Why did the subtitles break up with the movie?

They were tired of always being talked over.

Did You Know?

The joke plays on "talked over" — meaning both literal dialogue drowning out sound and the subtitles feeling emotionally overshadowed in the relationship. Fun fact: subtitles date back to 1903 with intertitles in silent films, and modern closed captioning wasn't standardized until the 1970s for accessibility.