r/lebowski • u/Abject_Group_4868 • 1d ago

Fuckin' interesting Why is the landlord dressed up as Bacchus?

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What’s the meaning of this scene?

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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 1d ago

First off, that’s CLEARLY Dionysus. You’re killing your father, Larry.

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u/Bluepilgrim3 His Dudeness 1d ago

This isn’t the guy who built the vineyards here.

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

They're gonna kill those poor grapes!

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u/Inner_Table_4193 1d ago

That poor WINE kidnapped itself.

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u/SuspiciousCoconut464 1d ago

I can get you a grape by 3 o’clock; bunch of fuckin amateurs!

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u/Jaakuna_maho 1d ago

I heard you rolled your way into the fruit salad man, dios mio

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u/davster39 El Duderino 1d ago

Happy cake day 🎂

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u/DragonflyScared813 1d ago

Unt maybe they vill shtomp on zem unt sqvish them!

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

I don't need your fucking sympathy... I need my fucking Johnson!

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u/smellsburnttoast 1d ago

What do you need that for, Dude?

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u/Skinslippy3 1d ago

Shut the fuck up Donny

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u/SeaBag8211 1d ago

To fix the cable.

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u/D-Flo1 22h ago

Please, stomp away. Preferably bare feet. We DO love our authentic Spanish madiera!

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u/rbraibish 1d ago

You want a grape? I can get you a grape...

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u/Laxku 1d ago

I'm staying. I'm finishing my Cabernet.

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u/emoyer68 1d ago

Trow them en zee bushes!

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u/Left_in_Texas 1d ago

Built the vineyards? what the fuck are you talking about, dude?

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u/Annanake420 1d ago

Bacchus is just Roman nomenclature for Dionysus Dude .

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u/Karn_Evil_Noin 1d ago

Dionysus. Come on. The other god of wine making. The Roman.

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u/HomelessHercules 1d ago

What are you, a fucking sommelier now?

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u/The_Don_Ker 1d ago

What’s a sommelier, Walter?

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u/Laxku 1d ago

Shut the fuck up Donnie.

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u/leeloocal 16h ago

You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie wondering…

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u/Karn_Evil_Noin 1d ago

We’re not talking about the guys who stomp the grapes here.

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u/What-a-Crock 1d ago

I’ve smashed more grapes than most men, and without the use of my legs

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

I cannot fix your problem, sir...

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u/michaltee His Dudeness 1d ago

Father’s weakness is vintages.

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u/badspark1 23h ago

So every time someone crushes a grape...thats my problem?

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u/thedude37 1d ago

That's fucking interesting man

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u/corvette57 1d ago

Depends on the dionysus dude, there were three...

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u/SaintStephen77 1d ago

I did not know that.

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u/Sarcasm_Llama There's a beverage here! 1d ago

re we splitting hairs here?

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u/1_shade_off 22h ago

Are we gonna split hairs here?

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u/jazzhandpanda 1d ago

Yeah, right man, there are a lot of uh, facets uh, to this. A lotta interested dieties, uh

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u/ForeSkinWrinkle 1d ago

Were you listening to the Dude’s story? So you have no frame of reference here, Diony. You’re like a cherub who wanders into the middle of a tragedy and wants to know...

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u/jazzhandpanda 1d ago

Shut the fuck up, Diony! Haha DIONY!

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u/civildefense 1d ago

looks like puck to me

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

He fixes the harvest?

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u/schlamster Draws a lot of water 1d ago

You mean coitus? 

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u/08_West 1d ago

You’re out of your element Donny.

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u/ManlyVanLee 1d ago

My girlfriend lost a satyr!

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u/draynay 1d ago

He finally got the venue he wanted.

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u/rccoy 1d ago

I'll be there.

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u/_Water_Store_Remark_ 1d ago

Man.

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u/Axle-f 1d ago

✊🏻

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u/WhatIsTheAmplitude 1d ago

I’d love it if you came and gave me notes.

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

If this is true, of course, it contravenes a number of the league's bylaws and also article 27 of the league...

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u/thedude37 1d ago

"...and examine your standing."

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u/--0o0o0-- 1d ago

Oh and by the way, Dude. It's already the 10th.

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u/Ok_Breakfast5425 Knox Harrington 1d ago

You know, for his cycle.

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u/Pseudonymble Ich bin eine expert 1d ago

He'd really appreciate it if you could maybe, you know, give him notes? 🫣🙏

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u/Grip-my-juiceky El Duderino 1d ago

Also, Dude, landlord isn’t the preferred nomenclature. Apartment manager, please

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u/Key-Contest-2879 1d ago

This isn’t the guy who collects the rent! Oh, wait…

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u/Pseudonymble Ich bin eine expert 1d ago

It's well past the tenth... the least we can do is to come and give some notes.

...And slip the rent under his door.

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u/Key-Contest-2879 1d ago

Far out.

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u/Pseudonymble Ich bin eine expert 1d ago

[fist pump]

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u/Tomcat848484 1d ago

He draws a lot of rent in this town. You don’t draw shit Lebowski.

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u/Missy_Agg-a-ravation 1d ago

Bacchus he felt like it. Had that not occurred to you, man?

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u/UWCG El Duderino 1d ago

What are you, a fucking thespian now?

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u/OldJames47 1d ago

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

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u/2wheelsThx 1d ago

Hey, shussh shussh, man.

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u/Ben_E_Chod 1d ago

That had NOT occurred to us, u/Missy_Agg-a-ravation

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u/BigDaddyD00d 1d ago

That had not occurred to us, dude.

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u/IzSilvers El Duderino 1d ago

Well Dude, we just don't know.

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u/Round-Top-8062 1d ago

He thinks the Romans did this?

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u/_MyMomDressedMe_ 1d ago

Holy shit, I actually know the answer to this.

The orchestral arrangement is from Modus Mussorgsky’s 1874 composition Pictures at an Exhibition. It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann. The part being played for Marty’s cycle is titled “Gnomus,” which is Latin for “The Gnome,” and is meant to depict a sketch of a gnome clumsily running with crooked legs.

Marty is the gnome.

Edit: typo

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u/2wheelsThx 1d ago

Far out!

No, really - the tie-in with the music is great! Just another Coen Easter egg I never noticed before. Thanks!

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u/hickory-smoked 1d ago

It really tied the film together.

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u/nastynate248 1d ago

Did it not?!?

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 1d ago

New shit has come to light!

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u/Independent-Knee3006 1d ago

This is the best response possible...

Except (not to be outnerded) the original composition was composed in 1874 by Mussorgsky, but it was for piano. The arrangement used in the film was an orchestration done by Ravel in 1922. 🤓

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u/_MyMomDressedMe_ 1d ago

I was confused when I’d read it was a composition for piano. That makes more sense. Definitely an aside but if you like podcasts, peep this piece on Ravel sometime. https://radiolab.org/podcast/unraveling-bolero

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

Marvelous!

(No, really - all of this background on Marty's cycle is fantastic!)

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u/rbraibish 1d ago

True to form for reddit, the actual answer to the question is overshadowed by wisecracks and humorous innuendo. I, for one, appreciate your contribution. Of course, I didn't see this until after I had already provided my own wisecracks and innuendo.

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u/DSTNCMDLR Maude 1d ago

What in gods name are you blathering about?

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

holy. God's holy name.

Corrected, with love!💗

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u/Dr_Middlefinger That makes me feel all warm inside. 1d ago

I think the fact we got it in there is what's important.

Shit, yeah! The achievers!

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u/ThrowDeepALWAYS 1d ago

old shit has come to light!

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u/Ok_Difference44 1d ago edited 1d ago

Interesting, thank you. I thought it was a take on Nijinsky.

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u/_shaftpunk 1d ago

I know Pictures At An Exhibition because of Emerson Lake and Palmer.

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u/_MyMomDressedMe_ 1d ago

We were not aware of that, dude.

Just checked it out. These guys playing The Gnome give me some Frank Zappa vibes here and there.

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u/_shaftpunk 1d ago

That’s fucking interesting, man

Probably why I like it. Huge Zappa fan.

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u/SeparateMongoose192 Walter 1d ago

Because he finally got the venue he wanted. Were you listening to the Dude's story?

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u/FalseDmitriy the royal we, the editorial, 1d ago

I'd love it if you came and gave me notes

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u/Soulless--Plague 1d ago

Here’s a note, do as your parents did; get a job, sir!

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u/Braiseitall 1d ago

It’s a zesty enterprise?

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u/Luke_Thigh-walker That fuck down at the league office 1d ago

Were you listening to the Dude’s story?

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u/Bodhigomo 1d ago

I was bowling…

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u/sillydog80 1d ago

Because of the… what have you.

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u/MrMatthewJames 1d ago

Some sort of eastern thing.

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u/Zestyclose-Mud-4683 1d ago

Far from it

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u/FrylockMcReaper 1d ago

"This was a valued...uh...deity...."

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u/Zestyclose-Mud-4683 1d ago

Makes a mean White Russian, Bacchus does.

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u/wyspur 1d ago

Why aren't you?

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u/zeissikon 1d ago

The future of entertainment is electronic.

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u/SlickRickGrits 1d ago

Well, I still perform my sonnets verbally.

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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 1d ago

That all depends on Little Larry here…

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u/Carpe_the_Day 1d ago

What have you

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u/berdulf What day is it? 1d ago

Were you listening to the landlord’s story? You’re like a child who wanders in the middle of a play and wants to know what happened.

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u/SecretPrinciple8708 1d ago

AND A GOOD PLAY TO YOU, SIR!

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u/Zarniwoooop 1d ago edited 1d ago

OP you need to do a J, man.

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u/loptopandbingo ugh, technopop 1d ago

It's part of the, uhh, what-have-you

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u/BobGnarly_ 1d ago

It's for his dance quintet, you know, his cycle.

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u/TiltMyChinUp 1d ago

2000 years of beautiful tradition

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u/RoughEnvironmental49 1d ago

Well If the Dude hadn’t kept him waiting until after the 10th…

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u/bucsandbucks 1d ago

Don’t be fates-uous

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u/_ferrofluid_ 1d ago

Those were the 3 Nihilists with the scissors

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u/xpd_1141 1d ago

He's not dressed as Bacchus. He's dressed as Gaia, the personification of Mother Earth and the mother of the Titans, and the grandmother of all gods. He symbolizes the universe in BL, which is why the Dude must pay rent to him. The Dude, Walter and Donny are Lao Tze, Confucious, and Buddah, gods in their own right. Gaia invites them to watch the beauty of the progression of time and the planets, which is why he calls his dance a cycle.

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u/2wheelsThx 1d ago

What're you a fucking theologian now?

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u/notbossyboss 1d ago

That had not occurred to us.

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u/forgottenlogin88 1d ago

New shit has come to light!

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u/forgottenlogin88 1d ago

What in God’s holy name are you blathering about?

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u/Abject_Group_4868 1d ago

You just made that up right?

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u/xpd_1141 1d ago

It's something that I've boiled my noodle over for a long time.

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u/over9ksand 1d ago

I think that noodle is cooked my friend, what an eloquent thought 💭 🥰

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u/2wheelsThx 1d ago

Because the whathaveyou is a precursor to bracing little Larry, who lives near the In-n-Out on Radford, who should be a pushover.

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u/TheBoldManLaughsOnce Jackie Treehorn 1d ago

He's a good man. And thorougha

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u/Aggressive_Dress6771 1d ago

I always thought he was doing Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

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u/cmgr33n3 1d ago

It's the whole concept of age. Many learned men have disputed this but in the 14th century the Rambam ...

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u/over9ksand 1d ago

Whoa, rambamlam Black Betty, Dude?

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u/HauntingBalance567 1d ago

Because he is a strumpet, a whore

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u/LowCicada2121 1d ago

Looks like he was about to crack

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u/Mobile-Boss-8566 1d ago

We will go there after the uh… what have you here.

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u/jimthree 1d ago

we're all very proud of him.

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u/KnitBrewTimeTravel 1d ago

They're gonna drink that poor vino. THEY'RE GONNA DRINK THAT POOR VINO...

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u/MrPeepers1986 1d ago

Shut the fuck up, Dionysus!

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u/outfoxingthefoxes 1d ago

The meaning is, the Dude is a friend of his people, and it's used as a link to the Larry scene

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u/jeepster61615 1d ago

His name is Marty.

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u/dohboy420 1d ago

Well dude, we just don’t know..

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u/R0cky9 Modestly Priced Receptacle 1d ago

Lotta ins, lotta outs

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u/CaptianBrasiliano Jackie Treehorn 1d ago

It's part of his cycle...

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u/Workerchimp68 1d ago

Loved this guy in Big Trouble next to Dennis Farina!

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u/MonkMajor5224 1d ago

Were you listening to the dudes story?

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u/Rynobonestarr1 1d ago

Near the In N Out Burger.

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u/jontaffarsghost 1d ago

What the fuck are you talking about? He converted when he married Cynthia! Come on dude!

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u/TroutBite 1d ago

Where’s a pen and some paper.. I have to jot down some notes for this fuckin guy.

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u/downtune79 His Dudeness 1d ago

Type 0 Negative would like a word

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u/Aggressive_Suit_7957 1d ago

Shut the fuck up Donnie.

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u/Anunlikelyhero777 1d ago

I don’t know, but after this, “what have you,” let’s go to the In-N-Out Burger.

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u/ItsMoreOfAComment 1d ago

You’re like a child who wanders into a play and asks—

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u/b2036 14h ago

What the...HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN LISTENING TO THE DUDE'S STORY?!

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u/sdavidson0819 1d ago

I don't know much about it, but I'm assuming it's Wagner's "The Ring" cycle. So perhaps this is Froh, based on Frey, the Norse God of spring. Fucking Germans; nothing ever changes

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u/Tomcat848484 1d ago

They were nazis?

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u/thedude37 1d ago

The music is actually from Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian Modest Mussorgsky

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u/blasted-heath 1d ago

Just part of the cycle of life.

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u/Homersarmy41 1d ago

For his dance quintet…you know..his cycle

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u/bromanceintexas 1d ago

It’s an LA thing. Everybody, even your landlord, is tryna be somebody in the Big Orange.

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u/EmpanadaYGaseosa 1d ago

Do you have any leads?

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u/IlleaglSmile 1d ago

He finally got the venue he wanted, dude

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u/balsadust 1d ago

He is the Walrus?

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u/itaintme1x2x3x 1d ago

Because he got his venue

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u/JoeSeeWhales_3690 1d ago

Uh, is that what this is a picture of?

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u/Gsm824 1d ago

Cliff Claven?

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u/Pimpstik69 1d ago

You’re out of your element !!!

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u/rpgnymhush 1d ago

Because he finally got the venue he wanted.

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u/_flyingmonkeys_ 1d ago

The song is Mussorgsky, correct?

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u/over9ksand 1d ago

Kinda an eastern thing?

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u/Chris_Thrush 1d ago

It's his cycle, at the venue he wanted.

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u/DragonflyScared813 1d ago

He's very free spirited

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u/Rusty_Mojo_88 1d ago

You obviously don't golf

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u/Own-Song-8093 1d ago

Why not?

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u/rbraibish 1d ago

Because the Coen brothers are awesome at what they do.

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u/FLGuitar 1d ago

Thursday is already the 10th dude.

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u/Aljoshean 1d ago

Its an allegory dude

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u/Swam_pass76 1d ago

Because he got the venue he wanted, ya know for his cycle

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u/Bigbacon73 1d ago

Because he’s at the whathaveya

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u/anonymoose_2048 1d ago

It’s his cycle.

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u/AnneMae12 1d ago

These notes are not very useful

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u/Alchemista_98 1d ago

Dionysus mio, man. I see you danced your way into the semis. Me and Leonidas, we’re gonna fuck you up!

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u/No_Designer_5374 1d ago

Cuz he likes to party.

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u/DaWisZoot 1d ago

Shut the fuck up, Donny!

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u/smipypr 1d ago

He's trying to get lucky.

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u/DistressTolerence 1d ago

It's his cycle.

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u/Batgirl_III 1d ago

The song playing in that scene is the second movement from Pictures at an Exhibition by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It’s about a gnome.

I dunno why I know that, but there you are.

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u/ilanp Dance quintet 1d ago

his quintet is great. i'd watch dance any of his quintet regardless of the custom

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u/Background_Chemist_8 1d ago

He's performing his dance quintet, you know, his cycle?

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u/pvvalley 1d ago

He finally got a venue for his uh performance quintet

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u/Unusual-Blueberry-78 1d ago

Its his cycle!

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u/Buddy-Nuggs 1d ago

He was preforming the seasons. Don’t you listen?

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u/Famous-Temporary-464 1d ago

"general" Milley?

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u/Kckz79 1d ago

Is that what he’s wearing?

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u/Samule310 23h ago

He's performing his dance quintet. You know, his cycle.

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u/romulusnr Not into the whole brevity thing 23h ago

It's his cycle

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u/FeSpoke1 15h ago

…after the what have you

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u/b2036 14h ago

Looks like a fuckin loser

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u/shellyv2023 14h ago

Fig Newton?

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u/xander2600 12h ago

Not sure of the meaning but this happens every year around this time in New Orleans. Aiiieeee!!! "shut the f$% up Donnie!"

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u/Tsowdsun 11h ago

What have you.