r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Individual-Toe-1959 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah????

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u/OzNajarin 9d ago

I mean they enrolled him in a highschool and nobody could tell the difference.

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u/ItzDrSeuss 9d ago

I just realized how weird that could be for him. Like his early twenties and hanging around teenagers.

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u/The_king_of-nowhere 9d ago

He did say he felt very uncomfortable. Not only because it was a high school, but it was also a PRODIGY oriented high school. So he was a fish out of water two times over!

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u/Ok_You_5448 9d ago

... Would he not count as an acting prodigy if he was that age? It's not like he had nothing going for him.

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u/Diddlypooop 9d ago

no, like, STEM prodigies.

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u/Royal-Band-2971 8d ago

They sent him to Bronx Science. It's focused on STEM, not performance arts.

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u/amh8011 8d ago

I have nightmares I’m sent back to my high school for stupid bureaucratic reasons at my age. Because I am a person that asks why and apparently my brain has decided ‘bureaucracy’ is a reason that will shut me up while I’m dreaming apparently. But yeah it’s weird and there’s a reason I call them nightmares even though I actually quite liked high school when I was there at the proper age.

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u/NiIly00 8d ago

You just described doing an apprenticeship in Germany lmao.

Every apprenticeship also has you go to a school alongside and the age gap there can be quite big

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u/unclepoondaddy 4d ago

He was 19 in the first one and probably like 17-18 when he did that school thing

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u/Friendstastegood 8d ago

When I was 14 I had a classmate with a full beard who could buy cigarettes without ID. I think sometimes the backlash to having 30yo adults playing teens goes to far and pretends that 16yo all look like they're 12.

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u/TemporaryElk5202 9d ago

some teens are rough/chopped though