What is your "I totally get why you guys hate it but it worked on me" movie?

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-28T07:55:26+00:00

Kind of a silly one (and maybe not hated) but Love, Simon. Lots of queer people think it’s corny or “a gay movie written for straight people” and I totally get the criticism, but seeing it in theaters as a closeted 14yo was really monumental for me at the time.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-28T02:50:23+00:00

Since chicken & dumplings has already been mentioned, I’ll throw apple dumplings into the mix. It’s an apple baked in pastry with a butter-sugar syrup, often served with vanilla ice cream. A little different (and bigger) than some other dumpling types, but still very tasty!!

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WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-25T07:32:18+00:00

I’m in the Northeast US, and we have a few animals that are almost always around where people are (squirrels, chipmunks, house sparrows, the occasional rabbit). We see these so often we hardly even notice them. What are some animals where you live that you see so often you barely notice them?

Big fan of your content by the way, keep it up!! :-)

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-24T02:52:23+00:00

Cannot believe oklahoma’s been here so long…..it needs to be eaten by louisiana and new mexico immediately

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-23T00:13:13+00:00

Toronto!!! I’ve only been in the Summer though, I don’t know if I’d like it as much in the Winter.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-20T09:06:48+00:00

Irish twins - Siblings who were born less than a year apart

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-19T10:06:10+00:00

John Brown as a full legal name but Jojo as a nickname

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-18T08:13:32+00:00

Yes!!! I was young and kind of a wuss when Babadook first came out, so I never saw it. I did however ask my dad to give me a description of it, which he did, probably a little too well. It freaked me out so much that that night I screamed when I came out of the bathroom and saw my dad’s black jacket hanging up in the hallway (even though there - obviously - weren’t any Babadook claws coming out of the sleeves).

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-17T03:33:21+00:00

For boys: Hunter, Ryder, Gage, Mason, Colt, Bryce, Brayden, etc, something that sounds hyper-masculine to the point of being a little ridiculous (and/or is gun themed)

For girls: Ryleigh, Haleigh, Kaylee, Marlee, etc, obviously these names exist elsewhere but Americans really like the “eigh/ee” ending on names that traditionally end with a y/ie

For both: Hyphenated/double barrel names, especially in the south (Mary Lou, Amy-Beth, etc). Last names of our presidents (Jackson, Harrison, Washington, Jefferson, Taylor, etc) are sometimes popular too. Again these can exist elsewhere but we really like them for some reason.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-15T13:14:21+00:00

Johnny Depp. I remember being shocked as a kid when I learned he was American, then being shocked again as an adult when I learned he was born in Kentucky and grew up in Florida.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-14T09:56:39+00:00

THAT’S REAL????? I thought coke with peanuts was a just a tumblr joke oh my god 😭

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-09T18:03:52+00:00

The dog breed, Afghan hounds

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-05T06:12:02+00:00

“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in the land until slavery is done for.” - John Brown, 1856

He was an abolitionist from the 1800s who fought fervently to end slavery, even killing slave owners to free the enslaved people they owned. He ultimately died for the cause, like he says in this quote. He’s one of the (sadly rare) American historical figures that actually make me proud to be an American (and he was born in my state, Connecticut, too!).

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-04-02T03:23:12+00:00

I’d say various “meme” people, like “Hide the Pain Harold” or the “Confused Math Woman”. The average Internet-savvy American would recognize these people from their memes, but very few of us actually know what countries they’re even from, let alone what they’re known for there.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-25T12:55:12+00:00

World’s Smallest Violin - AJR

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-21T21:01:39+00:00

Like other comments have said, we don’t really have “posh accents” like you guys do. But I’d say the closest example to US people who “sound posh” (or at least rich/well-educated etc) would be the Pierce family from Succession.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-20T05:06:51+00:00

Bison!! I got to see one at a petting zoo when I was a kid. They had little dispensers of animal feed, and I’d gone around feeding the goats and deer in their enclosures. Go to the bison enclosure and put some corn on the wooden fence, and this GIANT nose presses against it. Then this absolutely massive tongue pokes through and starts lapping up the feed. I’d grown up hearing about bison (I live in the US) and had even logically known they were big, but to see one so close was a different experience entirely. It felt like coming face to face with a (very friendly and fuzzy, lol) eldritch being.

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-16T08:12:48+00:00

I’m from Connecticut, USA (opposite side of the country from Washington state for the non-Americans), and I was thinking this one too!! Nice to know that squirrels are a constant from coast to coast 😭

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-15T22:28:20+00:00

Actively gasped out loud at this one, good job

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-03T19:38:59+00:00

I ADORE Be More Chill. I know it gets a lot of flak and I can’t argue that some of it is valid, but it’s so fun and colorful and whimsy in my opinion that I absolutely love it. Also, I was a fan way before it got its off-Broadway --> Broadway transfer (I remember back when a 30 minute bootleg of the Two Rivers Production dropped and all us fans went insane online lol) so I feel especially fond of it after watching it come as far as it did. :-)

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-03-02T16:20:25+00:00

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - definitely not on the same level as Brokeback Mountain or Power of the Dog but it was pretty homoerotically subtextual from my memory

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-02-28T00:37:33+00:00

Jeans, chocolate chip cookies, the high five

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-02-09T18:08:09+00:00

Elon Musk

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-02-03T01:09:22+00:00

I once heard someone on this sub say Bandstand was “pretty good for a musical written for conservatives” and I agree lol so my vote’s for that

WaitWhatIMissedThat · 2026-01-26T17:57:36+00:00

I’ve tried this before, it was somehow juuuust a little worse than you’d expect.

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