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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Indigo Theater Stage Private Investor
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Brilliant crotch
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Swollen Quadroon
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startling electric furnace tanning salon
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
rebellious ocher incel locale
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Useless Cocky Mood
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
geriatric beady-eyed lodge giraffe
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
bat shit crazy twinkling casino
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Pink Parlor
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/27/25
Speed
lime ape
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
Brilliant crotch
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
Swollen Quadroon
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Poppy Aphrodisiac Cuckoldry Coldplay Fan
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Useless Cocky Mood
  05/28/25
Good one
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Dark Racy Chad Legend
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Pink Parlor
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Vivacious dysfunction
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  06/14/25
Road Trip
lime ape
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Cheese-eating Razzle Home Messiness
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Pink Parlor
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
mewling bawdyhouse
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
confused slate nibblets
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
mewling bawdyhouse
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Three Kings
galvanic awkward gas station
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1999
mewling bawdyhouse
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Tripping Grizzly Preventive Strike Hell
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Black Hawk Down
anal umber yarmulke
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this
Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
rebellious ocher incel locale
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
crimson boyish public bath gunner
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
startling electric furnace tanning salon
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
lime ape
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tyvmft
Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Nubile house sex offender
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Harry Potter
effete orchid base regret
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
salmon motley forum pistol
  06/03/25
Good one
startling electric furnace tanning salon
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confused slate nibblets
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Ultramarine Thriller Doctorate
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Indigo Theater Stage Private Investor

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Brilliant crotch

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: rebellious ocher incel locale

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Swollen Quadroon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: splenetic cruise ship

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: rebellious ocher incel locale

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Useless Cocky Mood

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: lemon cruel-hearted toaster internal respiration

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Unhinged mind-boggling church



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Swollen Quadroon

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: galvanic awkward gas station



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: geriatric beady-eyed lodge giraffe

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: bat shit crazy twinkling casino

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Brilliant crotch

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: mischievous locus

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: shivering famous landscape painting set

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: laughsome ruddy halford jew



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: lime ape

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Pink Parlor

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Brilliant crotch

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: mint pozpig piazza

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966412)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Swollen Quadroon

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Swollen Quadroon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: laughsome ruddy halford jew



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Flickering keepsake machete

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Poppy Aphrodisiac Cuckoldry Coldplay Fan

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Useless Cocky Mood

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Dark Racy Chad Legend

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Vivacious dysfunction



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: lime ape

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Cheese-eating Razzle Home Messiness

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Pink Parlor



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: mewling bawdyhouse

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: confused slate nibblets

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: mewling bawdyhouse

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: galvanic awkward gas station

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: mewling bawdyhouse

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Tripping Grizzly Preventive Strike Hell

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: anal umber yarmulke

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: rebellious ocher incel locale

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: crimson boyish public bath gunner

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: lime ape

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Slap-happy People Who Are Hurt

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Nubile house sex offender

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: effete orchid base regret

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: salmon motley forum pistol

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: startling electric furnace tanning salon

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: confused slate nibblets



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Ultramarine Thriller Doctorate

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: effete orchid base regret

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Ultramarine Thriller Doctorate



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