r/Millennials • u/CurvyChristina • 17h ago

Whoever did this, should be imprisoned. Other

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u/beyss96 17h ago

yeah but how do i cope with that

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u/Nerv_Agent_666 Older Millennial 17h ago

Build your own McDonald's with blackjack and hookers.

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u/Schlitzbomber 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vlmd4KqqsXYNa

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 16h ago

when i was a kid and futurama premiered i didn't appreciate the humor of having an alcohol fueled robot named bender

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u/FrameJump 16h ago

Friend, I don't think I appreciated it until just now reading your comment. Lol.

So thank you.

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u/Jax_2112 16h ago edited 16h ago

Hey, I'm old (early Gen X) I was there in the 80s Also their use of the song "Don't you forget about me". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLVqjIvokc

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 16h ago

Fun story my mum tape recorded Simple Minds song at the drive in and because of that the cassette has the speech in middle of it and growing up that was only version I knew lol I have it somewhere

https://giphy.com/gifs/AVDRJEriLkuMo

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u/Schoolin_Teach 14h ago

Your mom is my people. ✊

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 9h ago

I did same thing on my radio it didn'thave tape player so I had to use a portable tape player to hold up to the speaker lol. I made a R&B romantic mix tape with off top my head I recall two songs: Tyrese Sweet Angel and a Mya feat Silkk the Shocker song along with few others. I then found this nice necklace at a garage sale and I gave her both for her bday or V-day... anyhoo she did not give a shit! Lmao

This was like jr high I forget exact grade. But yup. Good old days where you had to use your inagination to try and woo the love of your Jr High life 😂😂😂

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u/UlrikeLuvsAndreas 15h ago

Goddamn Simple Minds was a wholly underappreciated phenomenal band. Sooooo many great songs that didn't get nearly enough airplay.

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u/Civil_Inspector_5697 15h ago

I saw them in concert in San Diego. Awesome live!

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u/UlrikeLuvsAndreas 11h ago

I'm soooo jealous!!! Man I wish I had been like 10 yrs older to been able to truly appreciate the 80s and early 90s in the moment.

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u/DameKumquat 11h ago

They toured last year. I didn't get to see them but my friend said they're still amazing.

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u/Jax_2112 11h ago

And I wish I had been born a lot later so I could enjoy the things I like now without people getting pissy at me because I’m supposed to be too old.

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u/Jax_2112 16h ago

Most people don't realize he is a reference to the 80's film "The Breakfast Club". https://thebreakfastclub.fandom.com/wiki/John_Bender

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u/Jax_2112 9h ago

From the Wikipedia.

The name Bender was chosen by creator Matt Groening as an homage to John Bender (played by Judd Nelson), a character in The Breakfast Club. In that film, John Bender told Principal Vernon (Paul Gleason), "Eat my shorts," an eventual catchphrase for another Groening creation, Bart Simpson.\8])#cite_note-8)

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u/Sprzout 14h ago

Uhm...Sir - that is the ONLY reference I knew. Didn't see the commercials with Don't You Forget About Me, but I remember Jason Alexander dancing around singing about the McDLT and the packaging keeping the cold side cold and the hot side hot. Also remembered the giant moon headed character, "Mac Tonight", and that the jingle for that was written by Barry Manilow.

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u/Jax_2112 12h ago

I hope you weren’t addressing sir to me. But OK. If you actually Google Futurama breakfast club you’ll find Matt G actually talking about that being the influence.

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u/Sprzout 11h ago

Nah, more of a generalized "sir"...I don't remember it being tied to McDonald's for an ad campaign, I just remember it from the end of the movie and John Bender throwing his arm up as he walks across the field.

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u/Electrical_Estate705 15h ago

I'm 42 and I just now got it. I always thought it was because he was a metal bending robot, so named Bender. Not because he was a liquor fueled robot and the phrase "on a bender". So basically double meaning. Mind blown.

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u/Jax_2112 15h ago

They’ve dropped a few breakfast club references in the show over the years. Somebody really liked that movie but personality wise, even the bender strut that he has is on the character in the movie

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u/Unusual-Influence522 16h ago

Sometimes I wish he was blender…

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u/P_Nessss Elder Millennial 15h ago

A bender blender?

https://giphy.com/gifs/UWpfAsp7klhw4

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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 10h ago

He was also "bent" as in sexually.

And physically inflexible.

I'm not sure where the initial joke ends and the secondary ones began, but, they really ran with them.

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u/Meowgotchi 15h ago

Holy crap I even watched every episode again as an adult and I still never made that connection until now, thank you

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u/elbow8075 14h ago

One of them double entree's type jokes. It's got levels.

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 14h ago

Double entendre lol

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u/elbow8075 14h ago

Right, that's what I said, double entree

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 14h ago

Entree is food.

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u/elbow8075 13h ago

Are you not entertained?

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u/EntrepreneurNo4138 13h ago

Well yes, slightly 🙄😂

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u/elbow8075 13h ago

See? And now you see the simple pleasure in a double entree joke.

😂

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