#the churro scene

[deadunderorbit]

tianshan but it’s the churro scene from Challengers

[coldblooded-angel]

My thoughts during the Churro™ scene as a professionally licensed Yapper:

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT:

While they’re in the canteen, there’s a moment where Art looks at Patrick and you can clearly see the relief in his eyes that he has his friend there with him. (Or does he??)

I don’t think Art was lying about not keeping in touch with Patrick. In between his tennis career and his relationship, Patrick has neglected Art (which I think is because he’s so used to him being there that he just never fathomed him not being there which makes him complacent in their friendship).

But when Art realizes that once again Patrick has been taken away by just the mere image of Tashi, he’s hurt. I think in that moment Art wanted to feed that hurt, lash out and make Patrick feel the pain he feels for being left out.

Art jokes about Patrick not being there to visit him because he misses him. He misses his friend, his constant and yes, it’s in a joking manner but Patrick sees thru him (as he always does).

(The fucking head tilt took me out because it screams fond like ‘aw baby u really did miss me ure so cute when ure jealous but wont admit it’)

The entire scene (for me) turns into reassurances and doubts. Their friendship was being tested to see if it could withstand having to share their love and space with a third. Having to make concessions and space around their new desire and jealousy.

When Art tries to downplay his thoughts, trying to twist Tashi’s words to manipulate he was clearly being petty but I also think there’s some truth to his statement of not wanting Patrick to get hurt. He is his friend first but he also knows him (the same intrinsic way that Patrick knows Art) and how his friend will be able to bounce back from any relationship because Art truly doesn’t think these two are that serious (blinded by Patrick’s history and his own feelings). So Patrick sees the manipulation for what it is.

(The fond look in his eye when Art isn’t looking. That man is in love your honor!!!!!)

Patrick knows Art was trying to manipulate him. He knows it and he likes it, encourages it even. He looks at him like he’s proud of Art. The fact that it mattered more to him that Art was actually being vocal about his own wants instead of repressing as he always did, even if it was through breaking him and his girlfriend up. He didn’t even see it as a threat because it never occurs to him that he could lose Tashi to Art (or vice versa) because at this point, he’s secure in his place within the triangle. But also reveals how insecure Art feels within that same triangle because of his perceived isolation.

[glitterparpaing]

it seems to be rightfully impossible for Mike Faist to have a major role in a movie/musical without making it unbearably homoerotic

and honestly? love that for him

[twolovelyberries]

3—no—4? 5? tickets to challengers please

[dramaticsigh]

I’m going to tell my kids this is the Challengers movie

[isolabellz]

in a bubble

[lokiiied]

CHURRO SCENE MY BELOVED 🫶🫶🫶

[vigilskeep]

very amused by the fact that a lot of lucanis’ lines were delightfully fitting to sol extremely specifically (the “you like to walk a little too close to the edge” exchange comes to mind, or when he told them optimism was their best and worst quality, both of which work generally but are like knife sharp insightful when said to sol and really took me aback when i first heard them), and i never had to force sol to say anything i didn’t think they would to progress the romance, like i have on certain occasions in da2 and dai. but i saw some of the flirt lines you can say that i missed because sol was not into him yet, and have never gotten a harder They Would Not Fucking Say That. i feel like by sol’s godawful timing i unlocked a secret slightly separate dynamic. and i would have to do it all the exact same way if i played them again

[plumbus-central]

and you KNOW shes not gonna tell him either

[arttsuka]

Hi hello I accidentally sent this to the wrong blog at first and caused mass hysteria but could I please ask for

jedtavius with a churro going at it lady and the tramp style pretty please with fire extinguisher paste on top

Oops 😬

1st: I accidentally made a 'they're big now' drawing (churros are too big for their small selves ok? They wouldn't be able to 'lady and the tramp' it)

2nd: why fire extinguisher paste? No (I did draw a blank person using a fire extinguisher on them tho)

[weirdgirlvampire]

The reason the churro scene is so crazy isn’t bc of the churro munching penis analogy its bc the churro place is completely fucking empty and patrick STILL pulls art’s stool closer to him and gets as physically close to art as possible. And art loves it. And ALSO bc of the churro munching penis analogy

[eshokk]

poetry

[dongslinger--420]

Ok but. The scene in s2e09 "The Shot" fucking breaks me and here's why. BoJack sees Kelsey as a merge between his parents and Herb, what with her being older than him and jaded but also she's a boss figure. And for this reason, BoJack spends a lot of time (shown most in "Chickens" but also a lot of the season tbh) trying to win her approval because she's not giving it to him willingly. He keeps going about it in the wrong way, as we see in Chickens when he is trying to turn her actual literal daughter being in danger into a fun day out, but I think the biggest issue with this is actually that he doesn't really have anything to prove. Kelsey purposefully sought him out for the job because she genuinely believed him to be the best actor there, and although she shows frustration at him not being able to do his job properly, she does still keep this image of him in mind. Which is why the thing that actually does lead him to win her approval is him delivering a genuinely good performance, and said approval just comes in a simple recognition of his skill. BoJack has been in desperate of simple appreciation from his parents (reflected in stuff like the "I see you" theme from Free Churro) and he has been missing the attention and extremely intimate love of his performance that Herb gave him while he was directing him, and Kelsey's "no, I knew" quote manages, in three words, to deliver both to him perfectly. And THAT'S what breaks him. Between the sheer emotional connection he feels towards this woman, and the lack of this connection that he received from the people he wanted it from the most, it just becomes too much for him, and THAT'S what leads him to start crying. It is one of the most layered, emotionally intimate moments of the entire show, and it breaks me every time I watch it.

[bisexualdisasterjeanmoreau]

*awakens at 3am in a cold sweat*

KEVJEREJEAN CHALLENGERS AU

[imthefailedartist]

I appreciate them showing Patrick lusting, hard, after a fat girl in the churro scene.

It was nice to see.

I mean, as a fat girl, the bar is in hell, but it's nice to be included in someone's sexual fantasies and not as a fetish or joke.

[mygifscene]