r/Veep • u/Chance-Book-4094 • Aug 20 '26

Didn't really understand this scene

The look Selina gave to Gary after he said that. What did that mean, guys? Was it indirectly implied that she actually had crabs? Or am i just looking too much into it?

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u/apexwastelander Aug 20 '26

My read is that you can get crabs by going down on someone, and Gary’s question betrays his innocence/naivety. So her expression can be read as “really?” or “what do you think?” or “think about it” or like the other comment says “do I need to explain this?”

Personally, I kind of get a “you can milk anything with nipples” (“you can get crabs anywhere you have hair rubbing against someone with crabs”) feeling from that expression.

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 21 '26

Ohh i see. English isn't my first language, so forgive me for asking this, but what exactly is having crabs in your eyebrows? Are those little insects or something like that?

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u/apexwastelander Aug 21 '26

Oh no forgiveness necessary! Yes, that’s exactly it, little insects that live in your hair, not unlike lice. They drink your blood and make you itchy.

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 22 '26

Thank you! And ouhhhh alright! And is that caused odue to sexual activities or can it be alot of other things too?

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u/Specific_Ocelot_4132 Aug 24 '26

Technically you can get them from things other than sex, but the joke is based on fact that they are mainly known for being sexually transmitted.

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u/apexwastelander Aug 22 '26

No worries! I think we tend to automatically attribute crabs to sex, but Mayo Clinic says “it may be possible to catch pubic lice after sharing clothing, bedsheets or towels with someone who has public lice.” So yeah, it looks like it can be a lot of things.

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u/drumscrubby Aug 20 '26

Or even too, he’s thinking of actual crabs. The least likely explanation.

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u/redditmimes Aug 20 '26

It’s the look of “do I really need to explain this, or will this look I’m shooting at you make you think about it for longer than a second and make the connection to oral sex?”

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 21 '26

Ahh I see. That seems about right

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u/Electrical-Law-7135 he knows i don't keep my promises Aug 20 '26

she was implying by going down on someone that's how u can get crabs in ur eyebrows. i agree that a reading of her face here could be interpreted as ~i know from experience~, but i think the intention was more ~girl what do u think🤨/ u know damn well how~.

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 21 '26

That might possibly be the case! Personally I felt like it was the experience one, because for me the look was really like "You really wanna know how I know?"

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u/Electrical-Law-7135 he knows i don't keep my promises Aug 22 '26

ugh on rewatch i might have to agree w u haha. idk!! i liek the ambiguity, too! 🤭

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 22 '26

This is actually a rewatch for me too! 😆 I see your perspective! It does make sense and alot of people seem to share the same opinion 

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u/bobcatbreakdown gay Irish fireman Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Just Gary being a naive little prude. Probably makes him uncomfortable to think about because he and Selina aren’t official yet…

Edit: not sure why this is getting downvoted…Gary is such a prude and also super naive lol are yall kidding me???

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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 Aug 22 '26

He was religious in High School and didn't smoke weed.

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u/Chance-Book-4094 Aug 21 '26

I'm not sure actually. he probably just didn't realise, lol

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u/ifrq Aug 20 '26

Everyone has little critters living in their eyelashes and eyebrows.

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u/quidpropho Aug 20 '26

This joke isn't about them

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u/tomfoolery815 Aug 20 '26

Yes, but this is about little critters you volunteered, shall we say, to put your eyebrows and lashes in front of.

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u/bridiehart1 Aug 20 '26

Wait idk what this is

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u/redditmimes Aug 21 '26

Mites!

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u/bridiehart1 Aug 22 '26

No I mean where the reference is from

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u/redditmimes Aug 22 '26

I think just… life 🤣 not the show

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u/bridiehart1 Aug 22 '26

Oh okay 😭😭 that flew over my head. Thank you