to fix the antenna.
Animated creepy short: balloons and sharp people Western Animation
So this was an animated short I’m mostly sure I saw on Cartoon Network but it could’ve been Disney or Nick, about a decade ago. It kinda had a Tim burton nightmare before Christmas vibe to the animation, but it was 2D (and I think Flash, not hand drawn). This kid had a bunch of balloons that he realiy loved, but then these sharp, angular, pitch black featureless humanoids came up to him (I think in a group?) and started to pop them by touching their sharp fingers to the balloons. With every pop, a part of the boy’s body became sharp, pitch black, and angular like theirs; first his finger became basically a black triangle, then his hand, then his legs and body. I think he tried to stop them and couldn’t. They left him alone when his whole body was black triangles except for his head, and he had one balloon left. He had an exaggerated happy/relieved expression when he saw said balloon, and hugged it a lot. The screen cut to black and a balloon popping sound played, and then the credits rolled over I think piano music but I’m not sure. Does anyone know what this is called? I’ve tried keywords like “animated short balloon creepy” and nothing came up. Also please tell me if I already posted this YKTSW—I cant figure out how to search my own profile on mobile
Weird module for ZZT Videogame
This is probably gonna be a hard one but here goes: There was this game/module/whatever someone made for ZZT where you are a kid in this school where the teachers are really mean so you go around shooting them. I remember at one point you face the principal whose name is something like Mr.Dias. When you talk to him he asks a riddle "Is a sphinx good" and says he will rip your heart out if you answer wrong your possible answers are Yes, No, and Nope. If you say Nope he says "yes but you used improper grammar and rips your heart out. Only if You guess No do you beat him. I played it around 1995
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Trying to find a specific childhood book Literature
One of the many children's books I used to have and read as a kid was one where the main character is a shaggy dog. I can recall scenes from the book such as the dog rolling down a hill and getting dizzy, as well as one where the dog eats sausages with a napkin wrapped around his neck, but I can't remember the name of the book nor the dog character. The book, if I recall correctly, was published by Scholastic.