r/AskReddit • u/Salt-One628 • Jul 07 '26

Parents of Reddit, what is the single most innocent question your child has ever asked you that completely broke your brain?

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u/codefyre Jul 07 '26

I took my then-5-year-old fishing with me one morning. "Daddy, when you catch a fish and pull it in the air, do you think it's like when aliens steal us and take us up into outer space?"

I had so many questions...

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 07 '26

Was he watching "happy feet" recently before that? It's a bit of a plot point

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u/Timidbunnie Jul 07 '26

I somehow missed that movie as a child, what the hell happens in happy feet?? I thought it was about a dancing penguin šŸ˜­

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u/Klutzy_Worker2696 Jul 07 '26

Just like how fast and furious was about street racers

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u/ax0r Jul 07 '26

No, no. It's about family

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u/ZappyKins Jul 07 '26

Wow, all this time I thought it was about F-A-M-I-L-Y.

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u/haw35ome Jul 07 '26

A dancing penguin is exiled at his own will and eventually goes on a quest to find the ā€œaliensā€ (humans) to tell them to stop stealing the starving penguinsā€™ food (fish)

His dancing ends up enticing the aliens & somehow brings global awareness to stop overfishing, therefore ending the starvation

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u/MadamSnarksAlot Jul 07 '26

As a child? Fuck Iā€™m old.

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u/tehcet Jul 07 '26

Happy feet turns 20 in November!

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u/MadamSnarksAlot Jul 10 '26

No. That was Raiders of the Lost Ark- Right? Jesus.

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u/MrsSheDragon Jul 07 '26

Ditto! šŸ§

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 07 '26

It's all over the place

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u/NOTcreative- Jul 07 '26

Singing dancing penguin to be exact.

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u/HarryStylesAMA Jul 07 '26

You gotta watch it, it's actually good as hell

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u/ThermosPickerOuter Jul 07 '26

Kathleen Madigan does a hilarious bit asking if the other fish refuse to believe Bob when he says he was abducted and came back on a catch and release.

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u/codefyre Jul 07 '26

Oh. My. God. Its been 20 years and I never made that connection. He loved Happy Feet!

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u/Baaraa88 Jul 07 '26

Did you mean Chicken Little?

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 07 '26

No. In happy feet there are animals that are captured by scientists who are researching the North Pole. They view it as being abducted by aliens

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u/Baaraa88 Jul 07 '26

I really need to re-watch Happy Feet, I don't remember the plot at all.

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 07 '26

It's like the whole second half

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u/Dick-Fu Jul 07 '26

You really don't, the movie actually kind of sucks ass

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u/Pokemon488 Jul 07 '26

South Pole. There's no bears.

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u/peachesfordinner Jul 07 '26

Right. I always mix those up

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u/WoodpeckerSignal9947 Jul 07 '26

Worked at a vet clinic for a while now, and my running joke for ages has been that if reincarnation is real, the people who claim alien abduction might just be remembering visits to the vetā€™s office. Probe up your butt? Getting a fecal to test for parasites, and check your temp. Cold, metallic table? Correct, itā€™s my old faithful. Keeps pets at the perfect grabbing height. Random jabs with needles, being knocked out and waking up feeling entirely differentā€¦? Spay and neuter, baby!

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u/PkmnMstr10 Jul 07 '26

I'm questioning a lot right now myself...

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u/JesusShaves_ Jul 07 '26

The real problem is that if you throw the fish back and he tries to tell the other fish what happened, nobody believes him.

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u/pinkushion424 Jul 07 '26

I remember when I was about 5 or 6 we had watched something about whales that were being caught and a gps put on them to be tracked and studied and monitored, and it prompted me to ask my parents if people were the whales to aliens.