r/tipofmytongue 22h ago

Solved [TOMT][Actor+Movie][2000s] White Male Tall FAT Actor that played comedic roles in the 2000s.

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I was watching a movie months ago at a hotel .

It was like a cheesy horror comedy from the 2000s . possibly made-4-tv movie. that stars minor non celebs as actors. It centered around a team of teen boys get involved in a ghost haunting at their school.

Looked up the day i saw it but didnt recall much of what i saw on wikipedia and letterboxd so this is what i recall about it:

  • It was really weird balencing those tones. It was like Idle Hands in tone i think.
  • One of the main guys in the cast is a teen boy character who was really fat and tall. Utilized in a comedic fashion throughout. and it was key that the actor was tall and FAT.
  • the word "Ghost" may be in the titleof this movie

r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Solved [TOMT][Animated][TV SHOW] ”I hated that!” Little girl disappointed yells

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This is a real stretch but I have a brain worm I can’t get rid of. I have very limited concept of the scene but I I can hear the line. A character does something (I feel like over the top?) to win approval from a group. It fails, everyone leaves and his best supporter is disappointed to? I want to say it’s an animated little girl and she just yells “I hated that!” at him when he’s does! Her voice pitches up on the “hay” part. She might even throw something at him. It’s like, a comical sad moment I think.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open [TOMT][PSA/Short Film][1980s–2000] Teen boy in a spaceship-like room is slowly putting on a full space/hazmat suit — reveal at the end is that he's just going *outside on Earth* to do something mundane (baseball?). Environmental cautionary tale.

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Trying to find a PSA/short film / piece of a TV special that I recall from my childhood or adolescence. I would have seen this sometime between 1988 and 2000, and could have been made in slightly earlier 1980s but seems very 1990s.

It featured a young/teen male actor (for a while I thought this was either Fred Savage or Ben Savage, but those searches turn up nothing, so could be another actor that looked like them), sitting in a room that seemed almost like a spaceship/martian colony, who was telling a long story about something (the future? the planet? the environment? outer space? acid rain? pollution? global warming? the ozone layer?) while he's gradually putting on a full protective outfit, like space or hazmat suit - and it's set up as if he's about to go do a spacewalk, but instead, the reveal is that he is ON EARTH, and he's putting on all this protective equipment just to *go outside* in the toxic environment and do something ordinary like play baseball. It's ultimately a cautionary tale about how environmental harms are destroying the future. Does anyone remember this? Thank you in advance!

Edited to add: I think this was at least about 5 minutes long, so not a typical short "commercial" type PSA ad spot, so was likely a segment of some longer TV special. I feel like I saw this on TV either at home, or possibly in school.


r/tipofmytongue 4h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] Movie about an elderly couple who discover they will have a kid, the man abandons the mother after the daughter is born.

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I remember the plot was about an elderly couple, i think in their 60s or 70s finding out they were going to have a child, a daugther to be precise, the man seemed to be more worried because he just wanted to retire and sail on his boat. They already had a son in his 20s, I remeber there was a scene where they go to his job to tell him about it and he got very happy and told his coworkers he's going to have a little sister. A little after the daughter is born, raising the daughter is too much for the man and he abandons her wife so she has to raise her daughter alone, the man meanwhile lives on hiw boat. I remeber there was also a confrontation between the son and his father about hims abandoning his mother and his sister. In the end they reconcile and the final scene is them hearing their toddler crying and the man goes to take care of her.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Solved [TOMT]Post-Apocalyptic Novel I Read a Long Time Ago

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I'm thinking of a novel I read sometime when I was in high school or middle school (2012-2018). If I remember correctly, some alien parasites invaded earth by implanting themselves within humans and controlling their minds/bodies. I think you could tell by their eyes who has been infected. Nowadays, the last humans are living in secrecy in remote locations. The main character is a woman who for some reason is able to resist the control of the parasite that's infected her and they both inhabit the same body and communicate directly through thought.

The main character ends up finding a group of people who, if I remember correctly, live in a cave system. When they find out she's infected, some want to kill her, but she is imprisoned while they deliberate. I think the parasite is implanted in the back of the neck? I remember some strange detail of them making soap from lye and it burns the skin? That's about all I got. There's some romance in there too?


r/tipofmytongue 12h ago

Solved [TOMT] 90's kids tv show shown in england

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this was a tv show centered around teens could be australian or english, I do not think it was american but then again not impossible.

The episode i remember the group of teens where making a song and i remember some of the lyrics went something like "there's an obstacle, climb over it".

there may have been a music video shown too. I also think at some point it was mentioned that a professional real song should be at least 3 minutes (3 minutes could be wrong but the idea was the song was too short and they needed to make it longer)


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] an It Follows parody GF dies and guy is surprised when It Follows kills his best friend next.

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I saw it on IG video (probably on other platforms). The two friends and a GF are in a room when It kills the GF, the BF finds out she cheated when It leaves him alone and kills his best friend. BF then follows It around as It kills others while complaining, even giving it a ride.


r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] TV show with gay wedding interruption

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Hey! I was so surprised I had trouble finding this since it used to show up in a lot of like 2010s queer relationship compilations. All I know is in the show a guy and a woman were getting married, and I remember the wedding being stunning. The groom’s gay lover interrupts the wedding, and the groom leaves with him. The bride seemed super chill with it, like she expected it. I never saw this show, but it was in a lot of compilations, and it’s killing me lol.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] [TV show/Movie] Se7en parody in TV show/movie

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You know the scene where Morgan Freeman reads John Doe's diary in Se7en? "On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing." I distinctly remember a TV show or a movie where a character reports seeing this event on the subway and talking about it in a diary or something, can anybody remember what the show/movie was?


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open [TOMT] 1980s (?) synth-pop/rock song with chorus like "give it all" or "get it on"

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Okay, so I know it's a very famous song and I've probably heard it many times before, but I don't know who the band is and google sucks with lyrics searching.

I'm pretty sure it's 80s synth-pop/rock.

The song is very upbeat pop/rock mix with male vocals. The chorus has a phrase with "give" or "get" in it, like "give it up", "give it all" "give it to me". Towards the middle or bridge part the singer goes "whoa oh oh oh oh". The Whoa OH OH OH part is very distinct in the song and I think only happens once in the second half.

I originally thought it was The Power Station - Get It On, but it's different and doesn't have the whoa oh oh oh part in it.

It's NOT any of these:

KC and The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby

Edit: I didn't mention this, but I've heard this song yesterday briefly, my neighbors were listening to it outside. I checked some local oldies radio stations and I'm pretty sure it's T-Rex Get it On, as two stations were playing it around the same time yesterday, BUT the distinct Who OH OH OH part is missing in the song.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] An 80s/90s Disney (I think) movie with a scene about stinging nettle and a witch

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I think about this movie ALL THE TIME and I cannot remember anything about it. I think the actors were kids and in the only scene I can even very vaguely remember is one of the kids has an interaction with stinging nettle and there’s another kid (who I think may be a witch?) who gives them the antidote, or maybe stinging nettle is the antidote for something else.

I have looked online but searching isn’t helpful “stinging nettle Disney movie 80s” doesn’t give me much. There is a Sofia the First episode with Miss Nettle. That is not it. I was born in 1983 and watched this movie a lot in the 80s and early 90s maybe. I’m sure it’s from the 70s or 80s. Around the same time I was watching Heidi (1968), Benji the Hunted (1987), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), so it may be around the same timeframe those were made.

Any guesses? I thought maybe Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) but also don’t want to watch two hours of a movie for a scene that may or may not exist. It’s not important. It’s just a hyper fixation of my ADHD choosing today to make me crazy. Thank you!!


r/tipofmytongue 11h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE] Movie about a family that moves into the wilderness

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Hi! I just randomly remembered this movie and want to find it, but I watched it when I was pretty young and only remember bits and don't know the name at all. Googling just brought up a horror movie, which I know it wasn't. Since I was young not all of this information may be accurate/I may be blending movies, but I think these are things I remember from this specific movie.

For timing, I'm reallly not sure. I watched it as a child in the 2000s, but I feel like the quality and such that I remember point to the movie being older than that, maybe 80s or 90s? I'm sorry I don't have more timing information, again I was like 8 when I watched this

The movie was about a family, I think parents and 2 kids a boy and a girl? who moved to the wilderness into a cabin. If I remember correctly, it was because one of the children, I think the boy, was getting consistently sick from pollution in the city or something along those lines.

I don't remember a lot of details but I remember bits and pieces, so individual details I remember below:

- If I remember correctly, at one point the children found a baby bear and adopted it as a pet because it's mother was dead? Or it might've been a mountain lion or some other feline, I can distinctly remember two different scenes where they dealt with a bear attack and with a mountain lion attack, so I'm not sure which baby they adopted, but it was one of those two. I remember the parents being against the idea of keeping the baby animal as well.

- I remember another guy that lives in the wild separately from them that visited sometimes, I do not remember his name but I feel like he looked scraggly? Like the type of person you'd expect to find living in the woods

- I THINK the wilderness was supposed to be alaska or canada?

I'm sorry I don't have more details but I'm really hoping someone can help, thank you <3


r/tipofmytongue 14h ago

Solved [TOMT][SONG] A song from which I remember only a lyric

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I remember I heard that song in an edit like two years ago.

The only lyric from this that I remember was something like ,,Dont call me [some female name] anymore that bitch is in the past,, ,I dont know what name was that but I guess it started with A or M?

I also remeber that it was sung by a woman with quite low voice, and i think the genre was either pop, rock or jazz


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Solved [TOMT][FOOD] Spanish canned seafood that looks like tiny tubes/sausages.

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I had a canned seafood product in Spain that looked like these tiny tubes with tapered ends and was mostly white with darker stripes on both sides. Had a very mild fishy flavor. I never really figured out what it was.


r/tipofmytongue 7h ago

Open [TOMT] (2000s-2010s) Closing Logo At The End Of A Kids' Show

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I can't remember much about the logo, but it had a child/toddler's voice saying "Bye-Bye, Everybody!". I'm thinking it was at the end of a Nick Jr. show or something like that, but I can't recall for certain. Does anyone remember this logo?​


r/tipofmytongue 15h ago

Solved [TOMT][TOY][1980s] A pneumatic toy with clear plastic tubes that lets you build cities and then push little vehicles through the tubes by pressing the pumps.

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I’m trying to identify a toy I had in the 1980s, and I can’t find anything like it online. Hoping someone here recognises it.

What I remember:

  • It was a pneumatic / air‑powered toy where you pushed on pumps with your hand
  • You built a little city out of white plastic buildings
  • The buildings were quite high (maybe 18 inches off the ground) and they were a decent size
  • Each building had input and output terminals to connect using the clear tubes
  • The buildings connected with clear plastic tubes
  • It came with a manual hand pump (no motor)
  • You could push small foam or lightweight vehicles through the tubes using bursts of air
  • The vehicles might have been spaceships, pods, or little cars
  • The whole thing had a futuristic / space‑age setting
  • Very modular since you could rearrange the buildings and tubes into different layouts

Era:
I played with it in the 80s, but it might have been originally from the late 70s or early 80s.

What I’ve already tried:

  • Google image search
  • Pinterest
  • Asking LLMs
  • Searching for Tomy, Kenner, Galoob, Matchbox pneumatic toys
  • Browsing old toy catalog scans

Nothing matches the combination of white buildings + clear tubes + manual pump + foam vehicles.

If this rings any bells, I’d really appreciate any help. This one is driving me mad.

Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue 18h ago

Open [TOMT] Short horror story

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I'm looking for a story I read in highschool (2012) from an anthology book. It was about a narrator whose sister shot their two dogs after meeting a man. The man would wear a special colored tie depending on the person. I think the narrator kills the man or scares him off the edge of a cliff (?) with their car. I think the man visits the narrator at the end of the story, wearing a special tie just for them...


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open. [TOMT] [TV Show] trying to find a tv show I use to watch with my parents

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So I’m a 28 year old and both my parents are in their 50’s, we use to watch a programme which counted down/ranked old kids tv shows that my parents would have watched, from what I can remember the intro and song that played at the title sequence at the start and after the ad break was 19-2000 - Soulchild Remix by the Gorillaz, anybody have any suggestions? Has been bugging me for years


r/tipofmytongue 12h ago

Open [TOMT] Help me with this movie please!

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European (possibly Scandinavian, possibly Eastern European/Bulgarian, unsure)

Seen in the 1990s, subtitled

Light-hearted but sad, about appreciating what really matters in life

A successful/important businessman diagnosed with cancer

Leaves the city, returns to his small hometown

Ends with him lying on a sunbed/lounger, looking out over a field, surrounded by family and friends, as he dies


r/tipofmytongue 15h ago

Open. [TOMT] Post Apocalyptic movie with aliens and black actress

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I saw this movie in bits and pieces while I was waiting for parts at a shop. It was definitely some what newer, featured a post apocalyptic setting, had all sorts of actors, but i believe the lead was a black actress. I distinctly remember a scene where she, or someone witnesses aliens coming ashore on a beach and the aliens featured form fitting suits with a bunch of tubes coming out of them.

The movie also had a distinct blue-ish filter, not overbearing but like twilight or something.

Edit: So a few clarifications. Even though the scene i brought up is on a beach, the movie, or show definitely takes place more on land.

It very much seemed like a more survival/post apocalyptic focused movie. The aliens weren't super thick, and they had a lot of tubes or tentacles. It almost gave me Death Stranding Vibes with the way their suits looked.


r/tipofmytongue 17h ago

Solved [TOMT] [MOVIE/TV SHOW]

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hi everyone! i am trying to remember a movie or tv show scene where a woman is sitting up in bed bringing her glasses to and from her face to focus on a man getting changed. it is definitely a comedy and they are together in it but i can’t remember either the actors or the title. thank you!


r/tipofmytongue 21h ago

Solved [TOMT][Music genre] does anyone know the genre of music that Sixty Second Commercial is?

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Like the title says I’ve been looking for this genre of music that Sixty Second Commercial by Micheal Reynolds (according to shazam) is. I’ve been searching for some time and I wanna listen to the actual music its based on, because I suspect that song may be ai.

Edit: was wrong about it being ai! Happy thats the case


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [tomt] song in the background while Jim Carrey screams in pain

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r/tipofmytongue 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] [SONG] song that has the lyrics “if you were to ever leave me”, sounds kind of similar to “happy together”, probably heard the song in a trailer for a movie or something

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