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Twenty years ago, on August 16, 1995, audiences first met Dean Keaton, Fred Fenster, Dave Kujan, Todd Hockney, and Verbal Kint, some of the lead characters in a pretty cool Bryan Singer crime thriller called The Usual Suspects. And then two or so hours later, something crazy happened. Without giving away too many details, their entire worlds were shattered, just like a coffee mug dropped on a police station floor.
That ending would go on to be known as one of the best movie twists ever. But its hidden legacy, you could say, is in comedy: Over the next two decades, a slow-motion flashback sequence involving tidbits of voiceover, closeups of objects arranged around a room, and the clattering of a household object onto the floor became shorthand for "Oh, man, this guy just got duped so hard." Here's (just about) every entity that's ever spoofed the famous Usual Suspects ending.