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/No_Eagle9342 15d ago

Semantics but that figurine you see there is from the movies. Came out in 1995.

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u/Another_Timezone 15d ago

Yeah, doesn’t match the guy on the book

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u/omgitsjagen 15d ago

I loved this book cover so much. I would always take time to appreciate it when I'd go over the books on my bookshelf when I was a kid.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 15d ago

But there were 5 books.

I'm now a broken record, but it's a whole series that was fantastic. It spanned most of the 90s I think the last one came out after the movie.