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Discussion (141) - “Faceplanted”
Blibdoolpoolp
‘Ullo
Thag Simmons
‘Ullo ‘ullo
Agemegos
What’s all this, then?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Shouldn’t it be “‘Ello ‘Ello ‘Ello – wot’s all this ‘ere then?” ;D
Needfuldoer
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag!
Casi
‘Ullo, feel like a spot of tea and a crumpet?
Felix
‘Allo, ‘allo! is a British sitcom television series created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, and originally broadcast on BBC One. The sitcom focuses on the life of a café owner in the French town of Nouvion, during the German occupation of France in the Second World War, who has to deal with problems caused by a dishonest German officer, a local French Resistance leader, a stolen painting, and a pair of trapped British airmen, while concealing from his wife the secret affairs he is having with his waitresses.
Wholly recommend.
maarvarq
Thanks to the Monty Python sketch Dead Bishop, I can’t hear that phrase without ‘Amen’ on the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_v1dIvYgw&ab_channel=python_towers
True Survivor
Top of the morning, to ya! (Literally).
Ana Chronistic
“I’m even wearing the BOWTIE!“
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I wear a bowtie. Bowties are cool now. 😀
Someguy
He’s the one who ends Bart?
PirateTawnee
Sideshow Bob HATES him!
Sirksome
Bleh. I don’t care for Jason. He doesn’t deserve to know two girls banged.
EpochFlame
I doubt he’s going to care, really.
Yotomoe
I do care for Jason. He doesn’t deserve to know two girls banged.
True Survivor
I admit Jason has serous flaws, but I like him, partially because of those flaws. I mean an ambitious, overly formal, stuck up nerd with a history of inappropriate sexual relations. Its a unique, interesting take on the typical trope a character like that would inhabit.
I also like that he or at least his family is implied to be very important but so far he largely remained a solid B cast character, only showing up periodically and forever trapped just at the periphery of the main plot.
Sirksome
Ambitious? I wish Jason were ambitious! I don’t care for him not in that I hate him (Although he was debateably racist to Sal assuming she associated with thugs purely based on her appearance) I literally just don’t care about what he’s doing. He’s uninteresting. The guys in general don’t have much going on in this comic and he has the least.
Thag Simmons
Jason’s a bit of a shit sometimes and a terrible teacher, but he’s not that bad and honestly seems like a decent bartender
Sirksome
I guess he can be kind of entertaining when a funny character like a Walky is nearby for him to interact with.
C.T. Phipps
I will never let go of my Jason and Walky ship.
Needfuldoer
Jason works best when he’s countering absurdity with snark and subtle humor.
Kind of like James May.
Rabid Rabbit
The thing about Jason is that he’s instinctively a terrible person, but he wants to be a good one. When he makes an inappropriate comment to one of his students, he immediately apologizes. He’s an awful teacher, but he really hopes he’s a good one, and tries, in the worst possible way, to get advice on how to be better. He has an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student, but 1) while that initial comment of his made it clear that it was an option to Sal, he didn’t technically initiate it, 2) he then refused to let it influence his grading decisions, and 3) when he was inadvertently called on it by someone who thought they were just slandering them, he just instantly let his job go, even though it still seems weird that he couldn’t have got away with it.
He’s not a very good person, but he’s aware of it, and he wishes he was one. And how many characters are there like that in this? Mike was aware he was awful, but the fact he got away with it just reinforced his nihilism. Malaya is aware of it, except that she refuses to view it that way. Amber is aware of her faults, but, well, overly so, shall we say. Ruth is aware, but both her awareness and her behavior are so tied up in her depression that it’s hard to establish a parallel. Sarah is an awful person with a complicated relationship with her occasional very nice instincts. And so on.
Though of course, it’s partly because being a good person would be another way of getting away from his terrible father. Which makes him not so different from everyone else in this comic with terrible parents.
Jason
Given what little we know of Jason’s awful father it could be that the poor instincts are the things he’s been taught and his efforts are part of him trying to shake that off and be better. Which, like just about everyone in the cast, would be more effective with a good therapist, but hey ho. IF that theory is correct it also shows that his nature is to strive to improve and be a decent person and that it’s actively coming up against his nurture.
This is all theorising from a single (I think?) throwaway line which implied (iirc) that his father was both very powerful and… very not a great person.
Needfuldoer
That’s how the elder Chesterfield was in the old Walkyverse, and we’ve had no indication he’s much different here. He’s probably not a “volcano lair supervillain” anymore, but he’s probably a powerful business magnate or a higher-up in a London guild or something.
Chris (the other one)
Sorry, here’s an e for that word. If he uses ‘ullo, then you naturally need to use shite…
Segnosaur
I may be in the minority but I am not totally convinced Jason is a “terrible teacher”.
There have been 2 notable failures… Sal and Walky.
Yes, he should not have had an affair with Sal. But, he was not the instigator AND he made sure it did not affect the way he graded her papers. And while she did do better under Danny’s tutoring, she still improved a little under Jason before Danny came along.
The other failure was Walky, but given his ADHD and general lazyness it is hard to imagine anyone getting through to him.
On the other hand, he did actually have an interest in doing a good job (even if he can’t figure out how), and was willing to give direct help to Walky. And we don’t have any sort of indication that he did a bad job with less problematic students (I e. Those without ADHD, or with a more normal academic background.)
Plus, he is a student/T.A. not a tenured professor. It makes sense someone would be less than perfect at that point.
Thag Simmons
We have two notable failures consisting of many smaller failures, which also represent the totality of our exposure to Jason’s teaching methods. Jason has terrible instincts for it and when he doesn’t immediately succeed writes it off as a lost cause, and while I find that quite relatable and really wish I didn’t, it is not the sign of a good teacher
Spencer
Yeah I think it’s less that Sal and Walky are our only examples so much as they’re the examples the series has given us to show What Jason Is Like As A Teacher.
BBCC
They’re also the only ones we know Jason taught. We don’t know anyone else he was responsible for teaching. He wasn’t teaching the whole class, only students who came to him, of which we only know about Sal and Walky.
Andy
My feelings on Jason are irrelevant. No one deserves to know the sex life of anyone they are not dating.
C.T. Phipps
Jason would undoubtedly agree, which makes it doubly funny.
The Wellerman
So there actually IS a chance Carla’s gonna tell Joyce?!?! ?
They better hurry!!!
*plays “Danger Pikachu” on Hacked Muzak*
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Carla will only be able to tell Joyce IF they can work out which one Joyce is! 😉
Needfuldoer
Therefore the logical answer is to tell everyone. She’s bound to tell Joyce just by pure chance eventually, right?
Blue
You’ve channeled Carla perfectly.
jackiedu46k
My Game Theory is that joyce will find out, not through becky and dina, but will just not be in a State to care that much about it so she won’t bring it up to them. They will however feel like sly little foxes who got away with it.
Nono
So is Jason on payroll, or does he just kinda show up and empty the tip jar every now and then? Because I don’t think Pamela is as incompetent as Galasso and I think she’s the one that handles the books.
True Survivor
I imagine he is on the payroll. If I remember correctly he needs the job to fulfill requirements on his Visa, which probably takes paperwork.
Also, while it is implied his family is well off, I don’t think he is phoning home for money if only to avoid his father’s anger at his firing. Therefore, he likely requires greater income than stealing tips would provide.
Thag Simmons
Jason’s probably getting paid, but he’s definitely violating his visa
Madock345
I imagine it went something like
Pamela: Who are you?
Jason: New Bartender, Glasso just pointed at me and told me I was hired.
Pamela: Of course he did, let me get the paperwork.
RassilonTDavros
I mean, it is Galasso’s Pizza and Subs, after all.
Keulen
That sounds like how a lot of the new hires probably go at Galasso’s.
Yotomoe
https://i.imgur.com/3sN9pkh.png (NSFW)
Alright I’ll be honest I feel like the buildup is a LITTLE weak but I feel like this part had been going on kinda long.
Story so far
https://imgur.com/a/9Ob1cy3 (NSFW)
The Wellerman
? LOVE IT bruh!!! A perfectly explosive climax!!! ?
Bagge
Wow! This one was just hot
Sirksome
I don’t think Walky shares your thoughts on the “buildup”.
Rose by Any Other Name
Very nice.
So, kinda curious – will there be a round 2, and will it involve condoms?
deathjavu
Entirely believable that Jennifer has them on hand, given her partying history. Not sure I buy that Walky could plan that far ahead and that optimistically.
Yotomoe
*Knowing smile*
Needfuldoer
Roz dumped an entire box of them into her room way back near the beginning of the comic.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/late/
aelfwine
Suggestion. The “put your money where your mouth is” line, feels a wasted opportunity for a pun since they are talking about oral sex.
“Put your mouth where your mouth is?” perhaps?
Yotomoe
Haha yeah honestly I don’t like a lot of the dialogue so far. Most of it’s gonna get refined later.
alongcameaspider
I get the feeling this is going to go similarly to when Joyce found out about Jason and Ruth
GeekyWarrior
Becky already knows about Jason and Ruth. She made some comment that if a dude makes her happy then it beats the alternative
alongcameaspider
I had honestly forgotten about that
Doctor_Who
Jason is basically the Rung of this universe, isn’t he? Nobody ever remembers him.
True Survivor
Who is Rung? (This question is not meant as a joke, I actually have no idea who that character is or what is from but am curious about it).
Doctor_Who
A character from Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (an excellent comic, and one that DoA has referenced a couple of times).
Rung is a skinny dude like Jason, considerably less wacky than most of the cast, receives no respect, and has a tendency to be forgotten entirely, even by people who know him well.
True Survivor
Thanks.
Stephen Bierce
And to feed THAT OTHER multi-year running gag I have involving David Willis-created comics, since it’s the season:
“*Scenes of marbles racing around a track*
ANNOUNCER: The pack is now moving on from the chicane to the roundabout before the home stretch and everybody’s bringing 110%…
ANNOUNCER: Darkwing and Scud are taking the fight to Quickie and Stink-Eye…
ANNOUNCER: Rokky Topp of the O’Rangers and Tarr Heel of the Kobalts are trying to open a breakaway…
ANNOUNCER: And at the line—The Champion of the Shortpacked! Five Hundred for Twenty Twenty-Two—
The cast of Shortpacked!, who aren’t doing much of anything. The kids and parents who’ve been watching the demo are cheering.
ANNOUNCER (FAZ): —Barbie of the Pretty Pinkies.”
My brother is a big fan of Marble League.
The Wellerman
Oooo! MARBLES!!! ?
Hmm… maybe I’ll make a game about DOA roller derby one day….
Clif
On one team you’ve got Amazigirl, Sal and a reasonably competent Malaya. How are you going to get a balanced game out of that?
I guess you could blow off playability and go for full on fan service. That might work.
Segnosaur
Carla also plays on the team….
Clif
Even more one-sided.
Anon A Mouse
Besides Dina, is there ANYONE Becky isn’t a jerk to? There can’t be more than 10 people who work at Galasso’s Pizza (And Subs) and it looks like he’s wearing his work outfit.
anonymsly
Nope. Not a single person.
Suet
Yep, looks like Ruth to me.
*plays PSY’s “New Face” on Jason’s bowtie*
It is not certain that they won’t be tired of bragging, but I want them to meet their match/es.
Sirksome
Just to keep tally here the people who know about Becky and Dina smashing now include:
Roz
Carla
Amber
Dorothy
and potentially soon at least Ruth and possibly Jason
All this assuming no one heard them initially shouting this loud enough for Amber at least to hear it from the other room and again loud enough to startle her. Or anyone Carla might blab to in passing wnile specifically searching for Joyce. Yeah Joyce is gonna find out if she doesn’t somehow already know.
khn0