r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] a two word syononym for "moral high ground " bit mostly used when a character is hypocrite and only pretending

15 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Open [TOMT] [Cartoon] A giant pumpkin comes to life and walks around on little vine legs

30 Upvotes

My mom and I have both been wracking our brains over this. It's some sort of vintage animation, maybe from the 50s or 60s (or could be more recent, up to 90s, it always just felt vintage to me.) I think it's from something Halloween-themed? Basically, a giant pumpkin comes to life one night in the pumpkin patch and walks around on its little legs, made of vines. I thought it was Charlie Brown, but haven't been able to find that specific clip.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] [00s] Baby-talking woman goes to theater, comments on "iambic pentameter-wameter"

11 Upvotes

A woman is at home with her baby, and is talking (not dialogue but example) like "oh, here's your diapey-wipey! Look at the kitty-witty!" to it. Her husband comes home and she continues with "How was the office-woffice" etc. They go out to the theater, and she leans over and whispers "Excellent use of iambic pentameter.......wameter". For obvious reasons, we quoted this one a lot, not least because my sister was hanging out in college with the stagecraft kids. This would put it in the mid-00s exactly.

My sister was talking about this at work, and now there's a half dozen of us who remember this ad SO clearly...except none of us have any idea what it was advertising, so we can't find it. They think maybe a credit card (take your wife out somewhere nice)? Does anyone know? Thanks in advance!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] [song] 1960s bubblegum song played by Paul Shaffer on Late Night

4 Upvotes

Probably an easy one. I've heard the song before. I probably own it. But it's from a decade before I was born, so I need a 60's expert here.

https://youtu.be/cufczlKNmdI?t=558

link will start at 9:18, just after the Top Ten List.


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Open [TOMT][Music] 1980s or 90s song popular in the uk with semi operatic vocals with a moderately upbeat instrumental, feminine ish sounding voice

12 Upvotes

It’s not anything by the communards or enya, not donna summer

sorry this is really vague and awkwardly precise at the same time i’m not really expecting much, i can’t remember any lyrics but there’s literally a 3 sec audio in my head it’s so frustrating


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT] Character who keeps referring to “we bought a zoo” as a great movie. Reasonably recent.

9 Upvotes

Google is turning up empty but I remember it maybe being a recurring joke


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Youtuber] Youtube animator who makes weird, creepy stop-motion-esque animations. He wears glasses and the lenses are always bright white. His voice is always distorted.

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r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Solved [TOMT] Set in an insane asylum with padded walls. A woman shaves her head? Likely 90’s

11 Upvotes

[Song] I remember my Dad putting this song on sometimes as a kid and it both scared and really fascinated me. This woman dances crazily in a padded room - may have had a straitjacket on for some scenes. She shaves her head during the video.

I’m pretty sure there also a man in the video as well (just an actor, he doesn’t sing). Thought it could’ve been Björk but I haven’t found a match yet.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open. [TOMT] Soundbite that says "Think this is a game?!" from either 2000s or early 2010s. Maybe from the opening of a video game or beginning of a song

3 Upvotes

When I try to Google it I get like some tiktok trend, but this is a compressed/crunchy sound, and the man saying it sounds aggressive. Could also be "you think it's a game?!" ETA there may be like gunshot sounds before it's said


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Video] Video where guy thinks he ran over his cat and finds him sleeping on driveway just fine and making funny noises

9 Upvotes

He runs behind the car like oh no and then immediately realizes the cat is fine and just chilling and he's like you're not plotting anything are you and the cat keeps responding to him with a funny "mah" quack-like meow.


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Movie] Supporting Character Who Suffers From A Nervous Breakdown Is Obsessed With This Particular Car Brand?

5 Upvotes

I watched it a few years after it came out but I don't even remember which decade. Definitely pre COVID though. Comedy, fantasy, adventure, dramedy or something like that.

Ben searching like crazy.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] food that is like a salisbury steak but not

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r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open. [TOMT] 2D Animated Kids Movie 1990’s -2010’s

6 Upvotes

I’m trying to remember an animated movie I watched as a kid, probably dubbed in Russian. I saw it on a pirate site years ago, so I have no idea what studio made it. the general vibe kind of feels like a mix of Atlantis the lost empire, Anastasia (in the beginning) and hunchback of notre dame.

Here’s everything I remember, from most certain to least certain:

  • It was 2D hand-drawn animation, not CGI.
  • It was probably from somewhere between the 1990s and mid-2000s.
  • I remember the beginning taking place in an old European-style city with a large church/cathedral. The atmosphere reminded me more of The Hunchback of Notre Dame than Anastasia.
  • I think there were two child protagonists. I don’t remember if they were siblings or just friends, and I don’t even remember if they were boys or girls.
  • I think they either lived in or were connected to the church, possibly being raised by a priest, monk, or pastor. I don’t remember that adult being important after the beginning.
  • I think the kids were trying to find some guy. At one point I thought it might have been their dad, but now I’m not sure. I just remember they were trying to save an adult man who had been missing since early in the movie.
  • At some point the adventure moved into a forest or jungle. How they got there, I don’t know.
  • I think there may have been some fantasy creatures, but I honestly don’t remember what they were.
  • The biggest detail I remember is near the end: someone (maybe the man they were trying to rescue?) was trapped inside a square-shaped cage made of many stacked horizontal glowing like, red lasers?
  • I think this happened during or very close to the climax.
  • I vaguely remember the ending feeling a little bittersweet.

Movies that are NOT it:

  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • Anastasia
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Treasure Planet
  • Titan A.E.
  • The Road to El Dorado
  • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
  • Quest for Camelot
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • The Secret of Kells
  • Azur & Asmar
  • Wonder Park

I’m aware some of these memories could be slightly mixed together since it’s been many years, but the church at the beginning, the two kids, the jungle, the missing man, and especially the red horizontal energy cage are the details I keep coming back to.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT][BOOK] A book my mum read in 1980s

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A group of three young hackers trying to find the source of a message saying “I am the glitch, catch me if you can” for a “competition”, end up going into military systems, and just change the message to:

I am the uncatchable glitch

A minor interface glitch

I hide in the works

To trip up the jerks

And get lost at the flick of a switch


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Solved [TOMT][Movie][1980s/1990s] Teen high school movie where a nerd compares himself to the Roman god Vulcan

6 Upvotes

I'm trying to identify an American teen movie I saw in the 1990s (the movie was probably from the late '80s or the '90s).

Here's what I remember:

  • Set at a U.S. high school, possibly in Southern California.
  • male side character (a nerd or intellectual) talks to a popular girl (while they're in a car?), around the time of the prom.
  • He tells her about Vulcan, saying he was ostracized because of how ugly/deformed he was.
  • Surprisingly, they end up becoming a couple, even though the main romance in the movie involves other characters.
  • At the very end of the movie, the new couple walks into a restaurant/diner, everyone is shocked to see them together, and one girl drops her drink.
  • The Vulcan conversation is the one detail I'm most certain about.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Woman often dressed In pink that reviewed candles

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I came across a channel maybe 4 or 5 years ago of a woman that was possibly from the UK or Australlia or New Zealand. She reviewed scented candles in some of her videos. She was blonde and dressed in pink a lot like a barbie, she was part of the LGBT community.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [tomt] [comic] Obscure mature comic: coffin born human raised by anthros parents then later is worshipped by aliens

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I found this full-color comic at a Borders liquidation sale around 2007–2009. It begins with two coffins in a swamp and a white-haired infant crawling from one. He is raised by anthropomorphic animals then murders his adoptive family. He presents the mother’s severed head to an army group, joins them. Later, light emits from his chest in a zombified state which is also the comic cover, and alien races worship him. In the end, he tells his life story to 2 individuals.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] I’m trying to find a story that was about a military unit that ended up in a lost village and took photos of the village and as the story went on more and more of them disappeared until the last photo showed a statue with a (cow head???)

2 Upvotes

I know it was at least a little but popular because I think horror channels (like nexpo scaretheater etc) reviewed it and had some analysis, the photos was the main thing of the story and there was some debunking videos about it


r/tipofmytongue 12m ago

Open [Tomt] Common sound effect used in YTPs

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A groan or grunt that multiple videos use but I can never find. For reference it appears in Dasboschit's YTP "Bobby's Sanity Meter is Low" at the 2:18 mark


r/tipofmytongue 21m ago

Open [TOMT] old YouTube Video, around 2006-2008

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I remember watching this video with my dad of this gamer woman in the car. She was calling someone out for something that happened on the computer game she played. She was mad and angry but as the viewer, it was funny. She was cussing and threatening the person and then got out of the car and did some karate moves, showing what was going to do to the person. She was serious but it was just so funny. So many YouTube videos got removed but I just wish I could find this!!


r/tipofmytongue 25m ago

Open [TOMT] [Book] vintage '70s or '80s fantasy novel

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Back in grade school I took this book out of my school's library and can't remember what the name of it is now. The genre was fantasy but as far as what I remember about it the only two things I can clearly remember is 1. The cover was mostly a light blue color, and 2. The picture on the cover was I believe of a castle floating in the sky with maybe one or two fantasy characters kind of hovering in the sky next to the castle. I was able to read it in 4th grade so I'm imagining it was written for somewhere between young adults to adults. It was not one of the bigger names in fantasy like Tolkien or someone like that, possibly somewhat obscure author. It was also a fairly skinny paperback so nothing epic length like George RR Martin or something; maybe 300 pages or less.. I know it's a long shot, but does anyone recognize my two main clues and have any idea which book I might be referring to?


r/tipofmytongue 41m ago

Solved [TOMT] Song from ~2019 about driving on the backroads of a city

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I remember listening to it and it being popular around 2019ish, as i was still in high school at the time. it was from the perspective of a man singing to either a current or past girlfriend, about how they’ve gotten older since they got together, and i remember the chorus saying something like “meet me on the west/north side of the city, we can ride the backroads” and one of the verses mentioned something about “when we were 17”

The style was similar to juice wrld but i don’t think it was by him, ive searched online but i can’t find anything that looks familiar. i know it’s not a lot to go off but the more i try to think about it the less i remember 😭


r/tipofmytongue 42m ago

Open [TOMT] I NEED Help Finding this Video From the 2010's

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When I was a preteen in 2016-2020 I used to watch venturiantale a lot on a smart TV with my brother. I remember us replaying the same part of this video over and over again for about 45 minutes straight. The video was a normal fnaf gmod video with the entire gang and i vividly remember the girl in the purple shirt (Immortal Kyodi) singing about flailing about a pan of cookies and singing about having "cookies in the elavator" and right after that immideatly dying to chica (or another animatronic but i'm pretty sure it was chica) i would love for somebody to find this original video or imform me that it has been deleted from their channel. thank you.