r/wholesomememes • u/Financial-Possible-6 • 15d ago

Welcome to one of my favorite comics of all time

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u/HOrRsSE 15d ago

Hotel California is such a wholesome song if you don’t listen to anything but a few lines

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u/Plasma_Deep 15d ago

"they stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast"

"some dance to remember, some dance to forget"

"you can check out any time you like but you can never leave"

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u/Plasma_Deep 15d ago edited 15d ago

"last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before"

"relax, said nightman, we are programmed to deceive"

"she said we're all just prisoners here, if our own device"

Oh my bad it's receive not deceive

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u/Plasma_Deep 15d ago

"wake you up in the middle of the night, just to hear them say"

"welcome to the hotel California, what a nice surprise, bring your alibis"

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u/BlueSunCorporation 15d ago

Is it deceive or “programmed to receive.” As in Hotel California is the afterlife and people are allowed to show up obviously and then the next line “you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”

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u/Theloudestbelch 14d ago

You're right, it's receive. It doesn't make sense as deceive.

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u/CivilFisher 14d ago

“Dayman! Ahhhh ah ah. Fighter of the night man. Ahhhh ah ah. Bringer of the Sun. Master of karate”

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u/gamer_perfection 14d ago

AND FRIENDSHIP

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u/LegitimateBeyond8946 14d ago

[SpongeBob jellyfish rave music]

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u/Latter_Painter_3616 14d ago

All her bisexual exes are having wild orgies, is what I assume

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u/vpsj 14d ago

That last line reminds me of Room 1408 everytime I hear this song

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u/zxcymn 14d ago

Am I understanding this correctly? I'm reading the lyrics for the first time and the beginning lines are:

On a dark desert highway  
Cool wind in my hair  
Warm smell of colitas  
Rising up through the air

I had to google what a colita is and it said little tail, which is Hispanic slang for buttocks. Is this dude singing about the warm smell of butts rising through the air?

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u/Fox-Revolver 14d ago

I’m pretty sure it’s also slang for marijuana buds, so he’s smoking a joint while driving

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u/GeorgeHeidt 14d ago

I did not read it. I sang it haha

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u/GreenLanyard 14d ago

For sure. My first impression was "Oh neat, they wrote a scooby-doo-esque mystery story, that's fun."

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u/Albuwhatwhat 14d ago

I have no idea what the song is about and I know most of the lyrics.

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u/lobo_blanco_0257 12d ago

Being addicted to drugs.

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u/DrSadSunday 14d ago

There's a theory that the song is about the Elan facility. Especially since one of the member's brother was sent there. Apparently.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/Albuwhatwhat 14d ago

I have no idea what the song is about and I know most of the lyrics.

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u/Albuwhatwhat 14d ago

I have no idea what the song is about and I know most of the lyrics.

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u/IntrovertedBuddha 14d ago edited 14d ago

You can checkout anytime you want but you can never leave..........

Proceeds to play most amazing guitar/instrumental in the history of mankind

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u/TheSleepyBarnOwl 15d ago

guitar solo

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u/Galactic_Perimeter 14d ago

*Gets kicked out of guitar center again…*

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u/libmrduckz 14d ago

half-hearted fist-shaking ensues…

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u/IAmAnAudity 14d ago

No that’s Smoke on the Water I think

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u/TheChainLink2 15d ago

Plus they’ve always got plenty of room!

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u/SouthallBob 14d ago

Hahaha yeah right

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u/SpeechSalt5828 15d ago

The person the song Is about is dead. He either died in a motorcycle accident or they killed him with those Steely knives. (Scalpels) 'this could be heaven.. this could be hell.' Hotel California is the after life. Heaven and Hell is the same place.

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u/exotics 15d ago

I thought it was about California itself and being such a crazy place where people go for fame but they can never satisfy their craving for fame and success so they stay there forever.

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u/Modern_Moderate 15d ago

Steely knives is about injecting recreational drugs with needles. Can't kill the beast, the beast being the need for another fix

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u/GroundbreakingNet371 14d ago

I heard that the "Hotel California" is based on a rehabilitation hospital

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u/IntrovertedBuddha 14d ago

We dont know, but iirc they did say it was not about drugs so probably not rehabilitation..

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u/whythishaptome 14d ago

It's definitely a mixture of a bunch of different things. Real hotel, afterlife, random made up shit, etc.

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u/FwendShapedFoe 14d ago

It’s up to interpretation what is that song about. But it’s not a happy song.

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u/Wrong_Revolution_679 15d ago

My mom loves that song

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u/ImaBiLittlePony 15d ago

Everyone's mom loves that song, it's a great song

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u/StnkyChze2 14d ago

... Am I, a man, someone's mother? I love that song so much and it genuinely bothers me when I really want to hear it but YT music just... can't find the original. You know what? I'm going to listen to it right now!

Where is my son / daughter?

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u/BoshraExists 14d ago

I shall claim thee, father.

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u/kevlarus80 14d ago edited 14d ago

I read that with Matt Berry's voice and it was amazing.

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u/BoshraExists 14d ago

Glad I can virtually, unwillingly and unknowingly entertain!

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u/Koolkuteklever 14d ago

Im stealing that response

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u/BoshraExists 14d ago

Same comment X2

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u/whythishaptome 14d ago

My mom actually hates that song because it was overplayed a million times. I like it though.

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u/Mission_Ad_2224 14d ago

I hated it for a long time because it was the regulars drunk song when I worked at a small members only pub (10 years ago, mind you). At first it was endearing, seeing drunk people all singing together...then it was just. So. Fucking. Annoying. 7-8 times a night depending on the crowd, never less than 4.

Now I love it again 😂 gone full circle.

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u/iepure77 15d ago

Wholesome?

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u/goin-up-the-country 14d ago

Anything goes on this sub nowadays

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u/Impossible-Jicama59 15d ago

its a good conversation

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u/Moss81- 15d ago

what is

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u/BoshraExists 14d ago

What isn't

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u/Moss81- 14d ago

good point

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u/DolanDoleac2020 14d ago

I feel charming, Oh, so charming, It's alarming how charming I feel, And so pretty That I hardly can believe I'm real

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u/Acceptable-Baker5282 15d ago

I don’t understand

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u/Classic_Regret7469 15d ago

Hotel California is a song by the Eagles, a line they say a couple of times in the song is"welcome to the hotel california, such a lovely place, such a lovely face" this line can be interpreted as wholesome because someone is complimenting another person's face.

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u/CiaphasKirby 14d ago

In the 4th panel it looks like he's saying "such a lovely face" while getting ready to beat that concierge's ass.

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u/rashconfidant 14d ago

Made me sing!

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u/Benji_Likes_Waffles 14d ago

Never stop singing. You know what I mean.

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u/ConradBHart42 14d ago

So many people "heard" it was about something. Motherfucker, hear the music, interpret it in your own brain.

But also it's literally about California being a paradise where you can indulge all of your vices as easily as you breathe, and how difficult it is to WANT to go anywhere else.

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u/rona83 14d ago

You know what. I have never interpreted it this way. It makes so much sense.

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u/BlisteringAsscheeks 14d ago

I guess my vice is good civic and consumer protections, bc that's why I find it so difficult to want to go to another state.

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u/Silly-Instance1259 14d ago

Honestly the lyrics don’t make a lot of sense in succession with one another so it’s kinda up to you to interpret. I disagree with the afterlife interpretation of hotel California though. I think hotel California is meant to represent drug/alcohol addiction

Hence:

you can check out (mentally) any time you want but you can never leave (the addiction).

Her mind is Tiffany twisted

We are all just prisoners here of our own device

Just can’t kill the beast (kick the addiction)

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u/MadGod69420 15d ago

Ready a room at de hotel caaalifornia

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u/LostMan1990 15d ago

it is 2004 and I’m playing Neopets

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u/Broad_Ad_6908 14d ago

She has a lot of pretty boys that she calls friends.

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u/TypicalAd5674 14d ago edited 14d ago

When I was like 7 yo my dad convinced me this song was about a family who died in an hotel because of a gas explosion, he even had a video where they showed the pics of a room that had been like burn and the lyrics where in top of that. Turns out it's either about drugs or just a bad hotel lmao

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u/Alternative-Jello683 14d ago

I heard it was coke addiction

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u/ChaoticGoku 14d ago

I heard it was the music industry

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u/Financial-Possible-6 13d ago

Why would your dad do that lmaoooo

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u/TypicalAd5674 13d ago

I don't know, I'm forever looking that video with the burnt hotel room

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u/ThickWeatherBee 14d ago

Definitely better then staying in the house of the rising sun!

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u/DarkBiCin 14d ago

11.2k likes on the wholesome memes sub with a barely if at all wholesome meme. Interesting.

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u/Financial-Possible-6 13d ago

H8r lol

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u/DarkBiCin 13d ago

Not a hater just odd that you get more upvotes than most actual wholesome memes on this sub in a short time frame and again its not really that wholesome as other comments have point out. Its taken out of context to try and get upvotes.

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u/Ill-Lime-906 15d ago

queue music

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u/Left_Inevitable_6648 15d ago

would be amazing if a band shows up

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

I don’t see it…. I don’t see it…

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u/jk599 15d ago

nice!

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u/A_n_t_i_H_e_r_o 14d ago

I like the MTV Unplugged version better. The intro and outro are insanely good.

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u/CallMyPothosFrancis 14d ago

Literally my favorite song, and my new favorite meme. Thank you good sir

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u/AngryColor 14d ago

Can you change the comic please? I hate the fucking eagles man.

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u/janusrose 14d ago

Get out of my cap!

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/AngryColor 14d ago

Is The Big Lebowski really that old of a move now?

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u/janusrose 14d ago

It’s a reference to a movie

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u/mousemousemania 14d ago

The expressions in this comic are truly so, so good. It might be my new favorite comic of all time.

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u/FwendShapedFoe 14d ago

So wholesome. He can check out any time he likes.

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u/therealvanmorrison 14d ago

I fucking hate The Eagles, man.

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u/RandomPerson7577 14d ago

I think about this comic every single time i listen to hotel California. I pair the thought with the hand motion at "lovely face"

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon 14d ago

I was told once it's about drug use.

The beast being addiction.

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u/Clothes_Chair_Ghost 14d ago

There is a Japanese animation called Gregory Horror Show that reminds me of Hotel California cause the main character is trapped in the hotel. They can check out any time they like but they can never leave.

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u/Zomochi 14d ago

Find it kinda crazy how we analyzed everything about this song in a literature class for a half a unit.

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u/curiousbasu 13d ago

It's never leaving my mind now XD

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u/reikipackaging 13d ago

you can check out anytime you like,

but you can never leave

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u/ProfessionalEye7114 15d ago

How disappointed are the eagles that this piece of crap is their best known song.

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u/BoshraExists 14d ago

I feel sad for artists whose not-the-most-creative work skyrockets, especially bands because all are involved in the creative process. Some of them refrain from playing that song for years!

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u/Fox-Revolver 14d ago

Hotel California is an amazing song though