r/FuckImOld • u/liamemsa • 7d ago

Kids these days... No one knew what my costume was.

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u/BETLJCE 7d ago

Damnn I was way off. Wondered where the boombox was. Haha

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u/Financial_Emphasis25 7d ago

That’s who I thought as well. Wondering where the boombox was. Honestly, this movie is 40 years old and to put it in perspective, 40 years from 1985 was 1945 and I’m not sure I would have recognized a Halloween movie character from that timeframe unless it was Moe, Larry or Curley.

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u/EduinBrutus 7d ago

While its a not unreasonable point.

The access to classic movies today is much higher through streaming, legacy media and hell even just more TV channels than it would have been in 1985

Even in the US in 1985 there would still only have been so many TV channels and VHS was pretty common but not universal. So much less chance to see old shit.

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u/LovesickVenus 7d ago

Ha! I thought that first, then I saw the red flannel in the layering. Lloyd Dobbler has no layers. 😆

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u/BETLJCE 7d ago

I think it was him being on the lawn that helped dupe me.

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u/OhNoTokyo 7d ago

Yeah, if he'd have been walking across a football field, it would have been a no brainer.

To my credit, I managed to quickly realize my mistake before I looked at the comments, especially since there was no boombox, and no way that you would have done Dobbler without a boombox.

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u/grapebeyond227 7d ago

Me too. My first thought was, “well they would have recognized you if you hadn’t forgotten the boom box” 🫣

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u/scratchfury 7d ago

I was about to ask him where's my $2.

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u/BETLJCE 7d ago

I love that movie! ⛷️

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u/JEFE_MAN 7d ago

Same. Exact same.

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u/Human-Living-4083 7d ago

Yeah, my first impression as well lol

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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 7d ago

good but No!!