Dose anyone under 35 get the Tab Joke.
You know since Tab Soda has disappeared.
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Yes I do. You can still buy Tab in my part of the country as a matter of fact. Now Pepsi Free is a whole different story...
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Isn't it called 'Pepsi Light' now?
We have to show the world that not all of us are like him: Henning von Tresckow.
a 35 year old would have been a young child when this came out , why would you remember tab over 35
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I didn't get the "Tab/Pepsi Free" line for years until I watched the movie with a fun pop trivia feature on the DVD that explained it. :) (but I'm also in my twenties)
"Do you know what the Preservation Room is for?"
"Delicious jams and jellies?"
I'm under 35 and got it. I live in a city where you can still buy Tab in some stores.
shareGood question. I haven't seen Tab in my city for years (I'm over 35), I remember my grandmother drank it when she was alive. I laugh at that scene everytime I see the movie. Restaurant owner: Are you gonna buy something? Marty: Give me a Tab. RO: I can't give you a tab until you order something! Marty: Give me a Pepsi Free. RO: If you want a Pepsi, you have to pay for it! Marty: Just give me something without sugar.
share"Restaurant owner: Are you gonna buy something? Marty: Give me a Tab. RO: I can't give you a tab until you order something! Marty: Give me a Pepsi Free. RO: If you want a Pepsi, you have to pay for it! Marty: Just give me something without sugar. "
Oh mi goshenzen.
How can you get so many things wrong?
First of all, it's not a RESTAURANT, it's a Café.
Second of all, how do you know he's the owner, or just a worker there?
Now, let's look at your quotes:
What he actually says, is:
"Are you gonna order something, kid?"
Your claim:
" Are you gonna buy something?"
See how wrong it is?
I am going to use the acronym "AL" for "Actual Line" and then "YC" for "Your Claim" from now on, 'Marty' for Marty and 'CW' for 'Café Worker'.
AL: Marty: "Aa..yeah. Gimme..Gimme a Tab."
YC: Marty: "Give me a Tab."
AL: CW: "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something!"
YC: CW: "I can't give you a tab until you order something!"
(How do you even confuse 'unless' with 'until'? They're completely different words!)
AL: Marty: "Right, gimme a Pepsi Free."
YC: Marty: "Give me a Pepsi Free."
AL: CW: "You wanna Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!"
YC: CW: "If you want a Pepsi, you have to pay for it!"
(Do 'you're gonna' and 'you have to' sound similar to you?)
AL: Marty: "Well, just gimme something without any sugar in it, ok?"
YC: Marty: "Just give me something without sugar."
Then you don't even include the punchline, which is that the Café Worker proceeds to pour him a COFFEE, which is very funny, and the climax of the joke; Marty didn't get any soda, because his terminology and soda expectations were incompatible with the 1950s speech patterns and beverage selection, and the Café Worker couldn't figure out any other sugarless drink.
I was always nervous about the CW possibly checking the years printed on those coins..
We didn't have Tab soda in Ireland so I didn't get the joke until recently when I saw it on a post here.
We have to show the world that not all of us are like him: Henning von Tresckow.
I have never even seen or heard of 'Tab' soda other than this movie, but I still got the joke, when I saw this movie the first time as a kid - and all the subsequent times.
It's not a difficult joke to figure out, you can easily fill in the blanks by reasoning and thinking a little bit.
Except that in Ireland, bars generally don't have "tabs." You have to pay for each drink when you get it. So the joke would be lost on viewers who aren't familiar with the concept of a tab.
shareI didn't get it until I found out what Tab and Pepsi Free were many years later. I first saw the movie in 1990 when I was 5.
shareso what does tab taste like. Probably not good otherwise it would sill be on the market today.
share"so what does tab taste like. Probably not good otherwise it would sill be on the market today."
I liked Tab when I was a kid in the early/mid 1980s. It had a very unique taste, nothing like any other soda I've ever had. It was sweetened with saccharine, which was probably what made it taste so different, but it also had a warning on the label saying something about saccharine causing cancer in laboratory animals. I doubt that helped its popularity at all. I vividly remember reading that warning on an empty can of Tab in the shed when I was about 9 years old while gathering up empty bottles and cans to take to the redemption center. I thought it was incredibly bizarre to see a cancer warning on a can of soda. It didn't dissuade me from drinking it, but I never drank it all that much anyway. Even though I liked the taste of it, I liked Coca-Cola better.
I remember Pepsi Free too. I only had it once or twice, but at the time there tons of commercials for it on TV. There was also Like Cola that was being advertised heavily at the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Cola
I had that one time in '82 or '83. There was nothing special about it; just a generic cola taste.