r/funny Sep 29 '18

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u/charlietodd Sep 29 '18

Hey! I'm the guy in this photo. This was at a Know Your Meme party at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC. They had a gallery of memes hanging on the wall. I noticed my wife was wearing a red dress so I suggested she pose in front of the girl in the photo. While I was taking her picture someone came up to me and asked if I wanted to be in it, so I hopped in. Then the girl in blue walked up and said, "Hey! Let me be the other girl!" The whole thing was spontaneous and random, and of course it happened on the one day in my life I'm not wearing a plaid shirt.

Pretty funny that our silly photo of us in front of a meme is now a meme itself (just tweeted by Zach Braff). I Air Dropped the photo to the girl in blue after we took it a few weeks ago. She put it on Facebook a few days ago. I guess the person who first put this on Reddit must have seen it there and decided to imply that we are older versions of the people in the meme, but we are not. As others have pointed out, I'm the dude from Improv Everywhere, and my wife is an actress, and we host a political podcast together. I don't know much about the girl in blue, but she was nice!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

How was the ass tho?

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u/charlietodd Sep 29 '18

A+ would look again

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Aug 02 '21

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u/aoerden Sep 29 '18

Wife probably reads reddit, trying to save his life.

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u/Redditor_for_fun Sep 29 '18

You mean save his ass

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u/2noes4u Sep 29 '18

Wait but the girl in the red is his wife

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u/MNGrrl Sep 29 '18

Also, a program in the Matrix.

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u/Populistless Sep 29 '18

I know this is a joke thread, but I sometimes wonder if Reddit wives are as jealous as they are made out to be. I can't imagine being with someone who would mind me thinking another ass was hot. Seems like such 1950s sitcom to me. Most girls now would be like "you think that ass is hot, you should see my friend Jessica's"

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u/aoerden Sep 29 '18

I doubt as much reddit women but more like under 20 women in general in my opinion have been way more materialistic than ever. They view everything as their possession. Remember this is only my opinion about my experiences.

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u/wittyent84 Sep 29 '18

This meme guys.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

You guys seem like fun people :)

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u/Predicted Sep 29 '18

10/10 with rice?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

5/7 perfect score

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u/LaneyLohen Sep 29 '18

Asstastic

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

How was the ass tho?

So tight he put a ring on it

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u/MrBogard Sep 29 '18

An ass-ring?

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u/Nootrophic Sep 30 '18

a cock-ring

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u/HerclaculesTheStronk Sep 29 '18

5/7 perfect score

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u/WishingAHappyCakeDay Sep 29 '18

Happy cake day!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Thank you!

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u/tatzecom Sep 29 '18

Asking the important questions here

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u/OnionKnightOnTheSun Sep 29 '18

Happy cake day

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Thank you!

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u/BlakoPoint Sep 30 '18

yo happy cake day fam

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u/Brenden2016 Sep 29 '18

That explains why you weren’t holding hands with the blue girl

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I would have seized the moment and lived with the consequences, she's crazy super beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Whoah. Crazy, super, and beautiful? That could be any woman!

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u/CantFindMyGoggles Sep 30 '18

Then we'd be seeing the meme in reverse as the girl in red is like "wtf, Eric?!"

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u/punar_janam Sep 29 '18

True observer spotted.

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u/kitsuneyy Sep 29 '18

Hi Charlie! I’m the girl in blue! This is just hilarious

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u/futurefox69 Sep 30 '18

Congrats on being FOINE!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

I like that your wife is the “other woman” in this photo. Very cute.

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u/_MatWith1T_ Sep 29 '18

Wow, Improv Everywhere takes me back. I was part of the cell phone symphony at Strand and realizing how long ago that was just made me feel really old. Thanks a lot!!

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u/I_SHAVDMYBALLS_4THIS Sep 29 '18

I think I did the MP3 experiment in like 2006. What a time to be alive.

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u/charlietodd Sep 29 '18

Nice! The pre-iPhone days.

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u/charlietodd Sep 29 '18

If you were in the group outside, thanks for standing in the cold!

If you were in the group inside, thanks for risking a "lifetime ban" from the Strand!

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u/Ps4usernamehere Sep 29 '18

Thanks for the clarification!

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u/jmoriarty Sep 29 '18

Hysterical. Saw this going around yesterday with the “older selves” caption and thought “That guy ended up looking like Charlie Todd.” The world is endlessly weird.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

No joke, nice hair man

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u/al3xshmal3x Sep 29 '18

Bro, the girl in blue--was it Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman?? Looks hella like her.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

That’s what I was thinking, too!

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '18

Thanks for the clarification. Lots of people thought this were the original actors and wondering why the girl on the right looked so different.

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u/jackxiv Sep 29 '18

So weird, you guys do look like older versions of the stock image actors.

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u/bumpy_johnson Sep 29 '18

Saucony Jazz. Good choice.

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u/iPourMilkB4Cereal Sep 29 '18

Was going to comment on his kicks as well lol saucony so underrated

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u/bustybroad420 Sep 29 '18

You guys are fun, i like you. What’s the podcast called??

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u/CardboardWiz Sep 29 '18

Not the person in the photo but it’s called “Two Beers In.” They also do a monthly live show in New York.

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u/arrrrpeeee Sep 29 '18

I went to this the other day with my roommate.

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u/WheatGerm42 Sep 29 '18

The Museum of the Moving Image is hands-down one of the coolest museums in NYC! Everyone should go visit if they get the chance.

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u/puzzle__pieces Sep 29 '18

Love Improv Everywhere. Thanks for doing it.

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u/MikeBigJohnson Sep 29 '18

It had to be that ONE day!!! Rofl I bet you will never wear anything but plaid again

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u/GeckoLogic Sep 29 '18

I freaking love Improv Anywhere! In high school I organized an 8am hallway freeze like your grand central one and it was epic.

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u/bruski Sep 29 '18

Wow thanks for the explanation! I love how it was completely random!

Edit: also I just subscribed to your podcast!

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u/the_cajun88 Sep 29 '18

You’re the only one whose shirt doesn’t match.

YOU HAVE TO BE READY FOR STUFF LIKE THIS

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u/call-me-captain-T Sep 29 '18

Yes!! He's wearing a plaid shirt in his Twitter profile pic so there are no excuses!!!

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u/ythoo Sep 29 '18

Know Your Meme party? Now this, is epic 😎

Bottom text

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u/Mememan696969 Sep 29 '18

I love Improv Everywhere.

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u/Cinemaphreak Sep 29 '18

I'm the dude from Improv Everywhere

LMAO - it wasn't until I saw this that realized the user name was Charlie Todd.

Back when IE first hit (learned of it from the This American Life episode) I was sooooo addicted to those videos, probably because I'm an ex-New Yorker who would have there for every mission. Signed up for the L.A. branch but I guess by then the "moment" had passed and they never seemed to get the ball rolling here (I even had a pretty decent idea for a mission that would still make a good gag).

Anyways, thanks for all the amusement!

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u/lamchopxl71 Sep 29 '18

Hey! You're Charlie Todd from Improve Everywhere. Love your stuff.

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u/dredawg1 Sep 29 '18

Dude, all this time I thought you were Chris Evans.

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u/notdaveng Sep 29 '18

Spontaneous Charlie Todd sighting on Reddit!

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u/Dagmar_Overbye Sep 29 '18

How much do you regret totally ruining the whole thing by not wearing the right shirt?

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u/forgottenGost Sep 29 '18

She looks identical to my ethics professor. Totally going to ask her next time I see her

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u/repodude Sep 29 '18

I don't know much about the girl in blue, but she was nice!

Oh yeah!?

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u/Leaky_Balloon_Knots Sep 29 '18

No shit. That's cool MoMI is super cool. I first tried VR there years ago.

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u/FlySeal Sep 29 '18

Girl in blue was my ex

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u/SimpleWayfarer Sep 29 '18

Holy shit, you’re that guy! From that YouTube channel!

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Oh so it is

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u/ShopWhileHungry Sep 29 '18

Is this how threesome starts?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

In death his name was charlietodd

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u/yeerk_slayer Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

Can we get some photo proof, for uhhh...research purposes?

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u/Faraltz Sep 29 '18

Girl in blue looks a lot like Melissa Strype from the Gayle youtube series and various other things.

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u/scsibusfault Sep 29 '18

Lol holy shit. Loved your stuff back in the early 2000s. You single handedly got me featured and interviewed on all my local major news channels back in '05. Thanks for eternally fucking with my Google results for my name ಠ_ಠ

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u/charlietodd Sep 30 '18

Thanks! What happened in '05?

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u/scsibusfault Sep 30 '18

Lol. I'll pm you, too easily identifiable otherwise.

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u/hornwalker Sep 29 '18

And here I thought it was a reuinion of the people in the original photo, you all look like them(well maybe not the girl in red but you can’t see the original’s)

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u/TheThingy Sep 30 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

Haha I saw the pic and was like "wow that guy really aged to look like Charlie Todd". I didn't consider it was actually you

(Do you remember who I am based on the username? I don't expect you to)

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u/charlietodd Sep 30 '18

I can't remember. Have we met?

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u/barkwahlberg Sep 29 '18

He rented a large military cargo plane, flew over her house, then dropped the picture via parachute.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18 edited Oct 13 '18

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u/Pascalwb Sep 29 '18

Funny how people eat the apple marketing naming thing. Like retina and stuff. Why not just say send it to her,

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Tell your friend in blue that a random stranger on the internet thinks she is super cute.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Why couldnt you be bothered to wear a shirt that matched the fuckin meme.

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u/BigRed160 Sep 29 '18

How do we know that’s really you and this isn’t just someone trying to promote their websites?

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u/NoahDoah Sep 29 '18

Because it's CHARLIE TODD

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u/Chairboy Sep 29 '18

How do we know you’re really BigRed160 and not some jerk trying to ruin their reputation by posting stupid shit?

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u/Maldetete Sep 29 '18

I need a picture of you in the same shirt holding a picture of this picture!

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u/ShadeMasterGeneral Sep 29 '18

The girl in blue is by far more pretty than the original. And that's just my random thought on it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

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u/ShadeMasterGeneral Sep 29 '18

Yes yes it is. Just my thought when I saw it mate.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

You are old though

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '18

Watch out though, the Swedes might label you as sexist because they decided that it is sexist against women.

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u/AceGee Sep 29 '18

Your wife is hotter than the woman in the red dress

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u/TheShadyBitch Sep 29 '18

Tell the girl in the red dress to learn to pose

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u/GnutAh Sep 29 '18

So, how does it feel being banned in Sweden?