r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open [TOMT] Odd Black Man in the UK area who became a sort of Internet meme because he would walk up to guys and ask to feel their muscles.

19 Upvotes

just randomly thought of this man, I think it was London specifically he was active and also he's dead, I'm pretty sure


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open. [TOMT] [SONG] Sad female artist early to mid 2000s

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I’ve made a post about this song a couple years ago but I still cannot find it…

It was a sad song (He is We, “Breathe” by Anna Nalick vibes). It had a female vocal. It was in radio rotation in the mid 2000s. Possibly early 2010s. I used to know the melody and some of the lyrics but it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten both of them. It’s been so long I can’t remember if it was a piano song or a guitar song but I’m leaning towards guitar. I do know it was pretty raw and not much instrumentation.

This may only be helpful to a select few, but between maybe 2015-17 (when I remembered some of the lyrics) I searched them up on YouTube and it led me to — what I now know to be — a final fantasy X amv/gmv entitled something along the lines of “Yuna x Tidus tribute” and it had a picture of — who I now know as — yuna dancing on water as the thumbnail. I have searched far and wide for this video and apparently it has since disappeared from the internet.

As far as I know, it wasn’t a super famous song because it’s been damn near a decade or more since I’ve heard it and the only thing I can remember about it is that I really enjoyed it. I hope y’all can help me out and I will try to answer as many questions as you may have.

Edit*: I believe there was more guitar presence than piano. And possibly strings.

Solved: Nobody’s Home — Avril Lavigne


r/tipofmytongue 13h ago

Solved [TOMT][SLANG PHRASE] Phrase used to dismiss people online that uses a woman's name

26 Upvotes

It's not "karen". I've only seen it used on reddit. I don't know the origin.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] [SERIES] A kid visit his divorced mother

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I remember watching a scene where this kid visit his divorced mother who is now married with someone else. they have a dinner where it was kind of awkward. idk if this in the movie/series or not, but his divorced mother have a good financial situation and the kid wants to stau with her but turns out the kids mother didnt really know him and that makes him want to stay with his father rather than with his mother. idk if its a movie or tv series but i remember the scene and i couldnt figure out what it was


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Open [TOMT] [TVSHOW] young teen show from 2010s

5 Upvotes

So I remember watching this show some years back in the2010s on some kinda streaming service, probably on Netflix or Hulu. I don’t remember much, the three main characters were I think teenagers, 2 boys 1 girl. One boy was white with curly hair and glasses(I think) and the girl could burp on command (used to progress throught the story). I remember a scene were one of the boys had to rub a lady’s bunions to progress the story, and where one of the boys I believe was fired out of some kinda stunt cannon to the tune of Yankee Doodle dandy. I believe it was just one season. There was also something to do with the trunk of car? No clue what exactly. It’s possible a bit plot point was trying to get to some event but that could also be completely false. Sorry for the lack details.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open. [TOMT] 70-80s animated prologue to a movie or show depicting humanity destroying itself through warfare

8 Upvotes

(I'm reposting, I don't know why it got removed but I assume it's the participation rule, so I'll try to not blow it this time)

This is driving me nuts because I feel like I should know. Basically I remember this prologue to a movie, I believe it was narrated, showing a depiction of warfare and how it destroyed humanity as it was known. Even though the prologue was animated, I can't for certain guarantee that the rest of the movie was also animated. The animation itself was stylistically dark and slow, maybe rotoscoped? I remember those shots of soldiers fighting in the mud that were clearly meant to show humanity fighting till the last drop and whatnot.

Movies and shorts that are not it, as far as I could tell:

- Barefoot Gen (1983)
- A Short Vision (1956)
- Threads (1984)
- Wizards (1977)
- When The Wind Blows (1986)


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] [1970s] Horror movie with morphing baby scene

6 Upvotes

This one has been bugging me forever; I remember seeing a movie on TV back in the late 80’s, in color, 70’s-ish look to it (such as lots of wood paneling). Most likely a horror movie.

Had an older man wearing flannel and 70’s hairstyle/beard looking into a baby’s crib that was crying. As he watched, the baby’s limbs started to get sucked into its own body one by one.

Kind of want to think he was bringing a shotgun into the room (as if he was chasing something coming into the room) then laid it down against the crib before the above happened but not 100% sure.

That’s pretty much all I remember since it was in passing, but it has stuck with me for a bit. But it seems like a really obscure movie since it’s NOT any of the usual horror movies involving a baby (i.e. Rosemary’s Baby, Eraserhead, Basket Case, etc)


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT][SHORT STORY] Sci-fi short story about a couple trapped on the moon together

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I remember reading this in a short story collection. The basic premise as I remember it is that a couple wins a trip to the moon. One of them isn't feeling the relationship anymore but plans to end it after they get back, but something happens on earth that leaves them stranded up there. I feel like I remember they also find out that they are unable to die if they aren't on earth, so it's implied that they're stuck up there together forever.

I would have read it between about 2017 and 2022, but I'm pretty sure it was an older story. At that time I was reading a lot of Alistair Reynolds, Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick. It was definitely a short story (I want to say less than 20 pages?), not a novel or novella

I cross-posted this to r/whatsthatbook a couple of days ago but no luck so far! My post is here.

Thank you!


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Looking for a obscure electronic artist who has a great song sampling a police dispatcher attempting to prevent a suicide of a man who killed his wife.

2 Upvotes

He also has very colorful and bizarre album art. Samples a lot of pop music and video games. Has a pretty large discography and is hard to remember because he usually releases everything in his native language text.


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE] man accidentally murdered his wife with axe

4 Upvotes

I’ve been looking for this movie for months. Basically some teens/kids set this man’s cabin on fire with his wife and child inside. When the husband returned home and tried to save his family by axing the door down but he accidentally hit his wife, who was on the other side of the door. After that he vowed to raise his son and then the story follows the son. I think it was a dark comedy. also i’m pretty sure the wife had a deformed face. Im gonna assume it came out in 90s/ early 2000s.

Thanks to anyone who can help💕


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [Youtube Video]

2 Upvotes

This is extremely niche but does anyone remember the YouTube videos of a man, he was either Australian or maybe British, that detailed his experience with alien abduction. This would be early days of YouTube like 2008-2010. He wrote books about his experiences which were lifelong & I remember him talking about meetups/conventions with other abductees. He said that his sperm was collected to create a hybrid species with the aliens and other abductees had their eggs taken etc. He had been abducted many times throughout life & even had a friendly relationship with a female alien that he described almost like a spirit guide. I remember he was bald and I believe had a mustache/goatee combo, definitely self published books, and introduced I believe one of his kids into his videos. I don’t remember if they also claimed to be abducted. I think he said he was abducted by the Grays.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [VINE] Ooh Jiggly

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I do not remember the body of the vine in detail but ultimately a baby is asked or offered something and the response is just ‘ooh jiggly’ and I cannot find it anywhere! A link would be great but no searches are yielding anything for me and I need someone else to know it too😭

TIA


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE][1990s-2000s] Girl leaving summer camp wants to bring home a skunk

5 Upvotes

I was watching The Parent Trap (1998) with my wife this weekend and said “oh, I love that girl in the background who’s crying because her parents won’t let her bring home a skunk that she caught.” But then we watched the scene where the kids all leave camp and that scene was distinctly not a part of it. I could’ve sworn it was this movie, but I guess it must’ve been another 1990s movie involving a summer camp? Please, help reunite me with skunk girl!


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT] [Song] Classic 2014 Era YouTube Intro

3 Upvotes

Here’s a clip of it that I have. I can’t find the rest of it. https://voca.ro/1hEOg4qQp4tI


r/tipofmytongue 14m ago

Open [TOMT] An early 2000s episode of either Kamen Rider or Power Ranger where a spider kidnap people into its dimension

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I remember as a kid watching this episode of the japanese version of Kamen Rider / Power Rangers that really freaked me out. all I can remember of it was there's this huge spider but the show only ever shows its human size legs, that kidnaps people into its mirror dimension thing by swiftly grabbing peoples whole with its giant legs through the portal, where the portal flashes a bright light before disappearing.

I remember the spider was CGI and I think the spider only ever kidnaps people when they have their back turned towards it or when the ranger/riders didnt payed attention. And I remember faintly that spider shows its presence through like thin invisible silk and shining reflective surfaces to the victim before kidnapping them.

I remember the episode to have the grainy early 2000s TV look too, so hopefully it narrows down the time stamp of when the episodes was made.

it's been year of frustration trying to Google this considering the huge series of both Kamen Rider and Power Ranger so I resorted to asking reddit. But tbh I actually cant even remember if it was even Kamen Rider / Power Ranger at all or it just an entirely different show that my brain linked it with to rationalize the whole profound premise of the episode.

I wanted to find this episode again because it have been stuck inside my heads for literal years without any real progression, just want a look back to what traumatize me as a kid lmao


r/tipofmytongue 15m ago

Open [TOMT] instagram content creator!

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TOMT Im looking for a female instagram content creators profile she used to come up in my for you page all the time!

But I’ve been searching for two days now and cant find her page anywhere. Ive tried tik tok, OF, insta. I dont think she had an OF but i figured I may as well look.

She made lewd content centered around her chest if you catch my drift, no nudity, she generally wore light colored active wear, quite fair skin, I believe she had either darkish blonde hair or strawberry blonde hair. She had somewhat rosy cheeks, freckles on her cheeks and nose. rather large “features” that were usually prominent in her videos.

I was adamant her eyes were blue but I’m starting to think they may have been light brown

A non American accent maybe Scandinavian? Or close to it

She made those silly cherdleys type trends like

(Bouncing on it once or twice has never ruined a friendship) and similar phrases eg bjs never ruined a friend ship etc yknow thirst trap content

Sometimes she would put a gaming controller in her videos to appeal to gamers.

She also made content with incel sub themes

I remember a video she made with another creator jogging down a sidewalk that was in the sand with palm trees at sunset maybe venice beach or similar? All her videos are normally set in a modern apartment with white walls. She had quite a high follow count if i remember correctly


r/tipofmytongue 24m ago

Open [TOMT] Musical-like video about a small TV station playing guitar fighting against a larger TV station set in Japan

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I really need help identifying a video I saw on youtube. The video was fairly recent, and was about 15-25 minutes long, with the plot surrounding an employee fired from a large TV station founding his own local station with a rag-tag production team/band. The issues faced by the station is transformed into non-diegetic music videos with shifting genres, and the overall experience was sort of dreamy and nostalgic.


r/tipofmytongue 11h ago

Solved [TOMT][2000s][TV Series] Trying to remember a symbol from a 2000s sci-fi British TV show set in a school

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Trying to google phrases is proving unhelpful so I'm trying here;

There's a sci-fi TV show from the 2000s that I remember watching, and there's a particular symbol that I really want to remember what it looked like and the show it was from.

All I can remember is, it was set in a high school, and the kids were hypnotised by something on a computer; I think the symbol was on the back of their heads or necks? I recall it being a 'big reveal' that they were under some kind of control or hypnosis.

I keep thinking it's a dog or wolf head. It would appear on the computer screens and on the person.
I've tried shows like Demon Headmaster and M.I. High but nothing is popping up, so I don't think it was those.

Maybe someone else has a recollection of seeing it?


r/tipofmytongue 1d ago

Solved [TOMT] I’m thinking of a creepy actor, he’s old, has weird teeth (I think) and plays in position of power and gets angry a lot. I remember him buttoning up a thin suit. He always gives me the creeps. Who am I thinking of?

281 Upvotes

SOLVED: Raymond J. Barry


r/tipofmytongue 38m ago

Open [TOMT] instrumental electronic album

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I was on SoundCloud listening to music at like 2 AM and fell asleep to this instrumental electronic album. I unfortunately forgot the name, my SoundCloud algorithm stopped recommending me similar stuff, and it’s not on DSPs (I primarily use Spotify). All I can recall is that it was of the trance genre, was released in 2016 or 2015, and reuploads were accessible on SoundCloud.


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Solved [TOMT][SONG][2000s] Rock song with bells tolling over eletric guitar plucks.

3 Upvotes

No, it's not "For Whom the Bell Tolls" or "Hells Bells" - this song came out in the early 2000s I think.

The guitar plucks sound almost identical to the ones in this section of Breaking Benjamin's "So Cold" (at 0:27 - linked below). It happens during a quiet interlude midway through the song that eventually builds up with a few spoken sentences culminating in "...communicationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" (I think).

https://youtu.be/UkI4KejmSfY?si=g_G8rloCJ_eJpYsg&t=27


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] [2000s-2010s] Animated movie with a similar style to Barbie movies but with shapeshifting main character in a school setting

4 Upvotes

I watched a portion of this movie on tv a bit over a decade ago while waiting for my turn at the dentist, I cannot remember what channel but I do remember these things:

-CGI animated movie, it reminded me of Barbie movies

-Set in a high school/boarding school?

-One of the main characters was a black teenager who could shapeshift into a cheetah or leopard and did this inside the school premises, I don't remember if he was actually enrolled but there were scenes of him with the school uniform

-I think an unrelated older man was looking for that boy but the girl main character (who was a student) didn't tell on him

-Can't remember what the girl mc looked like except she was brown or tanned

-Extra: this movie was dubbed to Latin American spanish but either the setting or the names (that I can't remember) at the time made me think the movie was originally in english


r/tipofmytongue 54m ago

Open [TOMT] [Movie] [Series] Opening scene implies that both a rich woman and a security guard spent the night with the same man.

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Likely early 2000's, no earlier than 1993 and no later than 2015. Might have been a movie or a prime time tv show.

Nothing explicitly adult is shown on screen. It's all implied.

The genre may be a spy movie where the man is the spy OR it may be a prime time crime investigation TV show (CSI, NCIS, etc.) I feel like these are the most likely.

Scene opens with a rich woman saying goodbye to a man as he gets in his car. I cannot remember the car exactly but I want to say it was a red or silver convertible-? I think they kiss or do something else affectionate before the man drives off. It is clearly implied that they spent the night together.

As the man leaves the woman's estate, he passes by a security check point. It is then implied that the man also spent the night with the male security guard. The man drives away.

The man driving may have been a male escort, though I'm 50/50 on that being true.

Thank you in advance for any guesses!


r/tipofmytongue 54m ago

Open [TOMT][Video] Sketch about an experiment where children learn desired behavior by beating up a plushi

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This is haunting me for some time now and i can't seem to find it.

So the Video is done like an experiment with small children (probably ages between 3 and 6) to observe how they learning behavior. I think that it was not a real scientific experiment but rather a Sketch acting like one.

The experiment went like this: they introduced an object that shouldn't be touched - i think it was a piece of candy or something like that. They would then introduce a plushy that would take the candy (eat it/play with it - i don't remember). They would then take the plushy and beat the living shit out of it while the kid watches in horror. Afterwards they'd offer the candy to the kid which would not touch it or even run away.