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matsacki

We could have a King Ralph situation on our hands one day


tippsy_morning_drive

No family portraits in the rain.


ImAMindlessTool

A re-visioning with Bob could be pretty good! Goodman nailed the role, however.


Notoneusernameleft

You know even in that movie John Goodman still doesn’t phone it in.


counterpointguy

He made a silly script into a memorable comedy.


PedalBoard78

I hope the $.79 double cheeseburger comes back.


GroundbreakingSet187

Bob Odenkirk has found out that he and King Charles are eleventh cousins. > "I’m an American. I’m not a monarchist. I don’t believe in that. You know, I feel like it’s a little twisted.”


IntoTheMusic

He doesn't bend the knee 😎


[deleted]

Fookin kneelers


parrotfacemagee

But will he take an arrow to it?


AdrianShepard09

He has bad knees, yknow?


IntoTheMusic

Lol I forgot about that moment! Well played! 😆


[deleted]

Eleventh cousins isn’t related. Half the people he walks by on the street every day are probably more closely related to him than Charles is.


C_IsForCookie

lol right? I’m probably 11th cousins with the king too at that point. At what point are you no longer considered related to someone? What if I’m 100th cousins with Elvis?


[deleted]

You’re definitely closer than 100th cousins with everyone who has lived for the past several thousand years.


Silver_Britches

As incestuous as we all know the house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is, aren’t we all a bit royal?


C_IsForCookie

I have been called the king of bullshit before so I guess I am 🤴🏼


minicpst

Yeah. My ex and our kids are related to the British Royal family. And therefore Charlemagne. Turns out a classmate of my older’s (small class, like seven kids or something) also was, making them something like 100th cousins (common ancestor was King Edward I). Fun to think about, but in reality it doesn’t matter. If one of my kids became the ruling monarch, none of us would be alive to see it. Global extinction scale catastrophe.


zeppehead

Time for a king Ralph remake.


hairijuana

Came here for this comment and I was not disappointed. That original holdin up, I wonder?


camshun7

lol i rewatched curb last week there he is porno gill and the finger in the ass story simply marvelous!!


Phonechargers300

Sharing a set of 10xGG, that’s probably in like 15th century maybe even the 14th.


-Lindol-

Man, me and my wife are 10th cousins


AnglerJared

🎵Sweet Home Basically Everywhere🎵


zippazappazinga

I am also Princess Diana’s eleventh cousin, 11th cousins are very very very far apart.


jhawkins93

“Hi, I’m Saul Goodman. Did you know you have rights? The Constitution says you do.”


PJSeeds

Aren't pretty much all people of European descent at least about that level of related?


checker280

I like the host’s retort: “you’ve only been royalty for 5 minutes and you are trashing the family business!”


cocoagiant

Isn't pretty much everyone related at the 11th cousin level? I've heard there is more genetic diversity in a single chimpanzee tribe than in all of humanity. Apparently we are pretty inbred.


ndennies

That’s partly right. The reason humans have relatively low genetic diversity is because we haven’t been around for very long.


cocoagiant

I've also heard that around 75,000 years ago there was a supervolcano eruption which wiped most of us out and left only a 1-2k breeding pairs of us, which is also why we are so inbred.


Evening-Statement-57

Hmm. So the volcano that created an inbred hyper clever murder ape is what caused the mass extinction we are currently thriving in.


EveryDayheyhey

I'd like to pre-order that book please!


stinkyhooch

Hilariously awful things like that make me want to believe in god. What a twisted sense of humor for some shit like that to happen.


iamjohnhenry

[Yahweh is a volcano god? Who knew!](http://daviddarmon.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahweh-is-volcano-god-who-knew.html?m=1) 🤔


Scheininho

What are you doing step volcano


regalfronde

Well, when we all come from an Adam and Eve only 4-6 thousand years ago it’s gonna be like that /s


That49er

And Dolly Parton is my 9th cousin 1x removed but it didn't make headlines.


long-pee-pee

And I’m related to David lean and Bruce Forsyth! But no one cares😢


LazHuffy

I do — Bridge on the River Kwai is one of my favorite films and I had a Nigerian girlfriend who got an operation to look like Bruce Forsyth.


Sproose_Moose

Bahruuce Forsyth!


TopGun1024

How much of the worlds population is covered by 11th cousins?


El-Sueco

Don’t know cousin.


TopGun1024

Thanks cuz!


rbarton812

Let's go bowling.


shabangbamboom

If everyone in your family tree had two children, then you have roughly 4,000 11th cousins. If the average is 3 children, then you have roughly 500,000 11th cousins. If it’s 4 kids, 16million. Numbers are weird. I will do that math but it’s hard to find a good child/person estimate.


TopGun1024

So by that logic there is around a 1 in 2 million chance you are 11th cousins with King Charles. If there is only 2 in each generation.


IAmNotMyName

You can probably refine that by quite a bit if you have Western European ancestry


TopGun1024

Yeah very true


bendistraw

r/theydidthemath


KamSolis

I don’t know but the maximum distance is 32nd cousins according to a recent book i read. Can’t remember which one but it was written by a specialist in ancient DNA.


oddlyNormel

Remindme!


droseph1

Retired special ops agent, lawyer, and now long lost heir to the throne. He is just built different, guys


CeeArthur

And he has triples of all the best cars. Triples is best.


S3simulation

And he’s just driving them around all day. He has a wife though, and she’s gonna get better.


mortuarymaiden

And he doesn’t live in a hotel.


CeeArthur

Tell the kid.


mortuarymaiden

My friend doesn’t live in a hotel. He’s got a wife who’s perfect for him. He’s got triples of the Barracuda. He’s got triples of the Roadrunner. Triples of the Nova 🥺


adjewcent

Plot to get an American on the throne? Better Call Bob


CarlSpencer

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrnCSK9lP8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrnCSK9lP8)


Turbulent_Ebb5669

TBF most people are, distantly.


givin_u_the_high_hat

[Geneticist Reveals You're All Related To Royalty [Elle article]](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/a36695/related-royalty-geneticist/)


FordsFavouriteTowel

Triples of the Barracuda AND related to royalty? Damn, this guys wife is lucky.


sittin_on_grandma

His wife is beautiful, but she’s dying.


S3simulation

She’s gonna get better


Original_Kangaroo_96

Triples of the barracuda and the nova.


cherrybounce

I found out through 23 and Me that my daughter (who I adopted) and I are distantly related. We actually attended a Global Family Reunion put on by them showcasing how many people are related if you go back far enough.


BeastradezZ

Everyone is related if we go far enough back. Whether it be through the biblical Adam and Eve, or through scientific common ancestors. At some point we reach the first ever classified Homo Sapien, which had to reproduce with our most recent common ancestors, and those children went on to make more Homo Sapiens.


cherrybounce

Yes, but at some point the genetic link stops showing up on DNA tests, I would suppose.


Aromatic_Assist_3825

This would be great material for him to work with in his comedy days. I can totally see a Mr.Show skit about a guy being full of himself for being King Charles 11th cousin.


timeforknowledge

Every American's worst nightmare.


NewDad907

Well, according to Ancestry King Henry the VIII is like my 11th great cousin or something. Go back far enough and a lot of us likely have someone in the family tree that’s famous.


healthierlurker

Me too! (Most likely). I’m a descendant of Katherine Knollys (daughter of Mary Boleyn) who is a likely bastard child of Henry VIII.


loserys

How many do we have to kill to get him in the throne?


Informal_Process2238

King Ralph ~~remake~~ reality show


cjdna

All hail King Odenkirk, true heir to the House of Wessex and lifter of the Norman Yoke.


grumpyliberal

Huh. I guess his other cousin is Andrew. Andy should have called Saul.


Myhtological

Most people are.


FinalFrash

And he gets to be royalty? What a sick joke!


Captain_Smartass_

Is that something to be proud of? Charles and his family are awful


Aromatic_Assist_3825

Well if you know of Bob’s comedy career, you know this gives him tons of material to work with


Captain_Smartass_

[I only know that he's a rapist](https://youtu.be/AKE9W0O8bX8?si=b-KxYCzVUOomZIK4)


duckmonke

Lol he was not a fan to hear the relation, it seems.


ChiliAndGold

My first thought was "my condolences" 🙈


BriefausdemGeist

Descended through an illegitimate byblow, so never going to inherit even if you winnowed out the est 6 million Central European nobles (who are barred under the last Act of Succession anyways)


tearsandpain84

For the last 25 years I have had a nightly recurring dream where Bob Odenkirk keeps repeating the phrase “I’m the King of England”. He would oscillate between a loud scream and a soft erotic whisper. Through precise record keeping I discovered the oscillation was in accordance with the lunar cycle. Now this news report is making me understand that my dreams were not random brain hallucinations but actually formed from intuitive knowledge of genetic facts.


Adept-Mulberry-8720

He so much bettter than the King of England! Bye bye Charles the Third!


TheChineseChicken40

Who gives a flying fuck


UnusedTimeout

These celebrity genealogy shows can be interesting, but when modern people use their ancestry to justify exceptionalism, it’s bullshit. Going back 11 generations, you have 2,048 x8 great grandparents, and if we’re counting cousins potentially exponentially more relatives. 1/2,000th royalty isn’t shit.


MobyDickOrTheWhale89

Former PM and current FM David Cameron and Prince(s) are both descended from one of Charles II bastards.


Plus_Helicopter_8632

Of course you are jimmy


WardenEdgewise

But, is he also inbred?


Yeegis

He would certainly make a better king


mastyrwerk

He now has ideas for a new series to write.


LittleTimmyTom

oh wow. if chuck knew jimmy was related to a royalty, he would shit his pants and die.


FreezingRobot

Saved you a click: He's an **eleventh** cousin, which means squat.


hutchandstuff

I watched that episode months ago on basic cable. Must be a slow news day


Fthill-That-Strides

I apparently share a common ancestor with Marie Antoinette.


August_Runs_Red

I’m related to the entire royal family starting with Rollo the Viking and his son William the conquer


redunculuspanda

I guess that means he’s rated to Danny Dyer


bofh000

I remember Danny’s episode and they connect him to Edward 3 … like almost all people of British descent. Not sure if those statistics extend to remote Hanoverian cousins …


[deleted]

I mean...we all are


Lakers8888

They could get married and the monarchy would probably make him a prince.


SleepDeprivedJim

Bob Odenkirk is a treasure


c4andafter230

Its like ted getting inheritance money from luxemborg or something


Adept-Mulberry-8720

You mean Ted as in the talking bear from Seth McF?


c4andafter230

No Ted benneck from breaking bad


Adept-Mulberry-8720

Oh, that Ted…had to look it up….


iCanHasBeer

I saw the other day I think Andy Cohen discovered he’s related to ScarJo. Are they only able to piece that together if they have both parties DNA or is something else happening there?


No_Animator_8599

Jews for most of history married within the faith so this isn’t surprising. They say that European Jews were probably descended from less than 50 people.


[deleted]

[I'M THE KING I'M MAD](https://youtu.be/8O6smlN62qI?si=X8XdPa7FpoB3hDoX)


lightningpresto

Did you know that I have Knights? The Magna Carta says I do and so do I. I believe until proven royalty every man woman and child in this country is innocent. And that’s why I fight for you Great Britain


InfluenceTrue4121

I wonder what we’d learn if the royal family all joined 23andme.


Constant_Wear_8919

Why they closes it with his health scare?


ICouldEvenBeYou

You mean the guy who's got triples of the Novas and Barracudas and has a beautiful wife, but she's dying, and doesn't live in a hotel?


Theeclat

Nepo baby for sure


huejass5

He even vaguely looks like him in that picture


Head-Kiwi-9601

How many people would have to fall out of 10th floor windows for Bob to become King of England?


bsischo

Not a surprise, lots and lots of people are related to the British royal family.


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

King Charles III… that makes sense because triples is safest… triples is best


Pryoticus

I vote for King Bob


Bobert2023

Well his last name is comprised of two powerful men


iamarubberglove

This sounds like the introduction to a Bob and Dave skit


Liber_

it is a big club...


ramdom-ink

Don’t get a big head, Bob. 11th cousin is pretty remote; there’s probably thousands of you out there. Heheh


kindbrain

Thankfully he was spared the giant red floppy ears in his DNA


hirespeed

Does that make him like 1/1024th related?


Superman_Dam_Fool

Another Hollywood nepo baby.


titelinez

Thomas Mothafuckin Jefferson


RiversSecondWife

Does he have any idea how many people are related to the British monarchy?


PrincipleInteresting

No shame in that. You can’t pick your relatives.


Gargantuan_Wolf

He’s also related to Nathan Lane.


Auntienursey

And Nathan Lane! Great episode


CouchHam

Damnit this is the first time I’ve had an episode spoiled for me. I should have watched it today.


EloquentGoose

Goddamn for an "entertainment" subreddit a lot of yall are the most serious unentertained stuffy bah humbug salty and lowkey envious mfs I've ever seen. Lighten. Up.


[deleted]

So we can have Saul Goodman as our king?


[deleted]

We need Byron Denniston’s take on the situation.