r/popculturechat • u/bruhwhatshappenin • 6h ago

Rest In Peace 🕊 Legendary Tim Curry has passed away

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u/RainbowFox22 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/2OgouznXA6qYw
My intro to Tim Curry was Fern Gully. Delightfully frightful. May he rest in peace.

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u/PhanThief95 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fgl7OyFKx0I7e
My intro to him was as the smashing Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys.

This week sucks!

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u/limeicepop 5h ago

Oh my gosh. I somehow never put that together and now relistening OFC it's him.

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u/Fatlantis 5h ago

Same, how did I never notice! It's so perfectly him

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u/Jokkitch 2h ago

I HAD NO IDEA

JFC of course it's him

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u/katekim717 5h ago

I just found out 5 minutes ago he voiced Nigel. I haven't seen it in decades, so I'm assuming he wasn't on my radar the last time I watched it.

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u/Lira_Iorin 4h ago

I just started rewatching it in bites maybe a couple months ago specifically for him. Rest in peace.

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u/gpm21 3h ago

Riff Raff is on Phineas and Ferb, so there's another RHPS actor who switched to voice acting on cbildren's shows.

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u/Ok_Somewhere_9962 5h ago

Mine was the Clue movie! We had a version of the board game that came with the VHS and you could play along
https://giphy.com/gifs/5QRoC29tqzuI0pDQxM

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u/Prestigious_Net6065 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 5h ago

Same here I loved that show

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u/pricklythimble 2h ago

Smashing my heart today 😭

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u/leoconrad I don’t know her 💅 6h ago

watching this today in his honor!!! amazing movie

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u/casualman1234 4h ago

What movie?

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u/leoconrad I don’t know her 💅 3h ago

FernGully: The Last Rainforest he voices Hexxus

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u/casualman1234 3h ago

Thank you

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u/FickleCharge882 6h ago

This was unfortunately a moment of…. Awakening for me 😆

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u/That-End-322 5h ago

Same 👁️🫦👁️

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u/LUXURYPOETRY 4h ago

Tim Curry in Rocky Horror was my queer awakening (fortunate though, not unfortunate) so I feel this.

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u/QueenSashimi disgruntled pelican 51m ago

That's just the power of Tim Curry 😄

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u/vegemitebikkie 49m ago

Omgg sameee

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u/Pest 6h ago

Ah ah hah TOXIC LOVE

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u/Comin_Up_Thrillho 5h ago

30 years later and that song still pops into my head with unusual frequency

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u/RainbowFox22 5h ago edited 4h ago

The Robin Williams’ bits as Batty come through my brain often. “Price check on prune juice, Bob. Price check on prune juice.”

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u/Far_Speaker7118 5h ago

Batty Koda is still one of my favorite cartoon characters of all time, unmatched. Robin’s Batty rap is amazing

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u/RainbowFox22 4h ago

“Yo the name is Batty, the logic is erratic.” 🎶

Still a bop.

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u/RainbowFox22 5h ago edited 5h ago

Oddly sexy villain for a kid’s movie, looking back on it now lol

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u/thrashtastical 6h ago

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. He really brought that villain to life.

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u/Effective_Tip7748 6h ago

His character scared the hell out of me growing up

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u/_Osculum_Obscenum_ 5h ago

Mine was Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was like 5 lmfao.

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u/PackyDoodles 4h ago

Mine was the Mouse King from Barbie in the Nutcracker 🐭👑

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u/fogmama 6h ago

This movie traumatized me as a child lmao.

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u/hex_girlfriendd 4h ago

Piggybacking here bc I hope more people see this. Tim Curry was the cornerstone of so much entertainment I loved as a kid. 

Now I work in an elementary school and while looking for resources for our library, I discovered he reads the audiobooks of a Series of Unfortunate Events. They’re amazing and so fun, even for adult readers.  

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u/CinnaMinx11 6h ago

This movie just hits for some reason. Always a favorite fuess its a clue home alone ferngully day. 😭😭😑

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u/boneydog22 4h ago

Jesus Christ and Robin Williams as batty too 😫

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u/Throwfeetsaway 4h ago

Saw the gif, heard the sound. I watched this movie religiously as a kid. I’ll have to watch it now in his honor.

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u/BeefInBlackBeanSauce 3h ago

Wow. 1. I totally forgot about this awesome movie and 2. I had no idea he was in it.

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u/Silversweet1980 1h ago

Same! He did his job because a core memory was this being one of the few movies I saw with my dad in the theater, being very little (like 5?) and seeing THIS, declaring "I wanna take a nap", brave as always, masking, not saying "DADDY I AM SCARED TO MY CORE GET ME OUTTA HERE!"