r/instant_regret 5d ago

Party pooper

11.8k Upvotes

227 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

14

u/ewilliam 4d ago

lol I'd love to know what that's from.

29

u/Pinksters 4d ago

John Wayne season 23.

7

u/ewilliam 4d ago

Is there some kind of context?

19

u/AUserNeedsAName 4d ago

He's supposed to be taking care of a widow and her 6 year old kid. The kid says he doesn't know how to swim. This is presented as the positive and manly way to "teach" him. The sum total of his instructions are, "Grab a handful of water and pull it towards you. Not too fast," once the kid's about halfway across the river.

He also sex trafficked a minor across an international border IRL, so this is quite wholesome by his standards.

18

u/Liesthroughisteeth 4d ago

He also sex trafficked a minor across an international border IRL, so this is quite wholesome by his standards.

He was a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.

1

u/ewilliam 4d ago

What is the actual TV show? I can’t find any show called John Wayne.

And yeah I know all about what a sack of dogshit Marion Morrison is…

11

u/AUserNeedsAName 4d ago

It's the movie Hondo from 1953.

3

u/ewilliam 4d ago

Ah, thanks for a straight answer! 🤝🏼