Chekhov’s Gun Show
on March 6, 2017
at 12:01 am
Chapter: Monkey Business
Characters: Bounce Otter, Charity Cheeger, Drezzer Wolf, Langley Lupina, Parker Peacock, Roxie Fox, Rufo Redwolf
Location: beach
Sheesh, leave Bounce out of an issue and he suddenly hulks out.
This page has the most oblique of Love Hina references, so obscure that it hardly even counts. “The Bouncer and the Bird” was inspired by “Beauty and Blade.” I’m amazed that even I get it.
-The Gneech
WOOO! Go Parker! come out of that shell! *claps!*
Love the sacrifice Parker is making for Charity. She has always treated him with respect, and now he’s repaying it tenfold.
I suspect it will turn out to be 10,000 fold.
Nah. Well, maybe. Okay, definitely. LOL.
Hee, hee…forgot about Bounce Otter, but for Parker…..I called it. 😀
And thus we get a reminder that a male peacock’s plumage is meant to attract potential mates.
Oh, and also a reminder as to why Bounce works in his namesake profession. Otter of few words and many MANY muscles. Huh, wonder if Rufo’s ever tried to hit that.
Holy smokes, Parker…
… man, I’m actually crying here, seeing these two step up. They HAD to have heard Charity going to bat for them against Leonard, and decided to repay the kindness. It’s just so AWESOME to see!
I wouldn’t call Leonard an adversary (as in, going “against” him). He just wants his his business venture to succeed, AND he doesn’t want Charity to ruin her life over it. He’s a good guy; Charity just has to prove herself to him.
Morrison is more of an adversary I think; he only cares about the bottom line and gentrifying Missing Keys.
That’s my take on it anyway; feel free to correct me if I’m wrong Gneech. 🙂
I’d say that was an accurate assessment. But Siraj’s point also applies– within the context of Leonard and Charity’s argument, Leonard’s position of “sell the bar and get out” is a lot less friendly to the Rough Housers than Charity’s position of “find a way to make it work.” 🙂
-TG
That’s pretty much the angle I was after. It’s less ‘adversarial’, more that Leonard expected certain things, and a lack of communication on both sides led to the argument in the first place. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that Leonard is giving Charity that leeway on three fronts: One, he knows her, intimately, and knows she wouldn’t just throw away an opportunity. Two, the fact that she was willing to put everything on the line for the REST of the Rough House showed great character and that there was more to it than met the eye. Three, Drezzer’s involved as a judge. Knowing Drezzer as he does, even despite the “conflict of interest” (and I still call bunk on that, Gneech, I’m sorry, but that really was the wrong phrasing there), he’s always been known to be fair and even-handed, so win or lose, he’d give Charity and company a fair shake and put aside the prior relationship.
uh yay! go parker! go bouncer!