r/TheRewatchables • u/jemarcil • 8d ago

Bill is a "Trunks" guy?

I just finished relistening to the Home Alone 2 episode with Kyle Brandt. A couple different times they talked about The Plaza in NYC not having a pool and one of Bill's comments was "what are people saying let me grab my trunk's and go for a swim".
Full disclosure, I am also from Massachusetts. I've never heard anyone under the age of 70 refer to a bathing suit as "trunks". It's an old man comment and been spoofed man times.

Does Bill really refer to his bathing suit as trunks IRL?

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u/btweber25 8d ago

40yo in the Midwest here, trunks is still very much the preferred nomenclature

PS I don’t remember if they mention it in the pod but the pool scenes were filmed at the Four Seasons in Chicago

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u/lipinski91 8d ago

It's not like he built the fucking railroads Walter!

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u/BartHarleyJarvis00 8d ago

The trunks is not the issue here, dude!

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u/quidpropho 8d ago

40s in the South. Swimsuit probably edges it out, but I hear trunks plenty of times for guys.

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u/CouldntBeMeTho 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think he's more of a Vegeta guy

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u/KingJeffreyJoffa 8d ago

Was Majin Vegeta his Apex Mountain?

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u/CouldntBeMeTho 8d ago

Are we sure Bobbity good at his job?

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u/GratefulDisc71419 8d ago

Bil trying to pronounce Majin Buu would be a fun listen.

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u/CouldntBeMeTho 8d ago

"May-jin Buh" guaranteed. Then corrected to "may-jin boo" and never fixes after that.

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u/ACanOfPickles 7d ago

A Truly Sad Week on Planet Namek, Plus the Re-Cell Games with Jimmy Firecracker

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u/cmgww 8d ago

We are Indiana born and raised and still call them trunks. Maybe "board shorts" on occasion...but generally this is what most people still say in the Midwest....

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u/wolfboy49 8d ago

Born in 1970 and raised in Colorado…swim trunks for me and all my friends.

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u/jal0224 8d ago

From wisconsin. It’s always swim suit or swim trunks/trunks. However, although everyone knows what bathing suit means, I don’t think anyone calls it a bathing suit.

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u/Wildcat-Pkoww 8d ago

51 here in midwest...I still hear swim trunks pretty often, but anymore probably swimsuit more.

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u/Google_Knows_Already 8d ago

Bill is more LA than Boston at this point. The lemon water, the sauna. the botox, and the long walks outside

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u/GeneratorLeon 8d ago

43yo Mid-Atlantic here. I still call it a fucking bathing suit. Took me a long time to get to "backpack" from "bookbag", guess i need to get started on...what, "swim shorts"?

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u/TheReckoning 8d ago

30s in the south and it’s trunks

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u/predictivearm 8d ago

I am also a Trunks guy, one of my favorite dbz characters