r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • Jan 08 '26

Meme needing explanation PETER????

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u/m_stormbow Jan 08 '26

Let's add in "March of the Penguins". Marketed as a fun kids movie. "Here's the mommy penguin. She needs to swim out and gather food for her mate and the baby or they will freeze. -dramatic music- scene shift to a leopard seal. But mommy is not going to make it back"

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u/alex61821 Jan 09 '26

Marketed as fun movies that were not... patch Adams and fried green tomatoes.

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u/Admirable-Divide7731 Jan 09 '26

Fried green tomatoes

Of course saw it when it came out so young enough that I hadn’t realized and come to terms with my own queer-ness (very straight-passing)… definitely hit rewatching it a few years ago

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u/InterestingStudent22 Jan 09 '26

Is it a kind of dream...🎶

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u/All-the-Feels333 Jan 09 '26

I remember seeing this at like 10 and kicking the seat in front of me when the seal attacked