Characters And Shows That Influenced Your Life In Weird Ways

Pop culture can impact us in some bizarrely wonderful ways.
Characters And Shows That Influenced Your Life In Weird Ways

Pop culture has a strange way of either consciously or subconsciously affecting our behavior. And while most of us might be influenced in a similar manner -- coughjumpingaroundourroofsinspidermancostumescough -- a select others found themselves changed in wonderful or bizarre ways. Or sometimes both.

For example ...

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Characters And Shows That Influenced Your Life In Weird Ways
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Characters And Shows That Influenced Your Life In Weird Ways
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Characters And Shows That Influenced Your Life In Weird Ways
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