#110: Pier Pressure

[Bear]

Hi I'm new and I think I noticed a little "visual" joke that's hard to get. In the first scene, before Buster explains that he's referring to "it as our nausea", the narrator says :

Narrator: Buster’s girlfriend Lucille Austero, suffers from chronic vertigo, which she has been trying to fight without the use of medication.

You can see Lucille 2 stumbling and keeling over in her hallway ... which is decorated in a "boat cabin" style.

So it seems like she's being thrown around in a storm at sea : vertigo = balance disorder + nausea.

The scene even ends with Lucille 2 steadying herself by grabbing a boat wheel hung on the wall.

Did anybody else notice that ?

[Chelpo]

I didn't -- nice find!

And welcome to the-op.

[heycoworker]

I've always thought he meant "[spoiler]sh!tting[/spoiler] around", but of course, he's Buster, so he can't say it.

I thought Buster said "[spoiler]shitting[/spoiler] around" too, though my friend has added he might also be saying "[spoiler]screwing[/spoiler] around." Either way, I agree with you that that's just Buster's way. "Like anyone would want to 'R' her."

i actually think he means "eff-ing" around, but uses the wrong letter because he's buster.

[Bear]

Yep that's pretty much what I thought too : "I am not eff-ing around" as pronounced by Buster.

[Ripe for Parody]

I thought he meant "ess-ing" as "screwing" because Buster doesn't curse much. Remember how he laughed when the site foreman told him to take his head out of his "bottom"?

It just makes sense that he would think "screwing" was an obscenity.

[Bear]

Yep you may as well be right. Buster is easily shocked by swearing :

Georges Sr : You were just a turd.

Buster : Prison has destroyed the way you talk. If that’s what it takes to impress these guys around here, then they are not your friends.