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Kick ass John Carpenter movie starring ROWDY Roddy Piper!!!!

Snatchfaced aliens are tricking humans by using a machine to make them look like us. But Piper (who is never given a name in the movie) is the only one who can see them with his sunglasses. No, really.

Supposed to be, according to Carpenter, an example of blind consumerism and republican economics
They Live is a great fucking movie.
they live by Jimmy Knuckles March 14, 2004
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A movie directed by John Carpenter starring Roddy Piper as a drifter who finds a pair of sunglasses allowing him to see aliens and subliminal messages. The movie has been known for having one of the longest fist fights in movie history,it was only supposed to last 20 seconds but Roddy Piper and Keith David kept fighting and Carpenter kept the entire scene.

It was said to have inspired Shepard Fairey's Obey stickers featuring Andre the Giant.

They Live is an attack on consumerist society and capitalism.
"They Live is Hella Sick!"
They Live by M.C. Mad October 28, 2006
A documentary and wake up call about Dicyanin A glasses made by john carpenter and disguised as the coolest movie ever .
Bruce: Yo! Last week, I totally scored me a pair of those THEY LIVE glasses! I want a Divorce! You look like your head fell into the cheese dip! And I ain't getting a cent in alimony! Plus you've got a dick!

Caitlyn: hmm.,ok baby.Mamma don't like Tattle tales. And..I suggest you double check our PRENUP whilst wearing THEY LIVE shades. Btw you look as shitty to us.!

I thought THEY LIVE was a great film which social commentary about the duality of man. But then I watched THEY LIVE whilst wearing THEY LIVE glasses!

Bro: told you we are sooo fucked .

Dude: we are so fucked
They Live by Edith Mubauls January 11, 2021

They won't let me live ... 

There is an old saying in tough prisons and military training, they won't let me live ... and they won't let me die! It is based in self pity.
Geez, Rangers school, they won't let me live ... and they won't let me die!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
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