Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4849011-20150322002931

From time to time I see posts asking, “Does anybody know the name of such-and-such a show?”, “Does anyone remember this cartoon?” etc. so I thought it might to beneficial to start a whole thread devoted to people asking people if they can identify something.

First, let me lay a few ground rules.
 * This is strictly for identifying things like movies, books, songs, music videos, etc. It’s not for identifying things such as people, religious doctrines, scientific principles and theories, political and philosophical tenets, etc.
 * To avoid arguments, responses should be impartial.
 * Don’t make things up. If you purposely ask about a program, book, whatever, that you know doesn’t exist then people will be reluctant to offer suggestions in the future.  If you purposely offer an answer that you know isn’t right, that’s just rude.  Neither one is funny.  They’re just wastes of everyone’s time.
 * No inappropriate content.
 * If you have to give spoilers, add a spoiler warning.

Since there are some things I’d like to know myself, I’ll get it started.
 * I once saw the end of a movie in which this woman had to stop a vampire from using an ancient stone tablet which would give him almighty powers. Vampires in the movie were poisoned and destroyed by salt.  Before anyone says, “Oh, that’s a lame plot device!” I’d like to point out that this was in some traditional folktales.  Since salt can be used as an antiseptic and preservative, people came to believe that it could also be used to protect against evil creatures such as demons and vampires.  In any case, the woman successfully defeated the vampire.  I won’t reveal where she hid the tablet at the end, but it was definitely someplace where vampires couldn’t get to it easily.  Awesome.  It was in English, but I don’t know for sure if it were an American film or not.  I’d say it was from either the 1980s or the early 90s.
 * I’ve seen the beginning and end of a black comedy from the early 90s. By “black comedy” I don’t mean African-American comedy; I mean morbid comedy, also called “gallows humor”.   The plot was a police officer had his test results switched with someone else’s, leading him to think falsely that he was about to die.  So far the basic premise is the same as the later Queen Latifah movie Last Holiday, which I believe is a remake of a much earlier film called Death Takes a Holiday.  Here’s where the black humor comes in.  The officer realizes that if he dies in the line of action, his family will get more money.  However, it’s his last day on the job.  Therefore, he takes suicidal chances in the hopes that he’ll get killed in the line of duty.  I thought the ending was pretty good.
 * This one isn’t so much a “What’s that thing?” as it is a “Is this really what I was told it was, and what in blazes was going on here?” I once caught the end of a movie in which someone was lamenting that a party couldn’t go on as planned.  This was apparently because of a terrible odor in the house.  The other person replied that no, the party could still go on.  It then cut to all the partygoers wearing protective masks.  One partygoer was seen taking off his gas mask in order to vomit.  I looked at the TV booklet and it claimed it was The Virgin Suicides, but the booklet isn’t always accurate.  I actually have a lot more questions about this, but I don’t think they can be answered.
 * Does anyone here recognize this Internet hoax? This was on some social media site, but I forget if it were Facebook, MySpace, or some other site.  This man was chatting with a woman who revealed that her husband was in the military and currently fighting overseas.  A little while later the woman asked the man if he’d like to have sex with her.  This came completely out of left field, and the man declined her offer.  She went on to repeatedly ask him for sex and he repeatedly refused, all the while scolding her for wanting to cheat on her husband.  It was a memorable conversation, but someone noticed that things seemed off about the whole exchange.  The critic pointed out that as the responses became more intense, the less time there was between them.  The last several posts were only a minute apart.  The only way the responses could be that long yet that close together was if one or more people had typed them out in advance, then cut/copied and pasted them.  The man involved in the “exchange” eventually admitted that he had faked the whole thing, posing as both himself and the non-existent woman.  Further investigation revealed that the picture used for the profile picture of the “woman” was also a fake, copied from a model’s website without her knowledge or consent (This led to unfair criticism for her since some people falsely assumed she was involved). The man had committed the hoax thinking that appearing noble and supportive of the troops would make women attracted to him, but after his deception came out the ordeal had the opposite effect.  I came across a link to an article about this on a website, but when I went back to it the link to the article was gone.  I haven’t seen anything about this since.

Whether or not anyone can answer my queries, I hope people will benefit from this thread. 