Remember ‘The Dress’.
It was a simpler time, when you could spend the whole day weighing up the colour of an item of clothing and no one would have died or left the EU or made you eat your own jizz in the intervening period.
And it was as recent as early 2015. It seems so much longer ago.
https://twitter.com/sam_kriss/status/571316407146815488
A lot has changed since then, but it’s fair to say #TheDress needed updating.
Now, when someone mentions 2016 to you, what do you think of? If you said “cherished actors whose names you see trending on Twitter, forcing you to pray they’ve not died overnight”, you’d be right.
And no one’s more cherished than Bill Murray. Or, perhaps, Tom Hanks.
So when we saw not one but both names on our timelines this morning, we feared the worst.
Thankfully, not only did we soon learn that both are alive, but we also discovered both were at the centre of a mindfuck of paint-on-legs proportions.
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/791264864337551360
https://twitter.com/DeniseYumul/status/791278726923169793
Dear Internet. How can you not tell the difference between Tom Hanks & Bill Murray?
— Fredrik Paulin (@FredrikPaulin) October 26, 2016
Fortunately, this one can be cleared up very simply. It’s Hanks. No, it’s Murray. No, it’s Hanks. No, it’s Murray. No, it’s white and gold.
The picture first appeared online back in 2013 when it was posted on the “Reasons My Son Is Crying” Facebook page, but has started doing the rounds (and confusing everyone) all over again.
We’re going to level with you. You can tell us 100 times that it’s Bill Murray (and the woman in the photo has confirmed it is indeed the Caddyshack star – yes, that’s the film we associate with him. We don’t care if that Wes Anderson one you like is ‘better’ or ‘less of an embarrassment looking back’), but we won’t believe you.
He has Tom Hanks’ face, for starters.
Editor’s note – it really is Bill Murray, we promise. And yes, our heads still hurt.
