"Hello, Stanley. Did you enjoy my last bagel?"
"I was hungry."
"I know you were. How's your mom?"
"She's...chillin'."
"If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin' all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don't tax my gig so hard-core cruster."
"So, Stanley. How's your mother?"
"She's really bummed. Can you pass the peas?"
OP, I always wanted to know this as well. It seemed arbitrary to hint at something like this in a comedy film (and not even follow up on it).
shareHe's probably an only child and his mom is probably a single mom working all the time to where she's never home. Hence the "whole Brady Bunch." They only ask about his mom.
"She's really bummed", maybe over the divorce? Or bills?
Or maybe she's a rich single woman who lavishes around all day getting drunk, like something out of Less Than Zero or something.
shareI imagine a River's Edge kind of scenario.
shareI think this is closer to the truth than anything else. Although, I'd go with prescription drugs instead of booze as her poison of choice. Thus why Stoney replies, "She's...chillin'.", at one point.
Either that or she's a holdover hippie thus why Stoney turned out like he did(not to mention his name).
Rudy, question.
Yeah?
...Know any virgins?**cue spit take**
I think that the scene you allude to in the American motion picture Encino Man is a pivotal moment in cinema. Stoney is indicative of the existentialist ennui typical of youth of that era; a generation gripped by aimlessness and pre-millennial tension.
Stoney, marvellously played by seminal thespian Pauly Shore, epitomises quixotic qualities of a young man torn between solipsistic exterior exaggerations and his introverted introspections on the price of social popularity and acceptance that comes with Link’s (Brendan Fraser’s) presence.
The scene of Stoney at the Morgan family dinner table is a Dostoevskian affair where our protagonist suffers the indignation of older figures casting desperations, while the bourgeois family collective mock his lowly standing in Encino life. Stoney represents the misunderstood icon of sacred individualism and the privation of anguished liberalism. He is a good man, though, suppressed by conservative oppression and myopic perceptions of Valley thinking.
Stoney is poetically enriching and free in all the ways those around him are not. Hope that helps.
Settle down with the circumlocution.
shareGrade A trolling rite therr
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