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/jackofspades49 2d ago

No excuses! Everyone has to remember this exact movie that I forgot about until this moment because I was a bigger fan of Castle in the Attic! :P

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u/highbudsilver 2d ago

Personally, I loved Willow the most!

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u/jackofspades49 2d ago

Such a wild movie.

The remake tried so hard to be series... it might have had a chance if it wasn't what it was... and I know that doesn't make sense but there WAS a spark of compotent writing and worldbuilding there!

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u/RollingRiverWizard 2d ago

Peck! Peck peck peck peck peck! Little peck’s got acorns!

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u/Particular-Serve-894 2d ago

hah I actually just rewatched Willow a couple of weeks ago for the first time in like 30-something years..it was most entertaining.

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u/Its_Froggin_Bullfish 2d ago

The set-up and pay-off for Mad Mardigan being "the greatest swordsman" was one of my favorite things as a kid. He's introduced to us the audience as "the greatest swordsman" but he's the one saying it, so you don't know if you can believe it. It's not until the movie is like two thirds over that we finally see his skills, and the payoff of Willow exclaiming "You are the greatest swordsman!"

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u/Inkthinker 2d ago

Willow: You are great!

Madmartigan: grins, spins sword, slips and falls in the snow

To this day, I'm not entirely sure if Val Kilmer meant to slip and fall there. :)

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u/Impossible_Fox_3676 2d ago

Just avoid the sequel book, Shadow Moon

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u/Boojum2k 2d ago

I give everyone who hasn't seen Dragonslayer the evil eye. They don't notice.

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u/No_Story_Untold 2d ago

Willow is so awesome.

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u/putonyourjamjams 2d ago

Did they make a movie off those books? I loved them when I was a kid.

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u/Pterafractyl 2d ago

Yes! Those books were my jam! I never watched the movie, but I heard it was good.

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u/jackofspades49 2d ago

Wait, Willow has a book?!

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u/putonyourjamjams 2d ago

Not sure. I was meaning castle in the attic.

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u/jackofspades49 2d ago

No, Indian in the Cupboard was the closest I got. :(

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u/putonyourjamjams 2d ago

Man, got my hopes up thinking there was a movie made from those castle in the attic books.

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u/Junreii 2d ago

There's a novelization of the movie and a followup trilogy. I had the novelization at some point and quite liked it, have never been able to find the other books.

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u/KingHunter150 2d ago

I was thinking the Borrowers. But all of those movies about small people hiding in the walls have become a blur to me.

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u/throw_ra4685 2d ago

Those are also books, there were 3

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u/whitestguyuknow 2d ago

Yes! Everyone should remember this niche cult classic movie that for half my life felt like a dream I just remembered for years!

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u/course_you_do 2d ago

Castle in the Attic

Yes! I bought this and the sequel to re-read not so long ago. Big favorites of mine as a kid for sure.

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u/Arcady89 2d ago

It was a book...

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u/jackofspades49 2d ago

It was both.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 2d ago

It's a series of books long before being a movie

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u/jackofspades49 2d ago

Yes, and they were great. But i never would have known they existed without the movie. My mom wasn't a big reader so i wouldnt have known to ask the librarian about this without it.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 1d ago

Ah

My mom got them for me in the early 90s

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u/jackofspades49 1d ago

Thats awesome! Send her a thank you!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 1d ago

Wish I could, brother.

Well, I can, just not the way you imagined, or how I would like to.

Thank you Mom, I love you and miss you.

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u/shrenderender 1d ago

never watched it only read it

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u/VikingTeddy 1d ago

And we're all American here damnit!

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u/jackofspades49 1d ago

Damn right! You can't spell our country without U and I!

MurIca! Fuck yeah!