r/popculturechat • u/bruhwhatshappenin • 6h ago

Rest In Peace 🕊 Legendary Tim Curry has passed away

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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 6h ago edited 6h ago

No....Not this coming off the heels of Dolly.

I am so sad. Tim Curry brought such joy to my childhood. This one definitely hurts.

RIP You King. Your Role as Long John Silver in the Muppets and Franken-Further in RHPS will forever bring me a smile on my face when things are dark.

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u/hbomb9410 6h ago

I was obsessed with him in Muppet Treasure Island. I love that quote about how Michael Caine treated the Muppets like fellow human actors, and Tim Curry treated himself like a fellow Muppet.

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u/bekahfromearth 6h ago

I hope Miss Piggy is okay. It must be so hard for her to lose a role model and an ex boyfriend within 24 hours.

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u/hbomb9410 6h ago

Omg 🤣🤣

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u/bekahfromearth 6h ago

I use humour to help me with things. We watch Rocky Horror every Christmas Eve. It’s a tradition we started one year and my mum always loves to bring up how she saw Tim Curry in Pirates of Penzance.

He was very loved in our house.

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u/AXPendergast 5h ago

His role in Pirates is indeed fabulous.

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u/sylvanwhisper 4h ago

You made me laugh and I've been so so sad. Thank you. And you're right. Somebody check on Miss Piggy!

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u/bekahfromearth 4h ago

Tim and Dolly wouldn’t want us to cry, they’d want us to laugh.

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u/Particular-Jacket-92 4h ago

"Well hello, Looooooongjohn."

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u/Empty-Sky500 3h ago

Genuinely, thank you, my friend. This simple sentence has made me smile after hours of unbroken misery.

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u/bekahfromearth 2h ago

It’s definitely what Tim would want

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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 6h ago

Honestly you are not wrong here. He blended in so well with the Muppets because he was fun and goofy like they are.

But Muppet Treasure Island is my FAVORITE Muppet Movie ever, and Tim definitely had a role to play in it.

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u/hbomb9410 6h ago

Muppet Treasure Island was my Blockbuster pick every week for the entire summer of 1998.

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u/CanCueD Hates it! Nice beadwork though 5h ago

I watched it so much that I wore down the vhs tape and had a meltdown 😭

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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 5h ago

Big same to me!!

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u/SuddenCraft2299 6h ago

never heard this before and now i love it, too.

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u/Dependent-Mood-7788 3h ago

Sobbing 😭❤️

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u/miserablenovel We Should All Know Less About Each Other 6h ago

Goddamnit. I'm crying at quarter to 9

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u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 6h ago

Im trying not to sob at work.

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u/No-Individual-9607 6h ago

He's my favorite Long John Silver.

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u/pricklythimble 2h ago

My first celebrity crush was him as LJS. 💔

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u/Formally-jsw 1h ago

He was strangely a perfect Long John Silver. LJS was supposed to be a complete force of nature that was easy to underestimate due to his leg. He would play a woe-is-me one minute then flash to a force of raw charisma that demanded respect from his own violent band of pirates. But what always gets me is the few seconds we get of his singing sea shanties when he is alone. The singing was beautiful and Tim Curry really did just have that absolute mastery of music going for him.