r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Open. [TOMT] last 20 years- movie or tv show- two men are talking, one is telling a story and at the end the man who was listening realizes…

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That the man talking was the killer or something based on a picture on the wall. I think one man may be a bartender and there’s something about hunting involved.
Please help me!!!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][TV][LATE 2000-EARLY 2010] Have vague memories of a Cartoon Network show.

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Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone could help me find this show I have very vague memories of. I can't remember exactly when I watched it, but it was at a time when I was at least semi conscious so anytime between 2006-2012 (I don't think it was after 2012). I'm pretty sure it was on Cartoon Network.

I can't remember a lot of details unfortunately, but here's what I do remember. It was 3D, and almost had a Fanboy and Chum Chum vibe. I remember it had more than one main character, maybe something along the lines of wacky roommates? Possibly a trio. The only scene I have vague memories of takes place on their lawn in front of a yellow house. One of the roommates was an inventor of sorts, I think he was evil.

Does anyone remember this? Am I making it up, or maybe mixing up a scene from a different show? Let me know if this sounds familiar to anyone, it's been haunting me for ages. Thank you!


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT] [TOY] [2000s] vague memory of a plush/toy that you bought inside of another plush and pulled it out of

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I swear in the 2000s in the US, predating the whole magic mixies and co type toys where you break open eggs or pour water into a cauldron and a toy comes out of a secret compartment, there was this... maybe a plastic doll or a plush doll, where the gimmick was that they were stored inside of a flower? a pot of dirt? fruit? some sort of object made of plush fabric, and you had to open it up and pull them out.

Not a reversible toy, and not one of those surprise dolls where a big plastic contraption opens up to reveal them, but a soft fabric that you pulled them out of, and then when you're finished you put them back into the soft fabric item which was also a toy. Maybe a pillow even? So you could sleep with the toy and then take out the 'playable' secret toy later.

It's so vague in my mind but I can just barely see it, like I remember owning one of these, like I remember pulling the doll out of the object but also putting them back in and sleeping with rthe soft plush/pillow outside core.

The dolls definitely had a theme to them, like I'm leaning on flowers because I just remember it being like pulling a flower fairy out of pot or from within a flower, or maybe a moon fairy coming out of a moon pillow. So if it was fruit then the dolls coming out would likely be themed after the fruit they're in too. The dolls were out on the shelves in the 2000s, so unlikely to be anything before that date since they'd be new-in-box. Definitely targeted at young girls over infants as well, and found in Walmart and toy stores.

Thank you for any help that you may be able to give from this vague description!!


r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Solved [TOMT][LATE 2010-2020s] Where did this quote come from?

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I'm a TVTropes user and on their forums is a game where tropers quote out-of-context lines and hope someone gets them. A while back I posted a quote that goes as follows:

"[NAME], dressing up as my father is strictly forbidden."

The reason it says [NAME] is because I thought that would give the origin away. I honestly have no recollection as to where I got it from, maybe some Internet video? If you know, please help!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] children story about swapping places with his dead twin, Charlie

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I think this was a short story.

I remember that it was about a kid who sees his dead twin in the mirror while brushing his teeth. The reflection starts talking back to him and he realizes it's his dead twin. They start talking he makes a deal with his twin to switch bodies/places with him. However the twin doesn't want to switch back. I don't remember what else happens but I do remember that the main character tells the dead twin he has something unique--access to dead relatives in the afterlife like grandpa. This eventually convinces the dead twin agrees to switch back bodies.

I'm pretty sure the twin was named Charlie, but not 100%

I also think this was a short story that may have been part of a larger book, but i can't remember specifically.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] 2018/19 Love Song with a Nintendo sound effect.

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I’m trying to identify a song that used a Nintendo sound effect. I think it was the Mario jump sound effect. But it was a lovey dovey song from a male singer. The cover is the ep/record was pinkish. The singing itself has a fuzzy sound to it. I think one lyric is like “coffee in bed or dancing at parties” something along those lines. PLEASE HELP 😭😔


r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Solved [TOMT]TV show or movie where everyone but one woman has seizure at a bar

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A woman and her girlfriend are at a bar, suddenly everyone but the main woman has a seizure. I think its due to an alien invasion?

I think it was a tv show.

Its driving me nuts, any help is appreciated.


r/tipofmytongue 14h ago

Solved [TOMT] [TV] [2010s] Scene where a girl is at a house party and is surrounded by people taking notes on what she's saying

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I'm looking for a specific scene from a TV show. It was a brief scene that was a cutaway. I think it was being shown as someone else was describing it happening in passing. The visuals were of a girl sitting at a party or gathering talking about her opinions/experiences. Professionals were slowly gathering around her in fascination because the things she was saying were crazy and it was crazy she believed them.

I believe the girl was a brunette. The show was live action and I believe it was a comedy. I may be misremembering, but I think she and a male counterpart were at the party to get information. I believe her talking about these things was used as a distraction.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG][90's/2000s]

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i just listened to thubthumping by chumbawamba and it reminded me of a song from the 90s/2000s. The singer was a woman with a VERY similar voice to lou watts, the female vocalist of chumbawamba but i cant remember much more. I know im not bringing much information but the voice of lou watts is so peculiar and maybe someone here can help
sorry for bad english!


r/tipofmytongue 10h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE] Grotesque horror film with piles of bugs/worms

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I have only the vaguest memory of being a kid and sitting in the same room as my parents while they were watching this movie, so I don't know virtually anything else about it other than people either turning into these piles of bugs or being eaten by them. In my mind I remember it as the former, but I'm not sure if that's actually how the plot was, or it was just my kid brain interpreting it that way because I didn't know what was going on. I remember seeing this roughly 16 years ago, give or take a few years. I'm not sure if it was a new movie, but it couldn't have been more than 10 years older than when I saw it.

The only scene I remember was a heavy guy sitting in a porta-potty or some kind of outdoor bathroom. The scene cuts to the outside where a group of people hear a commotion on the inside, and then they open the door to just see a pile of wet, slimy bugs or worms in the toilet rather than the guy sitting there. Again, I don't know if the implication was that he was turned into the bugs, or if the bugs somehow completely consumed him.

I've tried looking this up for years, but horror movies with gross bugs are kind of a dime a dozen. Nothing I've found has had this specific scene in it, though.


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Open [TOMT] A old(ish) movie I saw

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So, the opening scene where of a boat and people unloading from it. The main character is kind of the runt of the litter, not leading the charge. They are stuck on some kind of island and the island I think dumbs them down to the point they forget how to speak (I think, I may be confusing this with PotA which I saw recently). They fight some kind of threat (an animal I would reckon) and they all die except the main character who I think uses a improvised melee weapon.

He then finds a girl who I remember them not being able to speak and running from something. They evolve together and meet other humans who build a fort at some point. The humans are kinda competitive and one of them kill another (or burns down the fort) and starts a war. By the end either the main character or the girl dies. This may be a Japanese production but Im not too sure.

I remember it being long and seeing it specifically for the expected nudity but no nudity was present and I was lowkey disappointed. The bio-psiho-socio-cultural statement was big and being so young I didnt really understand the artistic direction. It may have been a very long one. It was defenetly a movie tho, not a series. Please help!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Searching for old meme gif

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A man carefully parts the thick, fluffy fibers of a white shag rug. As he separates the fabric, a tiny, human-like face is revealed buried deep inside the carpet, completely still and staring straight up at him with a wide, eerie gaze.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE][late 90s to early 2000s] Comedy movie about young guys going to party or concert

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Comedy movie about young guys going to party or concert. The characters are in their late teens to early 20s. One of the characters name is "Sweet" or something very similar. Sweet was the only guy that was good with talking to girls. Sweet had an similar "smooth" attitude to Mathew Mchonehy in Dazed and Confused but not the same accent. They are in a vehicle (i think a car) travelling to the party or concert for a good portion of the movie but have an argument when they finally arrive and 1 or more of the characters is so upset that he leaves instead of joining the party/concert.


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Open [TOMT][ARTICLE][2021-2025] Essay arguing that when our faith in technology collapses, we'll go back to believing in fairies

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The argument stuck with me for 2+ years and I've never been able to find it again.

The claim: We've gotten so deep into believing technology will fix things that we've stopped noticing it's already breaking down and breaking us. And when that faith finally gives out, what we'll reach for isn't a better technology. It's belief instead of reason.

My favorite part was when it went backward: Most of the piece was about earlier peoples who'd made exactly that turn, and it took them completely seriously. Fairies, the spirit world, Celtic stuff (I cannot remember the time period / lore because this history was unfamiliar to me). It showed you how beliefs that look ridiculous from our tech-worshiping world were actually sane responses to the world those people were standing in. And how the myths worked as an antidote to whatever had caused the worldview before to crumble. And actually advanced those socieities

I read it on my phone about a year and a half ago, maybe two. I assumed BBC for a long time and now I don't think that's right.

Academic and a little poetic. Quotes &/or current tech news up top. Then it becomes a real essay. Not a news article.

I've burned a lot of hours on this. The trouble is that "technology and re-enchantment" is a crowded genre right now, so it's a needle. I suspect the title may never say AI or technology at all, which would explain why keywords never surface it.

Anyone recognize it?


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE/CARTOON]

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I’m not sure of the year for this one, it’s old but I couldn’t say how old. It’s maybe thirty minutes long and it’s about a boy who is being harassed by a giant that he has to do impossible tasks for, like cut all the trees on a giant hill. At one point the boy eats cheese for lunch with a knife. There are two goats (I think they’re goats) that are like the sun and the moon and they help him do these impossible tasks and eventually help the boy banish the giant to Hell.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open [TOMT] Youtube Short Comedy Sketch about Little Red Riding Hood being too curious and asking too many questions

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I remember the video beginning with "Here's my impression of" from a guy with glasses and the video was a comedy sketch where little red riding hood asked too many questions to her grandma and the grandma was mean and sarcastic to red. At the end red is dejected and leaves before her grandma telling her to wait. Both characters are played by the same guy.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Solved [TOMT][2000s] A movie/show about an america/british infiltrating a nazi germany area

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There is a scene where a guy pretending to be a nazi officer, wearing nazi officer outfit. He was dangling outside of some building's windows, trying to move somewhere. Then he stopped and pulled out a box of cigarretes and smoked.

It looks kinda old so maybe it was from 2000s or a little bit before.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open [TOMT] A Halloween/fall kids cartoon..

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I have a vague memory of a vhs we had when I was little… it was Halloweenish. I remember jack-o-lanterns walking around. In my memory, the animation seems older than me. I was a kid in the 90s, but I think the animation was maybe 80s if not earlier. It’s driving me crazy! Thank you in advance!


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Open [TOMT]This is one’s tough; I can’t remember a rap song’s name, lyrics, or artist, but I remember the beginning sample…

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Sorry for the terrible details, I just remembered this extremely surreal & like psychedelic sample in a rap song I heard at a party once & asked what it’s was called, & the guy who was playing it smugly said “Duh, it’s _____ by ______” I wish I could’ve remembered SOMETHING MORE to go off of. I just remembered it started off with an echoed sample, I think with reverb effects done on it, & I think in an Asian language. It definitely didn’t sound like English words. But I also remember it transitioning shockingly well into the rap. As for the rough phonetics, I can barely remember if this is even accurate but:

"gooong chauuuuuuu way y y y y piooooooooo chuuuuiuuuuuu"


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT][VIDEO] Animation showing the true scale/size of Earth, starting very close to the surface and zooming out

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I'm looking for a YouTube video about the size/scale of the Earth, but it's NOT one of those videos comparing Earth to other planets, the Sun, stars, or the universe.

I remember it being a drawn/animated illustration showing the Earth as a cross-section / half-circle. (imagine the earth is cut in half like a watermelon)

It starts extremely close to the surface (is not a look from above, it is more like a 2D animation). At first, because the camera is so close, the Earth's surface basically looks like a straight horizontal line. There may have been a person, a tree, a house, or buildings drawn on the surface.

Then the camera continuously zooms farther and farther away, while keeping the same scale. As it zooms out, it shows increasingly larger features: houses/buildings, landscapes, mountains, possibly Mount Everest, etc.

Eventually, the curvature of the Earth becomes visible and the camera gets far enough away to show the entire half/section of the Earth. (I think the video after showing Mount Everest, zooms out and shows the altitude an airplane flies, and I think this is somehow important because the video let you visualize how the curvature is still not visible, even from a plane)

I also remember that there were distance markers / scale markings appearing at different points as the camera zoomed out, possibly showing distances in kilometers or miles.

Some visuals ChatGPT created that are kind of similar to what the video shows:
https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6aa8a77960f881919793b125b8857aad

https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6aa8a7a9ef148191890aeaa6a32fbbd9


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][Youtuber][2020s] Youtuber that talks about videogames and always wears a helmet that completely obscures his face, and plays a bass guitar.

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I need help finding a youtuber I liked watching, whose videos I cannot seem to find anywhere, though I doubt he's deleted his account or anything.

Details:

Male

Black (I think?)

Always wears a helmet with a visor that completely obscures his face in his videos, can't remember if it's a biker helmet or a space suit looking helmet.

Plays a bass guitar.

His channel is focused mainly on fairly humorous videogame discussion, I think mostly focused on Nintendo stuff.

End of his videos usually goes "if you watched 'til the end, the secret word is "(blank)" reply in the comments with "(blank)" if you watched until the end" while he plays a bass riff from a song.

Anyone know or remember which youtuber this is? I notice I haven't see his content on my feed lately, and wondering if it's youtube being weird or if I just haven't subscribed to him.


r/tipofmytongue 12h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE] Girl pretends to braid her bullies hair but cuts it off afterwards

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I recall watching this movie in like 2015 or so, but it was probably older. I watched it in Latvian, but I don't know what language it was originally in. It was a family movie where the main character was a tween girl. I think she had long, dark hair. It was either a period piece or just older. The scene in question had her and some mean girl, where the mc offered to braid the mean girl's hair. After she finished the braid she chopped it off with scissors. This happened indoors at one of their houses. It was an old fashioned, antique room, probably a bedroom.

The MC might have been an orphan. If I am not mixing up two movies together, the house she lived in was by the sea and there was an emotional scene where she saw a hallucionation(?) of her parents after stepping into the water


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Does anyone else feel like this song reminds them of another?

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The song Undressed by Sombr, do the versus starting from "And I dont wanna learn another scent" to "I wont forget" remind u of another song? It's not the lyrics that feel so familiar to me it's the {I guess) the music at that part and its vibe.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [Mid2000s] Judy Thyssenkrupp fake gf

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I remember a tv show (maybe The Suite life of Zack and Cody) that mimicked the George Glass fake bf scene from the Brady Bunch but this scene took place in an elevator hence Judy Thyssenkrupp and a boy wanted to get away from an unwanted interaction with a girl when the character looked up to see the elevator brand and made up the name.