Some thoughts on the Peetz cameo last night:
Peetz is trying to get his food. A brown slab of 'chicken-loaf' sits on the counter next to the sink.
Chantal glances sideways at him and asks "is there a fork there?"
Peetz mumbles, "yeah, but it's the one that's falling apart" (I wonder how a fork can fall apart, but never mind...)
Chantal rolls her eyes and scrunches up her face in a way that says "why is he bothering me with such nonsense?" She gives an obnoxious half-shrug of her shoulder and replies "well...", with another eye roll, in complete "I don't give a fuck" fashion.
"So?" she says.
"So it's not gonna be,..", but Peetz gets interrupted by a sassy "Ka-ra-te Joe..!"; Chantal's mind has already left Peetz to his crisis alone.
She reads off names as Peetz rattles around with forks in the sink. He picks one up and rinses it off with water from the tap and his fingers.
Chantal keeps reading off names and replies to a question or two ("Peetz is not wearing a wig") She glances over his shoulder at him, still seemingly bothered by his presence. She becomes visibly annoyed at how autistically long Peetz is taking to clean the fork. (It takes him a fucking long time, to be fair)
"So BBJ..." she says...
"Yeah she's been annoying since she eh, fell a prankster,...er the...started the trend of open the live", Peetz lisps (I am only guessing what he actually mumbled; he is as inarticulate as she is)
Chantal rolls her eyes and shakes her head and makes obviously annoyed faces at Peetz' continued presence.
"Uhhh", she groans patronizingly.
"It's been on, it's buy-yungh, if anyone had come on soon enough, you would have seen nothing but her butt", Peetz continues to mutter, marbles in his mouth.
Peetz exits for awhile. Fifteen minutes later, he reappears with his plate. Again she rolls her eyes in his direction and then back toward the camera several times, making a face that is intended to project deep significance. Her tongue lolls out of her mouth. She looks over at him with that familiar look of patronizing annoyance.
"Did you like the meatloaf?", she asks, pausing, poised for the requisite compliment.
"Meh...it was okay", he says with zero enthusiasm. "Chicken loaf just isn't as good as meatloaf.", he says, the most clearly expressed line of the evening.
She makes some inarticulate noises at her chat members, and shoots another sideways glance at Peetz, who is now annoying her by washing his fork.
She turns her head to look at him, her head bobbling under its own weight, her eyes goggling outward and upward towards Peetz. "Bye" she says in a soft but terse manner.
"Okay, bye" he replies with fuck-you sounding brusqueness.
"Thank you for dinner", he says, leaving the room, in a voice one uses when one gets a completely useless and inappropriate birthday gift.
"Yeah", she says with a sigh. "You're welcome" she says in a voice too small for him to hear from the other room, directing it instead at the chat.
This was a very odd exchange. It seems like they are barely on speaking terms and that Peetz is no longer welcome in livestreams, which is fine because he sounds like he has no interest in being there. It felt cold and ever-so-slightly hostile. Even when one of them has been in a bad mood before, there was always a perfunctory show of togetherness, like friends through thick and thin. This time, no effort was spent on creating that illusion. I'm not sure if this is Chantal shutting out Peetz, or Peetz shutting out Chantal, or both shutting out each other. But this was the least chummy joint appearance we've ever seen.