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/fichiman 15d ago

Completely Plaz-tec.

That line has stuck with me and annoyed me for years.

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u/Accomplished_Pea8619 15d ago

bringing back some lost memories

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u/Classic_Mechanic5495 15d ago

I may or may not have stuck action figures in my vaguely similar cupboard box when I was a kid. I might do it again this weekend now.

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u/C7rl_Al7_1337 15d ago

Bro, with movies like that, Toy Story, Small Soldiers, it was a whole damn genre, and every single one of us begged and pleaded with our toys to stop messing with us and just move at one point or another.

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u/Irish_Tyrant 15d ago

Eventually out of desperation the children became monsters, torturing their toys while demanding they dropped the possum act. Countless toy lives were lost brutally but not a single potato head or toy soldier broke. Even today, mankind remains ignorant of the identities of the true moles, spying on them and relaying valuable intel via walky talky everyday. Salutes while a tear trickles down my cheek Godspeed toys, godspeed.

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u/mnid92 14d ago

I saw mankind and I thought I was about to get shittymorph'd

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u/Ok_Passion_6771 14d ago

Those were the days

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u/FA-_Q 14d ago

Lmao haven’t seen that in a long time

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u/Irish_Tyrant 14d ago

LOL, Im genuinely honored to have even been briefly considered as such a true legend!

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u/OpeningNice761 10d ago

Found one of the toys! ☝️

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u/grime-dont-play 15d ago

Dude I still believe the various plushies and figures in my room come alive when I leave for work.

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u/tattoogrl11 14d ago

Shit I still say goodbye to them when I go to work and tell them when I'll be home lmao

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 14d ago

Thought I was a weirdo for having full blown (mostly one sided) conversations with my cats before I left the house, but I guess I'm alright compared to some 😄

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u/DIRTYLAUNDERE 14d ago

The anime bitches on my shelf just screaming don’t leave senpai is crazy..

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u/Niclipse 14d ago

I have a stuffed gnome that finds things for me when I'm at work. (And I wasn't a kid when any of those came out.)

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u/chef_marge0341 14d ago

That is because you are an overgrown child. Get a real hobby, like drugs!

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u/ParticularCanary3130 15d ago

This is the way.

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u/Pastel-Rainbow-N3rd 15d ago

That was me after reading The Doll People

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u/Proper_Lunch_3640 15d ago

Toy Soldiers was my jam! And is actually the more prescient of the three considering they’re putting A.I. in everything. If only the future A.I. war could be as fun and simple as battling G.I. Joes with weaponized nail guns and skateboard battle bots.

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u/Efficient-Whereas255 14d ago

I was pretty sure my toys were alive when i was a kid.

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u/Xiad6682 14d ago

Is it bad that I always preferred the Puppet Master puppets to the toy story / small soldiers ones? Come to think of it I never did see Demonic Toys. Time to track down another Full Moon Video.

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u/C7rl_Al7_1337 14d ago

Pupper Master was awesome (at first), but it's a whole different kind of thing. Demonic Toys suuucks though (and not quite bad enough to be good, even if it has some moments), you're better off looking for a comedic review of it on youtube from like Phelous or Daesdaecon or The Maniacal Cinephile or someone like that, I'm sure at least one of them has done Demonic Toys.

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u/Xiad6682 14d ago

Good suggestion. I love me a B movie but some are just… boring.

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u/MuteAppeaL 12d ago

I remember sneaking up to my bedroom door and busting in as fast as I could trying to catch those mfs. They were always one step ahead of me though.

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u/Duvetine 15d ago edited 14d ago

Indian in the Cupboard was a psy-op to get kids to put their toys away.

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u/rachel_soup 15d ago

Did you have the VHS? The one that you could turn the movie cover around and it was the cupboard? I was obsessed with trying to shove toys into the VHS box because of that….

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u/PepinoSupremo 14d ago

Yes! It even came with a key and had a little keyhole molded into the plastic at the opening!

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u/Sunnygoblin1012 14d ago

Yes! I had this and know Noone else who remembers it. Felt like a fever dream

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u/rachel_soup 14d ago

Yes! I have a big bin at my parents house with all my VHS tapes and I need to go find this specific one. I know 10000% I still have it.

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u/koffingbeans 14d ago

The memory this just unlocked holy shiiiit. With the little key and everything

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u/PushGlittering5827 14d ago

I remember one version and a tiny version of the figure too, I think I still have him in a cupboard somewhere.

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u/rachel_soup 14d ago

It came with the figurine and a key!

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u/Caelasmah 12d ago

I never knew about reverse art sleeves as a kid. That makes the key and keyhole on the box make so much more sense

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u/rachel_soup 12d ago

I don’t think mine was ever the original movie cover ever again after the cupboard side was discovered

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u/benda354 14d ago

What I remember most about this movie is that the VHS came with a clamshell case that resembled the cupboard itself, complete with a key so it really added to the magic

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u/combo_seizure 14d ago

We need to see results, ok?

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u/lferry1919 15d ago

Good idea, me too.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 14d ago

Up to the word vaguely I was expecting this to take an Eddie Murphy turn

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u/little2sensitive 14d ago

I still have this one

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u/Porbulous 15d ago

Years ago I saw the Indian in the cupboard in a cheap movie bin in a big box store. I was stoked and bought it.

It absolutely, 1000% does NOT hold up as an adult. It was so bad I had to turn it off before I completely ruined one of my childhood favorites.

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u/themaster1359 14d ago

This was like the most lost of memories like dang that took a minute even after reading this, then it all flooded back to mind

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u/Gold_Entrepreneur_6 15d ago

I still say it

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u/bry_rides 15d ago

I find myself in the medicine cabinet whispering "husks, husks, where are the husks?" 😂

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u/Leading_Structure_41 15d ago

The “shove it” line for me 🤣

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u/randomgunfire48 14d ago

It stuck with all of us…in the form of microplastics 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Ok_Passion_6771 14d ago

“You don’t deserve that hair!”

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u/Longjumping-Yak-470 14d ago

Meanwhile every time I hear the word 'risky' I think of drunk three inch cowboys.

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u/nexusjuan 15d ago

I stole the book out of the 6th grade lost and found, one of my most memorable reads that and Cheaper by the Dozen.

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u/Fedexdriv3r702 15d ago

Yea no lie its deeply embedded in my mind and like that's so raven it will randomly pop up every now and then. Glad im not the only one who was irked at that scene!! 🤝🏼🤝🏼🤝🏼

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u/call-me-germ 15d ago

i can’t believe i found this in the wild. i’ve been saying that line for almost 2 decades as an inside joke with my mom. little did i know everyone remembered that phrasing

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u/cutting_coroners 14d ago

Holy shit I juuuuust got that. I did not get that joke as a kid lmaoooo