r/todayilearned • u/Melenduwir • 7d ago

TIL the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", although associated with the Jonestown murder-suicides, actually originated in the Tom Wolfe book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" about Ken Kesey and the "Merry Pranksters". Jonestown actually used Flavor Aid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 7d ago

The Kool aide related plot in The Studio is the funniest thing in the last 5 years at least.

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u/allthenamesaretaken4 7d ago

I want Scorsese to make it. As a goof or otherwise.

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 7d ago

I couldn't help but feel that the whole time.

Either the serious Scorsese movie, or the shitshow corporate product ice cube version.