Definition: That creeping suspicion your favorite ultra-niche movie is a collective hallucination because nobody else seems to remember it. Named after the baffling obscurity of films like Bubba Ho-Tep, blending Elvis, JFK, and a soul-sucking mummy.
It’s the mental fog you get when describing The Indian in the Cupboard to blank stares, making you question reality itself. Symptoms include frantic Googling and quoting Space Camp trivia to strangers, praying someone nods in recognition.
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Example: Describing The Adventures of Pluto Nash to coworkers yielded only confused silence, triggering frantic Googling to prove I hadn’t hallucinated the entire Ron Howard flop.
I kept dropping Howard the Duck quotes at the party, praying for a nod, but the universal blank stares made me question reality itself.