r/facepalm • u/olbigbear • Mar 20 '22

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u/Nivek_Vamps Mar 20 '22

I fully believe Tim Curry is powerful enough to enjoy the afterlife while alive

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u/Thameus Mar 20 '22

That one role (and the cult following) probably did more to advance LGBTQ acceptance than anything else in history.

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u/Magmaigneous Mar 20 '22

Tim Curry may pass one day, but Frank-N-Furter will live forever.

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u/Francesca_N_Furter Mar 21 '22

Back at ya!

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u/Raspy_Meow Mar 21 '22

Love your username!

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u/orgeezuz Mar 21 '22

I wasn't aware Animaniacs played an important part in lgbt history. Good for them

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Mar 21 '22

They're talking about Home Alone 2.

He was smooching with everybody.

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u/willowhanna Mar 21 '22

I thought we were talking about Pennywise!

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u/sirbissel Mar 21 '22

Clearly it was about Nigel Thornberry

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u/Sinisteria JoeBidenSpoiledMyHam Mar 21 '22

You know thatā€™s right.

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u/Redredditer640 Mar 21 '22

SMASHING!!!

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart Mar 21 '22

Wadsworth is legendary.

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u/awesomeone6044 Mar 21 '22

In an amazingly talented cast of actors and actresses he not only stole The show, he is the entire fucking movie. And the only main character in it invented for the flick.

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u/mustangsal Mar 21 '22

Absolutely one of his best roles

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u/D3AD_SPAC3 Mar 21 '22

Legitimately one of my favorites of his performances.

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u/Sproose_Moose Mar 21 '22

I know it made me question my sexual orientation. I'm a straight woman but apparently I've got a thing for guys in fishnets because woof

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u/meservyjon Mar 21 '22

Tim Curry has to be the only man alive that can put on women's clothing and have men and women respect the shit out of him. That is Huge Dick Energy.

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u/G0Slowly Mar 21 '22

You think so? Iā€™d be curious what the other contenders are. Stonewall aside, was it Ellen? Elton? Freddie? Iā€™m unfamiliar with who was open about it and how early it was (which goes in hand with how accepted itā€™d be..)

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u/Lord_Derpenheim Mar 21 '22

Definitely not Freddie. Now, maybe, but at the time it was not at all widely a good thing, because it was muddied with how stigmatized aids was.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Jokes aside, LGBT acceptance wasn't advanced by one Hollywood actor or actress.

That's called idolization. LGBT acceptance was accomplished through many hardworking NGOs, activists and good people fighting tooth and nail without a dime to show for it. Not a multi millionaire with a TV show. Normalization is a thing, so LGBT characters and actors becoming commonplace advances the community, too. However, that only works subtly on a macro scale. It's about continuous exposure, not single encounters.

One actor who is very successful and easily digestible? That's a token minority oftentimes. A lot of LGBT celebrities have done a lot for the community, but it's usually through their behind the scenes work and it usually involves them recruiting the help of NGOs and activists and community organizers anyway.

Edit: I'd argue some of the earliest successes of gay celebrities made it even more difficult for a more diverse crowd to break through homophobia. It was easy for society to digest Freddie Mercury, because he was a cis man and had relationships with women. Ellen was a wealthy white lesbian. Elton John was a proper English man with knighthood. They were easy for society to accept, and led to people of color and trans people getting left out of the discussion for a long time.

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u/G0Slowly Mar 21 '22

This sort of in depth answer is what I wanted, thank you!! ā€œIf you had to pick any actor, musical artist, or author, etc which would you say advanced the normalization of gay people the most?ā€ would maybe be a more accurate question. Also want to throw out that I think the campaign we had that encouraged coming out to those close to us (if they were in a safe place to do so) helped an enormous amount. Itā€™s much easier to accept the demonization campaign when itā€™s some vague boogeyman preying in bathrooms etc as opposed to when itā€™s your Uncle Chris or best friend from college.

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u/emfrank Mar 21 '22

As much as I like Rocky Horror, it was a cult film which did not really reach the average person. I think the show SOAP from the late 70's is a contender. Billy Crystal played a complex gay character, rather than a stereotype, and the show was widely watched. Phil Donahue's talk show also dealt with LGBT and other issues of acceptance. The show was groundbreaking when it started in the 70s, and reached a lot of women at home, but became a parody of itself. Finally, it is worth noting that Norman Lear had queer themes in episodes of many of his shows, like All in the Family.

Ellen was important, especially for the portrayal of lesbian relationships, but her show was significantly later.

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u/Thameus Mar 21 '22

I wonder, do people still realize how the midnight movie showings of Rocky horror picture show actually worked? It was the cult much more than Tim's specific performance that did the trick.

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u/evilsir Mar 21 '22

I remember the first time i watched Rocky Horror. I was confused throughout the entire movie. I'm also not really a fan of musicals. But, even back then, i loved me some Tim Curry, so I sat through it.

Credits rolled. I sat there, thinking about what I'd just seen.

Got a drink. Got some snacks. Watched it again.

Brilliant movie

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u/ProfessorAdonisCnut Mar 21 '22

He can straddle anything, including the veil

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u/periodmoustache Mar 21 '22

Whatcha wanna bet they thought Tim Curry was Alan Rickman?

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u/Nivek_Vamps Mar 21 '22

Alan Rickman was also very powerful, probably enough that he could hang out in life from the afterlife.

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u/MerGoatRoybal Mar 21 '22

tbh, anyone can do this.... it's a resonancy issue, that sadly most people fail to grasp...

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u/advertentlyvertical Mar 21 '22

It's OK, we all need to feel like we're special once in a while.

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u/MerGoatRoybal Mar 21 '22

Yeahā€¦. Thatā€™s my dealā€¦. I donā€™t feel specialā€¦.. so glad you pointed that out

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u/On_A_Related_Note Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Goddamn national treasure.

Edit: as I've been made abundantly aware, it's a parody account. I think my point still stands though.

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u/sirhecsivart Mar 20 '22

*International

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u/GradientPerception Mar 21 '22

Global*

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

mr. Worldwide

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u/bdog1145 Mar 20 '22

That is a parody account

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u/giantspeck Mar 20 '22

It's a facepalm that the person thought Tim Curry was dead, yes, but the person replying to them is not Tim Curry. It's a parody account.

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u/Not_Henry_Winkler Mar 20 '22

Why would you even create an account like that, tho?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/EarthRester Mar 21 '22

Tim Curry ain't dead, but he did suffer a massive stroke several years ago. So he's probably not really gonna go onto twitter to smack down some stupid. It's nice that someone has his back.

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u/atreyukun Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Last time I saw him online taking questions, he seemed to be doing really well all things considered.

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u/jessehechtcreative Mar 21 '22

Iā€™ve seen a lot of sweet wholesomeness from interactions with his fans. Glad we live in a time where we can interact with Tim Curry over video.

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u/__MuscleMan__ Mar 21 '22

You know who ELSE just want the attention????

MY MOM

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

That account is actually a blast. The woman who runs it regularly calls out folks on the internet that only ever talk about Tim in terms of the stroke or as if he is already dead.

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u/bairose Mar 21 '22

It's a girl, I used to be friends with her on Tumblr! Her account there was called damntimcurrywhyyousodistracting

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

That's awesome!

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u/James_Paul_McCartney Mar 21 '22

Like who would imitate a celebrity online? Seems so dumb?

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u/terminal8 Mar 20 '22

Double palm to the face

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u/Puppy_Coated_In_Beer Mar 21 '22

It's a double facepalm because they also for some reason believe there's an afterlife yet they aren't religious

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

I swear access to the internet has made most people dumber than ever.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

38 minutes... not bad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Or, they were out there all along without a platform/voice so they went unnoticed.

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u/grrrrreat Mar 20 '22

Visibly. But not much more.

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u/09Klr650 Mar 21 '22

It's not that they are dumber, they were always that dumb. It's just that the internet allows all these dumb people to be seen and heard.

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u/IgorBaggins Mar 20 '22

This is nightmare in a photo.

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u/PreOpTransCentaur Mar 20 '22

I have a shirt that just says "antici.." with the lips behind it. The amount of people that silently finish it is only outnumbered by the ones who do it out loud. It's an absolute riot. Like humming the beginning of Tom's Diner quietly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

That is now my dream shirt and I must have one. Hopefully someoneā€™s done something similar on Etsy!

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u/PreOpTransCentaur Mar 20 '22

I wanna say I got it on teepublic or something similar a few years ago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/avilethrowaway Mar 20 '22

You ever used discord?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

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u/PM-Me-Your-TitsPlz Nothing is real. Have fun, but dont spread STDs šŸ˜Ž Mar 20 '22

Oh, Tim Curry. He's in the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPAAACE!!!

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u/PhantomBrowser111 Mar 20 '22

Give it enough time

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u/greatatemi Mar 20 '22

Capitalism in Space

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u/Walican132 Mar 21 '22

What is that Tim curry footage from I canā€™t remember.

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u/mattyandco Mar 21 '22

The game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.

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u/TheGreenGobblr Mar 20 '22

So like 3 weeks?

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u/DarthYsalamir Mar 20 '22

Y'all a bit late. Musk and Bezos already fucking up space :(

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u/PhantomBrowser111 Mar 21 '22

Hey, don't worry. There's only two of them, and we have yet to see Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates up there

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u/robcan167 Mar 20 '22

Nice RED ALERT 3 reference!

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u/Sweet__Sauce Mar 20 '22

I feel like this person is confusing him for Alan Rickman

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u/Karmachinery Mar 20 '22

Ugh donā€™t remind me.

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u/phwittykitty Mar 20 '22

That's exactly what I was thinking!

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u/ilikemunkeys Mar 20 '22

A.) yes not Tim Curry replying and B.) This is total Mandela Effect shit because I swear I remember Curry died about 4 years ago or so. So weird.

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u/respectablebastard Mar 20 '22

He had a massive stroke in 2012 that left him paralyzed and largely out of the limelight

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Maybe in YOUR reality!

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u/badgerhostel Mar 20 '22

For real i thought he's been dead for years. Quit retconning shit. I can't keep all 3 timelines strait.

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u/ilikemunkeys Mar 20 '22

Ahhhh, OK, that must be what Iā€™m thinking of. I feel better now. Thanks!

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u/panicboner Mar 21 '22

He doesnā€™t.

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u/Surrealspanner Mar 20 '22

I was convinced he died along with everyone else in 2016

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u/TisBeTheFuk Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

The Rapture happened in 2016, but none of us was worthy, so we remained here, and we're basically living in hell now

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u/awesomeone6044 Mar 21 '22

I hate how much sense that makes.

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u/PhilosopherFLX Mar 20 '22

Harambe died for our sins but we went straight to hell.

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u/AeroOnFire Mar 20 '22

Yeah I thought died... what the hell?

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u/A_Drusas Mar 21 '22

He had a stroke a few years back. It didn't kill him, but that's probably what you're thinking of.

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u/banjaxe Mar 20 '22

Yeah man I agree. I was super confused by the screenshot, because I swear Tim Curry died.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

He was at emerald city comic con a few months ago.

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u/banjaxe Mar 20 '22

I mean.. I believe you. But I definitely remember him dying, and remember the RHPS tributes to him. And it wasn't that he had a stroke. I definitely remember him dying.

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u/SirHerald Mar 20 '22

I was pretty sure he was dead too.

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u/laceyisreallyrad Mar 21 '22

I 100% thought the same for some reasonā€¦ I swear Iā€™ve mourned his death somewhat recently. Much more recently than 2012 when the stroke was, too. And I see Iā€™m not alone. Super weird!

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u/who_ate_the_cookie Mar 21 '22

It's the Bernstein bears all over again

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u/ErinEvonna Mar 21 '22

I thought he was dead, and I am one of the people who remembers Mandelaā€™s funeral like 20 years before it happened.

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u/pound_sterling Mar 20 '22

Can everyone stop saying they thought he was dead? What the hell is wrong with y'all...

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

We just honestly all thought he was dead for some reason. I'm actually surprised he's still alive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Butā€¦.thatā€™s not really Tim Curry. Thatā€™s a parody account. It literally says in the profile for that user that itā€™s a parody account.

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u/Bright_Push754 Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

"As nor am I" bugs the shit out of me. After seeing this the 4th time today, noting this feels almost compulsory; sorry.

Edit: I eat crayons

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u/quantinuum Mar 20 '22

I actually came to the comments to see if someone mentioned this. Not a native English speaker, so I wasnā€™t sure.

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u/Meffrey_Dewlocks Mar 20 '22

Trying to figure out which one I hate more. The one in the title or the way you wrote it bc itā€™s so annoying you couldnā€™t even remember it correctly lol.

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u/Amehvafan Mar 20 '22

Wait, what?! I was fucking sure he died? I remember reading about it and being sad about it. That was about one or two years ago. Why do I have such a vivid memory of reading about his death?

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u/ExtremeAlternative0 Mar 20 '22

reminds me of when some news site reported that one of the Monty python guys had died when he hadn't. He then responded to them on social media calling them idiots.

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u/phuqo5 Mar 20 '22

This definitely happened and I definitely remember reading about this and being mildly sad about it but I know goddamn well I remember reading of his death.

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u/arfski Mar 20 '22

Was that death before or after he did the Joe Biden fund raiser the other year?! He had a massive stroke in 2012, but still does voice work. https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/tim-curry-rocky-horror-fundraiser-democrats-1081475/

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u/phuqo5 Mar 20 '22

I am not the only in this thread who remembers this exact same thing.

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u/arfski Mar 20 '22

Some very strange Mandela effect/mass hysteria thing going on that you and others recall something that did not hapoen. I've seen a few vague "but didn't he die a couple of years ago" comments, you are all probably just thinking of Alan Rickman!

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u/phuqo5 Mar 21 '22

I know the difference between Alan Rickman and Tim Curry. Alan rickman did not appear in rocky horror picture show

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u/arfski Mar 21 '22

Didn't want to assume, I mean after all you remember Tim Curry apparently dying, which is news to him, so excuse me if my limited knowledge of you suggests that you may have a dubious memory!

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u/phuqo5 Mar 21 '22

Sorry. Didn't mean to sound rude but a buuuuunch of people in this thread remember the same thing and I didn't come into the comments and get tricked by them. I stared at the post baffled for like 5 minutes looking for what I was missing because I was sure he was dead. Like this has my fucking mind blown.

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u/arfski Mar 21 '22

You're cool! False memories are a thing, not just deaths but things like scenes people honestly believe they're watched, that don't actually exist in the film etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_Effect

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u/phuqo5 Mar 21 '22

That I understand but the way so many other people here have the same memory is what's wild about it.

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u/JarasM Mar 21 '22

I was somehow sure he's dead as well?! I remember watching Legend recently and thought it sure sucks he's dead. Maybe I just read about his stroke and assumed?

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u/EatYourCheckers Mar 20 '22

You're thinking of Bob Odenkirk.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Has no one else noticed yet the tweet is from a parody account.

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u/peachsnatch Mar 20 '22

I read this in Nigel Thornberryā€™s voice

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u/Storage-Terrible Mar 20 '22

So did Tim Curry.

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u/ExtensionBluejay253 Mar 20 '22

It would be amazing, really astoundingā€¦

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u/shentaitai Mar 20 '22

Time is fleeting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Madness takes its toll.

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u/Ipeakedinthe80s Mar 20 '22

But listen closely

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u/more-random-words Mar 20 '22

(not for very much longer)

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u/SoorenaKuroki Mar 20 '22

Maybe Tim Curry is gonna mysteriously kill himself this week

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u/Cthulhu625 Mar 20 '22

He's going be the Devil right? Like in Legend?

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u/gokaigreen19 Mar 20 '22

also not the actual tim curry

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u/NorwaySlim Mar 20 '22

If only there was an indicator that this isn't his real account

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u/baxterrocky Mar 20 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Congo is so underratedā€¦ I love him & Ernie Hudson in that film.

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u/jazzdukenb Mar 21 '22

Stop eating my sesame cake...

STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!

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u/Sivick314 Mar 20 '22

stop trying to kill off tim curry. he's a national treasure

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u/Toasty_Rolls Mar 21 '22

I swear to fucking God I have vivid memories of him passing away and the internet being super sad wtf . This is great news but now I'm questioning my sanity. This Mendala Effect shit needs to stop.

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u/TundieRice Mar 21 '22

He had a debilitating stroke, thatā€™s what every single one of you who thought he was dead are thinking of and misremembering, so letā€™s stop with the Mandela Effect stuff, maybe.

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u/PlagueofSquirrels Mar 20 '22

He's not fooling anyone, he'll be stone dead in a moment

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u/uummwhat Mar 20 '22

Okay but in my imagining not being dead wouldn't necessarily prevent Tim Curry from having fun in the afterlife.

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u/Lesurous Mar 20 '22

I've seen Coco, you don't gotta be dead to get groovy with spirits.

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u/leftyguitarguy Mar 21 '22

Why did I hear Nigel thornberrieā€™s laugh after this sentence?

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u/Frozenwood1776 Mar 21 '22

TIL Tim Curry is still alive. I swore he passed away a few years ago. Iā€™m glad heā€™s still with us )

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u/lastroids Mar 21 '22

I read this while imagining Nigel Thornberry's cartoon face.

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u/Shavasara Mar 21 '22

They're thinking of Frank-n-Furter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Not true he died in Clue

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u/noforgayjesus Mar 21 '22

I don't want to go on the cart

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u/DizzyedUpGirl Mar 21 '22

No, see, he's physically still on Earth, but he's definitely partying with ghosts snad spirits.

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u/Denis_expertul Mar 21 '22

Last Man Standing

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u/High-Ground 'MURICA Mar 21 '22

Not Tim Curry but still funny

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u/sidzero1369 Mar 21 '22

Imagine how that OP feels, though. Finding out that one of their favorite actors who they thought was dead, is in fact NOT dead, and personally reached out to inform them of this.

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u/ImpracticallySharp Mar 20 '22

I feel like with this tweet, Tim Curry is disrespecting my legally protected religious belief that Tim Curry is dead.

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u/Dizzy_Green Mar 20 '22

Wait I heard he WAS dead

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u/ImpracticallySharp Mar 20 '22

Then it's one vote for him being alive and two votes for him being dead. Another quandary settled by democracy!

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

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u/arfski Mar 20 '22

That's because he's not dead...

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u/Proof_Independence68 Mar 20 '22

I love himšŸ¤£šŸ˜­šŸ˜‚

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u/KairiZero Mar 20 '22

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u/shodaimezack Mar 20 '22

then we have this.

I still remember how terrifying this in my childhood. :(

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u/KairiZero Mar 20 '22

yeah it was pretty terrifying back in the day! I remember having nightmares about it lol!

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u/leoberto1 Mar 20 '22

I thought he had died as well lol, just wheelchair bound after a stroke apprently

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u/Imaginary-Fudge-3657 Mar 20 '22

When you tweet to soon

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u/Plsdontcalmdown Mar 20 '22

I can't express how I feel as a white cisgender hetero 40 year old male...

Cause this jackass took away all the jokes!

<3 Tim Curry

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u/BeBa420 Mar 20 '22

Waitā€¦. Heā€™s alive?!? I thought he died like two years ago?!?

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u/Hardcore90skid Mar 20 '22

how in the fuck does Tim not have a verified account?

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u/ThatFamiIiarNight Mar 20 '22

ā€œif youā€™re turned on, then just turn offā€
-tim curry

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u/Mochizuk Mar 20 '22

If you're verified and your title includes not being the person you say you are, does that mean you're verified as yourself or anyone but the person you say you are?

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u/Alcideas Mar 20 '22

He's even tweeting from down there!

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u/Benana Mar 20 '22

Probably has Tim Curry mixed up with Alan Rickman.

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u/CrazyJosh1987 Mar 20 '22

why? alan rickman isnt dead ether.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

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u/MerGoatRoybal Mar 21 '22

I get it, my own parents have already celebrated my death... but that's only because my level of "gay" seems to confuse them......

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u/LetshearitforNY Mar 21 '22

He is Not Yet Dead

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u/GamesNBooks Mar 21 '22

Tim Curry: the Abe Vigoda for a new generation

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Woah woah woah Dwight!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

I read it in his voice

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u/epicarcanoloth Mar 21 '22

Tim Curry: ā€œI didnā€™t hear no bell!ā€

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u/theSnoopySnoop Mar 21 '22

cyberpunk vibes... man how they botched this

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u/Arkena_feral Mar 21 '22

Haha what a legend

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u/ACrask Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Now I gotta go watch Clue.

Clue you ask? Like the board game?

Yes! An older movie with a lot of recognizable faces, including Curry as the butler, portraying a comedic mystery inspired by the board game. Something everyone should watch at least once.

All the actors do a great job, by the way. I just canā€™t help but think of Clue when I see or hear the man.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Tim Curry made my list for this years celebrity Dead Pool.

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u/flat1ander Mar 21 '22

I don't know why but I actually thought Tim Curry was in fact dead.

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u/Cool_Guy_fellow Mar 21 '22

He's not dead, He's in the one place uncorrupted by capitalism.

SPACE!

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u/Irishgrundle Mar 21 '22

Missed opportunity to say ā€œhaving a smashing timeā€

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u/itsmerowe Mar 21 '22

That's from a parody account.

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u/hcsLabs Mar 21 '22

"I feel 'appy!"

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

I feel like this would only be funny if it was actually Tim Curry.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

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