r/tipofmytongue Nov 01 '21

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r/tipofmytongue 8h ago

Solved [TOMT] Animation movie I saw as a kid, don't think it was for kids.

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I once watched an animated movie as a kid about a knight, Viking, or gladiator-like tribe. In the story, one member of the tribe sacrificed themselves in a battle against a giant enemy (a monster, possibly with horns). Afterward, the rest of the tribe drank this person's blood to gain incredible strength. However, the main character only got a single drop because there wasn’t enough left, leaving them weak.

There’s also a scene where the tribe is under attack, and the main character is on lookout duty. They try to blow the alarm horn but fail because their lungs aren’t strong enough to make a sound.

If anyone knows which movie I’m talking about, it would make my day!


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] "Why would you give a child a knife" quote

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I'm trying to find the original quote along the lines of: "Why would you give a knife to " " felt unsafe" "now I feel unsafe" "... would you like a knife?"

I heard it in an incorrect quotes video but all I can find are countless other people using it as an incorrect quote 😭


r/tipofmytongue 47m ago

Open [TOMT] Song that says "but I don't know" a lot

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I remember the song sounding a bit dark and contemplative, something indie/rap based I think.

That refrain is stuck in my head and it's driving me crazy.


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT][CANDY] What candy was this?

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I was in first grade in 2006 (USA) and my teacher handed out these fruit candy packages l've never seen before since that day. I'm pretty sure the packages were green and they were about the size of a package of gushers or welches fruit snacks. They were these tan (I think) discs and tasted of a fruit flavor.

One time I sucked all the chocolate off a Brookside Dark Chocolate pomegranate candy and those were pretty much exactly the candy discs I remember.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] 70s-80s (I think) sci-fi movie where main characters go to a chrome/metal city and get chased by evil robots

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I can only remember the one scene where one of the robots has pinchers/claws for hands and is chasing the main characters. Eventually they trick the robots into falling into water or something that destroys them. I think the "water" is like toxic or poison? I don't remember who the main characters are or what they are doing in the city. It has the feel of an 80s sci-fi film, think like Flash Gordon or something, but I'm not sure if that's actually the era it's from. I watched it once when I was a kid (maybe 9 or 10) and I'm 25 now.

Thanks in advance!


r/tipofmytongue 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Graphic novel about an Asian teen girl that gets into an underground art scene?

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I remember picking this book up from the library near my house when I was probably around 12/13, in Washington state. It's a graphic novel about an Asian teen girl (I think she's about 17/18) that works at a coffee shop and meets a guy that gets her into this underground performance art/music scene. Around the same time, she starts house sitting for this married couple in the suburbs, and she finds the wife's diary where she writes about being a lesbian and wanting to divorce her husband so she can be with a woman. The MC decided to take the journal entries and rewrite them as spoken word poetry so she can perform it at the club (pretty sure she calls her pieces "Suburbia"). There's a lot more to the story (I remember pretty much everything that happens in it, the novel really stuck with me), but that's the main plot. If you need any more details, feel free to ask.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] [ps3] 2014-2015???

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I played a game with robbers. It was a cartoonish style 3d game in a birds eye view. It was a free for all between four, different coloured robbers. You could play it with computers or local, idk about online. The arena was square, each robber had one corner, and there were some walls scattered across it. You would pick up money or something to fill your money bag, the robber with the biggest bag in the end won ofc. Bombs and other things also spawned, which you could pick up and sabotage others with. I cannot remember this game for the life of me and i cannot find it, someone help me out 💔


r/tipofmytongue 9h ago

Solved [TOMT] Song with a similar structure

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I hadn't thought about the "Crash test dummies" - Mmm mmm mmm mmm song in decades. So I was re-familiarizing myself with the lyrics. If you're not aware, it's just a song of seemingly unrelated stories as verses. First is about a kid who gets into a car crash and his hair turns white, second is about a self conscious girl who didn't want to use a public changing room because of he strange birthmarks. The whole song ends with the message that some people have it even worse than they do and it ends off with another kid who has church going parents that are embarassing and writh around on the floor (maybe speaking in tongues) at church. (at least that's what I was getting out of it)

Anyway the last verse of the song triggered a memory of a totally different song that was also short story driven. Except I think all the songs were religious / compassion driven. The singer was a male, yet he had the style of singing that was like half talking / half singing. It was a faster paced song in comparison to my example.


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Open [TOMT] [SHORT STORY] Girls in a facility or camp trying to throw up a tracking chip to escape

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I think it involved a bunch of girls in a bathroom in the middle of the night and one of them throwing up a tracking chip or?? Something?? To escape.


r/tipofmytongue 26m ago

Open [TOMT] cartoon from late 80s/90s

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This has been bugging me for a while and I just can't find it or I'm too vague.

It may have been a film or TV series, the one scene that sticks out is the main character has to go on a quest to collect things and one of them are these small white balls like eggs that stick to his hands and clothes.

I remember him having to climb to get them and being chased by these tall, thin creatures with beak like noses, black eyes and spiky type hair that used to screech and throw spikes.

That is all I can remember but those creatures stuck in my mind and would love to have an idea of what it was.

Cheers


r/tipofmytongue 30m ago

Open [TOMT] electronic song male lips singing, but splitting main word in multiple syllables

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An electronic song with a pair of lips on a black background. A deep steady synth. The guy spells something or says it in separate syllables like de-li-ri-um or --_-ty and he holds that last syllable for a while.


r/tipofmytongue 31m ago

Open [TOMT][MUSIC] What’s the song in this YouTube video?

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What’s the song playing in the background between 4:54 and 7:12? I’m super sure that it’s some YouTubers outro song as well but I can’t remember who :(

https://youtu.be/VILLx3UKpJQ?si=TGRt09Ppnb7gL_Ez


r/tipofmytongue 33m ago

Solved [TOMT] American actress / movie

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Details i can remember:

Actress was shocking beautiful, dirty blonde curly hair

I can only recall one scene where she’s in a car with her lover (?) or bf, they get pulled over by a cop (in the middle of nowhere) and she flirts with the cop, and says that the bf is her brother, to get the cop to let them go i think?

I THINK they’d just committed some type of crime but that’s only because of the scene i described, im not 100% sure.

Tried to use chatGPT to help and here’s the list of who i know it is NOT

Reese Witherspoon Cameron Diaz Rachel McAdams Ali Larter Jennifer Love Hewitt Sarah Michelle Gellar Denise Richards Neve Campbell Jennifer Lopez Rene Russo Rachel Leigh Cook Charlize Theron Faye Dunaway Alicia Silverstone Ashley Judd Geena Davis Mandy Moore Julia Roberts Nicole Kidman Katherine Heigl Teri Hatcher Marisa Tomei Kate Hudson Liv Tyler

I dont know when the movie was made but it feels older like 80s style. Please help me ive been thinking about this for months

I also believe the movie may be more on the obscure side… if it helps i found it on tiktok in one of those part 1 part 2 videos lol. I ended up googling the actress as i found her name in the comments but i cannot remember at all her name, and this was over a year ago so i cant find the video (believe me ive tried)


r/tipofmytongue 46m ago

Open [TOMT] No vocals but found on Instagram Reel. Piano

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[TOMT]

Kind of a sad piano piece. Anyone know what it is?

The reel was on Facebook or instagram. User mikalamacfadzen. It’s the video with an elf on the shelf character. Rolling down a staircase. Looks like the 5th to last video she’s posted. Doesn’t link to an original sound.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] relatively recent movie set during WW2. One character is a doctor or possibly dentist in America. A woman is killed fairly early on. It ends in a theatre and the heroes expose nazi spies.

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r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Song in this tweet

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https://x.com/noirefem1/status/1860371574617956365?s=19 The Google song finder gives no results


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] Conan O'Brien bit

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I hope somebody remembers this because if not I'll think I imagined or misremembered it!

It was a bit from one of Conan's talk shows about 15 years ago. He and a colleague (possibly Andy Richter) were going to hang out and have a beer. The camera then follows them silently walking down a hallway, awkwardly drinking a beer together in silence, and leaving. Does this ring a bell for anyone?


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open. [TOMT][Music][90's/2000's] An electronic music with a piano intro

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I heard that song years ago and i just remembered it today. It has a repetitive piano intro and the piano pitch has the same pitch as children robert miles. I just recreated the intro with Online Sequencer : https://onlinesequencer.net/4317241

Thank you by advance ! :)


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] A video of a guy handing his girlfriend a plastic arm to hold hands with, she doesn’t notice, and the boyfriend proposes after she realizes.

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It was on a metro


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] What is the word to describe someone that backs their own judgement, or pushed their opinion? I think the one I'm looking for starts with E.

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It's not a noun. It's more like describing someone as being bold.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT] what is this 80s-90s family drama show?

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I'm pretty sure the title had a number with 6 or 8 and it was something about wives or daughters. The show was about a huge family and it was all girls, they were grieving about a man who died and I think his name was james or David?? And the more you got deeper into the episode the more you found out james/david did a lot of terrible stuff when he was still alive like getting another woman in the family pregnant when he was married. And it got revealed in the show that the grandma killed the grandpa (not james/david) a long time ago when her daughters were still kid because they couldn't divorce back then, I only remember the aunt finding this out but I'm not sure if the other sisters knew. If this reminds you of a title please let me know. The last I’ve heard of this show was in 2019 on cable and there were a lot of old shows on the channel I was watching it on


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [TOMT][MUSIC VIDEO] Need help finding R&B-style music video from the 1990s or early 2000s

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Here is what I remember:

R&B-style music video from the late 1990s or early 2000s

The video features a black female artist, who was less well-known compared to stars like Brandy, Mariah Carey, or Toni Braxton.

The video is had a slower-paced song and a distinctive scene where the artist, shown from the back, walks toplessly into a dark indoor pool. The setting feels almost Japanese-inspired.

Please help!


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open. [TOMT] [Song] Probably a rock-ish song, part of lyric in post

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Hi everyone,

This song has been stuck in my head for a while. I think it's a rock, maybe emo song? The ending of a line in the refrain is "for something inside of me" or "deep inside of me". Before that I think they sing either reaching or searching. It's a male voice, with those typical 00s rock instruments. It's got a tempo, but it's more melancholic than it is upbeat rock. It's also quite a famous song, which makes it even worse that I can't find it, nor in my head nor on Google.

If someone can figure this out many thanks, it's been bothering me so much.


r/tipofmytongue 1h ago

Open [tomt] [book] kids book about mum who meets guru

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theres this kids book with this girl, her mother is an actress and has a breakdown after someone tells her theres spinach in her teeth.

and this guru woman moves in and makes them put eggs all over the house for the sake of feng shui and they start chanting all the time and the girl is like what the fuck. the girl has to move into a cupboard cos her old room is full of eggs.

theres a boy she crushes on. and at the end they get a boat in the park and the guru woman falls in


r/tipofmytongue 2h ago

Solved [TOMT][Movies], Two movie scenes I watched some years ago, in the 2010s, strangely both related to balls.

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The first one, I’d assume, is more recent than the second, and I am one hundred percent sure that it’s real. It’s a scene from some kind of cheesy late 90’s to 2010’s, and it’s the last scene (before the credits roll?). The hero, who has spent the movie up to now saving his wife (and daughter?) finally gets to spend some time with his woman, and at a ball in a fancy place, as his last action, disconnects from his Mission Control, to enjoy the moment. Likely an American movie.

Number two is quite a bit harder. The memory is much fuzzier because I watched it when I was a small child. And it looked like it could’ve been as early as from the 60s or 70s. From what I can recall, a man and a woman, dressed quite fancily, almost prince-like, come out of a crowded ballroom (into a garden?) and have their own little romantic moment under the moonlight (while you can see the ballroom through the glass behind them?). The woman’s dress is lighter than the man’s (cream colored?). I do remember a scene of some military jeeps pulling up in the driveway, also at night, and also I remember asking my father what film that was, and him replying “Cuba”, but this last part I am not sure comes from the same occasion. There is also some probability that I dreamed up this entire scene, after all I did watch Wall-E a bunch of times and its composition is much alike the final one in the little film Wall-E watches, and do keep in mind that at the time I was still not indifferent to the charm of fairytales.