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The thing with Pat is that 95% of the time he's an rear end in a top hat or at least incredibly obnoxious, but that 5% of the time or so(these aren't hard numbers or anything mind you) we see something almost resembling a decent person shine through the smugness and ego, which is probably just enough for the rest of the cast to continue tolerating his existence as part of their extended friend group
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drrockso20 posted:The thing with Pat is that 95% of the time he's an rear end in a top hat or at least incredibly obnoxious, but that 5% of the time or so(these aren't hard numbers or anything mind you) we see something almost resembling a decent person shine through the smugness and ego, which is probably just enough for the rest of the cast to continue tolerating his existence as part of their extended friend group okay maybe but I always thought of it like, Pat was bros with Ray and Beef since small times so he's grandfathered in
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Pat was definitely a Solid Dude during the whole Magreaux Dog debacle. That doesn't make him less of an rear end in a top hat.
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Happy Hippo posted:okay maybe but I always thought of it like, Pat was bros with Ray and Beef since small times so he's grandfathered in That's probably a very huge part of why the group is willing to tolerate him but there's probably more to it than that, after all Showbiz was from Small Times too but they're way less tolerant of his shenanigans even though he's barely any worse than Pat is much of the time
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Jan 31, 2022 05:02
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Pat at least observes the Forms of friendship. He allows Phillipe to view his fish, even if he is Unwelcome. Showbiz is a machine for extracting seventy dollars from Beef's wallet.
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Jan 31, 2022 06:01
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Nessus posted:Pat at least observes the Forms of friendship. He allows Phillipe to view his fish, even if he is Unwelcome. Yeah well how else is he going to get the jack booted thugs from Rockford Fosgate to stop trying to repo his fancy stereo equipment 
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Jan 31, 2022 07:00
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Beef suggesting that Showbiz might even break even if he sells the stereo equipment AND his car and Showbiz going "car..? You don't get it, do you, Beef?" was quite good
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Jan 31, 2022 07:20
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Nessus posted:
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Zefiel posted:Beef suggesting that Showbiz might even break even if he sells the stereo equipment AND his car and Showbiz going "car..? You don't get it, do you, Beef?" was quite good The idea that Showbiz never had a car in the first place but is addicted to buying equipment he can't even use due to not having a car is possibly one of the most ridiculous things Onstad ever came up with for Achewood Or at least that's always been my interpretation of that line
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that’s the implication. showbiz is addicted to collecting car stereo equipment, despite not owning (or I suspect being legally able to drive in at least 30 states) a car
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Dude has a complex plan for going cross country by only using free airport transit buses, of course he doesn't have a car.
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drrockso20 posted:The idea that Showbiz never had a car in the first place but is addicted to buying equipment he can't even use due to not having a car is possibly one of the most ridiculous things Onstad ever came up with for Achewood I've seen it in real life.
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Showbiz has to be the single dumbest character in the comic, and considering that list includes at least two instances of Ray getting brain damage, Little Nephew, Bad Future Phillipe, and Molly's brother Taffy that is really saying something
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Jan 31, 2022 13:28
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The poor brother cat has no car
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*phone rings at 4am* Beef! Beef, I bought this NFT and now I own Star Wars!
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davidspackage posted:*phone rings at 4am* lol
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davidspackage posted:*phone rings at 4am* Oh no its today
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Showbiz exists as a counterpoint to Lyle. Lyle may have aches and pains and lice in his morning wine, but he's developed pride and expertise in his world by living within his means for so long. Showbiz meanwhile refuses to acknowledge that he's a drifter, and keeps waking up in police stations. Recall if you will the Onstad blog series where he went over the introduction of each character to the house, and when renting a patch of yard to Lyle, asked where he would go to the bathroom. Lyle said "You'll never find out, and if you think about it, that's the best possible answer." Showbiz meanwhile is excited to tell his terrible friend over the phone that he intends to make plop-plops in his sucker brother's house.
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Ray actually would own Star Wars though.
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My spouse did sales for a car audio company. They have talked to dozens of Showbizes and yes, as a matter of fact, many of them think buying a tweeter is the perfect time to sexually harass a stranger over the phone
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We are all ears if you know of a better time to sexually harass a stranger over the phone.
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WHAT IS THE PERFECT TIME TO SEXUALLY HARASS A STRANGER OVER THE PHONE? SEVEN? THREE?!
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 I always remembered that second panel as Showbiz miming a blowjob until I went to look it up just now.
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He's clearly doing a slide whistle
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withak posted:Ray actually would own Star Wars though. This goes one of two ways. A) Little Nephew sells him an "NFT" (cocktail napkin) for a couple hundred large and Ray only finds out the chicanery after he discovers he's now Reddit-infamous. B) Ray's casual $60 purchase at a thrift store turns out to contain the original pre-Marcia Lucas cut of Star Wars, which is somehow so personally embarrassing to both Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy (turns out first-draft Han had a real space cocaine problem and the Luke/Leia relationship is best not explained while sober) that they offer him handsome sums to never mention it. Ray's sunny indifference to their issues is interpreted as blackmailer's hardball and by the end of that week, he has a corner office at Lucasfilm and a binding legal agreement that permits his secretarial pool unfettered access to the costume department. Beef is apoplectic; Ray regards this as a relatively dull chapter in the saga that is his life and actively refuses to acknowledge there is a difference between Trek and Wars.
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Wanderer posted:This goes one of two ways. “—get this, Chapek, what about a buddy cop comedy....starring Mr Spock and the hairy guy that yells all the time—yeah, Chewbacca. That guy.”
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davidspackage posted:*phone rings at 4am* "Showbiz is dead..." o_o
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davidspackage posted:*phone rings at 4am*  EDIT: Beaten like Cornelius' childhood drum
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WE SHOUD PARTY
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Dammit man, I ain't want to own Star Wars. No platinum ice playa ever rolled up to the chochichas at the JC Pennys Clinique counter ownin' Star Wars! It isn't done!
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Howard Beale posted:WE SHOUD PARTY he left a note, but not a very good one
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robot roll call posted:Dammit man, I ain't want to own Star Wars. No platinum ice playa ever rolled up to the chochichas at the JC Pennys Clinique counter ownin' Star Wars! It isn't done! the smaller cat has found himself in possession of a multibillion dollar Disney film franchise, but he does not want to be
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Beef! I need you to hack into Disney+ for me! I'm getting flamed left and right by all these ripe-rear end smelling beardos about a Mandee-Lorean? You gotta make it stop, man!
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Ray executive produces The Book of Boba Fett, but instead of a tiresome mess of worthless fanservice about nothing, it’s a TV-MA rated erotic comedy aimed at women in the style of Sex and the City, based on a fanfic that Ray drunkenly found one time while looking for cakesitting porn. In order to make it (against the protests of Chapek and the Disney board) Ray first has to beat the entire board of directors at a round of stoned golf, which he does with the help of Lyle and Todd. The show is such a runaway success that George Lucas is inspired to come out of retirement and retake the reins of Star Wars and Ray is made the CEO of Disney. The end.
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"Rey who?" "REY SMUCKLES. AND IT IS TODAY...THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM"
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Nessus posted:Pat at least observes the Forms of friendship. He allows Phillipe to view his fish, even if he is Unwelcome. It basically comes down to “Pat is an rear end in a top hat but that’s because Pat is an rear end in a top hat. Showbiz is an rear end in a top hat because Showbiz is always trying to take advantage of someone”. Everyone knows That Guy who’s a bit intense and a touch conceited, probably with awful opinions, but if you’re in a jam he doesn’t even think, he helps. Showbiz is always “in a jam” and “thinking” of “someone else” named “Showbiz” (hey, he’s not you, so he’s totally putting someone else first). Being an intense dickhead is easier to forgive than being a predatory loser.
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I was all set to agree -- you're not like thrilled that Pat comes to your wedding, but you're not worried you're going to have to hit him with a folding chair at any point, but: Pat has also shot Beef to death. Something to think about at least.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:I was all set to agree -- you're not like thrilled that Pat comes to your wedding, but you're not worried you're going to have to hit him with a folding chair at any point, but: Pat has also shot Beef to death. Something to think about at least. Not on purpose at least!
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Pat has also shot Beef to death. Beef wouldn't be having a wedding if Pat hadn't killed him.
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imagine the outcome of showbiz exchanging words with ramses
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