Like many awful people throughout history, Burke sees a reality not fully in tune with his own wishes and has decided he should not have to compromise with or accomodate for any of it.
After all, why should HE have to change? It’s EVERYTHING ELSE that sucks.
So it’s all about Burke’s own ego. But did he want to get rid of the Clown Corps entirely, or keep them and make them scarier? Maybe either would work for him. I guess we’ll find out shortly.
I’m also mildly surprised to learn that the name “Pinfall” had nothing to do with bowling.
I would say that if he wanted the Clown Corps turned into a ‘serious’ organization, he would probably not have picked Platt jr. as its new director.
You know, before Platt jr. ran off to Antarctica on a whim with nothing but Cardigan, a fake beard, and a real Chimpanzee for company. Hopefully the penguins will accept him as one of their own.
K bro, I can see you don’t like having clowns around cuz its hard to be taken seriously.
Counter point: you used a doggy door to get into someone’s house, microwaved a potato, and drank it through a straw. Now you are breathing that potato musk in the face of said person with a giant ass rictus grin.
The city might have clowns, but you yourself are an entire goddamn circus
Terrible news Burke, that’s not why no one takes you seriously.
Dude does know that nobody is making you be mayor there, right? Like he could just move; nobody is keeping him chained here specifically
Like many awful people throughout history, Burke sees a reality not fully in tune with his own wishes and has decided he should not have to compromise with or accomodate for any of it.
After all, why should HE have to change? It’s EVERYTHING ELSE that sucks.
did the man just smoke a gaddang baked potatoe
I think he sucked out its innards. Like a vampire.
Why does Burke come off way more unhinged and dangerous here than he has the entire comic before now?
It’s been like a decade. He’s mellowed out in his old age.
Why am I reading his lines in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice
I read them in Alan Tudyk’s King Candy voice.
because instead of a little unfocused gremlin he’s now a little angry gremlin
Because he’s smiling a baked potato through a straw?
Meant to say smoking, but weirdly, autocorrupt has a point this time…
AUTOCORRUPT LMAO
Well, his presence in “the entire comic before now” has mostly been at a party. That’s gotta be a contributing factor.
So it’s all about Burke’s own ego. But did he want to get rid of the Clown Corps entirely, or keep them and make them scarier? Maybe either would work for him. I guess we’ll find out shortly.
I’m also mildly surprised to learn that the name “Pinfall” had nothing to do with bowling.
I would say that if he wanted the Clown Corps turned into a ‘serious’ organization, he would probably not have picked Platt jr. as its new director.
You know, before Platt jr. ran off to Antarctica on a whim with nothing but Cardigan, a fake beard, and a real Chimpanzee for company. Hopefully the penguins will accept him as one of their own.
Seems likely to me that Burke was a clown long before the fire department was.
K bro, I can see you don’t like having clowns around cuz its hard to be taken seriously.
Counter point: you used a doggy door to get into someone’s house, microwaved a potato, and drank it through a straw. Now you are breathing that potato musk in the face of said person with a giant ass rictus grin.
The city might have clowns, but you yourself are an entire goddamn circus
Point 1: If Burke ever considered how his own actions or traits might not be positive, he wouldn’t be in this situation.
Point 2: I’m pretty sure that’s steam, not musk.
Steam, musk, potayto, potahto. Semantics.
Point is, Burke’s spewing freshly-drank baked spud fumes like he’d just inhaled a stogie.
That is not a phrase I should be capable of saying about an allegedly-normal human being.
That said, you’re completely right about Burke having exactly zero comprehension of the consequences of his behavior, let alone his decisionmaking.
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He just wants to be taken seriously okay
It’s not the people in greasepaint nobody takes seriously, Little Man.
what the hell did he do to that potato
YOU CANT EAT A POTATO LIKE THAT
IM MAKING IT ILLEGAL
How? Are you the mayor?
Pinfall: the town that made the Kessel run in less than 12 acres.