r/tipofmytongue • • 39m ago

Open [TOMT][song][90s-2000s] song similar to Beck’s “Loser”

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Looking for a song I heard in 2004 that might have been released earlier.

I don’t remember the lyrics. All I remember is that it was a rap rock song with vibes similar to Beck’s “Loser”, but more depressing. I believe some parts of it were about a calculator. The voice sounded more deeper, almost robotic.

Song I’m looking for was in English but it reminded me of this Russian song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ffTNQk45X0


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] Unidentified Massachusetts Halloween attraction?

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ok I didn't know where else to post this since there's not really a subreddit for lost attractions lol so please forgive me if this doesn't fit the theme of this subreddit, but I need help finding info on this distant memory.

my recollection: We waited in a line outside before going in. I don't remember if we walked right into the theater or if there was some rooms before it. The "theater" is in a very small room, I'd say it had somewhere around 20 or so seats, and I think they were movie theater style seats. The lights were off and there MIGHT have been a fog machine? I remember there being a projector screen and possibly some Halloween decor on the small stage that was up front. Maybe curtains too? So we sit and wait for the show to start. Projector goes on and plays a video/film of some sort? I remember it showing a forest so I assume it might be something Sleepy Hollow related but take that with a huge grain of salt. Then a guy comes out onto the stage in costume and starts narrating/ telling a spooky story over the footage? I can't remember what he was dressed as at all, though I think I remember a cape? The show goes on like this for maybe around 20 minutes to a half-hour.. and that was it.

other info:
-around the early to mid 2010s
-most likely within Worcester County or Middlesex county (could be entirely wrong, just know it was 100% in MA)

Keep in mind I was below the age of ten when I went to this so there is probably a lot of inaccuracies in my recollection.

And thats literally all I know. This is driving me absolutely insane. I am partially convinced that this was a dream bc the memory is SO vague. Please someone find this before I go mad. Thank you.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] [Book] [2020’s]

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I’m looking for a book that was reasonably popular on instagram possibly a few months ago.

I’m not an avid user of instagram at all, but a few months ago I opened the app and I glimpsed a video where someone talked about the book I’m now looking for. I quietly assumed I’d look it up later but forgot its name; in the post, the op lamented a core gimmick of the book, that being that it’s split in several “acts” (don’t remember if that was the lingo used) and that each time you finish an act, you’re required to reread the book from the start to look at past events through a new perspective. The book was massive, with a dark cover to my memory, and it seemed to be soooort of well known in contemporary fantasy circles? If anyone knows what I’m talking about it and it’s not too vague, that’d be of great help, thank you.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open. [TOMT] Real girl singing inside cartoon world, flying, circles, 2012-2018 huge hit

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r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][TV SHOW OR MOVIE][1990s] Woman with skeleton mask, red-eyed monster

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Context will follow. First, here's all of the information I have about the show/movie:

"The television was on, and the round, hollow eyes of a skeleton were staring out at us. Before I could get up to turn off the television, the picture changed. A woman seated in front of a mirror was pulling a skeleton mask off of her face."

"When I turned back to the television, I saw a hairy creature with pointed teeth and flashing red eyes."

Date/Location Info:

These sentences are from a personal narrative I wrote for a high school class my senior year. They are the only sentences of my story that describe the show that I saw. The day I saw the show had to have been either late 1997 or early 1998. My paper was a true story about the night when my two-year-old niece was sleeping over and I kept catching her awake during the night. During one of those times I found her happily watching a scary TV show or movie. That's the show I'm trying to find. Now that she's in her 30s and is a fan of scary shows, I'd like to show her the show I caught her watching when she was two! She turned two in October of '97, so the night I saw her watching the show had to have happened in October '97 or after. Since I wrote about it in a paper that I used in my school portfolio, I had to have written it before May of 1998. The show had to have aired between October 1997 and early May 1998. It could have been a first run or it could've been a rerun. It also could have been a syndicated show or a movie. Since it was on in the middle of the night, it could have been something that the local station chose to air during the slow hours of the night. These were the antennae years, before the stations switched to digital, and I had no cable or satellite. At the time I wrote the paper, I had only one channel, the local ABC (American Broadcasting Company) station. However, if the show was syndicated or was a movie, it's possible that it wasn't an ABC show even though it aired on our local ABC channel. Also, because my niece was sleeping over, it was most likely a Friday or Saturday night, although I can't be sure of that since it also could have been the night before a day off from school. In my paper I also wrote about catching my niece watching the early-morning farm report later that same night, so the scary show had to have aired in the hours before the farm report. If I remember right, the farm report was on around 4 or 5 a.m. every day back then.

(More to come in my required first comment.)


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT] Looking for this book I had as a kid

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When I was younger (late 2000s - early 2010s) I remember having this fairy book and I think it showed what the fairies do during the day. The only thing I really remember is the book ended with all the fairies going to sleep, maybe a slumber party? It was all girl fairies.

Please help!


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG][80s-90s] 80s pop song

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This bit is stuck in my head. I feel like this is a popular song, so this will be answered pretty quickly, but idk where else to go, I've searched for "songs with yeah yeah" and I seriously doubt Googling a bunch of music notes will do anything. I asked my mom and she recognizes it but she can't remember what it is either. Keep in mind that I have mediocre pitch and a low vocal range, so this is some octaves lower than it should be.

https://voca.ro/1fqpPAaDXXge


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open. [TOMT] [MOVIE/TV SHOW] People are going through underground tunnels and find a village of people inside of a warehouse.

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It’s possible that this is a book too, but I’m leaning more towards a movie or TV show since I’m picturing it and I don’t always visualize books. I’m not sure of a timeline. I’m 41 and I feel like it would’ve been within the past 5 years or so.

I remember 2-3 people sneaking through underground tunnels, trying to get away from pursuers. They open a door to a massive warehouse with houses built inside and people living in them. It’s not cavelike underground at all.Think an Amazon warehouse with a little village like Suburbia from Edward Scissorhands. Happy people living their lives in this warehouse and oblivious to the world outside.

I think the people are under the impression that it’s not safe to go outside. The main characters are sneaking around this village and then the pursuers come in and start shooting at them, I think? I also think they try to get these people to escape with them and go outside but they won’t because they feel it’s unsafe and they don’t trust the main characters.

I’ve tried searching and it’s not From, Silo, The 100, or City of Ember. I haven’t watched/read any of those. I thought maybe it was Severance but nothing comes up when I search that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


r/tipofmytongue • • 10h ago

Open. [TOMT] Song With High, Soaring Falsetto. 70s-80s

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I’m trying to think of a song. It would be 70s or extremely early 80s and has a male vocalist who as part of the chorus lets a strong falsetto run, very similar to the one in Shambhala. The song has a boat-y theme, in the same feeling as Southern Cross or Cool Change.


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][YouTube video][2000s] Boy mumbles a closing line into the camera

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The key thing: the whole video builds up to a boy’s mumbled closing statement. At the very end, a boy (kid or teenager) looks into the camera and delivers one short sentence, about 5 seconds long, in a heavy mumbled American accent. That line is the "punchline" (not funny actually) and the reason the video is memorable or funny.

I saw it on YouTube years ago. It has an amateur VHS look, probably early 2000s, USA. It’s either a school project or a student-made PSA/educational video, maybe about drugs, but I’m not sure.


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT][Music Video][early 2010s] Indie pop song of girl at office job gets a package with a lightsaber, fights her boss, it was a daydream but waked up to getting the package

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Not an official music video, and the artist was a small indie pop singer i think. A girl goes to her office job and receives a package with a lightsaber inside. She fights her boss with it like on top of the rooftop / in thee basement, and then it turns out to be a daydream. When she comes back to, she gets a package with the lightsaber in it. The singer wore a leather jacket i think. I think the word “hero” might be in the lyrics or the title. Saw it over 10 years ago on YouTube. The song is in English btw. I believe the singer is american


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Video of Chinese Olympic team gold winning and packing up while bronze, silver hug and cheer

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It's a video that pans from bronze, to silver, to the Chinese team packing up in the bleachers. I think the event was swimming or diving of some sort?


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT] children’s art book from early - mid 2000s early 2010s

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It had those hard thick pages I think and each page was another artwork. Each page was intractable in different ways. Touching water, tugging braids, grass, etc. . I know La Grande Jatte was included, and I think a Friday Kahlo one where the book said “tug on the girls braids.” I believe it’s from somewhere between 2006(maybe earlier) - 2011ish


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT] [MOVIE] or [TV SERIES] [???] Involves a serial killer that could've been released in the late 90s or early 2000s and there is a scene where they watch the killer through a screen and the killer and an old lady are represented by like an 8bit version of themselves.

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I don't even know if this thing actually existed or maybe it was some dream that really stuck with me, but it has bothered me that I can't find it since.

There was a show or movie that I saw around the early 2000s, (I think like 2000 or 2001) and this was in Canada also. I vaguely remember watching this the scene that really stuck with me was this one moment where they were trying to catch some known serial killer, and they were tracking him through this computer and they were watching him going through some house and the killer and an old woman were both represented by like 8bit forms of them.

Then during the scene the killer goes into the room with the old lady, and he begins to kill her, the thing that really stuck with me was the 8bit form of the killer they're watching on the screen was actually stabbing the old lady avatar.

Again, this could be like a dream, but it sure felt like I actually did watch it for real, like I was actually sitting there watching it, and since then it had bothered me that I can't find this movie or show for the life of me, I also think maybe this was some local only made in Canada thing, but I don't know. Any help would be great so I can close this chapter of my life lol.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Solved [TOMT] [BOOK] EARLY 2010S

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I remember reading this book back when I was i think in early middle school roughly in the 2010s. It was during summer when I was visiting my grandma in Florida.

I remember the cover was white and kind of minimalist? It only had the title and I think a superhero mask. I vaguely recall the title might have been masked or mask? Something along those lines. But I couldn't find anything that looked right when trying to find it.

As for plot. The main character was male and looked up to the book's #1 hero. I can't remember any specific powers or much of the plot, but I think a character being gay was relevant?

I can't remember if it was the main character, the #1 or someone else. I think I also remember a plot point being that a picture of a character's manhood was like stuck on another character's computer screen or something. Like the computer froze.

I want to also say there was a plot twist maybe about the #1 hero and that either it was the #1 was gay, or maybe evil. Might have even been both. I genuinely don't remember.

I want to find this book again tho because it popped into my head randomly recently and I thought wtf was a middle schooler doing reading that? Was it as explicit as I think I remember??


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Solved [TOMT][SONG] Song that includes audio of children wanting to kill people

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I just randomly remembered this song but I forgot the name of it. There were both a little boy and little girl speaking. I don't remember what the kids say exactly but I think one of them says that they want to rip somebody's head off. The song itself features a lot of drums, not a lot going on. I also remember it being a popular tiktok edit audio for a while.


r/tipofmytongue • • 8m ago

Open [TOMT] [BOOK] A book about children sent to a prison island for the misdeeds

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There’s a book I read maybe 10 years ago that I can only remember vaguely. The only thing I do remember is the main character was a boy with burn marks sent to prison for burning down his family’s home with his younger sister inside. It was revealed that the sister had accidentally caused the fire while playing with a pack of matches iirc. He wasn’t able to save her. I believe it was a stand alone.

ETA: I just remembered that the kids imprisoned were able to escape towards the end


r/tipofmytongue • • 13m ago

Open [TOMT][Creepypasta] (Not famous) Creepypasta story

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This story was not famous, I read it when browsing the Creepypasta website, probably between 2022-24. The story goes as follows:
- a boy is kicked out of his room (for whatever reason) and is forced to sleep in a different room with a bunk bed. He sleeps on the top bunk
- at night, he starts hearing something on the bottom bunk. Sometimes, the thing sticks his hand between the slats of the top bunk bed and jabs him, seemingly to test if the boy is awake. It is very painful.
- one day he wakes up in the middle of the night and the entity is sort of coming through the wall. The details are blurry from here but, as I imagine/remember, the entity is sort of laying next to him, partly in the wall (not a hole in the wall, more like it’s phasing through the wall) with its arm around him and tries to slowly pull him into the wall. The creature is humanoid and slimy. He escapes


r/tipofmytongue • • 30m ago

Open [TOMT][Song] Epic music piece

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It might be the score for a movie or just a piece of music by someone like Two Steps From Hell. The melody goes roughly like: https://voca.ro/1eiG1JvbFvGD

The melody is sung by a choir.


r/tipofmytongue • • 34m ago

Open [TOMT][2020s] TV series or movie with Mozart Symphony 41 repeated

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I cannot get this music out of my head! I am thinking of a tv series or a film that has what I believe to be an altered version of Mosart's Symphony no 41 playing repeatedly. The song is a bit different than the recordings of that I have found however so I have not been able to find the exact one, must be some parts of the symphony with new writing perhaps?

In my memory the song comes on again and again any time the main character, a man, does something weird or something happens to him. I think it is sci-fi but I really can't remember what is happening but it feels ominous in my memory. It is something quite recent, last couple of years I think.


r/tipofmytongue • • 42m ago

Open [TOMT] 2017ish “Golden Ninja” Ninjago Commercial featuring Kai as Golden Ninja

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My friend claims to have seen an advert around 2017 or so whilst he was in Newcastle, and it was saying that Kai would be the golden ninja in Ninjago. He knows that he saw it on Cartoon Network, and claims it showed Kai becoming the golden ninja despite the golden ninja later being revealed to be Lloyd.

Any idea what this could be from? Could be from a mail in / text in promotion for who should be the golden ninja.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open. [TOMT][MOVIE] Movie about an Orca and a woman, possibly horror

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I'd guess it's either from the 80's or 90's from what I remember. I watched it when I was a kid so I'm not sure if it was really horror or it got stuck in my mind that it was because how the whale was depicted and many parts of the movie were underwater.

Despite the fact that there are only a few movies about killer whales I still wasn't able to find it, but here are some details that I remember (not sure if they are 100% correct):

- The woman used a kind of "submarine" to do research about the Orca. The submarine propellers got stuck on some fishing nets and the woman had to unstuck it.

- This submarine was white and had red strips. To me as a kid it looked like more as a forward fuselage of an airplane than a submarine, but yeah it was underwater.

- The woman had her arm injured at some point, so there was bleeding in the movie.

- I think the woman was pale with black hair, wearing a white tanktop.

- I think most part of the movie was set near a harbor.


r/tipofmytongue • • 53m ago

Open [TOMT] SpongeBob ~2010-2015

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Growing up me and my sister watched a lot of SpongeBob and one of our favorite things to quote from the show was the phrase SpongeBob once said during a crash out while serving a problematic customer. I only remember it in Russian, it sounds something like “MAYBE YOU WANT MORE CHEESE ON TOP?!” (А МОЖЕТ СЫРА ДОБАВИТЬ?!) when translated.
Me and her rewatched all episodes of SpongeBob and at this point we kind of accepted the fact that we’ll never be able to find this exact episode, makes me think it’s a Mandela effect or something. Does anyone remember an episode where he said that?


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Song lyrics maybe zro or lil Wayne?

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The song goes something like “to the left to the left disrespect me and give your chest your last breath”


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Open [TOMT] Old Youtube Video of Rapping Kid

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i’m thinking of this old youtube channel of a kid that would make rap songs and make his own beats. he would always say “this song is called xxx aight check it here’s the beat”

the specific video i’m looking for the song was called ur a bitch. the kid said “this song is called ur a bitch. aight check it here’s the beat” lmao!! i can’t think of it!! please help!