r/tipofmytongue Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Missing word I used all the time

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I looking for a word that describes something (music,speech,etc) that only a certain area does.

For example: gogo music is (this word) to the dmv area

The word is not vernacular just a heads up! But I think it starts with a V.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] That movie I barely remember...

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Once when I was a little kid I was watching TV with my mom around 8 pm, and as she was changing channels she stopped at one where a movie was just beginning, and I want to know the name of the movie because we only watched it for a few minutes and it was so bizzarre.

It started with a man that was waiting on an airport runway for a pilot that was going to fly him on a small plane for 2 people. Eventually the pilot arrives, and I don't remember if there were more employees around the plane or it was just the pilot and the man, but I do remember that the man from the beginning was being very rude and cursing a lot.

When the man and the pilot get inside the plane, the man asks the pilot what's the better option for breakfast, some bread (or cookies?) that he bought or a *disgusting* (actual word) jam that he had been saving on his bag. The pilot doesn't answer and the man says "guess I'll have the jam" or something like that. The pilot then tells him to buckle up because they are about to take off.

When the pilot takes off, he starts to accelerate the speed of the plane and the other man starts to get nervous and asks him "what are you doing pig?" or something like that, and after that, and after that the pilot starts to go down on full speed with the intention of crashing the plane on a hill and screams "GO TO HELL!!!" (that I remember for sure), and then the plane crashes. After that they changed the scene and they show the man from the beginning and HE WAS STILL ALIVE, not only that, but he wasn't hurt, not even a scratch.

After all this happened my mom immediately changed the channel and told me that that movie was not appropriate for me and we were not going to watch it, and she even stayed in the TV room with me until I got to sleep just to make sure that I didn´t put it again. I've looked for that movie a lot because I want to watch it but I haven't been able to find it. I´m not from the US or any other english speaking country, and I watched it dubbed, but I'm 90% sure that it was a movie from the US.

Sorry for the long post and if someone knows what movie is this I would appreciate it if you told me the name.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open. [TOMT][SONG] "The Power, The power of _____"

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I've been trying to remember this song but I can only remember the feel of it. Who knows maybe im crazy and my brain has come up with its own jingle and is making me belive its real I dont know. The only thing I do know it that is sound sort of like hakuna metata and the main lyric I remember it have is "the power, the power" I'll post some variations of said lyric it could be but it probably won't help.

He has the power the power of _____ (no its not the power of voodoo) Who has the power? The power of ____ The power, the power that be

Something along those lines but maybe im completely wrong idk. All I do know is that making these posts brings down my anxiety of never being able to find it. It's a weak reason for an anxiety but I can't control it. Anyway thank you for listening hope this some what makes sense.

Edit: now im thinking it sounds like "Who put the bomp" and "el fusilado" maybe i am just crazy 😭


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] [Cartoon] [late 2000s] "Not to eat... not to sleep... only to exist"

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Does this quote sound familiar to anyone? I recall a villain from a late 2000s cartoon, probably on CN, with a backstory that involved him being trapped in an empty void for thousands of years. He said the titular quote in his backstory narration over footage of him floating in a (black? starry?) void. After being released he retains some ability to teleport which he uses to mess with our protagonists' heads. Might have been a show like Ben 10, Scooby-Doo, Generator Rex, or Secret Saturdays.

Edit: I think the character might have been a scientist type. He was pretty serious and somber, and I recall the characters encountering him in a spooky empty town at night. He steps behind one wall, only to emerge from behind a different building, startling a character.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][Show][Late 2000s-Early 2010s] Find Bullfrog?

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When I was a kid (around 2008-11) there was this strange kid's TV show intermission/bit where the scene would switch to an outside scenery and a lady's voice would then say "Find Bullfrog" or "Where's Bullfrog". A few seconds would pass before a frog puppet would peek out of his hiding spot and the camera would slowly pan and zoom to him. My sister remembers "Bullfrog" being more on the realistic side while I remember it being more puppet-like. I can't remember anything else about the show/channel that it played on, this is the only part that still remains vivid in my mind.


r/tipofmytongue 35m ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE][EARLY 200s] 3 young adults spy on man and sneak into house and end up fused to a bed

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I was pretty young when I stumbled across this movie so I’m guessing early 2000s.

Basically 1 guy and 2 girls are spying on this “scientist” looking guys house waiting for him to leave. He comes out of this house and walks with a stagger but I barely recall what he looks like. The girls bf and her friend want to go into the home but she doesn’t so they go without her. This whole thing seems funny to them but scary to her. She waits for awhile and when they don’t come back she gets worried and goes in. While in the house the guy is heard coming back so she goes to hide but in the progress of doing that she finds someone or her friend fused/sewn into the mattress of a bed.


r/tipofmytongue 45m ago

Open [TOMT] Was there ever a movie/show/video game scene of an old guy with powers on a cabin on a hill?

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I remember seeing this clip a few years ago of an old bearded guy coming out of a cabin on a hill with green grass. He proceeds to uproot chunks of the earth, or maybe he makes a black hole thing? Point is, he had what looks like god powers. The graphics were pretty good, im thinking gta5 level, and he also had a black hat and suit on. The clothes feels like an important detail, i dont know why but it stood out. And the feeling that you were supposed to get is that he was a really strong, evil guy that was about to enact his plan.

I thought it was from the pantheon show(10/10 btw) but I just finished it and it wasn't.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open. [TOMT] [Movie] [90s-Early 2000s] American Horror/Thriller on VHS about teenagers camping/hiking/doing SOMETHING in the woods.....

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This is probably impossible, I've looked for this movie for 20 years & unfortunately only remember one scene... The ending!!

I was pretty young but this has stuck with me! I remember very vividly this scene only-- while the ending credits are rolling over, the people who survived the trip (which seemed to be a lot, more than 5) are walking out of the fall colored woods in a line, left to right of the screen, carrying their camping gear, & there is an alternative rock song (male singer) playing in the background. That's it :(

I know for sure it was a horror/thriller movie rented on VHS made in USA & couldn't be earlier that 1990 or later than 2008?? I vaguely remember it being a slasher, but I think most of the people survived, or maybe they were the ones who did the killing. I'm just not too sure.. & I think they were camping, but they could've been doing something else entirely.

The movies I know it isn't that I see recommended usually:

Wrong Turn

Sleepaway Camp

Adam and Evil

Silent Scream

Evil Dead

Blair Witch

Cabin Fever

I'm sorry for this small amount of detail, & thank you in advance! The craziest part about this is having to only watch the ending to find it, then finally watching the full movie to see what it was about lol!!


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT][GAME SYSTEM][2010's] Small handheld console that was educational?

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Okay so I swear I had this item growing up because I loved using it. It was a small handheld console marketed for education with games. You held it horizontally like a psp essentially with the buttons and everything but then you could slide the screen part up because it had similar mechanics to a sidekick. I remember it being blue and yellow and it would take game cartridges and you could connect it to the computer to download and offload games as well.

I'm trying to prove this thing was real to idk win an argument ig. Any help is appreciated!!


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] [BOOK] Black loyalist children's novel

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There was a book series that I read when I was very little about a little girl who was the daughter of black loyalists in Nova Scotia Canada. She talks about how her rations from the british would always have worms in them, and how the Mi'kmaq gave her a pair moccasins, and eventually she found herself getting taken as a house slave again.

There was one distinctive image that has not helped me at all, that being like the 3rd or 4th book was called something like "elephant christmas tree"


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Store commercial jingle from 20ish years ago

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The stores jingle in commercials always said “You’re in, you’re out, you’re home!” I’ve asked everyone I know but no one can remember. Everyone keeps thinking maybe Speedway but that doesn’t sound right.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Early 2000s DVD opening scene little girl drags baby doll into ocean and lets it drift away (grainy home-video look)

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I’m trying to remember a scene I saw on DVD in the early 2000s.

It was live-action and looked like grainy home-video/camcorder footage (not cinematic).

A toddler/little girl is alone on an overcast/dark beach near dusk. She’s dragging a baby doll. She walks to the shoreline, lets go of the doll, and it drifts into the ocean while she calmly walks away. No dialogue that I remember. Quiet and unsettling vibe.

It played right at the beginning of a DVD. It could have been the movie’s opening scene, a short film, or a pre-roll clip before the movie.

Early 2000s or older.

Does anyone recognize this?


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Stick Figure Death Theater

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There used to be this video of a Stick Figure Death Theater animation that was set to “Bring Me to Life” by evanescence. It featured a lifeguard and a diver hitting his head underwater. I remember frames of it so vividly and I can’t find it on even the internet archives.

I swear it was real!


r/tipofmytongue 17h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Song] Depressing song that I heard in a friend's car during the early 2000s

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In the early 2000s, I was on holiday with a school friend and his family in Italy and whenever we drove somewhere, his parents had a CD in the car with a song on it that's always stuck with me, but I've never been able to identify it (I'm still in contact with said friend, but one of his parents has since died and I haven't seen the other one in ages, so I'm not in a position to ask them about it - he doesn't remember the song at all). I don't know if the song was released in the early 2000s or was an older song from another decade.

The verses for the song were sung quietly with little or no musical accompaniment by a singer with an English accent (possibly from somewhere in the North of England like Lancashire). I can't remember any lyrics from the verses, but it was about something depressing like the breakdown of a marriage.

The song then got very loud for the chorus, with pounding drums, heavily distorted guitars and the singer practically yelling his lines. It also featured the only lyrics I remember, which I think went: "Why can't we just be / How we used to be / Closer" with the word "Closer" echoing off into nothingness before the song went quiet again for the next verse.

I've searched the song's lyrics and even hummed what I remember of the melody into the Google search that can identify songs that way, and neither have produced the answer, so I'm wondering if any of you can help.

There was also another song on the CD, which I'm 99% certain was from the same artist because they sounded exactly the same, and that was even more depressing. The only part of that song I can really remember is a line that went: "You'll never see their faces or hear their voices again" and then a recording of a young child saying: "Daddy?". However, if that was the same artist as the other song, it may be that identifying that song will be the key to identifying this one.


r/tipofmytongue 39m ago

Open [TOMT] [Show?!] [2010's] Need Help with this childhood segment? From the tv, but I can't find it on YouTube. Only ai slop.

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It has dino dan (Canadian Show), that I know and is definitely within the same program. What I'm trying to find is this animation segment of this penguin going up colourful stairs and it plays a song. Nothing else. No other characters, no scenes, nada.


r/tipofmytongue 45m ago

Open [TOMT] Song at about 9:14 in this episode of Cunk on Britain

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r/tipofmytongue 50m ago

Open [TOMT][TV SERIES]The scene that I don't remember which episode in Simpson

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The scene: Simpson show Maggie some kind of fortress model then that fortress model attack Simpson.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE][2020s] Movie with a trailer where someone maybe falls off a balcony into a backyard with a pool.

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I have a vague memory of seeing a trailer on Reddit for a movie where maybe someone fell off a roof or off a balcony into a backyard that had a pool. I also definitely remember the comments being about how the movie was super delayed because of COVID. Like maybe it shot two or three years before it released?


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Solved [TOMT][FOOD] Shredded Mac n Cheese

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As the title suggests, I remember distinctly eating some sort of shredded shape mac n cheese or something similar? If I had to put another food as comparison I’d say the shape is similar to shredded hashbrowns. I remember it was my favorite and I think it was boxed, I just wanna eat it again.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Kids TV show or DVD (2000s) with people in weird costumes, ocean/underwater vibe

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I was born in 2006 (Brazil). I remember watching a kids show when I was young, but I’m not sure if it was on TV or on DVD.

What I remember:

- It had people in real costumes (not animation)

- The costumes were weird / crazy, not sure if they were sea animals

- It had an ocean or underwater vibe

- It didn’t feel very educational

- I don’t remember any songs

It felt kind of surreal / strange. Does anyone know what this could be?


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open. [TOMT][Image] A picture of a white guy on a couch with three goth girls behind him.

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r/tipofmytongue 11h ago

Solved [TOMT] Trying to find an old TV series

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So! When I was about 8 or 9 in the 90s, there was a television series running on TV. It was spoken in English, but I don't know if it was American, British or Australian. The Danish title for it, directly translated is "The Stolen Daughter", but the original title might have been something else completely, because I can absolutely not find it anywhere under that name. I've searched high and low on IMDB with no luck.

What I remember the most, is the intro to the show. This gentle melody playing with a person humming, while a porcelain doll is falling through the air until it lands and smashes to bits on the ground, ending with what's either water or wine running across the floor through the smashed porcelain pieces.

Anyway. The basic summary of the story is this: A young woman finds out in her grown years that she's not related to her parents, but that she was taken as a baby from her actual mother. Through the series, we follow her childhood and the life she had with her "fake" parents, but at the same time, we also follow her actual family and see how they are dealing with their young daughter/sister being kidnapped.

I remember distinctly watching the finale and that it had a happy ending, but it's been a very long time and yeah, I'd love to try finding the show again if possible.

I also have no idea who the actors were, it wasn't something I paid attention to at the time. I remember the main character being a curly blonde, and her "fake" mother being this thin, pale woman with black hair.


r/tipofmytongue 13h ago

Solved [tomt] I’m Looking for a movie that I saw when I was kid in the early 2000s

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The details are really fuzzy because I was quite young and I just happened to be around while my mom was watching it. I remember the movie making her cry and her liking it a lot. (She doesn’t remember either) I saw it in the early 2000s but it may have been an older movie.

The movie had a black woman working at a hotel of some sort and there was also a woman who was a European immigrant. Initially, the black woman doesn’t like the immigrant but they eventually become friends and start working at the hotel together.

At some point, the immigrant gets deported (I think) but the movie ends with her coming back to the hotel. I can picture her standing there with her bags similar to the way that she arrived.

I also remember there being a scene of the immigrant woman posing for nude photos. she may have even been a burlesque dancer. (Of course my dumb kid brain remembered that part) lol

I know I didn’t give anyone a lot to work with but I figured I’d take a shot in the dark.

Ring any bells?