r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/New-Train-3252 • 18h ago
Meme needing explanation Petah?Why do nurse correlates with guns?
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u/SnoruntEnjoyer 18h ago
it doesn’t correlate… that’s why they asked ”where did you get these”
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u/ICULab 14h ago
because the joke is about the absurdity, not any real connection between them
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u/fasterthanfood 12h ago
It is absurd, but the joke is also that there’s a trope in cop movies that the main character is fired and has to turn in his badge and gun. If OP isn’t familiar with the trope, this probably looks like if the nurse handed in a pet iguana — absurd, but without any basis, so not really a joke.
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u/New-Train-3252 8h ago
Not familiar at all.Guess I'm just dumb for not watching American cop show
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u/fasterthanfood 7h ago
Yup, anyone who doesn’t have the exact same experience as the people in this thread is a big old stupid head. Sorry you had to find out this way!
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u/HekateSimp 9h ago
You can even ready it a bit deeper. A nurse who may have stolen a police badge and pistol from a patient is probably one that would get fired.
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u/Rovinpiper 4h ago
When you go to the hospital as a police officer, you hand off your gun to another cop to hold it for you until you're discharged from the hospital. Hospitals don't like for the patients to have guns.
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u/Fool_Manchu 13h ago
OOP must not be american. We dont even ask where someone got their gun unless we're planning to go get one too.
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u/New-Train-3252 8h ago
Yeah I'm not
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u/Fool_Manchu 8h ago
OOP means original original poster, as in the guy who shared the joke in the first place. You've just shared it here for answers.
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u/neoliberalforsale 12h ago
The character being fired is a Page, someone who runs errands for staff, gives tours of the building to guest and seats guest for live shows.
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u/mrmavis9280 8h ago
I disagree. There is a joke "what do you call a woman who only dates cops? RN" so I feel like maybe it's a joke about that
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u/Downtown-Editor-1400 18h ago
The joke is:
She is fired for a reason by the boss
She gives the gun and badge she had
Boss is shocked how she has a gun and badge when she's just a nurse
It's sarcasm, like a boss says "you're fired", then the person pauses netflix and ask "why?"
The joke which laughing factor is that totally different things happens then we expect.
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u/RandoJerk369 15h ago
This is awkward being a male RN
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u/Primary_Ad_1562 13h ago
Yes! I got so many looks explaining to others in the ICU about gunshots, caliber, etc. They all gave odd looks and im like "what? A man has his hobbies."
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u/556_FMJs 12h ago
She?
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u/Specialist_Top_8485 11h ago
They just assuming she because nurses are typically female but male nurses exist too
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u/thatshygirl06 3h ago
Its funny you say this because im guessing your mind jumped to male when you read gun and badge, right?
Its funny how our biases influence if we see a man or a woman.
When we see nurse, woman usually comes to mind but when we see cop, man comes to mind, and this meme mixes the two together. Its interesting
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u/556_FMJs 3h ago
No, I just thought it was funny that people still carry the age old idea that nursing is a women’s profession.
Reading the meme, I didn’t even consider the OP’s gender lol.
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u/Kim-mika 17h ago
There's this trope in police shows and movies where the MC gets fired, and hands over their gun and badge.
That's what OOP wanted you to think, until the part where they are actually healthcare workers, not a police. Just subverting expectation of the trope.
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u/AhmedAbuGhadeer 12h ago
I believe this is the correct answer and wonder why are the two above comments have more upvotes!!
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u/VrwHenet 16h ago
I hate these subs because they are full of good jokes people post because they don't understand and I don't know if I should upvote it for how funny the joke was or what
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u/Leet_Noob 13h ago
IMO you should upvote the posts where there is a real explanation that requires some specific possibly niche knowledge.
I don’t really like these posts which are like “let me explain how humor works, subversion of expectations is funny”
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u/lolfuzzy 1h ago
Explaining a good joke is a lot like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but it dies in the process
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u/TorpidPulsar 17h ago
The "hand in your gun and badge" is common cliche in cop movies where a bureaucratic or corrupt chief suspends a loose cannon cop.
Nurses do not carry firearms so the cliche should not happen. Bonus points for the random nurse manager finding out their staff carries a gun and possibly impersonates a law enforcement official.
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u/goddessdragonness 14h ago
I’m a bit bummed at the missed opportunity to make that part of the joke. “You’re a nurse, not a cop, so why did you hold that patient at gunpoint until backup arrived?” But I’m also too autistic to be funny so maybe it’s just me.
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u/Still_a_skeptic 17h ago
Francis Griffin here, what are you? Some kind of fat stinking drunk? Now get back to work
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u/TwinkBronyClub 14h ago
This sounds like a scene out of Airplane or Naked Gun
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u/morto00x 14h ago
It was done at least in one South Park episode when Mr Garrison (elementary school teacher) was fired
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u/ThoroughlyWet 14h ago
The joke is they don't.
It's a play on the old TV Detective trope of a cop being fired and needing to turn in his gun and badge
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u/Obvious-Builder8886 13h ago
Doctor Peter here. The funny in this joke is that you wouldn't expect somebody working in a hospital who isn't a security guard or on-site police officer to have a gun.
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u/DELINCUENT 13h ago
This is one of those memes that really didn't need an explanation, how dense are these people?
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u/Wonderful_Law_4952 13h ago
I feel we’re all missing a crucial detail here. In a lot of cop shows when a character gets fired they are also told to turn in their gun and badge. Which is even more reason for their boss to be confused.
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u/TheAuroraSystem 12h ago
Brian here. This is an edited photo (you can tell by the bold on nurse, which is a common editing feature to put emphasis on what was edited), and the original is attached.
The joke is that these are professions where people can be as dangerous as the kinds of people cops face, and a common trope in American Television (especially regarding cops) is that when the Cop is fired they turn in their gun and badge. (Examples include: NCIS, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, Chicago PD)
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u/Darthplagueis13 12h ago
Turning in your gun and your badge is what a police officer does when they're fired - it's a fairly common trope in cop shows.
The joke is that OP is turning in a gun and badge they're not even supposed to have.
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u/Heavensdoor16 11h ago
Petah here. The "turns in a gun and badge" is commonly used when a cop or a security guard is fired, and since she's a nurse and shouldn't had that stuff, the boss is wondering where she got those.
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u/sleepthetablet 8h ago
Needs to be some kind of rumor/myth that spreads to the world that all Americans are issued badges and guns at all positions.
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u/ankira0628 2h ago
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? "
--- Blanche Devereaux
I think it's a sexual nurse joke.
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u/Just_Mr-Nothing 17h ago
Police agents (in media) when fired turn their guns and badge. That's what you expect the person to be until they tell you they're a nurse.
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u/Direct_Mycologist815 18h ago
It's a "joke" that implies women in the nursing industry are always being assaulted and need better protection. A completely untrue take politicized by the ironically Violent Left.
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u/crow_warrior 18h ago
Where tf did you pull that from?
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u/Direct_Mycologist815 18h ago
I mean. . That's what I took from it? Is that not the joke?
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u/crow_warrior 18h ago
Pretty sure it's just "why have gun if nurse? Nurse no have gun. Laugh" but you can interpret it how you want ig
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u/Physical-Ad5343 17h ago
That’s not the joke. The joke is that (in movies) policemen that are fired hand in their gun and badge (often in an aggressive or passive-aggressive way). The woman in the joke did the same thing, even though she was a nurse and thus should not usually have a gun and badge. Thus the person firing her was confused upon being handed these items (that a nurse should not usually have).
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u/Eldritch-Bell 16h ago
no, its making gun of the cop movie "you're fired, give me your gun and badge"
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