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Mostly here to post pictures of closed captions; I don’t want to do it any more than you want to see it. Fan of lots of things. But like, don’t be weird about it ok? He/Him; giving you a finger gun, a wink, and a tongue click as he flees into the forest.

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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
-YOU THINK THAT'S SCARY?WAIT TILL YOU SEE IT written down. - Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee
Guy Montgomery standing in front of a cartoon bee sign that says spelling bee. 
-YOU THINK THAT'S SCARY? WAIT TILL YOU? SEE IT written down.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
school disco you do not get fingered - Taskmaster
Jessica Knappett smiling in front of a red and black wall. 
Captioned: “school disco you do not get fingered”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Stevie Martin holding Jason Mantzoukas with two long red spoons on the show Taskmaster. Captioned “Jason, I'm locked in.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
-MAN: The food is superb. -WOMAN: It's quite exquisite... - Andor
Three people walking past a hallway. 
Captioned:
 “-MAN: The food is superb.
-WOMAN: It's quite exquisite...”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The fact that I know I'm drunk is proof that I'm sober. - Paprika
A cartoon man in a gray suit sits at a long brown bar made of fine wood. Two bartenders, one tall and one short, in black vests stand formally behind the bar. Shelves with bottles are behind. 
Captioned: “The fact that I know I'm drunk is proof that I'm sober.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Americans really are too silly to have a realistic understanding of the 1st Amendment Bitch
A sign with blue text on a white field reads:

“$1,000 reward
It is a felony under Oregon law to assault a TriMet operator or vandalize TriMet property (here, someone has graffitied the words “1st Amendment Bitch”)

TriMet offers a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of any person who assaults a TriMet employee or vandalizes
TriMet property
Call 9-1-1 to report a crime
Cameras on board”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
(gun fires seven times) - Children of Men Plus one shot earlier for intimidation, makes 8.
Two men fights by over a handgun in a dirty room. The gun is going off towards the ceiling. Captioned “(gun fires seven times)”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I keep thinking about how much I liked The Mandalorian and Grogu. Saving a friend is more important than fighting an enemy. Rose Tico says “That’s how we’re going to win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@middleearth.quest
Them: 
You rolled a 1 - (Skull emoji) A cursed roll...
A curse falls upon you as you open the chest. Your belongings scatter into the darkness.
You lost: a Mallorn seed

Me: Noooooooooooo!
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Daredevil: Born Again is obviously a significant downgrade in quality from the Netflix era Daredevil/ Defenders. Jessica Jones: *throws a man through a wall, steps through the hole* Cop: *no reaction* Daredevil: *opens door, walks through, closes door behind him* Cop, panicked: *calls for backup*
A cop yelling into his shoulder radio in front of a woman who just smashed through a wall and a man who just walked through a door. 

Captioned: “it’s Daredevil!”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I "gwaduated" from medical school! - Owl House
A little dude with no body, just arms and legs coming out of its head, and orange hair is wearing a face mask and holding an oversized syringe over its head.  An owl with a long neck is wearing a blue hat and looks on disapprovingly. Captioned “I "gwaduated" from medical school!”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
While I understand the necessity of your “artist’s statement”, I still find it both pretentious AND presumptuous. and the smug explanation of your art. - Taskmaster, series 19
Greg Davies reading a card on the left and Alex Horne looking down trying to stop from laughing. Captioned “and the smug explanation of your art.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Booshkeedoo! [chuckles] - Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
A futuristic temple looking structure in the middle of an old futuristic city. Captioned “Booshkeedoo! [chuckles]”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Lexie Hull to her teammate as she makes minimal effort to intervene.
Willy Wonka no-heartedly trying to stop someone from doing something
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
One of my favorite statistical analyses from the past NBA season, “proving” that Kyshawn George plays better without braids.
Two picture of Kyshawn George. The left he has braids. The right his hair is  natural and unbraided. The stats below show he played better without braids. 
With Braids (52 GMS)
9.1 PPG
38.8% FG
4.1 RPG
33.5% 3P
2.8 APG
78.4% FT
0.9 SPG
51.7% TS
0.8 BPG
19.2% WIN%

Without Braids (46 GMS)
11.7 PPG
43.6% FG
4.8 RPG
36.9% 3P
3.5 APG
73.2% FT
1.1 SPG
55.9% TS
0.8 BPG
21.7% WIN%
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Tiny Whimper - The Fifth Element
A close up of Chris Tucker’s and Ian Holm’s faces from The Fifth Element; they’re staring intensely at an out of focus match on fire. Tucker has on red lipstick, Holm’s mouth is out of frame. 
Captioned: “Tiny Whimper”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In Portland, OR: A decal left over from the last failed business to occupy this storefront, which has hosted at least 5 different businesses in the past 5 years. “SUCCESS IS A DECISION.” Sure it is, buddy.
A ripped decal in an empty store front reads “success is a decision”. There is a visible reflection of the street and a tree.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
it's like a fallout shelter or something. - Gravity Falls
Four cartoon character in a shadowy room looking at a sign with an atomic symbol and the words ‘WARNING FALLOUT SHELTER’ on it. 
Captioned “it's like a fallout shelter or something.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
[awooga!] [boink!] [shloompf!] [pop!] [splat!] [boi-oi-oing!] - The Amazing Digital Circus
A carton clown with a censorship bar over her mouth. 
Captioned “[awooga!] [boink!] [shloompf!] [pop!] [splat!] [boi-oi-oing!]”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
These kids have a bad attitude. -Dad, you should have goals. -We have goals. - Is This Thing On
2 annoying kids in the back seat of a car. 
-Dad, you should have goals.
-We have goals.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
For other nerdy Bones fans like Claire and I, it’s worth noting that at least two actors from Bones are in this scene.
Two panels. 
Top panel: Wendy Braun as Lorraine Bergin in Bones S2 E17. Captioned “Hi, I'm Lorraine. I'm the parish administrator.”
Bottom panel: Wendy Braun as Elizabeth Prescott in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat. Captioned ”This is Elizabeth Prescott and her associates from the Triukas Group.”Two panels.
Top panel: Stephanie Hodge as Janis Collins in Bones S11 E18. Captioned “Carl, what's going on out there? I told you I didn't want”
Bottom panel: Stephanie Hodge as Helen Schaffer in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat. Captioned “I've been cooking the books here for 26 years.”
White text on screen, documentary style reads “HELEN SCHAFFER Accounting”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Do you want to be the Booth to my Bones but gay? - Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat #PickupLinesThatWouldActuallyWork
Rachel Carley as Claire Coleman in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat. She has get eyes closed and looking down with a timid smile. She’s wearing a green/white striped shirt and dull yellow overalls.  Captioned “Do you want to be the Booth to my Bones but gay?”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You know how my calves bruise. - Bob’s Burgers
A cartoon man with short brown hair and glasses in a pink shirt in the driver’s seat and looking behind him and speaking at a similar looking cartoon boy without glasses in a blue shirt in the back row of a car. They are both wearing their seatbelts. 
Captioned “You know how my calves bruise.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Armed and Dangerous was my absolute favorite comedy as a kid.
Multiple panels with Various actors from Armed and Dangerous (1986), including James Tolcan in the bottom right panel.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
And worrying about annoying crap is annoying. - One Piece
An anime character with green hair in a white shirt and wearing a green/black armband is looking up and smiling. Captioned “And worrying about annoying crap is annoying.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This still really looks like they put up a nameplate and a painting on the enterprise hallway set from Star Trek the next generation.
Dudes who are obviously reusing the sets from Star Trek the next generation trying to act like they’re not reusing the sets from Star Trek the next generation
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A decade+ ago, this was a bit of jokey wordplay on a ridiculous premise; now, people will look you in the eyes and tell you that you have to take Markwayne Mullin seriously. I can't tie a ribbon around a crazy guy who supports crazy guys. - Veep
Matt Walsh is wearing a suit and a lanyard, standing in front of an Abraham Lincoln portrait and a fancy looking bookshelf, shrugging his shoulders and looking exasperated. 

Captioned “I can't tie a ribbon around a crazy guy who supports crazy guys.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Father, The Son, and Zefram Cochrane. #StarTrek
A picture of the birth of Jesus, but baby Jesus is replaced with a miniature warp core from Star Trek. Mary sitting and holding the warp core, but is replaced with B'Elanna Torres from Voyager. Joseph is kneeling behind her, but is replaced by Charles "Trip" Tucker III from Enterprise. Three wise men are kneeling next to them holding gifts; they are replaced by Geordi La Forge from The Next Generation, by Miles O'Brien from The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and by Montgomery “Scotty” Scott from Star Trek: The Original Series. 

White text across the top of the image reads “BABY JESUS WAS
A WARP CORE”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Aside from the Terminator program, one of Skynet’s many atrocities was transitioning Baskin-Robbins to soft serve.
Sarah Connor yelling as she intensely fills up an ice cream cone with chocolate soft serve at a baskin robbins
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How I feel when I get likes off of reposts. taking that which, does not belong to me makes me feel so alive. - Centaurworld
An orange cartoon with blue hair, wide eyes, floppy ears, and a tall narrow neck is making tense fists. Captioned “taking that which, does not belong to me makes me feel so alive.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Timothy Dalton as The Chief, with the rest of The Doom Patrol
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I rewatched it recently and had forgotten a bunch of details. But for the past month, every time someone refers to Lo Pan in my head I say to myself “oh, you mean David.”
But there's one thing
even David L Pan must acknowledge.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Beware of print editions posing as humans.
Single panel meme format. 
An anthropomorphic-person-sized copy of The New York Times newspaper, with human arms and legs, and cartoonish eyes and mouth, is pulling on a pair khaki pants in a dressing room with door open. A white speech bubble with black text says “Hey! Close the door! I'm still putting on these new pants, for crying out loud!”
White text with black outline across the bottom of the image reads “THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN'”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“If I don’t let you watch the rain fall on this peaceful village, how will you know what violence is?” - Brennan Lee Mulligan paraphrasing Akira Kurosawa Still from Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams probably unrelated.
A still frame from Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990), from the segment ‘Village of the Watermills’. A man in a white shirt and blue jeans stands on a wooden bridge over a body of water. He is near the shore on one side of the bridge, and is looking back (away from camera) at a waterwheel behind him in the background on the opposite bank.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
@eliasisquith.blog here’s what Wolcott says after he finally kills Carrie mid-way in s2. His arc is the conflict between his loyalty to Hearst (marking him an outsider) and his human instinct to be of a society (of the body), which he is never really able to resolve. “Now, I could cut off my arm.”
A bearded man holds a dead woman in his arms. Captioned “Now, I could cut off my arm.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A GOLDFISH IN A DARK ROOM IN A LARGE BUILDING
A GOLDFISH IN A DARK ROOM IN A LARGE BUILDING
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Avatar: The Last Airbender, as performed by The Boys.
Three-panel meme of Butcher and Hughie from The Boys. 

Top panel- yellow text “Hmm. They're not wads. They're more like...bundles.”

Mid panel- yellow text “Or bunches?
It's got an "uh" sound.”

Bottom panel- orange text “clumps?”.  Yellow text “CLUMPS!”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
political insight from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… or from the US in the 2020s. The very worst thing you can do right now is bore me. - Andor
Dedra Meero from Andor is a stern looking blonde woman with an intense look in her eyes and gritted teeth as she leans in to interrogate a prisoner. 

Captioned: “The very worst thing
you can do right now is bore me.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“This part” will be one of two very different situations for Artemis and Halo, depending on if Zatara willingly put The Helmet of Fate back on or if needed to be forced back on him. We are here for this part. - Young Justice
Halo from Young Justice sitting on a bench saying “we are here for this part”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Halo from Young Justice sitting on a bench saying “we are here for hello Megan”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Halo from Young Justice sitting on a bench saying “we are here for hello Megan”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
One of these snakes is living a lie.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Not hitting on you, but also not not hitting on you. [CHUCKLES] YOUR BUTT IS *KINDA* CREEPY. - Adventure Time
BMO from Adventure Time is giggling, eyes closed, hands raised to his smiling mouth. Sitting next to Finn on a couch. 
Captioned: [CHUCKLES]
YOUR BUTT IS KINDA CREEPY.
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What’s even the point of a Horga'hn anymore?
Two panel meme of Holt from Brooklyn 99 holding a Horga'hn from Star Trek. Yellow text in both panels. 
Left panel: “Why is no one having jamaharon?”
Right panel: “I specifically requested it.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Overtly describing the character named Savage Opress… Never sympathize with the enemy, not even for a moment. - Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
A close up of a Zabrak (Dathomirian) male from Star Wars: Clone Wars named Savage Opress. His face is half lighted and half in shadows. 
Captioned: “Never sympathize with the enemy, not even for a moment.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Rick’s lie to Ilsa in Casablanca is the ultimate gamble. -Either she doesn’t shoot him, thus renewing his hope that she loves him more than Laszlo or her cause. -Or she shoots him, the location of the hidden letters dies with him, and Ilsa will hate him forever for this final, petty ‘fuck you’.
Three panels from Casablanca (1942). 
Top panel: Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa angrily stares ahead. She is holding a gun (though the closed captions are printed on top of it, so the gun is not actually visible in the shot). The shadows from an off screen window fall across her and the wall behind her, resembling bars of a cage. Captioned “I tried everything. Now I want those letters.”
Mid panel:  Humphrey Bogart as Rick with his lips parted just barely in momentary surprise at having a gun pointed at him. Before he can speak, Ilsa speaks off screen. Captioned “'Get them for me.'”
Bottom panel: Rick’s momentary surprise passes, he closes his lips and puts on a serious but unreadable expression.  He speaks. Captioned “I don't have to. I got them right here.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I didn’t britta this Community meme. I am proposing that the genitive case (possessive) of “address” should be “addresses’”. So there. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie #AndAMovie #Community
Three panel meme with yellow text in each panel. 
Top panel: Jeff looks incredulous in a black shirt. “Somebody tell Britta what a VPN is.
Mid panel: Britta looks annoyed in a red shirt. “I know what it is!”
Bottom panel: Britta looks sure of herself in a red shirt.  “It’s like an IP address with another IP addresses’ hat on.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A little extra effort by someone on the Spanish subtitles for the Princess Bride, maintaining the rhyme scheme joke while staying honest to the spirit of the lines. The original English lines are: Vizzini- No more rhymes now, I mean it. Fezzik- Anybody want a peanut?
Two panels from The Princess Bride of a ship sailing away. 
Top panel: No quiero más rimas. ¡Hablo en serio!
Bottom panel: ¿Alguien quiere un refrigerio?
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Stressed-out quarantine-era David Tennant: “It's not a skill set. It's a compulsion.”
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R Coal B @closethecaption.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I think about Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride anytime I watch either of the Miles Morales Spiderverse movies.
Three panels of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess bride. White text in each panel reads:
Top: “My name is Miles Morales.”
Mid:  “I was bitten by a radioactive spider.”
Bottom: “I'm pretty sure you know the rest.”
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