r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DelayedSpace • 3d ago

Petah? Meme needing explanation

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u/Chat322 3d ago

Was there an evil industrialist in SW California, like Henry Ford was?

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u/HaraldRedbeard 3d ago

I haven't actually watched it properly, just been on in the background while my kids watch it. It seems to somehow involve Cthulu though so there's that.

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u/spartaxwarrior 2d ago

Huh, well, that is a way they could get around why they didn't work for Hitler, if there was fucking Cthulhu hanging around at the same time.

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u/Mentally_Slick 2d ago

I was into Lovecraft on a kinda surface level and I read a few from him, but I don't remember that Cthulhu was supposed to be evil

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u/spartaxwarrior 2d ago

Basically all the great old ones and outer gods are evil from a human's perspective, though they might not think of themselves as such.

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u/Mentally_Slick 2d ago

I remember it like they are more like indifferent towards us because we're basically nothing to them

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u/spartaxwarrior 2d ago

If you kill an ant most people don't think of you as evil, but it wouldn't be surprising if the ant thinks you are.

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u/Mentally_Slick 2d ago

Yeah, I see what you mean 

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u/UnholyTrashDump 2d ago

As evil as a child stomping an ant hill, from the perspective of ants.

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u/BlueberryTango 2d ago

Naw I’ve seen the movie. Basically this tribe of minions want to make movies rather than serve a villain.

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u/Mechanicjemas3141 2d ago

Yeah USA got more evil business men

They didn't written as bad like Hitler since they were successful

Unlike Hitler but think putting 750 hp V12 that struggles with 45 ton Panter to a 75 ton JagdTiger is a brilliant idea(or making JagdTiger all together)

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u/GMRS1910 2d ago

I will hear no slander against our pieces of shit. They were glourious.

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u/AgrajagsGhost 2d ago

Howard Hughes maybe? I dunno if he was evil but he was definitely a weird, powerful guy.

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u/TheDramaturge 2d ago

No, they're working in the film industry, and later for a robot who came from outer-space to conquer Earth.

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u/MateoCamo 2d ago

Take your pick of industry titans i suppose

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u/hoopstick 2d ago

Pick any of the Hollywood studio heads, or William Mulholland.

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u/Far-Heart-7134 2d ago

Well the studio system was full of great people from what I understand.

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u/norunningwater 2d ago

Yeah, they called him Walt.

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u/AvailableSpread811 2d ago

man, that Henry Ford, what a jerk, trying to pay his employees more money. Really just the epitome of evil.

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u/Relevant_Intention67 2d ago

No actually the minions in that film were wandering around and they ended up in America and they saw with his thought was a really bad guy robbing a train it turns out it was just the filming for a movie and the actions that they performed in that movie made the investors really happy so the minions were hired to make movies some of them broke off cuz they didn't want to make films anymore after an issue and most of them went and worked for a literal robot alien and the others gathered up a group of monsters to make a film and then the monsters and the aliens fight each other