When Stacy and Rat were inside the restaurant and it seemed to take Damone a while to bring the wallet is because he was outside stealing the radio from the car of Rat's sister. After all, they couldn't believe it would happen at such a fancy place.
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I don't think Damone would stoop so low that he'd steal anyone's stuff, especially Rat's tape deck. I know he's a jerk, but no more a jerk than a lot of people his age. I know he "stole" Stacy, but c'mon...Rat didn't own Stacy like he owned his tape deck (which was actually his sister's). Anyway, there's no plausible evidence that Damone stole the tape deck, just circumstantial.
I think the purpose of having the tape deck stolen was to show how long Rat and Stacy were in the restaurant, and to illustrate how everything can go wrong during a date.
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I never thought about how they ate so much because Damone took his sweet time, and he took his sweet time because he's selfish. However, if he doesn't really care about his friendship with Rat, why were his later apologies heartfelt, at least for a 16 year old dude?
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That's a solid opinion, but I like to think of Damone in a bit more of a positive light, but there's no question that he's a "you-know-what". Yet, I'd hope that he learned his lesson through the Stacy/Rat scenario.
In the locker room, he's somewhat regretful and apologetic, but brushes off Rat to some degree with the "It's not like she was your girlfriend". Then again, he was right in that Stacy was sexually aggressive and ready to sleep with anyone she crushed on. He knows that even though what he did was wrong, he's thinking, "Who can blame me?" Been there, and I ended up regretting it.
At the graduation dance, after Rat shows that he took Damone's betrayal seriously and stands up for himself, he's truly apologetic. I think Damone joins Stacy, Brad, and Rat in the list of dynamic characters who learn something by the end of the day.
I like Damone, even though he was an annoying a$$. He was funny and he did give some good advice, and in the end, he realized he needed to be more like his friend, not the other way around.
I don't think Damone was a thief. A sleazy ticket broker and whatnot but I don't think he was into stealing. He was more into being a smooth talking sleazy salesman.
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If the writer intended Damone to be the thief, it would have been revealed later in the script. As if it was some subtle clue left there for a supragenius to discover decades later. Get over yourself.
It was simply to underline Ratner being a complete schlimazel.
Naw, just a throwaway line that added to the embarrassment of a awkward first date.
(The overly large chairs were a nice touch)