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#19 Bob Loblaw wrote on October 05, 2005:

In Epi3 she points the tail of her racoon-cap (microphone?) at Michael when she asks about his family, so I’m pretty sure she’s not rita-rded at all but some sort of spy. Cheers.

#20 He's Got Bees wrote on October 05, 2005:

Bob Loblaw wrote:

In Epi3 she points the tail of her racoon-cap (microphone?) at Michael when she asks about his family, so I’m pretty sure she’s not rita-rded at all but some sort of spy. Cheers.

damn i thought i payed close attention to this show. Nice pickup. The way Dave Thomas said "Your...’hat’." was the only time i seriously thought about it. Also, how she says "im a very good listener" makes more sense now as michael starts talking about the crimes and the camera zooms into the BEADS on her hat. I’d been stuck on the "someone stupid in your family" line up until now. I expected to see more discussion about Rita around here.

#21 la_kings_lawsuit wrote on October 06, 2005:

pukatronic wrote:

Don’t forget the High Times centerfolds! Back to Rita - she must be "special" or at least pretending to be so. All the clues already mentioned in this thread point to it, plus, Rita didn’t know the meaning of the word ’impune’ when Michael said it to her. She just repeated the word out loud and seemed confused.

is that not what she should have done? impune isn’t a word; right?

i don’t know.
alls i know is re-watching the season 3’s i keep seeing more and more very subtle jokes.

like when david cross is trying to be gob in "for british eyes only" and pops in with a "micheal!" he drops a bunch of change on the ground. a "pennies from heaven
trick gone bad.

god this show rocks.

#22 Hollus wrote on October 06, 2005:

la_kings_lawsuit wrote:

is that not what she should have done? impune isn’t a word; right?

No, impugn means to oppose something as false. Michael was just saying that he didn’t mean to say that Rita was a bad teacher.

#23 Bob Loblaw wrote on October 06, 2005:

I think Rita was having a little too much fun "riding" the space shuttle before lunch. If you know what I mean.

Also the Rita/Ritarded/bRITAain thing is awesome, what about Ritalin? Isn’t that what they give to kids to focus on school? Hmmm...

#24 vcalzone wrote on October 08, 2005:

I was sure that Rita’s difficulty was kinda obvious, but evidently not to everyone as evidenced by my conversation last night with my sister, who was watching Forget-Me-Now for the first time:
Her: "Hey, what’s the significance of that bench? It says Wee Britain, which has ’Rita’ in the middle of it. Is she not really British or something?"
Me: "Nono, they do something with it after this. Just wait for it."
Then it gets to where the bench says "Wee Brain".
Me: "See?"
Her: "No... Brain?"
Me: "No, see, it says ’Wee Brain’."
Her: "I don’t get it."
Me: "Well... you know... because she’s special..."
Her: *shocked* "SHE’S MENTALLY CHALLENGED?!" *bursts into laughter*

It was rather amusing for both of us.

#25 forever_arrested wrote on January 09, 2006:

Rita is so cool

And I commend Charlize for taking this role because the show isn’t as highly watched as Desperate Housewives for example, but she goes and creates this great character that personally could become my favorite. After Maeby and GOB and George Micheal.

#26 bananastandmoney wrote on January 29, 2006:

I just got finished watching the whole of season 3 a couple of nights ago and couldn’t stop talking about how awesome Rita was and how I would love to have a woman like her.... and my friend just kept making off remarks like "yeah she’s your type", etc. and I had no idea what his problem was.
Then I realized her character was mentally disabled.
She had me completly fooled with her charm.

#27 I ate all your bees wrote on January 30, 2006:

It’s the accent. It masks a lot. I know I take advantage of it to talk a load of bleep and no one really notices.

Nobody else probably notices, because you generally don’t pick up on these things when it’s not your own, but every so often her accent goes a little off and it just distracts me a bit.

#28 Huge_Mistake wrote on February 10, 2006:

This is probably a stretch, but is it possible that the Rita character was inspired by David Cross’s America’s Cutest Retards comment? Even though she isn’t American, she is definately the cutest retard I’ve ever seen.

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