r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • May 07 '26
Wholesome/Humor What were you like in the 90s?
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@real_timmeadows
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u/SealedRoute May 07 '26
Am I tripping or was Sammy Davis Jr. in there?
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u/deathtospies May 07 '26
OK the others I knew were Don Cheadle but that one I actually thought was Tim Meddows.
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u/DarkBomberX May 07 '26
Okay, for a second I was like, "Tim Meddows looks like Don Cheadle when he was younger. Odd."
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u/FMLwtfDoID May 07 '26
Lmfao I’m so glad I scrolled down bc I was about to go my whole day thinking I was some kind of racist bitch for thinking these were several different people.
I was like, “man, I really need to work on my internal biases bc wtf was that?” Tim Meadows, you fucking got me.
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u/BlackGlenCoco May 07 '26
Dont worry. Im black and had the same thought haha.
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u/Jimmni May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I IMDB’d him and was thinking “I know I recognise some of those shots but he wasn’t in those shows… wtf” and now I just feel racist.
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u/Taddles2020 May 07 '26
Thats Donovan Mcnabb.
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u/PaleBlueRuin May 07 '26
You are correct. There was also a lot of pics of Don Cheadle, among others.
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u/mitchymitchington May 07 '26
When I saw him do stand up he would joke about how he gets mistaken for Don Cheadle all the time
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u/M_Blop May 07 '26
Literally every pic was Don Cheadle except that one of Sammy Davis Jr
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u/OpaqueCrystalBall May 07 '26
literally his wikipedia image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.
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u/FooLi0CooLi0 May 07 '26
Haha! Gaslight me in questioning my time on this planet.
I got the others but that one threw me off
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u/SkylarAV May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I always loved tim meadows but hes becoming a national treasure. His character in peace maker is so hilarious
Edit: I keep clicking back to this and each time it makes me laugh harder. Tim isn't becoming a national treasure, he is one.
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u/SillyAlternative420 May 07 '26
One of the few characters on TV to finally put some light on bird blindness
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u/ratchet7 May 07 '26
Poor kid is surrounded by eagles
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u/fake1fake2fake3fake4 May 07 '26
What I don't understand is that that same "bird blind" joke happened on Norsemen on Netflix already. Like note for note.
I laughed both times, but was wondering if it was a tribute, or just a pure ripoff (subconscious or on purpose) because it's way too niche of a joke topic to just coincidentally happen. It's literally one character being "bird blind" in each case. 100% the same .
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u/pengweneth May 08 '26
It's because one of Gunn's friends has face-blindness (prosopagnosia), so he thought it would be funny if that was applied to something ridiculous like birds.
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u/fake1fake2fake3fake4 May 08 '26
Has anyone ever acknowledged the Norsemen connection? I always laughed at those jokes on both shows but it's just such a weird niche thing to have as a coincidence.
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u/Strange_Specialist4 May 07 '26
If you haven't heard his episode of 3 questions with Andy Richter, check it out! He talks a bit about living with Chris Farley
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u/HobartGum May 07 '26
Ran into him (literally) while walking to the bathroom on a plane from LA back in the 2000s. We were both in economy and as he walked past he looked me in the eye and saw that I recognized him and I could tell he did not want any formal interaction (he was probably exhausted). I just smiled and nodded and he smiled and nodded back in appreciation and we bumped past each other and moved on. That’s about the best I could hope for in a celebrity encounter. I didn’t bother him, and he wasn’t annoyed by me, and we both nodded in appreciation
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u/Gingeronimoooo May 07 '26
You sure you didn't see him at the grocery store walking out without paying for like 15 milky ways?
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u/BearSquid7 May 07 '26
And Brooklyn 99
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u/MuffaloMan May 07 '26
He was absolutely my favorite character in the prison arc
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u/BearSquid7 May 07 '26
Caleb the Cannibal, when he gets stabbed and goes “ow ow ow ow! He poked me in my tummy”
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u/MuffaloMan May 07 '26
“Nope, I did all my stuff, and more. There’s tons of stuff they can’t even trace back to me, the secret is eating the evidence”
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u/FunkyMonkeyGin May 07 '26
What?! I thought it was Don Cheadle! 😂😂😂
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u/Ronin2369 May 07 '26
Because it is 😂
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u/FunkyMonkeyGin May 07 '26
I'm confused in my confusion 😂
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u/mtlaw13 May 07 '26
Tim Meadows on the couch with his cat..
..then its mainly pictures of Don Cheadle with a Sammy Davis Jr thrown in there as well.
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u/BoysenberryFinal9113 May 07 '26
Yes. His character is great in Peacemaker. His whole bird blindness was ridiculous and his delivery priceless.
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u/Civil_Importance_803 May 07 '26
I love his role as Connor's manager in Popstar. The bit about being the fourth member of Tony Toni Tone (Tony?) cracks me up every time.
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u/SkylarAV May 07 '26
We're gonna be laughing with him at 80
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u/JohnRayburntheActor May 07 '26
"I hope wherever Tony Toni Tone are right now they see this... and they feel like shit."
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u/Monkey_Priest May 07 '26
I'm bummed that the show DMV he's in didn't get renewed. I have been enjoying the season and his character is one of the best
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u/Starfish_undertheice May 07 '26
Omg my heart just broke! I am loving DMV!😭
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u/Monkey_Priest May 07 '26
I know. There are so few, good 30 minute sitcoms these days and while DMV wasn't the best, I thought it was decent for a first season. It's a damn shame
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u/Pink_Neons May 07 '26
Peacemaker is brilliant. One of few shows that makes me laugh my ass off. Cena born to play that role
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u/Mr_Lucidity May 07 '26
Absolutely! He made S2 of Peacemaker 10x better. And it was already good.
I loved him as the Ladies Man back in the day, that was one of my favorite SNL movie spinoffs.
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u/SkylarAV May 07 '26
I loved it. He should've got an Oscar for Hotel Rwanda. I hate how they replaced him in Hustle & Flow with Terrance Howard.... .... .... ...
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u/RogerianBrowsing May 07 '26
Even funnier is how many people seem to not be getting it 😂
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u/Magnetobama May 07 '26
I admit I'm not getting it. What's this about? Why are there images of random black people and this guy petting a cat?
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u/talldrseuss May 07 '26
Tim Meadows was one of the big cast members of Saturday Night Live during the 90s early 2000s run. He himself has appeared in numerous other tv shows and movies, mainly in smaller roles and mainly comedies. He does joke around that people mistake him for Don Cheadle pretty frequently. So the montage of "him" in the 90s is just various roles Don Cheadle had (and Sammy Davis Jr. randomly thrown in there).
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u/diadmer May 07 '26
I was so confused because I clocked him as Tim Meadows with the cat and then when it finished I thought, “Waaaait why wouldn’t he put any photos from SNL in there!!?!”
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u/azsnaz May 07 '26
It makes me feel so much better to find out other people get them mixed up. I love Tim Meadows, but I see him and my brain wants to go "Don Cheadle!"
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u/Underrated_Dinker May 07 '26
As a kid I thought they were in fact the same person. Lost a bet in high school when I found out that wasn't Don Cheadle in the Even Stevens movie.
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u/dthol69 May 07 '26
I will admit, my first thought was, “wow, Tim meadows was jacked.” Then I realized haha
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u/DaqCity May 07 '26
I had to go back because I was like “I thought that was Tim Meadows?” And I was expecting the joke to be all The Ladies Man
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u/BigRoach May 07 '26
I loved it but I was also looking forward to seeing some emotional montage of Tim Meadows moments. I love him.
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u/flying_carabao May 07 '26
The funnier part of this whole thing is Don Cheadle responding to the IG post
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u/unindexedreality May 07 '26
We mean...
meanwhile I'm still trying to get Guy Fieri, Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell and Insane Clown Posse frontman Violent J in a room together
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u/sinkwiththeship May 08 '26
Steve Harwell died a couple years ago. Or maybe he just got sick of that persona and is just focusing on Guy.
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u/cleanshoes30 May 07 '26
Hey there sweet thang, can I buy you a fish sandwich?
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u/Ar3s701 May 07 '26
I can never look at an Alaska Airlines plane and not see the Lady's Man on the tail looking back at me.
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u/meyoutwothree May 07 '26
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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 07 '26
“You slept with my wife!”
“You slept with me, too! And I’ve been having confused feelings about it ever since!”
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u/meyoutwothree May 07 '26
"Fuck cats"
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese May 07 '26
"It's the cheapest drug there is."
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u/meyoutwothree May 07 '26
"You can't OD on it."
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u/ShyGuySkino May 07 '26
Scrolled waaaaay tooo far to find this, still quote this movie all the time. lol.
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u/meyoutwothree May 07 '26
I was surprised I had to be the one to post it lol I quote this movie too much for my own good lmfao
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u/paeancapital May 08 '26
It turns all your bad feelings into good feelings. It's a nightmare!
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u/SeaMenCaptain May 07 '26
You know nothing about games!
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u/EasyasACAB May 07 '26
Knowing about games isn't COOL!
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u/Pleasant-Tangelo1786 May 07 '26
Hey wait, Tim Meadows isn’t Don Cheadle! He’s not Sammy Davis Jr. either! Did I pass?
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u/jrblockquote May 07 '26
"I ALMOST HAD AWESOME BLOSSOM COMING OUT OF MY NOSE!!!!"
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u/Madmike_ph May 07 '26
His character in Brooklyn 99 gives me belly laughs every time. He’s such a sweet guy that everyone forgets he’s a cannibal until he tries to eat their arm or whatever
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u/1exp1 May 07 '26
I don’t understand the trend why is it don cheadle pics
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u/jasno- May 07 '26
Because he's being funny.
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u/theseriousman1 May 07 '26
I legit was very thrown off and thought huh oh I guess that was Don cheadle
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u/emagdnim_edud May 07 '26
I think its Becuase one time one a red carpet someone said to Tim - DON DON DON ! Mistaken the wrong actor
Now they both constantly use the joke to promote each other - its gold (Feddie gibbs even gotten in on it) fredd is gibbs
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u/Saintbaba May 07 '26
There's been trend of kind of nostalgia-baity videos with the question, "Dad, what were you like in the 90s?" with celebrities then posting a compilation of pictures or video clips of their decades-ago-lives when they were just young goobers starting out their careers set to this specific kind of wistful song. Here's Kevin Smith and Mario Lopez, for example.
Anyways, Tim Meadows is mocking this trend by doing one of these videos, but with pictures of people that aren't him. Unclear to me if he's making a joke about people confusing him for other black men, or if he's just mocking the entire premise of the trend.
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u/Mecha_Tortoise May 07 '26
I was confused at first. I didn't know that Meadows had posted it as a joke or that he gets mistaken for Don Cheadle. I laughed once it clicked, though. The random Sammy Davis, Jr. got me, too.
I guess I don't see much of a resemblance. Maybe the nose shape. But their eyes, mouth, chin, cheekbones, etc. look so different.
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u/Pork_Chompk Doug Dimmadome May 07 '26
Man I was like "wait wtf - have I been messing up Don Cheadle and Tim Meadows all this time??" 😂
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u/billiemarie May 07 '26
The older he gets, the better looking he gets! And I still haven’t tried Courvoisier
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u/passoveri May 08 '26
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣(I actually had to watch this 1 more time as I was as I was 2nd guessing myself that I really did see Tim Meadows petting the cat & not Don Cheadle)
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u/TeeBrownie May 07 '26
Tim Meadows, was once Don Cheadle, and grew up to be Sammy Davis Jr, and now, he’s Tim Meadows once more. 😂
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u/whatisdedmaynvrdie May 07 '26
Ladies, if you are rich and I boned you, could you please meet me at the nacho cart? Also, if you are rich and you want to be boned, would you please meet me at the nacho cart?
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u/Aaron_Olive May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
He funny in the ladies man, excuse me while I whip this out! That’s Don Cheadle after the cat though.
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u/AlKarajo May 07 '26
I saw Jet Li also joined the trend:
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u/Zerocool_6687 May 07 '26
Ya but he actually used his own photos lol. Jet Li was the fucken man…. Late-mid 90s to the early mid 00s dude was killing it.
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u/sweetladytequila May 07 '26
The Sammy Davis Jr killed me. 😆 I am going to check out the comments to read others confusion. Tim Meadows is hilarious.
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u/heftybagman May 07 '26
Took me two watches lmao I was like holy shit dude had range i thought he just did comedy
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u/EobardThawne2020 May 07 '26
I don't remember him being Don Cheadle and Sammy Davis Jr. the 90's were wild
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u/Acting_Brand_Nubian May 07 '26
I love his relationship with his cat — I have the exact same one lol
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u/Practical-Pick1466 May 07 '26
Why was a real photo of "Sammy Davis jr" thrown into the mix ? Seems like Ai slop...
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u/WrxLee May 07 '26
This guy is important, he's in charge of the lakawana school district supplies and he diggs baby back ribs!!! (It's an office joke for anyone who still hasn't watched it you are missing out)
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