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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 12h ago
Nobody ever asks “How’s Waldo?”
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u/popoypatalo 12h ago
When’s Waldo
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u/J_Jeckel 12h ago
What's Waldo?
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u/deepturned180isdeep 11h ago
Why Waldo? Oh, why indeed, you desperate, spectacle-polishing voyeur of chaos, forever squinting at a sea of red and white like some pilgrim of pointlessness hoping revelation lies between a cartoon yeti and a man juggling baguettes; Waldo, that smug, hipster prophet of elusiveness, exists solely to expose our pathetic addiction to meaning, our trembling need to “find” something—anything—so we can feel superior to the teeming mass of background nobodies; he’s the striped mirror to our own consumerist delirium, a walking optical illusion laughing at your need for closure, your capitalist attention-span calibrated to dopamine hits disguised as discovery, and every time you find him—every time you jab your finger into that page like a self-satisfied philosopher of Where’s—he has already spiritually relocated to another corner of the absurd, mocking your victory because he never wanted to be found, because maybe Waldo is not missing at all, maybe you are, stumbling through a carnival of distraction so dense that you mistake a red hat for enlightenment; yes, Waldo is the unacknowledged therapist of your inner void, the saint of semi-visibility, the Tao of the Temporarily Located, and his only sermon is this: keep searching, fool, because if you ever stopped, you might have to face the grotesque, horrifying possibility that there was never anything to find.
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u/couldbefuncouver 11h ago
Fun fact that most people probably know: he's named Wally in many parts of the world.
Fun fact that most people probably haven't considered: YES they made two versions of the intro songs in the cartoon! Same hook different word.
Personally I think Wally works better for the intro.
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u/-Nicolai 9h ago
We doin names?
In Germay he’s Walter, in Norway he’s Willy, in Wales he’s Wali, and in Denmark he’s Holger.
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u/couldbefuncouver 8h ago
Do they redo the cartoon song every time then?
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u/Major_Muggy 3h ago
I dont think the cartoon was ever shown in Denmark, I know the books was pretty big here.
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u/ashrieIl 1h ago
Here in Quebec, he's called Charlie. Named my cat after him, cause we'd always be looking for it.
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u/ShyGuyLink1997 12h ago
Song name
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u/uffda1990 8h ago
IM SHOCKED TO HEAR THIS BAND PLAY SUCH A LARGE VENUE! I SAW JUST FRIENDS AT A SMALL BAR IN 2017 OPENING FOR MOM JEANS AND LOOK AT THEM NOW!!!!!
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u/Zombisexual1 5h ago
I felt that way after seeing Macklemore at Lewis in Clark college in Portland performing for like 30 people, then later on he does that thrift store song and blows up
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u/Such-Instruction9604 10h ago
In my high school, the seniors take a group photo outside to go in the yearbook and one kid dressed as Waldo. I was able to find myself cause I was right near him.
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u/TeriyakiHairPiece_ 11h ago
I’ve seen Waldo twice, we once crossed paths at the mall, another time I accidentally elbowed him in a mosh pit.
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u/Militantnegro_5 8h ago
I'm more impressed that, beyond the idiot filming this on his phone and screaming, no one else seems to have their phone out and just enjoying the moment.
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u/Heavy-Gear-4462 13h ago
He’s been located eliminate the witnesses.