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Anonymous

Nov 18, 2024

“Now I know what a TV dinner feels like” – I don’t get it?

In the movie Die Hard, John McClane makes a comment while crawling through the air vents, saying, “Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.” I’m having trouble understanding this reference. Could someone explain its meaning to me? I realize it might be quite obvious, and perhaps I’m just not thinking about it the right way. Thank you in advance!

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Anonymous

Jan 28, 2025

You cook a TV dinner in a microwave, which is a bit like being blown with hot air.

There’s hot air in the vent, and as it blows over him, he feels like he’s being cooked in a microwave.

He could have said poached fish, or stewed beef instead, but visually, a TV dinner works best.

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Anonymous

Dec 27, 2024

When TV dinners were invented by Birdseye, they came in compartmented aluminum trays that were wrapped in aluminum foil. As John McClane was crawling through the aluminum duct work, he remarked that he, too, was wrapped in aluminum, like an old-fashioned TV dinner.

BTW, that character is named Joe Leland in the source book “Nothing Lasts Forever”. Nobody’s sure how his named was changed!

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Anonymous

Jan 26, 2025

because it’s crammed tightly inside an aluminum-type box (at least, tv dinners used to be). he’s crammed tightly inside a metal box.

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Anonymous

Dec 25, 2024

he is cramped in a airvent, over heating cooking like a tv dinner in a microwave

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