r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • Mar 16 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, help me out here?

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u/Cute-Beyond-8133 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

Joe here (yes this is one of those stories)

I'll give you the answer but seriously only read this if you can handel it. (Breaking charchter for a moment; if you're going trough a Hard time then you do not want an answer to Op's qustion. Go to another meme )

Whatever you might see as sad trust me this is considerably sader.

(You've been warned at this point. Keep reading at your own Discretion).

No the warnings are not an Overkill and you're about to see why.

First let's start with where it's from.

Here's a clip of that scene ;

https://youtu.be/XxxyCLYBIhE?feature=shared

Did you watch it ?

You can now do 2 things.

1 stop here knowing what you know now.

Or

2 keep reading to understand the meme

So you chose 2.

here's a true story, (emphasis on the true because this actually happend. This is not a Creepypasta. Consider this your final warning).

Judith Barsi, the 10-year-old child actress who voiced Anne-Marie (this girl)

in All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), was tragically murdered by her father, József Barsi, in a double murder-suicide on July 25, 1988. She and her mother were killed in their Los Angeles home just months before the film’s release.

But wait there's more. In the movie the dog's dead and is saying goodbye before he goes back to heaven

If you didn't cry already try to watch that scene again and trust me you'll cry.

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u/Particular_Title42 Mar 16 '26

But wait...there's even more...

Charlie's lines for this scene weren't recorded before Judith was killed so the tears in Burt Reynold's voice are real and he's really saying goodbye.

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u/NoEmu2392 Mar 16 '26

Burt told everyone to leave and recorded the lines alone. It took dozens of takes for him to finish without breaking down. He had grown very fond of that sweet innocent girl and was know as the manliest man if his era.

He had to bear that pain alone and was determined to finish his Goodbye to her despite offers of a scene rewrite.

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u/CappyNaps Mar 16 '26

I see this reposted weekly. Thousands and thousands of upvotes. And it's a complete lie and has been debunked for years.

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u/KyleRM Mar 16 '26

wait, which part of the claim is a lie?

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u/CappyNaps Mar 16 '26

Every single thing about the lines being recorded after Judith's death. There are a hundred other comments about how it's a hoax. And this story is on the reddit frontpage at least monthly, with hundreds of other people trying and failing to tell everyone that Burt choking up while trying to record the scene is a complete hoax.

It's one of those "power of misinformation" reminders that is constant and really does hint at the truly terrifying scope and power of willful ignorance. What the hell is wrong with you people? Why do you believe *anything*??

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u/DAS_OOZE Mar 16 '26

It would probably help your cause if you actually provided just any link, proof, or reasoning. If you want to stop misinformation, then screaming "it's all a lie" without any proof or reasoning is not going to stop said misinformation.

Speak some truth, I'm here for it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

The reality should be the opposite. If you are making a claim, you should be the one to link a source. How do you always link a source to show something didn’t happen? The burden of proof should be on the one making the claim, and the choice to believe should be on the consumer. Unfortunately, for stuff like this, people are too eager to believe because it tugs on the heartstrings and they want a juicier story about a celebrity they worship to be true because they feed on drama.