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It seems that smoking came full circle at the end; He walked out on one job due to it and smoking secured another!


Smoking came full circle didn't it? Ironic, at the start of the movie the smoking scene made him walk out of his career and requesting the smoking section at Bridges' restaurant restored it! Isn't it funny how smoking came back into play from the beginning to the end? It's like it was a book-end when at the beginning of the film, he was working for a man who is a chain smoker, and all of his technicians are smokers too and they want to create Pudgy the smoking parrot which Daniel walks out on, and at the end as Mrs. Doubtfire and as Daniel, he gets a meeting with Mr. Lundy who is a nonsmoker and won't eat in the smoking section; so as Mrs. Doubtfire he has to request the smoking section so as to save his career and it's similar to the episode of Friends where Rachel has to smoke in order to be included in all aspects of her job and save it, but unlike Friends, where Rachel actually does have to smoke on screen, two, three cigarettes tops, The Late Robin Williams never had to smoke a single cigarette in this film he just had to either be fully against it at the start or act like he could temporarily tolerate it, like it, used to smoke to get a job at the end of the film. The Late Robin Williams guest starred on an episode of friends with Billy Crystal by the way.


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The issue at the beginning was that the cartoon was encouraging kids to smoke. That wasn't what was going on at the end.

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The issue was still the same though; one solitary thing, SMOKING! SMOKING! SMOKING! I was just trying to point out walking out on Pudgy The Parrot [Parakeet Pudgy looked more like a parakeet though] simply due to the issue of smoking and when he met Mr. Lundy a nonsmoker he had to pretend to love the smell of cigarette smoke and sit in the smoking section of a restaurant as means to secure a better job! The irony there is unmistakable, isn't it? How it both ended and then saved Daniel's career.

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I sort of see what you mean but one is making a cartoon that encourages kids to smoke and one is having a boss who just happens to smoke. I don't really think that's a valid complaint in terms of morality. Also Daniel's big moral stand at the beginning was that the character in the cartoon was encouraging smoking to kids. Not that smoking is all evil in general.


Also smoking was being encouraged to kids back then what with Camel Jack ads on TV.

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[one is making a cartoon that encourages kids to smoke and one is having a boss who just happens to smoke.]

Thanks for agreeing with me! Actually, though there is a bit of a mix up with the events. Lou was his boss in the beginning when he walked out on Pudgy The Parrot and Lou smoked. Mr. Lundy was his boss at the end of the movie and he didn't smoke, so he requested the nonsmoking side of the restaurant and Daniel/Doubtfire requested the smoking side of the restaurant so he could hide in plain sight from Mr. Lundy until it was time to change his clothes.

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I misremembered. It's been quite a few months since I watched it.

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Cool. Could have happened to anyone.

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