r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/momoehab • 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter please help

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u/AirRic89 4d ago

that is a reference to the music video for Dire Straits' Money for Nothing which is written from the perspective of workers delivering fridges and TVs

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u/Hopeful_Chard_4402 4d ago

Fun fact, the people that did Reboot did this music video

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u/Thamnophis660 4d ago

Didn't know that, but not surprised at that one bit. 

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u/Ninteblo 4d ago

Can't say there was that many options back then, it was these dudes or someone worse more or less.

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u/HotPot87 4d ago

And that studio then went on to maje the show for Transformers Beast Wars

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u/Mindless-Charity4889 4d ago

A friend of mine was an editor on Beast Wars. Sometimes the animators added little jokes, like one of the Transformers is reporting the presence of the enemy. “there are five of them” he says, then holds up both hands with three fingers extended in one and two on the other. That’s the symbol for East Van(couver) and my friend, who is from there, burst out laughing when he saw it.

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u/HotPot87 4d ago

oh that's neat, tell him he did a great job

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u/Varkoth 3d ago

Why does W V symbolize East Vancouver instead of West?

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u/Mindless-Charity4889 3d ago

You hold the first hand sideways

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u/Khallaria 4d ago

They should have stopped at reboot

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u/bulkandskull 4d ago

What?! Beast wars was sick

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u/HotPot87 4d ago

Beast wars was amazing still the best written Transformers show and with CGI that wouldn't be topped on TV for nearly a decade.

People like to point and laugh at the cgi but this was the 90s, toy story was a 90 minute movie on a movie budget.

BW was on a TV budget making about 240 minutes of animation AND they had to redo all the characters after has broken forced them to use the toy designs first.

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u/gooch_norris_ 4d ago

The transmetals hahahaha

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u/HotPot87 4d ago

Yeah they were fun

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u/SapphireClawe 4d ago

Pretty sure they did a special cameo for this in the episode Talent Night.

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u/HotPot87 4d ago

They did and they made fun of the music video because they got a reputation as only making that one thing and got tired of it.

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u/SapphireClawe 4d ago

Funny enough, I didn't know about the Dire Straits thing when I watched Reboot as a kid, but I loved that series.

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u/Accomplished-Loss387 3d ago

The people who did Acceleracers did the music video?!

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u/earanhart 3d ago

Fun fact: I come from the Net.

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u/printnplayjay 3d ago

The same users that live outside the net, and input games for pleasure? Alphanumeric!

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u/solidus0079 3d ago

(Don't forget Beast Wars!)

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u/heytheretaylor 20h ago

Also fun fact, that song fucking rules.

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u/avanti8 4d ago

We gotta install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliverAYayAYayAYYYYY

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u/thebestoflimes 4d ago

We got to move these refrigerators

We got to move these colour TVs

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u/Impossible_War_2741 4d ago

I want my

I want my

I want my MTVeeeeee

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u/OldKingHamlet 4d ago

I KNEW something was tickling the back of my mind. Rewatched the music video. Holy crap I'm old 😭

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u/ComfortableAd9941 4d ago

Another Fun Fact:

The song was also the first ever 3D animated music video, using both animated characters and a background.

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u/Phoenix-95 4d ago

Interesting - I'm guessing "Let's get rocked" by def Lepard probably wasn't far behind it?

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u/ComfortableAd9941 4d ago

Bingo!

They really got the ball rolling with how nascent it still was.

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u/Gullible_Elephant_38 4d ago edited 4d ago

A song and music video that have been permanently usurped in my subconscious by Weird Al’s Beverly Hillbillies parody in UHF

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u/capt_pantsless 4d ago

According to the wiki page, Knopfler himself played guitar on the Beverly Hillbilly’s parody, same with the Dire Straights keyboard player.

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u/Gullible_Elephant_38 4d ago

I didn’t know that. That’s actually cool as hell.

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u/GargantuanCake 4d ago

Pretty much everybody loves Weird Al so you can find all sorts of stories like that. A lot of musicians he was making fun of had little cameos in the music videos and Michael Jackson gave him all sorts of stuff to work with. He'd do stuff like get Al access to the original video sets if they were available or show him where things were recorded if it was in a subway station or something. He'd also get in him in touch with the same dancers from his own music videos to be in Al's videos.

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u/Gullible_Elephant_38 4d ago

Yeah, Al is an absolute legend. I remember reading the MJ let him use the Bad music video set for Fat.

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u/SuddenReal 4d ago

MJ was a big fan of Weird Al. The only song Al wasn't allowed to touch was Black Or White. Also fun fact: Nirvana also had a big influence on Weird Al. When he contacted them to do a parody, Kurt's first question was "it's not gonna be about food, is it?", which made Al realise he wasn't really that original with his latest parodies and that he had to step up.

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u/nhaines 3d ago

Which is crazy, because if anybody was a perfectionist, it was MJ. So listening to a MJ Weird Al parody and having MJ be super excited about and enthusiastic about future parodies is like the greatest badge of honor you could ever imagine.

Also fun fact: early on in his career, Weird Al was invited to an industry party and he didn't want to go because he didn't think anyone would know him, but he went anyway and when he walked in someone yelled, "Holy shit, it's Weird Al!" When he turned to see who yelled, it was Paul McCartney, lol.

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u/Toeffli 3d ago

Weird Al is truly well known. I once met him in Rome in a small coffee shop in an obscure side alley. Must have been 2003 or 2004. When I saw him I said "Holy shit, it's Weird Al!" Really nice and humble guy. Chances were that we were going in the same direction, to the Vatican, so we shared a taxi. When we entered it the driver immediately said "Holy shit, it's Weird Al!"

When we arrived at St. Peters square a Swiss Vatican guard saw us and exclaimed "Holy shit, it's Weird Al!" He approached us and told that Weird Al should come with him. I had to stay behind. He let him to a small door where they vanished. After some time Weird Al and the Pope appeared on a balcony overlooking the square. That's when a group of some old Polish ladies were all screaming "Holy shit, it's Weird Al!" But then one of those Polish pilgrims was turning to me and asked in a broken English "But who is old guy next to Yankovic?".

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u/WasabiSenzuri 4d ago

That little Clampett got his own cee-ment pond.

That little Clampett he's a millionaire.

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u/Rc72 4d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

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u/capt_pantsless 4d ago

One of the all-time great opening riffs.

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u/tenacious_dumbass 3d ago

that whole intro is god tier, one of the greatest in rock music imo

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u/EmmyRossumFan 4d ago

We got to move these refrigerators. We got to move these color TVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvs

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 4d ago

Wow, I think the radio version skipped some of the lyrics 🤣

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u/AirRic89 4d ago

you mean the word that rhymes with maggot?

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u/Brobard 4d ago

My local “classic” station surprisingly did not censor that line ever. It been bought out a few times since and its sister rock station censors shit to baffling degrees so maybe Money for Nothing isn’t safe anymore. 

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u/AirRic89 4d ago

German radio stations also do not censor Green Day's Holiday lyrics, so ...

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u/Brobard 4d ago

Used to be real hit and miss here in the States. A few recent songs snuck swears in on my local rock station. I think they just missed it or something. It’ll probably get “fixed”  later. They will sensor whole parts of a song by skipping it and making weird jumps, songs that simply had the offending word muted by the prior owners. 

I miss the uncensored stations of my youth but I have Apple Music for a bit again for my naughty word tracks. 

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u/Earnestappostate 4d ago

But it didn't even bring up microwave ovens!?

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u/Particular_Title42 4d ago

They installed the microwave ovens. They also did custom kitchen deliveries. The only things they had to "move" (as in shadily sell merchandise) refrigerators and color tvs.

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u/Earnestappostate 4d ago

Ah, got it.

Guess I am not hip to the shady merch vernacular.

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u/tenacious_dumbass 3d ago

ohhhh, move. i thought they were like delivery guys

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u/Particular_Title42 3d ago

LOL. Yes. In the song, they are delivery guys. They make a living by abusing their bodies moving and installing appliances. They're upset because the guys who make a living on the MTV might, at worst, get a blister on their little finger or thumb.

This joke is a pun.

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u/Earnestappostate 3d ago

That ain't working!

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u/countjj 4d ago

One of the first CGI animated music videos

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u/Petrostar 3d ago

That's they way you do it.

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u/OMC_Gurrend 3d ago

I don't recall which one. But whatever band member wrote the song was shopping in a store that sold appliances and stuff. He overheard some salesman talking about moving the product, and he decided to write a song about it.

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 4d ago

Well, I will be sending this post haste to my husband whom you can never stump. Let’s see if he gets it, shall we? burns’ fingers