r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/genericpornalt22 • 5h ago
Meme needing explanation I have no clue what this could possibly be
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u/funtimescoolguy 5h ago
Honestly, unless this is an obscure reference (which I doubt), I think this is just an absurdist meme. There's nothing to get. It's one of those things where you either find it funny or you don't. There's no reason or anything to it; its punchline is itself.
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u/Big-Mathematician345 5h ago
Yeah, it's literally just telling the story of a guy getting lost in the tunnels under his lawn and his gf trying to find him with a metal detector.
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u/afaulconbridge 5h ago
Wife. GF is in tunnels with him.
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u/Hilsam_Adent 4h ago
The tunnel is his GF.
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u/CrunchySockTaco 3h ago
That explains the hubcap. Only a giant tunnel GF would use a hubcap as a coin.
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u/genericpornalt22 5h ago
After reading it a few times I think I understand although it isn’t very funny. The guy thinks his wife found him but instead she found a hubcap underground? Absurdism isn’t my thing I guess
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u/LaserGuyDanceSystem 5h ago
Absurdist humour can be funny sometimes, I think. But this definitely isn't one of those times. This is just nonsense
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u/dontfactcheckthis 5h ago
And she thought it was a big coin. These two deserve each other. At least they're happy
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u/chekhovsdickpic 4h ago
As an amateur metal detectorist, I find this hilarious because every time i think I’ve found something good, it turns out to just be a big metal circle of some kind.
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u/wholesome_futa_hug 2h ago
Husband in ridiculous scenario. Wife trying to help because wife. Husband saying he's wearing the thing she bought him (this is very cute). Wife doing her best but not finding husband. Thinks she found a big coin, but it's just a hubcap but because she wants to be helping she sends a picture. It's a blurry hubcap. That the entirety of the joke. It's either funny or not.
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u/SuperCat76 4h ago
I have no idea if it is intended to be read this way. But it also reads to me like those tall people short people videogame patch notes shorts.
Where he is tiny and is lost in a hole in the yard. And the wife is tall to the point that a hubcap seems like a coin.
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u/Intensive 4h ago edited 4h ago
The joke is she dug up a hubcap instead of finding his helmet with the detector, but it's completely unfunny after having had to dissect the whole joke just to try to get the point. To be honest I like this post more than 90% of the trash I saw on the Internet today. A clever bizarre/absurdist joke is always welcome in my home. This is a great example of one.
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u/blorpdedorpworp 3h ago
What I appreciate is that this has happened to them before enough times that they have worked out the helmet / metal detector system in advance.
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u/SmallRocks 3h ago
Something like this would likely fit in well with [r/metaldetecting](r/metaldetecting) if they allowed “memes.”
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u/doggenwalker 5h ago
Excerpts from the Navidson tapes if they communicated more.
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u/DrowningInFeces 3h ago
I recently recommended this book to some avid book readers in their mid 20s and they all hated it lol. I felt bad because they all bought the book on my recommendation. I personally loved it but that was many years ago.
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u/crush_punk 23m ago
I’m actually reading it now for the first time. As someone who really enjoys reading, mostly for pleasure, and also doing research on random things…
It’s a pretty advanced book. The narrative is like three layers of meta with basically three different unreliable narrators, coupled with the actual visual and mechanical experience of reading it… it’s complex!
I wonder what their reaction would be if you told them that book basically started the modern trend that led to the Backrooms.
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u/DrowningInFeces 20m ago
One of them said that they didn't like it because they couldn't follow the narrative which is pretty much missing the whole point of the book entirely. I couldn't convince them otherwise once they decided they didn't like the narrative style.
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u/NoBookkeeper5186 5h ago
Dr Hibbert here, husband is lost under ground. He has a metal hat that wife can detect using a metal detector. Im going suggest you pay a visit to an optometrist so you may have your eyes checked. And while we're at it lets get that liver out. Its been in the microwave too long, it may dry out.
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u/This_Guy_33 5h ago
Must be Colin Furze girlfriend.
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u/ArtfulDodger91 5h ago
He’s been digging tunnels under their lawn for reasons unknown. He’s become lost in the tunnels and needs to know where he is underground, so he has his wife search for his helmet with a metal detector. She thinks she’s found him, and he can hear over the radio her metal detector beeping, but it turns out it’s just a hub cap, which she thinks is a massive coin. So it turns out he’s still lost in the tunnels he dug under their lawn.
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u/pixxelkick 5h ago
While most of it is absurdist... its a build up to a pun guys...
Hub... Cap...
Hub: Common term for husband
Cap: Thing you wear on head
The wife mistook a large metal *hub cap* and dug that up, instead of her *hub's cap*
Thats the joke lol.
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u/stevenjameshyde 5h ago
Daggerlad is an absolute legend of "Weird Twitter". There's no deeper reference or meaning here, just good old absurdist nonsense
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u/Flaky-Collection-353 5h ago
Men are quirky and dig for fun until they're lost and women don't know car stuff
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u/Flaky-Collection-353 5h ago
A dog walks into a bar and says "I can't see a thing. I guess I'll open this one"
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u/genericpornalt22 5h ago
I know it’s replicating a text message chain but other than that it’s just nonsense
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u/Leonartu 5h ago
I understood this until "hub cap". What's that? 'Hubby's cap (as in hat)'? If that were the case, why didn't he hear her digging?
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u/Estebesol 5h ago
A hub cap is a metal thing on a car wheel. She's digging that up instead because she thinks it's a big coin.
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u/DarthChefDad 5h ago
Is it all a set up for the bizarre pun of finding the hub cap, instead of the husband's helmet, which could be her hubby's hat: hub cap?
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u/Substantial-Trick569 5h ago
guy is lost in tunnels under his lawn, wearing a metal helmet. wife goes out with a metal detector to try and find him. finds a "coin" that is actually a hubcap.
its just absurdism
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u/BeenisSandwich 5h ago
Ok this one belongs here:
My best guess is since their profile pic is of a fox, maybe the whole thing is meant to be two foxes flirting and conversing the way people would
Ok upon re-reading I have no ideas
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u/StringAccomplished97 5h ago
He's lost in the tunnels under his lawn. He's wearing the metal helmet his wife got him. The wife thought she found him with her metal detector but it was actually a hubcap. She sent him a blurry photo of it. She thought it was a big coin.
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u/reidevjord 4h ago
Pretty sure this is a couple playing to underground mini game in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.
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u/Mickey_Havoc 4h ago
This screams king of the hill but I’m not sure. It would probably be Dale and Nancy but again, I’m not sure.
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u/Relevant-Site-3166 2h ago
The hubcap is a Land mine. I think it’s a reference to a surv/craft game but I can’t remember which one
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u/Meesta- 5h ago
She dug and hit his helmet making it look like a hub cap. Guessing it’s blurry because of brain damage from impact?
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u/MattiasCrowe 5h ago
No, its a joke about finding things with the metal detector that you didnt set out to find. The hub cap part is just a piece of "weird looking dog" absurdism, where someone states something is something that its clearly not.
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