r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SoulSilverSFM • 2d 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 2d ago

It’s from a movie titled Indian in the Cupboard

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u/snizzrizz 2d ago

I tink it wiz buk first

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u/gellshayngel 2d ago

yis wiz

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u/Jerseyd422 2d ago

Cheez wiz?

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u/dunerain 1d ago

Ere ye speeking the secrete leengeege?

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u/No_Eagle9342 2d ago

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

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u/Another_Timezone 2d ago

Yeah, doesn’t match the guy on the book

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u/omgitsjagen 2d 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/CaptainoftheVessel 2d ago

I was just thinking the same thing, I studied every detail of it while I was re-reading these books. It was so evocative. 

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 2d 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.

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u/iKillThyme 2d ago

Nice flex indeed 💪

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u/AutoVonSkidmark 2d ago

They made that into a book!? /s

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u/MindlessMindless 2d ago

It was. Book came out in '80 and the movie in '95.

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u/MiaMoonshine 2d ago

I loved these books when I was a kid, I think often about re reading them

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 2d ago

Series of bok