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Hi, TOMT. For years, I've been trying to find what I believe was some type of sci-fi movie or TV episode that I believe I saw as a kid sometime in the USA in the 1990s, but have never had any luck with Googling and the like. My memory is fuzzy and I'm surely misremembering details by now, and getting some things just completely wrong, but I'll try to describe the image in my head the best I can as a starting place.

The setting is some type of featureless void. A woman is walking through it, and comes upon an impish, perhaps not-entirely-human boy huddled over, eating a squirrel or a rat or something like that raw, with blood smeared on his mouth. They speak, and he invites her to play a game that I think he called "knack the atom," or "knock the atom," or something like that. He tells her that if she gets it wrong, the universe may be destroyed, and he hands her something like clear blocks or shapes with which to play the game.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm fairly certain that this was something I saw on TV, and wasn't a dream or the like. I wasn't creative enough to imagine something like this anyways, haha. Thanks in advance!

machstem: Probably not what it is, but for some reason you brought up the memory of Eerie Indiana

I'll check some episode descriptions for that, but I don't think this was from a show aimed at children. I could be wrong, though.

HerbertWest: Eerie Indiana was and is a really underrated show! I rewatched it recently, and it holds up, unlike a lot of other shows that old.
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Darth_Garlic_Bread: Finding out this was on prime just made my day! Thank you!

_EVILLIVE_ It's a trip to see actors slightly older than me now as kids....there was a few cameos from people that I recognized like no shit that's freddy Rodriguez and nikki cox....I know there's more but those two I remember off the top of my head.

Captain_Roderick There was a young Toby Maguire, the voice of Panic (Disney Hercules), & I’m pretty sure the actual actor of Max Headroom is there as well as lots of people I know I recognized from countless small roles over the years. But, yea, lots of people. It was a trip.

ArugulaZ: There was an episode where a guy named "The Donald" hypnotized people with catchy TV commercials, made them buy useless crap on credit, then took their souls as collateral. I guess people should have been paying attention to Eerie Indiana, huh?

Captain_Roderick: Honestly, that was probably a direct reference to Trump. He’s been around forever being a shitty businessman. Even Sesame Street mocked him a few times over the years .

The show had quite a bit of politics in actually.

a-maizing-blue-girl: I’m thinking you are correct and we should have payed more attention. Episode 2 “The Retainer” had an Enquirer magazine with the headline “Our Next President?” And Trump’s picture. They inadvertently predicted Trump’s campaigning and win.

jeffmartin48early 80s: I had a big crush on Julie Condra because of this show and her appearances on The Wonder Years.

There was also a short lived spinoff, Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie,_Indiana:_The_Other_Dimension

Captain_Roderick: I never saw the other dimension. It’s also on Prime & I plan on watching it too.

You say short lived... eerie Indiana was only 19 (one season) eps itself.

jeffmartin48
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Wrong phrase. All I could think of at the time. Seems like! It lasted a little longer.

The Other Dimension only lasted 15.

I remember that that they retooled the show and added Jason Marsden as Dash X.

HollowGoob: The Other Dimension is really really bad.

Captain_Roderick: That sucks. At least now I have low expectations going in.

Funky_Sack: I think everyone had a crush on her. She was nice to look at.

JoeMafia7: I was thinking about this show on the way to work just yesterday. Thank you for the knowledge its available on prime. 🤗

jax9999: God I loved that show

PotatoFancier: Holy crap! I was thinking about this show recently too

leadweightdeadweight: This was a great show. Does anyone recall a similar show that had to do with a family that ran a lighthouse?

Captain_Roderick: I believe you are looking for “Round The Twist”.

NocturnalPatrolAlpha90: Please, TV producers, I'm begging you! Bring back these kinds of shows!
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Title: Family hired private detective to find me after I received a donated kidney.

Original Post:

I’m in the United States, however I’m nervous to disclose the state narrowing a search to find me. If unwarranted I can disclose the state.

I was the recipient of a kidney and I declined to ever know who gave it to me and I also noted that I didn’t want any kind of messages from the family. I appreciate the kidney but am not religious and believe everyone should be a donor and it shouldn’t be such a big deal.

Last year the family of the donor pretty much showed up at my doorstep.

They honestly aren’t doing anything that I would call “harassment” just occasional texts (I never gave them my number) inviting me to holidays and some emails with the mother really wanting to spend time with me because part of her daughter is inside me. I politely decline and reinstate my personal beliefs or ignore (depending on the day)

What I would like to know is if I have any legal recourse in how the private detective got this information. And I am curious if it is possible to force them to stop communicating with me.

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I guess on one weird level the idea behind it is kind of sweet but on multiple other levels it's creepy. I mean, it's a kidney.

This isn't like it's a Hallmark/Disney movie or that one episode of Eerie Indiana. It wasn't a heart. It's a kidney. People can live with one kidney.

A kidney is just a weird organ to fixate on. Is the original donor alive? If not, is this some sort of creepy grieving thing?

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