If Nick is this degenerate while having sex, I can´t imagine how a virgin Nick would be.
he would have ended up better overall, got all his whormongering done pre-social media. Like how most of Dick Masterson's faggier movements are all lost to time because of myspace or in archived blogs. Imagine if Dick came out with that "the hammer" gimmick or the eyebrow piercing today.
18 year olds who think they're smart and make good decisions because they're 18 and not 17 are some of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world.
Increase the age of consent to 21, unironically and not in Minecraft.
Nick's a dipshit at 40, as is Ethan and Dick. therefore we need to raise the age of consent to at least that.
ask her how she spends so much or tell her to not do that because shopping isn’t even her job. Nick says he has never before questioned her on why so much is spent on snacks nor has he asked her not to shop. She brings him the receipts & he gives her the money, says nothin
He has the receipts but doesn't understand how she manages to spend that much at Walmart? Maybe its just me but wouldn't he be able to know because he literally has the fucking recipts? He could even go in-depth about what she's buying if he's being legit. Or the more likely option is she knows the husband and wife are addicts and she's fleecing money from them hard. She probably finds the recipts on the ground or has a buddy who reprints or saves especially long recipts and she just pockets the money. Even something like skimming an extra thousand a month wouldn't be hard, and thats before stuff like stealing booze from nick's probably insane liquor collection or swiping pills from the wife. Again when both parents are out of their minds stealing is as easy as it is in video games. literally just stand outside of the eyeline and grab whatever. The fact that she's doing this of her own initiative means either she's that devoted to the family or figured she could pull off the grift easily. By Nick's own admission he's too scared to confront her.
The fact that Dick's showing some feels during the episode shows even he seems to be worrying about whats going on in the household.
His favorite movie is American Beauty
Got another theory for that, since he most likely saw it back when he was a teenager, if not in high school. combined with his passion for the creative field what are the chances that when he first saw it he identified with the teen with the expensive audio and visual equipment and unloving parents and as he got older or re watched it recently learned he identified niew with Kevin Spacey's character? Also when was the first time he referenced this as his favorite movie? because its a pretty odd pick for a teenager as their favorite movie, even if he's more focused on the hot cheerleader part.
The film was originally inspired by the "Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco" case
That doesn't sound right, even if he did say it. I always heard it was more like a "lolita for the next generation" style film. with a more middle class and learned version of Humbert. I'd certainly accept that over the idea that the writer thought a grease monkey's marital woes would be great inspiration for an upper middle class white collar work's midlife crisis.
who resents having to work and being tied down by societal/familial obligations
we have this guy's entire resume when did he ever have to work? Lester quit his job to work in fastfood and hang out with teenagers all day. Nick could have done that at any time, for fucks sake technically that is basically what he did all day during Weeb Wars. this guy had Lester's dream life, outside of fucking a teenager and it was still too much for the lazy bum.