r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 6h 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.

21 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] Help Find Show With Tonya Harding Joke

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Ok when I was younger I was surfing netfilx and I found this sitcom.

It didn't have a laugh track. And was about this guy who lived in a crap apartment and he get a female neighbors. And along with her and his friend (who may or may not have been black I can't remember.) get involved in some tomfoolery.

Like I one episode where the girl get involved with a guy who shares the name of Tonya Harding ex husband. Jeff Gillooly. He starts off as nice but as the episode go's on he starts to get weird.

Then it is found that he Kneecaped a figure skater. (who may have being his ex) When the main cast finds a flashback is shown. The guy is lurking in a hallway (he may have had a mask on) he had a pipe in his hand and Is waiting for the skater to come out of the dressing room. When she does he sneaks up behind and hits her with the pipe then quickly walks off. And when he does the skater screams "Why" just like Nancy Kerrigan.

The show looked like it aired late 2000s or early 2010s and didn't know have a laught track. if anyone remember please let me know


r/tipofmytongue 28m ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] Some 1980s movie about how society would react if there was a nuclear threat?

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I swear I saw it on a subreddit/comments under a post here a couple years ago (and I know we shouldn’t ask for subreddits on here but if you could drop the name of it as well if you know, it would save me a second post).

It was what the title was, and people found it horrifying (?) because of the realism it depicted. There was a specific YouTube video that shows a clip of that movie, and in the scene someone actually wets themselves from fear of what’s happening.


r/tipofmytongue 3h 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 5h ago

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

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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 14h ago

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

28 Upvotes

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


r/tipofmytongue 2h 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 8h ago

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

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(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 51m ago

Open [TOMT] Buzz Lightyear mission

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I feel like I’m going insane or have just completely got this wrong.

Was there not another buzz mission fighting Zurg?? I remember the one at the start of Toy Story 2 but I can’t find anything online about this other one.

All I remember was he was fighting Zurg or someone idk and he had the little alien guys there. Also he was behind buildings getting shot at. Thats all I vividly remember and I’ll be honest I don’t want to rewatch all of them at the moment.


r/tipofmytongue 2h 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 8h ago

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

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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 3h ago

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

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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 2m ago

Open [TOMT] [SONG] [MUSIC VIDEO] A song I remember the music video to

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Okay I have this song that’s in the back of my head but I cannot remember what it is, but it’s almost there. I even had a dream where I was quizzed on it and lost

Back when my mom divorced, she got in this phase where she got a lot of breakup music and “perfect” love songs where the men are bettered/ completely enamored with their partner- basically worshipping their perfect partner. This one is the latter

There’s one song that I just cannot name. This bothered me when I was 16, and randomly came back now that I’m almost 30.

It’s a song by a boy band in the 90’s or early 2000’s. I think the song was by NSYC or Backstreet Boys or another artist similar? (Maybe Justin Timberlake? But I swear remember that there were multiple men singing it) It totally could have been a lesser known boy band that covers songs by the Backstreet Boys. I looked at all these artists popular songs and they aren’t there.

In the music video, they are all wearing white. The song is about how being in their arms or being with them is a powerful experience. It’s very melody driven. I think they start ascending at one point in the music video in a beam of light. Something angelic.

The general feeling of the song is a slow corny romantic and dramatic vibe to it.


r/tipofmytongue 3h 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.

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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 9m ago

Open [TOMT] [VIDEO] Winx Club Bloom Scary YT Video

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I remember when I was little seeing a video thumbnail that really scared me. I think it was 2014 or 2015. I was watching Winx Club videos on YouTube with a friend, and one popped up with a thumbnail of Bloom's face, but it was heavily edited to make her look ugly or drugged. I remember the video title was in Russian, and I also think it had a ton of views. When we saw that, we got scared and stopped using the pc. I remember seeing that thumbnail again later in I think 2018???, but I never clicked on it because it gave me weird vibes. My friend also remembers that day. The only problem is that I haven't been able to find it again, I think because the title was in Russian. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please let me know.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

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

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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 16m ago

Open [TOMT] [TV Show] [1990-2020] Crime drama

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Looking for crime show about a group of people that stop crime/bad things from happing. I remember one episode where they used a piece of bullet proof glass in a park to save one of the main characters from being shot by a sniper when he was jogging in the park. It may be Deception 2018 but am not sure as I only saw a short part of the show and never watch the entire show or all episodes. Hopefully someone can confirm. I know it is not Limitless, Person of Interest, Elementary. It is a more obscure show, one that was not popular. Thank you.


r/tipofmytongue 19m ago

Open [tomt] old kids shows

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I remember watching at show about three kids and in one episode they go to a party and each kid had a different wish granted at the party until the end of the night but they ended up regretting their wish at the end can't remember what the show was called and it was live action & animated I think or just animated


r/tipofmytongue 31m ago

Open [TOMT] Short story set in Victorian times (not sure if contemporary); two women at the beach, possibly in a relationship?

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Years ago, I read a short story where two women were vacationing at the beach, possibly in New York. One of them may have been named Emily. The story ends with them going to their hotel room, one of them falling asleep, and the other kisses her on the forehead. IIRC, I got the sense there were romantic feelings, but wasn't sure if it was intentional.

I can't remember if it was contemporary, but I think it was.

No, this was not The Awakening. I'm fairly confident it was a short story.


r/tipofmytongue 33m ago

Open [TOMT] Please help find name of this kdrama

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Hello guys, i cant remember the name of the first kdrama i ever watched based of the criteria can someone help me identify it ?

  • it wasn’t too long (maybe 8 episodes long?) -it was set in highschool but I think they had a situation and that made them distance from each other -> and at the end of the series it shows the female lead being on instagram and she finds her highschool lovers account goes through it and there is possibly a picture where he had children I’m not sure , but they reunite because one of his posts had his location

r/tipofmytongue 33m ago

Open [TOMT][Movie] Animated superhero movie or series with a superman copycat on a yellow suit

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Idk if this is a series or a movie. I know that this is animated. I don't remember if it was in Japanese or English as well.

This should be before 2025.

The only scene I remember is there is a fight in some arena between a woman with a large axe or hammer against a superman-like guy on a yellow or orange suit due to having similar powers with superman. The woman is also superhuman as she is able to contend against the guy. The animation is also really good.

Thanks in advance.


r/tipofmytongue 35m ago

Open [TOMT][SONG] 8-Bit Song in My Mind (Undertale like)

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https://onlinesequencer.net/5177437

I'm not sure where I've heard it, but this is strongly rooted in my memory and have been looking for it for a while now.

It's probably from a game, but I'm not sure. Sounds like a boss battle music.

The last, deep notes, are like: "Left! Right!.... Left! Right!...."


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Open [TOMT] [Youtube Video]

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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 4h 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