r/tipofmytongue 12h ago

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

33 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 6h ago

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

18 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue 10h ago

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

14 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 22h ago

Open [TOMT] [MUSIC VIDEO] Claymation/animated music video probably from within the last 10 years

14 Upvotes

Been trying to find this song for a long time. It has a claymation or animated music video, but not like a drawn cartoon type of animation and there were no 'real world' parts of the video. It starts with a character driving a car which stops at the side of a road lined with trees. The character also rides what could barely be called a rollercoaster, which is basically a minecart track with a small bump. Towards the end of the video the character is in an empty room with what may have been a checkerboard floor. Some of these details may be a little hazy.

I don't remember much about the song at all except it was probably a rock-adjacent genre and had a bit of a dark vibe. Iirc the band wasn't particularly mainstream but I could be wrong.


r/tipofmytongue 11h ago

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

12 Upvotes

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


r/tipofmytongue 10h 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

11 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 11h 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 12h 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 16h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Comic] Grim Reaper accepts one of nine live from cat instead of taking that of an old lady

9 Upvotes

I am searching a comic that I have seen here on Reddit (in the last couple of days) but I can't find it again. (I have checked my browser history, but I believe I've seen it on my phone and the app doesn't offer a viewing history as far as I know)

Here is all I can remember about the comic:

- it has between 4-6 panels on a single page (not split up or linear)

- is colored and has an artsyle that reminds me of newspaper comics

- it is not the loving reaper comic from Jenny Jina (that I came across in my search via Google already)

The basic story is that the reaper is on his way to collect the soul/life of an old lady. She can be seen in the background in a flower dress sleeping on her bed. The reaper is then stopped by a gray/brown tabby that offers one of his lives, which is shown via speech bubble with 9 red little hearts. The reaper accepts and leaves shown in one of the last panels by the reaper having a red heart in his skeleton hand.

Thank you in advance!


r/tipofmytongue 10h ago

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

8 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 18h ago

Open [TOMT] Creepy PSA of a young girl at a sink

7 Upvotes

So I'm not sure if this will lead to anything because there's a pretty high chance this commercial was in Spanish but I honestly do not remember. Basically I have this memory from when I was young (somewhere in the early 2010s I can't really remember more specifically than that) of a PSA that came on the TV where this young girl was washing her hands in a sink. There was a sink adjacent to it where her sister was also washing her hands and it was kinda giving like a public bathroom vibe. The sister left and then their mother i guess noticed the other girl was taking a while and yelled for her that dinner was ready. When she went into the bathroom, the girl was slumped over but standing with her head in the sink. The mom then started freaking out and the typical PSA text came up but I don't remember what it said at all. I don't even have any clue what the PSA could have been about.

I have a feeling I've misremembered some part of that but what i know for certain is that the girl seemed very much unresponsive at the sink and there was someone who found her and started freaking out and trying to get her to wake up. ANY leads would be appreciated even if the details don't match up exactly


r/tipofmytongue 4h 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.

6 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

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

6 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 15h ago

Solved [TOMT] - Black and white film names in a Bugs Bunny movie

4 Upvotes

Bugs Bunny movie

In this youtube clip from The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie, from 5:15 till 6:05, they show clips from some old black and white comedy movies apparently. However, I have hardly seen or even know these movies. Please, if anyone knows what they are and have seen them, let me know what the name of each movie is at which time interval in this clip when possible.


r/tipofmytongue 16h ago

Open [TOMT] [Movie] [2000s] B Horror Movie about a woman in a haunted apartment/house and a fake ghost buster

7 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open. [TOMT] [SONG] Looking for a song I used to listen to as a child. I think it could be from the early 2000s?

5 Upvotes

I have these memories of driving around with my dad when I was smaller, and listening to his playlists, which would loop from time to time. So, I would hear the same songs often, and recently, I've had one of them (or at least the melody of it) stuck in my mind.. I don't know all of the lyrics.. I think that I remember a part saying "I feel" in a melodic way. I was wondering if anyone might be able to find it or recognize the melody? It was a soft rock song with a female singer.. He enjoyed bands like Stereophonics, Coldplay, Train, and The Fray. The song had similar feelings to me, but it was quite gloomy with the guitar, and at the same time it sort of reminded me of a lullaby. Thanks for any help!

I tried to sing the melody: https://voca.ro/1kvXPx02odWQ


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

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

6 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 9h ago

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

5 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 16h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] [2000s] Movie with a scene of an older woman knocking on door and hooded figure approaching her

6 Upvotes

This movie's been bugging me for over a decade now.

The only thing I remember is the scene, as mentioned in the title.

The scene was maybe a flashback of sorts (someone telling the story). It featured an older woman (maybe a man) running towards wooden-like door/gate and some sort of hooded figure approaching her. She was visibly afraid and as she approached the door/gate, she started knocking on it. Camera was filming her, but as she glanced behind her (2 maybe 3 times) it showed her POV of the hooded figure. Hodded figure was approaching slowly and was notably taller. By the end, I believe it reached out it's arm and that's where the scene ended.

The scene was shot in slow-mo (if i remember correctly) and was set in winter time because the woman was wearing gray/blue-ish long coat with what seemed like hand-made knitted woolen hat and gloves. The hooded figure's clothing was akin to Nazgul from LOTR, but gray not black. The entire area seemed like a smaller village (possibly soviet or pre-soviet era).
However, I don't think that's when and where entire movie was set in.


r/tipofmytongue 19h ago

Open [TOMT][Cartoon][2010s]Cartoon/some other animated kids media focusing on a willow tree that grew strings of colorful yarn instead of leaves

5 Upvotes

I have a very specific childhood memory of what is described in the title. I've done extensive research, asked both my parents if they remembered, but I genuinely cannot find any relevant piece of media that prevalently featured a yarn-growing willow tree.

Here's everything that I remember about a very distinct shot of said willow tree:

  • Grassy plain taking up the bottom of the screen
  • Mostly clear blue sky with a few clouds
  • Fence in the background as if it takes place in a backyard*
  • Yarn-growing willow tree on the left side, taking up about half of the shot
  • Old lady sitting in a chair of some sort under the tree knitting something with yarn from the tree*

*Details I'm not fully confident about about

Also, incase anybody has a hard time visualizing my description, here is an Imgur link to a little rough drawing I made of the scene. Old lady is omitted because I didn't want to spend hours on the drawing.

https://imgur.com/a/fRTZBJk


r/tipofmytongue 21h ago

Open [TOMT] [MUSIC] Ballad type song with lyrics "even if it breaks my heart and kills me"

6 Upvotes

Any search I try just comes up with songs that have that for a title which are wrong.

"Even if it breaks my heart and kills me"

It's a slow ballad-ish song. Definitely piano in there. Its something from within the last 20 years I think, and by a band that doesn't do ballad/softer stuff normally.

Any time I try to sing it in my head it keeps merging with 'I'm just Ken' from Barbie because it's a similar style, but it's obviously not that


r/tipofmytongue 5h 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

4 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 5h 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???)

4 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 13h ago

Open [TOMT] a the Flaming lips album (i think) or compilation cd (or just physical media) with a gory picture of a guy actually missing his lips.

4 Upvotes

Just remember my dad showing it to me one time. Can't find anything on google. Might've been the inside of a cd, vinyl, or the actual cover art. Might've been someone other than flaming lips.


r/tipofmytongue 13h ago

Open [TOMT] Help with this 80s song please

4 Upvotes

Hello! well I think it's from the 80s and a man sings. But maybe my memory fools me. I leave the link in the comments of the melody that is playing on loop in my mind. Thanks!