>Doug loses his journal>Roger is the one that found it>Returns it but makes a joke about how he can't even read it because of how shitty and illegible it wasThis guy was more based than I remembered. Roger probably could read it but just didn't give a FUCK what was in the journal. Roger could've just burned it, defaced the interior with his own notes making fun of Doug or just not even return it at all.Roger probably thought Doug was super conceited for even thinking he would.
>>150753635Doug would be an incel school shooter who would lose his shit when Patty turns him down
>>150753635It doesn't seem in-character for Roger to lie about something that doesn't benefit him
>>150753635Guy makes cartoon about childhood Makes real person a bullyYears later meets said person and apologizes, said person didn't even care he was portrayed as a bully
>>150753635Its funny to me because it always feels like Roger is trying to be Doug's friend when I watch the show. His scheme's are pretty harmless, its not like he is kicking Doug's ass or anything.
>>150753719Yes, Doug is supposed to be worrying about nothing and is frankly kind of a wimp. This is true about every problem he encounters.
>>150753635Roger was just a poor kid who didn't know how to interact with an autist but still tried to socialize with the guy. He's alright.
>>150753736Yeah. Doug takes things 100% too seriously. Patty invites Doug to her birthday, just casually mentioned she is going to have liver and onions. Doug hates it, but since it's Patty forces himself to eat it like he's trying to build an immunity. Goes to the party, Patty was just joking with him. No, she obviously isn't going to serve liver and onions at a God damn kids party.
>>150753635Doug was a fucking pussy, this show was pro-bullying. I wanted to beat the shit out of Doug as a kid and I was a victim.
>>150753679>Years later meets said person and apologizes, said person didn't even care he was portrayed as a bullywhy would he? the bully was literally married to his crush lmao
>>150753660he's just like me frfr
>>150753786>this show was pro-bullyingTrue, Doug wouldn't even have existed if the creator hadn't been bullied
>>150753635Everybody love meYou ain't messin' with my doug!Teach me how to dougTeach me, teach me how to doug
>>150753679>>150753804
>>150753635Roger was a nicer guy than he gets credit for. He even helped organize Doug's surprise one year anniversary in Bluffington party. By the end of the series they're more or less friends that talk shit to each other. Roger is also a guy who's a "bully" mostly because he thinks it's funny fucking with people, rather than out of extreme sadism or anything.
>>150753635>>150753719Over the course of the series there's a general progression where Doug and Roger become friends, I'm pretty sure this was one of the turning points. In the last season there's stuff like Roger inviting Doug to his birthday party and in the finale Roger and Doug work together and Roger confides in Doug that he's afraid to graduate because of what the new school might be like. It's actually one of the neater aspects of the show.
>>150753635One of the most subtle fucking things on this wacky show about technicolor people with goofy mannerisms and a soundtrack made entirely of a guy's voice going 'doo doo doo', is that the bully is actually a well-meaning guy who just sees a wimpy kid and wants to guide him to grow the fuck up, but because his father left him, he has no fucking idea how to do that properly, so he almost always makes it worse. And Doug is also JUST barely too wimpy to ever accept that kind of guidance. and HIS dad is like, the softest dad in all of TV. Basically useless.>>150753768it makes you wonder what his life was like in Bloatsburg, if this is what he assumes about everyone he meets. Maybe they moved for a REASON.I know in the Disney show, we got to see his old best friend from Bloatsburg (even though they periodically fucked up the continuity so it seemed like the Funnies had lived in Bluffington for years), and he was a fucking chumbucket, so...
>>150753635Yeah that was the joke for damn near every Doug episode. Doug was in his own head way too damn much and (ironically) had MC syndrome, so every episode was him making mountains out of molehills. The writers played it straight as the joke. Then for some reason in later seasons and on Disney seasons the whole thing became unironic.It's like if current internet humor somehow cycled back into serious business and everyone started being dead serious about the most trivial memes and acting on them IRL.
>>150754012Are you saying that Roger and I are the only anons with green skin?
>>150754012yeah but it's more than that.. A lot of episodes are about Doug assuming people who are generally friendly to him will blow up at him, but with Roger, that's actually valid... sort of. This was a genuine surprise to the viewer, that he's not gonna try to tease him or anything. In the end, Beebe is a much worse person.
>>150754050Off top my headDoug has a generic superman OC Quail ManLiterally Doug with a towel and belt on his head Skeete oh kool my character is Dilver surfer OC with the power of everything Doug does the most Chris Chan sperg about how his OC can't he stronger than his OCSkeeter "dude I thought we were just having fun"
>>150754092Yeah that's maybe one of my favorites due to Doug's tism, especially because Quail Man is just so lame. (Not that the Silver Skeet is amazing either)
>>150754092Anon I liked that episode too, but I have no idea how that pertains to the current discussion. That was a rare case of an episode NOT being about Doug inflating things in his head. Instead it was about two nerds with very different ideas about what constitutes a good comic book, trying to collab. One actually cares about integrity, the other just wants silver age silliness.
>>150753635>imagines himself as a superhero wearing literal tighty whitiesDoug was such a loser
>>150754162He probably heard "oh super heroes wear underpants outside their suits" once and took it way too literally, forgetting aesthetics entirely.
>>150754147Sorry anon. Truth is I don't think about Doug. This thread is popping off small little member berries of Doug in my head that I'm posting.
>>150753719>its not like he is kicking Doug's ass or anything.Remember there is an episode when an actual bully joins the school, and he beats up Roger on a daily basis.Doug tries to stop him, making the bully beat him instead.
>>150754147>that was a rare case of an episode NOT being about Doug inflating things in his headI don't recall that happening much, besides the fat episode
>>150754147Doug, its been 40 years. This is a Filipino basket weaving forum. You can stop.
>>150754177Was Doug autistic?
>>150754239Doug is a spectrum unto himself.
>>150754239If you asked him about Quail Man, he like some of /co/, tumblr, etc would have a laundry list of linear lore details that he could rattle off.
>>150754177i got the impression Doug made the costume himself out of shit around the house, and was so enamored with it, that he drew it -accurately- into his comics, instead of yknow, improving on it.. like he's so imaginative in normal life, but then when he SHOULD be imaginative, he's suddenly sticking to the mundane>>150754221ohhh yeah. that was a good one. and I wanna say all three of them were Billy West.>>150754223oh you>>150754193ahaha, me too. yeah. I think my favorite was when they met the Beets. But I'm super biased because the Beets just fucking rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2P--apBcoQ
>>150754221I vaguely recall that, the bully was related to the principal in some way with some implication he would be physically punished, such behavior was likely what made him a bully in the first place
>>150753804No way this is true he got the girl? I need more info on this cause I knew it was based on a real bully but not the rest lol>>150753679Honestly, why apologize? It's like with eminem's bully if you hate em have the balls to commit to it
>>150754398i don't think we have the whole story, but we know that Patti did meet up with Jim again, and did about as good a job of avoiding leading him on as Patti Mayonnaise did with Doug. It's sad how lonely people are now that women are basically discouraged from being such close friends with guys because we will definitely get the wrong idea.then people joked that Patti's husband was Roger / the guy Roger was based on
Is it just me or have there been a lot of Doug threads lately that have actually been doing pretty well? Is Doug having like a mini-revival in interest or something? I'm kinda down for that if so, I feel like the show was unfairly maligned for a long time.
>>150754458Doug was 'maligned' for the same reason every Daria thread is full of people dogpiling on the character and calling her terriblewe allowed normies onto the internet, and after the tumblring, they outnumber actual 4chan users 2 to 1. and these shows in the 90s were insulting them, so they hate that
>>150753635Roger was always the best character.
>>150753943>BloatsburgGiven the way that Doug reacts to VERY common events and concepts I can only assume that Bloatsburg was some kind of off the grid, Amish type commune. >Hey Doug what kind of music do you like?>What is.... music?I mean I get not everyone's a huge music guy and I wouldn't expect them to name really out there obscure shit but you should at least a song or two off hand.
>>150754577That's a really good point. Obviously the Doylian reason is that a show works better with a character who doesn't know anything so they can explain it to him, but.. It does bring to mind how basically all syndicated shows back then demanded a status quo and little if any discussion of their past.
>>150754498are you fucking stupid? I'm as autistic as they come and even I knew doug was an insufferable faggotfucking nobody likes doug
Doug is the specific reason why I never thought of writing a journal. My thoughts are to myself. A journal seems like a covert way of authority figures wanting you to tell on yourself. I would just out lie if I had the motivation to write one out.
>>150754239Isn't he like 10 or 11 years old? Kids can be very dumb and literal.
>>150754318>like he's so imaginative in normal life, but then when he SHOULD be imaginative, he's suddenly sticking to the mundaneDoug very much strikes me as that kind of "creative" kid who wasn't really all that talented but because he's really young and you want to encourage him you give him some praise just so you don't dash his enthusiasm but then he never actually really improves but nobody else around him has any talent in this area so what little he has kind of goes to his head in a not totally egotistical sense but generally gives him the wrong sense of where is talent level wise. Honestly, there was always very much a sense of self edifying insertion where he wants to be presented as kind of a misunderstood outsider despite having a half dozen friends at any given instance ready to praise him and how talented he thinks he is.
>>150754646That's a good idea. Keep a journal for years, making up cool shit about yourself. Then when you die and your family finds it, they'll think "damn, I never knew he had such a cool secret life banging models and racing motorcycles. He even met Barack Obama."
>>150754660youthful naivete only goes so far.
>150754643God i love when people make my point for me>>15075466011, yeah. Billy West said he based the voice on himself at that age, just really melodramatic and timid. and Fry was himself in his 20s, all whiny and lazy.
>>150754686See when I die I'm gonna leave a journal stating that I buried all my vast fortune a giant W that people will no doubt scramble to find resulting in a series of comedic misadventures and potential felonies. And the only thing they'll find is a use DVD copy of the movie Rat Race.
>>150754686Write normal journal for years and during the span of a few months I end up writing in binary until it looks like I was taken over by a hivemind or pod person. I write in my journal as some weird attempt to keep up appearance knowing no one but myself would read it. Writing plans, and how I was able to infect other people in my school, and even faculty member making sure neither of my parent think they would be targeted. Saved for last because they would give up the game.
>>150754669Seriously, we have a problem in america in particular. Everything kids do is praised, because of the toxic positivity that the culture was infected with starting in the 80s. even as a kid, I realized that CONSTANT praise was meaningless, and only people who like SOME of what you do, but dislike other parts, are telling the truth.>misunderstood outsiderwhen? Doug never seemed like that to me. Nor do I recall his friends praising him often.. just his parents.
>>150754732Just go full itchy tasty.
>>150754690It's been years (decades maybe?) since I've watched Doug, but I do remember certain aspects of Doug's world being weird and cartoonish. Like what the fuck was going on with the cars.Anyway, I could easily see Doug just aping an existing superhero that literally wore their underwear as a costume in the same way.
>>150754728literally nobody here thinks doug is mocking them
>>150754646I also never understood the point of a journal, until I became old enough to start forgetting my own past, and what I used to think at any given time.>>150754731>not the original it's a mad mad mad mad mad worldpartial credit.>>150754755Oh yeah it's a totally bizarre world. That's why that one blog "Doug Funnie is Crazy" is so fucking hilarious. it's written from the POV of someone who doesn't understand it's a cartoon, and thinks every surreal part of the show is Doug's delusions.
>>150754769>>not the original it's a mad mad mad mad mad world>partial credit.That's the joke
>>150754782alright, now that I see by 'use' you meant 'used,' now I get the joke.
>>150754755>Like what the fuck was going on with the cars.Cars are hard to draw.
>>150754799I always liked Doug cars, and to some extent Dragon Ball cars, way better than real life. at least, better than real life in the 21st century. older cars were a lot better.
>>150753635Roger couldn’t read it cause he can’t read cursive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWqKg0qGd8
>>150754451I think it's all about balance, but yeah really think girls need more "real" guy friends to help them out and vice versa. Be less hate between genders and loneliness would go down even if just a bit.Ah ok makes more sense I was like no way that's just crazy
>>150754748Yarp
>>150753635In that season one episode where the Beets first appeared, he really wanted Doug to go with him. I don't think Roger hated Doug. He kinda saw him as a friend; he just liked busting Doug's chops.
>>150753806Is this unironically how /pol/ sees themselves?
>>150754858100%I'm glad my daughter is already way more sane than others in her generation, and I guarantee HER kids are going to be better than what little there is of theirs.>>150754897/pol/ isn't real, anon.
>>150754897are you stupid?
https://youtu.be/JPGrDnPzLkc
>>150754769>it's written from the POV of someone who doesn't understand it's a cartoon, and thinks every surreal part of the show is Doug's delusions.I wouldn't point fingers when you don't understand that he's just taken a piss on something that's very easily pissable. This is going to sound shocking but not everything you read on the internet is intended with full sincerity.
>>150754347He was Mr. Bone's (the vice principal) nephew, so everybody thought he had a "get out of jail" free card in his pocket, thus telling a teacher would only make matters worse.By the end of the episode, when the bully wanted to give Doug an everlasting beat-up, Roger goes to Mr. Bone and he stops the fight, and even expels his nephew because>"I told my sister you were a lost case"Or something among the lines, it was a nice detail that showed Mr. Bone had no issue being strict with even his own family.
I only saw Doug as "whimpy" in the first season. In later seasons, he gets more used to Bluffington which makes him gain more confidence and he stands up for himself more often.
>>150754936fred newman deserves like six fucking grammies
>>150754960oh no, I love the way he pokes fun at the show, but he also clearly does it in a way where "he" is also a fool. that's what makes that blog so funny.>>150754991Mr. Bone was fuckin hilarious. as a kid I thought he was actually voiced by Don Knotts. It's not like that'd be that weird, Don Adams did a voice in Pepper Ann.
What the fuck was Mr. Bone's problem? Seems like he targeted Doug a lot.
>>150754995it's funny, that spelling of 'wimpy' is so obviously wrong, and yet the term almost certainly does derive from 'whimper' or at least from the same root. so it shouldn't seem wrong.>>15075503290s schools in a nutshell. as agents of the government, their primary job is to punish the innocent and protect the guilty.
>>150753635Being young is believing RogerGrowing up is knowing Roger read it and didn't like that Doug saw him as a total asshole and that Doug is more pathetic than him so he takes pity and gives it back.
>>150753719>it always feels like Roger is trying to be Doug's friend when I watch the showThe problem was that Roger was regularly pushing Doug to cheat, steal, or cut corners, and he was dismissive when Doug tried to do the right thing.Like, yeah, he was trying to connect with Doug, but it wasn't the kind of connection that Doug wanted and he was right to be wary of that.
>>150755083You have to wonder what he really thought about always being drawn as the badguy. He was Mad Scientist Klotz, Godzilla Klotz, whatever. And all the other kids constantly celebrated it. I bet that hurt. A lot. You know the kid doesn't have a father figure to start with.
>>150755083That's one way of looking at it...Possibly he felt bad about coming off like such a jerk>>150755091yeah exactly. He wanted them to be mutually culpable in something. As a lowlife with rickets, that is how he believes men bond. His dad is almost definitely in prison.
This episode pissed me off. Why was this bitch so stupid?
>>150755032>What the fuck was Mr. Bone's problem? Seems like he targeted Doug a lot.New kid in town. Zero tolerance. Par to course.
>>150755120seriously. Who the fuck goes into teaching adolescents and can't pick up on one of them having a crush on her? She made Doug look like a fucking student of humanity by comparison.
>>150753804>the bully was literally married to his crush lmaoI don't remember that part.
>>150755152it's part of an internet joke thing based on a personal story that we're all asking ourselves why Jim Jinkins shared with us.
>>150755120Because Doug was a retard. He kept over correcting instead of just simmering down. >Makes a suck up card>Doesn't do his assignment >Wonders why teacher is mad
>>150755193iunno dude I was smart enough to get straight As and I still did dumb shit like that at his age.
>>150755212You can get good grades and still be a complete fuckwad.
>>150754897no, we're more like.this
that episode of Doug where Roger brings fentanyl to school and sells it to Doug and Skeeter
>>150755193I empathized with Doug because I was in a similar situation. Never been written up since second grade. Straight A student. Interim head principal in high school throws the fucking book at me because he was power tripping at the time. All I did was curse out a girl who was annoying me on a bad day and he said it was "sexual harassment".
>>150755032Mediocre power-tripper. He's the ASSistant principal at an elementary school and he thinks he's hot shit.
Nickelodeon Doug was pretty good. Disney Doug was weird.
>>150755274I caught hell from a sub once but when the real teacher came back she threw it all out and we had a good laugh.
>>150755083>Growing up is knowing Roger read it and didn't like that Doug saw him as a total asshole and that Doug is more pathetic than him so he takes pity and gives it back.That'd be a cool fan-comic.
>>150755227it's true..but I feel like I did fewer stupid things than others my age. Honestly the thing about Doug's peers is they all seem TREMENDOUSLY mature. They all go to the Honker Burger on their own, they have their own money... Nobody else is ever having their own adventure except maybe that one short pink kid with the big lips,
>>150755288>Disney Doug was weird.I'm still not really clear how Disney had a claim on it. All I hears was that they were working on a similar show at the time (Pepper Ann?) and that gave them dibs? But the concept of the show was pretty broad.
>>150755274Jesus christ, anon. I thought surely you were my age based on that description, but right at the end that places you MUCH younger.The traumatic memory I'll never lose was when another teacher entered the classroom, and I vaguely recognized her, but knew she was not someone I'd seen often, so I said "oh, whose mom are you again?" because I thought she was one of my classmates' moms. She did the 90s equivalent of pulling me out of there by my ear, which was screaming at me in a shrill voice and demanding I come down to her classroom so she could write me a pink slip. I was bawling and I didn't understand what I did wrong. I shouldn't feel good about the fact that, statistically, she's dead now. but I do anyway.
>>150755292Shit, my mom was pissed about that too. She got a lawyer involved and everything.
>>150755297>Honestly the thing about Doug's peers is they all seem TREMENDOUSLY mature.No that was pretty ubiquitous at least until the mid late 90s. As kids we used to drive our bikes all over the place by ourselves. And if you're going out it's not weird to ask your parents for burger money. Plus on the whole Bluffington seems a pretty low crime area. If you want to talk about kids running around unsupervised look to Hey Arnold. Inner city downtown? As fourth graders? Hell no.
>>150755282did anyone ever actually have an assistant principal at school?I went to a huge variety of schools, from the inner city, to rich suburbs, to poorer suburbs, to rural areas.. at least 12 different schools, not one ever had an assistant principal. You got in big enough trouble (like that time i said 'the hell does that mean' to another kid in line), you got sent to the principal.
>>150755297I think partly it's "spritually" about teenagers instead of elementary school kids and was aged down to, supposedly, better appeal to kids (and Doug is way too immature to be a teen without him being a retard) and partly because it's from 1990 and shut-in constant surveilance kids were not a meme yet.
>>150755288what's odd is, it SHOULDN'T have been that different. It was all the same team. buuut it was less money, and I guess that's all it took to demoralize everyone. Billy West didn't see why he should take a pay cut when something was big enough to be bought out by another company.
I like that the principal and assistance principal have easily mockable names but it never comes up.
>>150755342yeahhhh hey arnold felt like a period piece.doug just felt like a very idealized present day.>>150755355I remember one promo was like "Will Doug make the grade? SEVENTH GRADE!" and for ages I was like ohhh I see, that's why..but it turns out no, they're 11.>shut-in constant surveillance kids were not a meme yetnope, but it was reality. all the parents did it, while simultaneously asking why kids were so different now than their day.
>>150755348My high school was technically two different schools and had separate principals for each one, but a head principal for the entire school.
>>150755369in fairness everyone on this show has weird fucking namesfinding out that 'DINK' is actually an acronym for Dual Income, No Kids cracked me up.and the fact that Skeeter was actually named Mosquito and that was just his nickname.. given that I grew up on Muppet Babies and thought Skeeter was just a name. and then we had Cousin Skeeter later, the fuck was that.
>>150754498you don't care about Doug, you just wanted to eat Daria's assthat much is obvious by the way your take on Doug is complete horse shit
>>150755397okay that weirdly makes sense.>>150755408Why the fuck would I want to eat her ass? her pussy is RIGHT next to it, that's what I want to eatand I care a lot about Doug. I would have taken that kid under my wing for sure. Told him his drawings were awesome, but also gotten him to chill the fuck out. I was always the biggest kid, and the one picked on by bullies (because that way you can't fight back or you look bad)
>>150755342Shoot, in the 90s my younger brother and I would ride our bikes to the abandoned construction site and play on the huge piles of earth. We would play "King of the Hill" and "Tag" and "Fuck You Eat a Clod of Dirt" with our neighborhood friends.Fun times!
>>150754498Were they? I would say both Dough and Daria are just products of their time. You'd had to be there to understand the type of people portrayed and school culture has changed so much the whole loser/jock/prep/nerd/whatever else archetype no longer exists and has mutated into new archetypes, 90s schools aren't recognizable to modern teens.
>>150755417unhinged
>>150754458idk did the tiktok zoomers discover it I'm sure they'll just treat it like they did Clone High and Moral Orel and miss the point completely
>>150755348Lol wat? I'm from a relatively affluent district and there was one assistant in middle school and FOUR in high school (assigned based on first letter of last name).Didn't have one in elementary though.
>>150753635This copypasta again? We had an influx of these threads months ago. Roger was never based, he was always an asshole.
>he finally meets up with his dream girl. >she opens the door to a nice house, has a huge pregnant belly and looks completely happy surrounded by her children>her doctor husband is at work and doesn't even know you visited or even care.
>>150755445eh.. yeah, but the problems were never solved, just new problems were added that made them superfluous. Today I'd be the one called a bully.>>150755448I'm sorry that simple basic wholesome desires seem so unhinged to you. I can only hope you someday become much older than you are.>>150755464You know what, I can't promise I had no assistant principal in the richest school I went to. Past elementary, the principal kinda stopped mattering. And past middle school, I no longer went to very affluent areas. well kind of. One school was on one of those towns where like, there's nothing there, so people buy cheap houses to wait for the value to go up.. so they had a little money, and people went on vacations a lot.
>>150755486Why did he do this to himself?
>>150755439>"Fuck You Eat a Clod of Dirt" with our neighborhood friends.I loved that game. Sometimes it turned into a rousing round of "THAT WAS A ROCK YOU FAGGOT!" Wholesome.
>>150755445>>150754498Now that I think about it Doug and Daria are different sides of the same outcast coin.
HEY DOUGLATH COME ANALYTHE THE RADIUTH OF MY PENITH
>>150755527That was the one that concluded with a round of "Gangstomp the Son of a Bitch," right?
>>150755532Totes. It sucked being smart in the 90s. The years of there being ANY benefit to that were long over, but we were still being promised that it would pay off someday, and we should just be patient while we're treated like shitAnd heaven help you if you grew up somewhere with a less fun culture. Goood lord. Joyless goddamn germans populating this state.
>>150755348They'd call them "vice principals" at our elementary schools. They'd be as bad and commanding as the usual principal, if that one wasn't up to doing certain jobs.Anyone ever had schools that liked to blast student beefs over the intercom and order specific names to come down to the office for CONFLICT RESOLUTION? The vice principal at one would love to do that, where she wouldn't even hear both sides out and would usually side with the aggressor side. She'd then force both kids to say "I want to be your friend" to each other and claim that would end the problem. When it obviously wouldn't, she'd of course blame the bullied parties and said that they were supposed to be friends because they said "I want to be your friend" to the kid who mashed their face into a wall.
>>150755571yeah, most TV shows went with 'vice principal' too.>blast student beefs over the intercom... what? holy shit, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard from a school.. and I thought mine were wishy-washy ultra-leftist, but we never did THAT. at least not publicly, and not involving the principal, vice or otherwise.the public school system might be the single most effective tool in the devil's toolbelt, I swear.
>>150755547Ah, there was nothing like the wanton violence and cruelty of children.
>>150755592This was the 1990s-2000s South Florida school system, so admittedly it might be a red state thing if not that specific faculty's particular way of handling kids getting beat up and bullied (not at all handled), but it'd be messed up if it still went on today.
>>150755552>The years of there being ANY benefit to that were long over, but we were still being promised that it would pay off someday, and we should just be patient while we're treated like shitBoy you ever get someone telling you that the smart kids would be the ones who were successful in life while the bullies pumped gas. That ended up being a load. Literally ever smarty pants in my age bracket got a degree in the same computer science course. Including the bullies who were better equipped to deal with the social aspect of job hunting and customer interaction. Man I'm glad I made fun of those nerds.
>>150755620We were made of springs and rubber back then. Indestructible. We were as tough as our boomer parents thought THEY were in THEIR youth.
>>150755642Yup, heard that from unsupportive parent sorts too. Or if you had parents that were fair weather Christians that only attended church on holidays but liked to put the fear of God into kids, they'd tell you that oh don't worry, one day your bullies will be burning in Hell while you'd be raptured so why would you ever be sad about being pushed down the stairs.
>>150755628>red state thingare you fucking delusional? it's the opposite of that. Does that sound like something a conservative state would have in its schools? Not that such a thing exists. Naw dude. These are the peaceniks. they literally put PEACE on all the school shirts and junk at my school. Troubling shit.
>>150755642Even as a kid I'm like "but there are no gas pumping jobs, you have to pump your own. except in new jersey">I'm glad I made fun of those nerdsI genuinely hope something fucking horribly painful happens to you. Possibly chronic neuralgia. If it teaches you the lesson that you are not okay, and have no place on this planet.
>>150755708Must've been some yuppies then, yeah. Florida is a weird wild card of that region, either Bible-beating or godless as possible.
>>150755735Indeed. I was going to elaborate on that, but I figure, you live there, you're aware. I just had a very dear friend from there, and I learned a lot from her accounts. It's the most contrasting state imaginable. For every retired jew you have a corresponding hispanic illegal
>>150755719Not being able to spot a joke is why people made fun of you.
>>150755772Not him but if I realised that back then people were just joking with me, I would've lived a better life.
>>150755772how the funk n' wagnels was that a joke? are you really playing the "I jus' keedeeng!" card?
>>150755750Yeah you can get different sorts of weird school stories from there, maybe even other states but they'd either come off too "real" or unfunny to mine for fiction or people would question if something could really happen like that. It can and will.For the "conflict resolution" school in a rather small but pretentious town, just imagine now.>You're in your classroom still feeling tired from having to rise early>Morning intercom blasts, you hear this woman barking "TOM PATTERSON AND HARRY FUTCH, COME DOWN TO THE VICE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION IMMEDIATELY">Now everyone knows something's up with Tom and Harry, or whatever other names were called>If either is slow in getting to the office, perhaps the bullied one out of fear because they know that vice principal won't take the matter seriously->Intercom will blast across the school again calling out that student for "dawdling. Get your ass to the office to face the vice-principal not taking your problem seriously, brat.Same school also didn't want to send a kid to a hospital right away when she walked right into a glass pole when she couldn't see through smog and got a gash in her head. Next day they had a morning school conference where they unsubtly put her on blast for being dumb enough to walk into a pole, setting her up to be bullied for her head wound.
>>150755803It was kind of depressing growing up and realizing maybe 10% of my tormentors were really just being friendly, but because of the other 90%, I was in solid defense mode at all timesIt took a SHOP teacher, of all classes, to point it out to the other schmucks. "How the hell is he supposed to trust you when you constantly mess with him?"the one that felt worst was when a girl was playing with my hair and I reflexively smacked her hand away, before realizing it was her and goin "oh it's you, sorry, carry on" and she didn't. Because everyone else who ever touched my hair (past 1st grade) was fucking with me, brandishing scissors, whatever.
>>150755804>how the funk n' wagnels was that a joke?Basic comedic formula. >Establish a premise as if I was one the one side>Punch line implies I was the other. It's just the internet. Calm down. Goodness, you should already be taken anything said on this shit hole website with a grain of salt.
>>150755808wwwwoww..I recall 2nd grade gym class, the teacher very solemnly told us all if any of us ever bleed, the others have to run away like our lives depend on it. the 90s were a hell of a drug.closest I had to that was "Friendship group" which me and two actual bullies had to go to, where we were instructed to play the 'roll the ball and say nice things to each other' game, like in Stugo except we all had the "what the fuck are we doing here" look on our faces.. that actually made me feel closer to them.I was only there because people knew if they got me mad enough from verbal abuse, I'd eventually haul off and shove them, and get in trouble. One time I tossed a kid across the room and he collided with the african kid, and I felt bad. Tunde did nothing wrong. But yknow, in real life, if someone's making you that mad, you can leave. school is a fucking prison. I could not be held fully responsible for that shit.I don't think I even noticed I was that much stronger than everyone else, I sure as fuck sucked at running. on TV, the biggest, strongest kid gets to be on top..
>>150755839Ohhhhhh.. Okay, okay, I get it. that was an Emo Philips. Alright Anon, I believe you. This time I was the asshole. But the most recent seven times this scenario played out, I was not. I know the pain of being unable to joke because other fucknuts have ruined the ability to take things as jokes.
>>150753635A real bully would draw dicks all over it.
>>150755889This, or if you want it to be kid friendly, skulls.
>>150755896yeahh that feels 90s nick friendlyit's so fucking weird how things actually got MORE restrictive. Not what I was expecting.
>>150753836I always wondered what the Reset button I could never push did on tiger toys.
>>150753635Just look at what’s in Doug’s journal. We see him write in it every episode.Roger was probably looking for some juicy shit and got the most vanilla autistic word slop he has ever seen in his life.
>>150755976>Dear Journal. Today I was so worried Mr. Dink was moving away. And then I got so worked up imagining what kind of MEAN neighbor would move into his house! But it turns out he was just testing out his (very expensive) new luggage.>>150755972resets the high score
>>150755976>>150755993It must have been a bizarre kind of vanilla madness. Just page after page of the most innocuous happenings treated as grand earth shattering events.>Dear Journal. Today I went to the Honker Burger and they told me they were out of my favorite drink and If I had a second choice. It was scary at first so I just ordered the last thing I heard and it turns out I like Diet Beat Cola.
>>150756044you know what, as I recall, when Doug was imagining Roger making fun of him, the stuff he imagined him reading was... pretty much what you'd expect, and the mockery was surprisingly grounded. The kinda stuff that genuinely would be embarrassing to have someone read because, out of context, it sounds humiliating.like wasn't there something in there about he thought he grew armpit hair, but it was just lawn clippings
>>150755950I hate how even just the word "die" or "kill" has to be censored now, really just makes everything feel so infantilized.
>>150755889My "Bully" once "found" my art book. It accounted for nearly 50% of my gradeDidn't ruin or damage it, he just held onto it because he thought it would be funny to see me panic over the fact that it was missing. Unfortunately, he forgot he had it until the end of the year and didn't get it back to me until after the teacher had graded them. The sad part is that I genuinely don't doubt that he forgot he had it. He wasn't evil or violent, just slightly malicious and very stupid.
>>150756125that shit was going back and forth for a while. I recall it was somewhat forbidden toward the end of the 90s, then suddenly it was okay again for a little while, and some daytime TV anime dubs could say 'send him to hell' in like, 2000, but then it all fucked up again..we need to start forcibly stopping anyone who censors anything. There's no other way. They can't be allowed to have any say or any power. That's basic rights 101: if you violate others' rights, you lose yours.
>>150756148what the fuck class had half your grade as an art book. also yeah, retards really do ruin lives. All the more reason the stupid need to submit to the smart. and all of us are a LITTLE stupid, so we should all have a servant's attitude.
>>150756148Man, that's awful. Can relate with a similar experience though it was a math workbook.The bully took it and wouldn't give it back, slipping it into his desk. The teacher kept scolding me for not having it, and I kept telling her he had it.One day, it turns out he slipped it back into my desk while I wasn't looking so he made me look like a liar and stupid when my mom and teacher went to search his desk and then mine. Mom screamed at me for "making her look stupid" and I kept trying to tell her he'd taken it and must've put it back.
>>150756216>what the fuck class had half your grade as an art book. It was a daily art book. The end of the semester, you'd effectively have 100 images that were worth about 3 points a piece. Which was an easy way to pass the class without any trouble, unless someone happened to take yours
>>150754035I felt for bad for them. I wish they'd at least been able to die fighting instead of being blitzed by vampires
>>150753635Did Roger have a thing with Doug's sister or am I just misremembering the whole thing?
>>150756326For one episode, yeah
>>150756326I think he did in just one episode. I can't remember how it ended. Did she chase him off by being too weird?
>>150756326>>150756347>>150756357Nick's Doug, Roger developed a crush over her and there was a whole episode of Judy letting him down softly.Disney's Doug, there's a lot more interest showed from her, because he's RICH (which is the most accurate thing about it)
>>150756148Adding to this story about this guy just for more context:A girl had a seizure in our class one day and the first thing he did was put a binder under her head so that it wasn't smacking the floor anymore. Then the next week, he'd tell me his retirement plan was to shoot himself in the back after he turned 18 then collect disability for the rest of his life. Again, not an outright evil guy or physically violent. But sometime who would ultimately drag you down in the long run if you didn't cut them out of your life.
>>150756326No, you're remembering that correctly
>>150756362>the first thing he did was put a binder under her head so that it wasn't smacking the floor anymoreIs this supposed to be a bad idea? A binder's got to be softer than the floor.
>>150756326Yes, Roger has based tastes. He was all about the art hoe.
>>150756378... I think that was his point.
>>150756242that's insane.. surely each day, it would be checked, and your points recorded. that sounds like something a really, really lazy teacher would come up with.>>150756392as a kid, I thought Judy was such a bitch. Growing up, I realized she was kind of awesome... with a little more time, and a better attitude, at least. which she kinda gained in the Disney version.
>>150756378I'm saying that he clearly cared enough about other people that he didn't want to see them get hurt, but it wasn't enough to make up for the other issues he had.He was ultimately crabs in a bucket.
I remember me and my twin had a beef with this wiry kid on the bus who was like a year younger than us. He was always mouthing off and acting like a punk and we told him we were sick of it. I think he took a swipe at one of us and we both tried to get at him, but he kicked one of us in the chest and pushed us back. It didn't go further than that because one of the adults broke it up. He got in big trouble for that, but me and my bro still felt bad that we didn't have a chance to fight back properly.As it turns out, we wound up getting along pretty well with him in the years that followed. He was nice to us, and told us he had been going through some personal stuff around then, which explained his attitude. I'm glad we were able to all move past it and be friendly with each other in the end.I hope he's doing alright.
>>150756435honestly, as someone who's disabled from taking the wrong over the counter medication, and can't get certified disabled, his plan sounds a lot smarter than my plan to just kind of do my best and hope life works out.
>>150756445Injuring yourself is bad, Anon.
>>150756440I remember when these neighbor kids were always picking on me and my sister, the solution was for them to come over to our house, so we'd become friendsall it did was show them that families whose parents aren't in prison have enough disposable income to buy them toys. but their surprised reaction to our standard of living was my first exposure to the idea that lower class people really can't help being shittier, and need some understanding. I never knew we had it that good. as a kid it felt like everything was too expensive, then I grow up and I realize.. fruit snacks actually are.
>>150756462just sayin. i don't know anyone healthy anymore, the only delineator is either you get assistance or you don't
Hey Funnie, you're a real fag, you know that? I've seen this thread five thousand times! Why don't you get some new material, you loser! Aha, ha-ha-ha-HAAAAA, hah-hah-ho!
>>150756543Ah Roger, butt out, would ya?
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>>150756440I had a kid who was always talking shit in 4th grade. Hated each other, then we became good friends until 7th grade. Then we hated each other again. Then I still ended up going to his birthday party in like 8th grade.His home life was sad, poor with divorced parents, so looking back as an adult I just feel bad and think maybe I was a bit of a dick to him by responding back so harshly. His mom sort of made him hang out with me because he didn't have many friends, so he came to my house sometimes too. Hope he's doing alright now, last anybody at our school saw him in high school he was talking to a cop. Maybe he ended up in prison.
>>150756543STOP FUCKING MY SISTER ROGER!!
>>150756611i was so disappointed to see one of my childhood friends ended up in prisonthen again one of my first set of stepbrothers is a successful lawyer now. good for him.
Despite knowing that /co/ is widely considered the most retarded board on the site, (You) guys still manage to amaze me.First and foremost, any analysis of Doug must take into consideration that he is 11. Of course an 11-year old will act stupidly, of course an 11-year old will think something is a bigger deal than it really is, of course an 11-year old will sometimes overreact to things. He's 11. He doesn't understand why things are the way they are and won't understand until he's older. Any interpretation that doesn't account for this and treats him like an adult should be regarded as utterly retarded.Doug is also not a social satire. You aren't meant to laugh at Doug or look down upon him, the target audience was meant to see him at their level and view him as "an average kid". There's a couple writer's bibles online for the series that lay this out; Doug is an average boy who like most kids his age is very impressionable and has his regular ups-and-downs. He's not a jock, he's not cool, he's not lame, and he's not a nerd. It's not meant to be laugh-out-loud funny or outrageous, it's meant to be quaint, or in the writers' words, "quirky".
>>150756875>11Doug was in high school, idiot
>>150756904How the fuck did you think Doug was in high school
>>150756875yeah butother characters on the show don't have Doug's problems..>You aren't meant to laugh at Doug or look down upon himfucking thank you>the target audience was meant to see him at their level and view him as "an average kid" gotta admit, as a smart kid, I did find it hard to relate to all these "ohnoes I might get an F!" types, given how fucking easy it was to ace everything in public school. Hell, at one school, they just put all the requisite facts up on the overhead projector before each test for like 15 minutes so you could burn them into your retinas
>>150756934>other characters on the show don't have Doug's problems..To be fair the series is from Doug's perspective, it's Doug retelling the events as he saw them in his journal. They probably do have the same fears, overreactions, misinterpretations, etc as Doug, but the show's not called Skeeter.
>dear journal i gooned to patty's bitmoji again what's wrong with me
>>150756957fair. at the very least, we can agree that Doug perceives others as lacking his anxieties. which... is interesting, because it means he's not swayed by peer pressure, since you can be pressured into calmness too.
>>150757004>Doug perceives others as lacking his anxieties.This is a very real pointEspecially when you're a kid, you don't think anyone is going through the same things you are, you look at them and think "he's doing much better than me, he doesn't have the same problems as me, why can't I be like him?" when in reality they're probably dealing with things you don't know about or having the same thoughts about you. The issues in Doug were mostly pulled from the writers' own experiences, this was one of the things the writer's bible explicitly recommended. They're not uniquely "Doug" problems, other kids in Bluffington likely have the same issues, and real kids definitely have had the same worries Doug had. It's like Styx's Grand Illusion, you think the other guy's got it made but deep inside we're all the sameHonk honk
>>150757089now that is one thing I didn't have a scrap of as a kid. I guess I had really good parents. Maybe because they shared all of their insecurities with me, and all the mistakes they made when they were my age, so I was confident that I must be avoiding most people's problems.
>>150756957>>150757004>>150757089The show played with this in a late episode where Doug got invited to a pool party and was filled with anxiety over exposing his body...only to find out everyone clearly felt the same way as they were all too chicken to strip down to their swimsuits and get in the water. This actually made him MORE confident and he was the first one to just jump in, causing a domino effect.
>>150756875>Of course an 11-year old will act stupidlyActing stupid and acting retarded are not the same thing. Literally everyone else on the show can understand things. Doug has a nigh psychotic episode because he had to throw out his old sneakers.
>>150757145OHhhh yeahh! I forgot about that!I recall being like>god dammit Doug, going swimming is no big deal, but that "Look, I'm Ronald Weisenheimer!" bit would get me MERCILESSLY mocked and/or looked at like I was a fucking alien for trying to do a 'bit'but instead they all followed suit. that was great. Thanks for reminding me.
>>150757176Doug has textbook separation anxiety. That's no big deal.Plus, he was feeling uh.. not guilt, but a similar thing.. because he'd been peer pressured into buying the hip cool shoes. I don't think it was so much going nuts over throwing his old shoes out, as feeling like he was going down a bad path if he was this easily swayed into abandoning what he previously liked just to be cool.
>>150755120She is kinda hot though.
>>150757374a littlei bet her mom is the lady who lost all that money Doug found
>>150755445Even when I was in elementary school, watching Doug as the target demographic, all the other kids at school thought it was weird and Doug was wimpy. I think it's just an autobiographical show about having autism and having no idea what the fuck is going on in any social situation
>>150757545if anything doug has the extreme opposite of autism. he understands feelings only too well, and has a functioning imagination instead of getting stuck on the same thing.i'm sorry you went to a shitty school, I too ended up in those, but they didn't start bashing you for liking cartoons until double digits.
>>150756875big nose
>>150755030>Don Adams did a voice in Pepper AnnDon't Adams voiced Inspector Gadget for ages and IG was basically just Maxwell Smart except with the doodads being built into him rather than him having to take off his shoe to make a phonecall. RIP Don Adams. I fucking loved Get Smart reruns on Nick At Nite as a kid.
Doug has a show?
>>150759212>I fucking loved Get Smart reruns on Nick At Nite as a kid.I still giggle at the Craw gag
anyone have that doug comic about snuff films, shit was hilarious
>>150753804He wasn't
>>150760932what
>>150760932You’ll have to be more specific.
>>150760932buckle up start here >>150756584page 2 starts now
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>>150762433>10 bucks
Thanks for dumping anon
>>150756875Doug was a WARNING to not be or stay like him. You should be trying new things, making new friends, and doing anything but staying in doors with your own thought ruminating.
>>150762470Lol man. Thx I needed a good laugh
>>150758622>yumyum eatemup
>>150759212YepAnd what's really funny is Maurice LaMarche, who voiced the Chief, Mad goon #2, and a bunch of others... eventually took over for voicing Gadget, but not before he one portrayed him in live action on the Super Mario Bros Super Show>>150760915>missed it by THAT much
>>150762433>Irishwith the name Klotz?
>>150763390red headalso Doug could just be a idiot
>>150763420yeah I mean, not that he's exactly a flattering addition to the flock, but with that name and that nose...
>>150753635Yikes
>>150756201https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGE0uKJnpA
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>>150760210Yeah it’s weird that a character from an orange juice commercial had a whole tv show, but so did the Geico Cavemen
>>150768837And Pepper Ann was originally a friend of the ad character Fido Dido
>>150753635Same energy.
>>150768837u wot
>>150769097holy shit, i looked it up. wow. i had no goddamn idea.
>>150756360I remember Roger was rich and making a movie and Judy was sucking up to him to get a role.
>>150769314>I remember Roger was rich and making a movie and Judy was sucking up to him to get a role.Harvey Weinstein was well known by that point. NDAs exist to keep the facts hidden but not the shared experiences for rumors to spread.LOL
>>150754239he was retarded
