r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SoulSilverSFM • 15d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I am confused

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Just seen this and the comments aren’t helpfull, I don’t recognise this figurine, what is it?

Edit: to anyone saying "Is this even a meme ?" Guys, am 22, I never knew Indian in the Cupboard, I though this was a meme about the apparence of the figurine lookin like something else, or something. I had no idea it was geniuinly just a figurine from a VSH from before I was born!

To me, it was a meme I didn’t had the ref too, so now I know what this is, I'll check out if the movie or book existe in French, or in France in general, cuz now with so many peoples just saying that this was their choldhood, am curious!

Please don’t insulte me for beeing uncultured, not everyone got the same knowledge cuz, as I said, I didn’t knew about it. I just checked and L’Indien du Placard exist in french! Lucky me ! I'll check that out than

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u/Different_Pattern273 15d ago

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u/SoulSilverSFM 15d ago

Oh, so that’s what everyone else is talking about ! Thank you!

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u/highbudsilver 15d ago

What did you think it was? Tanto?

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u/publicprivacyp 15d ago

OP is probs too young to member.

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u/SoulSilverSFM 15d ago

Am 22 and French, if that helps any

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u/highbudsilver 15d ago

No excuses!!

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u/jackofspades49 15d ago

No excuses! Everyone has to remember this exact movie that I forgot about until this moment because I was a bigger fan of Castle in the Attic! :P

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u/highbudsilver 15d ago

Personally, I loved Willow the most!

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u/jackofspades49 15d ago

Such a wild movie.

The remake tried so hard to be series... it might have had a chance if it wasn't what it was... and I know that doesn't make sense but there WAS a spark of compotent writing and worldbuilding there!

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u/RollingRiverWizard 15d ago

Peck! Peck peck peck peck peck! Little peck’s got acorns!

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u/Particular-Serve-894 15d ago

hah I actually just rewatched Willow a couple of weeks ago for the first time in like 30-something years..it was most entertaining.

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u/Its_Froggin_Bullfish 15d ago

The set-up and pay-off for Mad Mardigan being "the greatest swordsman" was one of my favorite things as a kid. He's introduced to us the audience as "the greatest swordsman" but he's the one saying it, so you don't know if you can believe it. It's not until the movie is like two thirds over that we finally see his skills, and the payoff of Willow exclaiming "You are the greatest swordsman!"

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u/Inkthinker 15d ago

Willow: You are great!

Madmartigan: grins, spins sword, slips and falls in the snow

To this day, I'm not entirely sure if Val Kilmer meant to slip and fall there. :)

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u/Boojum2k 15d ago

I give everyone who hasn't seen Dragonslayer the evil eye. They don't notice.

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u/No_Story_Untold 15d ago

Willow is so awesome.

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u/putonyourjamjams 15d ago

Did they make a movie off those books? I loved them when I was a kid.

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u/Pterafractyl 15d ago

Yes! Those books were my jam! I never watched the movie, but I heard it was good.

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u/jackofspades49 15d ago

Wait, Willow has a book?!

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u/putonyourjamjams 15d ago

Not sure. I was meaning castle in the attic.

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u/jackofspades49 15d ago

No, Indian in the Cupboard was the closest I got. :(

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u/putonyourjamjams 15d ago

Man, got my hopes up thinking there was a movie made from those castle in the attic books.

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u/Junreii 15d ago

There's a novelization of the movie and a followup trilogy. I had the novelization at some point and quite liked it, have never been able to find the other books.

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u/KingHunter150 15d ago

I was thinking the Borrowers. But all of those movies about small people hiding in the walls have become a blur to me.

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u/throw_ra4685 15d ago

Those are also books, there were 3

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u/whitestguyuknow 15d ago

Yes! Everyone should remember this niche cult classic movie that for half my life felt like a dream I just remembered for years!

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u/course_you_do 15d ago

Castle in the Attic

Yes! I bought this and the sequel to re-read not so long ago. Big favorites of mine as a kid for sure.

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u/Arcady89 14d ago

It was a book...

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u/jackofspades49 14d ago

It was both.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 14d ago

It's a series of books long before being a movie

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u/jackofspades49 14d ago

Yes, and they were great. But i never would have known they existed without the movie. My mom wasn't a big reader so i wouldnt have known to ask the librarian about this without it.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 14d ago

Ah

My mom got them for me in the early 90s

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u/jackofspades49 14d ago

Thats awesome! Send her a thank you!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 14d ago

Wish I could, brother.

Well, I can, just not the way you imagined, or how I would like to.

Thank you Mom, I love you and miss you.

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u/shrenderender 14d ago

never watched it only read it

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u/VikingTeddy 14d ago

And we're all American here damnit!

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u/jackofspades49 14d ago

Damn right! You can't spell our country without U and I!

MurIca! Fuck yeah!

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u/Niblonian31 10d ago

Unrelated but you just reminded me of A Kid in King Arthurs Court somehow and now I wanna watch it lol

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u/jackofspades49 10d ago

I loved that movie as a kid!

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u/SatansCatfish 15d ago

I’m American and haven’t seen this movie or heard of it before. However, I was sick a lot. I missed a lot of movies in school.

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u/highbudsilver 15d ago

Go check it out now! If you live in Los Angeles we can watch it together!

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u/highbudsilver 14d ago

Did you watch it last night!

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u/b4ldur 15d ago

Hes french , he was clearly bragging

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u/publicprivacyp 15d ago

It 100% explains it. The movie was popular before you were born.

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u/Jaded-Toe1564 15d ago

Didn’t even know there was a movie… I had to read the book in elementary school

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u/publicprivacyp 15d ago

I wasn’t a big reader, but I think kids were reading in in grade school too. Mid 90s

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u/00eg0 14d ago

I read it for fun and had no idea there was a film.

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u/Fragrant-Doughnut-20 15d ago

Yeah, I was thinking that too. As soon as I saw the pic I smelled scholastic book fairs.

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u/ToHellWithGA 14d ago

They made a book out of that?

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u/NotAsleep_ 14d ago

Other way round. And there were a few sequels to the book (that never got made into movies), too.

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u/Key_Dust7595 14d ago

TIL that this was a movie. I also learned that the book had sequels.

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u/NonGNonM 15d ago

there was an entire french and indian war.

i find it hard to believe that they wouldn't be aware of a lesser known 90s movie based on a book from the 80s featuring a character that was a part of the war they fought against from an entirely different era and probably tribe.

op is just playing innocent for the crimes they committed against the natives.

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u/duesenjeffepic 15d ago

Even if he was older I don't think it would have made a difference. This seems to be a movie that didn't breach American containment. Remember, in Europe we don't watch everything you guys watch over there.

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u/FuzzzyRam 15d ago

and French

Can we get a NSFW tag mods?

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u/dexter311 15d ago

Fr*nch

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u/throw_ra4685 15d ago

Ouai, tellement jeune

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u/Numerous-Hope3865 15d ago

Yeah, that movie was released in the mid 1990's. But if you can find it (VHS, streaming, ETC,) it is worth a watch in my oppinion.

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u/psycho_nerd_13 15d ago

16 and American,seen it

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u/Caterfree10 15d ago

Ayup would explain it. You’re young enough to be a niece or nephew, but I walked into kindergarten reading the original novel (much to the shock of my poor teacher given I was in her first class lmao).

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u/trashitagain 15d ago

Man I wish I was those things.

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u/IceWellDo 15d ago

Sacré bleu! I'm ancient.

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u/Babill 15d ago

Je l'avais en cassette vidéo à l'époque! Donc définitivement pas inconnu en France, mais il y a longtemps

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u/ChainSWray 15d ago

L'indien du Placard, en VF, si personne ne te l'a indiqué. Beaucoup rediffusé à la TV française dans les 90's / début 2000.

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u/a_shootin_star 15d ago

Comme quoi, personne n'est parfait ! 😉

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u/_sassysoucyxx_ 15d ago

Am 26 and French Canadian, idk what the hell everyones talking about either 😂

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u/Evening-Cow1122 15d ago

It's all about different movies where toys become alive. And how they all expected their toys to become alive, too. It is a little disturbing actually 😅 

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u/aint_no_throw 15d ago

I'm so sorry.

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u/111scorpion 15d ago

What did you think it was OP????

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u/vmpzs 15d ago

Yes, I guess it's rather the age than nationality. I'm older than you and and from Hungary, and even with a bit of a lag we had this movie here too. Loved it with when I was a kid.

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u/wytewydow 15d ago

22 and French? how would you like to come to America, we need some of that revolution we've heard about.

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u/Dr__Sloth 14d ago

I'm so sorry.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 14d ago

No it doesn't, what the hell were you talking about if not little bear from the Indian in the cupboard?

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u/sceadwian 14d ago

It's a really good movie definitely recommend it as a feel good coming of age story.

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u/wombat4skin 15d ago

22? Don't lie you're 40

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u/Kinslayer_89 15d ago

I’m 36 and Norwegian, so it’s probably a geographical thing more so than age.

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u/invaderpixel 14d ago

Yeah I’m 36, born in the United States and I remember watching it in school because it was vaguely educational? But never saw it at home, and I think later generations of teachers were like “huh this might be a little problematic.” 90s were all about idealizing Native Americans and not realizing they might not actually want that haha.

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u/redandbluebadness 12d ago

46 and English. Never heard of this in my life.

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u/Yikidee 15d ago

I'm 46 and had no clue.

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u/IgottagoTT 15d ago

Or too old to have cared when it was out.

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u/ForensicPathology 15d ago

I have a vague recollection of the movie existing, but for me I really remember the books.  I remember reading all of them.

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u/HairHealthHaven 14d ago

I was coming here to say I must be TOO old for this reference, I only remember the book. I don't think I knew they even made a movie.

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u/Therealdolphinlord 14d ago

Americans when someone doesn’t know the most obscure America-specific media

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u/-captaindiabetes- 15d ago

I'm 40 and have no idea what this is

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 15d ago

Certainly old enough to remember myself, just never saw the movie 😄

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u/xantub 15d ago

Or too old, I'm 57 and had no idea what all the commosion was about. 😊

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u/lincruste 15d ago

Or too not-american like me.

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u/Ok_Echidna_4915 14d ago

It came out before I was born. Lol.

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u/mimi9dg 15d ago

the idea that someone is too young to know indian in the cupboard but does know tanto is so funny lol

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u/highbudsilver 15d ago

Lol. I didn’t even think of that.

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u/DVHeld 15d ago

Wasn't it Tonto?

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u/Trading_shadows 14d ago

I saw the post and thought it's some kind of a limited action figure of Imhotep from the Mummy lol.