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* "Big Mike", the guy who sold my dad bootleg VHS pornography, who had a habit of drinking and driving which culminated in him crashing his car through a diner. | * "Big Mike", the guy who sold my dad bootleg VHS pornography, who had a habit of drinking and driving which culminated in him crashing his car through a diner. | ||
* The guy at the flea market with a ponytail who sold twelve year-old me any Bowie knife I wanted. | * The guy at the flea market with a ponytail who sold twelve year-old me any Bowie knife I wanted. | ||
* My wife's uncle, who was in and out of jail for minor offenses his whole life (he found the shoes they gave him to be very comfortable), loved to race stock cars, and was perpetually looking for the next way he was going to get on disability or unemployment. He also lived in various RVs and at one point was dating his live-in nurse. | * My wife's uncle, who was in and out of jail for minor offenses his whole life (he found the shoes they gave him to be very comfortable), loved to race stock cars, and was perpetually looking for the next way he was going to get on disability or unemployment. He also lived in various RVs and at one point was dating his live-in nurse (who was treating him for mobility issues related to morbid obesity). | ||
* My wife’s second cousin Rusty, who had a breathalyzer interlock on his pickup truck and was known to walk ten miles to town for beer. | * My wife’s second cousin Rusty, who had a breathalyzer interlock on his pickup truck and was known to walk ten miles to town for beer. | ||
* Uncle Rico from the movie Napoleon Dynamite, who lives in a van and is always working on a side hustle. | * Uncle Rico from the movie Napoleon Dynamite, who lives in a van and is always working on a side hustle. | ||
* Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Despite the fever dream-like qualities of this show, Carl is one of the few human characters who is a prototypical "loser": unemployed, balding, wears sweat pants and flip flops, speaks with a New Jersey accent, and has a penchant for late 70s hard rock bands such as Foreigner and Foghat. | |||
* Randy "The Ram" Robinson from the 2008 movie The Wrestler, a man who is thoroughly stuck in the 1980s (to the point where he doesn't seem to understand that technology newer than the NES exists) and can't find stable employment or even anywhere he's welcome outside of wrestling, gets locked out of his trailer for non-payment of rent, and drives a sweet van that looks like it may have been lived it at points. | |||
=== Why Big Bird? === | === Why Big Bird? === | ||
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I have a friend who around 2008-2012 had a tendency to bring me loads of junk to look through and keep what I wanted. One day, he had a crate of items, one of which was a toy Big Bird from the 1980s that looked like it had been on the floor of some guy's van for the past decade. I commented, "that looks like Big Bird's older, meaner cousin with a prison record!" We made some quick modifications: | I have a friend who around 2008-2012 had a tendency to bring me loads of junk to look through and keep what I wanted. One day, he had a crate of items, one of which was a toy Big Bird from the 1980s that looked like it had been on the floor of some guy's van for the past decade. I commented, "that looks like Big Bird's older, meaner cousin with a prison record!" We made some quick modifications: | ||
* A name change to Carl ( | * A name change to Carl (directly inspired by Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) | ||
* Turning one eye inwards to give the appearance of lazy eye | * Turning one eye inwards to give the appearance of lazy eye | ||
* Sharpie'd on prison tattoos | * Sharpie'd on prison tattoos | ||