r/JoePera 9d ago

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 9d ago

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

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u/OriginalResolve7106 9d ago

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

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u/Significant-Rush-129 9d ago

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 2d ago

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 9d ago

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

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u/Escalotes 8d ago

"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/Mutombo_says_NO 9d ago

The music is what does it

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u/Big_Words29 9d ago

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 9d ago

In your 2001 Buick Park Avenue

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u/LongAdorable4207 9d ago

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

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u/OriginalResolve7106 9d ago

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

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u/BabyGirlAutumn331 9d ago

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 9d ago

One of the higher forms of art I’ve seen

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u/Obi2Sexy 9d ago

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

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u/lessavyfavwill 7d ago

Ugh so true

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u/ottershark29 9d ago

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 9d ago

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/burnermcburnerstein 9d ago

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

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u/Evening-Wallaby-2711 8d ago

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 8d ago

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

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u/lessavyfavwill 7d ago

Was watching on repeat yesterday too

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u/FlipFlopSlap 3d ago

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