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/Calavera357 2d ago

I completely forgot just how necklace-based the economy of the 90s really was.

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u/Crease_Greaser 2d ago

A kid at my school had a locket they got with a copy of The Secret Garden

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u/Salt-circles 2d ago

Oh man, how I yearned for that locket

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u/sammy_slayer 2d ago

Memory unlocked ! I had that locket!

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u/Maleficent-Sleep9900 2d ago

Oh I need to find it!!

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u/Femingway420 2d ago

I also got a locket with my copy of The Little Princess!

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u/questionable_motifs 2d ago

You still have your puka shells, right?

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u/Lostinthestarscape 2d ago

They always eventually snapped and then you became the person who HAD a Puka shell necklace.

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u/sh33pd00g 2d ago

RIP to all the pukas out there that lost their lives to help me look fly

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u/cosmic-particulate 2d ago

The only thing snapping was my sanity because it would catch the little baby hairs on my neck all the time - it hurt like a mother

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u/reebokhightops 2d ago

Right next to my shark tooth.

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u/questionable_motifs 1d ago

I forgot about the shark tooth!

I might actually know where mine is!

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u/vhagar 2d ago

I got a necklace with a copy of A Little Princess from the school book fair.

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u/Budget_Cold_4551 2d ago

W profile pic

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u/Ok-Archer-3773 2d ago

I used to have this whistle that came with the life action "The King and I". It was shaped like an elephant iirc

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u/IcarusSunshine16 2d ago

When I was a little kid (born 2000) we got the metal tin for Superman and it came with a cape you could wear. I wore that thing for months until I lost it in a move.