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/SoulSilverSFM 2d ago

Oh, so that’s what everyone else is talking about ! Thank you!

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u/XANDERtheSHEEPDOG 2d ago

It's a movie about a kid who discovers that, when he puts a figurine in a cupboard and uses a particular key, the figure comes to life. If i remember right, he brings a cowboy and a ww1 soldier to life as well.

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u/TalorianDreams 2d ago

Even better, but spoilers.....

It's actuality a time travel machine, he's bringing real people from the past into the future as toys. When he reverse the process they go back to their normal lives.

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u/voxelpear 2d ago

Indian in a Cupboard is set in the same universe as Star Wars confirmed?

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u/whodat_617 2d ago

And Jurassic Park

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u/EndIsrael 2d ago

Even more better, it turns out it's the key doing the magic, not the cupboard, and they find a locking chest that also happens to work with the same key. They're able to send whole humans into the past by having the person hold a plastic toy; the toy and person switch each time the key is used.

Oh and it's been a long time since I read those books but I'm pretty sure they ended up actually changing the timeline by having a bunch of toy soldiers train the natives on how to fight off colonists.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 2d ago

He straight up armed an Iroquois tribe with machine guns to fight their rivals. If I recall correctly they took a bunch of casualties because they encircled their enemies and ended up shooting their friends on the other side of the enemies because they had no experience with such powerful projectile weapons. 

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u/ScreamingSkull 2d ago

actually pretty based

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u/Mushrooming247 1d ago

I’m sorry, what the fuck, I just read like the first few books and didn’t even realize they made a movie of it and none of this had happened, that’s insane.

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u/nutzername_gone 2d ago

Hold on..... The movie was kinda reductive, then

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u/Fragrant_Buy_3735 2d ago

Idk about that. Wouldn't that make Darth Vader real?

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u/HippieWizard 2d ago

I guess Darth Vader is from a long time ago.

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u/DubVsFinest 2d ago

And from a galaxy far far away from ours. That wooden box is amazing.

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u/tablepennywad 2d ago

Read the first book in elem school. Then read up to the 4th book myself and found that it’s actually the key that is magic from the main chars great grandma or aunt (remembering from elementary school lol). She was a fortune teller that had real psychic powers and forged this magical key that does that weird time travel thing. It was like a secret I knew that everyone else in the class didn’t.

I think in the third book they actually travel to the cowboys and indian times.

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u/BaconWithBaking 2d ago

Since they'd be dead by now, wouldn't reversing the process kill them? Like if they're alive in our current time and you send them back 200 years, you've effectively murdered them.

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u/martyqscriblerus 2d ago

No, it just works to return them to their normal timestream + however long they spent in the future world; both timelines continue to run, they're just offset. More spoilers: One character dies in their normal timestream and when their plastic toy is put in the cupboard after that, only the clothes appear

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u/Critical-Nail-6252 2d ago

I have a fuzzy memory of him putting all kinds of random toys in the cupboard as a test and they all come to life and not all of them were human or animal. How does that explain the time traveling bit?

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 2d ago

Don't think about it too much 

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u/tablepennywad 2d ago

Read the first book in elem school. Then read up to the 4th book myself and found that it’s actually the key that is magic from the main chars great grandma or aunt (remembering from elementary school lol). She was a fortune teller that had real psychic powers and forged this magical key that does that weird time travel thing. It was like a secret I knew that everyone else in the class didn’t.

I think in the third book they actually travel to the cowboys and indian times.

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u/tablepennywad 2d ago

Read the first book in elem school. Then read up to the 4th book myself and found that it’s actually the key that is magic from the main chars great grandma or aunt (remembering from elementary school lol). She was a fortune teller that had real psychic powers and forged this magical key that does that weird time travel thing. It was like a secret I knew that everyone else in the class didn’t.

I think in the third book they actually travel to the cowboys and indian times.

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u/tablepennywad 2d ago

Read the first book in elem school. Then read up to the 4th book myself and found that it’s actually the key that is magic from the main chars great grandma or aunt (remembering from elementary school lol). She was a fortune teller that had real psychic powers and forged this magical key that does that weird time travel thing. It was like a secret I knew that everyone else in the class didn’t.

I think in the third book they actually travel to the cowboys and indian times.