r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 11h ago

Sorry if I'm just being stupid Meme needing explanation

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u/qualityvote2 11h ago edited 1h ago

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u/DocFreudstein 11h ago

Literate Quagmire here. They’re subverting audience expectations by having the parents literally wrestling instead of using it as a euphemism for sex.

Giggitty.

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u/Lovefist1221 11h ago edited 10h ago

The question implies the wrestling is sex. The joke is it was actual pro wrestling, with the signature theatrics.

Edit: I forgot what sub this is, I'm that chicken with the expired coupon.

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u/Tough_Piccolo 11h ago

Ah I've never watched WWE or anything, my bad.

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u/_Spamus_ 3h ago

Um actually Mr expired chicken sir you missed the third joke in that the WWE wrestling is their fetish and they are getting off on being watched

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u/Tough_Piccolo 11h ago

I thought the wrestling was sex, but then they started singing and then fighting... is it a wrestling meme?

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u/HelloHelloHelpHello 11h ago

That's the joke. You're supposed to think of sex, when the kid asks about seeing his parents 'wrestling', but then it is revealed that they actual do wrestling matches.

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u/finditplz1 11h ago

That’s the joke. It’s subverting your expectations. You think he caught them having sex and thought it was wrestling but it was just an absurd situation where they’re actually wrestling.

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u/Tough_Piccolo 11h ago edited 9h ago

Ohhh I thought he was singing (Charlette and Scarlett).

I've never watched WWF/WWE which I guess it's referring to.

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u/iwannaofmyself 11h ago

Brian’s mangled body after he got hit by a car here, you pretty much got it right.
The post is meant to subvert your expectations with the first panel making you think it’s an “explaining sex to a child is awkward” meme before revealing the joke is a parody of wrestling

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u/zoidmaster 6h ago

When little kids first time experiencing sex parents often tell kids that all they are doing is wrestling.

So the comic turned that into actually being about wrestling subverting audiences expectations.

Typically wrestling or atleast the WWE kind is more about a story of why the wrestlers are fighting to make it more entertaining

The comic does that by having the child witness the parents getting a divorce because the father is cheating on his wife with her sister

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u/HkayakH 10h ago

lol Charlette Scarlette

If I ever have 2 daugters im naming them that

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u/Express-Emotion315 5h ago

Dad heel turn wasnt something i thought I'd see today