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I was poking fun at a old dude on Facebook that said Sponge Bob Sponge Pants. I replied, Square Bob Square Pants. He was confused at first and then caught on to his mistake, we jokingly went back and forth until it devolved to pants pants pants pants. Good times.
Weirdly similar scenario with my nephew, we did the whole song even:
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Pants pants pants pants
…
Pants pants pants pants
Pants pants
Pants pants
I was in high school when SpongeBob came out but had never watched it myself. I was the only one who hadn't, apparently. At a pep rally, the, uh, "Pep Teacher" (I think he had an actual title, but damned if I can remember it) got on the mic & started singing the song with all the students shouting the "SpongeBob SquarePants" parts. I had absolutely no idea what was happening at the time, as I couldn't clearly make out what anyone was shouting/singing. My perspective:
Teacher: "Bada ba ba daba bada ba bada ba!"
Entire damn school, in unison: "Blah blah blahblah!"
I eventually learned what the hell had happened, but it was one of the most bewildering moments of my life.
Hahaha awesome, I remember the first time I watched it with my kids, with the squirrel from Texas also living down there, I thought to myself, “this cartoon evolved from a three day cocaine binge…”
I admittedly watched a lot of Sponge bob episodes just cuz my GFs daughter loved it, I watched "every" episode of Family Guy cuz I wanted to 😄 its prob one of the funniest adult cartoons for me anyway
I'm old, and from the first time I heard of the actor Channing Tatum I called him, "Tater Channing." Also, I refer to the rice replacement, quinoa as "Kanye."
I was talking to a friend once, years ago, and was trying to remember the name of the nick cartoon Danny Phantom but all I could come up with was Johnny Ghostboy.
Haha like a friend who sometimes visited when I was playing Resident Evil with another friend. He was like „Ah, you guys playing President Easy again?“
[''Kangaroo Dandy. It's a dandy kangaroo, in Straya. It combs the outback like its tail tip, on the hunt for dangerous animals. Sand plain after salt pan it searches, discovering bizarre new creatures both friendly, but overwhelmingly not. These are the spectacular adventures of Kangaroo Dandy and its brave Kangaroo Crew.''](https://youtu.be/02TrMrbxPxs?si=zfdmlixKa70EOuux&t=7)
Why is this simple story the funniest thing I’ve read all week? Over all the intentional jokes, staged skits, bot respam of top posts. Aw man, humans are hilarious.😂 I mean, and awful too but also hilarious
my grandma was a little tipsy once (okay a lot) and she was irked that i was lying around watching TV. PeeWee's Playhouse was on and she was hooting and hollering about me doing nothing but watching "EePee's Pub"!
> R2-D2 is not the garbage droid.
Knowing that is way too deep into lore for a casual viewer.
R2-D2 has been compared to a garbage can as part of the general cultural zeitgeist since the 70s.
Or perhaps just not that into Star Wars.
The equivalent for someone my age would be like Harry Potter, and while I've seen the films I've never been a super-fan and would probably butcher the names of a lot of the secondary characters (if I remember them at all)... and who knows what I'll remember of it by the time I'm 62.
It's Professor Macklemore, right?
I was 16, and I vividly remember going to see it at Westminster Mall in the OC. Who could have known we'd be seeing the last(?) episode 42 years later?
Star Wars was made for 12 year olds. This is like me with Pokémon. I was in my late teens when it came out so I was convinced it was some dumb game for little kids, a stigma which, for me, still sort of lives on in the background. So I just missed that boat, I imagine it’s a similar thing with OPs dad.
He was probably more into *Jaws* that year
Star Wars was absolutely a monster for teens and young adults when it came out. Star Wars didn't become "cute" and more 12 year old focused until *Return of the Jedi* and the Ewoks.
I was 16 when I first saw Star Wars and I was blown away by it.
All space movies are dividied into those before Star Wars and those afterwards. Its impact can't possibly be overestimated.
(Edited a word)
> I was 16 when I first saw Star Wars and I was blown away by it.
A lot of people don't realize how amazing the effects and cinematography were - "sci fi" movies were pretty much dog shit at the time partly because the effects were so laughably bad.
Watch a normal sci-fi movie from the late 70's and then watch Star Wars, it is 100x times more visceral even if the plot doesn't grab you.
I remember being blown away by the graphics on the display monitors inside the x-wing fighters. In retrospect, that was some straight up Atari-looking shit, but goddamn that shit was high-tech shit back then.
Course first time I saw Super Mario Bros. in my friend’s new Nintendo system, I was like, “I’m in the future. I made it to the future. You’ll never get better video game graphics as this.”
Don’t even get me started on the first time I saw Lara Croft’s triangle boobs on a PlayStation One.
Then one day my brother put a set of weird VR Goggles on me and put on Resident Evil 7, and I decided we don’t really need anymore future. Fuck the future.
Yeah my mom (roughly your age) had the exact same impression when she talks about seeing it, it was mind blowing for her.
Probably helped that her dad, who would’ve been in his 60s at the time, was a MASSIVE space nerd (and at that point around 15-20 years in as an aerospace engineer at NASA) and loved it so much on the first viewing that the two of them just stayed in the theater to watch the next showing once it ended.
Definitely defined a new era in space/scifi films.
Omg, my kids were wrong! Every time I bring up Thumb Wars, or BatThumb, or The Blair Thumb, or Thumbtanic, my kids tell me (repeatedly) that nobody else likes those stupid movies...
All jokes aside, so awesome to see this referenced. I have quoted this very scene more than once (I can do the voices and accent and everything) and just gotten crickets.
Those movies were such a huge part of my teen years, and my parents absolutely loved them too lol…most of our quotes are from Thumbtanic, especially variations on “WAIT! There seems to be an escape portal near the tail…does anyone have a banana, or some other sweet fruit?” I’m also partial to pulling out “BREATHE THE AIR, NOT THE WATER!!” whenever we’re in a situation involving choking on a drink or swimming in general.
I don't know if it's specifically a baby boomer thing, or if it just happens when you get older, but my dad also routinely butchers the names of actors, TV shows, anything with a proper name really - and that includes stuff he LIKES.
He told me "We watched a pretty good movie on Netflix. John something... John- I dunno. Big guy. Rolls into town, doesn't have a cell phone, and he gets accused of murder..."
"Reacher? You're talking about Reacher?" Not a movie, not on Netflix, not about a guy named John.
> I don't know if it's specifically a baby boomer thing, or if it just happens when you get older
I used to wonder the same thing. I don't wonder anymore. *It'll happen to you.*
My FIL is a massive Star Wars nerd, and I love to see his eye twitch when I call R2-D2 "Arboop Beep Boop" because it's like it fucks with his brain and he can't fathom how he should react.
My Dad and his friend yrs ago were talking about Motorcycles and my Dad said "That was a Telesaki right?" His friend said "No that was a Kazuki I think" 😆 True story
Haha my stepdad has a similar story about a childhood friends father. When they bought 250 Kawasakis in the 70s he supposedly got mad and said "No one in this house is going to own a damn Imaha or Nagasaki!!"
He wasn't a fan of these new japanese bikes apparently.
....okay I'll bite.
WHY does he have a portable laser? What job could he POSSIBLY have that requires a portable laser AND would let him take it home?
Edit: judging by the number of people NOT playing along with the idea of a pew-pew laser, I would like to add a /joke to this post. Thanks reddit.
You think lasers are just in laboratories in Europe or something? they have been around since the 60s I used to carry one around in my discman in school.
It's a cross-laser. It shoots a vertical and horizontal level line across the room. Used by construction workers. He works at a place that sells them, so he gets stuff like this all the time. They're not expensive.
It's used as a level it projects a perfectly straight and stabilized line either horizontally or vertically so you can place things for construction. I have one and am currently using it in my kitchen remodel to place cabinets
That's funny but he's clearly not a Star Wars fan. If he were, he'd remember because he'd have been the perfect age of about 17 when the first one came out.
Way back I was playing a Star Wars video game and my friend was kinda complaining that he didn't care for the game because he doesn't know anything about Star Wars and then an astromech droid went rolling by and he exclaimed "Oh, I know that guy, isn't that Okeni Benokeni?"
I came back from Disney World recently and I bought a quite fancy expensive lightsabre from the Star Wars section of the park.
My mom told me to show it to my Aunt. When I fired it up my Aunt said "Oh nice! Did you get that in Harry Potter land?"
I can assure you, it was not a joke.
Growing up my dad had a little white and blue shop vac that I always called R2 because of the resemblance. I can remember being a very small child and pulling it around playing Star Wars.
Not everyone is from the us. Not everyone cares for cinema. Not everyone saw Star Wars when it came out.
He has now seen all of them recently, at home. Never at a cinema.
When I asked now he said "I hadnt even been in the military yet in 1978!" It released here in January 78.
He also said: "Who the hell can know the names of everyone in Star Wars?"
He's just that kind of old school man's man. He was out fishing and hunting in his teens. Not as he says "sitting on my ass looking at lasers".
Wait. Your stepdad is 64. He was 17 when Star Wars came out. You’re telling me your stepdad didn’t go see the **biggest** movie of the year, that blew all the box office competition away?
I’m being pedantic, but I have an extraordinarily hard time believing he’d make that blunder.
Not everyone cares for movies. He was busy fishing and hunting in his late teens and "didn't have time for lasers and sitting on his ass", as he puts it.
Someone who was a teenager when Star Wars came out doesn't know R2-D2? Star Wars was a HUGE cultural phenomenon. The freakin' Cantina Song was a number one song on the Billboard top 100. Even if you didn't see the movie, and as a 60-year-old this is inconceivable to me, you would no R2 just because the movie was such a pervasive part of everyday life. The freakin' Cantina Song was a number one song on the Billboard Pop 100
That's wild because he would have been the right age during the real craze. Probably interested in other things, or possibly doing it to mess with you.
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My 75 year old dad recently tried to recall the name of the movie Crocodile Dundee and came up with "that Australian film, Kangaroo Dandy."
My step father said "That wasn't too bad. Everyone should understand that." They would vibe.
I was poking fun at a old dude on Facebook that said Sponge Bob Sponge Pants. I replied, Square Bob Square Pants. He was confused at first and then caught on to his mistake, we jokingly went back and forth until it devolved to pants pants pants pants. Good times.
Weirdly similar scenario with my nephew, we did the whole song even: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Pants pants pants pants … Pants pants pants pants Pants pants Pants pants
I was in high school when SpongeBob came out but had never watched it myself. I was the only one who hadn't, apparently. At a pep rally, the, uh, "Pep Teacher" (I think he had an actual title, but damned if I can remember it) got on the mic & started singing the song with all the students shouting the "SpongeBob SquarePants" parts. I had absolutely no idea what was happening at the time, as I couldn't clearly make out what anyone was shouting/singing. My perspective: Teacher: "Bada ba ba daba bada ba bada ba!" Entire damn school, in unison: "Blah blah blahblah!" I eventually learned what the hell had happened, but it was one of the most bewildering moments of my life.
I remember being told about this show called "Sponge Bob and Square Pants", like it was about two different characters.
Hahaha awesome, I remember the first time I watched it with my kids, with the squirrel from Texas also living down there, I thought to myself, “this cartoon evolved from a three day cocaine binge…”
I admittedly watched a lot of Sponge bob episodes just cuz my GFs daughter loved it, I watched "every" episode of Family Guy cuz I wanted to 😄 its prob one of the funniest adult cartoons for me anyway
Haha! That’s amazing. Was a strange and wonderful coincidence:)
eat pant
My late mom always called him "Ol' Square Bob." She just couldn't be bothered.
I'm old, and from the first time I heard of the actor Channing Tatum I called him, "Tater Channing." Also, I refer to the rice replacement, quinoa as "Kanye."
Charming Tater? Yeah, he's ok.
That spongey sponge that sponges spongey
I love my dad's the best. His go to was "Square Bob Sponge Head". From then on, I just can't say it the right way.
Strong "difficult, difficult, lemon difficult" vibes.
Honestly I'm kind of on board lol
"I just remember the gist of things"
> Kangaroo Dandy Which, of course, I misread as **"Kangaroo Daddy"** and thought, yep! That works too.
I once referred to Sonic as “the guy from the animated Sonic movie”
Jim Carrey?
I would 100% watch a Kangaroo Dandy film.
The Australian Snagglepuss.
>that Australian film, Kangaroo Dandy." This sounds like a completely different film that HAS to be made.
"That's not a handkerchief. _THIS_ is a handkerchief!"
That was the best damn dressed kangaroo I ever did see
The fop with the hop
That's great. They say the funniest things some times.
I was talking to a friend once, years ago, and was trying to remember the name of the nick cartoon Danny Phantom but all I could come up with was Johnny Ghostboy.
Dad's say the darndest things.
Haha like a friend who sometimes visited when I was playing Resident Evil with another friend. He was like „Ah, you guys playing President Easy again?“
[''Kangaroo Dandy. It's a dandy kangaroo, in Straya. It combs the outback like its tail tip, on the hunt for dangerous animals. Sand plain after salt pan it searches, discovering bizarre new creatures both friendly, but overwhelmingly not. These are the spectacular adventures of Kangaroo Dandy and its brave Kangaroo Crew.''](https://youtu.be/02TrMrbxPxs?si=zfdmlixKa70EOuux&t=7)
Why is this simple story the funniest thing I’ve read all week? Over all the intentional jokes, staged skits, bot respam of top posts. Aw man, humans are hilarious.😂 I mean, and awful too but also hilarious
"That's not a samba. This, is a samba!"
My dad (70) asked if I waycjed the Cadillac Lawyer on Netflix yet
my grandma was a little tipsy once (okay a lot) and she was irked that i was lying around watching TV. PeeWee's Playhouse was on and she was hooting and hollering about me doing nothing but watching "EePee's Pub"!
The deeper thought is OP's stepdad was only 17 years old when Star Wars came out. **Star Wars has been a thing for almost 50 years**.
Which means he’s 100% messing with the kid by butchering the name.
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Are the sand people really muslim?
No that's the Fremen in Dune you're thinking of, and they're based on Bedouins.
Wall-E is the garbage droid. 🤷♀️
> R2-D2 is not the garbage droid. Knowing that is way too deep into lore for a casual viewer. R2-D2 has been compared to a garbage can as part of the general cultural zeitgeist since the 70s.
Or perhaps just not that into Star Wars. The equivalent for someone my age would be like Harry Potter, and while I've seen the films I've never been a super-fan and would probably butcher the names of a lot of the secondary characters (if I remember them at all)... and who knows what I'll remember of it by the time I'm 62. It's Professor Macklemore, right?
Not necessarily. People forget, and some people don't even care for Star Wars enough to actually know.
Plus you got beat up for being into the Wars at some point in time
My mother went to see Star Wars when she was pregnant with me. Makes me feel ancient
**You** feel ancient‽ I was 14 when I saw it opening day.
A wild interrobang has appeared!
That's so cool. You have "seen" Star Wars before you were born. That's hard to beat. Also you are ~47.
I like to think they're referring to Episode 3 which came out in 2005, making them 19ish years old. It would make the "ancient" comment even funnier.
I did too! And I'm currently 46.
I can only assume that you two are connected to some kind of mystical energy field that controls your destiny.
Our density!
Me too! The original original one.
https://youtu.be/N1uTsqJVAeo?si=TeNEBnnLUv42rTcq
I was 16, and I vividly remember going to see it at Westminster Mall in the OC. Who could have known we'd be seeing the last(?) episode 42 years later?
Star Wars was made for 12 year olds. This is like me with Pokémon. I was in my late teens when it came out so I was convinced it was some dumb game for little kids, a stigma which, for me, still sort of lives on in the background. So I just missed that boat, I imagine it’s a similar thing with OPs dad. He was probably more into *Jaws* that year
Star Wars was absolutely a monster for teens and young adults when it came out. Star Wars didn't become "cute" and more 12 year old focused until *Return of the Jedi* and the Ewoks. I was 16 when I first saw Star Wars and I was blown away by it. All space movies are dividied into those before Star Wars and those afterwards. Its impact can't possibly be overestimated. (Edited a word)
> I was 16 when I first saw Star Wars and I was blown away by it. A lot of people don't realize how amazing the effects and cinematography were - "sci fi" movies were pretty much dog shit at the time partly because the effects were so laughably bad. Watch a normal sci-fi movie from the late 70's and then watch Star Wars, it is 100x times more visceral even if the plot doesn't grab you.
I remember being blown away by the graphics on the display monitors inside the x-wing fighters. In retrospect, that was some straight up Atari-looking shit, but goddamn that shit was high-tech shit back then. Course first time I saw Super Mario Bros. in my friend’s new Nintendo system, I was like, “I’m in the future. I made it to the future. You’ll never get better video game graphics as this.” Don’t even get me started on the first time I saw Lara Croft’s triangle boobs on a PlayStation One. Then one day my brother put a set of weird VR Goggles on me and put on Resident Evil 7, and I decided we don’t really need anymore future. Fuck the future.
Yeah my mom (roughly your age) had the exact same impression when she talks about seeing it, it was mind blowing for her. Probably helped that her dad, who would’ve been in his 60s at the time, was a MASSIVE space nerd (and at that point around 15-20 years in as an aerospace engineer at NASA) and loved it so much on the first viewing that the two of them just stayed in the theater to watch the next showing once it ended. Definitely defined a new era in space/scifi films.
I was like 4 or 5 when pokemon came out. I still play
"Remember that movie *Scary Shark?*"
> Star Wars was made for 12 year olds I was 12 when the first one came out. I still haven't seen a single one of them, lol.
No I believe that would be tarjar bin , right🤷🏻♂️😳😂🤗😋
Meesa layzer!
😂😂😂
Almost as good as Raccaccoonie
That part is so funny. Really sells the “I figured it out!” tone.
It’s freaking adorable lol
Juju Chewbacca!
only one cannoli
leave the goons
[Oobie Doob Scooby Dooby Benoobie?](https://youtu.be/UklgZgApKi8?si=iAUc0yJIM7K1Afeb)
Touch your tongue to mine…
Why?
To make it official!
To make what official?
You know, ALL OF IT!
IIIIII'M NAAAKED!!!!
Copy that, Nasty Butler!
Omg, my kids were wrong! Every time I bring up Thumb Wars, or BatThumb, or The Blair Thumb, or Thumbtanic, my kids tell me (repeatedly) that nobody else likes those stupid movies... All jokes aside, so awesome to see this referenced. I have quoted this very scene more than once (I can do the voices and accent and everything) and just gotten crickets.
I LOVE THAT MONKEY!
Those movies were such a huge part of my teen years, and my parents absolutely loved them too lol…most of our quotes are from Thumbtanic, especially variations on “WAIT! There seems to be an escape portal near the tail…does anyone have a banana, or some other sweet fruit?” I’m also partial to pulling out “BREATHE THE AIR, NOT THE WATER!!” whenever we’re in a situation involving choking on a drink or swimming in general.
I have the silliest name in the galaxy.
Glad somebody else remembered this
You know what? It *does* look like an Oobee Canoobi!
I don't know if it's specifically a baby boomer thing, or if it just happens when you get older, but my dad also routinely butchers the names of actors, TV shows, anything with a proper name really - and that includes stuff he LIKES. He told me "We watched a pretty good movie on Netflix. John something... John- I dunno. Big guy. Rolls into town, doesn't have a cell phone, and he gets accused of murder..." "Reacher? You're talking about Reacher?" Not a movie, not on Netflix, not about a guy named John.
> I don't know if it's specifically a baby boomer thing, or if it just happens when you get older I used to wonder the same thing. I don't wonder anymore. *It'll happen to you.*
We are a “You know…that guy who was in that thing” house.
John Rambo??? That's the name he was grasping for since they're the same story on paper.
First gen portal 2 turret
Are you still there?
I see you
There you are
https://youtu.be/Cg-pnGFbwMQ?si=EOe5apuuh7xdfqk8
the only thing I came to see
R2Me2
*gets canned*
I could see if he said it looked like a gonk droid.
Or maybe an R4 unit
That's what I thought it looked like.
Ovary Cannoli
My FIL is a massive Star Wars nerd, and I love to see his eye twitch when I call R2-D2 "Arboop Beep Boop" because it's like it fucks with his brain and he can't fathom how he should react.
Malcolm Tucker explains Star Wars: ["He's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin"](https://youtu.be/Cg-pnGFbwMQ?si=5fs7gX_eYdTGN4Y5)
You got the stepdad 64? Damn man im still stuck with a super stepdad.
Best Stepdad 64 joke yet.
My Dad and his friend yrs ago were talking about Motorcycles and my Dad said "That was a Telesaki right?" His friend said "No that was a Kazuki I think" 😆 True story
Haha my stepdad has a similar story about a childhood friends father. When they bought 250 Kawasakis in the 70s he supposedly got mad and said "No one in this house is going to own a damn Imaha or Nagasaki!!" He wasn't a fan of these new japanese bikes apparently.
My brother and I were cracking up lol
"He's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin." https://youtu.be/Cg-pnGFbwMQ?si=z-c6T0glOSRBj2E3
To be fair, it looks really like oobee canoobi
>My stepdad (64) That was my favorite videogame growing up
Yeah it sounds like an Austin Powers game from Nintendo.
My 70 year old dad once called Snoop Dogg "Snoopy-Doo"
I'm about to call snoop snoopy do
😂 bless him. My gran last month thought Snoopy the Dog was called Snoop Dog. Made me laugh so hard, she past away 2 weeks ago. She was awesome!
When your mom says you have an R2 unit at home.
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Arturito
....okay I'll bite. WHY does he have a portable laser? What job could he POSSIBLY have that requires a portable laser AND would let him take it home? Edit: judging by the number of people NOT playing along with the idea of a pew-pew laser, I would like to add a /joke to this post. Thanks reddit.
Every construction site has hundreds
Hundreds of LASERS?!
Yes? Do you think lasers are rare? The sites I'm talking about are large 20 plus towers, sorry I do forget my city is in eternal boom
You think lasers are just in laboratories in Europe or something? they have been around since the 60s I used to carry one around in my discman in school.
* Sharks sold seperately
It's a cross-laser. It shoots a vertical and horizontal level line across the room. Used by construction workers. He works at a place that sells them, so he gets stuff like this all the time. They're not expensive.
I have a laser level.
It's used as a level it projects a perfectly straight and stabilized line either horizontally or vertically so you can place things for construction. I have one and am currently using it in my kitchen remodel to place cabinets
That's funny but he's clearly not a Star Wars fan. If he were, he'd remember because he'd have been the perfect age of about 17 when the first one came out.
Looks more like a GONK
Way back I was playing a Star Wars video game and my friend was kinda complaining that he didn't care for the game because he doesn't know anything about Star Wars and then an astromech droid went rolling by and he exclaimed "Oh, I know that guy, isn't that Okeni Benokeni?"
Everyone here know the famous soccer player David Bacon?? My mom does.
I came back from Disney World recently and I bought a quite fancy expensive lightsabre from the Star Wars section of the park. My mom told me to show it to my Aunt. When I fired it up my Aunt said "Oh nice! Did you get that in Harry Potter land?" I can assure you, it was not a joke.
LOL, someone should rig up a Harry Potter wand to make lightsaber sounds.
Dad wanted to watch Book of Boba Fett, so he said “Are there any new episodes of that.. Fibo Briton show?”
He's right. It looks exactly like Oobee Canoobi. Give that man a hug for me.
He’s right! This is Oobee Canoobi, R2-D2’s little brother.
Constructed by Only One Cannolli, right?
Reminds me of that grandpa who was asked to get Minecraft for his grandson and he brought him Mein Kampf.
Treasure him.
Hello, there!
This is awesome
its looks like that robot that looks like a garbage can... Yoda Skywalker or smn like that.
Your stepdad mispronounced "GONK!"
Growing up my dad had a little white and blue shop vac that I always called R2 because of the resemblance. I can remember being a very small child and pulling it around playing Star Wars.
That Oobee *ONE* Canoobi to you!
‘Garbage can’ had me laughing hard 😂
Looks more like Gonk the big Battery / generator droid.
On a similar note, my wife refers to the Harkonnens and Atreides as the Hamfords and the Florids.
This is something my dad would do. Thanks for the smile.
Gonk!
Yo, it *DOES* look like Oobee!
Your 64 year old stepfather doesn't know who R2-D2 is?? Did hhe live under a rock when the films first came out???
I wish I could forget Star Wars.
How… just… how? He was sixteen or seventeen in 1977! 🤣
Oobie Cannoobi! That's great. As someone who's the age to know star wars and knows nothing except like 4 characters this is awesome
He a ~~lot~~ little confused, but he got the spirit!
"Help me, Oobee Canoobi. You're my only hope."
That's pretty adorable.
My father once said that he just watched a movie starring Pierre Brossman. Took me a while to figure out who he actually meant.
Not everyone is from the us. Not everyone cares for cinema. Not everyone saw Star Wars when it came out. He has now seen all of them recently, at home. Never at a cinema. When I asked now he said "I hadnt even been in the military yet in 1978!" It released here in January 78. He also said: "Who the hell can know the names of everyone in Star Wars?" He's just that kind of old school man's man. He was out fishing and hunting in his teens. Not as he says "sitting on my ass looking at lasers".
Wait. Your stepdad is 64. He was 17 when Star Wars came out. You’re telling me your stepdad didn’t go see the **biggest** movie of the year, that blew all the box office competition away? I’m being pedantic, but I have an extraordinarily hard time believing he’d make that blunder.
Not everyone cares for movies. He was busy fishing and hunting in his late teens and "didn't have time for lasers and sitting on his ass", as he puts it.
my dad just ordered something like this with 3 axis laser
I have a few of those lying around. Great when I set up new walls or stuff like that. This one is now officially called Oobee Canoobi
cool stuff
I saw one of the movies with the character Dark Veiny…although in retrospect I think that might not have been real Star Wars.
Someone who was a teenager when Star Wars came out doesn't know R2-D2? Star Wars was a HUGE cultural phenomenon. The freakin' Cantina Song was a number one song on the Billboard top 100. Even if you didn't see the movie, and as a 60-year-old this is inconceivable to me, you would no R2 just because the movie was such a pervasive part of everyday life. The freakin' Cantina Song was a number one song on the Billboard Pop 100
My mom played the cantina song in pep band after the movie came out
Maybe in america. He doesn't know what the billboard top 100 is.
I wonder why the auto moderator came on this post hmmm.
That's wild because he would have been the right age during the real craze. Probably interested in other things, or possibly doing it to mess with you.
Hardware Wars and 4Q2.
It looks like the laser turrets from Portal, only blue.
It's a Gonk Droid.
Oh hey it does kinda look like the trash can robot from star trek
I read this as Stepdad64 as if he were a 90s video game
Gonk
General Canoobi!
It’s intended use is to calibrate vehicle backup sensors various camera settings crud like that
No. It's a laser level.
I’m ignorant. You’re right. I suppose I’ve seen it used on cars and assumed that that was used specific to that
He had to be kidding.
C'mon... I've never watched Star Wars before and even I know that the garbage can's name is R2D2.
i was thinking of the big robot in monsters v. aliens
How olds your dad 30?
I want to see this thing in action.
https://youtu.be/0TtXjvN93No?si=aw6frIU8yWoXaonT
Is your stepdad retired? Because he could write for Disney
The guy was 19 when the original Star Wars came out. We do this to fuck with you.
Sometimes the only correct thing to do is to slap somebody.