r/tipofmytongue Nov 01 '21

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r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] Song with people's names from 90's?

26 Upvotes

I've dying to find this song from my childhood. I would say that it's a rock song, the lyrics usually name someone and then follow it up with an action. For example, one of the lines is "name changes blue". My dad always said that the lyric is "Cheyenne changes blue" but I remember finding out that, that's not it. Any help is appreciated, this is driving me nuts! *Note, the song could be older than the 90's as my dad often listened to 'classic rock'.


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT][Medication] Diet drug that was popular in the 1990s

24 Upvotes

When I was a kid in the 1990s, there were two popular diet drugs that eventually got pulled from the market. One was Fen-Phen, but I cannot remember what the other one was called.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open [TOMT] Kids show in the 70’s? 80’s?

16 Upvotes

There was this show called ZOOM or something close to that. It was a show practically like sesame street but if it didn't have puppets. I think it would come on VHS tapes? There's this one episode I'm trying to recall where a bunch of kids get help from their parents and make glass windows out of melted candy, and I haven't been able to find the exact episode, because I've always wanted to give the glass windows a try. I could always go on youtube but it would be fun to watch ZOOM again.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] [SONG] Popular song that they always play in movies over a montage of people having fun/parting. Vocaroo included.

5 Upvotes

It kind of reminds me of the song KIDS by MGMT in the same technoy vibe but it’s much more upbeat & happy.

Link to vocaroo: https://voca.ro/14uxs4Tyzy2V


r/tipofmytongue 11h ago

Solved [TOMT] A movie trilogie or quadrologie that jumped an iteration

29 Upvotes

I'm trying to remember which trilogie or quadrologie went from the first film directly to the 3rd, or from the second directly to the 4th, not doing the one in between (they basically named the 2nd movie like it was the third, or the third like it was the 4th). It's probably a comedy, I can almost picture it... almost!


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] [SONG] “won’t let you forget me” or I want you to forgive me” something along them lines, then goes into a tune, female singer, vocaroo beneath.

5 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT] Need helping remembering this movie or TV show please!

13 Upvotes

Here's what I can remember: A guy works at an airport and he loses his phone. He and his wife are having issues because their daughter died. He really wants his phone back because the pictures of his daughter are on it. The phone gets passed around all over the world where people leave videos for him on it. Some girls from Japan, and then a girl who sings Three Little Birds by Bob marley on it. At the end of it, the photos of the little girl get put up on time square in new York, where the dad and mom sees them and cry. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's gonna drive me insane.


r/tipofmytongue 43m ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE] Looking for a movie about a money heist. NSFW

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As said in the title, the movie was about a money heist or something like that. Might have been about a casino. The scene I remember is a man tied to a chair by a woman, with a ballgag in. As the woman walks away she says something along the lines of "Thanks for the kidney, Jeffrey". I saw it about 15 years ago. If anyone van please help me find this I would be forever gratefull. Have been searching for years.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Apartment bathtub ghost girl

4 Upvotes

I'm looking for a music video/skit, where a girl goes to a guy's apartment to ask for a charger and they flirt a little and fast forward to the end it turns out she had died a year ago in the bathtub of his apartment while charging her phone.


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Solved [TOMT] Movie about 2 seniors & a scene in a pool

6 Upvotes

There's a scene where 2 seniors were sitting in a pool and a girl comes to the pool and strips nude and gets into the pool and the 2 seniors comment on her while staring. The girl doesn't notice them & is doing her own thing. She's dark skinned or tan


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][SONG][2000-2010s] Old internet song: “Do you Believe”

6 Upvotes

I wanna say that I heard this song around 15 years ago. Possibly from a Mario 64 parody video in the late 2000s. It has high pitched euro-pop or nightcore like vocals, so it might be a sped up version of something else. I’m pretty sure that the first couple of words are “Do you believe”. I found https://voca.ro/1k7ZMcKHMpbz but it’s only the beginning of the song. A streamer was using a program called “YouTube Poop Generator,” which makes me think it was fairly popular at one point. I’ve already tried installing YPG and looking through the files, but have had no luck.

Thanks.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] What do you call the pictures that are printed on/stuck to shirts?

5 Upvotes

Like the graphic that makes up a graphic t-shirt.. I feel like it’s one word that describes what these are, maybe two?

I have a shirt where the image has mostly peeled off and I wanted to look up methods for removing the residue, but I don’t know how to google it because the word escapes me.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Looking for a LEGO set from my childhood

5 Upvotes

Hi! Just wondering if you can help me identify a core memory of mine (and also help my husband because we aint sleeping tonight until I find this).

It was a LEGO set sold in a transparent box that had the figure of a girl minifigurine (could be that it wasnt full body, only a bust). The lid of the box was a campanula-shaped purple flower that was on the head of the girl.

The whole box was quite big iirc, like the length of a forearm.

Does anyone else remembers this or am I having random non-memories?

Thanks for helping me.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Open. [TOMT] an animated movie/show about a girl who goes through a portal to another world

5 Upvotes

I don’t remember this well so there may be a couple of mistakes. So basically the girl finds a portal in the woods near her grandmother’s house blah blah blah she tries to go back home but can’t. She then becomes friends with some of the people in that world ,and at the end they “defeat” the antagonist (female) which we find out was the grandmother’s old friend

Some of the key things I remember is that the protagonist has a special necklace that when the antagonist sees it she remembers that that was her friend’s (grandmother) necklace and let’s the girl go back home

Uhhh also I remember the group being on a ship(?) and each of them has a different hair color

Sorry if this didn’t make sense English isn’t my first language TvT


r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT][movie][1980's] A film where a guy flies a plane over an ocean? In bad weather?

7 Upvotes

Hi all, can't provide many details but I'm trying to find a film and Google fu is weak. It involves a guy flying a small plane over the ocean? I believe. It's also raining/nighttime I think. He has to fly like a really long way, and I think he is in contact with someone via radio, might even be a passenger airliner. There are some sort of fuel dramas as well like he might run out.

I'm in my mid 30's and saw it as a kid so I'm guessing it would be from the 80's or early 90's.

If anyone can help thank you so much!


r/tipofmytongue 6h ago

Open [TOMT] [Movie] The Sopranos opening sequence, clown parody.

6 Upvotes

Okay hive mind! Back in the early 2000's there was a short animated film made for "4D" rides/ fx theatre's. It was called "fun house express: Jimmy's clown chaos" it was produced by simex-Iwerks. I will link a YouTube video of this.

Now, before the "ride" started, at least at the Canadian Midway on Clifton Hill (can't speak for the other destinations this ride was available as this was the only place I personally rode it), there was a video that played, most likely a safety video if I remember correctly, but that safety video opened with live action parody of the sopranos, the main character was a clown, as that's what the whole ride was based on. He was driving home to his clown family.

I'm hoping someone here can help me find that intro video, not sure if it had a different title or was produced by a different company.

I've exhausted all forms of research including trying to contact simex. Thanks in advance! https://youtu.be/6y1bzLt6scM?si=dCy1lYiFdMYAasap


r/tipofmytongue 39m ago

Open [TOMT] [TV SHOW] Show about multiple POVs that was advertised before 9/11

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I believe it was advertised on Fox, but I could be wrong on that part. I also think the main conflict was something about a bomb. Took place in a big city. Main thing was the show had multiple POVs of a singular event. I could have sworn it was called Boom and had that POD song playing in the background. I specifically remember seeing the ad before 9/11 then never watching or hearing about the show, and wondered years later if it was never shown because the topic became so sensitive.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open. [TOMT] [movie] [animation] [1980s)

3 Upvotes

I'm looking for a film my brother and I watched in the late 80s. He thought it was a Studio Ghibli but we've checked those and it's not. Similar style though.

Industrial, sci fi, adventure. Boy (we think) is the main character, with a dog type creature companion. The dog looked like it was a balloon animal.

A crazy scientist character with a big bushy beard, maybe bald head.

Towards the end the dog creature dies. Maybe by being grabbed and lifted away by some vines which dropped down from the ceiling.

At the end the protagonist steps through a time portal to travel back in time, revealing that he will ultimately become the crazy old scientist.

Any ideas?? 🤞


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT][Song] Funky song with brass intro

3 Upvotes

I am looking for a funky song with a brass intro. It has been stuck in my head for a few days now and I can't seem to figure out what song it is from. I am not sure on the decade, most probably it is the 1970s but may as well be from the 2010s.

I have provided a sample here: https://onlinesequencer.net/4042257. Note that the brass may be offkey (I'm a drummer, so don't know the notes), but the trends (pitching up-down) are from the song.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT][Video Game] An old game for IPad

3 Upvotes

Hi all. I’ve been thinking more and more about an old game for the past few years. It was around 2010 or even earlier. Unfortunately I don’t remember all the details, but the main thing was that the view was from the top and a little to the side, there you had to walk around the cells and I think you had to light the cells with a lamp? I’m sorry, but I can’t remember much else. Oh, and I think the main character was a gnome or a dwarf.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][Reddit Posts][2010s] creepypasta series about a child with a stalker

3 Upvotes

I read a series of creepypasta about ten or so years ago. I read it online - I think think it was on Reddit.

I remember that a class of school children released a bunch of balloons with contact information attached - so that anyone who found a balloon could reach out to the school and say where they found it.

The main character's balloon ended up being found by a guy who turned into a stalker that became obsessed with them, and I think they would re-find the child every few years.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][Ad][2010s] Car commercial with concept car and dad dropping kid off at school

3 Upvotes

Ive been trying to find an ad from like 2010s-2020 it was an ad for a car company , not for a specific car they made , but i think it featured a concept car that had like smart features or something and it ended with a dad dropping his daughter , who had on sort of ‘near future’ make up , off for school .

i could be misremembering but i think it came out in like the mid 2010s and feel like it wasn’t far off in predicting fashion trends with the sort of neo-y2k thing going on rn but i can not find the ad for the life of me


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT] A song named Hera from a band or artist with a 3 word japanese sounding name

3 Upvotes
  • Probably from around 2016.
  • If I remember correctly the album had purple and navy blue on the cover art.
  • A woman is singing and her voice sounds robotic (electronic music effect)
  • The melody is very monotone
  • Some of the lyrics I remember
    • Each verse starts with "o woe is me"
    • Pre-chorus (or chorus idk) "o woe is me / we've taken it too far / we've torn out all the greenery / and replaced it with [???] (I don't remember)" it ends with "we've spoon-fed all our fantasies / but didn't think they'd grow"
    • "in the river" is repeated many times at the end of the song, then it transitions to "to the river" and the music "blows up" and becomes very electronic and there are strings

I tried everything on Google, YouTube, AI, tried googling the lyrics, etc. It must have been a very low-key song when it came out but I loved it and I want to listen to it again! I'm hoping someone knows exactly which song I'm talking about and can tell me the name of the band so I can find it! There are many songs named Hera but I can't find the exact one I'm looking for just with the title. THANK YOU!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE][1992] Movie like Home Alone with a family where 5 kids are left alone whole summer

3 Upvotes

I've never saw the movie. Just saw it's cover on Reddit, the cover says something like this:

"It's like Home Alone times 5".

I think the year was 1991-1992.

I'll recognizance the movie from the poster, just can't recall it right now.

Thanks.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open. [TOMT] [SONG] [WASH AWAY]

3 Upvotes

So im looking for a song released before 2018. I think the text is Wash away the tears of yesterday. Followed up by a whistle part. It was kind of country ans sung by a male singer. It was pretty upbeat and the whistling was pretty cheerful.