Good Will Hunting Boston Joke

I love that scene in Good Will Hunting where Ben Affleck is talking to Matt Damon's titular character Will Hunting and he's like “you've got a gift man and you've gotta get outta this town and make something of yourself” and the gift in question is being really good at math and the town he needs to get out of is Boston, Massachusetts.

The meme humorously reinterprets a scene from Good Will Hunting, where Ben Affleck encourages Will Hunting to leave town and use his exceptional talent. The joke is that Will is already extremely gifted at mathematics, while the supposedly limiting town is Boston, Massachusetts—the very setting associated with the characters and film. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to advice that accidentally recommends abandoning an important part of someone’s identity or home. EN: The meme humorously reinterprets a scene from Good Will Hunting, where Ben Affleck encourages Will Hunting to leave town and use his exceptional talent. The joke is that Will is already extremely gifted at mathematics, while the supposedly limiting town is Boston, Massachusetts—the very setting associated with the characters and film. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to advice that accidentally recommends abandoning an important part of someone’s identity or home.

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