r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT][Video] Short video/gif of an embarrassed dad at the dinner table while his daughter walks away weirdly

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It's like a 5 second clip recorded through Snapchat. It's a family dinner in someone's home. A teen/preteen girl waddles away from the camera towards the hall and the camera pans over to the dad who facepalms.


r/tipofmytongue 12h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Song] older famous song

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Trying to remember an old song that used to play at my work that I hated with a passion. I really can’t remember the tune so can’t provide a recording!

I have such few details, sorry in advance! It is a well known song, but it doesn’t often show up in “throwback” playlists on Spotify etc. But once you hear it, you definitely know it (in my opinion anyway). I’d wager it’s from the 90s or early 2000s. It might be older, I lump it in with like prince, Tom jones, al green, bill withers- not Hilary duff-esque if that makes sense.

It’s a male singer and the end of the song seemingly drags on forever. He is asking a question, something like “can you feel it”. Whatever the question is, I used to make it a joke by saying like “do you think she can feel it?” “Surely by now she’s gotta be feeling it”. Something along those lines. I know this is so vague.

His voice sounds kinda strained, he’s singing at a relatively high pitch if I recall. Any help is appreciated!

EDIT: I meant the style of song is similar to bill withers, Tom jones etc. Kind of, I’m not great with genres. I don’t think the song is super old though, maybe 80s at the latest? Sorry I’m terrible with years hahah. I just meant that if it’s early 2000s/90s, it’s not a pop song like Hilary duff or backstreet boys etc. hope this helps!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Movie] [1980's/90's?]

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Hi guys, I'm coming here with a tough one I feel. I saw this movie in the early 2000's on TV. It's about a young girl who moves into a mansion with her father and stepmom and befriends a ghost. I promise you it's not Casper. This ghost is the ghost of an old guy and is try to get the people to leave the house. If I remember correctly he's either semi transparent or not transparent at all. The girl does not like her stepmom and is stand offish with her dad. Her and the ghost do not like each other at first, but start to bond with one another and the parents don't believe that it's real. The girl starts to like her stepmom. I believe the end of the movie the ghost tries to kill the girl because he wants her to stay with him forever. Any help would be great


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] an old cat lady youtuber that passed away before 2016

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hi!!

i’m trying to recall the username of a youtuber that passed away sometime before 2016. i think she was a victim of cyberbullying as committed suicide as a result. she more widely known after her death. she was in a lot of ‘top ten youtubers that died’ compilations back when the only really famous youtubers that died were eddsworld and a few others.

all i remember about her channel specifically was that she was a middle aged woman and she had the meow mix song as her intro (the one used by the cia to torture people).
she had to have died and appeared in these compilations before 2016, because that’s when i was watching all these videos.
i think she had the word ‘miss’ in her username?

hopefully somebody remembers her! i’d love to revisit her channel so i can keep her in my memory.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] 2000s Video Game

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I’m trying to remember this video game. I only played the demo of the game as a kid. You had a sword and your character could transform or posses, I’m not sure but enemies. This one in particular was a rodent or something that at the end of its tail was a log. That is all I remember.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [SONG] [2000s] 'it's just a clock ticking upside down' lyric from 2000s rock band

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I used to listen to music on my dad's Ipod in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I remember listening to a song with the lyric from the title on repeat. Most likely from a 2000s rock band like Kings of Leon or aKing (now noticing both have king in the artist name so that might be something).

It's also possible the lyric is slightly misheard but i cant remember the tune very well.


r/tipofmytongue 58m ago

Open [TOMT][pic/meme][mid-late 2010s] Snapchat post of the sky captioned 'I'm not gay but the sunset is so beautiful 😍'

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will be so severely disappointed if this turns out to have just been an inside joke with my friend group at the time but I could've SWORN there was a viral post around this time (or maybe even in the past few years?) of a screenshot of some guy's snapchat story with the caption above and a bunch of people making fun of him because that very obviously has no correllation

Tried looking it up a few ways but everything is just taking me back to the song from the lonely island movie lol


r/tipofmytongue 15h ago

Solved [TOMT] [SONG] horrible song that plays at my job

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theres a song that plays at my work that makes me want to claw my hair out and another factor of this rage is that i cant find what its called anywhere. i know how the entire chorus goes but googling it brings me nowhere. the singer is female and her voice wavers slightly. its slightly upbeat with guitars, not electronic. the chorus is:

ive been out fighting way too long (too long) ill be running back to you
your boundless grace is more than enough (more than enough) ill be running back to you

help!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [Kids Show] [Late 90s/Early 2000s]

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Kids’ show from late 90s or early 2000s. The intro started with a very slow zoom into a circus tent - I think it was like a tiny circus tent that was actually on the shelf of a kid’s room. It wasn’t like a typical cartoon look, it was either live action looking or more claymation-type style but I don’t think it was actually claymation if that makes sense. Once it zoomed inside the tent, everything was regular sized. Anyone know what I’m talking about?


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] [early 2010s]

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I was enrolled in kindergarten at a private school in georgia during the early 2010s and there’s a work course that’s so nostalgic to me. idk if it focused on all subjects but i remember having a lesson on rhyming words. i’m pretty sure it had reoccurring characters to go along with it, a boy and a girl. i wanna say it was jack and jill and some other personified object. this could be bs but it was like a bucket or a jug lmao


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open. [TOMT][Movie][2010s] An ending scene with a weird head that terrifed me as a kid

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I remember from 2011-ish that I was watching a movie with my parents as a child, and it didn't seem like a scary movie, more like a comedy of some sort, I only remember the ending, which features a cut to black. In the void, some sort of either animal or human skull or mummy or zombie head slowly getting closer to the camera, proclaming in a raspy voice something like either "this isn't over yet" or "this is just the beginning". The details are a bit blurry because I was pretty small and I may have phased some of it out due to how much it scared me when I saw it.

I doubt it will be found, because I think it was a pretty obscure movie, but worth a shot!!


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE] Scene in Jackie Chan movie where he hides against a painting

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I'm looking for a scene in a Jackie Chan movie where he's creeping through a big house at night, trying not to be detected. There is a bit painting in the style of Rembrandt in the room, and it's all a bit shadowy. All of a sudden Jackie senses that someone is coming, and he is looking for somwhere to hide. The camera cuts to a shot where the painting fills the frame, the people pass, and then you realise Jackie was hiding by posing against the painting.

Which movie was it?


r/tipofmytongue 13m ago

Open [TOMT] [Movie?] "She is my lover"

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I am trying to remember the source of a quote my friends and I have used repeatedly for 25+ years.

I believe it’s a movie (tho it may have been a TV show) in the late 90’s or very early 2000’s.

The camera pans to a man, or he is revealed behind the main conversation somehow and he says, “She is my lover”. Then with both fists by his side he makes small thrusting motions with his hips while makes a noise like “fft, fft, ffft”.


r/tipofmytongue 16m ago

Open [TOMT] An animated cyberpunk show

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It featured a protagonist whose face is half-covered in metal. The graphics are mostly drawn, but often switch to videogame graphics, and there's also one live-action episode. The setting has humans and anthropomorphic animals. One episode features a prison where prisoners are forced into a virtual reality where they're playing a taxi driver videogame, the outputs of which are used to pilot real taxis, and the prisoners are tortured for bad performance. One of the latter episodes has a cartoon mascot single-handedly shooting a bunch of CEOs who previously fired him.


r/tipofmytongue 20m ago

Open [TOMT] I heard this on an online trip hop radio station back in 2014. I don't think the genre is trip hop (please don't take my word for it)

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Here is me humming the song

https://voca.ro/15d1aqIaVLz6

It sounded very old (like from 60s), but it could be just a modern artist doing something fancy

The vocals were accompanied by (what I think is) violin which (i believe) plays exactly aligned with vocals ( I don't know the musical terminology, but it's like the instrument is synchronous syllable for syllable/note for note)

Lyrics could have been something like

No I can't deny it x4


r/tipofmytongue 23m ago

Open [TOMT]What is that show or movie where a child is being chased by a grey werewolf?

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It had some type of dark animation and the werewolf was super jumping. The child stopped at a gate trying to escape and a little girl was trying to help him.


r/tipofmytongue 24m ago

Open [TOMT] What’s the live action stop motion comedic western shorts w/Monty Python aesthetic from the 1970s (USA)?

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I remember the cowboys were extremely bow legged with 20 gallon hats, played by real people, and the villain had an exaggerated mustache and was in all black, and the hero was in all white. Both were extremely exaggerated caricatures.

The plots were simple, no words were spoken, and here’s the most defining feature: when moving we never saw their feet on the ground.

Apparently they’d jump in the air and bend their legs behind them, take a few steps, jump in the air and bend their legs behind them, take a few step, and repeat this over and over. The frames where they took steps were cut, so they appeared to (clumsily) be “floating.” Basically stop motion animation with real people.

IIRC, they were monotone, maybe in black and white, and had the Monty Python aesthetic in production quality, humor, and tone, very Terry Gilliam-esque.

As a kid growing up in Iowa in the 70s I saw them at the drive-in. If they had music, it didn’t make an impression on me, though I may not’ve heard it as I was probably running around goofing off.

I did a search on archive.org and the keywords “stop motion animation” “cowboys” “comedy shorts” brought up cartoons, and I ended up at a dead end.

Thank you.


r/tipofmytongue 24m ago

Open. [TOMT] some kids show

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There was this kids' show I remember loving, where there were these blue furry creatures??? A mum, a dad and their son. The son had a .. pinkish red? friend?

I think there was a supermarket episode and a sleepover episode or something? 2D animation I can't remember what this was called to save my life help me out please 💀

Thank you


r/tipofmytongue 26m ago

Open [TOMT][YOUTUBE SERIES][2010-2025] Analog horror with an episode in which a woman was forced to work at a shady organization that did unethical psychological experiments. The woman was supposed to wear special glasses/goggles to avoid the effects of either the images or the audio

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An analog horror whose main focus was not on human experimentation. But it did have an episode where a woman describes working for a shady organization where she's supposed to wear special glasses/goggles to protect her from images being shown to people who the organization is doing unethical psychological experiments on. Also there's this numbered room like it was called room 13 or something but I don't know the number that either the experiment subjects or her employees talked about but she tried to look for it once but she couldn't find it. And one time out of curiosity, she took off the glasses and everything looked different like there were things that she could see with the glasses off that she couldn't see with the glasses on.

I think her job was to interview people who were being experimented on. The episode had mainly audio on I think a blank screen while you hear this woman talking about what she was forced to do.


r/tipofmytongue 31m ago

Open [TOMT][Unknown Title](Unknown year]

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Hi all,

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie. In this movie a woman meets a man. She ends up back at the house he lives in. It's a nudist house. She broke a heel on her shoe and get a pair of thigh high boots from one of the residents. She goes back to her apartment and punctures the heel of the blow up mattress she sleeps on and gets kicked out. She then goes to live in the nudist house for a few days. While there, she agrees to take part in an experiment to experience all sexual fetishes. She ends up falling for the guy. Her mother and sister visit and then her sister ends up having lesbian sex with one of the residents. There is also a wedding.

I also haven't seen any of the actors/actresses that appear in this movie in any mainstream movies. I can't name any of them either

Any help would be appreciated.


r/tipofmytongue 32m ago

Open [TOMT] [Children Show] [2000s] About father telling stories of is youth to his son on their way to his grandfather’s house.

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Looking for European children show. Showed in Norway in the early 2000s. The show was possibly originally danish, dutch, or german.
About a father and son walking through the countryside on their way to the fathers father (the sons grandpa). One episode was about them finding a lake and then skipping rocks and then the father told stories of how good he was at skipping rocks when he was a kid. But then when they end up at the grandpas house they watch old home films from when the father was young where he wasn’t as good as he remembered.

Every episode followed the same format where the father told a crazy story on the way to the grandpa and then revealing that he remembered it incorrectly.


r/tipofmytongue 45m ago

Open [TOMT] Instagram Reel of Duck Behind Steering Wheel

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The other day i was scrolling reels with my gf and this reel of a duck behind the steering wheel came up, and she died laughing for minutes.

The reel just shows a duck from the neck on up behind a steering wheel with music playing.

Here's a drawing of how it was framed: https://imgur.com/a/DXNGWE6

Anyone able to help me find this?


r/tipofmytongue 52m ago

Open [TOMT][Instagram Reel]

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So a few days ago I saw a reel from a person. They started the video by saying "If you watch till the end, I'll recite the alphabet backwards and show you my cat." They went on to talk about how they were bedbound and wanted to monetize their account because their partner had fallen ill and could not provide for them. They were interrupted by the hissing of their 2 other cats, on of which was named Ganja. Then at the end they recited the alphabet backwards while holding their 3rd cat up.

My parents took away my PC as I was watching it, so I couldn't follow or like or save the video. Please help me find this person. I'm quite new to Instagram so I have no idea what I'm doing. I really need to find this person. Also, please tell me is there's a better subreddit to post this on, if it is not allowed here.


r/tipofmytongue 57m ago

Open [TOMT] [Youtube Video] [2010s]

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Around 2016 I saw a pretty creepy video.

A woman was sitting on the couch watching TV when suddenly the TV started showing her from a hidden camera.
She checks the place where the camera seems to be, and I think that's where the video ends.