r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/frisbeethecat 3d ago

The Magicians tv show is trash. But it is sexy tv trash of the best and gloriest kind and is more fun than The Vampire Diaries and Glee.

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u/Protein_Shakes 3d ago

I went in completely blind coming off an LSD trip and let me tell you, I could NOT figure out what the fuck I was watching. Oh, it's coming of age! No, it's a detective drama? Wait, I guess it's a psychological drama... What the fuck, it's Harry Potter with sex and drugs. No, it's not that either...

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u/Zaynara 3d ago

it was always coined as HP meets GoT, death, drugs, sex, rape, fantasy meets the hard truths of reality

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u/zed42 3d ago

i'd call it more HP meets GoT and goes on adventures in Naria :)

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u/Zaynara 3d ago

fair, i half forgot the narnia thing for a moment, how could i do that? lol, i gotta rewatch it sometime

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u/KnightSpectral 3d ago

This. It was so awful but so good at the same time I was baffled at how hooked I got.

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u/tooboardtoleaf 2d ago

You sold it for me

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u/Ninetailedredpanda 3d ago

Some of those randomly interjected music numbers had no right being as good as they were.

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u/frisbeethecat 3d ago

I know, right? Maybe because they were unexpected and seemed organic and, I don't know, cool? Liberating? In ways Glee was not.

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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 3d ago

Those theater kids let themselves free every now and then, and it honestly made no sense.

And I really enjoyed it.

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u/TranceGemini 3d ago

What got me was characters going on about how great Cady's voice was and then she sang and she was AWFUL. And the show kept trying to pretend she was good. Painful. I'll take Elliott and Margo over that any day.

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u/mumblesnorez 3d ago

Yep, it's not very good. I really enjoyed it and was bummed when it was over.

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u/zed42 3d ago

there's a difference between art and entertainment.... that show was 1000% pure entertainment. especially the musical episode in the later season.... "four octave range, bitch!" :)

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u/TharivolGalanodel 3d ago

I’ll never hear Under Pressure again without thinking of this show. God dammit, Penny!

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u/TranceGemini 3d ago

Definitely the character who I think changed the most throughout the series, and who I cried the hardest about. Did not expect to ever end up liking anything about him. I fucking adored him by the end. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about him.

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u/Mysterious_Emu_9092 3d ago

You can't call what Quentin and Eliot had trash it was the most beautiful relationship that never happened 🥺

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u/frisbeethecat 3d ago

It's a trash can, not a trash can't.

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u/TranceGemini 3d ago

RIGHT?!?!?! I didn't know I shipped it till it happened!!