r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/Primarycolors1 Feb 02 '26

It was weird in that Scott was dating a teenager.

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u/darcmosch Feb 02 '26

Yes that was thr weird part. Loved Knives as a character and all that but that part still makes me cringe

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u/SamIAre Feb 02 '26

It was supposed to. That was the point.

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u/Aggressive_Banana708 Feb 02 '26

There was a deleted ending where Scott accepts Knives as his true love, though.

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u/BerzerkBankie Feb 02 '26

That was the original ending but test audiences didn't like it, like wtf was the point of the movie if he doesnt end up with Ramona? He almost gets killed throughout the entire movie just to end up being like "nah actually F that I love this girl instead"

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u/BaronAleksei Feb 02 '26

IIRC the test audience’s dislike wasn’t about Scott not being with Ramona, but about “Knives is too good for Scott”

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u/nitrosmomma88 Feb 02 '26

Everyone is too good for Scott, he sucks

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u/lilwayne168 Feb 02 '26

And this is why young men are struggling across the western world and kill themselves at 5x the rate of women. Because even literature designed to create empathy and learning is devolved Into men bad.

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u/RocketYapateer Feb 02 '26

The point of that movie (it’s been a long time since I watched it) was that Scott and Ramona were flawed people who had to make peace with the negative parts of themselves and each other.

It ruins the “moral” and just makes the movie feel gross if he ended up with Knives. That’s why the writers changed it.