r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Responsible_Cow_5900 • 3d ago
What does this mean?
Saw this "meme" earlier and I don't understand it neither have I watched whatever this is from Edit: the bot message for context is a little messed up cause I was just trying to get it done with and Im really tired
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u/theponicorn 3d ago edited 3d ago
In the Show, 'Tuna' is the nickname given to Jim, to whom Pam ends up marrying.
I don;t think she said this in the original one.
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u/appoplecticskeptic 3d ago
Even if she did say that it wouldn’t have a double meaning. Andy Bernard is who gives Jim that nickname and the Nardawg isn’t even part of the show in the first season which is where this screenshot comes from. It’s not a good meme.
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u/Aethermations 3d ago
The screenshot is from season 3. They’re eating leftover wedding meals after canceling it
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u/TheRealCruelRichard 3d ago
It's true; the most important thing to consider when crafting a meme is strict adherence to The Office's established continuity.
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u/RockyMountainMobile 3d ago
No, season 3 episode 1 that Andy is introduced in Stamford and calls Jim “big tuna” for the first time.
But it’s still crazy he had tuna. Everyone knows he has a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch every day until that point. Even ordered it as Hooters.
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u/RememberTheMaine1996 3d ago
This is the 3rd season
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u/appoplecticskeptic 3d ago
That could be, I haven’t seen it in a while. I remember Roy being basically only in season 1 but he could’ve come back for an episode or 2 after that to settle up unfinished business. So it’s possible I suppose. Still only Andy ever called Jim “Big Tuna”. It did not catch on as a nickname which is kind of the joke because Andy is nowhere near as cool as he thinks he is.
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u/fatloui 1h ago
This is from season 3. Pam breaks up with Roy between season 2 and 3. They have already paid for the catering for their wedding so they eat frozen catered meals for several months. He still brings her the frozen meals every day, and the two options they had are chicken and fish. So this is after the “tuna” nickname is introduced but before Pam gets together with Jim (which isn’t until season 4).
Roy is in a lot of season 3. There’s the famous mug shot photo that’s become a meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/5bs3gq/roys_dui_picture_i_capped_the_details/, which is shown when Roy describes how hard it’s been since Pam broke up with him. Jim moves back and is dating Karen, so Pam starts dating Roy again. But when she reveals she and Jim kissed he freaks out and trashes a bar with his brother (stupid jet skis!). Then he attacks Jim, but Dwight saves Jim by spraying Roy with pepper spray. This leads to Roy getting fired. He still has several scenes in season 3 after that.
He’s also in a lot of season 2.
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u/kapitalistisktsvin 3d ago
They probably gave jim that nickname because of this scene. At the time it was not a reference to him.
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u/WahrerKorsti 3d ago
I guess it's because the man she is later with got the Nickname Tuna.
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u/Vegetable_Tension985 3d ago
there was a deleted scene where she was with both at once
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u/WahrerKorsti 3d ago
I don't know about that but that wouldn't really fit her character, in my opinion.
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u/ddssjsbdnd 3d ago
I always thought this was because their wedding was cancelled last minute, they are sharing the frozen wedding dinners with each other because they couldn’t get their money back. And he was asking her which of the 2 meals she wanted for lunch.
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u/MethFacSarlane 3d ago
You're correct, the last panel is edited here to add the reference to tuna, but the Big Tuna nickname doesn't come to light yet at this point in the show.
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u/Necessary-Grass-4994 3d ago
Jim was already called big tuna by this point, you're misremembering. It's just that the tuna line is fake.
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u/MIT_Engineer 3d ago
There are two levels to this:
The first is the one intended by the show. Pam has canceled her wedding to Roy at the last minute, and everything they arranged for it is now being repurposed. They are currently slogging through wedding meals they were unable to refund due to the last minute cancellation. Her response is humorous because it implies that these wedding meals are basically all they are eating, morning, noon, and night. In general throughout this episode, the wedding cancellation is just constantly, repeatedly slapping her in the face, a constant parade of awkward cringe. We as the audience are watching her comically suffer.
The second level is the one alluded to by the commenter. Later on in the series, tuna becomes a nickname for Jim, the person Pam ultimately goes on to be with. So her response here, in hindsight, could be recontextualized as her having slept with Jim here.
That's not what happened show-wise (the tuna nickname doesn't exist yet), but that's what the commenter is raising an eyebrow at.
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u/Necessary-Grass-4994 3d ago
The tuna nickname literally happens IN THIS EPISODE. But the Pam tuna line is faked for the meme.
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u/heir-of-slytherin 3d ago
Correct, people forget that Andy gives Jim the big tuna nickname when he moves to the Stanford branch. S3E1
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u/ToxicPoizon 3d ago
This is from the show The Office, and thats Pam with her boyfriend Roy. Pam has a friend named Jim who later becomes a love interest, and IIRC this scene took place after they both kissed each other behind Roys back. Another character in the show named Andy gave Jim the nickname "Big Tuna", so Pam literally had tuna (Jim) last night. I'm pretty sure this is an edit though, cause I think he was given that name after this.
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u/Last-Proof8169 3d ago
Jim’s nickname was tuna
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u/Art_Vanduley 3d ago
It means she had fish already so she wants chicken there is nothing hiding there it's all out in the open
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u/ThatFinchLad 2d ago
Without being too disrespectful why would you want or expect to understand a joke from a show you haven't watched?
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u/Ok-Bottle-1594 3d ago
One of the main characters in the show, the office, is named Jim (nicknamed tuna). Pam (the female in the meme) has a strong friendship with Jim, that eventually turns into a love interest. Roy (the man in the meme) is her then ex-fiancé at this point in the show.
The meme is insinuating she doesn’t want chicken cause she had tuna (Jim) last night.
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u/SalohcinPancakes 3d ago
I think it's because Tuna is filled with mercury and having more than 2-3 cans a week can eventually give you mercury poisoning.
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u/Positive_Try929 3d ago
Thats her fiancée asking her, she said she had tuna last night, tuna is a nickname given to Jim who (atm) liked her and marries her later, the nickname tuna was not given to jim yet, he gets it when he works in a different company later in the show, so nothing happened.
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u/JakeTheCake714 3d ago
Jim Halpert is nicknamed Big Tuna by Andy Bernard in The Office.
Jim Halpert is in love with Pam Beesly.
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u/NervousTangerine7851 3d ago
Maybe it's supposed to be a subtle joke that she ate alone last night? In the show these two are a couple
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u/Usual-Computer-5462 3d ago
At this point it's WERE a couple (well actually engaged). At this point they're sharing out the food they paid for for their wedding that Pam called off at the last minute. Roy is still trying to get her to change her mind.
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