Talk:bucket list

“Bucket list” was mentioned on the show The Golden Girls (Season 7, in 1991). So the origin is older than that.


 * Do you know which episode? Equinox ◑ 15:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The term was previously in use, but (apart from the computer science meaning) not in the exact sense popularised by the film. Rather, it was more like a generic to-do list. This meaning may also be intended here (1990). This is the most likely reason why people remember the term being used before and can't believe it doesn't predate the movie. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 10:36, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

It was in at least common enough parlance in 2006 to be used in the title of this youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTBzFA0FV-k&t=90s

This doesn't prove that it wasn't first coined in 1999, but given that it predates the release of the movie by more than a year it at least demonstrates that it was not the movie that popularized it. 2601:643:C100:4040:DB6:2B35:5E01:CFAF 09:37, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * “Popularized” just means that many more people started to use the term after the popularizing event. Also, there was already publicity about the film and its premise in 2006 before the premiere of the film the following year—see, for example, the September 2006 quotation in the entry, which is an interview of Rob Reiner, the film’s director, that predates the YouTube video by about a month. — Sgconlaw (talk) 09:51, 17 March 2024 (UTC)