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

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Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
citrine indian lodge
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
costumed shrine
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Dun thriller alpha pervert
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provocative ivory therapy turdskin
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Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
green native
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Dun thriller alpha pervert
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Twinkling spectacular space
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
Onyx frozen state clown
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Hairless Menage
  05/27/25
Best answer so far
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
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flushed theater
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Painfully honest hideous legend
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tp
provocative ivory therapy turdskin
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Hairless Menage
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
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Henna Learning Disabled Wagecucks Mediation
  05/28/25
Alpha Dog pops into mind first
greedy address people who are hurt
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
hilarious garrison private investor
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
costumed shrine
  05/27/25
social network.
Razzle hairy legs hall
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Wolf of Wall Street
Filthy library community account
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cerise gunner lodge
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Hairless Menage
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
Speed
mentally impaired hospital striped hyena
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
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Hairless Menage
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
costumed shrine
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
cracking domesticated toaster
  05/27/25
The Diaper
provocative ivory therapy turdskin
  05/27/25
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Hairless Menage
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/27/25
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provocative ivory therapy turdskin
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Hairless Menage
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cerise gunner lodge
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Hairless Menage
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
chartreuse sound barrier spot
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
twisted field hissy fit
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Twinkling spectacular space
  05/28/25
Good one
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
diverse medicated point
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Hairless Menage
  05/28/25
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Khaki mental disorder double fault
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
  06/14/25
Road Trip
mentally impaired hospital striped hyena
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
Ocher coldplay fan
  05/28/25
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Hairless Menage
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Sadistic Incel
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
free-loading bespoke market
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
Sadistic Incel
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Henna Learning Disabled Wagecucks Mediation
  05/28/25
1999
Sadistic Incel
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
abnormal salmon principal's office doctorate
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Black Hawk Down
nighttime orchestra pit
  05/28/25
this
flushed theater
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Dun thriller alpha pervert
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
histrionic corn cake
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
flushed theater
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
mentally impaired hospital striped hyena
  05/29/25
tyvmft
flushed theater
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
fragrant pearly stock car idea he suggested
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Harry Potter
Self-absorbed Roast Beef
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Irate slimy azn
  06/03/25
Good one
Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk
  06/03/25
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free-loading bespoke market
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
vigorous tattoo
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Self-absorbed Roast Beef
  06/08/25
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vigorous tattoo
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: citrine indian lodge

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: costumed shrine

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Dun thriller alpha pervert

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: provocative ivory therapy turdskin



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: green native

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Dun thriller alpha pervert

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: Twinkling spectacular space

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Onyx frozen state clown

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: flushed theater



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Painfully honest hideous legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: provocative ivory therapy turdskin

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Henna Learning Disabled Wagecucks Mediation



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: greedy address people who are hurt

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: hilarious garrison private investor

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: costumed shrine

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Razzle hairy legs hall

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Filthy library community account

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: cerise gunner lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: mentally impaired hospital striped hyena

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Hairless Menage

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: costumed shrine

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: cracking domesticated toaster

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: provocative ivory therapy turdskin

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

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: provocative ivory therapy turdskin



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: cerise gunner lodge



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: chartreuse sound barrier spot

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: twisted field hissy fit

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

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...id.#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

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...id.#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Twinkling spectacular space

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: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: diverse medicated point

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Hairless Menage



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Khaki mental disorder double fault



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: mentally impaired hospital striped hyena

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Ocher coldplay fan

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: Hairless Menage



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Sadistic Incel

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: free-loading bespoke market

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Sadistic Incel

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Henna Learning Disabled Wagecucks Mediation

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Sadistic Incel

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: abnormal salmon principal's office doctorate

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: nighttime orchestra pit

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: flushed theater

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Dun thriller alpha pervert

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: histrionic corn cake

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: flushed theater

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: mentally impaired hospital striped hyena

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: flushed theater

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: fragrant pearly stock car idea he suggested

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2...id.#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Self-absorbed Roast Beef

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Irate slimy azn

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...id.#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Territorial Vibrant Bawdyhouse Milk

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: free-loading bespoke market



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: vigorous tattoo

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: Self-absorbed Roast Beef

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: vigorous tattoo



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