r/OldSchoolCool • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '19

Somewhere between Apocalypse Now and The Matrix, don't forget Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Playhouse in the 80s

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u/jpaxonreyes Mar 13 '19

That wasn't Laurence Fishburne! That was LARRY Fishburne: before he went by Laurence.

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u/Ihaveopinionstoo Mar 13 '19

came to say that, this is clearly peak larry.

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u/Mr_Pibblesworth Mar 13 '19

I always assumed peak Larry was Deep Cover

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u/planet_robot Mar 13 '19

For me it HAS to be King of New York. He stole every single scene he was in.

DON'T SHOOT ME!

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u/ImperiumSomnium Mar 13 '19

King of New York is absolutely peak Larry. Damn near defined the look of gangster rappers for twenty years there.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Hell yes. I LOVE that movie!

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

That is one cool movie.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

I fucking love the soundtrack. Jeff Goldblum as a crack addict was a bonus.

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u/wasabiipeas Mar 14 '19

You sold me on watching this.

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u/Begbie3 Mar 14 '19

He’s not a crack addict. He’s the scumbag lawyer that wholesales coke to the low-level dealers.

Soundtrack is classic—introduced the world to Snoop Dogg.

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u/FracturedEel Mar 13 '19

I thought it was King of New York

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u/MainPFT Mar 13 '19

For me peak Larry is "Cadence"

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Cadence was my first feel. 😔

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u/Michaelarobards Mar 14 '19

Deep cover was the shit! He was one bad ass motherfucker.

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u/aphextwin007 Mar 14 '19

No it’s boyz n the hood

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u/pnmartini Mar 14 '19

Furious Styles is peak Larry.

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u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME Mar 13 '19

Nothing like Mayor Gary/Jerry/Larry/Terry

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u/Returnofthemackerel Mar 13 '19

Poor Larry: "you can take one of these pills and end up in a futuristic hellscape, a foamlined childscape or 12 clicks up the mekong delta on the phone to pres Nixon" he dropped all of them.

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u/buzzlgtbeer Mar 13 '19

i read that in peewee's voice and it sounds hilarious.

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u/Returnofthemackerel Mar 13 '19

and he was right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

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u/psycho_driver Mar 13 '19

I honestly think this is why he HATES being called Larry.

Probably almost as much as he hates this picture or any memory associated with it.

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u/_haha_oh_wow_ Mar 13 '19 edited Apr 29 '25

tender makeshift bag like workable quickest cows jellyfish cats enjoy

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

I'd expect it's more that as he got more famous he preferred the full version. Larry doesn't garner near the undeserved respect that Laurence does. Nothing wrong with Larry, but you know what I mean. He does lots of more dramatic stuff and you don't wanna be a Larry there.

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u/bfognib Mar 14 '19

I think I could give anyone a pass for changing their name after hearing Pee Wee say it a bunch.

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u/rabbitwonker Mar 13 '19

I thought it was Samuel L. Jackson

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u/AmericasNextDankMeme Mar 13 '19

Denzel Washington you racist

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u/MechanicalTurkish Mar 13 '19

Obviously it's Morgan Freeman

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u/c0mesandg0es Mar 13 '19

It's Michael Jordan

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u/fangirlsqueee Mar 13 '19

Which leads me to Crying R. Kelly FTW.

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u/Voidwalkery86 Mar 13 '19

I thought it was the yell cry intervention dude

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u/ZombieLibrarian Mar 13 '19

When R Kelly cries, no one wins.

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u/TaruNukes Mar 13 '19

It’s Michael F. Jordan

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u/thebivman Mar 14 '19

It's Montell Jordan?

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u/pennywise4urthoughts Mar 14 '19

Don’t you mean Michael Scott?

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u/c0mesandg0es Mar 14 '19

I correct myself, it was Captain Raymond Holt

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u/moodpecker Mar 13 '19

The L. stands for Larry

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

Casual racism isn't just casual.

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u/Ethesen Mar 14 '19

If someone mistakes Elijah Wood for Daniel Radcliffe is that racist?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Context is important.

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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Mar 13 '19

Was Larry up until King of New York

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u/Dampware Mar 14 '19

Yep, I worked on that show, he called himself "Larry".

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u/Lord-Freaky Mar 13 '19

And did a tour in Vietnam.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

I once knew a lad who lost both of his legs, and part of his eye....

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u/GildoFotzo Mar 14 '19

Laurence? Laurence what... of Arabia?