this book has mini stories inside and has one story about a kid who gets invited to dinner and a boy is let out of the basement and eats and then says to his parents "if i cut my nails, will you give me more meat?"

Looking for a movie, released probably after 2000, about a woman that can travel back in time. I think she is not the only one and eventually a group is after her, including her boss, who sets a few traps to see if she has that power, like inviting her to lunch and preparing the salt shaker to o...

I am trying to remember a limited television anime or manga show from several years back. The central character was a bounty hunter who located illegal aliens and brought them into some central processing station for meager rewards. He had a robot companion for comic relief. He dressed and acte...

More than five years ago, I started reading a sci-fi book about a advanced humans making first contact with iron-age, medieval-era humanoids. My memory is get foggy but I will try to describe it as best as I can. Thank you for trying! Humans either arrive in the alien star system by chance or a...

One of the early trailers for Iron Sky: The Coming Race had Jesus wielding a machine gun. Unless the copy I watched was cut, there was no Jesus in the final movie. Was he supposed to have an actual plotline, or scene? If so, what was it and why was it cut off? ...

I am searching for a long time now and I am not able to find the right cartoon. I remember a SciFi cartoon series where a bunch of humans travel with their spaceship and find an planet where dinosaurs are still alive. I found Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper so far and I'm pretty sure that it wa...

Why is Randall Munroe's Wikipedia picture him balancing rubber ducks? Is there some inside joke or origin behind this? Also, who took this picture

The movie starts off with a crashed ship on a desolate alien planet. This ship was holding a prisoner who escapes and the guards on the ship have to find and bring him back. BOOM plot twist the guards are humanoid aliens and the prisoner is the last human alive.

If you went back in time, let's say three days backwards, went to a PUB and had a few pints more than usual. Would you be sober or drunk if you returned to current time ?

The book 1984 contains the following passage: Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is t...

In the Harry Potter universe, a recurring theme is that some wizards are more powerful than others. For instance, Voldemort is considered to be an immensely powerful wizard, and so is Dumbledore. However, I struggle to see how exactly this power could be quantified, or what exactly it would mean...

i am looking for the this manga where mc lives alone as a child in the jungle and is loved by the gods who watch over him and then he saves the lives of some important people. later he develops slimes for different purposes. i forgot the name of the manga. thanks for help in advance.

How many tectonic plate are shown and how many different type are shown. I'm confused. I thought every 2 plates only have 1 type of boundaries ( convergent, divergent, transform) Thanks

We all know Thanos specifically chose to snap to use all the Infinity Stones to wipe out half the universe. Even everyone else who gets an Infinity Gauntlet seems to have to snap in order to use all the Stones. Did it have to be a snap in order to use all the Infinity Stones? Why wasn't it a cla...

In Girl-Genius there are engineers, scientists, entomologists, machinists, biologists, technicians … and then there are sparks. How do you tell a spark from a non-spark? Is it a mark of the supernatural for sparkiness that only other sparks can see? What is the measure that differentiates a ge...

I think I watched this in the mid 90s. A group of kids are supposed to meet a paleontologist, I think at a museum. At the meeting place, they find a message from him (and I think a broken crate and dinosaur footprints). They follow the clues, learning about dinosaurs along the way until they reac...

There are many different Harry Potter works including: books short stories movies card games video games toys amusement parks web content Which ones are considered to be canon?

Was there ever a cut of the 1972 movie Conquest of the Planet of the Apes in which Armando addressed Roddy McDowall's character as "Milo" at the beginning? I could swear that the first time I saw this film (on PBS in late 1989 or 1990), the circus owner calls him "Milo" at least once early on. A...

My wife and I passed by a winery with a pink elephant statue, and I cracked a joke about how this time, you knew you were drunk when you stopped seeing pink elephants, whereupon, I learned she'd never heard of that trope (and yes, that's a TV Tropes link). Explaining it to her reminded me of a sh...

I've just been reminded by a friend of a line in a film we saw mid/late '80s (on video, so may have been earlier but it definitely had an 80s feel to it). It was a humorous sci fi involving humans and aliens. Towards the end, the humans (two boys?) are on the alien spaceship. The aliens are a fa...

If I ask an identification question and it is successfully and succinctly answered to a sci-fi/fantasy work that has not been previously tagged, should I create a new tag for that subject matter and possibly assign it to the new identification question?