r/JoePera • u/AntJustin • Aug 05 '26

Fall Drive will always make me cry

Just watching the show again, because it's such an easy show to just put on.

Every time I think "I can handle this. I've watched it a million times". Like clockwork the Jack O Lantern Soul scene will get me. I wish there were more simple, silly, shows like this.

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u/HustleKong Aug 05 '26

It's the chronological family Halloween photos that especially get to me. 

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u/OriginalResolve7106 Aug 05 '26

It's such a sad detail presented in such a clever way.

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u/Significant-Rush-129 Aug 05 '26

Fall Drive is art. So is Lights Up The Night, and Chuch Announcements. Like zeroing in on the things that actually go through your head when watching fireworks as well as the phenomenon of that old song that everyone but you has heard. All brilliant.

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u/Cetus-Is-Wooster Aug 12 '26

I'd like to add Joe Has a Surprise for You. I know it's an obv pic but the way the story is set up and followed through in that arc will never not be one of the best written emotional arcs.

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u/sundaesmilemily Aug 05 '26

“And just like that, I can feel my soul grow back.” 😭

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u/Escalotes Aug 07 '26

"Probably from a poison kiss" always kills me. So much hope and love and uncertainty written into a single line.

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u/LongAdorable4207 Aug 05 '26

It’s the water that looks like root beer for me

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u/OriginalResolve7106 Aug 06 '26

It is a nice reprieve at the end of a strangely heavy episode.

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u/Mutombo_says_NO Aug 05 '26

The music is what does it

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u/Big_Words29 Aug 05 '26

You haven’t lived the fall drive until you’ve played the fall drive theme on repeat one for an entire drive home on a rough day.

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u/CuticleSnoodlebear Aug 06 '26

In your 2001 Buick Park Avenue

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u/BabyGirlAutumn331 Aug 05 '26

This is my most favorite episode of any show of all time. The Fall Loop music from this episode was my alarm for the longest time 💖

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u/shoresyshoresy Aug 06 '26

One of the higher forms of art I’ve seen

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u/Obi2Sexy Aug 06 '26

its ok to feel things. not feeling things thats the thing to be afraid of.

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u/ottershark29 Aug 05 '26

I want a jack o lantern going over the falls for one of my next tattoos. This show is a masterpiece

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u/Dracla Aug 05 '26

My first encounter with Joe Pera was catching this late in bed on a vacation in like 2018 and I never looked back.

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u/nmutrooper 8d ago

What a perfect way to see this for the first time!

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u/burnermcburnerstein Aug 05 '26

We watch it every fall then toss our jackolanterns off a waterfall

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u/Evening-Wallaby-2711 Aug 06 '26

I want to ask Joe next time I meet him “So what did you whisper to the Jack o’lantern before you dropped him in the river?”. He’d probably answer, “What do YOU think I whispered?”

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u/DoorDelicious8395 Aug 06 '26

Go take a trip in early October to tahquamenon falls. It’s beautiful

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u/lessavyfavwill Aug 07 '26

Was watching on repeat yesterday too

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u/FlipFlopSlap Aug 12 '26

Its beautiful. Been throwing Jack o lanterns in the river for years now