It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ketchy Shuby.
Muir achieves comic absurdity when he goes for pathos, first from the absurd litany of tragedy being doled out on what amounts to secondary and tertiary characters, second from the Snidley Whiplashing of his federal dupes as they commit the grave sin of not being racist enough.
Jack (R.I.P.) was, even by the standards of modern Day by Day, a complete and utter cipher. He had absolutely no personality. None. I couldn't really tell you a single thing about him. He fell in love with Kiko, won Zed's approval, proposed to her, and then died tragically, all while displaying no identifiable traits or characteristics beyond the vaguest generalities (and maybe not even those, really).
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't just the writing, either --- the fact that Muir seemed to have even fewer stock faces/poses for Jack than he does for the other characters certainly didn't help.
That said, I'm gonna miss him. He was just so morbidly fascinating to look at. As you frequently pointed out, he was supposedly about 20 but looked like he was in his fifties. And because Muir is completely incompetent, he resembled less an attractive human male than some kind of lumbering, gollum-like creature.
Oh, god yes. I will miss the Solomon Grundy/Frankenstein's Monster jokes I made.
DeleteAlso, a reminder that I don't believe we ever even saw his mother, who has so tragically dropped dead after hearing of her son's demise.
Um...he hated people with blue state license plates?
DeleteBut they all do that! The entire cast are convinced that blue staters are some sort of dangerous untermenschen that need to be stripped of their rights less they contaminate the red states.
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