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

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floppy confused trailer park
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
henna meetinghouse background story
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Maniacal Mind-boggling Dysfunction
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I still watch Film
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floppy confused trailer park
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but yet you know nothing of it
Green misunderstood field
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Yellow business firm nibblets
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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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 ...
floppy confused trailer park
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
umber twisted step-uncle's house
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Big hunting ground
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
floppy confused trailer park
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
Startled Tank Main People
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Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
floppy confused trailer park
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
floppy confused trailer park
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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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
floppy confused trailer park
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
fragrant elastic band sanctuary
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
floppy confused trailer park
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
floppy confused trailer park
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Rambunctious amethyst toilet seat
  05/28/25
Good one
floppy confused trailer park
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
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Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
floppy confused trailer park
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Flesh racy liquid oxygen
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
arousing rehab
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Three Kings
red disturbing boltzmann old irish cottage
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1999
arousing rehab
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
up-to-no-good topaz space
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
floppy confused trailer park
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Yellow business firm nibblets
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
shimmering indecent incel hall
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
floppy confused trailer park
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
up-to-no-good topaz space
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Flesh racy liquid oxygen
  05/29/25
tyvmft
up-to-no-good topaz space
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Chartreuse Regret
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Harry Potter
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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Good one
floppy confused trailer park
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provocative piazza feces
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
bateful chestnut therapy
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: floppy confused trailer park



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: henna meetinghouse background story

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Maniacal Mind-boggling Dysfunction

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Yellow business firm nibblets

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: costumed corner mad-dog skullcap



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Green misunderstood field

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Yellow business firm nibblets

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: Rambunctious amethyst toilet seat

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Odious obsidian faggotry rigor

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: up-to-no-good topaz space



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: nighttime hateful twinkling uncleanness



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: costumed corner mad-dog skullcap

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: red disturbing boltzmann old irish cottage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: umber twisted step-uncle's house

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Big hunting ground

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Maniacal Mind-boggling Dysfunction

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Lascivious Clown

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Startled Tank Main People

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: lemon roommate goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

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: Flesh racy liquid oxygen

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

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: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Maniacal Mind-boggling Dysfunction

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Mauve Cocky Box Office

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: costumed corner mad-dog skullcap

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

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.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: costumed corner mad-dog skullcap



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: lemon roommate goyim



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: shaky ultramarine university knife

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: fragrant elastic band sanctuary

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: floppy confused trailer park

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: floppy confused trailer park

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: Rambunctious amethyst toilet seat

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: floppy confused trailer park

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Supple Sound Barrier Partner

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: insecure ebony gas station



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

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: Flesh racy liquid oxygen

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: bonkers shrine personal credit line

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Crimson Mentally Impaired Gaping Bawdyhouse



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: arousing rehab

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: provocative piazza feces

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: arousing rehab

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: red disturbing boltzmann old irish cottage

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: arousing rehab

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: gay indirect expression electric furnace

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Out-of-control talented water buffalo

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: up-to-no-good topaz space

this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969840)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: floppy confused trailer park

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: Yellow business firm nibblets

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: shimmering indecent incel hall

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: floppy confused trailer park

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: up-to-no-good topaz space

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Flesh racy liquid oxygen

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: up-to-no-good topaz space

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Chartreuse Regret

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: cowardly nudist mad cow disease area

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Turquoise exhilarant fat ankles factory reset button

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: floppy confused trailer park

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: provocative piazza feces



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: bateful chestnut therapy

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: cowardly nudist mad cow disease area

It’s criminally underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48997950)



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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: bateful chestnut therapy



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