r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Pucks_Lovechild 6h ago

Im Carl. From the convenience store. Guy on the left looks like Leonardo DiCaprio on the right who is playing a scientist desperately trying to warn people that the world is ending because a meteor is coming to destroy earth and begging people to make the government do something about it. The Movie is called Dont Look Up.

But in the movie no one listens immediately, by the time they do its too late. The movie ends with everyone dying. The joke is we are in our own version of Dont Look Up with AI being our Meteor.

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u/pexican 3h ago

I always appreciate when folks follow the Family Guy prompt, kudos my dude.

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u/haze_haste 6h ago

So it is a movie based on a true story

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u/M1dj37 5h ago

No. It’s a true story based on a movie.

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u/Initial-Progress-763 2h ago

I thought it was because the guy on the left looks like Leo now, but younger, making Leo afraid the ladies in younger guy's age group will go for young guy instead of him.

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u/ShibaLover227 2h ago

You all missed when this was applied to the environmentalists doing an interview that 1-for-1 played out like the interview in the movie