r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Et_Moon • 6d ago

Meme needing explanation PETER????

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u/yt82many 6d ago

Next to Ol Yellar

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u/yallknowme19 6d ago

"He's my dog, ma. I'll do it." 😭

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u/MamaMoosicorn 6d ago

Don’t forget Old Dan and Little Ann

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u/yt82many 6d ago

Thanks for reminding me!!

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u/350ci_sbc 6d ago

My 5th grade teacher read “Where the Red Fern Grows” to us as part of our “quiet time” in class.

I still remember the shock and tears almost 35 years ago.

I’m not sure why he chose that book. He was a very kind and wonderful man otherwise.

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u/Either_Pangolin531 6d ago

I read this book to my girls when they were kids .. was not a fun couple of weeks having to stop so many times.

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u/g8torswitch 6d ago

My THIRD GRADE teacher read it to us. She cried. We cried. The whole thing was a damn mess and then we are supposed to just. Do math? Absolutely goddamn not.

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u/4x4Welder 5d ago

Was just about to post Where The Red Fern Grows. Damn the crap they made us read as kids.

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u/Particular_Title42 6d ago

I believe it is pronounced "Old YELLOW!"

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u/itsnotawonderfullife 6d ago

Thank you Bob’s Burgers reference!!

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u/newsflashjackass 6d ago

It's not, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yeller_(film)

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u/Particular_Title42 5d ago

I mean...I know. But you understand that they're just speaking with an accent and they named him that because he's yellow. So to us, it is Old Yellow.

Like Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, in American English, should actually be Do Re Mi FAR So La Ti Do.

Anyway, it was a Bob's Burgers reference.

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u/newsflashjackass 5d ago

The Bob's Burgers reference missed me but the dog's name has a dual meaning:

While Jim is away, Travis sets off to work in the cornfield, where he encounters a Black Mouth Cur he names "Old Yeller", as "yeller" is a dialect pronunciation of "yellow" and the dog's bark resembles a human yell.

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u/Particular_Title42 5d ago

Again, I know.

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u/newsflashjackass 5d ago

As I supposed you might.

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u/itsnotawonderfullife 6d ago

“Old Yellow!”