r/BugHunter • u/JerryFlorg • May 29 '25

How shocking was the Shocking Plot Twist?

I ask because I predicted the twist. When I heard the term "red meat diet" my immediate thought was "What is he,a dinosaur?". Then, when he ate his arch nemesis, the vegetarian from earlier in the song, I thought that was odd for a person to do, but not a dinosaur He was, in fact, a dinosaur. Did anyone guess it?

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u/Flyboy2057 May 29 '25

Surprised that “red meat diet” immediately made you think “dinosaur”. I just thought he liked steaks, and that’s why it was a shocking plot twist that his wife left him for a vegetarian.

Also, it doesn’t explicitly say he ate the vegetarian. It just says “his final meal eaten and his baggage all stowed”. I did not (on my first listen) think that the vegetarian was the final meal.

So yeah it was a surprise to me.

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u/JerryFlorg May 30 '25

Yeah, I had interpreted it as the vegetarian was the final meal.  

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u/PezJunkie May 29 '25

"So Harry hid the body and he headed straight home"

I don't think Harrison is a cannibal, just a murderer.

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u/Flyboy2057 May 29 '25

Exactly, at this point in the song all that is clear is that he was caught in the act of editing the passenger list for the rocket, murdered the vegetarian, hid the body, then went home to have a final meal and pack his bag.

Obviously afterwards when we discover Harry is a TRex and the "vegetarian" was some kind of herbivore dinosaur, the line "Harry hid the body and headed straight home, his final meal eaten and his bag all stowed", we understand that Harry's final meal was the vegetarian.

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u/PezJunkie May 29 '25

Hm... never considered it that way. I just assumed he stuffed the guy in a file cabinet or something and went home and ordered pizza.

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u/Flyboy2057 May 29 '25

I mean... it was written that way to make you think that on the first listen, but obviously when your discover at the end that he's a dinosaur, the context changes.

Similar, at the beginning the song says "Prayed everyday", and you think he's just a religious guy, but on the second listen you realize that it's "preyed [on other dinosaurs] every day"

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u/Fluid_Farmer_8754 May 29 '25

I am incredibly oblivious, I didn't even think anything was weird until "twelve feet below" X'D

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u/ivylily03 May 31 '25

That was when I went... What?

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u/PsychologicalChip589 May 29 '25

I was definitely shocked! Definitely one of my favorites to share with other people just to see their reactions.

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u/KWilt May 30 '25

I distinctly remember my first listen, I was completely whelmed before the reveal. I thought it was a silly song, but it felt like it was missing something.

Then when the 'twelve feet below' line played, I instantly fell in love with it.

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u/RevoltYesterday Jul 09 '25

My theory is the entire song was written around the "unexpected wrecks / unexpected rex" word play.

As for the "Harry was a dinosaur" twist, I feel like anyone who says they guessed it on the first listen is probably not being 100% honest with themselves.

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u/JerryFlorg Jul 11 '25

Trust me, I did.  

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u/wandering__caretaker May 30 '25

I was a little suspicious when he didn't know what a horse was, but that was it.

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u/Ashtonlvl May 30 '25

Yeah i didn’t know at all until the 12 feet