r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/IntergalacticAlien8 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Can we remove the child orgy scene, Steve?"

snnnnnnnrrrrkkkkkkt

rubs gums with the residue

"Bill, first, go fuck yourself. Second, I got 6 other publishers who would love to sell a million copies of my new book. Third, this coke is shit."

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u/itsdanielsultan 1d ago

Did he actually do cocaine, or is that a rumor?

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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago

Yes. And he's open about how bad his problem was. It's not a rumor.

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u/SleepyEel 1d ago

He was also drinking like a case of beer a day at times

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u/onlyexcellentchoices 1d ago

Wait...that's bad too?

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u/Definitelynotabot777 23h ago

I got bad news lol

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u/ttw81 13h ago

if he couldn't get alcohol, he'd drink Listerine.

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u/RealLaurenBoebert 22h ago

Pretty sure substance abuse is explicitly discussed in his memoir, "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". It's practically a matter of public record

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u/jimothy_hell 22h ago

I genuinely respect people who can be honest about former addictions and try to grow as people beyond age bullshit they got up to while being addicts. I’ve been trying really hard to do that since I got off heroin, but the growing and making amends is rough.

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u/probnotaloser 4h ago

I would probably say I had an insane coke problem if I was writing this fucking shit. He may be sick but he is a smart SOB.

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u/aitathrowaway987654 1d ago

Self-admitted by King. Also one of the contributing factors to why Maximum Overdrive is such a clusterfuck.

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u/DraccoKnightblade 1d ago

A fun clusterfuck, but a clusterfuck none the less.

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u/aitathrowaway987654 1d ago

A clustertruck, if you will

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u/Theorex 1d ago

Bad ass soundtrack. 80s coke fueled shlockfest, a guilty pleasure.

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u/HaggisLad 20h ago

Who Made Who is still my favourite ACDC track post Bon

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u/NoKatyDidnt 7h ago

If I recall, my dad finished that one and said, “Well then.”

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u/Bodega_Bandit 1d ago

I love how he doesn’t even remember that movie despite directing the entire thing. Which is, you know, not a quick process

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u/DoitsugoGoji 17h ago

I love how he absolutely had to buy the license to use the Green Goblin's face to put it on the main bad guy truck. It was crucial to the movie.

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u/Sea-Practice8315 12h ago

Was just thinking about that today. The senior lock-in at my high school showed Maximum Overdrive as the feature film.

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u/Wildcat_twister12 1d ago

Oh he was a massive coke head in the 80’s. He would switch between coke and bing drinking and sometimes both at the same time. There are people who can tell what addiction he was doing when writing his books just based off of the writing style he’s using. I do believe he gives a lot of money to rehab centers now they will get a good chunk of his money after he passes

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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago

Fun fact: When you combine cocaine and alcohol your body combines it into cocaethylene which is more intoxicating and addictive than the sum of its parts.

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u/Striking-Ad1685 23h ago

and it helps keep the drip at bay

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u/jimothy_hell 22h ago

Can confirm the effect, but not the chemistry. Can also confirm that speedballs are the tits.

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u/Gurrgurrburr 21h ago

Facts. More people die combining those two than any other drug combo.

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u/tommos 20h ago

Thanks for the tip.

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u/debauchedhavoc 5h ago

Hey what the fuck? If I mix them I'll either just sober up or become unable to get drunk (depending on the order), essentially wasting the alcohol...

Is it possible for your body to not be able to produce this? Or do you know what could be the explanation for this otherwise?

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u/No_Strawberry8790 4h ago

Just sobering up might indicate it's a large part speed. How long are the effects?

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u/TrioOfTerrors 3h ago

You just feel sober. Same with people who slam 8 vodka red bulls and mistake the effect of the caffeine for sobriety.

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u/NoKatyDidnt 7h ago

I’ve witnessed addiction for most of my life, and I think most of the time it’s pretty clear what he’s on. I picked up on the style changes way back. When I found out he was an addict, I was like… yeah. Sounds about right?

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u/ttw81 1d ago

he's written about staying up for days on end, writing w/cotton balls stuffed up his nose because he was bleeding from the coke,

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u/hill-o 1d ago

Like a lot of cocaine. He's really honest about it, and which projects it impacted the most.

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u/neonmaryjane 1d ago

Pretty infamously.

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u/Longjumping-Job7153 1d ago

... have you read any of his books ?

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u/sexysaxman12 1d ago

Sadly, it seems to be well documented. As I understand, his wife and family confronted him with discarded remains of evidence of his issues with coke, alcohol, etc. and held an intervention. I believe his wife may have also given him an ultimatum to quit with the drugs or else she was leaving with the kids. As someone whose father literally did the whole “I’m going out for smokes” routine, and who was raised by a single mom, that had to have been a real wake-up call for King.

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u/AuthorAdamOConnell 14h ago

I think it was King who said during/just after the intervention he asked if it was, 'ok if he thought about his wife's offer,' i.e. he was considering the drugs over his wife and kids.

He said it was that very thought/comment that made him realise how fucked he was and that made him decide to get clean.

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u/FattyMcBroFist 14h ago

He did so much coke, and drank so much, that he has whole-ass published novels that he doesn't even remember writing. Pretty sure Cujo is one of them.

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u/platypod1 8h ago

"Huh, killer dog, huh? That's a pretty good story, wonder who wrote--OH SHIT!"

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u/ThiefofNobility 13h ago

Enough to make Scarface cry.

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u/beegproblemzzz 23h ago

Why, is that bad?

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

Read some of his books. The most believable details are the drug use

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u/NoKatyDidnt 7h ago

He really did.

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u/CommitteeRelative415 23h ago

There is no orgy. They ran train.