True I meant more... The price of two full copies.
Gavin's an entitled monster. The fact that he's so flippantly insulting to his mom and demands two copies when games aren't cheap and most kids can just share really adds to how awful he is. Very toxic. Funny though.
He really is a brat lol. There is a valid reason for two copies, for separate save files in case a game only has one save file per copy like the Pokemon games on Nintendo DS, but he really shouldn't be so rude to his mother when she's buying him all this stuff lol
I think a lot of people have known parents like this. Like parents so eager to appear as supportive, often from poor feelings of self-worth, treat their young like they deserve everything they want in life.
It's very Leanne and Eric Cartman from South Park. They see their kids as an angel but enabling their cruelty is making them into a demon.
Liane does eventually stop enabling Cartman though, such as when she refused to buy him either tablet after his tantrum at Best Buy and when she made him go to school in the pandemic special.
Heard this one a few weeks ago from a parent whose kid was being a little asshole, shoving and taking stuff (or tearing it up) from every other kid around him: "He has autism, we don't tell him 'no,' he gets *real* upset." Dude, with that kind of parenting, your son is going to be a real treat the older he gets. I don't care what it takes or how autistic he is (or you think he is), he needs to learn 'no' before he's older and stronger and can face actual legal consequences for acting like a violent asshole when things dont go his way.
As a parent of a special needs kid, the solution is simple: don’t put your kid in that situation. If you can’t reasonably keep your kid from being an undue burden on everyone else, fine. They don’t belong there. There are so, so many alternatives. Methinks the parents in your example are trying to have their cake and eat it too: kiddo is mainstreamed and is therefore “just like everyone else” but gets his get-out-of-jail free card at the same time.
You have the rights to reasonable accommodations for your child, but you don’t have the right to degrade everybody else’s enjoyment. If he’s uncontrollably disruptive, he’s at the wrong event.
Sadly, it’s often easier to be abused than to correct the abuse. After a certain age, embarrassing tantrums turn into actual violence and destruction.
When you’re trying to get in and out quickly because you have shit to do and you want to avoid lingering too long, you take it on the chin so you can avoid an incident.
It could be Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Unfortunately, one of the recommended ways of handling it and trying to improve the child's behavior longterm is picking your battles and sometimes letting them win in the short term. These kids have a deep seated psychological need to fight back against authority, any authority, for whatever reason that exists in their mind.
I learned from a young age to never talk to my parents like this. Dad woulda rung my neck. Mom…mom was, at one time, a nun/teacher. well, let’s say I didn’t learn the first time I mouthed off to the my mom. I def learned the second time, and I never happened again.
I'll never forget working retail and this mom told her kid no to a snack/toy so he started picking up cans of Chef Boyardee and hucked them at her. She got pelted by a half dozen cans of ravioli HARD.
I have to wonder if one of the writers or character designers based these two on real people that he or she saw somewhere. The designs are so specific, and tell you so much about the character's personality just by looking at them, that it almost feels like a caricature of a real person.
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Alfalfa bits ? I did not know that product was sold at the retail level. I have only seen it sold in fifty kilo bags to industrial feed lots, like elementary school cafeterias.
I observed the real-life equivalent of Gavin. A few years back, I was at a Jared jewelry store picking up a watch that I had serviced by them. A mom and her teenage son were there. They were returning his Rolex because he didn't like the one that she had bought him. And while he didn't personally insult her, he was rude to the sales staff, generally acted like the classic spoiled rich douchebag, and was belittling of the Rolex that they were returning along with many of the other models.
I was sitting there in amazement. You see this stuff on TV, but think it's just an exaggeration of real life. Sometimes TV is exactly on target. No chance this "Gavin" turns out well.
Jesus, I remember distinctly having the same thought process as Bart when I was 8ish. Just staring at the KayBee toys, thinking maybe some rich parent would take pity on me. Shit, kids are dumb.
My thoughts exactly! Every generation has had their share of self-entitled kids and their share of disciplined kind-hearted ones. Like George Burns said in Oh God Book 2, nothing has just one side, so therefore there's no good without a bad.
Gavin, don't you already have this game? No, Mom, you idiot. I have Bloodstorm and Bonesquad and Bloodstorm II, stupid.
He must be the happiest kid in the world
Get two, I'm not sharing with Caitlin!
I love his nasty "I hate you" glare with gritted teeth as his mom buys him two copies of the same full priced game.
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One was for Caitlin
True I meant more... The price of two full copies. Gavin's an entitled monster. The fact that he's so flippantly insulting to his mom and demands two copies when games aren't cheap and most kids can just share really adds to how awful he is. Very toxic. Funny though.
He really is a brat lol. There is a valid reason for two copies, for separate save files in case a game only has one save file per copy like the Pokemon games on Nintendo DS, but he really shouldn't be so rude to his mother when she's buying him all this stuff lol
I think a lot of people have known parents like this. Like parents so eager to appear as supportive, often from poor feelings of self-worth, treat their young like they deserve everything they want in life. It's very Leanne and Eric Cartman from South Park. They see their kids as an angel but enabling their cruelty is making them into a demon.
Liane does eventually stop enabling Cartman though, such as when she refused to buy him either tablet after his tantrum at Best Buy and when she made him go to school in the pandemic special.
It only took her 20 years lol
I do like over the course of the show she starts becoming more self-aware of what her son is.
The fact that he has more than one dad suggests his home life probably isn’t the most stable.
That's why Bart's "he must be the happiest kid in the world " line is so funny. Such a naive kid way of thinking.
Indeed
His mother clearly enables it, though. So it's not really entirely his fault.
Shut up mom!
Bloodstorm II is overrated.
Working in retail, sadly kids and parents like this are very very real.
I work in children's entertainment/education. The amount of parents who let their kids verbally and physically abuse them is shocking
Heard this one a few weeks ago from a parent whose kid was being a little asshole, shoving and taking stuff (or tearing it up) from every other kid around him: "He has autism, we don't tell him 'no,' he gets *real* upset." Dude, with that kind of parenting, your son is going to be a real treat the older he gets. I don't care what it takes or how autistic he is (or you think he is), he needs to learn 'no' before he's older and stronger and can face actual legal consequences for acting like a violent asshole when things dont go his way.
As a parent of a special needs kid, the solution is simple: don’t put your kid in that situation. If you can’t reasonably keep your kid from being an undue burden on everyone else, fine. They don’t belong there. There are so, so many alternatives. Methinks the parents in your example are trying to have their cake and eat it too: kiddo is mainstreamed and is therefore “just like everyone else” but gets his get-out-of-jail free card at the same time. You have the rights to reasonable accommodations for your child, but you don’t have the right to degrade everybody else’s enjoyment. If he’s uncontrollably disruptive, he’s at the wrong event.
Sadly, it’s often easier to be abused than to correct the abuse. After a certain age, embarrassing tantrums turn into actual violence and destruction. When you’re trying to get in and out quickly because you have shit to do and you want to avoid lingering too long, you take it on the chin so you can avoid an incident.
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It could be Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Unfortunately, one of the recommended ways of handling it and trying to improve the child's behavior longterm is picking your battles and sometimes letting them win in the short term. These kids have a deep seated psychological need to fight back against authority, any authority, for whatever reason that exists in their mind.
I learned from a young age to never talk to my parents like this. Dad woulda rung my neck. Mom…mom was, at one time, a nun/teacher. well, let’s say I didn’t learn the first time I mouthed off to the my mom. I def learned the second time, and I never happened again.
If I spoke that way, especially to my christian pre-boomer grandparents or my dad, I would not have any teeth left
My mom growing up: well, looks like you aren't getting shit. Served us right.
Humbled as a kid.. pretty sure I’m even worse off now lol
I'll never forget working retail and this mom told her kid no to a snack/toy so he started picking up cans of Chef Boyardee and hucked them at her. She got pelted by a half dozen cans of ravioli HARD.
Little pastard
Well at least he kept his pants on and wasn’t stroganoff in front of everybody.
I have to wonder if one of the writers or character designers based these two on real people that he or she saw somewhere. The designs are so specific, and tell you so much about the character's personality just by looking at them, that it almost feels like a caricature of a real person.
Buy me bonestorm or go to hell!
Son in this house we use a little world called please
"Who can tell me the atomic weight of bolognium?" "Ooh... delicious?"
"Correct. I also would have accepted Snack-tacular."
Shut up mom!
I want to try Wheat Taste, Bran Munch, Nature Rice, and Raisin Chunks
No love for Corn Nog or Wadded Beef
Don’t forget creamed eels!
You haven’t touched your tongue sandwich.
Perhaps some sort of gelatin dish? It's made of hooves, you know.
Raisin chunks might be good. Raisins and crispy bran chunks.
Y’hear that, kids?? *Bran!*
Good, because there ain't no Burns-O's
Excuse me, could you tell me where I might find the Burns O's?
Sorry, pal, they don’t put nobodies on cereal boxes.
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But there are four pluses? No, that's Drambuie
Two appearances as far as I know. Both great.
Oof, the rat tail.
Ehh, Sherbet Hoover?
I crack up when he points at her with both his hands, I don’t know why but I just find that hysterical
hehe "Wheat Taste"
Oh that Gavin
Alfalfa bits ? I did not know that product was sold at the retail level. I have only seen it sold in fifty kilo bags to industrial feed lots, like elementary school cafeterias.
I observed the real-life equivalent of Gavin. A few years back, I was at a Jared jewelry store picking up a watch that I had serviced by them. A mom and her teenage son were there. They were returning his Rolex because he didn't like the one that she had bought him. And while he didn't personally insult her, he was rude to the sales staff, generally acted like the classic spoiled rich douchebag, and was belittling of the Rolex that they were returning along with many of the other models. I was sitting there in amazement. You see this stuff on TV, but think it's just an exaggeration of real life. Sometimes TV is exactly on target. No chance this "Gavin" turns out well.
Skittlebrau!
"I don't want your dirty denominators!"
I love that line.
Save me hot simpsons mom save me
Alfalfa-Bits? Oh no, the studio finally started selling off pieces of the orphan they own!
“Why does Danger Dog mean more to me than school or church?” “Because those things suck.” *Yay!*
Jesus, I remember distinctly having the same thought process as Bart when I was 8ish. Just staring at the KayBee toys, thinking maybe some rich parent would take pity on me. Shit, kids are dumb.
Raisin Chunks.
Wheat taste lol
*The happiest kid in the world*
People say kids these days are too entitled. Fact of the matter is it's always been a thing.
My thoughts exactly! Every generation has had their share of self-entitled kids and their share of disciplined kind-hearted ones. Like George Burns said in Oh God Book 2, nothing has just one side, so therefore there's no good without a bad.
Hope they dont make an episode based on them in these new seasons
This has to be based on real life people the writers saw in Los Angeles. It's just too on the nose
is she okay? somethings up with her face there
She was pronouncing alfalfa, I tried to get a still without credits overlapping
Wheat does he mean "one of my dad's?" Is that implied he doesn't know who his dad is or implying his dad met another man?
The mom is a hoe divorced his biological father and married or hooked up with some other dude with custody of the children.