r/tipofmytongue • • Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open [TOMT] Been looking for this movie since I was 8

40 Upvotes

Hello,

I have been looking for this movie since 2007 when I was 8 years old.

Brief backstory:

Late fall 2007 I had just finished beating Conflict: Desert Storm on gamecube with my dad. After which I stumbled into our house's living room to tell my mom. On the TV was a scene:

It was a man sitting in a car with a revolver pointing a revolver his own head. He appeared to be on a radio arguing with someone. It looked as if he might've been strapped to a bomb. This was nearly 20 years ago so it's hard to tell now. It took place at night and people were running panicked in front of the car. He may have been at a plaza or some type of business parking lot idk. The man appeared slightly heavy-set with curly hair. The only lines he spoke before my mom quickly changed the channel were "I thought you were my friend!" or it could have been "What type of friend are you!"

That scene mesmorized me when I was little kid and now that I'm older I want to see what that movie (or tv show) was about. Problem is I can't seem to find it. I've tried asking friends, my parents, coworkers, even multiple types of AI but nothing seems to come up with the right answer.

It could be I'm misremembering key details, but at its core I remember a man in a car, pointing a revolver at his head, holding sometype of commication device, with people running frantic around the car.

I would love to see what others think it was!

Thank you.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][VIDEO] Classic YouTube “Nightmare Fuel” Music Video from the Late 00s/Early 10s

7 Upvotes

Hello, I’m looking for an old YT video that I can’t seem to find anywhere. As I recall, it was a surreal edit of an old PSA set to electronic music. The original PSA was clearly directed at kids. It was probably from the 1960s and seemed to be about bullying or including other children during playtime.

In the edit, the kids’ faces were distorted with visual effects to look creepy and alien, such as having their ears and tongues elongated, things like that. The video ended with the main character (a blonde-haired boy) having fire in his eyes, and then he used laser vision to blow the other kids up. The explosions were kind of cartoony.

I think it was featured on Web Soup’s “Things You Can’t Unsee” in 2010, but I can’t find the original clip of that either. Any help or insight would be appreciated!


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT][Simple melody][2020s] Does anyone recognise this melody from a clock tower?

5 Upvotes

There's a clock tower in my city that chimes every 15 mins and uses Big Ben's Westminster melody to mark the intervals. A few years ago, I heard this melody play at 12 pm instead (I've done my best to recreate it). I assume it was a one-off for a special occasion.

Unfortunately, I can barely find any info on which tower the chimes even come from let alone what the melody might be called, so I'm having trouble finding any answers.

Does anyone recognise it?


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] Looking for a specific phrase that essentially means out of touch and Hypocritical

4 Upvotes

I was discussing the adultery subreddit and how it’s wild to me that people who are in years-long affairs will insist that they love their spouses and don’t want to change their home lives. I know there’s a phrase to describe people like this who are out of touch and hypocritical, and it’s often used when referring to politicians or political administrations, but I genuinely cannot remember it. I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out and this is causing me stress lol


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] [2012-2014] 2D and 3D Animated Movie about a schoolboy who becomes attracted with a ghost girl

3 Upvotes

I remember randomly watching this movie, because it was being broadcast on Nick at Nite. It must have been around 2009-2010. I remember the movie being both hand-drawn and computer-animated, but it has a very good, high-quality look to it. The movie starts out with main character being a young teen who falls in love with a female, bright-blue ghost. At the end of the movie, our main character and the dead girlfriend were making out before the end credits roll. I really hope that everyone can help me find this movie, because I've been searching for it for years now.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [EDUCATIONAL VIDEO] [90s] creepy Elementary School educational video about being home alone/calling 911

4 Upvotes

I’ve been trying to find this for over a month so thought I would ask here. When I was in kindergarten in the late 00s, my teacher or maybe a police officer who visited showed us this old educational video that scared the hell out of me. I’m not fully sure what the plot of it was, but there was a teenage girl who I think was home alone and squirted ketchup all over herself to pretend she was bleeding and then called 911. I also remember it ending with someone ringing the doorbell and her getting scared and then it showed that it was just trick-or-treating kids. The kids were walking away from the door and one of them was wearing this creepy green witch mask. The video was definitely old because we watched it on those rolling VCR tv’s. I feel it was most likely made in the 90s but it could’ve been earlier. I also remember the coloring being very cool toned and blue. I grew up in Wisconsin if that helps too. Apologies that I remember so little.


r/tipofmytongue • • 10h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG][80s-90s] 80s pop song

11 Upvotes

This bit is stuck in my head. I feel like this is a popular song, so this will be answered pretty quickly, but idk where else to go, I've searched for "songs with yeah yeah" and I seriously doubt Googling a bunch of music notes will do anything. I asked my mom and she recognizes it but she can't remember what it is either. Keep in mind that I have mediocre pitch and a low vocal range, so this is some octaves lower than it should be.

https://voca.ro/1fqpPAaDXXge


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open [TOMT] [Childrens Book] [1990s]

6 Upvotes

I was born in 1989 and probably read this when I was about 6-8, although had a high reading level for my age. I live in England.

The story was about two children (at least) who ran away from home and managed to somehow set up a new life on an island. I know there’s not much to go on.

Cover illustration likely of a row boat filled with food.


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Open. [TOMT] Children's book from the early 2000s-2010s

6 Upvotes

Recently I've been thinking about this children's picture book that I had as a kid during the early to mid 2010s problem is I can't remember the title, the author or when it came out. All I remember is the plot, so pls tell me if this sounds familiar.

Basically this boy wakes up for the first day of school really anxious and scared and when he goes to school, everything is dark and creep, and all the teachers and school staff are monsters like the lunch lady is a ogre?

And she feeds the students gross things like gruel or something, the boy freaked out runs home and crawls back into bed hoping to out of the nightmare when he does wake up and go to school for real, everything is bright and colorful, his teachers are nice, the lunch lady feeds him real food, and at the end of the school day he finds himself wanting to go back the next day, essentially it was a book that taught kids to over come their fears of school.

Edit- found the book it's The Spider School by Francesca Simon


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT] [ANIMATION] segment in a “try not to cry” video that scared me when I was little

3 Upvotes

In or around 2015-2018 I watched a YouTube video titled something along the lines of “try not to cry” I believe it was a reaction style video and one specific animation (or possibly multiple different animations?) shown in it scared me so bad. There were a couple different plot lines, the two that I remember are; 1. a father dies at war and mother dies to cancer which leaves their kid to be an orphan 2. A child throws a ball into a road for their dog to catch but when the dog comes back instead of having gotten the ball he puts his paw in the child’s hand revealing it to be bloodied and run over. These were both 2d animations and now that I think about it could very well have been from completely different artists. As for the reaction video itself I cannot remember a single thing about the reactor except that I want to say it was a white dude. At least one other video was shown before the animation segment started, it was a live action video of an old woman not being able to afford a cake for either her or her daughters birthday, but in the end somehow acquired the money to get one. I don’t necessarily need to find the reaction video or the other live action film shown in it (still would be nice to see tho) I’m more so just interested in figuring out what these animations could have possibly been to have bothered me so badly. Any possible suggestions are very appreciated 🫡


r/tipofmytongue • • 58m ago

Open [TOMT][CARTOON] Old probably foreign cartoon where in one scene a guy is told to retrieve a piece of the equator, runs off, bites off a piece of the equator, a striped line, and runs back with it.

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The cartoon I saw once, I think at school, a long time ago, has been stuck in my head for years. I cant be more specific. I might have been 8? So pre-1992 is the best I can tell you. I lf I had more info I would tell you.

There's some guy who ends up recruiting a bunch of people, each of whom is quirky in some way. Some king or someone gives them a task to complete, and of course, each of his quirky friends has some ability that makes the seemingly impossible task possible.

One of them is a guy who runs really fast. I think he's got one arm tied behind his back or something, or maybe he's hopping on one leg. Whatever it is, you'd think it would make running harder, but it doesn't.

At one point, the guy is asked to go retrieve a piece of the equator. The fast-running guy just runs all the way to the equator, which, of course, is a dashed line like you see on a globe or a map. He bites off a piece of it with his teeth, presumably because his arms are tied behind his back, and brings it back.

The narrator says something about the piece of equator being so blue that it makes the sky look red. Or maybe he says it was red. I can't remember the exact wording, but it's something along those lines.

Anyway, this cartoon has been rattling around in my head for a long time. I really just want to find it, watch it again, and figure out what it was.

I think this cartoon was foreign, maybe European, had a non standard art style. Ive never posted here before. Hopefully Im doing this right


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Solved [TOMT][Creepypasta] (Not famous) Creepypasta story

6 Upvotes

This story was not famous, I read it when browsing the Creepypasta website, probably between 2022-24. The story goes as follows:
- a boy is kicked out of his room (for whatever reason) and is forced to sleep in a different room with a bunk bed. He sleeps on the top bunk
- at night, he starts hearing something on the bottom bunk. Sometimes, the thing sticks his hand between the slats of the top bunk bed and jabs him, seemingly to test if the boy is awake. It is very painful.
- one day he wakes up in the middle of the night and the entity is sort of coming through the wall. The details are blurry from here but, as I imagine/remember, the entity is sort of laying next to him, partly in the wall (not a hole in the wall, more like it’s phasing through the wall) with its arm around him and tries to slowly pull him into the wall. The creature is humanoid and slimy. He escapes


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open. [TOMT][MOVIE][TV SERIES] I can't find this movie/series

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Basically I remember this one scene and I don't know if I imagined the whole this, but this girl gets kidnapped and she's held in this room. She never sees her kidnapper because they communicate to her via a speaker/camera - and the place is heavily rigged with cameras.

Its kind of pyschological because the kidnapper gives her makeup, clothes, food, showers - because the kidnapper escapes and when the police find her in the house - they think she just ran away because she is all healthy and looks good.

The police also find no evidence of any cameras or microphones or anything in the house, leading her to feel like she's going insane, and leading them to believe she ran away for attention.

If this rings any bells please let me know!!!

EDIT:
Some extra details,

- She is definetely teenage/early twenties girl

- She was tentative about even accepting the makeup and stuff but I have a small memory that she was kind of vain about her appearance so she ended up using it


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open. [TOMT][MUSIC]Mysterious music video

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First and foremost, I apologize for my English; I am using a translator, and this is my first time posting here.

I have a faint memory of seeing a music video around 2011–2012, though I’m not entirely sure when it was actually released.

I was quite young at the time, and it left me a bit traumatized.

I’m not sure about the specific genre, but if I had to describe it, I’d say it was somewhat in the style of Korn—a bit underground, experimental, and heavy or dark. One thing I remember clearly is a rabbit mask—or perhaps just a creepy mask—and someone being taken into a small structure, like a cabin or an asylum; I’m not certain, but there was also a forest involved.

The video appeared somewhat old, or perhaps it was intentionally styled that way—the footage was a bit grainy and dark.

I know these aren’t many details and it’s all a bit vague, but I was very young and don’t remember everything clearly; I’ve just never been able to find it again.

Once again, I apologize for my writing, and thank you in advance.


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT][GAME] mobile game i played when i was little

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this was during prime animal jam, around 2018. it isnt the best description and i bareky remember anything about it but there was this game id play when i was little. i remember there being all these different rooms you could visit and play with a bunch of other real people. i remember this sort of hotelish lobby room, a restaraunt room, a pool/spa room, a club with a piano, i think thwre was a movie room with a couch. i think there was this spinner you could spin every few hours or days during a certain event. i think you could decorate your characte, i cant quite remember if you played as a person or animal, but the best i can put it is like a combo of animal jam and kim kardashian hollywood


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Need help identifying/finding VERY NICHE tragic/horror manga, characters are animal people

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I want to reiterate that its a disturbing story.

I remember the start, end and characters but i cannot seem to find it. (WARNING: involves dead bodies, child death) It involves a embalmer (black cat?), that makes shrunken heads for decoration/alternative to urns from what i remember. There is a girl that may or may not have animal ears that gets adopted by the man, the man keeps to himself and slowly gets to know her as she gets curious about his job or something and helps him. She ends up being sick and dies by the end and he makes a shrunken head and a person that visits the place and how its beautifully decorated or something.

i remember a scene where she is holding the bottom of his coat as they go out to the market or something. i am at the end of my rope after searching everything, anything would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance, i read the whole thing but forgot the name of it and i cant find it in my history.


r/tipofmytongue • • 10h ago

Open [TOMT] [Book] [2020’s]

10 Upvotes

I’m looking for a book that was reasonably popular on instagram possibly a few months ago.

I’m not an avid user of instagram at all, but a few months ago I opened the app and I glimpsed a video where someone talked about the book I’m now looking for. I quietly assumed I’d look it up later but forgot its name; in the post, the op lamented a core gimmick of the book, that being that it’s split in several “acts” (don’t remember if that was the lingo used) and that each time you finish an act, you’re required to reread the book from the start to look at past events through a new perspective. The book was massive, with a dark cover to my memory, and it seemed to be soooort of well known in contemporary fantasy circles? If anyone knows what I’m talking about it and it’s not too vague, that’d be of great help, thank you.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] [COMMERCIAL] Woman walks down the street but all the sound effects are replaced by jazz music

4 Upvotes

I distinctly remember seeing this commercial, it was either in the 2000s or the 2010s, it's this woman walking down the street in a sun dress but all the sound effects are replaced by jazz music. A dog barks at her, an old lady yells at her (and whatever she's yelling is replaced by scatting) and a dude honks his horn at her (that one didn't age so well). I don't remember what the commercial was for and I can't find it even with Google's AI thingy. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks either way.


r/tipofmytongue • • 15h ago

Solved [TOMT] Unidentified Massachusetts Halloween attraction?

21 Upvotes

ok I didn't know where else to post this since there's not really a subreddit for lost attractions lol so please forgive me if this doesn't fit the theme of this subreddit, but I need help finding info on this distant memory.

my recollection: We waited in a line outside before going in. I don't remember if we walked right into the theater or if there was some rooms before it. The "theater" is in a very small room, I'd say it had somewhere around 20 or so seats, and I think they were movie theater style seats. The lights were off and there MIGHT have been a fog machine? I remember there being a projector screen and possibly some Halloween decor on the small stage that was up front. Maybe curtains too? So we sit and wait for the show to start. Projector goes on and plays a video/film of some sort? I remember it showing a forest so I assume it might be something Sleepy Hollow related but take that with a huge grain of salt. Then a guy comes out onto the stage in costume and starts narrating/ telling a spooky story over the footage? I can't remember what he was dressed as at all, though I think I remember a cape? The show goes on like this for maybe around 20 minutes to a half-hour.. and that was it.

other info:
-around the early to mid 2010s
-most likely within Worcester County or Middlesex county (could be entirely wrong, just know it was 100% in MA)

Keep in mind I was below the age of ten when I went to this so there is probably a lot of inaccuracies in my recollection.

And thats literally all I know. This is driving me absolutely insane. I am partially convinced that this was a dream bc the memory is SO vague. Please someone find this before I go mad. Thank you.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] Can anyone remember the name of a family vacation movie in a tropical island setting with a husband, wife, at least two kids and a tour guide the husband tries to look cooler than?

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It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen whatever this movie is, but I remember the plot for the most part. Husband and wife take their kids on a vacation, they meet the tour guide who is in better shape than the husband and way more “macho” seeming, pretty sure he has a beard or some facial hair, and the husband/dad keeps trying to impress his family, I believe the wife is blonde if my memory is right. And there’s one scene where the husband and wife end up getting locked inside a small shower, I’m pretty sure it’s on a boat or something too, and I think it’s filling up with water. If anyone can recognize this from my frustratingly bad memory, I’d appreciate it, thanks.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][COMIC][1980s-90s] Spider-Man comicbook I had as a child

3 Upvotes

My native language is Spanish, but, when I was little, my Mom accidentally bought me a Spider-Man comic book that was entirely in English (it was from someone else's old collection). Neither of us could read it and, since I was a very destructive child, it eventually got ripped and subsequently thrown in the garbage.

Since I have now acquired the arcane knowledge of the English language, I would like to read it.

What I remember the most about it was the cover. It had a big spider web at the top and Spider-Man may have been crawling on it. The background was a red brick wall, and in the foreground was a man in a black t-shit with a skull on it, who I believe was surely the Punisher.

The contents are a blur, but there was a page in which a woman (Mary Jane?) was getting up from her bed, and another page showed Spider-Man, on a wall, reading a sheet of paper. I believe a suitcase was involved somewhere in the story.

Please help​, I want to know what it was about!

EDIT: Spider-Man had webs in his armpits both in the cover and in the story.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] animated movie with a small dog with long hair, a girl and 2 puppets with springs. One is good and the other evil.

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r/tipofmytongue • • 11h ago

Open [TOMT][TV SHOW OR MOVIE][1990s] Woman with skeleton mask, red-eyed monster

8 Upvotes

Context will follow. First, here's all of the information I have about the show/movie:

"The television was on, and the round, hollow eyes of a skeleton were staring out at us. Before I could get up to turn off the television, the picture changed. A woman seated in front of a mirror was pulling a skeleton mask off of her face."

"When I turned back to the television, I saw a hairy creature with pointed teeth and flashing red eyes."

Date/Location Info:

These sentences are from a personal narrative I wrote for a high school class my senior year. They are the only sentences of my story that describe the show that I saw. The day I saw the show had to have been either late 1997 or early 1998. My paper was a true story about the night when my two-year-old niece was sleeping over and I kept catching her awake during the night. During one of those times I found her happily watching a scary TV show or movie. That's the show I'm trying to find. Now that she's in her 30s and is a fan of scary shows, I'd like to show her the show I caught her watching when she was two! She turned two in October of '97, so the night I saw her watching the show had to have happened in October '97 or after. Since I wrote about it in a paper that I used in my school portfolio, I had to have written it before May of 1998. The show had to have aired between October 1997 and early May 1998. It could have been a first run or it could've been a rerun. It also could have been a syndicated show or a movie. Since it was on in the middle of the night, it could have been something that the local station chose to air during the slow hours of the night. These were the antennae years, before the stations switched to digital, and I had no cable or satellite. At the time I wrote the paper, I had only one channel, the local ABC (American Broadcasting Company) station. However, if the show was syndicated or was a movie, it's possible that it wasn't an ABC show even though it aired on our local ABC channel. Also, because my niece was sleeping over, it was most likely a Friday or Saturday night, although I can't be sure of that since it also could have been the night before a day off from school. In my paper I also wrote about catching my niece watching the early-morning farm report later that same night, so the scary show had to have aired in the hours before the farm report. If I remember right, the farm report was on around 4 or 5 a.m. every day back then.

(More to come in my required first comment.)


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][Spoken lyric] phrase from a parody song or mockumentary song.

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Phrase is stuck in my head anytime I see this word: Joke or spoken part of a parody song that says something like "and can you hear us up in the scaffolding" with scaffolding heavily enunciated. Possibly a British person or person doing a British accent.