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[TOMT][Actor] Comedy relief actor from the 90's I think

I've got a guy in my head who I think was in movies or TV in the 90's or possibly 00's. He is overweight and in my head kind of in a similar vein to Newman from Seinfeld/Craig Feldspar from Malcolm in the Middle.

Edit - I think the person in my head might have been short, also had short hair and a kinda ball shaped head, pretty sure he had glasses.

Edit 2 - a commenter suggested Drew Carey and while I'm pretty certain it isn't him I found one single photo that really ticks all the boxes for who i'm picturing. If you can think of anyone who looks like this then please let me know! https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/drew-carey/index.html

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[TOMT][Movie] Scene where guy wakes up as a museum exhibit and goes about his day as people watch him do work and stuff.

Saw a clip of this movie and forgot the name of it. I want to say the actor I saw looked like Ricky Gervais or something (my memory is shit obviously so could be wrong). But I remember him living in the exhibit and just going about work and daily life inside this glass exhibit as other humans went about and watched him. The movie seemed to be a comedy? Help, it’s bugging the absolute piss out of me and I kinda want to watch it! Thank you so much!

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[TOMT]Song. 70s song about cocaine. Male singer, NOT Eric Clapton.

I’ve heard a song about cocaine a few times at work since it must be in a Spotify playlist or something and it’s become an ear worm. Definitely sounds 70’s. Has an upbeat funky vibe to it. Male singer with a deep bassy voice similar to Elvis or Tom Jones (but it’s not either of them). The only lyrics I can really make out are the word cocaine and what sounds like either ‘bad bad news’ or ‘bad for you’ but the way he says cocaine is very emphasized and drawn out, like cocaiiinnnnneeeee (only sang if that makes sense). Been Googling and YouTubing for two hours and nothing. Please help.

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[TOMT][MUSICIAN] musician who suggested playing a cover of their own song to bandmates

it's passed around a lot as a funny interview story, but i'm completely blanking on who said it. the frontman of a band was on a ton of drugs and heard their own song on the radio, went "hey, this is pretty good, we should cover it sometime" and their bandmates had to break the news to them that it was their song. i thought maybe it was the guy from aerosmith? (if it is i'll feel like a total idiot, but i couldn't really figure out what to google to confirm, so oh well)

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[TOMT] [Video Game] I can’t remember an old DSi game/ mini-game I played as a kid

I don't remember if it was a game itself or a hidden mini-game for another app but I used to play it on my DSi I think. It was a game (like Doodle Jump) wherein your "character" (I can't remember what you play as) jumps higher and higher as you go on. A key detail I remember was that as you got higher, the color of the sky changed from daytime to nighttime colors (blue to yellow to orange to dark blue w/ stars) and so did the background, from trees, fences and houses to taller buildings and I distinctly remember the Eiffel tower and a ferris wheel in the background too. I hope the finer details don't throw you off, hopefully my memory doesn't fail me. Anything helps, this is driving me & my sibling nuts.

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[TOMT] [MOVIE] Animated movie with a ginger woman singing about marriage with anthropomorphic dogs in suits of armor

This is extremely vague I know, but I saw a video several months ago, (maybe a year) on tik tok with this animated woman dressed in a wedding dress. She had 3 guard "dogs" of sorts with her that were anthropomorphic in suits of armor. She was singing about getting to be alone, in hopes of coaxing her guards away so she could be with her betrothed. The art style was similar to older Disney movies, but I'm not sure it was Disney. It was clearly hand drawn so I'm thinking it was from the 80s–90s... I'm trying to remember more of the lyrics of the song, but I'm drawing a blank. I remember someone mentioning the movie title, but it's slipping me.

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