# Box Office failures that made big impacts on Pop Culture

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826 "2013-07-29T16:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826/81 "2013-07-31T03:43:34Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> Well, I thought it was clever.

Well, it is such a fine line between clever and stupid. 😃

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826/82 "2013-07-31T03:48:24Z")

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> [@JKilez](#):
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> Well, it is such a fine line between clever and stupid. 😃

Ain’t that the truth. 😃

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826/83 "2013-07-31T19:17:28Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Well, I suppose things can mean whatever people want them to mean. But wasn’t the whole point of the “bucket” in “bucket list” a reference to _kicking the bucket_? As in “dying”?

Yes, but the “dying” is neccessarily the person dying but more the time period or event. Summer bucket list is things you want to do before the summer is dead (over). Sate Fair bucket list is things you want to do before your visit is dead (over).

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-office-failures-that-made-big-impacts-on-pop-culture/664826/84 "2013-07-31T23:58:57Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Why are you coming up with obscure quotes from Weird Al, etc? That’s not the OP.

Well, they’re all quotes from a box-office bomb that has made an impact on, at least, _nerd_ culture 😛

“I’m thinking of something orange …”

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