#like the ''marlboro man shows up to tell the protagonist to chew his arm off'' bit could've been written by someone critiquing
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watched a (pirated) mr. birchum episode out of curiosity and in it the asshole conservative protagonist has a homoerotic daydream about the other teacher who's a stand in for the ""woke left"" that he hates, which is the opener for the episode and is also never referred to again, gets his sleeve caught in a machine in his woodshop at work and spends days contemplating his life and regrets while he's trapped (or so he thinks). this montage includes how he met his current wife who he doesn't respect and who isn't honest with him (the b-plot expands on this), how his ex-partner left him after coming out as a lesbian and was repulsed after he tried to persuade her to stay with him, reasoning that her being queer meant they could just share a girlfriend now (that was not what it meant), and culminating in a marlboro man-esque image of commercialized rugged usamerican masculinity telling him to chew his own arm off to escape, before one of his students comes along and frees him by just cutting off his sleeve. all that and he thought to chew his own arm off before he considered just tearing his sleeve. and it's all played as a comedy. fever dream episode
#bolo liveblogs#mr birchum#it was episode four btw#I am NOT endorsing this show in case I have to state that explicitly. do not think that I am endorsing this show!#it's just that the extent to which this story about a self-described macho man who prides himself on his unwillingness to change#to the point that it *almost kills him* is played straight as a comedy bc the people who wrote it think that#being a stubborn asshole is cool actually is. bizarre#like the ''marlboro man shows up to tell the protagonist to chew his arm off'' bit could've been written by someone critiquing#toxic masculinity and I would've said it was too unsubtle. but no that's just. a thing that happens in the show
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