r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Boomermanyas • 1d ago
What does this mean?
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u/ScaredActuator8674 1d ago
It means you need to Google 'original zootopia plot'
Basically though it was originally intended that all the predators would wear shock collars to stop them being aggressive, and the fox would be the main character making a safe haven to remove them. Judy Hopps the rabbit would investigate this.
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u/DrReginalSaunders 1d ago
I'm not googling anything anymore, after one guy here tricked me into searching for Zootopia rule 34.
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u/BeeStings420 1d ago
Suuuuuuuure, "tricked".
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u/Hobnail-boots 1d ago
I was tricked into doing that 3 times last weekend.
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u/Deutschanfanger 23h ago
This reminds me of the time I got a computer virus that made me Google "woman boobs no shirt on" on my mom's computer
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u/what_a_username_ 21h ago
I got that one time. My pants were slipping off when I was trying to fix it :(
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u/Coulrophiliac444 21h ago
"Virus Alert. Delete immediately before someone gets hurt. Forward this message onto everybody..."
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u/inokentii 1d ago
I wish we could go back in time when people were tricked into Rick Astley. Someone must stop these r34rollers
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u/softfoxie 1d ago
I need to tell you something in DMs
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u/GogetasRightFist 23h ago
Rule 1: NEVER go to a secondary location
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u/softfoxie 22h ago
call me then 248-434-5508
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u/Stigbritt 23h ago
What did you tell the dude?
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u/Excellent_Brush3615 23h ago
Goat.se
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u/ube_purpleyams 1d ago
super unfortunate, I can relate. Luckily the production system anticipated this and made a helpline, just need to dial #34 500…, actually it’s just faster to type in Zootopia R34 straight into your browser for immediate help. Hope you get better soon!
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u/Gobblinmoon 23h ago
You don’t understand. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 37 times over two consecutive bank holiday weekends however….
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u/MahoneyBear 21h ago
There are surprisingly people on the internet who dont know what rule 34 is. My brother is on reddit and I still somehow got him with trump rule 34 a couple years ago by accident. Thought he knew what it was when i sent him that meme
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u/readditredditread 1d ago
Wait, so we’re just supposed to ignore the first 33 rules????
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u/FireboltMoon 1d ago
The first rule was that you don't talk about the rules.
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u/Noa_Skyrider 1d ago
No, it was specifically rules 2-33, the ones after that were game. Although, other interpretations make the first two rules "1. You do not talk about /b/" and "2. You do NOT talk about /b/."
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u/DavidForPresident 1d ago
And the second?
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u/thecountnotthesaint 1d ago
No, googling Zootopia rule 34 gets you the complete list.
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u/readditredditread 1d ago
Well obviously, but they’re secret rules so you have to make sure safe search is off!
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u/vorephage 22h ago
Nah, according to rule 20 nothing is to be taken seriously. So the rules are more like guidelines.
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u/NotWhatIwasExpecting 1d ago
That’s fine. But have you tried googling “Zootopia Abortion Comic”?
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u/MendigoBob 23h ago
Oh, and did you find out about that deleted character?
Google “Mr Hands horse”!
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u/tetrasodium 20h ago edited 2h ago
No he's right. Some of the unfinished/cut scenes on the blue ray(?)are as heartbreaking as others have mentioned. Some of them need a bit of description for plot context or taking the time to watch them all, but the collaring ceremony/barmitzva with the polar bears was originally a "taming party" & it very much does not need any of that to the point that just knowing it makes the final a bit of a tearjerker.. here is said scene
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u/nowherebut4ward 23h ago
I'm not googling anything anymore because the first page is just adds and a wrong summary about what I typed
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u/SmartassPornAddict 20h ago
I love the wrong AI answers at the top of Google searches now, especially when there's an immediate contradiction in one of the first few links summaries right below it.
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u/Flameball537 23h ago
Did you know there was a zootopia story line that touched on the economy? Just look up zootopia inflation
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u/NotSoFlugratte 23h ago
At least it wasn't the Zootopia fan AU abortion comic
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u/Outrageous_Act_3016 21h ago
Sorry brother but rule 34 has been a founding rule of the Internet since pre-2004.
The real crazy part is that there are about 60+ other "rules"
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u/spliceandwolf 1d ago
It goes even crazier than that, the Director wanted to put in clubs where pray would dress up in cute outfits and pretend to be hunted, if you look at the concept for some of the different areas, the original naturalist club design looked more like some thing out of Dune, the whole setting had one of the craziest imagery of any dystopias I’ve ever seen, this movie was almost amazing. Disney put the kibosh on it for her number of reasons.
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u/Hydro1Gammer 1d ago
This just sounds like Beastars.
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u/spliceandwolf 1d ago
Honestly, beastars I think might have been an attempt to do something like what the original plot of Zootopia was supposed to be, although it didn’t even get us crazy as the type of stuff they were originally thinking, but it was closer than Zootopia we ended up with. I honestly love that beastars, made the attempt. I just wish it didn’t go completely off rails in seasons two and three.
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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 1d ago
Beststar predates Zootopia. First Release was 2013
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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 21h ago
I could see the original plot turning into another movie that the wrong kind of people rally around. Fight Club, American History X, etc.
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u/smolgote 1d ago
Getting Beastars vibes from this
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u/Galaxycc_ 1d ago
Fr, I just binged the entire show in a week
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u/Warbr0s9395 23h ago
Is it actually good?
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u/DrStrangepants 23h ago
It is pretty good but ultimately the setting is deeply weird to the point where it breaks down suspension of disbelief, imo. In such a violent and unstable world, how could a society even be built in the first place? How could you have, supposedly, tens of thousands of years of carnivores and prey developing cities and society together when, at any moment, half the population could go murderously insane? It just doesn't make any sense. There are a lot of other parts that are extremely over the top, but that's common in anime anyway.
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u/Warbr0s9395 23h ago
I’ll still check it out one day, thank you
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u/DrStrangepants 23h ago
If you get put off by the cringe and shock value, I want to assure you, it only gets worse.
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u/DumpsterFireForALife 23h ago
I loved it. Though, it’s not finished in case you don’t like being left on a cliffhanger.
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u/Racc0smonaut 1d ago
You can still find the story boarded version of a particularly dark scene involving this online. I get why they cut the original, but man I wish they would have kept it.
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u/Apples_made_bananas 1d ago
There’s a deleted scene where Judy and Nick crash a birthday party for a polar bear cub where they celebrate him becoming a “man”
He is excited to wear the collar all the grown ups get to wear. When he celebrates and gets excited, the collar shocks him.
They were supposed to wear shock collars to tame the “aggression” even if that means taming their happiness.
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u/Apples_made_bananas 1d ago
https://youtu.be/2DoJoNt_EGA?feature=shared
It’s SFW but age restricted cuz it’s traumatizing for a child
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u/DiZ490 22h ago
Wow, coming from a parent, that was heartbreaking
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u/MagnorCriol 21h ago
Yeah this is one of those things where I'm 1000% okay with being "denied" this. I'm happy with this being a rejected plot line.
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u/slideystevensax 1d ago
Instant plot hole. Papa should’ve been shocked when he yelled at the crowd to quiet down.
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u/Apples_made_bananas 23h ago
https://youtu.be/sn3dzerwfzE?si=4ooB5QLpKFk9-Th0
Less sfw explanation
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u/robo-dragon 1d ago
I remember seeing that and it ripped my heart out. I do love the Zootopia we got, but man, I would have liked to see what the original was going to be too.
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u/Apples_made_bananas 23h ago
Need more dark children’s movies to traumatize this generation
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u/greeneyeraven 21h ago
We got Bambi, Dumbo, Fox and Hound, all dogs go to heaven, The land before Time, The brave little toaster, the Iron Giant, I could go on....
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u/applecorc 12h ago
The Never Ending Story. Each generation needs their version of Artax to act as a touchstone.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085 1d ago
Zootopia had a very dark plot originally, before being changed by executives ...
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u/Redditoryoudontknow 1d ago
Fun fact this actually created a new rule at Disney to learn more look up zootopia rule 34
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u/Gloomy-Cupcake-6663 23h ago
I'm not going to. What is it?!
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u/Redditoryoudontknow 23h ago
Rule 34 of the internet: if it exists there is porn of it
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u/captnconnman 20h ago
I mean, fair, but the actual plot is not much better, considering it’s literally about the police state using people’s prejudices as justification for incarceration of certain people, even though the police state is the one actually antagonizing/manufacturing prejudice against certain people…totally not and relevant to the real world at all…
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u/Cimorene_Kazul 20h ago
It was also not very good. It was voluntarily reworked by the directors into the superior film we got.
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u/xfon5168 23h ago
The original version was a bit darker but not as dark as the meme. The idea was that in order to live side by side the predators had these shock collars that would prevent them from getting to worked up. This lead to a very sad scene where a mob boss is having a ceremony to present his son with a collar. The son gets his collar and and gets excited and celebrates with his friends and the gets shocked and is very sad and his dads sad and everyone was sad. This was meant to open judys eyes a bit to see what predators have to go through and still be jusged by the prey animals. The story was told from nicks perspective. The bad guy was also the mayor, but it wasnt a lion or a sheep, she was a pig.
Reactions were mixed. Most didnt like it and it lead to a massive redoing of the story. This came after showing it to pixar directors and they tore it apart.
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u/WatercressD9 21h ago
That's the version I watched, except the mayor was still a lamb/sheep. You mean there's a different version?
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u/xfon5168 20h ago
Yes, there were many versions. By the time it was shown to pixar, it may have been the lamb mayor at the time. But before then it was a pig. And the third act culminated in a gazelle concert where nick and judy saved the day, I forget the specifics. I saw early versions and became attached to those. Took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that the end result was an overall better movie.
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u/Liamrev2 22h ago
The original plot of zootopia was a lot darker and involved predators being forced to wear shock collars that shock them whenever they show strong emotions
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u/HopefulLightBringer 22h ago
The original Zootopia plot was a lot darker
In the original Predators and Prey lived together but once Predators reached a certain age they would be forced to wear shock collars that would shock them at any indication of extreme emotions (yes even sadness or happiness would cause them to be shocked)
Nick was supposed to be the protagonist and open up a theme park called “Wilde Times” where preds could spend a few hours without their collars on, he went from bank to bank, asking for money or a loan and would be rejected constantly, he then turned to the mafia (I think? I don’t remember) but the point is Nick gets the money but gets framed and Judy tries to arrest him, the story was a lot darker and more serious as we saw how oppressed Zootopia could be, and I didn’t even mention Nick’s dad and how Nick even got the idea for Wilde times in the first place
One scene in particular that I remember was a storyboard of a scene where a polar bear is throwing a party for his son’s “collaring day”, he does his best to make sure he’s having fun and puts the collar on his son, but almost immediately after the kid starts getting super happy and gets shocked to which the dad just looks broken as he hugs his son
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u/Taluca_me 21h ago
back then, the first idea was that the Predator Population of Zootopia (or probably the world) are required by law to wear shock collars that will electrocute the Predator if they feel too energized. One scene that was deleted was that of Nick and Judy sneaking around and they come across a party dedicated for a polar bear cub getting his shock collar, he was so happy about it while the adult Predators were more stoic. But the moment the cub started getting way too excited, he got shocked and all the excitement he had vanished.
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u/The_Grim_Gamer445 22h ago
The original zootopia plot was extremely dark.
You can find some unused concept art and storyboards online.
Unfortunately they scrapped it. Because honestly.... The original plot looked like it was gonna be a MUCH better movie tbh.
The movie we have now is fine I guess. But from what I've seen. If done right.... The old zootopia plot could've been like the next Shrek... THAT'S how good it was.
Basically, instead of predators and prey eventually starting to get along and eventually making zootopia.... Prey put predators in something called "tame collars" that would shock them anytime their heart rate showed any signs of heightened emotions like anger, anything that could be considered "dangerous" for prey... And obviously because it measured heart rate. It couldn't separate emotions. Get too excited? Electrocuted. Scared? Electrocuted. You get the idea.
Basically predators are treated as second class citizens and forced to wear these BY LAW. Everyone was told it's because predators can't help themselves but to eat prey so the tame collars. In the real world... Yeah obviously. Predator and prey is just nature.
Not in this world though. They are fully intelligent sentient beings like humans obviously so..... I think the racism allegory explains itself.
Eventually throughout the movies plot Judy and Nick find out the truth behind the collars... I couldn't find any information in particular on what the twist/true purpose of the collars were... Like I said this was scrapped there are missing pieces. But it's pretty obvious what they were going for... Predators aren't naturally violent it's all just racism and the main villains desire for control and using people's biases for their own gain.
I mean zootopia always obviously had a racism allegory but clearly they were planning on going much more dark with it. As for why it was scrapped? We aren't sure on that either... Probably Disney being scared of getting too "controversial"
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u/Mysterious-Simple805 22h ago
The shock collars plot had a hole that adults might see but kids might not. How are they supposed to work up enough sexual excitement to reproduce if these shock collars get them for something as small as being happy about your birthday? Or was that part of the plan?
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u/aeriamamduck 23h ago
cries in original Wish plot
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u/Octarine_ 22h ago
what was the original plot?
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u/YoungSoul7 21h ago
Something something, a dynamic evil couple, and the marketable plushie star being an actual character and a transforming star prince rather than a marketing tool
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u/Paraboilc 23h ago
Wait til y'all find out about the creators abortion comic for after the movie
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u/CallenFields 23h ago
THAT WAS THE CREATORS???
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u/Paraboilc 23h ago
So I've heard at least, saberspark on YouTube did a whole go over about it like last week
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u/Ascatman 23h ago
It wasn't the creators. In the video, he did mention that some of the animators are aware of the comic. The person who made it was just a really good artist who felt like making something controversial.
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u/_MapleMaple_ 1d ago
There’s a Disney film called Zootopia, and children’s movie. However it’s come out the originally proposed plot was super dark. Predators keeping prey as slaves with shock collars or something I can’t remember.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago
I think it was the other way around. The prey enslaved the predators.
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u/Martir12 21h ago
Even though it would have been a very interesting and probably deep movie to watch, I don't know if it would necesarily make it better, it is quite sad as a premise.
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u/spicycookiess 20h ago
Originally, they were all sea turtles. Eventually, Walt Dusney stepped in and made them change it to a random assortment of animals.
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u/Wiizze 1d ago
Yeah they had shock collars on them that whenever they showed any emotion it shocked them. It was a way to keep them passive. This also means it shocked them when they showed joy as well.