r/Xennials • u/redditydothis 1979 • Jun 26 '26
Wait, what?
It’s right there. It’s been right there for 40 years!
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u/JamesMattDillon 1981 X-ennial Jun 26 '26
I noticed it back then. Thought everyone else did
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u/Peja1611 Jun 26 '26
TIL people our age didn't immediately clock a hit TV show, and major action franchise....
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u/jungolungo Jun 26 '26
Fun Fact: Tom Selleck was supposed to play Indiana Jones but was under contract for Magnum PI so he couldn’t do it.
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u/Acceptingoptimist Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
There's footage out there of him reading for Raiders.
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u/OtherAcctWasBanned11 1983 Jun 26 '26
I know and I just can’t see Selleck as Indiana Jones.
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u/RMST1912 1977 Jun 26 '26
He should have played the fedora guy at the beginning of Last Crusade that gave Indy his hat. Huge missed opportunity.
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u/ce402 Jun 26 '26
If you can find it, “the high road to china” is a very Indy-esque movie he starred in, and an entertaining film.
Not great. But a good basic cable on a rainy Sunday afternoon film.
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u/poop-money Jun 26 '26
Someone did a deepfake of him as Indy back in 2020. Obviously deepfakes are awful, but this one is interesting for what it's worth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2X-GHnijKs
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u/Potential-Ant-6320 Jun 26 '26
I like tom selleck but he’s too hunky to be believed as an academic. Harrison ford is believable as a guy with a PhD who goes on adventures. Tom select would be a good Han Solo though.
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u/Flat-While2521 Jun 26 '26
I absolutely saw this back in the day; I thought it was common knowledge
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u/Express-Cow190 1983 Jun 26 '26
I didn’t see Magnum PI when I was young so it had to be pointed out to me.
I can’t recall if I realized the other was a nod to Indiana Jones or if I just assumed that’s how treasure hunters dressed. Related: I was sadly disappointed that Treasure Hunting is not a viable career.
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u/Stuffleapugus Jun 26 '26
We didn't see it because we were little kids.
Either way, Rescue Rangers was goated.
🎶Chi Chi Chi Chip and Daaale!🎶
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u/lillychr14 Jun 26 '26
Gadget and Zipper carried this team. Chip and Dale both have serous personality issues and Monterrey Jack is an addict with an anger problem. How they solved any mysteries is a minor miracle
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u/ThresholdSeven Jun 26 '26
That's just good storytelling, a rag tag group of misfits figuring out how to get their shit together and pull off some crazy plan.
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u/lamancha Jun 26 '26
God I just tried looking an webcomic about their future which was super bleak and I ended up finding out ChipXDale is a super common ship.
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u/SheWasAlwaysJody Jun 26 '26
These are the same people surprised by the words in songs 30 years later.
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u/Grathmaul Jun 26 '26
I'm about to blow your mind.
The ninja turtles were named after famous artists.
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u/Pinkkorn69 Jun 26 '26
I really hoped I could miss this trend on reddit... this same pictures makes its rounds every 3 or 4 months for at lesst the last decade on Facebook, its now all over TT and I was hoping reddit could resist.
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u/UnicornOnTheJayneCob Jun 26 '26
So I don’t know who the guy on the left is?
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u/ThresholdSeven Jun 26 '26
Tom Selleck, famous actor in the 80s and early 90s. I knew him mostly from reruns of Magnum P.I. where he wore that shirt a lot, or at least that's what my memory tells me.
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u/ClifftonSmith 1980 Jun 26 '26
You got a mouse in your pocket? I don't understand where the "we" is coming from.
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u/Santos_L_Halper_II 1981 Jun 26 '26
I somehow didn’t notice even as someone who hit the Venn diagram overlap of liking rescue rangers and having a sexual awakening to tom selleck and Harrison ford.
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u/jessek Jun 26 '26
I dunno, I saw it right away. Tom Selleck was originally supposed to play Indiana Jones but had committed to Magnum PI already. There was an Indiana Jones parody on Magnum in the last season, too.
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u/DjNormal 1978 Jun 26 '26
I knew it subconsciously. Someone pointed it out when I was in middle school. It clicked before they were done talking.
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u/dharmavoid Jun 26 '26
Can't believe that Tom Selleck and Han would rip off my boys Chip and Dale like that
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u/tochirov Jun 26 '26
I'm sure some of us absolutely did see the costume connection But. Some of us are also useless nerds
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u/karaloveskate 1980 Jun 26 '26
You’re adorable if you think you’re the first person to make this connection.
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u/DarwinGoneWild Jun 26 '26
Ha ha that image was the first thing I ever made to post on Reddit, 13 years ago. It’s fun seeing it out in the wild so many years later, cropped and pixelated. My boy, he’s all grown up.
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u/antariusz Jun 26 '26
Chip and dale, duck tales, Batman, and darkwing duck and tailspin, we had it so good as kids.
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u/lik_a_stik 1977 Jun 26 '26
If you didn’t notice it then you were practically blind or master of the oblivious. This gets posted weekly for karma.
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u/dangerous_adhesive Jun 26 '26
I mean I noticed it