Is there any chance they had DVR, and if so if they have anything at all from that time recorded? I know it's a longshot but that would give us an idea of the kinds of shows they watched
Unfortunately no, those DVR's are long gone. I asked both of them what kind of shows/channels they would watch (especially before falling asleep) and they couldn't give me an answer lol. My dad was like, "I don't know, the news maybe??" I know that they used to watch Sex and the City back in the day, but I doubt that helps. The cartoon that I saw that night seems like it would be on something like the history channel maybe. It had a very religious / historical feel to it.
Interesting... didn't find it but after reading about the mythology and religion part, it sounds more like it was sirens (who also have bird features) instead of harpies. I remember the creatures singing/chanting while waving their arms in the air, and sirens sing. Also, I remember the scene taking place on a beach. It's possible the man crashed his boat and ended up there because he heard the sirens singing, and that's how sirens attract their prey.
Interesting... didn't find it but after reading about the mythology and religion part, it sounds more like it was sirens (who also have bird features) instead of harpies. I remember the creatures singing/chanting while waving their arms in the air, and sirens sing. Also, I remember the scene taking place on a beach. It's possible the man crashed his boat and ended up there because he heard the sirens singing, and that's how sirens attract their prey.
Oh wow I would have never made that connection with the beach and it being sirens instead. Let's see what we can find with sirens instead.
Interesting... didn't find it but after reading about the mythology and religion part, it sounds more like it was sirens (who also have bird features) instead of harpies. I remember the creatures singing/chanting while waving their arms in the air, and sirens sing. Also, I remember the scene taking place on a beach. It's possible the man crashed his boat and ended up there because he heard the sirens singing, and that's how sirens attract their prey.
I think this is an adaptation of one of the Greek Myths like the Odyssey then
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Half bird half women creatures singing on a beach are almost certainly the Sirens from Homer's Odyssey. Note that many adaptations incorrectly portray them as mermaids. I've been through every available animated version of the Odyssey on this list: greekgodsparadise.com/2020/02/29/33-movies-based-on-the-odyssey-and-adaptions/ to look at the siren scene, and they all incorrectly show them as half fish/half women. However, the HBO miniseries version from 2000 (IMDB page: www.imdb.com/title/tt0229104/ ) doesn't seem to be anywhere on the internet. The one review on IMDB says it is accurate to the book, so presumably would have had the bird women sirens; and we know the sirens are in it, because that was the name of the third episode. So I'm thinking there is a decent chance what you saw was the third episode of that HBO miniseries.
Half bird half women creatures singing on a beach are almost certainly the Sirens from Homer's Odyssey. Note that many adaptations incorrectly portray them as mermaids. I've been through every available animated version of the Odyssey on this list: greekgodsparadise.com/2020/02/29/33-movies-based-on-the-odyssey-and-adaptions/ to look at the siren scene, and they all incorrectly show them as half fish/half women. However, the HBO miniseries version from 2000 (IMDB page: www.imdb.com/title/tt0229104/ ) doesn't seem to be anywhere on the internet. The one review on IMDB says it is accurate to the book, so presumably would have had the bird women sirens; and we know the sirens are in it, because that was the name of the third episode. So I'm thinking there is a decent chance what you saw was the third episode of that HBO miniseries.
If it's on HBO it would line up with OP's parents watching Sex and the City.
Interesting... didn't find it but after reading about the mythology and religion part, it sounds more like it was sirens (who also have bird features) instead of harpies. I remember the creatures singing/chanting while waving their arms in the air, and sirens sing. Also, I remember the scene taking place on a beach. It's possible the man crashed his boat and ended up there because he heard the sirens singing, and that's how sirens attract their prey.
If it's sirens, though the date is off, it may be the villains from Rainbow Rocks: the Dazzlings.
Backstory--they're a trio of sexy sirens who feed off emotion, turning people into mindless drones, and they're based on the girls group Destiny's Child (someone on the production team obviously weren't fans). Here's their songs, I'd suggest you stay till the end where they transform into their monstrous true forms to be sure. Linx
Interesting... didn't find it but after reading about the mythology and religion part, it sounds more like it was sirens (who also have bird features) instead of harpies. I remember the creatures singing/chanting while waving their arms in the air, and sirens sing. Also, I remember the scene taking place on a beach. It's possible the man crashed his boat and ended up there because he heard the sirens singing, and that's how sirens attract their prey.
If it's sirens, though the date is off, it may be the villains from Rainbow Rocks: the Dazzlings.
Backstory--they're a trio of sexy sirens who feed off emotion, turning people into mindless drones, and they're based on the girls group Destiny's Child (someone on the production team obviously weren't fans). Here's their songs, I'd suggest you stay till the end where they transform into their monstrous true forms to be sure. Linx
I'm....gonna go out on a limb and say it wasn't that.
I didn't find the full animation yet, but I did find that Sirens were originally not "essentially evil mermaids", but Bird-women who, sang in harmony on beaches and rocks. Maybe instead of harpies, it was sirens.
Half bird half women creatures singing on a beach are almost certainly the Sirens from Homer's Odyssey. Note that many adaptations incorrectly portray them as mermaids. I've been through every available animated version of the Odyssey on this list: greekgodsparadise.com/2020/02/29/33-movies-based-on-the-odyssey-and-adaptions/ to look at the siren scene, and they all incorrectly show them as half fish/half women. However, the HBO miniseries version from 2000 (IMDB page: www.imdb.com/title/tt0229104/ ) doesn't seem to be anywhere on the internet. The one review on IMDB says it is accurate to the book, so presumably would have had the bird women sirens; and we know the sirens are in it, because that was the name of the third episode. So I'm thinking there is a decent chance what you saw was the third episode of that HBO miniseries.
If it's on HBO it would line up with OP's parents watching Sex and the City.
Oh my god you're right. And HBO is probably something they'd fall asleep to, with all the movies and whatnot. I need to find that miniseries.