[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. Firefly is one of those things you should simply watch so you can finally get all the references. I found Mean Girls boring as fuck, but I'm so glad I watched it because the internet suddenly makes so much more sense to me.

And, frankly, nothing's more embarrassing than people saying things like "I'll be in my bunk" and not knowing what they're talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be in my bunk = fapping, no?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. But it's kind of ridiculous when people say that and then when you try to talk to them about Firefly they have no idea where the quote even comes from.

[luxshine]

I might be completely off but... I'm pretty sure I had heard and read that expression LONG before Firefly, at least since around... Buffy season 3? To give a time frame?

[(Anonymous)]

But...who cares? It's such an obvious euphemism that I seriously doubt the benefit of knowing its origins.

[othellia]

I was like that with "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" for about a year before I discovered its dinosaur puppet origins.

[(Anonymous)]

I <3 Wash so much~

[(Anonymous)]

And I with "Mine is an evil laugh!" I assumed it was a fan-made Dr. Horrible reference.

[insanenoodlyguy]

This is the stupidest fucking reason to watch anything I've ever heard.

Why should OP dedicate approximately 12 hours or so of their life to something they have no interest in?

I'm in the homestuck fandom and I'm less pushy then this. Jesus christ.

[visp]

Nah, cultural education is a valid reason to study something.

[insanenoodlyguy]

This isn't cultural education. It's a fucking scifi show referenced in certain niche's.

That is not a culture no matter how much some nerds desperately want it to be.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's ever valid to "study" television.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I really like Firefly, but there are plenty of movies/TV series I don't like. If someone suggested watching all of a series just so I'd get the pop culture references, I'd think they were bonkers.

OP, you didn't enjoy it - don't worry about it. It's a TV show, that's all, and there are eleventy billion TV shows out.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Thank you sane anon.

[(Anonymous)]

12 hours. Of their entire life.

I feel bad for you if your time is so important you can't spare that just to get some jokes your friends make. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Why shouldn't their friends just not make references they know OP won't understand?

[(Anonymous)]

I feel bad for you if your friendships are so shallow that you expect every friend to spend 12 hours educating themselves on jokes that you might make.

[(Anonymous)]

HELL, I wouldn't do that. There are are much, much more important things I could do in twelve hours, and I say that as someone who LOVES Firefly.

[herongale]

Also, there's Know Your Meme and also, the entire internet, if someone is baffled by a reference that they feel they should know but don't.

I mean, hell, I googled "I'll be in my bunk" and not only did I find it has it's own TV Tropes page, there's also the more concise (if possibly somewhat incorrect) Urban Dictionary definition as well as the fact that the wikipedia page for the Firefly episode in question shows up as the third fucking hit if you google it. Hell, those were the top one, two, and three hits respectively.

I watch what I want to watch. I read what I want to read. I google all the rest. IT IS NOT REALLY THAT HARD TO STAY IN THE KNOW.

[(Anonymous)]

it's not like it's uncommon for people to use references to things they don't know about. I just recently discovered that some people only know "Klaatu Barada Nikto" from The Evil Dead...

[(Anonymous)]

Fun Fact: Thats actaully a refereence in itself to an earlier film, The day the earth stood still. It's the password to turn Gort off.

Slip up like that on 4chan and they'd eat you alive... Well they'd leave alot of comments with green text and alot of repitition of 'implying'

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to say "fuck you" because this attitude means that I would have to wade through interminable crap to be able to participate in any discussion, and I don't want to have to do that.

See, here's the thing: shit that you don't like it "cultural," as well. And I'm willing to bet that you don't make yourself watch or read it. Yet you'll declare that everyone must watch what you're into!

[castle_anon]

I've watched Firefly a couple times, and have no idea why "I'll be in my bunk!" is so associated with the show. I saw it come up in some bloopers, but I'm not sure I remember it ever appearing in the actual show itself (and like others have said, it's hardly a phrase that originated with Firefly).

[manifold]

I'd hope that someone would watch more than a single episode before deciding they can't stand a show—in my experience, one episode isn't usually enough for me to get a feel of what it's like—but having to watch THE WHOLE DAMN THING whether or not you like it? What the hell?

I love Firefly, but come on. If they don't like it, they don't need to watch it. They'll be just fine with google and wiki searches.