r/tipofmytongue • • Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG] Best friend has a song stuck...

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My best friend just called trying to figure out this song in her head...we have no context whatsoever, just the vague tune. Vocaroo link: https://voca.ro/15zBwqGDtyg2


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Solved [TOMT][Meme/Image] skinny humanoid creature lying on its side??

16 Upvotes

There’s this meme or maybe just image that I have such a clear picture of but can’t find.

It’s this skinny white creature, vaguely human shaped but with (i think) bigger eyes and little to no mouth. it may have a skinny tail as well?

The most important part is the pose, it’s lying on its side with its legs bent in front of it, and is propped up on its elbows. It’s maybe on a bed of some sort?

Pose is hard to describe but imaging someone sleeping on their side with slightly bent legs, and they’re pushing themselves half upright so their arms and face are like the front half of the Sphinx.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT][PHOTO][2005] Who is the man in the poster in Jake’s room in Two and a Half Men?

6 Upvotes

I’m trying to identify the man in a black-and-white poster on Jake Harper’s wardrobe in Two and a Half Men.

The poster appears in Season 2, Episode 15 (“Smell the Umbrella Stand”), at approximately 06:36.

It shows a man wearing dark sunglasses, with his mouth wide open, apparently shouting or laughing.

I suspect he might be a rock musician, but I haven’t been able to confirm that.

The episode originally aired in February 2005, so the photograph must be from that period or earlier.

Does anyone recognize this photo or know where the poster came from?

Here's a link to a print of the image: Print of The Image

Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [CREEPYPASTA]: "Find Amy"; story about a man looking for his daughter

7 Upvotes

hi everyone, i read a story on the creepypasta wiki that stuck with me and i haven't been able to find since, and i'd love to read it again to see if it still holds up. i first got into creepypastas in middle school so this would have been around 2012 to 2015-ish.

the story followed a man during the zombie apocalypse who had lost track of his daughter and was trying to find survivors to help him look for her. the big twist at the end was that he ended up finding survivors and was calling to them, but they shot him because HE was a zombie.

the story was a two word title along the lines of "find amy" or "help amy"; i remember because it was the same name as my cat. i can't remember if the story was in first or third person.

i've searched every variation of the title i can think of, as well as scoured the creepypasta wiki, and have been unsuccessful. hopefully someone else remembers this!


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] [Ad] [Song] Strange song from youtube ad

4 Upvotes

One time i stumbled upon a strange youtube ad. It showed a weird picture of some blue robot or demon. Audio was very disturbing with some kind of wailing sounds. When i clicked on it, it was some kind of song and there was a "(ft. __ )" In it.


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Open. [TOMT] [Poem] [Pre-1970] What would we do if we lived in a zoo? Looking for a children's poem

10 Upvotes

I have a vague memory of a children's poem that starts something like, What would we do if we lived in a zoo, with the lions and the bears...

Maybe by Edward Lear or Dr. Seuss? Google has not helped.


r/tipofmytongue • • 10m ago

Open [TOMT][2012] youtube music video about kids being shooters??

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this might be graphic.

I remember watching this back in 2012-2013 on youtube, it wasn't a music video by an artist/band/company but probably by some group of people who recorded it, I'm pretty sure the music wasn't theirs either.

Now, the video takes place in a small house and it looks like they were in the suburbs, and in the video there were boys (aged 7-10) holding guns, like realistic looking ones and shooting eachother and having insane gunfights, there was blood as well, not like physical fake blood but edited, green screen blood.

there were A LOT of kids, like 15 of them or something, there's a specific scene I remember where 2-3 boys team to tie another kid up and they put either a brown paper bag or sack on his head, they took a knife and cut his throat and there was a gushing blood effect.

the video still looked fake though, also the music was probably rock or something, most of the shootings take place inside that house.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][VARIETY SHOW][1980s-2000s] Opera singer swings above the stage hanging from his microphone while scenery sabotages his performance

5 Upvotes

I'm trying to identify a very elaborate and hilarious live comedy performance, probably from an American theatrical production from the 1970s,80s, or 90s (although the date is uncertain).

The act features a genuinely talented male opera or operetta-style singer performing a dramatic song on a large, realistic theatrical set, possibly with a or tropical theme.

The key feature is that the singer remains completely serious and continues singing beautifully while everything around him gradually goes wrong.

Here's what I remember:

  • At first, almost stagehands start subtly interfering with his performance by moving pieces of scenery.
  • I vaguely remember a large palm leaf (or something similar) being moved close to his face, apparently to annoy him.
  • The interference gradually escalates, with props and scenery deliberately getting in his way.
  • A microphone suspended from a long cable above the stage starts moving around, forcing the singer to follow it and grab it while continuing to sing.
  • Eventually, he grabs onto the microphone and is lifted completely off the ground, swinging back and forth high above the stage while STILL SINGING, maintaining an absolutely straight face!

The entire scene looks like a genuine, professionally staged operetta, with elaborate scenery and a real singer, rather than an amateur comedy sketch.

I seem to remember that this was part of a much larger American comedy production, featuring different professional performers such as musicians, singers, acrobats and circus artists, with their acts transformed into highly original comedic performances.

The production quality looked relatively modern.

Does anyone remember this sketch, or the producer it came from?

The most distinctive moment is definitely the opera singer flying above the stage, holding onto his suspended microphone and continuing to sing as though absolutely nothing unusual is happening.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open. [TOMT] I need help finding a old but classic hip hop song

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I remember hearing this a lot in like videos I'm pretty sure you'll be able to recognize by the melody alone, I literally cannot be more detailed than making this video. Video with the melody

EDIT: I should mention that my Vocals are meant to emulate a synth sound, the "dou dou's" have more like a spring reverb sound in the actual song.


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG][2019-2024] Indie/alternative song with cover art showing a woman's legs running on a beach

6 Upvotes

I'm trying to remember a song I listened to sometime between 2019 and 2024, probably on Spotify.

I can't remember the title, lyrics, or artist, but I have a vague memory of the cover art. It looked like a candid photograph of a woman running on a beach, closely cropped around her bare legs and knees. Her legs were at different heights, suggesting movement. The background was light or sandy, and I distinctly remember what looked like a small red scrape or scab on the right knee.

I think it was a female vocalist, and the genre may have been indie pop, alternative pop, indie rock, or pop-punk. The sound may have been somewhat similar to phem's “silly putty,” although I'm not certain about the genre.

The song might have been released before 2019; that's just roughly when I remember listening to it. I don't think the title mentioned knees, and I can't recall any lyrics.

Does anyone recognise the cover or have a guess? Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE][early-to-mid 80s, maybe up to 1990] Bleak indie/Direct to Video: young man the heroine knows snaps, picks off police in an abandoned business park, taunts "olly olly oxen free"

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Seen on pay cable (Showtime/The Movie Channel/HBO, possibly Z Channel). Dusty, blue-grey, desolate look: bare concrete, empty unfurnished buildings, maybe an abandoned business park outside town. Alienated-youth feel, like Over the Edge but bleaker, with an eerie Twilight Zone quality. A blond teen or young man (possibly in camo pants) whom the heroine knows seems normal, then becomes unhinged. He traps her, possibly with a younger sibling or a kid she's watching. Police or a rescue team come in and he picks them off one by one. In one scene he hangs from pipes or rafters and drops down to slit a rescuer's throat. He taunts her with "Olly olly oxen free." I think she survives.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] Character names in Google home game "Are you feeling lucky?"

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(I am not the one remembering this, I'm making this post for my friend who can't remember these names. This desc is made by them, not me) I vividly remember as a kid I used to play this one game on my Google home called “are you feeling lucky?”. It was a trivia game and it had little dot characters to represent you. The game would go through 5 questions, with each being multiple choice or picking from a timeline. After someone won, this god looking creature would give you a random item. I remember only a few of the playable characters’ names, like Scooter, Glitchy, Gobbledygook, Derby, Freestyle, etc, but I want to remember all of their names. Anyone remember them?


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [YouTube Channel] [Romania] Update on a horror YouTube channel I used to watch

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I'm still trying to find a Romanian horror story YouTube channel that I used to watch as a child. I haven't found any major clues, but I've come across a few things that might be helpful.

I made a post about it on Reddit some time ago, but I haven't found anything major since then. I also came across another Reddit post from someone who is looking for the same channel, so I thought I'd make another post to bring these clues together. I'll include links to both Reddit posts and the video at the bottom of this post.

Since my original post, the only new clue I've received was a comment suggesting that the channel's name might have started with the letter J, although the person wasn't sure about it.

Also, in the other Reddit post, someone shared a small update saying they had found a video made by another horror channel and thought that the woman I'm looking for might have participated in it by voicing a female character.

I watched that video many times in the past, but I never really thought the voice sounded like the narrator of the channel I'm looking for. However, it's possible that it actually was her. It's been many years since I last watched her videos, so I might not remember her voice accurately anymore.

I'm hoping these clues might help us finally identify the channel.

The other Reddit posts looking for the same channel:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/1vcxsts/help_me_find_a_romanian_creepypasta_channel_that/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/1vcxsts/help_me_find_a_romanian_creepypasta_channel_that/

My original Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1tew6ca/tomt_youtube_channel_romania_horror_youtube/

The video that might feature the channel's creator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRKEAZlFY0

If anyone has any new clues or recognizes the channel, I'd really appreciate the help!


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] [Band] [2000s] A hard rock/nu-metal band with songs about UFOs

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Hello all,

I've asked for help finding this band before to no avail. It's as if this band simply faded from existence. Any guesses are greatly appreciated!

I remember finding this band on Spotify around 2018. They were a relatively obscure hard rock/nu-metal band in a similar vein to Breaking Benjamin or Chevelle. Their artwork, as well as song titles, were heavily centered around UFOs, aliens, and abduction. Their logo was (I think) like an upside-down question mark or Egyptian cross type thing. Every album cover had a flying saucer on it, and I seem to remember one having a house with a UFO shining a beam onto the roof and/or projecting the band's logo onto the ground. They were from the early 2000s-2010s.

That's about all I can remember besides their music kicking ass.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT] I am looking for an lost song from 2010's

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I can't recall what song it is from the 2010's, but I do recall the image used for that song I heard from Cow of the Wild I think is where I heard it.

I will try as hard as I can to describe it.

It was a man wearing white suit (Japanese I think?) wielding a sword in front of his face with I guess sakura flowers flowing across the air with red and black background behind him and light behind him.

That's all I could describe.

Edit: Bit more I could add, the song begins with the child singing, then the woman sings it and then the chorus sings. I thought I could share this.


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Solved [TOMT] [TV SHOW] [LATE 2000s, EARLY 2010s] old documentary about Spinosaurus being ridiculously OP

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I remember when I was younger, I watched a TV documentary that was uploaded in its entirety on YouTube about Spinosaurus where they rather hilariously made it seem like this unstoppable Kaiju. I remember it tossing a smaller theropod like a ragdoll and they had this mechanical recreation of a Spinosaurus Arm that they used to destroy a car door and a ballistic dummy


r/tipofmytongue • • 18m ago

Open [TOMT] [Manga/Comic] Story about mad doctor and a self-generating monster

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The Plot is as follows:

MC is a doctor that either goes back into his hometown or just a ordinary small village.
There the doctor finds a burned woman/ monster that falls in love with him and has self regenerating powers. He uses it to experiment on her.
There's a duchess/ princess too thats a lookalike to the monster.
This is being investigated by a priest .

I think this story happens in medieval or Victorian times - possibly in Europe.

It doesn’t have the typical “manga look” so it could have been a western comic.


r/tipofmytongue • • 23m ago

Open [TOMT] YouTube short video about a tumblr post being narrated about a guy in the dc universe being able to see numbers above people head

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It’s just like one of those normal narrating videos with Minecraft parkour gameplay in the back talking about a guy who see numbers above people heads which represent how dangerous they are and gets shocked seeming Clark Kent at a 10 (he doesn’t know he’s Superman yet I’m really just trying to find it because of people in the comments adding on to it and I wanted to re read them
I found the tumblr post but I cannot for the life of me find the video, it’s like looking for copper finding gold, but still needing copper


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE] Dark fantasy movie where a poor peasant girl is married off to a creepy//supernatural older man, trapped in a weird house with mischievous entities, and tries to reach her glowing secret lover in a dream world

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I've been trying to find this dark fantasy movie or miniseries for years and it's driving me crazy. I watched it dubbed on television around the late 2000s or early 2010s, but the production didn't feel like a big Hollywood movie. it definitely had that slightly raw, obscure European indie/TV movie feel to it. I was pretty young when I saw it, so it felt really long (though it might have been split into parts). I think it had a similar vibe to the labyrinth or the 10th kingdom.

Here is everything I remember about the plot: It starts out in a gritty, dark forest village or woods where a normal-looking traveler shows up. To the viewer, he gives off a slightly creepy vibe. Because the main family is extremely poor, the mother insists on letting him take and marry her 16-or-something-year-old daughter. The girl has fair skin, long dark hair, and wears normal peasant clothes. I also remember there’s no father in the family and this girl has 6 or something little siblings.

Now this is getting a little less chronological because it’s so vivid in my head but basically the husband takes her back to his massive, bizarre house. It's filled with weird, mischievous entities and inhabitants who are secretly working on his side to keep her trapped and stop her from escaping.

She ends up having a secret lover at some point who is her age who seems to be glowing or subtly supernatural. Maybe a far of some sort. To meet him, she has to fall asleep to enter this glowing dream-limbo state where they meet at a waterfall and drink water from each other's hands (or something like that) But the mischievous entities in the house keep sabotaging her by releasing something into the air, like a smoke, spell, or gas, so she can't fall asleep, while her lover is waiting for her and she can't reach him.

At some point, she somehow escapes and goes back home to her family, and either through a time-dilation or a psychological illusion set up by the house to make her guilty and wallow in regret, she finds that her younger siblings have all grown old and withered away while she stayed her age. And I think they keep asking her reasons why and how could she leave them.

Anyway, if any of this sounds familiar please let me know. I know for sure I didn’t dream this up because i watched it multiple times and remembered some details as i was writing this. Unfortunately it was dubbed so I don’t even know which language it was.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT] [SONG] [2010s]

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I remember the lyrics, but Genius isn’t helping.. lyrics: “I like you, but I don’t. I want you, should I though?” And another line says “a text back would be a dream come true.” Female singer, pop style


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open. [TOMT] [QUOTE] [2010–20s?] The difference between literary realism and fantasy fiction: in literature, the world changes the protagonist; in fantasy, the protagonist changes the world

3 Upvotes

Sometime in the last 15 years, I heard or read a quote that went something like this: the difference between literary fiction and fantasy fiction is that in literature, a protagonist's encounter with the world changes the protagonist, while in fantasy, a protagonist's encounter with the world changes the world. I'm pretty sure I didn't come up with this distinction myself, but for the life of me, I can't find who else said something like this.

I originally thought this was something the TTRPG writer/designer Matt Colville said, but when I looked through his catalog, I discovered that his take on "Fantasy vs Fiction" was pretty different, based instead on Stephen R. Donaldson's taxonomy (in which in fantasy, the setting reflects the inner struggles of the protagonist; whereas in literary fiction, the setting exists independent of the protagonist).

Thanks for trying to help.


r/tipofmytongue • • 19h ago

Solved [TOMT] An upbeat song about like walking down the street, knocking on a door, and then like kissing the girl. But he has some knickname or gibberish like shaboopi, but its not family guy. Its like a monsters inc bonus feature or something.

35 Upvotes

I remember monsters inc for some reason though it may not be connected.

An upbeat song like a love song where the guy is like excited to walk down the street, shadoodala shadoodala, walking up to ypur door, gibberish nickname, knocking on your door, gibberish, and then I kiss you some more.

I can't remember it and all search engines have lost contextual searching and I'm missing something integral to find it. Please help. I don't remember much except liking it as a child/pre teen. It could be bad or whatever. I'm 31 now, so it was certainly a while ago.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT][ALBUM][70s/80s?] Airy Japanese city pop / ambient pop album

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This album appeared on my Spotify awhile ago that is in the genre of like music you play at a hotel pool almost. I believe it's a classic Japanese artist, and the album is just a guy from the back looking out at what I think is the sea. He's wearing a white shirt. It's very airy, summery sort of music.

I've gone down the rabbit holes of ambient pop and city pop, looking at Kingo Hamada, Masayoshi Takanaka, none of them are it. If I were to compare I'd say Masayoshi Takanaka is probably the closest to my memory of the music.

Wish I could give more detail than this. Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE/TV] quote, comedy: something like: "[don't you just want to put your mouth on her mouth] and suck in her breath?"

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i know i quoted this a bunch 5-7 ish years ago. the source has slipped my mind. the "suck in her breath" part is the only bit i'm confident in. i feel like i hear it in some sort of NY or MA accent.

could just be something a friend said that turned into a bit. no idea, but it's bugging me so bad.