>this was Arnold's idea to get out of a fightYeah I think he still would've gotten his ass beat
The fat kid was Jewish and stole a ham. You can't predict that kind of person's responses
>>218183835its a tv show made for kids so its tamed down but the advice is true. there are two types you never want to fight, unless youre that type too>anyone crazy or mentally defective>anyone enthusiastic about the idea of violence
>>218183865You don't have a choice about "who you want to fight" unless you're the one attacking. You would know that if you hadn't grown up in a pussy area.
it worked in summer of sam when richie smashed the ketchup into his forehead… those mob guys were pretty intimidated.
>>218184177Lots of retards find themselves in fights that could've been avoided because of their ego. Then they end up in the ER with a brain bleed and notice to appear in court.
>>218183835>Pretending to be retarded so the bully will be to afraid to beat you publiclyI feel like this scene makes more sense now then it did when it came out
>>218183835I remember when Doug did a whole episode about him being afraid of the dentist and how he didn't know what would happen and that it would be painfulat the end he goes to the dentist but instead of reassuring us that it won't be painful or telling us what's going to happen in order to make us not afraid, the show just fades to black and fades back in with the dentist going "all done!"even as a little kid I understood that they punted the ball
>>218183835I unironically tried this when I was 12 and my bully laughed and then kicked me in the stomach
>>218184177yes the idea is choosing your battles, the way harold chooses to not fight arnold>You don't have a choice about "who you want to fight" unless you're the one attacking.of course this is true
>>218183835I’ve always thought that was really lame. A Christmas Story handled it the best way, with Ralphie already having a bad day before Scutt Farkus showed up and started taunted him, and then just snapping and beating the shit out of him, and it capped in a nice little bonding moment between him and his mom.Or Avatar 2, where the Sully kids get into a fight with some of the kids in the local tribe who were giving them shit.Jake: “How do the other kids look?”Son: “Worse.”Jake: “Ok, good.”
He never would have been given the chance. The second Arnold started spazzing out like a retard Harold would have beat his ass. You don't earn a bully's respect by making yourself an easier target. You just make yourself an easier target.
>>218184511This. It would have just resulted in Arnold getting relentlessly mocked by everyone.
>>218183865there is some truth to this. I once punked out a pair of niggers who came to my room looking to beat my ass. They kept trying to do the "we just wanna talk, we have questions" act. But I kept calmly trying to tell their third guy that he should leave, and kept insisting that I would rather "be on my feet for what happens next" every time they tried to tell me to sit down. Eventually they realized I wouldn't make it as easy as they thought it would be, and it wasn't worth it, so they fucked off. Found out later they kinda got spooked that maybe I had some kinda bomb or weapon rigged up, and I just fucking laughed my ass off
>>218183835Arnold learned karate from his grandma. He could have beat the shit out of harold if his crazy plan didn't work
>>218183865Sort of a subcategory of the first, but I would absolutely never fight someone who's naked. That's the absolute deal breaker.
He's crazy!
>>21818383516 hours, 21 minutes and 12 seconds until you die!
>>218184439No shit? You brought a boombox and danced like a spaz while making retarded faces?
Why is it such a common trope to have a bully character that is a genuine threat in their first episode, then just kinda becomes the fat retard friend in later ones? Nelson, Harold, Buford, Binky,
>>218185418yehto be fair I'm autistic
>>218186826Cute autist.
