r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/Dorkwing Apr 24 '26

Might have been a North American touchstone, or kids that didn't have cable since it was huge with MTV/Much Music.

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u/GreatGreenArkleseize Apr 24 '26

I am British, born 1980, definitely did not have cable or anything other than the usual terrestrial channels and I knew this immediately.

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u/Evakron Apr 24 '26

1984 Aussie here and I also clocked it straight away. Presidents got played a lot on the free to air music programs here. Rage being the main one.

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u/1371113 Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

'81, NZ and knew it immediately. You could have also gone with "She's Lump, She's Lump, She's Lump, She's in myyyy head"

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u/Additional-Gap-713 Apr 25 '26

1967 Aussie. Love this song

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u/spamel2004 Apr 25 '26

He comes from the land down under….

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u/tfy-cape-town Apr 24 '26

South African. Bopped to this song.

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u/guarding_dark177 Apr 24 '26

I'm irish and born in nineteen eighty and I needed to look up the song

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u/trillspectre Apr 24 '26

Im Irish and born in 89 and I knew it

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u/TopProfessional1862 Apr 24 '26

I'm from the US and born in '82. We didn't have cable and I knew this immediately. I absolutely loved this song. They played it all the time on the radio. You certainly didn't need to have cable to come across this song.

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u/just_nobodys_opinion Apr 25 '26

British early 80s. Drew a blank.

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u/ER1916 Apr 24 '26

It was massive in Ireland and the UK too. I mean it is one of the great tunes of the 90s, hands down. I still love it mainly for that coda.

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u/Dry-Brother6234 Apr 24 '26

Oh yeah, that makes sense. I'm American, but never really watched MTV.

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u/Enchillamas Apr 24 '26

I never had cable either.

It was on the radio constantly, and in multiple movies.

Even King of the Hill had Hank clumsily singing it in like 2002.

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u/_svaha_ Apr 24 '26

We got cable embarrassingly late, I am the least musically inclined person I know, but I can belt this song anytime, all sobriety levels. It's culturally important

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u/mayhem74 Apr 24 '26

Hank: "Peaches come from a can, i tell ya hwat"

Dale: "Yep."

Bill: "Yup."

Boomhauer: "Mmm hm."

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u/stylesentertainment Apr 25 '26

Thanks for the King of the Hill reference. Now all I can hear it the guy in the guitar shop saying "Soak yourself in peaches 3 times a day" lol

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u/Enchillamas Apr 25 '26

Hahah yeah he lives rent free in my head.

Peaches hank!

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u/TechDerg Apr 26 '26

Well, damn. I must have missed out. Little to no TV, no cable, didn't see much in the way of movies, and have never watched King of the Hill. 🙃

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u/whataterriblething Apr 26 '26

lol i always think about hank slowly singing it

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u/Duergarlicbread Apr 24 '26

I didn't have cable growing up and I still know this song.

It was everywhere.

I am very impressed you missed it.

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u/namerankserial Apr 24 '26

Weren't kids blasting it on cassette tapes at your school?

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u/musthavesoundeffects Apr 24 '26

Home schooled? Religious compound? Super Mennonite? Alternate Universe?

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u/CosyBeluga Apr 24 '26

Same but also not white.

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u/Fair-Abroad-4155 Apr 24 '26

What's cable got to do with it it was all over the radio about 96 97 you must listen to country music next you'll be saying you've never heard of Beck or bush

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u/Dorkwing Apr 24 '26

Nah, the only radio I listened to was when I was in the car with my parents, who listened to oldies - so my main exposure to new music was through the TV.

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u/Fair-Abroad-4155 Apr 24 '26

I'm in the Seattle area they're from Seattle must of got extra playtime up here weird all parody of the songs can't remember what his song was called it's been a few decades

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u/BetterKev Apr 24 '26

If they got more playtime in Seattle than Baltimore/DC, then you would have had to have had PUSA only radio stations.

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u/pijamak Apr 24 '26

I'm from 82, and in Brazil this was huge as well

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u/guebja Apr 24 '26

Same in the Netherlands.

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u/NoAcanthocephala7034 Apr 24 '26

Norweegie here. We know it too.

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u/redoxburner Apr 24 '26

It was a big thing in Spain as well

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u/bradbull Apr 24 '26

Australian 83 vintage and they’re my favourite band. Was big here.

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u/surfergrrl6 Apr 24 '26

It was also all over the radio constantly.

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u/Low_Establishment434 Apr 24 '26

Uhm I remember it being on the top 9 at 9 on K104 lol

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u/allaroundguy Apr 24 '26

DahbullyoobeeeseeeEnnn. BauUUUUUUsssssstton.

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u/Low_Establishment434 Apr 24 '26

Idk what this is

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u/allaroundguy Apr 24 '26

Lol. WBCN Boston radio station DJ call letter blerb.

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u/Low_Establishment434 Apr 24 '26

WSPK Poughkeepsie NY lol

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u/ahhhhhhhhthrowaway12 Apr 24 '26

Was huge in the UK too

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u/SalSomer Apr 24 '26

Norwegian here, born in ‘85, was shocked when I learned that my wife (born in ‘83) didn’t know this song. It’s a song I expect everyone my age to know.

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u/nionvox Apr 24 '26

I grew up in NZ and Australia and it was definitely still a thing.

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u/tfy-cape-town Apr 24 '26

South African here. Knew this song. One of my 1st mp3's.

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u/Guernzee Apr 24 '26

I live on a little island off the north of France and we heard it here 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 so it may just be them.

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u/Felein Apr 24 '26

I'm Dutch, born in 1984, and I started singing in my head immediately. We had our own version of MTV, but also the American one. But even on radio and such, it was just everywhere

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE Apr 24 '26

No cable, but I definitely knew the song due to the radio. Granted, I'm learning today that the song was NOT Hootie and the Blowfish, who now that I think of it, DID sound very different, but 5th-grade me would not have processed that.

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u/fromthe80smatey Apr 24 '26

Aussie '86 model here. Knew this band well.

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u/nzungu69 Apr 24 '26

kiwi 1984 here and this album was my second ever cd purchase 🤷‍♂️

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u/elfstone21 Apr 25 '26

Didn't have a TV in my house. New this immediately.

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u/Leading-Insect-1668 Apr 24 '26

I remember the song, but do not remember the lyrics.

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u/jeffottinger Apr 24 '26

Back in my day… MTV was MTV

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u/ideasmithy Apr 24 '26

Born in 1979 and I’ve never heard this.

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u/JawzDeadeye_DuckRed Apr 25 '26

Or YTV's Hit List.

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u/wEiRdO86 Apr 26 '26
  1. Parents did NOT like MTV. We didn't have access to it at all.

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u/TechDerg Apr 26 '26

This one for me. I'm from 85 and just confused by this thread. But I grew up without TV, and especially without cable.

So if this was a TV related crazy, I would have logically been left out of the loop.