#6.5 If You Love Something, Let It Loose in Midtown While You Sniff a Scotch Bottle

Season Two, Episode Six

I'm amazed how many people were upset to the point of anger over this scene. It's fiction. Plus, people are treated far more horribly than this dog in the show.

Duck didn't beat it to death with a shovel or feed it quaaludes. He put it outside the building. On a mild summer night. It's not raining. Chauncey has a dog license tag on. It's Midtown. In ten minutes a beat cop or security guard would find this well-groomed, well-trained dog and look up his info and return it to Duck's wife (since she has the house). Or send him to go live on a farm where he can be happy all day romping in fields. Feel better?

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jillallyn says:

hahahaha. perfect.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Andreia Tiemi says:

Great work!!!!!!!! =)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

mocakesandfrosting says:

I hate Duck. Dog-abandoning bitter divorcé asswipe. Nice drawing, though!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Dyna Moe says:

Duck rules. Dogs drool.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

AMERICANVIRUS says:

Oh Duck, try to hold yourself together.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

I_am_Amy says:

Aww, this is so great!

I wonder if he ever went and looked for the dog...

(And then I remember that this is just a tv show lol.)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Feisty Bourbon Girl says:

As a dog lover (and rescue dog owner) this scene KILLED me, yeah, it's just a tv show, I know but for the whole rest of that night I was like, "What about the dooggggggg?" Damn Duck.

AWESOME picture though. Love your style.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

tstephens says:

The title just makes it perfect. Love it.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

basker604 says:

Fiction or no, it was disturbing. I didn't like it one bit. Love the show, but wanted to kick Duck in the shins because the dog made him feel guild over a cocktail.

Your art ... love it! Very fun!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

TeeRish says:

i would love to use this as my desktop background, but it would make me too sad.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

BeccathePromoMami says:

i HATED Duck for this... poor chauncey..

i'm loving these illustrations
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Dyna Moe says:

I hope Duck strangles a puppy and eats it on camera in the season finale.
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

violalee says:

What made this scene so disturbing for me was that he took all his anger and frustrations out on the dog, by abandoning Chauncey just as he felt his family had done to him.

And, like it or not, it certainly set up his current shift in character to being a smarmy, underhanded prick, instead of the good old aa 'no thanks i don't drink' chum we used to know and love.

Then again, it shows the quality of the show that SO MANY people were affect, deeply, by this particular moment. Hell, I cried. Great googly moogly!
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Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Dyna Moe says:

I have a 100% opposite interpretation.

He didn't put Chauncey out to get revenge on him -- it's entirely self-loathing. The unconditional love of a dog that reminds him of his lost family. Knowing anything relies on him makes him feel even worse about giving up; makes him feel like a bigger failure. Chauncey is radiating guilt on him, so just to keep those puppy dog eyes off of him, he puts him out. He's tearing up when he's walking away from the door... the neck tendons straining to keep from bawling. That's not anger.

However, storywise-- Duck before booze was a dead weight and a big snoozer of a character. Swooning around "boo hoo, Don doesn't like me." Relapsing Duck motivates plot movement and throws a tantrum at a board meeting. I wish he pulled a weenie dog out from under the table and smashed it's brains out on the table in that scene, just to make the audience hate him more.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

violalee says:

You are right, if I was more coherent, I would've thought far enough to see that it was self-loathing as you've described. (Plus, it's been a while since I watched the ep, so I'm regurgitating what little I remember.)

And yes, Duck was a snoozer. It's certainly a plot movement that I'm not entirely surprised at.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Anthony Brennan on Flickr says:

amazing.
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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