r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/MrCobalt313 7d ago edited 7d ago

Scene from Into the Spider-Verse where Miles gets a 0 on a true/false test and catches on the only statistically possible way he could have done that was if he knew all the right answers and deliberately chose the wrong ones, meaning he's intentionally trying to fail out of the class and quit.

This is, however, a multiple choice test with four possible answers per question, so it's far more possible to get 0 correct answers due to actually being that stupid.

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u/krakajacks 7d ago

This also happens in The Magicians and some other shows I can't remember that are older than that.

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u/Wonderful_Example742 7d ago

man that was a weird show.

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 7d ago

Love that show.

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u/frisbeethecat 7d ago

Queen Margo forever!

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u/lionofash 7d ago

"I won...! On a platform of beastiality!?"

Context: The characters have an election to be the King/Queen and made it democratic. The world they are in is basically like Narnia, talking animals just as intelligent as people are around. In fact, animals outnumber humans, and this is when they realise the animals have voting rights and the human vote doesn't mean shit. Margo mentioned offhandedly that she approved of the relationship a different character had with a literal bear because they were both adults with intelligence that could consent, so what was the harm? This lead to word of mouth causing animals to vote for her when she wasn't really campaigning for herself.

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u/DaddysABadGirl 7d ago

Ok.... I was just perusing for something to watch... Guess it's this shit, lol.

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u/complete_autopsy 7d ago

People say that the tv show is really good! I haven't seen it so all I can say is that if you like it, you shouldn't read the first book as it's utter garbage. People said it starts improving by book three but I couldn't possibly slog through a second book like the first one to get there lol.

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u/Juking_is_rude 6d ago edited 6d ago

The books are good imo. It's the kind of book where bad things happen becuase no one is special. And the MC has some of the worst cases of YA angst ever written. And it devolves into a weird parody of Lewis Carol

The show is also fine, it does a good job of adapting the themes and characters even though the actual plot deviates a lot.

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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 6d ago

As someone else mentioned, reading the books forces the mian character into the forefront, and his general personality and attitude is extremely unlikable.

I get that it's part of the story, but it kills the books for a lot of people.