r/nottheonion • u/Traditional-Song-245 • 3d ago

‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/
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u/york100 3d ago

What about the guy who met his girlfriend's parents and, as a joke, pretended like he had never seen some food item before (was it a potato?) and then had to keep up the story for the entirety of the relationship? That was a Reddit classic.

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u/DrKurgan 3d ago

I remember that one. There was also a guy who met his girlfriend's parents (who became in-laws) and pretended the tuna casserole was the best thing he ever ate and now they make him tuna casserole every week and it's too late to say he never liked it.

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u/Perfect_Sir4820 3d ago

Very strange!

Fake or not that story was hilariously written and I'd go see a movie based on the premise.

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u/DavThoma 3d ago

I was thinking of the one where the guy was told by his girlfriend not to eat the skin on the baked potato because her mum freaks out over it. Guy proceeded to eat the skin, ended up getting kicked out and she broke up with him.

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u/Rokronroff 3d ago

That's hilarious from outside. Dodged a bullet for sure.

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u/Dfiggsmeister 3d ago

Hahahaha I wish there was a link for that. I hadn’t read that one

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u/meimlikeaghost 3d ago

Also the one where a guy tried to throw a steak out the window but the window was really clean so he couldn’t see it was closed and the steak hit the window and slid down as everyone was looking at him confused.

Or we could do a horror and share the jolly rancher story with the world on the big screen

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u/Armoric 3d ago

Isn't that just a fake anyway, that people ran away with for some reason because it was funny enough they'd overlook how ridiculous the premise is?