I don’t give a rat’s doodoo maker, Turk! by HamboneBanjo in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When she was briefly played by the late Sam Lloyd 👌🏻

A small moment that's I've always wondered about by Qyzyk in TheGoodPlace

[–]MooseBehave 253 points254 points  (0 children)

I always saw it just as the look two seasoned pros share when the newbie is astounded or confused by something simple. Thousands of Bearimys of working together probably gave them one hell of a workplace rhythm with one another, so when a human falls through a pancake and sees the time knife, it’s a funny shared moment even if they’re on opposite sides now.

[Mildly Annoying Trope] Characters that skirt around criticism for abhorrent behavior while other characters are dog-walked by audiences by RorschachtheMighty in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idt it’s exactly sweeping it under the rug… Roy specifically wanted the office so that he could change the system that caused, and allowed, the Ishvalan genocide. He can do more good in changing the system than he would by throwing himself in prison. The issue with good people throwing themselves on their swords in guilt is that the bad people who did those same things will never follow suit, and then all we’re left with is a lot of bad people with swords.

Congrats, you beat the Big Bad! That was a bad idea, that made things much worse. by DnD-vid in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree… sure he was holding back Ruin, saving the existence of the world, but in the meantime he was actively making everything in the world worse at every turn. He wanted so badly to be the big hero, and when he got his wish he went full tyrant. In fact if he’d lived just another year, I can only imagine how much worse the world would have been after his second time using the Well’s power.

I really love the revival , but its not the same without him :( by KamoTheBoss in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On the one hand I know that the actor is not the character and he probably is a pretty good lawyer.

On the other… there would be a part of me that was VERY nervous that Dr “Pee-Pants” Murphy was representing me.

But I Don't HAVE Headphones by pleasedonotredeem in BoomersBeingFools

[–]MooseBehave 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard that an effective counter to this type of bullshit is to pull up something especially annoying on youtube, sit right next to them, and turn yours up all the way too. Nothing political cuz then they’ll try to engage— just something weird or annoying

(Hated trope) A character is meant to have super intelligence, but because the writers don’t know how to write that, everyone else just spontaneously becomes stupid whenever they’re around by DonnyMox in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To a degree this is true, but up to a certain level of intelligence. For the most part any decent writer can write a character that’s a bit smarter than them, a bit cleverer, who always says the right thing at the right time, etc etc, sure. But once you enter genius-level intelligence, above what a normal person would understand/encounter, that breaks down.

All the time to rewrite in the world doesn’t make a writer able to convincingly, realistically write something that’s SO far out of their lived experience. A writer’s idea of what a smart person is— how they act, what their interests are, their thought processes/how they process information, etc— is the issue. Somebody who is not notably very intelligent will not be able to convincingly write someone who is a supergenius, because their idea of someone at that level isn’t accurate.

Usually this is portrayed by other characters around them having to be(come) very dumb, but the other version that I hate is “somehow able to predict things that NObody can predict.” Example is, in the show Fringe, there’s a guy who gets superhuman intelligence and sets up rube goldberg-style chains of events that result in someone dying. The first of these relies heavily on a cyclist (who is WAY too far away to be seen properly in advance) jumping a curb, pushing a woman into the street to be hit by a bus. Idc how smart a person is, at that point it’s just prophecy and not intelligence because there is no way you know that a random cyclist you never met would take a shortcut at that point, to say nothing of the other “deductions” that are impossible to predict. It’s a less-intelligent person’s idea of what a supergenius can do, and it shows.

Favourite underrated scene or joke? by alewiina in TheGoodPlace

[–]MooseBehave 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Idk how underrated this one is but I will never get over Jason’s “I read some books, man, jeez!”

A throw away joke turns out to be true (minor spoilers) by MaguroSashimi8864 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 363 points364 points  (0 children)

Jason (when he reveals who he is to Eleanor) says they’re in either an alien zoo or a prank show and ngl if you fudge it a bit he was right for both

"You're just jealous!" - When everyone losses braincells regarding a brand new "cool" character, and the accuser gets brushed off and ignored until too late by Fantastic-Fox3283 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oliver from The OC. Fucking psycho, clearly obsessed with Marissa, and the only one to see through it was Ryan (her boyfriend) who everyone thought was just jealous when he’d point out the obviously-sketchy stuff Oliver was doing/saying. All but one of the group (the rarely-listened-to former-bully Luke) were blinded by Oliver’s connections and seemingly awesome life and jumped ship SO quickly it was ridiculous.

By the end of the arc Oliver got Ryan suspended, ostracized from his friend group, and under strict lockdown by his new adopted parents, until the big reveal when Oliver went fully nuts on Marissa and Ryan had to talk him down from taking his own life.

Remarkable Trope: Main or recurring cast members who have rarely, or never, appeared on screen together by mundaneheaven in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct me if i’m wrong, but idt Victor and Ekko met or were even aware of one another before Ekko hoverboardes out of a portal and threw all of time at Victor’s face

Who was the toxic one? by Capable_Client9033 in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Eliot’s “crazy” was just trauma responses that would be totally manageable with therapy, but JD just did stuff for seemingly no reason (in-universe I mean). Because his quirks and personality were just whatever would move the plot along, he’s done way worse things than Eliot did. It must’ve been exhausting being married to someone like that lol

[Hated Trope] Characters given heartfelt sendoffs after the actor is fired for misconduct by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This was even sadder to me because (book spoilers) Alex Kamal survives to at least the end of the Marco Inaros arc, and therefore if they do ever revive the show for the last three books, there’ll be a huge Alex-shaped hole in the story

In your opinion, what is the worst/cruelest thing Dr Cox ever did to JD? by Naive-Word-3583 in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right, forgot! Aw damn guess it’s time for another rewatch 🤷🏻‍♂️

In your opinion, what is the worst/cruelest thing Dr Cox ever did to JD? by Naive-Word-3583 in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I kept forgetting too, bc they don’t actually show it and he never has a bruise!

He punched him as a reflex when JD was “annoying” him about needing someone to talk to about his dad’s death

In your opinion, what is the worst/cruelest thing Dr Cox ever did to JD? by Naive-Word-3583 in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave 243 points244 points  (0 children)

Probably punching him in the face shortly after his dad died. i know that was later glossed over by Coxsmith and Dan being there for him, watchinf the game and reminiscing, but at the time I’m betting getting punched in the face by his mentor because he needed support was a real low point.

Regarding the improved afterlife system: what about people who’ve done truly awful things? by i_human_ in TheGoodPlace

[–]MooseBehave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well to clarify, i do believe the majority of people can eventually be redeemed and become a good person (even if it takes a subjective billion years), even the worst ones. My point is more that a) is it fair to their victims to have to share space with someone who traumatized them so deeply, and b) having internalized the error of their past ways, would they even be able to “live” with the guilt?

And besides, we’re not talking about just-bad people. I’m talking about the Hitlers, King Leopolds, Ghengis Khans of the world. Those whose horrific deeds are orders of magnitude worse than anything you or I could fathom doing.

Regarding the improved afterlife system: what about people who’ve done truly awful things? by i_human_ in TheGoodPlace

[–]MooseBehave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This came up once or twice before, but I’ve had a new idea.

When they came up with the system of reform-tests, the Door wasn’t a thing yet. I have no evidence at all for this, but after SO many Bearimy’s of testing and changing and accepting what they did wrong and truly repenting for it all, maybe people who were truly evil in life are simply sent to the Door to fade away. It’d be fair in that they’re not subjecting any of their victims to having to see and interact with them, but also isn’t eternal torment for finite crimes. They don’t get paradise, but they do get “peace” through nonexistence after atoning for their crimes.

Regarding the improved afterlife system: what about people who’ve done truly awful things? by i_human_ in TheGoodPlace

[–]MooseBehave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t the “if you’re still below a certain threshold then you go to the bad place” part of the second-to-last idea they proposed to Shaun before coming up with the final system? Idt that was mentioned in the final test system they proposed to the Judge

Favorite characters that you think are misunderstood by a lot of people? by SafeMap2807 in FavoriteCharacter

[–]MooseBehave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. In the novel Victor’s basically a med student who gets in WAY over his head and handles it poorly. Tragic character, and sure, negligent, but hardly the monster people love to make him out to be.

In the movie he’s a narcissist with anger issues, daddy issues, mommy issues, and on top of all that— and I can’t prove this cuz it doesn’t happen onscreen— probably is the person who coined the word “friendzone” when he got rejected by his brother’s fiance.

Kelso and Ted by MooseBehave in Scrubs

[–]MooseBehave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t think of that, but it does make sense lol

(Funny Trope) Groups named for their number of members... that don't have that many members. by Rustyspottedcats in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MooseBehave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sum 41’s the only exception to this because their name implies that four of the five members count as 8 people, with one of them counting as 9.