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PaybackJack posted:No, that was totally on Ern. poo poo was obviously some kind of scam and he walked right into it. Ern walked into that one too. It's his dumb pride that leads him to instigate a fistfight with Tracy who is a foot taller than him and built like a boxer.
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I love that Donald Glover writes and produces a show where his own character is consistently marginalized and emasculated, and it's his fault just as often as not
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Apr 27, 2018 19:42
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That running punch from Tracy cracked me the gently caress up.
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Apr 27, 2018 22:28
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I still can't get over the tiki torch joke
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Apr 27, 2018 22:46
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Don't know if I'll ever hear Laffy Taffy the same way again
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Apr 29, 2018 17:17
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man that statesboro name drop got me excited
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Apr 29, 2018 20:32
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Ern is dumb as hell
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Apr 29, 2018 21:27
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sudo rm -rf posted:man that statesboro name drop got me excited I lived there for a bit as well!
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Apr 29, 2018 21:35
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statesboro is the closes bastion of civilization to where i live so hearing it mentioned was cool
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Apr 29, 2018 21:55
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I loved there in the early 2000s, went back a couple years ago when visiting Savannah. They have a Buffalo Wild Wings now! Mall still sucks.
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Apr 30, 2018 00:37
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prom candy posted:Ern is dumb as hell Intelligence is knowing what the root of the word "manager" is. Wisdom is knowing that no matter how fired up you are, you are not going to be able to kick Tracy's rear end or beat Michael Vick in a footrace.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:23
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TheBizzness posted:I loved there in the early 2000s, went back a couple years ago when visiting Savannah. i don't know about a mall, but i do know about the small little disappointed they didn't actually shoot it in statesboro, because nothing here looks remotely like what they used in the show. also ern is dumb as hell for trying to mess with tracy. i've known dudes just like him, and going down that road is a bad idea. either you learn to live with a guy like tracy, or you take yourself somewhere else
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Apr 30, 2018 14:29
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Serf posted:i don't know about a mall, but i do know about the small I mean... as a manager you're trying to maintain the image of your client and in no way is having your security push women down the stairs doing it. Though also he coulda just gotten the 150 dollar hotel room for everyone loving dumbass
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Apr 30, 2018 14:41
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Veskit posted:I mean... as a manager you're trying to maintain the image of your client and in no way is having your security push women down the stairs doing it. oh there's no doubt this is all ern's fault, but i mean more like how poo poo rolls right off tracy where it matters: with regards to paper boi. it's a dynamic i've seen a lot where no matter how bad this one dude fucks up, he's in good with the guy in charge. i love tracy because the actor playing him pulls off that careful balance of funny and infuriating for the viewpoint character of ern.
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Apr 30, 2018 14:52
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Serf posted:oh there's no doubt this is all ern's fault, but i mean more like how poo poo rolls right off tracy where it matters: with regards to paper boi. it's a dynamic i've seen a lot where no matter how bad this one dude fucks up, he's in good with the guy in charge. i love tracy because the actor playing him pulls off that careful balance of funny and infuriating for the viewpoint character of ern. It's not all Ern's fault. It's ultimately ern's fault, sure. He was too drat cheap in the pursuit of chasing a few extra bucks. But he was running damage control best as he was capable (not very) from before poo poo even went bad. To his credit he realized Tracy was a huge liability before they even left. Darius, right as he always is, pegged the nutcase from the beginning. It's amazing the extent people are defending Tracy because "it was Ern who hosed up". Anyway, I guarantee this: once he changes managers, PB will regret it sooner or later. This was my favorite episode of the season and possibly the series and I've said that a few times now.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's not all Ern's fault. It's ultimately ern's fault, sure. He was too drat cheap in the pursuit of chasing a few extra bucks. But he was running damage control best as he was capable (not very) from before poo poo even went bad. To his credit he realized Tracy was a huge liability before they even left. Darius, right as he always is, pegged the nutcase from the beginning. It's amazing the extent people are defending Tracy because "it was Ern who hosed up". Anyway, I guarantee this: once he changes managers, PB will regret it sooner or later. i don't even think ern hosed up. he just set this whole chain of events in motion by booking the gig and cheaping out on the hotel room (seriously its statesboro, a hotel room here is like $40/night when its not graduation season). but ironically the best decision he could have made would be to not get in tracy's way and let him kill/seriously injure a girl and then watch him go down in flames. Of course it is statesboro, so there's a decent chance they'd all wind up in jail just for being with him. but definitely don't fight him, geez.
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Ern is prideful to a fault and I think we might even actually all agree on that. Trustworthy too, and I think if he hadn't had his day ruined by Tracy's gift card scheme before this would have just been a bad day's retreat rather than a disastrous rout. It's an insanely good show and I've been thinking on it a bunch since last episode lol.
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Apr 30, 2018 16:26
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Tracy is a huge gently caress up and a liability to the group, but that doesn't erase the fact that Ern isn't very good at his job, and that Alfred would be better off with a professional.
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Apr 30, 2018 19:54
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Let’s not let PB completely off the hook, he also has made some poor decisions so that he can “keep it real.”
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Apr 30, 2018 20:09
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darius is the only one who is truly perfect and pure
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Apr 30, 2018 20:11
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I think if Alfred switched over to a professional, they'd drop him as soon as he blew another gig or commercial because he didn't want to play along. Even after his time in the woods he's still more interested in having a brawl in a college dorm than just doing the smart thing. There's a read on the Barbershop episode that it was supposed to be a condensed version of Earn and Alfred's relationship. Yeah, Earn's a mess who drags Alfred along on weird misadventures and almost gets him in trouble with the law, but if Alfred drops Earn he'd be lost.
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Good Will Hrunting posted:darius is the only one who is truly perfect and pure darius is obviously the best of the bunch but let's not pretend that ern, paper boi or even tracy would have stuck around for more than ten seconds after seeing teddy perkins' face
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Apr 30, 2018 20:16
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Serf posted:i don't know about a mall, but i do know about the small yeah the immediate give-away was 'statesboro' not being completely flat
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Apr 30, 2018 20:50
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It was just a perfect storm of bad decisions and even if they could have avoided the Tracy incident, something else would have come up from the crazy girl and drink.
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Apr 30, 2018 21:50
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That shot of Ern and Paperboi sitting on a couch smoking weed, staring down rows of naked frat pledges, while Laffy Taffy plays with the confederate flag as a backdrop is pure gold holy poo poo.
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This season had been lackluster so far (especially the whole gimmick of dedicating one episode per person) but this episode felt like a return to form. Ern was not long for his managerial position and the way that arc culminated with his run-in with Tracey felt cathartic.
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Pussy Quipped posted:That shot of Ern and Paperboi sitting on a couch smoking weed, staring down rows of naked frat pledges, while Laffy Taffy plays with the confederate flag as a backdrop is pure gold holy poo poo. It was basically perfect. lol "I've thought of joining the NRA"
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Deleted scene: https://www.instagram.com/p/BiMyhemDXuV/?utm_source=ig_embed
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lmfao god drat that was amazing. I think the ep was cut basically perfectly as it was and I don't think it would have meshed well with what we got. Are there any blooper compilations of previous episodes?
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There was another Darius moment in this episode when they first arrive at the dorms and he hops up on the picnic table as part of his path to the door. It made me smile because it was so natural, like when he was skipping home from the party at Drake's. I think little stuff like that makes me enjoy Darius even more, because Lakeith makes it seem so instinctive. They're like things a little kid does partly because they're fun but also because kids are constantly testing and defining their own limitations. "Can I balance on this curb?" "Can I jump and reach this sign?" The writers and Stanfield have done a great job at showing Darius as this zen-like dude who is always exploring the nature of his reality and his curiosity greatly outweighs his caution or the cynicism of everyone around him. That's why I could totally believe him sticking around with Teddy. Sure, he probably really did want that piano, but I also think he just wanted to see where things were going to go. Also I loved the "I've been thinking of joining the NRA" callback to last season at the gun range. :-)
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I think if Alfred switched over to a professional, they'd drop him as soon as he blew another gig or commercial because he didn't want to play along. Even after his time in the woods he's still more interested in having a brawl in a college dorm than just doing the smart thing. I really don’t think Al would be lost at all without Earn, if he had a real manager. It doesn’t seem like they were that close before Earn showed back up.
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Al has been consistently on about "keeping it real" which will likely drive professional management loving nuts, and I doubt he'll take to playing the games that he'll be asked to play.
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May 2, 2018 02:55
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Al would also probably alienate Clark County's manager considering he doesn't really like Clark County it seems.
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Earn's biggest failure is he can't keep Paper Boi supplied with weed. All he needs to be chill is weed and you end up in a confederate frat house with a bunch of naked dancing white guys instead.
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For what it's worth he's still getting Paperboi pretty much all the same gigs as Clark County too. The only big miss that we know of was that he didn't get to do a track for Black Panther, but even in-universe it doesn't seem like they'd pick someone with a harsher image. He's not getting him free stuff, but that's also because Paperboi didn't want to play the Instagram game. Earn's screwing up a lot by still being stuck in a broke mindset, but Paperboi keeps blowing opportunities too.
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We definitely dont know if Clark County gets gigs other than the ones Paperboi appears at, so Ern could very well not be getting all the same gigs as Clark County's management....
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May 2, 2018 19:08
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he didn't get him that yoohoo commercial, we know that much. clark county's an industry plant though.
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prom candy posted:he didn't get him that yoohoo commercial, we know that much. oh most definitely
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Little Earn sounds like Adult Earn. "Cool, Rush Hour soundtrack"!  "The internet is not a source." Vernacular posted:This season had been lackluster so far (especially the whole gimmick of dedicating one episode per person) but this episode felt like a return to form. Ern was not long for his managerial position and the way that arc culminated with his run-in with Tracey felt cathartic. I have some bad news. We're in another isolated episode and we're...wait, Fubu? Jesus, this takes place in the early 2000s? The 2000s are filter-worthy now?  We're old.  e- WHY DID THEY DELETE THE SCENE POSTED ABOVE FROM INSTAGRAM? I busted out laughing and it instantly would've been memorable. 
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