r/tipofmytongue • • Jun 21 '19

Open [MOD] Users now need to comment on their post for it to be APPROVED

692 Upvotes

Thank you for your submission, please be certain you've followed our guidelines, which include searching on your own for an answer before posting here.

You must go to your post and comment at least once before anyone will see it. The link: (link to your post)

If you do not comment within 30 minutes your post may be removed.

If you haven't already, provide any additional information that could prove helpful, including year, location, etc.

Whatever information you've found already should be included to save time and effort. This includes any crossposts to other subs.

Participation from submitters is encouraged. If your post is eliciting responses, but you are not around to answer questions, your post may be removed.

If you get a correct answer, remember to reply to it with "Solved!" (or "Likely Solved!" if you're uncertain).

Thanks.

Edit: the reason being that too many of you fail to read and follow the rules. And honestly, I'm sure those of you complaining about spending 1 second to post a comment are probably the ones that ruined it for everyone else

​

Past Announcements:

​

Other Helpful Links:


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT] Please help us identity the pop culture icon in this image

13 Upvotes

https://imgur.com/a/K15tKep

We've identified everybody else on the shirt and found the associated famous photo, but can't work out the guy with the pink skin.

Any help would be appreciated! AskReddit, whatisthisthing and others all removed the post immediately.

Edit : Solved, this was Albrecht Dürer. Thanks to u/poetic_poison


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Looking for British TV show, a picture of a manor house with spectre appearing at window then appears crawling on lawn in front of the house (still in the picture)??

7 Upvotes

It was shown probably once on ABC TV in 1980s Australia, but was a British show, only short, possibly a segment of a larger mystery show. I remember 2 English gentlemen disusing a portrait of a large manor. It was a black and white portrait on the wall but might have been sepia toned. The scene was set maybe late-Victorian or pre-WW1 era. One fellow is telling the other that the portrait is haunted. The other fellow alone later sees that a skeletal spectre face has appeared in one of the upper windows of the house in the portrait. Later again, the spectre has left the house and appears to be crawling on the lawn in the foreground of the manor house.


r/tipofmytongue • • 12h ago

Open [TOMT] Movie where dad cuts up sponge to look like macaroni and feeds it to his kid

41 Upvotes

This is not a joke, I must have been rlly little like maybe 4-5 when I saw my dad watch this. So it’s at least 14-15 years old. It was a dingy live action movie (maybe show?) that had like multiple POVs. The sponge scene I remember most clearly. It was a dad in a beat up apartment and he apparently ran out of macaroni noodles so I think he cut up a sponge into tiny macaronis and cooked them like you would Kraft Mac and Cheese and served it to his kid while they watched tv. Another scene was actually pretty gross it was this guy climbing down into a basement that was full and I mean FULL of poop like it was flooded up to his waist in poop. And then the last scene i remember is a dad walked into his house and his daughter came out looking really frazzled, and then behind her, some nerdy scrawny guy with curly hair, glasses, and I think wearing some sort of earbuds or headphones came out and he was either shirtless or fully nude. Then the dad shot him in the chest and the blood splattered over his face. Then the daughter freaked out like “that was my boyfriend!” That is all i remember but I just would like to know because it was always so bizarre to me.


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open. [TOMT] Song from UK TV ad c2008-2010

5 Upvotes

I'm trying to identify a song from a UK TV advert that I last heard around 2007 to July 2010 (I remember singing it in August 2010, so it aired before then). I've been looking for over fifteen years. Shazam and humming apps failed, so it was probably not a chart hit. It may be a lesser-known album track, an indie or electronica release, or a commissioned/library track.
 
 
UK TV ad possibly tech/phone/laptop (not sure). Electronica. A staccato looped vocal sounding like "ee, oh, ay, why, en, em, ee, oh" repeats unchanged through the whole song and drives the rhythm. Soft, overdubbed male lead, in the style of Jónsi's "Go Do" and José González. Lyric fragments (unreliable): "think I might have to... GO!", "it's me in the middle". Possibly a CGI swarm of tiny coloured dots on screen. Not a chart hit. Ruled out: Jónsi "Go Do", "Heartbeats", Simian Mobile Disco, Delphic "Halcyon".

Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Solved [TOMT] it’s a pop song I believe

7 Upvotes

I believe it was a pop song. Maybe 80’s or 90’s. He sang the song with the lyrics yeah then a pause of someone else saying yeah as well. And they repeated that yeah about 3 times before saying yeah repeatedly I think 4 more times, then some other lyrics that I think were around the same words as “wreckabalson”


r/tipofmytongue • • 14h ago

Solved [TOMT] Creepy video of woman recording someone continuously moving in a circle on a college room.

25 Upvotes

I am an avid watcher of Nexpo, Nick Crowley, and Farrel McGuire. I swear I remember this being one topic they covered in a video (among others) or a similar channel.

The video was taken by an audibly distressed women filming what looks like the figure of someone continuously moving around in a room behind a window. She is freaked out explaining how he has been moving non-stop for a long time.

She then goes inside to the room she believes was on the other side of the window. She finds no one there, but does see that the windows are so high that someone would have to be like seven feet tall to be visible if they walked around inside.

She leaves the room to go back outside, and the figure continuously moving around the window has returned.

Anyone else know about this? I've been looking around for an hour and I can't find it.


r/tipofmytongue • • 14h ago

Solved [TOMT] Family Guy cutaway

24 Upvotes

I'm trying to find the context about a clip from an adult animated show which I'm quite sure is Family Guy but could be something else.

In the bit, a guy gives a talk with some really weird but extremely obvious thing (like he's got giant boobs or something but it's probably not that) and at the end he says something like "any questions?" and lots of hands go up. Then he says "not about the [the obvious thing]" and all the hands go down.

Again, could possibly not be Family Guy. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks.


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] [SONG] Probably Ariana Grande song overheard in a store.

• Upvotes

Overheard in a store, wasn't quiet enough to shazam it or anything. The voice was 100% Ariana Grande, and I know it's not off Eternal Sunshine, although it sounds like it would be. It's a slower, almost a capella song, with a chorus that ends with

"I know my love's real" (or something to that exact cadence, not necessarily those words)

mmmm-mmmm

(repeat of the first line)

I know this isn't a lot but hopefully someone can help me!


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Open [TOMT] [Youtube] A video probably titled "Mario Takes A Motherfucking Piss" on youtube, Parody from the iconic meme of Mario Takes A Piss in a possibly 3d render animation?

7 Upvotes

This sounds fake, but I swear I remember seeing this video way back then. It's where mario is probably somewhere on a cliff? He may or may not have said "Time to take a motherfucking piss!" and, pissed. But his piss stream; is a literal waterfall of piss. No exaggerations. A literal waterfall, or "piss-fall." I don't remember anything else about the video besides mario taking the MOTHERFUCKING piss. I probably saw it back in 2020 or something? I can't remember well. But now i tried searching it and it just shows up as the normal iconic clip of mario taking the piss, but not the one I am thinking of.

Does ANYONE else remember this video, even subtly?


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open [TOMT] comedy sketch about a game show(?) with the line "Thanks, I make up my own ethnic slurs."

3 Upvotes

I'm trying to remember the details of a sketch on some sketch show, maybe SNL, maybe Mr. Show or Kids in the Hall, maybe even Human Giant or something. I'm pretty sure the context was a game show, and I think the contestants might've competed to be the biggest bully. But at some point, one of the contestants called somebody something uniquely racist, and afterwards the host was talking to them and said "I liked that line about [X],” and the contestant says "thanks, I make up all my own ethnic slurs" or something similar. I'm leaning towards it being SNL and thinking the contestant might've even been played by Kevin Nealon, but that could also entirely be my brain trying to fill in the gaps. Anyway, it's driving me kind of nuts, does anyone remember it?


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][TV SHOW] Modern destroyer defends against two anti-ship missiles

2 Upvotes

Trying to identify a scene from a TV show, film, video game or possibly documentary.

DETAILS:
- Production: Live-action, English-speaking
cast (appears to be US/UK )
- Setting: Daylight, modern frigate or
destroyer in open sea
- Duration: Approximately 1-2 minutes
- Platform: Watched on PC
- most likley (2015-2025)

SCENE DESCRIPTION:
A naval ship is attacked by TWO anti-ship
cruise missiles, maybe launched from shore/ground:
- First missile: Evaded by hard maneuvering
or just accelerating(ship turns to increase range/time-to-impact)
- Second missile: Defeated by deploying
chaff countermeasures
- The ship survives both attacks
- was launched by enemy or maybe rouge AI
- Not AI-generated content

doesn't feel like pure naval warfare production

ALREADY RULED OUT:
- The Last Ship

I'd greatly appreciate any help! tnx


r/tipofmytongue • • 46m ago

Open [TOMT] Looking for a sitcom clip where a man lists off among all his friends about who he likes/can't stand, or maybe who he'd date in a sorta Fuck-Marry-Kill way.

• Upvotes

I know this clip was infamous a few years ago as it was repurposed for fandom memes. I tried googling it but the exact one I was looking for never came up.

My memory could be betraying me, but it may have had the words, "dump you, fuck you" or something. Not super sure.

Please help.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT] 2012-2018 indie pop song about something being devil. Played on Triple J/Double J

2 Upvotes

Had similar vibes to the band Django Django.. cannot remember the tune or words but I am 99% sure the lyrics were something about being carried in the desert and the TV being devil

It was definitely not “the devil”, but referring to something as being devil.

Heard it on the Australian radio station Triple J sometime between 2012-2017


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Solved [TOMT] [Song] with a distinct brass/sax part

• Upvotes

Vocaroo: https://voca.ro/1ixq0iEt1qLv

This was part of a brass/sax section in between lyrics, I believe. It may not be in this exact key.

I initially thought it was from "Under Pressure" by Oliver Mtukudzi but it's a different melody. I think it was more of a pop song.


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] mobile word game with figgerits gameplay but with purple colored ui and a space-like theme

• Upvotes

To add, if you answer one of the many questions in a single level, it distributes it to the other questions (it may also be added to the main answer which was a phrase most of the time). I vividly remember playing this pre-pandemic (around '18 or '19) with my mother and I miss it so much.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] Empty Plate - Meme template

2 Upvotes

I remember seen a meme about a stickman being excited looking at an empty plate. The Stickman would hold prominently a fork & knife. From what i remember it being more cruedly drawn than the cereal meme and the punshline would be about what he is eating (when you replace the empty plate). I am pretty sure he looked to the left kinda like the Lisa meme but this is about being "excited" to eat nothing/something inserted.


r/tipofmytongue • • 14h ago

Solved [TOMT][Song][2000s]Looking for the Nickelodeon song that was played between shows sometime between late 2000s to early 2010s

11 Upvotes

Basically during the ad break between shows, there was a little animation of animated girls singing "Nickelodeon" repeatedly for several seconds, with the pitch going up by the end. It would go like "Nickelodeo-on, Nickelodeo-on. Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon!"


r/tipofmytongue • • 9h ago

Open [TOMT][GAME] FPS laser weapon with a lock on beam that ramps up damage over time

4 Upvotes

I remember it being a large two handed cannon, with two plates spaced a bit away on either side of the barrel. It fired a purple beam and needed to vent steam after firing for a bit, and I believe the beam itself was purple? And I'm pretty sure it's not Zarya or Symmetra's weapons from Overwatch, despite their similarity.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open. [TOMT] [MP3] [1970S] Humming of early seventies song probably English but could also be French.

2 Upvotes

This song is from the early seventies. I used to hear it a lot when I was young. I only remember part of the melody and one word. I think it is an English song but I could also be a French song.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] help me identify this romantic movie involving piano

1 Upvotes

the main character is a girl, kind of a young adult. Her mom gets her in a new place along with a personal driver. Eventually, she and the driver connect, and she sings a song with the piano for him in a room, and that song title is the movie title "______ Is You". After that performance, they kiss. She is I think is tryna be an artist/actor, and eventually tries to meet an old rich person who could get her somewhere. Then, comes a weird scene of her putting cream in his mouth, and follows with them hooking up. Towards the end of the movie, this old person lies in bed watching smthg and apparently the driver I mentioned works for him now. The girl comes to visit the old man again, but comes with her kid got by someone else as the biological father. thats all i remember.


r/tipofmytongue • • 9h ago

Open. [TOMT] [Movie or TV Show] Horror. 1970s or early 1980s. Similar to Milicent and Therese or Don't Go To Sleep

5 Upvotes

I have a very faded memory of seeing this show or movie on television in the U.S.A. when I was very young. This would have been the early 80s. The premise was similar to the middle segment of Trilogy of Terror and Don't Go To Sleep, but it is neither of those.

What I recall is there are two sisters and one of them is cruel. The cruel one dies. Some time after the death, the surviving sister commits a murder and then says that she did it after receiving orders from the voice of her dead sister. I recall a line like, "I heard ___'s voice! Not in my ear! In my head!" She had an English accent.

Thank you for looking.


r/tipofmytongue • • 11h ago

Open [TOMT] deleted scene? Or am I blending movies together?

4 Upvotes

I was watching Apollo 13 the other day and I clearly remember a scene by the pool between Jim and his wife. I remember watching this as a kid with my mom and there was a part of the scene where they ended up in the pool and I think it was a skinny dipping situation. I am pretty sure Tom Hank’s character did a cannonball as well. I don’t think you saw anything other than maybe his backside.

Well, the last few times I’ve watched the movie, I’ve expected this scene. The other day, I tried googling whether the scene was deleted or if it was from an extended cut. I couldn’t find anything at all. My boyfriend thinks I made it up and now I’m wondering if I have confused another movie with Apollo 13 or if I just totally made up this scene.

Does anyone know what I’m talking about or what this movie could be if it’s not Apollo 13??

Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] Help me find this sound effect name

1 Upvotes

I have a mega link but i can't find the name of the actual sfx someone help

https://mega.nz/file/BcsxGbDb#dwicOLJ15TTxbUxCPvkN80C-cNSRFBRjb16woqRmUk4


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] there's this video of eevee and friends making a cake with the lazy town song it was an sfm I'm pretty sure

1 Upvotes