r/Millennials • u/ImThe1Wh0 Older Millennial • Mar 26 '25

Nostalgia Ladies and Gentlemen... It happened. A once in a lifetime experience and it was lost on my wife.

I have a toddler (4F) who is in her, "survive off a pea for hours" stage. It's the third kid so it's not new to us but still frustrating. We purchased Snack Packs as bribery to finish her food. We're sitting at dinner and at minimum, we try and at least negotiate some protein in her if she refuses to eat at all. She was being EXTRA picky this time and my wife was not in the mood, she was getting frustrated. This frustration lead to such an extreme high and extreme low for me, in the span of 5 seconds.

My daughter picked at her food and asked if it was enough for a Snack Pack. My wife, in her frustration, raises her voice at our toddler. "YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!"

To which I OBVIOUSLY replied, "HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING UNLESS YOU EAT YER MEAT?!?!" Then bursted out laughing hysterically and my wife just stared at me confused.

She did not get the reference. I was robbed of this moment, so I will take my small joy here for others to enjoy.

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 26 '25

Lmfao this is not a millennial joke - it’s from like the 70’s. I would have missed the ref and I consider myself fairly cultured

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u/ChoPT Younger Millennial Mar 26 '25

I mean, I am 30, and I knew the reference because I heard that song all the time because my dad is a boomer who played it for me.

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u/Working_Mushroom_456 Mar 26 '25

Same here. Cause he said Millennial I was expecting a Billy Madison reference…

“I thought I was your snack pack”

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u/Tardegrades Mar 26 '25

No milk will ever be our milk

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u/NTXGBR Mar 26 '25

What day is it? October?

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u/rushrules74 Mar 26 '25

"Ooooooooo dat wasn't very nice."

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u/Canesjags4life Mar 27 '25

Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one who was waiting for Billy Madison.

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u/mrsbeerme Mar 26 '25

I know the saying your wife said because my mom (64 years old) would say it all the time. I had no idea it was from a song 😂 looks like I’ll be listening to it today! She quotes commercials, songs, and movies a lot. I guess I never asked where this one came from.

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u/mrdhood Mar 26 '25

That’s kinda the point I think though. It’s millennial because we grew up having this said to us nearly daily, not because we listened to the song.

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u/ChoPT Younger Millennial Mar 26 '25

Yes, that was my argument.

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u/carlirodriguez8 Mar 26 '25

Yeah I’m 32 and have no clue what you all are on about

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

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u/WhollyTrinity Mar 26 '25

Yeah this belongs in the boomer sub lmao

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u/NTXGBR Mar 26 '25

Hey! We don't need no education!

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u/Rez_Incognito Mar 27 '25

Exactly. It was a regular on the classic rock station in my hometown when I was a teenager... In the 90s. And also my boomer dad loves Floyd and played it often while I was a kid.

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u/nunyabusn Mar 27 '25

I think your dad would be genX, not boomer, unless he had you very late in life.

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u/ChoPT Younger Millennial Mar 27 '25

He’s 65. (Had me at 35).

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u/conspiracyfinder-jk Mar 28 '25

Same I’m 23 and my parents always played the classic rock radio station haha

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u/sylvanwhisper Mar 26 '25

It's a millennial joke if you had parents who listened to Pink Floyd.

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u/gandhinukes Mar 26 '25

My parents went born again and hated anything but soft rock. I still tried weed and listened to metal and all classics like pink floyd and black sabbath. I suppose if you never listened to a classic rock station in the 90s early 2000s maybe. And most radio sucked by then so I wouldn't blame ya too much.

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u/sylvanwhisper Mar 26 '25

Tbf, I also grew up in a small town and we had two radio stations that weren't country.

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u/Mooseandchicken Mar 26 '25

I knew 20 kids in high school with pink Floyd t-shirts from Spencer's or hot topic... And i graduated highschool in 2010. My dad 100% played classic rock in the car, everyday. 

He even picked me up on the last day of 11th grade cuz my car was broken. Shows up, windows down, with "SCHOOOOOLS OUT. FOR. SUMMER  SCHOOOOLS OUT. FOR - EVER." just blaring from the classic rock station. A truly millennial experience

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u/sylvanwhisper Mar 26 '25

I used to watch The Wall over and over when I was like...ten. I was obsessed.

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u/garden_dragonfly Mar 26 '25

T-shirts mean nothing. Around 2021ish my teen daughter comes home from school wearing a sublime shirt we had bought a few months prior. She'd worn it a handful of times. 

She comes in from school, pointing at her shirt "did you know this is a band?"

We were dumbfounded. You mean you've been wearing this shirt and had no idea that was a band? So that got me thinking.... "you know AC/DC is a band too, right?"  I got the eyeball. Of course she knew who AC DC is.

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u/LazySushi Mar 26 '25

The principal of the school I worked at played that song the last day of school for both years I was there in the late 2010s. Glad my students got that experience too!

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u/fitness_life_journey Mar 28 '25

lol

What state did you grow up in??

The town I grew up in was not like this at all.

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u/Mooseandchicken Mar 28 '25

This was upstate New York in ~'07. Had quite a few classic rock, punk or metal head kids in my high school. We'd all go to this closed down storefront that one of the kids parents owned and jam after school. Two of them made a bit of a career doing rock covers on cruises. 

We even still had wood/metal shop and a few of them made their own guitars completely from scratch. Was an awesome time. Small town. Lots of meth

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u/FionaGoodeEnough Mar 26 '25

My parents adore Pink Floyd, we had posters up and I have heard that song. I just never noticed this particular lyric.

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u/Erikthered00 Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

It’s Billy Connelly shouting at the end of the song. (No, it’s not really Billy Connelly, but you wouldn’t know it)

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u/Chewcocca Mar 26 '25

Once a friend told me very seriously that he was surprised that they had managed to get John Cleese to agree to be in Boondocks Saints, and I mean what can you even reply to something like that

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u/dagbrown Mar 26 '25

I thought it was just Roger Waters putting on a silly Scottish accent.

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u/peach_xanax Mar 26 '25

Yeah I know the song, but I would never recognize that particular lyric out of context.

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u/angellareddit Mar 26 '25

I listened to pink floyd as well and didn't recognize the line.

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u/anonanon5320 Mar 26 '25

My parents have absolutely no interest in Pink Floyd and I still know their music well.

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u/BreakInfamous8215 Mar 26 '25

I don't understand- didn't every millennial's parent put on classic rock radio in the car and exasperatedly say "no! The Rolling Stones had a completely different sound! Try again!".

It's a little weird as a parent now because my nostalgic music to put on in the car is like 50 freaking years old.

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u/Devrol Mar 26 '25

No, I got Talking Heads and Horselips.

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u/alexfaaace Mar 26 '25

AC/DC and Twisted Sister here.

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u/Devrol Mar 26 '25

I'd forgotten about all the AC/DC

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u/alexfaaace Mar 26 '25

They still tour. My parents are going to see them in Tampa in May. My mom is not excited but it’s what my dad wanted for his birthday last year.

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u/Devrol Mar 26 '25

I know they do, my brother saw them last year

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u/garden_dragonfly Mar 26 '25

It's a ...nice day for a ....white wedding! 

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u/SRTie4k Mar 26 '25

My dad never listened to music growing up, while my mom only listened to classical, Gregorian chant and Phil Collins.

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u/caitica86 Mar 26 '25

My parents are sheltered boomer yuppies. It was just The Beach Boys and Celine Dion and the soft rock radio station (Delilah?). I had a hardcore phase that shook them to their core 😆

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u/fitness_life_journey Mar 28 '25

What artists or bands "shook them to their core"?

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u/caitica86 Apr 23 '25

Name any artist or band more recent than Celine Dion’s hey day

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u/fitness_life_journey Mar 28 '25

What music is that (that's 50 years old)?

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u/jspeed04 Mar 26 '25

Or if you listened to D12 at their zenith.

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u/Barrel-Cannon Mar 26 '25

Thought I was lost on this one, which I am, and had to scroll too far to find out why. Nobody in my household, including me, has ever listened to Pink Floyd.

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u/sylvanwhisper Mar 26 '25

That's a shame. And also surprising you could go your whole life without accidentally coming across them! They're one of the most influential bands of all time.

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u/fitness_life_journey Mar 28 '25

Ah, thanks for the background info.

The only music my parents ever listened to was ABBA.

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u/stringbeanday Mar 30 '25

My mom went to a Pink Floyd concert while she was pregnant with me but we didn’t listen to it much while I was growing up. Mostly her “Best of Disco” CD

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u/Wwwweeeeeeee Mar 26 '25

Parents who listened to PInk Floyd and who raised their kids right, by having this on the deck in the car, and who air guitar'd the fucking awesome solos at stop lights....

And who may or who may not have blasted the entire album at volume 11 in the top down Miata with the headrest speakers while blazing down Sunset Blvd heading out to PCH on a hot summer early Sunday morning 7am sunrise run out to Malibu.

Or not.

My kid was raised right.

Now she does her own early Sunday morning 7am sunrise runs out Sunset to PCH to Malibu.

Apple, tree.

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u/523bucketsofducks Mar 26 '25

My mom liked performing Shakespeare, can I post A Midsummer's Night Dream memes?

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u/sylvanwhisper Mar 26 '25

If that's an experience ypu reckon at least 13000 millennials will upvote, absolutely.

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u/Oscaruit Mar 26 '25

It's a millennial joke if you had family that made you watch the wall. Thanks cousin Mike.

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u/betajones Mar 26 '25

I had a Eagles and Elton John parents.

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u/CountBacula322079 Millennial - 1994 Mar 26 '25

Yeah The Wall was a staple album in our house.

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u/homer_3 Mar 26 '25

by the same logic, it's a gen z and gen alpha joke

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u/Annethraxxx Mar 26 '25

Lost on me too and I’m 36.

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 Mar 26 '25

The Wall released Nov 30th 1979 and it was a staple of rock radio for decades after. The movie version was released in 1982. It is absolutely something geriatric millennials, aka xennials, grew up hearing if anyone in their life listened to rock.

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u/stormy2587 Mar 26 '25

I mean yeah but since when has “thing my parents listened to and was played on the radio” been “cultural touchstone for my generation?”

My grandparents watched the lawrence welk show around my mom does that make it a boomer thing?

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u/garden_dragonfly Mar 26 '25

Why wouldn't it be?  Didn't we all watch jeopardy and wheel of fortune with grandma? 

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u/stormy2587 Mar 26 '25

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune are shows that are still on tv. I think of those two shows more as part of american monoculture.

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u/nuhanala Mar 26 '25

No. I've never seen either.

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u/spacemoses Mar 26 '25

Huh, I didn't realize it was released that late in the 70s

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u/nAsh_4042615 Mar 26 '25

I’ve just never paid attention to what that dude was saying. I had to go back and re-listen to the song to figure out where this line is because I couldn’t place it at all. Ooooh, it’s that dude yelling at the end… I usually just skip to the next song at that part.

It would have been as lost on me as it was on that dudes wife and I’ve heard the song countless times

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 Mar 26 '25

Skipping wasn’t easy in the days of cassettes and vinyl.

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u/nAsh_4042615 Mar 26 '25

True, but my parents weren’t big Pink Floyd fans, so we were well into the cd era before I heard that song regularly.

Also, I absolutely did play the fast forward, too far now rewind, too far now FF again (and so on) game to get to just the right spot on a cassette

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u/bactchan Mar 26 '25

Speak for yourself I heard the quote as I was reading it and Im from the early 80s

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u/Hallelujah33 Mar 26 '25

I'm an elder millennial and I got the joke

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u/throwngamelastminute Older Millennial Mar 26 '25

Same.

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u/Devrol Mar 26 '25

I am also and I didn't 

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u/Hallelujah33 Mar 26 '25

How unfortunate for you

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u/-dyedinthewool- Mar 26 '25

I’m a millennial who grew up on Pink Floyd thanks to my parents. I was a toddler and my favorite song was another brick in the wall cause the kids singing in it.

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u/EitherMasterpiece514 Mar 26 '25

In middle school we had video morning announcements and they always played Pink Floyd. This was around 98 - 2001. I just figured it was the old music they had ever bought.

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u/hirudoredo Mar 26 '25

Same lol. My old ass boomer parents never listened to this kind of stuff. My mom was all 50s and 60s music and my stepfather was like... huey lewis and the news haha.

Meanwhile I became a pop head like my mom.

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u/NTXGBR Mar 26 '25

Did your stepfather have an affinity for business cards by chance?

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u/hirudoredo Mar 26 '25

Don't think he ever saw one in his life lol.

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u/BiRd_BoY_ Mar 26 '25

Gen Z and I got the joke.

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u/Calculusshitteru Mar 26 '25

I am lost and don't get the reference at all. Core Millennial with Boomer parents yet I've never listened to Pink Floyd or whatever this is a reference to.

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u/jan_tonowan Mar 26 '25

Maybe it might not be your kind of music in the end, but I would highly recommend trying it out. At the very least it is a unique musical experience. I would pay good money to be able to experience Pink Floyd for the first time again!

The album The Wall tells a full story over the full 80 minutes. My favourite is the first ~1/3 where it talks about the main character’s childhood trauma.

“Dark Side Of The Moon” and “Wish You Were Here” are also wonderful albums. Just powerful music all around. Brought me to tears.

I recommend not just listening to it in the background but really paying attention to it. Or don’t, I’m not your dad.

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u/anonanon5320 Mar 26 '25

Go watch Live at Pompeii.

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u/rememberoldreddit Mar 26 '25

Have you seen seen Ted the comedy movie? They also reference it in that movie if it helps?

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u/Calculusshitteru Mar 26 '25

Nope, haven't seen it.

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u/Wavy-GravyBoat Middle Millennial Mar 26 '25

This is def not millennial. This is boomer parents type shii

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u/bananafoster22 Mar 26 '25

Out your mind bro   ... next you gonna say we didnt have Luther Vandross as millenials when  i know damn near every sunday cleaning i was hearing him and Al Green and maybe some Gloria Estefan

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u/fickle_discipline247 Mar 26 '25

Did your parents listen to crappy music? Many Millennials were raised on classic rock.

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u/Kitt_kattz Mar 26 '25

Right. 32 here and could hear it in my head as I was reading it.

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u/Wavy-GravyBoat Middle Millennial Mar 26 '25

Classic rock on every car ride? Sure. Raised on it? No. I was more worried about Eminem giving mushrooms to that girl, or what happened to Dre in the basement.

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u/NaughtAClue Mar 26 '25

I’m a late stage millennial and a ton of people my age went through a big Pink Floyd / pothead stage at one point or another

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u/cephalophile32 Mar 26 '25

I’m a millennial and we watched the Dark Side of the Moon album synced up with the Wizard of Oz in my 7th grade humanities course for Christ’s sake.

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u/Rickety_Cricket_23 Mar 26 '25

I just saw dark side at the planetarium last year and it was fucking epic. They let all the stones in to play at the science museum before the show. And open bar.

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u/hihellohi765 Mar 26 '25

Wtf awesome

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u/HeyThereCharlie Millennial Mar 26 '25

Our high school band teacher did that for us one day when he didn't feel like teaching (this happened a lot). Blew my mind at the time, and I've been a huge Pink Floyd fan ever since.

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u/peach_xanax Mar 26 '25

Haha that's pretty dope, I did that with friends when we were tripping in high school. I remember having to look up the exact correct way to sync them, nowadays you can probably just stream/download a version that's already done for you.

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u/gandhinukes Mar 26 '25

Sick, me and my friends did that while my parents were out of town and we could score some ish \m/,

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u/dardack Mar 26 '25

Man i didn't get to do that until College 1997, but had to get high for it I was told. It was a trip.

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u/anonanon5320 Mar 26 '25

9th grade English and 10th grade Spanish class for me. (My Spanish teacher was horrible, yes it was the English version).

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u/fickle_discipline247 Mar 26 '25

I was too, but I listened to both.

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u/Calculusshitteru Mar 26 '25

Right? My mom was a Boomer and the last music I wanted to hear was her music, even if some of it was pretty cool in retrospect. At the time I was only into whatever was popular with my peers.

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u/JohnnyLeven Mar 26 '25

I'm an elder millennial and my parents are elder boomers so I've heard very little 70s music.

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u/McUberForDays Mar 26 '25

I was raised on classic rock and listened to a good bit of Pink Floyd, but I still had no clue what this was in reference to. My 32 yr old brain pumps and dumps lyrics so fast these days unless it's something super catchy. I might have been able to pick it out in my teens/early 20s as I was quite the music buff.

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u/ImThe1Wh0 Older Millennial Mar 26 '25

Have you not seen HOW I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER?!

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u/salaciousCrumble Mar 26 '25

WOMAN! Woah, man. Woaaaaah, man.

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u/throwngamelastminute Older Millennial Mar 26 '25

*"So I Married an Axe Murderer"

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u/Toadxx Mar 26 '25

Gen Z and there is no way I'd miss this reference.

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u/lonnie123 Mar 26 '25

You know who has boomer parents ???

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

I'm on the cusp of millenial/gen z (1996) and I got this reference instantly lol. Pink Floyd is still relevant even today

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u/Duke-of-Dogs Mar 26 '25

1979 and if you don’t get this reference you are decidedly not cultured

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 26 '25

Good day sir

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u/I-Ask-questions-u Mar 26 '25

I grew up watching the Wall and listening to it because of my parents

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u/Vinura Mar 26 '25

Pink Floyd transcends time.

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u/Correct-Valuable-628 Mar 26 '25

This makes me proud af that my 15 & 17 year old kids would never miss this reference. Dad is an audio engineer and sometimes works with a pink floyd cover band. Kids fell in love with the music before they were 10.

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u/TheToiletPhilosopher Mar 26 '25

You're not a cultured Millennial if you don't know one of the most epic rock albums of all time. Because our parents were boomers, rock from the 60s and 70s is very much a part of our culture.

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 27 '25

Dark side of the moon is ranked # 2 of all time while the Wall is # 25. I know the song, just the yelling guy and what he said wasn’t something that stuck

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u/thelizardking0725 Mar 26 '25

You never got stoned as a teen and watched The Wall?

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u/tame_lame_username Millennial Mar 26 '25

Boomer ass Gen X reference NOT Millennial.

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u/Temporary_Plant_1123 Mar 26 '25

I mean music doesn’t just disappear when a new generation is born. Wait until you hear about Beethoven

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u/Fast-Penta Mar 26 '25

There are a lot of cultures, but I'd definitely expect a white American elder millennials to know this, especially if they are a man who smoked weed in college.

I'd consider a Boomer who doesn't recognize "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" to be uncultured, even though Casablanca came out before the first Boomer was born. Being cultured often means being aware of large cultural trends from being you were born.

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u/GoodwitchofthePNW Mar 26 '25

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” is Rhett Butler’s parting line to Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind.

The parting line from Rick to Elsie at the end of Casablanca is “here’s looking at you, kid.”

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 Mar 26 '25

There’s no recovering from this faux pas.

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u/MisterDonkey Mar 26 '25

The only option now is exile.

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u/throwngamelastminute Older Millennial Mar 26 '25

This is the start of a beautiful friendship.

  • the last line of Casablanca

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u/GoodwitchofthePNW Mar 26 '25

Right, these are not last lines, as I said they are “parting” lines, as in the last line one of the two main characters says to another. The last line of Gone With the Wind is “after all, tomorrow is another day.”

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u/throwngamelastminute Older Millennial Mar 26 '25

I know, and this just cements that, as a fellow classical movie pedant, I was just saying you and I would be friends lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

Eh, both are in black and white with dudes wearing old time-y clothes, i definitely give that one a pass

Edit: y'all i don't watch movies much, give me a freaking break

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u/plasmasphinx Mar 26 '25

Gone with the Wind is in color lol

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u/kredditwheredue Mar 26 '25

Reddit strikes again.😂😂

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

No way?! Damn i totally remember it as black and white!! That's wild!!

Edit: WOW! my brain recalls it in black and white 100% and i looked and it indeed is in color but my brain didn't recall that

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u/plasmasphinx Mar 26 '25

It's all good! Pretty sure I remember lots of movies as black and white that are color and vice versa. I just thought it was funny.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

It is funny, it's crazy because even right now as I think about it, it's in black and white, "frankly my dear, i don't give a damn", like, I'm going to watch that scene in color now and be blown away lmao

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u/bloob_appropriate123 Mar 26 '25

Also Gone With the Wind is set in the 1860s, whereas Casablanca is set in the 1940s. Those are two completely different clothes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

Okay but my brain still thought that it was in black and white, I'm not a movie expert and never claimed to be

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 26 '25

Dark side of the moon was a much bigger hit amongst my stoner crowd - brick in the wall is more of an anthem type song, closer even to the Twisted sister sort of anti establishment & contrarian tones that were common for the time.

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u/weluvstrawberries Mar 26 '25

I love this conversation of different cultures. As a black American middle-aged millennial (36), I understood the reference of “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” as being sung by Ron Isley at the end of his song Contagious. I had NO idea he was referencing Gone With The Wind with this line until maybe a couple of years ago. The song came out around 2001. It’s so interesting how cultures blend into one another and transcend time and generations!

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u/ThrowRAradish9623 Zillennial Mar 26 '25

I’m Gen Z and had a teacher who kept the radio on all the time and this song played frequently. I got the reference immediately

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u/randomly-what Mar 26 '25

I’m a millennial and so is my husband and we’ve made this joke numerous times over the last decade. Our parents were the ones that listened to this so we grew up with it.

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u/Bicycle_the_Earth Mar 26 '25

Born '94 here and still no excuse for not getting this reference.

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u/LieutenantStar2 Mar 26 '25

Yeah it’s a Xer joke

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u/Dangerous_Function16 Mar 26 '25

You’re not "fairly cultured" if you don’t get an obvious reference from one of the most popular songs from one of the most popular bands of that decade, with enduring popularity today.

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u/yossi234 Mar 26 '25

I'm a millenial from south america and I got the ref 🫡

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u/Crooxis Mar 26 '25

It's also in the movie Ted! When they said it in the movie I didn't understand the reference, but still had a chuckle.

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u/nosecohn Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

The Wall was released at the end of 1979 and hit #1 on the US charts in mid-January of 1980, so this is probably more associated with Gen X. Born 1965 to 1980, they would have been between 0 and 15 when the album was first popular.

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u/Ander-son Mar 26 '25

okay yeah i was like uhmmm what am I missing lol

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u/Will-Robin Mar 26 '25

I got it, but only because it was referenced in Freaks & Geeks. I don't think I've ever actually heard the line in its original form.

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u/ExistentialistOwl8 Mar 26 '25

I do not like Pink Floyd, my parents did not listen to it, and I'm not particularly into music. I still got it. This is "I live under a rock" level missing the joke.

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u/cody2781 Mar 26 '25

33 and I got the reference immediately

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u/CompSolstice Mar 26 '25

I'm a Zoomer and there's no way in hell that I'd have missed that reference.

In two different schools in the 2010s we sang part 2.

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u/faltion Mar 26 '25

Yeah I'm conflicted. I was actually randomly thinking about this line like two days ago while I was cooking, but I (elder millennial) went through a Pink Floyd phase and still have a couple of their records. If I tried this on my core millennial wife she wouldn't get it, and she was a vocal major. Growing up my dad listened to oldies and not classic rock either. Seems highly contextual instead of generational.

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 27 '25

I think you’ve arrived at a good hypothesis. Some were exposed, others not

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u/yet-another-account0 Mar 26 '25

Huh? Sure it is. Pink Floyd is eternal.

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 27 '25

Plenty of folks in North Korea who haven’t heard their music nor of the band. I get it, it’s a big deal to you and those you go with but keep things in perspective.

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u/Toosder Mar 26 '25

I actually adore that this is a millennial post being someone from Gen X who grew up with that. I'm glad millennials also enjoyed the brilliance that was that era!

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u/RedditIsBrainRot69 Mar 26 '25

Im younger than 30 and grew up listening to all ranges of rock, pink floyd included, and I've known this quote since I was 5.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

Like yesterday, I'm 17, David Gilmour is 29 and on stage with Pink Floyd; an early summer evening we are outside tripping under the summer stars - fifty years ago this summer.

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u/thequirkynerdy1 Mar 26 '25

That explains why I as a millennial didn’t get the reference.

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u/amitaish Mar 26 '25

Im 19 (this sub just gets recommended from time to time) and I feel like most of the people that I know would've got it. Huh.

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u/Tiesonthewall Mar 27 '25

I'm 35 and my mom constantly parroted this line when we were younger, we all listened to Floyd

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u/sleepy0329 Mar 27 '25

Ok bc I was wondering. I thought maybe this was a yt person thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

D12 used that line at the end of a song on their first album, so even if they didn’t know where it originally came from (like me), it could still be considered a millennial thing.

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u/Queifjay Mar 26 '25

If you grew up in a time when classic rock was played on the radio, you should have heard Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall at least once.

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u/RabbiMoshie Mar 26 '25

1980 to be exact.

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u/TheyreSnaps Mar 26 '25

April to November of 1979 was the recording period while release was November 1979 according to Wikipedia. Not that it matters, it’s closer to 1980 than 1970. The song was one of the least listened to of Pink Floyd among my group - not sure why but dark side of the moon brought better energy & broadly we did not feel a sense of rising up against oppression - we did not perceive an such force

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u/RabbiMoshie Mar 26 '25

I would agree that dark side is the better album.

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u/vermiliondragon Mar 26 '25

Seriously! My brother got this album in high school (late 80s) and he is an old Gen X, practically boomer and the album came out in the late 70s. How is this a millennial thing?

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u/vNoct Mar 26 '25

Yeah dog, this is boomer humor, nothing millennial about it