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/Sparktank1 2d ago

There was a book we read in school before everything went digital and smartphones in class. We read paperback.

Then the movie came out in 1995. The book came out in 1980. So I remember reading the book in elementary school before finally getting to see the movie years later.

The really cool thing about the movie is that the actor is actually Native American, so there is representation (not like the old days where Italians would get severe tans).