New Year's Day 2024

Dec 30, 2023 00:34

The one where Mike ties up traffic while making a stupid grand gesture.

Synopsis: As they drive home, simpering about missing one another leads to Mike and Rhetta stopping to go to first base in the middle of the street and causing a traffic jam.

Summary: If you're gonna do that, park someplace, you git!!!!

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howtheduck December 30 2023, 06:06:08 UTC


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dreadedcandiru2 December 30 2023, 06:16:49 UTC
He doesn't know how to process the emotions of other people. This is because of that zero sum thing dinned into him by a mother and father who think that emotions that get in their way need not be admitted to.

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howtheduck December 30 2023, 06:21:38 UTC

Ultimately what we are leading up to is Mike's later comments about how he does not want to be tied down to Rhetta because he has barely dated anyone outside of Milborough. He might be able to process Rhetta's feelings, but his feelings do not match hers.

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dreadedcandiru2 December 30 2023, 06:29:30 UTC
What happens next is sadly predictable given how little Mike really bothers to understand how people behave:

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jjamele December 31 2023, 14:10:07 UTC


Watch 10:18 to 10:48 of TheraminTrees' excellent take on "the poisonous parent." It's Elly- and probably Lynn.

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dreadedcandiru2 December 31 2023, 23:08:37 UTC

This is why she avoids therapists. They tell her that she's to blame.

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dreadedcandiru2 January 1 2024, 08:11:40 UTC
Stupid strip speaks for itself and cannot hear the ticking of biological clocks.

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