IVing IV. "Can you read any of this?" p. 277

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 18:06:23 CST 2009


Poor Larry, he doesn't know how to handle a modern gal. He takes her
to a place he's never been to; a place Denis turned him onto no less.
Penny could care less, but she siezes the opportunity to claim she has
been harmed by Larry's decision to take her to a dump, and pops the
question: are you pissed at me? Are you getting back at me? Now that
I'm sitting in this rotten rat invested greasy troom or an eating
house about to be assaulted by barf burgers and the bottom of the
rabbit cage scraps, can we touch, shake hands, start over, even saint
stephen? So, like, I want to move up from little miss g-girl, and as a
woman, it won't be easy, soooo, help me out.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 276-7 satirizes the then-new health food kind of restaurant...
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> and Penny uses the occasion--"could be construed as a hostile act"
> to bring up the question of pissed-offedness......
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> She rationalizes she was returning a favor. Doc says he is over it.
> Penny says his kind all hate the FBI. Doc protests "I was a junior
> G-Man!"....he has always aspired up?
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> There's a junior G-man allusion in GR, yes?
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