This was the way | TheaterFire

Simpsons quotes I understand. I knew a couple people who would constantly quote anchorman though...I had no idea what these references were until I rode a bus one time that played the movie. I was never a big Will Ferrel fan.

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mist_kaefer@reddit

Bake him away, toys!

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Hairy-Dot-4193@reddit

What's that Chief?

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

Go banana!

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Max_W_@reddit

I am so smart. SMRT ... do'h.

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81toog@reddit

I was saying boo-urns

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laurenishere@reddit

This is what happens when my husband and I get together with my sister and brother-in-law. Throw in some Bob's Burgers quotes and we've got days of conversation.

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malogan82@reddit

"Marge, can you set the oven to cold?"

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OkCardiologist2492@reddit

Wasssaaaaap!?

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Local871@reddit

In the 80s it was Holy Grail

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WeathermanOnTheTown@reddit

That was its purpose.

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Dimumory@reddit

Gonna find my lover gonna hold her tight, gonna find some afternoon delight.

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_sacrosanct@reddit

Come-eh-DUH-AH-YEEEEEEEH-HAAAAA!!!!!

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Chappelle show.

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Human-Living-4083@reddit

That escalated quickly!

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Slownavyguy@reddit

"used to?"

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TBarzo@reddit

Some people's entire sense of humor was just repeating jokes from movies. If someone hadn't seen that movie, they looked like a comedic genius.

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sravll@reddit

This is true

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harlembornnbred@reddit

Used to?

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D1X13flatline@reddit

We still do. But we used to, too.

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

PS—this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

—Mitch

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SpartanSig@reddit

I forgot to learn my AA, BB, CC's. God God damn it damn it.

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john0201@reddit

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!'

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noelesque@reddit

I'll take that one... AND EVERY ONE ON THE BOTTOM ROW!

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

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stuckonpost@reddit

Rice is really great when you’re really hungry and want a thousand of something.

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AnthBlueShoes@reddit

I haven’t slept for 10 days because that would be too long.

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DreamCrusher914@reddit

r/unexpectedmitch

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Cooper_Sharpy@reddit

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographers fault.

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

And to me, that's extra scary. Because somewhere out there, a large, out of focus monster is roaming the countryside. Run! He's fuzzy! Get out of here!

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

Idk if that’s part of the punchline but that is terrifying.

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Ent_Trip_Newer@reddit

I love lamp

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queuedUp@reddit

Right?1?.... I still do it.

And it 60% of the time it works every time.

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harlembornnbred@reddit

Just quoted that whole scene randomly with a group of friends last weekend lol

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queuedUp@reddit

I can only assume that one of your friends then replied with "Where did you get those clothes, at the toilet store?"

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rangeo@reddit

And Monty Python

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

This one was too far down. My friends and I spoke almost exclusively in Holy Grail quotes for ages.

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withbellson@reddit

Apparently this makes you a "giant nerd" but whatever. Finding out other people in the dorm knew how to defend themselves against fresh fruit by releasing the tiger was total delight.

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LemonSkye@reddit

What about a pointed stick?

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arcxjo@reddit

I had exactly one friend who ever understood why my chameleon was named Eric.

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rangeo@reddit

Anyone: Where's _?

Us: He's out distributing pamphlets to the masses.

.....every single time. I need to through this out at work and wait for the blank stares

In case you need a dose https://youtu.be/crIJvcWkVcs?si=t_8786ZuCXLuWawt

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

I used to, but I still do too

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avspuk@reddit

He has a wife, you know

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

Centurions having a stroke en masse

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

I got better!

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Lumpy_Tomorrow8462@reddit

Albatross!

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fading_relevancy@reddit

That and Chappell show. In my circle we also often quoted things from the old CKY/Landspeed video.

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Mysterious_Fennel459@reddit

For the straight guys maybe.

For the gays, it was Mean Girls quotes.

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CleverBandName@reddit

I quote both, does that mean...

I think I learned something today

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

Ohmigod Karen, you can't just ask why people are white

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subOptimusPrime16@reddit

Jambo!

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dbzmah@reddit

The term Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1970, so no.

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puma_pantss@reddit

Ehh.. Big Lebowski and Dumb & Dumber for me.

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Gee__Bee@reddit

And then things escalated quickly

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AshDogBucket@reddit

It wasn't just guys

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toc_the_middle_aged@reddit

I mean, my friends and I aren’t capable of talking with each other so we have to talk in movie quotes so things don’t become uncomfortable

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Somegirls85@reddit

Don't forget Old School "You're my boy Blue!"

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Adventurous-Sky9359@reddit

I just typed earlier this morning “ WE’RE GOING STREAKING!!! “

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Throwaway_inSC_79@reddit

And Chapelle Show

“I’m rich, bitch!”

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No-Psychology7500@reddit

Fuck yo couch!

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Rich-Detective478@reddit

Hey kids it's me! I bet you thought that I was dead! But when I fell down I just broke my leg and got a hemmorage in my head!!!!

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lemonylol@reddit

Lots of Ben Stiller movies too. "I got nipples Greg, can you milk me?"

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Dave Chappelle too.

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print_isnt_dead@reddit

Fuck yo couch!

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abecedorkian@reddit

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood

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Harlockarcadia@reddit

This quote has lived rent free in my head for years

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noswimming1978@reddit

Fuck yo couch!

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

You're crazy

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actuallyapossom@reddit

I love you, but you're crazy

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

You’ve got a fuckin dart in your neck man!

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hambergeisha@reddit

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aburningcaldera@reddit

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

I’ve got a belly full of white dog crap and now you lay this shit on me?!

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randyiamlordmarsh@reddit

Dude tried to french me!!!

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Estellas_mom@reddit

Omg I still say this to my dog all the time 🤣

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Punkinpry427@reddit

I have that as a ringtone lol

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Express_Area_8359@reddit

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scientific_bicycle@reddit

We’re going to Home Depot!

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CNote_89@reddit

Big day, might hit the bed, bath and beyond

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trumpsmellslikcheese@reddit

My wife and I getting married, settling down, buying a house, and having kids led to this line being quoted more than it should have been for several years.

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veringer@reddit

"It has 3 speeeds!"

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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

“Just ring the bell, pussy”

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stuckonpost@reddit

SNOOP! SNOOP A LOOP!

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tackleboxjohnson@reddit

All we are is dust in the wind…

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MindwellEggleston@reddit

I'm so glad that one stopped.

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scientific_bicycle@reddit

Boo this man!

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Specific_Anybody8306@reddit

Boo! Urns!

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Things just got a little out of hand.

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rifunseeker@reddit

You think KFC is still open?

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waffles-butters@reddit

One of the funniest movies ever. Brick was the best. Where'd you get those clothes, at the toilet store? Loud noises. I love lamp. Steve carrel is so funny. No one but him could ever be Micheal Scott. Don't get me started on Prison Mike

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beachbummeddd@reddit

Xennials had just been or were about to be born as the first internet memes were being introduced.

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lythy2016@reddit

It was The Big Lebowski for us.

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arcxjo@reddit

Yeah but I'm neither Swiss nor extroverted enough to make that happen organically.

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veringer@reddit

You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie...

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lythy2016@reddit

I’ve got information, man. New shit has come to light!

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drawredraw@reddit

Wait, isn’t The Big Lebowski The Big Lebowski for us?

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SupermouseDeadmouse@reddit

Shit…I still quote Wayne’s World.

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arcxjo@reddit

There was no one running for Constable when I went to vote last week. Needless to say, Babraham Lincoln got a write-in.

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Oraistesu@reddit

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rambo_lincoln_@reddit

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Emotional_Signal7883@reddit

Littering and? Littering and?

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ImSchizoidMan@reddit

It's afghanistanimation!

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arcxjo@reddit

I seriously wonder if all the kids today who call Japanimation "anime" will get that joke.

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noswimming1978@reddit

Smells like sex in here.

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aspidities_87@reddit

Hey Farva, what’s that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls?

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Proof_Fix1437@reddit

Shenanigans?

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aspidities_87@reddit

OHHHHH

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Proof_Fix1437@reddit

I love acid

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KingKrebbe@reddit

You are freaking out.. man.

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Drcornelius1983@reddit

CANDY BARS

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ItWasTheBeardedMan@reddit

THOSE AREN'T OURS

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stuckonpost@reddit

Say car RamRod!

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Attack-Potatoes@reddit

Car RamRod

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itsasnowconemachine@reddit

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TheDavidCall@reddit

Littering annnnnnd…..smokin’ the reefer.

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toasterb@reddit

You almost made it.

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butt_honcho@reddit

The snozzberries taste like . . . snozzberries!

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randyiamlordmarsh@reddit

You boys like Mexi-coooo!?

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toasterb@reddit

It's funny, I somehow missed that was a Willy Wonka reference for the last 20+ years.

I was watching Willy Wonka with my kids last week (probably for the first time in 30 years) and was taken aback when we got to this scene: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Lickable Wallpaper

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hot_rod_kimble@reddit

I don't want a large farva. I want a goddam liter of cola.

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butt_honcho@reddit

Do we serve "Litercola?"

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TheDavidCall@reddit

Don’t call me Radio, Unit 91

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Cooper_Sharpy@reddit

These schnozberries taste like schnozberries…

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arcxjo@reddit

You kids don't know what pop culture to quote! That's why you're still kids: 'cuz you're stupid!

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Generny2001@reddit

And Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy and Kingpin…it’s a long list.

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Ok-marty@reddit

Still do we old people still do this thing called talking

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

spaceballs

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Scott_R_1701@reddit

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

Anchorman wasn’t before memes. If you said Happy Gilmore….

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

I was quoting the Simpsons and Monty python much more

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itaintme1x2x3x@reddit

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Serenity_Obscura@reddit

Where did you get a hand grenade?

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Hylebos75@reddit

Back in the day when I shared a two-bedroom apartment with three other guys, our movie was Night at the Roxbury lol.

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User152552@reddit

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psilosophist@reddit

Between that and the guys who latched on to the Borat "MY WIFE" thing, those were insufferable times.

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Dashbastrd@reddit

You forgot everyone doing the Rick James impersonation from Chapelle’s Show.

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laziestmarxist@reddit

Once I was at the mall and someone loudly yelled yeaaah and then someone across the food court yelled whaaaat and without even thinking about it I had to yell OKAY!

It was pretty fun

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Wolfwoods_Sister@reddit

When I was a teenager, I made INSTANT BEST FRIENDS with two other punk guys in class (we’d never met or even spoken) when one of them did the “BUD”, the second “Wise”, then I did “er?” just like the ad frogs. The first guy started laughing, said “Fuck yeah, are we friends?!”

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Dashbastrd@reddit

First off, that was the Lil Wayne impersonation. Second, that’s awesome.

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73-68-70-78-62-73-73@reddit

It was Lil Jon. I also get the lil people mixed up.

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Dashbastrd@reddit

Awe dammit!

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

Oh, god. I was late to watching it and worked at a bar. I got so sick of everyone randomly saying that line it miles any desire i had to watch the movie.

Quoting things as a joke needs context to be funny. People just blurting out the same non sequitur and laughing at themselves is no effort garbage. It should be discouraged with a spritz of water from a spray bottle and a firm "NO!"

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Dashbastrd@reddit

…but it was funny when I did it. 😐

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

I'm sure it would have been if I hadn't heard it 100 times a day for a month before seeing the movie. 😐

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Geek_King@reddit

And Super Bad, and Wedding Crashers, and Napoleon Dynamite.

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rodneyenmac@reddit

And don't forget Wayne's World!

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Wolfwoods_Sister@reddit

“I fell on my keys!”

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SomeWateryTart83@reddit

Car!... Game on!

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CaydeTheCat@reddit

Team America: World Police was also in the rotation.

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

Ameriucuh FUCK YEAH

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djsynrgy@reddit

"Matt Damon!"

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CaydeTheCat@reddit

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butt_honcho@reddit

It was Monty Python and the Holy Grail for us.

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

We are no longer the knights who say Ni but Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!

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djsynrgy@reddit

Why past tense? Were you turned into a newt?

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butt_honcho@reddit

Yes, and I got better, but that's not the reason. Sadly we've all drifted apart over the last couple decades.

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TheDavidCall@reddit

And Zoolander

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

That Hansel's so hot right now

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Thick-Shock8419@reddit

Follow us on of scissorsistersxoxo

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djsynrgy@reddit

This needs to be at least.... Three times bigger!

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Is this a school for ANTS!?!

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Geochic03@reddit

The Derek Zoolander Center for kids who can't read good and who wanna learn to do other stuff good too.

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Geochic03@reddit

The male model gasoline fight has been livng rent free in my head for almost 25 years lol. Everything about that movie was absolute cinema.

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

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Geek_King@reddit

But why male models?

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scientific_bicycle@reddit

The files are…in, the computer?

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Larry-Man@reddit

Monty Python. Always Monty python around here.

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S2B_1@reddit

Chapelle Show from 03-06….

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jerseydevil51@reddit

I'M RICK JAMES BITCH!

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Johhnynumber5ht2a@reddit

FUCK YOUR COUCH!

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Tight_Cheetah_4474@reddit

Ugh I wish I had a dollar everytime someone or I did this...I would have so many dollars!!!

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greenroom628@reddit

https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/03/NightmareVance-913x960.jpg

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

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__ohno_notagain__@reddit

There was a website that was just a soundboard of Rick James clips. My boss used to use it in meetings.

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

Fuck yo couch!

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nojoblazybum@reddit

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?

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Dave-justdave@reddit

Damn Dave I didn't know you like to get wet

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DigitalSawzall@reddit

Any time I can use this quote is always instantly funny. Like makes the situation far funnier.

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conehead2019@reddit

Loved that skit

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RecoveringAnger@reddit

MY NAME’S OLD GREG

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NW_Forester@reddit

Do you like Bailey's from a shoe?

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_WeSellBlankets_@reddit

South Park in the '90s. Beefcake Beefcake BEEEFCAAAKE!!!

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Mercurial_Midwestern@reddit

Mom! Kitties being a dildo! Then I know a special kitty whose sleeping with mommy tonight! WHAT?

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djsynrgy@reddit

*Late '90s. The show premiered in '97.

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stormer1_1@reddit

Shut up Kyle

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FreddyFitness@reddit

Yes. Went on Spring Break to Panama City in college in 2004. At any given moment you could hear Chappelle Show quotes, especially “I’m Rick James bitch”, being yelled all day and night.

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KDiggity8@reddit

Lol and, WHAAAAT???? OKAYYYYY!!!!!

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FearlessFreak69@reddit

I remember going to HS the day after an episode and it was all most of us could talk about and reference.

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DaSeraph@reddit

Fuck your couch

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0sqs@reddit

Buy a new one, you rich motherfucker.

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TMBActualSize@reddit

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

"Show us your face! We wanna see your face!"

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cortesoft@reddit

Oh man, was in college for this, that show was seriously 90% of our language.

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JosephBlowsephThe3rd@reddit

Definitely more Chapelle Show than anything else

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Ok-Brush5346@reddit

The show that made it ok for white people to say the n word

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5ubatomix@reddit

No, daddy! That’s his name!

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General_Departure583@reddit

Clayton Bigsby. Literally one of the funniest characters ever created and acted out. Chapelle should have won an award for that sketch.

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jackburtonsnakeplskn@reddit

Old School too

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laurenishere@reddit

And all the early-mid 90s Adam Sandler movies!

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Geek_King@reddit

OH! And Adam Sandler comedy cds! "Fuck me in tha goat ass!"

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veringer@reddit

...at a medium pace.

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FreyrPrime@reddit

I still remember “I looked at my asshole in the mirror today. Blew my fucking mind!”

That’s probably my first introduction to Sandler in like ‘90-91

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_dontreadnsfw@reddit

YOURE GONNA DIE, CLOWN!!

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scientific_bicycle@reddit

Stop looking at me, swan!

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OneDimensionPrinter@reddit

It's too damn hot for a penguin to just be walking around out here

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_WeSellBlankets_@reddit

And comedy cds.

They fucking super imposed me.

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5tealthNinjaWhattt@reddit

“YOU CAN DO IT.” Love Rob Schneider’s character in The Waterboy.

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Atlas7-k@reddit

Goodies, Ghostbusters, Princess Bride

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Moist_Pipe@reddit

Ace Ventura

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djsynrgy@reddit

"Do you have a mint? Perhaps some.. Binaca?"

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Devium44@reddit

And Dumb & Dumber

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

So you're saying there's a chance.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

And Austin Powers

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latca@reddit

Oh behave!

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cowboy_angel@reddit

Big Lebowski

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iknowiknowwhereiam@reddit

Stfu Donnie

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6BigZ6@reddit

You’re obviously not a golfer

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Howy_the_Howizer@reddit

Simpsons golden age quotes

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solexioso@reddit

Lebowski was and still is heavy in that rotation

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omelatk@reddit

People don’t forget…

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jwbrower1@reddit

“used to” lol

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Toddlez85@reddit

Futurama too, or so I hear.

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nzungu69@reddit

i already did!

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iknowiknowwhereiam@reddit

Shut up baby I know it

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Toddlez85@reddit

Is the puppy mechanical in any way?

No! It is the bad kind of puppy!

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

I'm shocked, Shocked! .... Well, not that shocked.

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Scalytor@reddit

I used to quote Simpsons and Futurama all the time. I'd quote Disenchantment if anybody else watched it.

Bite my shiny metal axe!

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bjgrem01@reddit

To this day, blackjack and hookers are mentioned frequently.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

And before that it was anything by Mel Brooks, or Monty Python.

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PurpleDraziNotGreen@reddit

I just want to mention there was a different version of the movie, whole other plot and everything, that was released as a bonus disc to home media. "Wake Up Ron Burgundy!"

I say it here because a shocking number of fans of the film don't know about it. It's still pretty funny

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Exact_Mango5931@reddit

I remember walking down the street in college and random strangers yelling “took yer job!!”

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Otherwise-Ad-1051@reddit

Movie quotes in general, however anchorman seemed very heavy in quotables

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SavingsInformation10@reddit

Also quoting Step Brothers

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PickledPixie83@reddit

I’m a woman and my sister and I STILL quote this movie to each other.

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SavingsInformation10@reddit

“Brick you just killed a man with a trident, you should lay low for awhile”

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podcastofallpodcasts@reddit

Shake and bake

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No-Psychology7500@reddit

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Mother mother fuck. Mother mother fuck fuck. Mother fuck mother fuck. Noinch noinch noinch. 1 2 1 2 3 4 Noinch noinch noinch. Shmokin' weed, shmokin' weed. Doin' coke, drinkin beers. Drinkin beers, beers, beers! Rollin' fatties, smokin blunts. Who smokes the blunts? We smokes the blunts. Rollin' blunts and smokin them

15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand. If that money doesn't show then you owe me owe me owe. My jungle love. Oh e oh e oh. I think I wanna know ya know ya ... yeah, what. - Jay Mewes

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No-Psychology7500@reddit

60% of the time it happened every time

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stormtroopr1977@reddit

Man, i had to look up what memes were popular in 2004.

All your base are belong to us, Peanut butter jelly time, My spoons too big, Star Wars Kid, The Picard Song, And numa numa.

Ah, memories

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jtho78@reddit

It also helps to put out pure comedies again and watch them together. Memes didn't kill this

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Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

RIP mainstream comedy movies

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Unusual_Oil_1079@reddit

Roofman was pretty good, not pure comedy but good enough. I liked good fortune. Nobody 2 was pretty funny. But none of those are straight comedy like the naked gun, which I thought was just ok. None of these would get me to fo to the theater though.

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Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

Yeah, and thanks for the reccs.

I also thought the Naked Gun was just ok, it missed something, maybe the supporting cast was not as good, IDK.

It just didn’t have a lot of laugh out loud moments

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Unusual_Oil_1079@reddit

I watch movies while playing games and cooking dinner and stuff. I can listen to a movie pretty well and certain movies dont play well to that. Music has always been a good queue of when to watch, but for things like horror movies, where half the mystique is the on screen terror it doesnt mean much to only pay attention during the jump scares. Naked gun had a lot of sight gags so it doesnt play as well.

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bajunio@reddit

You're The Man Now Dog

Meme'n for 3 years prior. : )

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SignificantApricot69@reddit

Memes existed before then, too

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Individual_Sky_4612@reddit

And chapelle show

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toasterb@reddit

Can’t forget Zoolander. That was comedy gold in my university era.

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

I can Dere-lick my own balls, thank you very much.

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ManufacturerWild430@reddit

Or family guy

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Unanimous_D@reddit

Where's the beef

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Punkinpry427@reddit

Before that it was Billy Madison

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

I remember hearing this one a lot

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Punkinpry427@reddit

I made friends with a girl in Spanish class in HS solely for our love of Billy Madison quotes and we are still friends to this day and went and saw Sandler in our city this past Sept when he was on the road. I just wish he knew that I made a lifelong friend because of him.

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

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rohm418@reddit

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

Chris Farley was a real one

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shmelse@reddit

Stop looking at me, swan!

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Punkinpry427@reddit

We learned how to say it in Spanish too lol

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FistingAmy2@reddit

Drill sergeants used to love this one. They probably still do, but they used to, too.

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kiruopaz@reddit

Used to? I literally quoted I love lamp an hour ago.

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A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit

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ILikeToSayChaCha@reddit

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Safe-Razzmatazz3982@reddit

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Kooky_Donkey_166@reddit

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Disp0sable_Her0@reddit

Brian, I'm gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline

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ILikeToSayChaCha@reddit

This is worse than that time the raccoon got stuck in the copier

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

Every. Single. Day

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Hello_Hangnail@reddit

And gals

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Starlord_XL27@reddit

No lies detected

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JoeMama4567@reddit

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Overall-Author-2213@reddit

In 2004 we started posting literal memes to a cork board in the hall. The memes were targeted to specific people in the school and we gathered around it each period to shit on the next target. You couldn’t be caught posting. We would design and print in the library and post between periods. Should have seen the future coming.

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One-Faithlessness282@reddit

No we didn't.

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fourtyTHEdeuce@reddit

Wazzzzup!!!

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ghost_shark_619@reddit

And Chappelle’s Show and Napoleon Dynamite.

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IW1NZ@reddit

It was the pleats!!

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Successful-Engine623@reddit

I got Lamp

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Flybear31@reddit

Supertroopers for us! Still do...

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Ecstatic_Business363@reddit

Still do. But used to, too.

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BombaFett@reddit

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Office Space should not be this far down

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Minger57@reddit

I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!!!

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ThaNotoriousBLG@reddit

I'm not a guy but I definitely said "COUGH! LOOK OVER HERE!" just today

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scrotanimus@reddit

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Agitated-Result-4029@reddit

That's just sad

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irate_alien@reddit

for us it was Blues Brothers. and for me, now, it's r/Lebowski

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yarn_slinger@reddit

I don’t know why we’re yelling!!!!

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CorporateMediaFail@reddit

Uh, memes were around before Anchorman?

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AugieKS@reddit

Loudly quoting Anchorman at each other IS memeing! It's all memes!

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Heyniceguy13@reddit

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prozak09@reddit

Did people forget about how big the Borat accent was?!

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mrvis@reddit

TBH Anchorman feels a little Millennial to quote.

Now Lebowski? Far out, man. Far fuckin' out.

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I_Lika_Do_DaChaCha@reddit

We were supposed to stop?

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elgarraz@reddit

We used to quote Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski all the time.

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Raziel7485@reddit

And 60% of the time it worked every time

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Lawrenceburntfish@reddit

Or yogging... It could be a soft j, I'm not sure... Apparently you just run!

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OldJames47@reddit

Back in my day we quoted Austin Powers and we liked it. We LOVED IT!

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Tight_Cheetah_4474@reddit

I forgot Will Ferrell was in Austin Powers!

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drawredraw@reddit

Groovy baby

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BearDriveCar@reddit

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cerulean4224@reddit

Why don't you go back to your home on whore island?!

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CrazyEd38239@reddit

Well, you have bad hair.

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xpacean@reddit

HWHAT did you say

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Tight_Cheetah_4474@reddit

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oldmancoyote22@reddit

It's so damn hot! Milk was a bad choice.

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cats_are_the_devil@reddit

I'm trapped in a glass house of emotion.

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Holofernes_Head@reddit

You smelly pirate hooker!

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akirbydrinks@reddit

Don't worry. Nothing to see over here!

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ThePicassoGiraffe@reddit

And Tommy Boy.

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Effective_Explorer95@reddit

Yeah we used to say things

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Drugboner@reddit

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JoshSidekick@reddit

There is still a not insignificant number of people in my contact list that I could just text a quote from any of these movies and get one back in minutes.

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tylnr@reddit

Memes are older than anchorman though?

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East_Meeting_667@reddit

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bassman9999@reddit

I live scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch

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bck1999@reddit

And before that it was Wayne’s world (god I hated that movie)

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thesurfer1996@reddit

Who said we stopped?

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East_Meeting_667@reddit

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East_Meeting_667@reddit

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East_Meeting_667@reddit

If your not first

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bigwhiffajw@reddit

Used to? Wench, I do that to this day.

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lazycultenthusiast@reddit

Guys? My now wife and her friends were the worst for this.

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Ok_Feeling_1314@reddit

I literally did this in my head tonight - out of nowhere! 60% of the time, it works every time.

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GDRaptorFan@reddit

We quoted SNL, Adam Sandler (they’re all gunna laugh at you and some movies), Eddie Murphy (mostly Delirious but that was younger years) and Jim Carrey movies

ENDLESSLY

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tomqvaxy@reddit

TIL I'm supposed to have stopped.

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PoisonMind@reddit

Nerds quoted Holy Grail to each other for like a solid 30 years.

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Boring_Pace5158@reddit

In high school, we quoted Clerks

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aRealPanaphonics@reddit

Radio bumpers were memes back in the day:

Voiceover: Classic rock lives here

Voiceover: Arrow 98 point 7!

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teamdogemama@reddit

People still do

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all_die_laughing@reddit

I'm fairly sure I was singing Badger Badger Badger before Anchorman was released

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JazzyShaman@reddit

70% of the time, it works all the time

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Bean_Johnson@reddit

Anchorman and Arrested Development, and now it's primarily I Think You Should Leave quotes

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Haywire421@reddit

It was Wayne's World quotes and eventually Kung Pow quotes for my group

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TurdFerguson2OOO@reddit

I think Ace Ventura takes the cake in volume and longevity. 'Alrighty then' still is being used.

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Sweet-Philosopher-14@reddit

Super duper!

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Fredrick__Dinkledick@reddit

Cannon male event

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AppropriateTouching@reddit

Baxter, you know I dont speak spanish.

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CarefulLobster1609@reddit

Still do

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SuchContribution3508@reddit

Some of us still sit around quoting Monty Python.

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Wannabelkhuntr@reddit

Lanolin

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Fearless_Street5231@reddit

Long before anchorman, it was Monty Python

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Oily97Rags@reddit

Brick, Why do you have a grenade? “I DON’T KNOW”

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BeneficialTrash6@reddit

I killed a man with a trident!

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Burnt_Shoe2123@reddit

It worked %50 of the time every time.

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pina_koala@reddit

I remember meeting a really cute girl who could banter in Lebowski and thinking we would get married

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OVER_9009@reddit

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aburningcaldera@reddit

Kinda feels like a Millennial post honestly… don’t really feel this happens in our demographic

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TheTipsyWizard@reddit

Or sing some "Afternoon Delight"🎶 🎶 🎵🍻

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Meyebackhurts@reddit

Still do!

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BaldEagleRising17@reddit

I love lamp

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revdon@reddit

Do you think memes didn’t exist before 2004?

Eternal September much?!

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FairNeedleworker9722@reddit

Before that, there was Monty Python.

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FlavorBlaster42@reddit

GenX would sit around and alternate between quoting Star Wars dialog, or lines Monty Python movies.

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poopdog316@reddit

Still do. LOUD NOISES

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thebarbalag@reddit

Still memes, just a different format.

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Spaceboy779@reddit

"Loud Noises!!!"

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Maleficent-Ad5112@reddit

Actually, it started with Blazing Saddles.

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TheDevauto@reddit

Surely you mean Airplane!

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Some-Cucumber3246@reddit

I don't want a large Farva, I want a goddamn liter of cola.

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NicolasNaranja@reddit

We wore out The Big Lebowski, “Mark it 8”

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CraigGrade@reddit

And Simpsons

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dalziel86@reddit

Incorrect. Anchorman came out in 2004. If you’re Gen X you had to have seen memes before this.

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RevolutionaryBake362@reddit

It’s the pleat in the paints….I’m taking these back to the pants store.

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intulor@reddit

Memes were around before anchorman was released, but nice try. Anchorman was a shit movie.

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DarinCN@reddit

Loud noises!!!

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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

Me and my friends in college all dressed like the dudes in Anchorman which had just come out for Halloween. One of them was DJing a Halloween party and told us all to show up in costume. None of us knew the people at the party but the dude DJing stopped his music mid-song and over the mic called out “NEWS TEAM, ASSEMBLE!”

And like it was scripted we all ran up to the front and he started singing Afternoon delight and we just sang it, harmonized and everything,

It was amazing. Crowd went wild. Then we went back to dancing and drinking all night.

I miss college

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manofredearth@reddit

Bueller?

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deekamus@reddit

No we didn't, Milhouse.

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SinisterDetection@reddit

For us it was the Big Lebowski

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PsychoPeterNikleEatr@reddit

"Fuck your couch!"

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YungChumba@reddit

Always hated this. Still do.

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Careful-Vanilla7728@reddit

People don't do that anymore? I still do.

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Pretty_Frosting_2588@reddit

I used to annoy people so much with Malibu's Most Wanted quotes I sometimes had to sleep to get out of the B-Rad character.

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TheFoxandTheSandor@reddit

Wet Hot American Summer for me and my friend group

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OgreHombre@reddit

And The Simpsons

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National_Impress_346@reddit

Some of us never stopped

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Awkward_Function_347@reddit

LOUD NOISES!!!

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subOptimusPrime16@reddit

Super Troopers.

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red286@reddit

Saying this like the "every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten" meme didn't come out the year before Anchorman.

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BrandynWayne@reddit

This was what soldiers did the majority of time during the war on terror.

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Downunder818@reddit

Wow, I was thinking more along the lines of Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore.

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Ok_Brilliant953@reddit

Yeah, Brick killed a guy

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Trick-Sound-4461@reddit

Used to?

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Cipher915@reddit

You wanna know how I know you're gay?

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ThaDude8@reddit

LOUD NOISES!!!!

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Environmental_Bad345@reddit

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Loocha@reddit

My AOL animated icon thing on IM was a line from the outtakes of Liar Liar. I was into deep cuts.

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markltzero@reddit

that's just like, your opinion, man

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FearlessFreak69@reddit

And Chappelles Show as well.

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Milpool_VanHouten@reddit

It's the pleats

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Accurate_Use_2432@reddit

They're very flattering...in the crotchal region.

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TheChainsawVigilante@reddit

My guys quoted Wayne's world

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Accurate_Use_2432@reddit

In fact, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?

Yes Pete, it is.

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Accurate_Use_2432@reddit

I look good. I mean really good. Hey everyone, come see how good I look!

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Thick-Shock8419@reddit

Follow us on of scissorsistersxoxo

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barredowl123@reddit

I love lamp.

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Horror_Adagio4219@reddit

Step Brothers for me

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Jebgogh@reddit

Does it show my age that I want to put in Caddyshack instead?

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Level_Fig_166@reddit

And it worked 60% of the time.

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YouJustLostTheGame@reddit

They didn't even know what they were quoting, because the movie hadn't come out yet.

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stunned_parrot@reddit

There was entire demotivator era, before mems.

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Only1Skrybe@reddit

Chappelle's Show for me.

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BrokeAssZillionaire@reddit

Dude, what does mine say? Sweet what does mine say - to this day

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Agreeable-Chart-5561@reddit

And Talladega Nights

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VesperaStone@reddit

Haha yep and Step Brothers too, so many classics

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ChuckD385@reddit

LOUD NOISES!!!

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KBobBears@reddit

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0sqs@reddit

I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans."

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Southside_john@reddit

This ruined anchorman for me. I didn’t watch it when it first came out but I tried to a few years later. I had already heard every line that was supposed to be funny quoted like 5000 times already. When the lines were dropped in the movie it was not funny at all to me because I had already heard it all from my dipshit friends

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HouseOfAplesaus@reddit

And any Adam Sandler film. And Beavis and Butthead…Southpark

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pupperdogger@reddit

Are you threatening me?!

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HouseOfAplesaus@reddit

Bungholio -hee hee

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Automatic-Arm-532@reddit

This movie came out in 2004. Definitely not before memes.

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randyiamlordmarsh@reddit

Still do.

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HeyYouTurd@reddit

And super troopers!

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drawredraw@reddit

“MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE”

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LineImpossible3958@reddit

I remember being in Chicago in the summer of 2003, at one of the bars people kept shouting out random Old School lines. We all thought we were Frank the Tank

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EmRuizChamberlain@reddit

Still do

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BulkyOrder9@reddit

We still love lamp

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

Anchorman??? You meant The Big Lebowski.

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taleofbenji@reddit

When my daughter chose the flute for 5th grade band, the first thing I did was show her the jazz flute scene.

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Armageddon-666@reddit

Chappellle's Show - 40 year old virgin - Jay and silent bob

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fargoLEVY13@reddit

Still do

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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

Anchorman was released in 2004, memes absolutely existed back then.

They were just called image macros or something like that.

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InchByinch2024@reddit

I spent a fun filled afternoon at Izzy’s buffet eating and exclusively telling Chuck Norris jokes for 2 hours. An all time memory!

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txwoodslinger@reddit

We still do

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MegaRadCoolDad@reddit

The Gen X side of the house should remember Stripes and Caddyshack was the go to of our older brethren.

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anonuemus@reddit

Shwing

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Bucket1984@reddit

Dumb and Dumber, also.

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BloodyPaleMoonlight@reddit

At my college dorm, it was Kung Pow Enter the Fist 🙄

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washburncincy@reddit

Memes predate Anchorman. Downvote me.

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fukyourkarma@reddit

I quote Happy Gilmore. Suck my white ass ball!

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3lk04@reddit

This is so real!

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AdvisorSome1202@reddit

I don't believe you.

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ripndipp@reddit

Also used to quote The 40 Year Old Virgin

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Tearpusher@reddit

Anchorman does not predate memes.

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Thankfully I was not a part of that...

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GringoSwann@reddit

Dude where's my car... Not another teen movie... American pie.. Half Baked... Billy Madison... Happy Gilmore..

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Valdor99@reddit

It was Spaceballs for my group

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WorgRider@reddit

Waynes World and Austin Powers as well.

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LardLad00@reddit

This is dumb. Memes predate Anchorman.

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AprilRyan8@reddit

For real. Richard Dawkins coined the term in 1976, and even in the modern internet sense, image macros and viral clips were definitely around in 2004 when Anchorman came out.

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Cooper_Sharpy@reddit

There were image macros on AOL way back. I had all the warez, AOHell, AOPussy, Phishers etc. It was a very fun time on the internet to be 14. “Proggie Kidz” were def a thing everywhere.

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VotingRightsLawyer@reddit

Freaking people out by taking over their computer and opening and closing their CD-ROM tray.

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Cooper_Sharpy@reddit

Ahhh the old cup holder trick

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LardLad00@reddit

https://www.hetemeel.com/hahashow.php?text=BY+AT+LEAST+A+YEAR%21%211%21&headline=I+predate+Anchorman

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afnj@reddit

Yeah I was about to say I remember showing mr t ate my balls and evil bert in internet class in high school

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Garth_W00kz@reddit

It was Chapelle’s show for me and my friend group

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frozenpissglove@reddit

Doing this is a meme in and of itself.

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DJWGibson@reddit

Anchorman came out in 2004. And, yeah.... memes existed back then. Memes existed in the '90s.

Just because you were unaware of the internet, didn't mean it didn't exist.

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urldotcom@reddit

Thank you

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PossessionPatient306@reddit

Memes were a thing before Anchorman

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redcurrantevents@reddit

Well that’s just, like, your opinion man

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c1h9@reddit

No lower form of comedy than the "movie quote" guy

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Hetjr@reddit

MEATLOAF! all the goddamn time. Pretty much any WF movie for a while.

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Sodamyte@reddit

Princess Bride, Goonies, Coming to America, etc.. for my friend group.

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Wabbit65@reddit

In my day, it was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. r/FuckImOld

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NorCalMikey@reddit

I guess I'm older because we would quote Blazing Saddles and Caddy Shack.

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rdtusr19@reddit

That really escalated quickly.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I once won a bet on whether it’s “I’m in a glass case (or cage) of emotion.” It’s case.

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

And other movies before that. And SNL. And commercials.

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lemonylol@reddit

lol I remember when I first started high school my like "home room" (different type of school, hard to explain) in the morning had this group of 17 year olds that would just quote the movie and sing Afternoon Delight. This would be have been in like 2005, so it's funny that this was just before like the 2000s comedy Golden Age.

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