Bill Hader Revealed The Reason He Was Once Fired On The Spot From A Movie Theater, And People Think It’s Both “Petty” And “Completely Valid”

“He really did nothing wrong, IMO.”
See, long before he was a world-famous comedian and actor, Bill actually worked at a movie theater. He ended up getting fired for spoiling the ending of a super iconic film to a group of girls — and his reasoning is cracking people up.

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“I was going, ‘Hey, guys. Can you guys move?’ They were making fun of me. They said I looked like Charles Manson. Which I kinda did. I had a little bowtie on and a cummerbund, and I was like, ‘Hey guys, please move.’ And they were like, ‘No,’” he shared.
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And so, Bill decided that he was going to share the ending of Titanic with the girls who made fun of him. Spoilers ahead.
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“So when they went in, as I tore the tickets, I was like, ‘Enjoy the movie. The boat sinks at the end. Leo dies,’” he said. “And they were like, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ I go, ‘Yeah, you think he’s asleep. But he’s frozen.’ And that showed them.”
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“The [manager] came down smiling, and he was like, ‘Hey, Bill. I have to fire you.’ He loved it. Couldn’t look me in the eye, though,” he concluded.
Bill’s retelling of the story has since garnered a heap of attention online, with several people agreeing that they feel he was “completely valid” for spoiling the Titanic ending.
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“This is the best pettiest revenge I’ve ever seen,” one person wrote. “This is completely valid honestly,” said another.
“I love him for this,” a third user added, while someone else said: “He really did nothing wrong, IMO.”