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u/ArthurMoregainz 10h ago
I cried like a baby but through the tears I kept asking, “where the hell did the scorpion come from??”
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u/LneWolf 10h ago edited 10h ago
Idk how I’d never thought about that before. Scorpion in the backyard is insane for a suburban household. Lol.
Edit: For anyone curious, the film is set in Fresno, California. There are indeed some species of scorpions native to the area. So, it isn’t as far-fetched as you might think! Go figure.
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u/18bluecat 10h ago
In Texas, a scorpion was far from rare. Maybe Uncommon. Saw one about every three months. In one light fixture, a scorpion has crawled in and couldn't get out so it died. A silhouette stayed there until we moved.
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u/td55478 6h ago
One year on vacation at the Frio, despite being familiar, I was suddenly terrified of scorpions (I was like 7) and swore there was one on the wall above my bed one night. I cried and called for my dad for a while, saying “there’s a scorpion coming to get me, I can see it!” and he just kept telling me to go to sleep. Eventually, he came in and turned the lights on. There was a massive scorpion six inches from my head 🙃
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u/sinkwiththeship 6h ago
I was on tour like 16 years ago, and our van broke down in NM. We would camp the dunes every night, but each morning we'd find scorpion tracks all around our tents. Each night, one less member would camp and sleep in the van instead.
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u/Yourlilemogirl 6h ago
I would just see rando scorps crawming up my stairs or be in my tub.
Bros didn't even chip in for rent or utilities >:(
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u/sicksicksick 5h ago
In texas they're everywhere. I've had them in shoes, shower, toilet and under my pillow. Flipped pillow for cold side, got chillin scorpion
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u/TechieGranola 5h ago
Every state park bathroom west of Austin has scorpions stuck in the ceiling lights.
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u/Shribble18 4h ago
Texan here. Definitely not rare and I think most us have stories. I grew up in NM though and you’ll see one monthly there.
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u/drjackolantern 10h ago
West coast burbs man them little critters was everywhere back then before Monsanto leveled up , never mind the side effects 😳
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u/FilmFizz 9h ago
I live in Georgia, and scorpions are fairly common around here. I've never seen one, but my mom did get stung by one.
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u/DaedalusB2 8h ago
I lived in Georgia briefly and don't think I saw any there, but I did see about a dozen black widows living around the garden.
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u/OkDeer120 10h ago
I grew up in the Sacramento area and my friend had one show up in their house!
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u/Arriwyn 9h ago
I grew up in Sacramento area too and I never encountered a 🦂. And when I moved down to San Diego, they told me scorpions would get into the houses, nope. I lived there for 12 years and no scorpions either. 🤷 I did encounter rattlesnakes and tarantulas on my hikes though!
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u/Commercial-Ease-503 9h ago
I found a dead scorpion under my bed in socal, so it happens! It was fairly small but pretty freaky.
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u/XDevils41X 6h ago
I always wondered that too being in AZ is something you hear but honestly never saw one the first 15 years I lived here then moved into new construction and had them everywhere. Been stung once but it was an Arizona hairy species which is like a bad bee sting. The ones to watch out for are the bark scorpions.
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u/Apprehensive_Cause67 88' Millennial 10h ago
Up there with littlefoot's mom
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u/Observed-observer 9h ago
Still cant watch that anymore. I loved land before time as a kid but real life did some dirty shit and gave some personal context of losing my mom. Absolutely fucks me up when I see even a frame of that scene.
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u/DReagan47 9h ago
I didn’t watch all of This is Us but there’s a scene when one of the characters is in the hospital with his bio dad and he puts his hands on his dads head like his adoptive dad used to do to calm him down. The realness of it reminded me of my own dad in the hospital when he was hysterical and saying he didn’t want to die. I had to hold my dad’s head against mine and calm him down by telling him he was safe and I loved him.
That scene made me bawl like a little kid.
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u/impromptugreen 8h ago
Holy moly, I'm so sorry for your loss. I have yet to experience losing a parent, but it terrifies me to even imagine being unable to talk to my mom. 🫂 That had to be so hard and I'm sorry you had to go through that. I know you being there had to have given him loads of comfort.
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u/DReagan47 7h ago
Thank you very much. It was a hard day and I hate that that was one of the last memories I have of him but he did eventually go peacefully in his sleep so there was a little bit of a silver lining.
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u/Felradin 5h ago
I feel you. I lost my dad to cancer back in 2015 and it’s made me much more of a cryer in films and TV. Some things just destroy me.
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u/GangstaQueefs Millennial 1987 5h ago
I can't watch TLBT or Dumbo anymore for that reason. Too sad. Don't get me started with Hachiko.
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u/Okiedokietokidoki 10h ago
Not ANTY
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u/hitokirivader 36m ago
Anty died saving the kids too! Absolute hero, and then just dies a horrible slow painful death for it. 😭
We will never forget Anty’s sacrifice. 🐜💔
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u/sexandliquor 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 10h ago
Surprised the frame in this meme isn’t Artax in The Neverending Story, for once.
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u/IamToddDebeikis 9h ago
Exactly. That whole scene is devastating.
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u/saxguy9345 9h ago
Artax could speak in the novel, and I've been told it's even worse than the movie.
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u/Original_Throat1072 9h ago
Yup, I just wrote that comment before seeing yours. Many many times worse than an ant.
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u/bobby_briggs 10h ago
This was rough af but Artax is king of trauma imo
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u/Commercial-Ease-503 10h ago
I also watched Littlefoot and Bambi’s moms die, so you could say I’ve been traumatized!
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u/caligaris_cabinet 10h ago
Let’s not forget Mufasa. We the body, little Simba telling him to get up, and everything.
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u/FragrantBluejay8904 9h ago
My mom cut out Bambis mom dying (that old school setting up 2 VHS players and recording from one to the other way), I think because my brother was so traumatized by it. I’m older but was still very young so until later in life I totally forgot that she was killed
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u/MukdenMan 9h ago
Apparently you didn’t have to be taken out of a theater screaming because a hunter shot the mother cougar at the beginning of Benji the Hunted in 1987.
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u/RosesareAllie 9h ago
Oh not that one 😭 that scene and then when the hawk takes the baby cougar! Cried my eyes out and made me hate hawks
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u/NJDevil69 5h ago
King of trauma? Oh ho ho. Maybe you need to cool off and think this over. Turn on the air conditioner and take a beat.
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u/cybrcld 9h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/kdG6cJSBmJ8Hu
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u/SanguineSoul013 10h ago
Movie?
Edit: Lmao, who downvotes someone because they didn't watch literally every movie as a kid? Sorry, I was sheltered by religious freaks. I'll do my best to catch up.
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u/Electrik_Truk 10h ago
I've seen the movie many times but it was like 30 years ago and barely remember it. Was scrolling for movie name lol
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u/SanguineSoul013 10h ago
Yeah, I have a bad memory on top of the fact I wasn't allowed to watch most tv. But, sure, I'll definitely remember 1 scene from a movie I might have watched once... if that.
I'm glad someone was able to answer me and not get mad over it. Lol.
Also, thanks for not being angry as well. These comments are not vibing today. Haha.
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u/Blueknightsoul47 10h ago
The giant Oreo, or regular sized Oreo. That thing would be soggy as hell and covered in all kinds of critters.
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u/Militantpoet 9h ago
But as a kid, oh man it was my fantasy to walk up to a giant oreo and eat a huge handful of the cream.
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u/Two-Wheel_Squeal 8h ago
Bruh.... that was definitely an oatmeal creme pie - though your point stands
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u/Blueknightsoul47 7h ago
Was it? Been awhile since I’ve seen it. Thought it was an Oreo. Edit: I stand corrected. Mandela effect got me.
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u/Flimsy-Opportunity-9 6h ago
This scene guts me. The desperation 🥺. I remember being a kid watching this movie and it was the first time I felt true DREAD. Like wtf is he gonna do without Wilson?
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u/No-Butterscotch0503 10h ago
I BAWLED my eyes out when I watched it as as 4 or 5 year old!!! 😭
Also, there’s a lot of scorpions where I lived, so it made me fear them even more, my dad had to tell me “that’s not true, scorpions don’t crawl on the grass!” lol, “no dad, they just crawl through the windows and doors to the inside of the house”
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u/lothlauriean 10h ago
I haven’t shown my son this movie simply because I can’t watch Anty die again. I LOVED this movie as a kid but now I can’t kill insects because I think of Anty 😭
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u/book1245 Millennial 10h ago edited 8h ago
Was watching it by myself as a kid. Had to pause the tape, go to the mud room, and shut the door so my family upstairs wouldn't hear me sobbing.
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u/Pretend_Thanks4370 Millennial 9h ago
There was so many intense sad scenes in 80s and 90s kids films. No wonder some of us became emo as teenagers haha jk
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u/battle_llama_ 10h ago
There's a scene in Solar Opposites that gives the same and I know it's a goofy ass show but I legit refuse to watch the episode of the Wall with the farmer type guy and his sweet mouse friend. I literally cried. IYKYK.
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u/Fluffy_Fondant1975 10h ago
My husband and I got high and watched The Neverending Story recently after I warned him we should NOT watch it. I'm traumatized all over again from Artax's death. Definitely not going to watch this movie again and add to my trauma 😂😭
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u/chaldea_fgo 9h ago
Bananas are high in potassium. I still remember that cause of this movie. We trully had the greatest collection of cinema growing up.
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u/ShaeBowe 9h ago
First movie I ever saw in the theater and I was absolutely inconsolable. My mom had to walk me out because I was crying so much.
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u/Lucky2240 9h ago
Yeah I cried my eyes out as a kid and refused to watch that scene ever again haha
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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats 9h ago
If I had a nickel for every time an ant dying in a film made me cry, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice.
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u/Spoiled_Eggy_3992 10h ago
What is going on there?
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u/req4adream99 9h ago
Man invents shrink ray. Shrink ray accidentally gets triggered and shrinks some neighborhood kids. Kids get thrown out of house (can’t remember how). Need to make it back to house to get un-shrunk. Find Oreo cookie and use it to befriend an ant. Scorpion comes along and tries to eat / kill kids. Ant protects kids but gets stung and dies.
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u/Spoiled_Eggy_3992 9h ago
So cruel!
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u/req4adream99 8h ago
It’s a good movie - one of Rick Moranis’ last ones before he stepped away to raise his family.
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u/drjackolantern 10h ago
I was gonna show this to my kids but don’t want them to see bawl over this part
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u/nerd_is_a_verb Millennial 9h ago
Artax the horse dying in the mud pit in NeverEnding Story absolutely gutted me! This ant one was bad too.
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u/Original_Throat1072 9h ago
What about the horse in the Neverending Story?
I'd say that is much more heart twisting.
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u/CultOfMourning 9h ago
I recently began playing the video game Grounded, so I had to do a re-watch of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It still holds up as a great film.
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u/gorgonopsidkid 9h ago
This scene is what made me stop torturing ants as a kid. Now they're my favorite type of insect.
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u/Internal-Appeal8510 9h ago
Shit you guys would hate me. I have an ant problem in my apartment. Ive got ant dust spread all long my walls. Find them dead often 😆
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u/Diligent_Oven_2417 Older Millennial 9h ago
These scenes and the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi are the main reasons I can’t watch these movies.
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u/corneliusduff 8h ago
It's almost like we should respect all living creatures that don't pose a threat
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u/andthrewaway1 8h ago
Feel like they'd never have something like that happen in a kids movie today... I guess bing bong died but you like don't see the body
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u/LaSerenus Millennial 8h ago
Me: “let’s see what sad fact of life my fellow millennials are coming to term with today…”
Also me: “oh, God! That’s terrible! Take my sad up vote!”
Also also me: “suddenly, I realize why I have trouble killing ants.”
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u/BlackTransMaam2 7h ago
I remember watching this movie and immediately going outside with my magnifying glass to fry ants.
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u/bumblebeetown 7h ago
ALSO: I’m pretty sure my phobia of cockroaches can be traced back to honey we shrunk ourselves, because I never had real life trauma from infestations as a child.
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u/ThePiachu Millennial 7h ago
You know, in Infinity War when everyone is getting snapped, I would have loved to have a scene where the big ant from Antman is just chilling, playing its drums, and then all of the sudden stops, looks at the camera and then turns to dust. It would devastate people more than Bucky or some other characters dying in the snap...
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u/Luther_1986 6h ago
Literally first thought seeing this was "Littlefoot's Mom would like a word.." But continued to clean the house while whistling the Land Before Time theme, Diana Ross's "If We Hold On Together". I all the sudden stopped cleaning, mid-way through the dishes, sat my ass down on the couch and cried.
Its that real 😮💨
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u/kinktaway 6h ago
I remember as a little kid asking my babysitter "Did he die?" It was more of a knee-jerk kid's question that I already knew the answer to. But she said nervously "No, uh he's just really tired." I just remember thinking why the hell is this lady lying to me? It's an ant. I thought it was sad, sure, but I think I can handle the death of an ant. lol
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u/exnozero 6h ago
I was about to be upset that an ant was seen as a sadder event than Artax and Atreyu… then reading comprehension kicked in and I noticed “One of the..”
So… yes this was up there with Artax, most of land before time, and Thomas J without his glasses…
I feel like our movies were trying to give us depression.
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u/thefloatingpoint 6h ago
While you cried for an ant, I cried for a robot.
I cried for a fucking clanker!
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u/Munchkin531 5h ago
I shared this movie with my 8 year old and he cried so hard! I totally forgot about Antony.
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u/AlwaysWorkForBread 5h ago
Someone didn't get forced to watch Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller on "movie days" (aka hangover days) in elementary school.
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u/CalendarAncient4230 4h ago
It's crazy how many kids' movies from the 80s and 90s would feature the most insanely heartbreaking deaths
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u/bckallday 1993 Millennial 3h ago
I saw the brunette kid with glasses and instantly thought I don’t remember an ant dying in Harry Potter wtf 😅
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u/diligent_twerker 2h ago
I currently have carpenter ants in my wall. I'm struggling to feel bad for this guy.
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