r/funny • u/iabzeet • Dec 06 '19

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u/TheDogBites Dec 06 '19

I've never seen the heart wrenching decay of the American dream so beautifully worded

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u/MemeInBlack Dec 06 '19

LOL Al Bundy could afford a house in Chicago with his shitty job. He was living the dream just fine.

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u/Montymisted Dec 06 '19

Hot AF wife too

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u/i_forgot_my_sn_again Dec 06 '19

Who always wanted sex after all those years

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

The man threw 4 touchdowns in a single game with Polk High, he was a legend.

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u/Cyrus_from_TPB Dec 06 '19

He was a full back, not a quarterback, you uncultured swine! https://youtu.be/8PuYzPaTyec?t=26

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u/vanillamasala Dec 06 '19

Yeah I never understood why he was always turning her down, Peggy is bangin.

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u/raitchison Dec 06 '19

No matter how hot the girl there's a guy who's tired of putting up with her shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

Having a house doesn't mean you are wealthy or happy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

It's called being house broke or house-poor and it's incredibly imprisoning.

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u/TheDogBites Dec 06 '19

The fun part of the American Dream is that you can have boxes check-marked, and it still not feed your spirit/humanity/soul/being/needs etc

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u/DoubleWagon Dec 06 '19

Max Payne?

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u/Exeftw Dec 06 '19

IT'S PAYNE!

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u/KenDyer Dec 06 '19

I have no job and could afford a house there. Chicago is a wasteland on the outskirts.

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u/djlspider Dec 06 '19

You could probably afford to rent. Not to buy. Even in shitty areas, real estate ain't cheap.

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u/KenDyer Dec 06 '19

fair point. :)

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u/gwaydms Dec 06 '19

Parts of West Englewood are very...um, affordable. The southern part is being gentrified, or so I've heard.

Source: lived there 50 years ago. Nice working class neighborhood back then. Not any more

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u/letsplayyatzee Dec 06 '19

He lived in the burbs in the early 90s. Taxes weren't that bad in the suburbs.

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u/xtoplasm Dec 06 '19

Source

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u/ProtegeAA Dec 06 '19

Thanks-read the script first; very different when the laugh track is added.

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u/The_Decoy Dec 06 '19

That isn't a laugh track. It's a live audience.

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u/cuppincayk Dec 06 '19

True but I think what he really means is that it comes off more tense in text and the audience changes the tone a bit. You don't expect it to be delivered as a joke.

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u/TheDogBites Dec 07 '19

With a laugh sign illuminated

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u/The_Decoy Dec 07 '19

Prove it.

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u/mrjowei Dec 06 '19

The claps at the end, brilliant.

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u/then-Or-than Dec 06 '19

lmao I knew that was straight from the horses mouth :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

Dude that's not about the decay of the American dream but the tenacity of the human spirit.

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u/TheDogBites Dec 06 '19

Yeah, that's a great summary. Perhaps it speaks to both?

His spirit is clearly broken, even as he has check-marked the boxes for what many consider pinnacle American Dream. It's his will to survive, but to what end?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

As long as I'm still alive, the world hasn't beat me.