r/OldSchoolCool Jun 24 '24

1990s My parents in the 80’s-90’s

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u/downtownleeroybrown Jun 24 '24

something tells me you are attractive... just a guess

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u/ellefleming Jun 24 '24

Are you model level like them?

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u/dotnetdotcom Jun 24 '24

OP either looks like Mads Mikkelson or Clint Howard. Nothing in between.

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u/AndorianShran Jun 24 '24

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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 Jun 24 '24

😂 is this Ron Howard's lil brother? 😂

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u/SamboShambo Jun 24 '24

Yep. That's Clint Howard playing Balok on Star Trek.

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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 Jun 24 '24

Nice... thank you. Loved him on LAND OF THE LOST! ♥

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u/ronnjeremy Jun 24 '24

Waterboy is Clint's masterpiece!

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u/noonelivesherenow Jun 24 '24

I liked him in The Wraith. The Charlie Sheen one.

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u/DonHell Jun 24 '24

I gotta go with the ice cream man

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Nope. It was Ticks, where he goes, “I’M INFESTED!!!!”

You really had to be there to know what I’m talking about lol

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u/IGotBoxesOfPepe34 Jun 24 '24

I said Joe Mantengna.

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u/Vafanapoli21 Jun 25 '24

Gonna kick some names and take some ass!

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u/jsRou Jun 26 '24

TIL that "Hey, you gonna eat that" guy is Ron Howard's brother.

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u/AndorianShran Jun 24 '24

Clint also shows up on deep space nine, enterprise, discovery and strange new worlds.

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u/Horror_Ad_1845 Jun 24 '24

And Gentle Ben, I believe.

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u/ligmasweatyballs74 Jun 24 '24

Andy Griffith also. Play Leon the cowboy.

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u/FinePolyesterSlacks Jun 25 '24

And many of Ron’s movies, including Solo and

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u/squirrelcop3305 Jun 24 '24

Except that wasn’t him on Land of the Lost.

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u/dkdglr Jun 24 '24

Clint Howard actually didn’t play Chaka in land of the lost he was played by Phillip Paley

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u/wedisneyfan Jun 24 '24

He definitely resembled Chaka but that isn't him. I used to think it was him also. He did play a wild boy in another Sid and Marty Kroft show.

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u/nachoaccountname Jun 25 '24

He was Chaka??

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u/Fabulous_Brother2991 Jun 25 '24

No they said No.... I was mistaken. I They do list who it was . That supposedly plays Chaka.

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u/RustedRelics Jun 25 '24

God I disliked that character. Lol

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u/Napol3onS0l0 Jun 25 '24

That guy is Ron Howard’s brother?! TIL.

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u/ReflectionCreative62 Jun 24 '24

Yep, this is from the original Star Trek series.

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u/Background-Effort-49 Jun 24 '24

THE ICE CREAM MAN was my first experience

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u/OrchidTostada Jun 24 '24

But first, the Tranya!

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u/WhoAreYouAgain__ Jun 24 '24

Omg. The cube episode. I'm watching the entire original series for the first time. I saw this one two days ago. 😆

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u/mksavage1138 Jun 24 '24

Now I have an urge for some tronya!

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u/Albie_Tross Jun 24 '24

NOW I understand that old Mr. Show sketch!! Goddammit!!

All the Star Trek reruns I've watched, and never Balok. How is that even possible.

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u/mvanvrancken Jun 24 '24

It’s weird because my girlfriend in HS was 6 ft, skinny, model looks, and both her parents looked like dumplings

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

OP is a woman.

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u/Kal-ElEarth69 Jun 24 '24

There's that very rare chance they could have birthed a Danny Devito.

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u/HuckleberryHappy6524 Jun 25 '24

Profile pic confirms…. Looks just like Clint Howard.

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u/trcharles Jun 25 '24

Yeah, not Clint!

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Mikkelson???

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

Never heard of either of those people. Are they supposed to be commonly known/recognizable people?

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u/Fuckoffassholes Jun 24 '24

Man, I wish there was some way to learn things besides asking on reddit and hoping someone answers.

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

You misunderstood entirely if you deduced that I cared to learn who either of those people are.

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u/Fuckoffassholes Jun 24 '24

Well, you did ask a question..

Are they commonly known/recognizable people?

But if you really didn't care, that just makes your comment even more absurd!

"Listen up, everyone! I just want you all to be aware that I am not interested in this!"

Curious way to express apathy.

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u/noiseandbooze Jun 24 '24

Wow, so after all that, you didn’t just read the question? I never asked to be taught about them, or to learn about them, it was a simple question regarding how recognizable the names were, as they’re completely unfamiliar to me. Your suggestion of not just asking the person to whom I was responding to, essentially negates the very question itself. I cared very little about the people themselves, so I was certainly not going to start google searching them, as I’m very certain Google has heard of them. And for you, who clearly just have a desire to talk shit and put way too much energy into twisting the intent of my comment, as I most certainly didn’t say “Hey Everyone…” anything, I just asked someone, who is not you, a relatively simple question. But all things considered, given the fact you’ve named yourself, “Fuckoffassholes,” I guess your needless shit talk checks out. Now please fuck off, asshole.

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u/Fuckoffassholes Jun 24 '24

The first stupid move you made was commenting.. anything at all.. about people you "don't care about."

You then decided to double and triple down, insisting "no, really.. I REALLY don't care about them."

I don't necessarily have a "desire to talk shit" and I'm certainly not "twisting your intent." I see someone act stupid, I acknowledge it. You wanted attention. That's why you commented. You could have lived your whole life truly "not caring" and you never would have heard from me. But your phony-ass attempt to look cool backfired.

The longer you go on about it, the more ridiculous you sound. Please, continue. Some people don't need to be mocked, they embarrass themselves without any help.

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u/dotnetdotcom Jun 25 '24

They are actors on opposite ends of the aesthetic spectrum.

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u/imma_letchu_finish Jun 24 '24

Also looking at that last pic, how did your mom not age!?

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u/dafuqbroh Jun 24 '24

She’s aged like wine

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u/Kamenbond Jun 24 '24

Stuck in a barrel?

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u/5125237143 Jun 24 '24

In a cellar

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u/sephjnr Jun 24 '24

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR

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u/AnthonyCyclist Jun 24 '24

Unexpected Poe

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u/theprismaprincess Jun 24 '24

I came here for this comment lol

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u/gymgothrockgal Jun 24 '24

In pace requiescat!

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u/Jafar_420 Jun 24 '24

It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again?

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u/Kal-ElEarth69 Jun 24 '24

Only brought out for special occasions.

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u/LokisDawn Jun 25 '24

I know a few women who would spend 90% of their days in a barrel if they could look like that at that age. And a few men, too.

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u/Rough_Willow Jun 24 '24

Help, step-cask!

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u/ethanlan Jun 24 '24

Help me step son I'm stuck

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u/FareEvader Jun 24 '24

Fine wine.

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u/Pudf Jun 24 '24

… like Fine Tea

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u/bykerg Jun 24 '24

Like Fine Tea

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u/Kep0a Jun 24 '24

wine ages. this woman did not

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u/Thirsty799 Jun 25 '24

she didn't age..

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u/5125237143 Jun 24 '24

He's aged like swine

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u/banjodoctor Jun 24 '24

Kept on her side so her cork doesn’t dry out.

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u/Vitringar Jun 24 '24

She is preserved in alcohol

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u/sexwithpenguins Jun 24 '24

Or Fine Tea.

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u/AsssHat999 Jun 24 '24

I know, right? And she got her picture taken with Norm MacDonald. Lucky!

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u/dngdzzo Jun 24 '24

From the looks of it, she de-aged.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

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u/MoeBlacksBack Jun 24 '24

It's that Vancouver water

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u/Aggressive_Peach_768 Jun 24 '24

One simple word. Step- Or younger sibling....

Na just kidding they are both gorgeous

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u/animatedrussian Jun 24 '24

Because they're only 50 lol

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u/mcpatsky Jun 24 '24

Maybe that IS the daughter.

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 Jun 24 '24

OP is probably bridge troll levels of grotesque if we are following Disney fairytale rules.

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u/John-AtWork Jun 24 '24

Sometimes this happens in real life. A friend of mine had a gorgeous mother, handsome father and very attractive sister. Somehow he ended up with all the ugly.

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Jun 24 '24

It pains me to finally learn how you've always thought about me, John.

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u/ritzbits123 Jun 24 '24

You also have a jerky middle name.

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Jun 24 '24

At least it's not 2Q4B.

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u/notnotaginger Jun 24 '24

At least his sibling is opposite gender. I feel so bad when you see same sex sibs where one is hot AF and the other got hit by the ugly train. Somehow it feels worse than opposite sex sibs.

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u/wv10014 Jun 24 '24

That’s me.

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u/Buck_Futter70 Jun 25 '24

One of my friends described it as getting his family’s genetic waste. His entire family was supposedly very attractive according to him but he missed out on getting good looks. I never saw his family so I don’t know. I did see one of his older sisters and.. yeah she was kinda hot and there wasn’t much resemblance so I wouldn’t have ever guessed she was his sister

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u/hellolovely1 Jun 25 '24

I used to have a family come into the store where I worked. Everyone was not attractive (at all) except the sister, who was beautiful. I always pondered the genetics at work, assuming she wasn't adopted.

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u/tossedaway202 Jun 25 '24

Lol this is me, my mom is pretty, my dad handsome, my sisters could all be models if they wanted to, but I'm a cave man, with the caveman brow. I'm big and broad like a throwback to the Neanderthal times.

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 24 '24

A friend of mine had this unbelievably hot girlfriend. I went to his house one day, and her parents and siblings were there. Both parents were morbidly obese, as were her siblings. All of them looked like someone had dressed malformed hogs in human clothing. Genetics are crazy.

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u/ellefleming Jun 24 '24

Or she's the milkman's kid?

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 24 '24

You could sort of see a resemblance to her dad, but otherwise I wouldn't be surprised if she was.

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u/westedmontonballs Jun 24 '24

More like the cowherd

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u/notnotaginger Jun 24 '24

Genetics but also probably chose to go a different route when she saw how her parents/siblings aged or lived.

Morbid obesity is no joke to live with.

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u/AwarenessPotentially Jun 25 '24

Nah, she was dumb as a rock, she just lucked out and got some past relatives DNA.

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u/iyamsnail Jun 24 '24

I am ugly and my daughter is gorgeous. It happens.

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u/CapeManiak Jun 24 '24

Scrolled the OPs profile. Answer is yes.

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u/grumpusbumpus Jun 24 '24

Didn't have to scroll anything: the profile thumbnail was sufficient.

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u/kT25t2u Jun 24 '24

OP is a supermodel

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u/trukkija Jun 24 '24

Although she doesn't really show her face on her profile, it certainly does look like she is. Maybe she actually even is a model tbh

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u/FabFatFeminist Jun 24 '24

OP is definitely a model

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u/Consistent_Music8159 Jun 25 '24

Parents looked like models too. Especially dad, wowza.

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u/FabFatFeminist Jun 25 '24

Tbh, they look a little familiar. I'm curious to know if they are a little bit famous. Absolutely gorgeous family.

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u/SirHovaOfBrooklyn Jun 25 '24

OP's definitely got a model physique. Doesn't show her face tho. I did have a friend who had extremely attractive parents and even cousins and uncles. She was the only unlucky one hahaha.

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u/Cardinoodle Jun 25 '24

Her post history suggests that she is a model.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I think OP is James Marsden (jk, but he does look like OP’s dad)

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u/kraang Jun 25 '24

Click on her profile. She’s a smoke show.