Selkie isn’t alone on this one. Did anyone remember the popcorn? I give it five sentences or less before Todd is forced into a rather awkward conversation with his boss.
I hadn’t forgotten that, but she’s got a point. And besides, as Reynard61 suggested farther down the comments – she could always have popcorn shrimp instead. Which seems like a pretty decent trade up to me. 🙂
Unbattered popcorn shrimp, that would be, but then Selkie’s wouldn’t be the only one to do that. My mom always removed the batter from the shrimp so, as she explained, she could eat more.
Selkie, seriously? You want to see Andi get yelled at? That’s pretty low. Even if she’s implying she just wants to see Amanda get yelled at, it’s pretty bad to be excited that a grown man is about to yell at a little girl.
I hope he doesn’t get out of hand with this. He’s opening with a pretty bad line, saying ‘terrible behavior’ but at least he was polite enough to ask Andi if he can talk to her. It’d be better if he asked her if they could talk privately somewhere and then tell her he wanted to speak to her about what Amanda had done.
Can’t really figure out Todd’s expression, he seems unamused? Like, I don’t know how he feels about Amanda yet. Andi just seems confused. I think Todd is likely to step in and attempt to help here. Or maybe not, since he knows very little about Amanda and knows nothing about what she did to Heather. Hell, Andi doesn’t even know about that.
It might seem more serious to adults for Andi to be getting a talking-to, but for a kid Selkie’s age, it just means Amanda is getting in trouble. For a kid who’s been bullied, seeing said bully actually get in trouble for her crummy behaviour is justifiably glee-worthy. Any more serious implications of a lady getting “yelled at” ( which tbh it doesn’t seem like he’s yelling) are totally lost on Selkie right now.
I assume Selkie thinks Andi and Amanda are going to be yelled at. At the very least she thinks a grown man who’s a complete stranger to Amanda is going to come down on her and tell her she’s a terrible brat. That’s sort of not justifiable to me. Even if Amanda has been terrible to Selkie, to wish bad things upon her is wrong. To take delight in a complete stranger who is an adult going to punish her is pretty messed up, even if Amanda is a bully to her. That’s bad behavior on Selkie’s part.
Amanda being a brat to someone at school and getting caught and subsequently punished is one thing and you could say it’s karma and you being happy her bad behavior was caught isn’t a bad thing. But getting told off in a completely unrelated setting by someone who has no authority over her and the incident has long since past is another thing entirely.
I’m not saying Amanda shouldn’t be corrected about the hitting, she should and I hope Andi has a serious talk with her about it. I’m not even saying Selkie shouldn’t feel satisfied when Amanda is caught doing something bad and corrected for it. But her taking pleasure in what is currently happening isn’t justified to be and comes off as just being smug and wishing bad things on another person.
Okay, see, FOR AN ADULT being happy about a little child being yelled at in public is a pretty horrible thing.
But Selkie is Amanda’s age, and Amanda has been bullying her. A little shadenfreude about Amanda LITERALLY GETTING WHAT’S BEEN COMING FROM THAT is a totally healthy feeling.
Exactly, little humans are a naturally self-centered group. As baby, the world seems to revolve around you. It takes a long time to truly learn otherwise (some adults never yet have). All of the virtues we attribute are learned behavior. Don’t expect kids to be small ideal versions of adults. they aren’t wired for that yet.
I dunno, if I walked up to someone and started a conversation like this in public, where they work, my grandma would slap the shit out of me because how is that polite? This is just begging for a public confrontation, there is nothing cool about the location or time he’s picked.
Remember, children are born egocentric. Part of the first decade raising a child is getting them to realize that the world does not revolve around them. Is Selkie being smug? Well yeah. Is she being bad? Well no. She’s doing what kids do.
You seem to be acting as though Selkie is gleeful about Amanda being beaten up. Yes, Amanda might be yelled at. Amanda wronged someone, and now that person’s protector is going to do some protecting.
I agree that Heather’s father could’ve handled this better. At the same time, Andi has no clue the extent of Amanda’s bullying yet. Well, okay, maybe the dinner gave her a glimmer of an idea. But consider that Amanda was the cause of the Shirt Incident. And all Selkie is gloating over is that Amanda is about to get in trouble.
I don’t think Selkie has any personal knowledge of adults being abusive towards children. She’s only ever suffered abuse from the hands of her peers. I’m fairly sure Selkie can’t conceive of an adult actually doing something that is harmful to a child. Thus, she has no reason to believe that anything this guy will do is going to seriously hurt Amanda in any way, shape, or form. I see nothing to get upset with Selkie over.
Is Selkie’s behaviour perfect? No. Is it completely normal for a young child who’s suffered terribly at the hands of a bully? Pretty much.
As an adult, I don’t wish my former bullies any ill. I’ve moved on. As a kid, I’d have been thrilled to see one of my tormentors get in trouble.
At least Selkie’s only passively enjoying the fallout, rather than actively inflicting pain for her own enjoyment.
The one I feel worst for is poor Tod. Between his child-stealing ex, his boss’ son, and his biological daughter who’s been bullying his adopted daughter, his life is going to be going to hell in handbasket really fast.
…Yes, because immediately setting someone on the defensive is always a good idea for a desirable outcome. I know he is just being Papa Bear, and I can’t fault him for that, but his approach just leaves me cringing. Why not, “Excuse me, miss? You probably don’t know me, but our daughters were friends before certain…issues. If you don’t mind, I’d like to call and discuss them sometime.” That gives her enough of a clue to know what it’s about without causing a big scene at what is basically Andi’s “workplace.”
Precisely. He and his wife set Heather straight, and it´s done *both* kids a world of good. Based on that experience, he can honestly expect he´s doing Amanda a favor, too.
apparently i accidentally double-posted this morning before i left for work and it glitched out and didn’t post either one, so here it goes again:
heather was already forgiven by Selkie, over at Heather’s place during the apology dinner thing. AND she said so directly in front of both of their Dad’s TOO… so how can you say he’s being a hypocrite? Heather messed up, she got yelled at and punished by her parents, then Selkie forgave her and life went on… as for Amanda, (I think as far as he knows?,) she did something to Heather and has not yet been taken to task for it… he PROBABLY thinks that Andi has been her parent from Day One, and NOT a VERY recent Adoptor (like himself) and is going to blame her for ALL Amanda’s problems… I’ll bet that he does know about Amanda’s “Shining Personality’, however… I’m not sure if he would know any of the OTHER “details” about her background and/or her and Heather’s prior history leading up to the incident yet, so he’s probably about to going off on Andi, without the full story… 🙁
but then again, that’s what DAD’S are supposed to do, isn’t it? 😀
heck, for that matter does HEATHER even know about Amanda’s abuse at the other family’s hands, or has Amanda been pretty quiet about that to pretty much everyone (except the staff)?
Heather told Selkie about the abuse by her original adoptive family, which is why Amanda hit her in the first place (for telling secrets about her to someone she hated).
Todd made her cheese poppers during the playdate that were just fried, crispy cheese on the outside. Maybe he could wrap the shrimp in cheese and fry it in butter?
Am I the only one that’s praying that he actually points out that Amanda openly insulting people requires more of a response then “be nice”. That her verbal aggression has turned violent and physical and she can’t just let Amanda’s actions go with a sigh and poultry verbal comment.
without trying to White Knight here, but how would YOU have dealt with your kid saying that “everyone here is dumb” when asked a personal question, which seemingly from the angles involved, was in a semi private moment while at a PUBLIC function?? would you have gone all Samuel L. Jackson Pulp-Fiction on her? or maybe walloped him up the back-side with your belt?, or maybe yeah, just said that you need to be nice WHILE here IN PUBLIC, then when you get in the car to go home… THAT’S when you lay down the Law in slightly more detail than you did in the spur of the moment at the public gathering…
I hope he gets escorted from the building over this stunt. You don’t bring shit like this to someone’s workplace. Especially if you are just meeting them. All he’s doing is teaching Heather how to bully people since he damn well knows no one can afford to make a scene at thier jobs.
Even if Andi had been Amanda’s full time mom this is so innapropriate. Add in all the other people around and it’s clear his only goal is to humiliate Andi.
I understand wanting to protect your child but this is going overboard. As others have said the incident went down a while back and was handled. Does he really want to encourage his daughter to hold grudges?
Also I reeeeally hope Todd says something about this. Todd didn’t bring his problems when Selkie had her shirt stolen to his job. He really shouldn’t let this fly. He knows Andi hasn’t had Amanda long and had nothing to do with hitting Heather.
Heather’s dad, aside from certain blindspots about his privileges, has shown himself to be levelheaded so far. He and his wife had Todd and Selkie over to start reconciling with Heather, for one, and managed that well.
So I see his broaching this subject with Andi the response of a concerned parent talking to another, starting a civil dialogue. He doesn’t seem the type to start yelling or castigating her or Amanda in a public place. He just wants to find out if he and she are on the same page and can agree that her daughter’s behavior needs to change.
I can see why Todd is frowning. This is NOT a conversation to have in public, raking Amanda over the coals in front of all the other kids! Kenneth may not yet be aware that Andi is also one of the exhibiting artists here, but that makes this an even worse choice of moment.
What he should have said was, “Can we have a talk later?” Selkie would still have picked up on the fact that Amanda was likely getting in much-deserved trouble, and she’d still have been gleeful about it, but at least it wouldn’t have been the public humiliation of a child in front of all her peers.
Amanda has been tormenting “all the other kids” to a greater or lesser degree with her behavior. If she is going to be raked over the coals, that may well be therapeutic for the others. And if the other orphans pipe in with Amanda has been doing to them, in addition to what Andi already knows and what Kenneth is going to tell her, she´ll realize what a b-word Amanda has been and what a monumental task of changing Amanda´s behavior is ahead of her.
I’ll agree to MOST of what you said about the results of the dinner, and it’s effects on the girls friendship, but I’m going to have to point out that you’re a bit “off” on WHY he wanted to have the dinner in the first place… it WASN’T about Heather and Selkie… it WAS very much about HIS REPUTATION AT WORK… while he DOES seem to be an extremely level-headed individual when it comes to preconceived notions and new evidence to the contrary concerning them, as compared to Truck’s Dad… however, it must be pointed out that he initially was more worried about how the incident would affect HIM at work than the girls.
and i DO agree with Sessine’s post that he really shouldn’t be bringing the subject up HERE, in Public… i can’t QUITE say that he “should have known” that Andi was one of the Artist’s being shown versus “just” one of the other kids mom, what with Heather’s less-than-enthusiastic response to even GOING to the show… heck, Heather may have not said anything about Andi even being the artist AT ALL.
after reading all the comments, why do i foresee a Dinner Invite for Todd, Selkie, Amanda and Andi, in the near future?… once Todd bites the bullet (figuratively that is) and pipes up that HE is Amanda’s DAD… and that they are “working on it” as concerning Amanda’s behavior…
I would also point out that to Kenneth Heather is the victim in this particular case – when he was being level-headed she was the aggressor and very clearly in the wrong, so going into apology-mode/make it right mode made sense. Right now he’s acting in a very aggressive don’t hurt my little girl way – and perhaps *needing* to show Heather that she can count on him not to just have fun but to trust in him when she’s hurt and that he’ll do whatever it takes to back her up.
Hopefully he’ll remember how calm Todd was when it was his little girl and Heather was the aggressor, but there’s a part of me that would like to see Kenneth acting more – natural I guess – not everyone thinks before they speak/act as adults, and while I applaud those that stand out for this like Todd and his family, I don’t think every adult should be sterling either. That’s part of what makes this so likable.
Very shortly, Kenneth to Todd: “Uh, will you please give me a list of *all* of your daughters with Issues so I don’t accidentally get into trouble with you yet again?”
Selkie isn’t alone on this one. Did anyone remember the popcorn? I give it five sentences or less before Todd is forced into a rather awkward conversation with his boss.
Boss’s son, actually: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie187/
Ooops. I sit corrected. 🙂
May I remind you, that in Selkie’s case this is not about the availability of popcorn but its digestibility.
I hadn’t forgotten that, but she’s got a point. And besides, as Reynard61 suggested farther down the comments – she could always have popcorn shrimp instead. Which seems like a pretty decent trade up to me. 🙂
Unbattered popcorn shrimp, that would be, but then Selkie’s wouldn’t be the only one to do that. My mom always removed the batter from the shrimp so, as she explained, she could eat more.
hmm, Todd isn’t looking impressed.
Selkie, seriously? You want to see Andi get yelled at? That’s pretty low. Even if she’s implying she just wants to see Amanda get yelled at, it’s pretty bad to be excited that a grown man is about to yell at a little girl.
I hope he doesn’t get out of hand with this. He’s opening with a pretty bad line, saying ‘terrible behavior’ but at least he was polite enough to ask Andi if he can talk to her. It’d be better if he asked her if they could talk privately somewhere and then tell her he wanted to speak to her about what Amanda had done.
Can’t really figure out Todd’s expression, he seems unamused? Like, I don’t know how he feels about Amanda yet. Andi just seems confused. I think Todd is likely to step in and attempt to help here. Or maybe not, since he knows very little about Amanda and knows nothing about what she did to Heather. Hell, Andi doesn’t even know about that.
Good luck Todd and Andi.
It might seem more serious to adults for Andi to be getting a talking-to, but for a kid Selkie’s age, it just means Amanda is getting in trouble. For a kid who’s been bullied, seeing said bully actually get in trouble for her crummy behaviour is justifiably glee-worthy. Any more serious implications of a lady getting “yelled at” ( which tbh it doesn’t seem like he’s yelling) are totally lost on Selkie right now.
I assume Selkie thinks Andi and Amanda are going to be yelled at. At the very least she thinks a grown man who’s a complete stranger to Amanda is going to come down on her and tell her she’s a terrible brat. That’s sort of not justifiable to me. Even if Amanda has been terrible to Selkie, to wish bad things upon her is wrong. To take delight in a complete stranger who is an adult going to punish her is pretty messed up, even if Amanda is a bully to her. That’s bad behavior on Selkie’s part.
Amanda being a brat to someone at school and getting caught and subsequently punished is one thing and you could say it’s karma and you being happy her bad behavior was caught isn’t a bad thing. But getting told off in a completely unrelated setting by someone who has no authority over her and the incident has long since past is another thing entirely.
I’m not saying Amanda shouldn’t be corrected about the hitting, she should and I hope Andi has a serious talk with her about it. I’m not even saying Selkie shouldn’t feel satisfied when Amanda is caught doing something bad and corrected for it. But her taking pleasure in what is currently happening isn’t justified to be and comes off as just being smug and wishing bad things on another person.
Schadenfreude as my coworker would call it.
But he’s not a complete stranger to Selkie so by kid logic she probably does not see him as a complete stranger to Amanda.
Okay, see, FOR AN ADULT being happy about a little child being yelled at in public is a pretty horrible thing.
But Selkie is Amanda’s age, and Amanda has been bullying her. A little shadenfreude about Amanda LITERALLY GETTING WHAT’S BEEN COMING FROM THAT is a totally healthy feeling.
Just… remember that kids are kids.
Exactly, little humans are a naturally self-centered group. As baby, the world seems to revolve around you. It takes a long time to truly learn otherwise (some adults never yet have). All of the virtues we attribute are learned behavior. Don’t expect kids to be small ideal versions of adults. they aren’t wired for that yet.
I hope this man is aware Andi has adopted Amanda like a week ago… or is going to be told soon. Maybe by Todd.
I don’t think he is aware of this yet. He apparently didn’t recognize Amanda (or Sandy) from his visits at the orphanage.
None is getting yelled at, he’s been polite so far and while that might change currently none present has reason to think otherwise.
I dunno, if I walked up to someone and started a conversation like this in public, where they work, my grandma would slap the shit out of me because how is that polite? This is just begging for a public confrontation, there is nothing cool about the location or time he’s picked.
Agreed. I felt that he was saying “can we talk” in that tone of voice that means “I am going to talk.”
The tone superiors use to underlings.
Remember, children are born egocentric. Part of the first decade raising a child is getting them to realize that the world does not revolve around them. Is Selkie being smug? Well yeah. Is she being bad? Well no. She’s doing what kids do.
You seem to be acting as though Selkie is gleeful about Amanda being beaten up. Yes, Amanda might be yelled at. Amanda wronged someone, and now that person’s protector is going to do some protecting.
I agree that Heather’s father could’ve handled this better. At the same time, Andi has no clue the extent of Amanda’s bullying yet. Well, okay, maybe the dinner gave her a glimmer of an idea. But consider that Amanda was the cause of the Shirt Incident. And all Selkie is gloating over is that Amanda is about to get in trouble.
I don’t think Selkie has any personal knowledge of adults being abusive towards children. She’s only ever suffered abuse from the hands of her peers. I’m fairly sure Selkie can’t conceive of an adult actually doing something that is harmful to a child. Thus, she has no reason to believe that anything this guy will do is going to seriously hurt Amanda in any way, shape, or form. I see nothing to get upset with Selkie over.
Sorry if the wording on this is kinda weird…
Is Selkie’s behaviour perfect? No. Is it completely normal for a young child who’s suffered terribly at the hands of a bully? Pretty much.
As an adult, I don’t wish my former bullies any ill. I’ve moved on. As a kid, I’d have been thrilled to see one of my tormentors get in trouble.
At least Selkie’s only passively enjoying the fallout, rather than actively inflicting pain for her own enjoyment.
The one I feel worst for is poor Tod. Between his child-stealing ex, his boss’ son, and his biological daughter who’s been bullying his adopted daughter, his life is going to be going to hell in handbasket really fast.
When I was a kid I’d have given both arms to watch bullies get in trouble.
SAME! I’m 100% in selkie’s corner right now.
Wonder if she’d like some popcorn shrimp.
…Yes, because immediately setting someone on the defensive is always a good idea for a desirable outcome. I know he is just being Papa Bear, and I can’t fault him for that, but his approach just leaves me cringing. Why not, “Excuse me, miss? You probably don’t know me, but our daughters were friends before certain…issues. If you don’t mind, I’d like to call and discuss them sometime.” That gives her enough of a clue to know what it’s about without causing a big scene at what is basically Andi’s “workplace.”
He’s being a hypocrite too considering what Heather did to Selkie.
Why? Heather was punished, got a talking to, and they even pushed her to make amends.
Precisely. He and his wife set Heather straight, and it´s done *both* kids a world of good. Based on that experience, he can honestly expect he´s doing Amanda a favor, too.
apparently i accidentally double-posted this morning before i left for work and it glitched out and didn’t post either one, so here it goes again:
heather was already forgiven by Selkie, over at Heather’s place during the apology dinner thing. AND she said so directly in front of both of their Dad’s TOO… so how can you say he’s being a hypocrite? Heather messed up, she got yelled at and punished by her parents, then Selkie forgave her and life went on… as for Amanda, (I think as far as he knows?,) she did something to Heather and has not yet been taken to task for it… he PROBABLY thinks that Andi has been her parent from Day One, and NOT a VERY recent Adoptor (like himself) and is going to blame her for ALL Amanda’s problems… I’ll bet that he does know about Amanda’s “Shining Personality’, however… I’m not sure if he would know any of the OTHER “details” about her background and/or her and Heather’s prior history leading up to the incident yet, so he’s probably about to going off on Andi, without the full story… 🙁
but then again, that’s what DAD’S are supposed to do, isn’t it? 😀
heck, for that matter does HEATHER even know about Amanda’s abuse at the other family’s hands, or has Amanda been pretty quiet about that to pretty much everyone (except the staff)?
Heather told Selkie about the abuse by her original adoptive family, which is why Amanda hit her in the first place (for telling secrets about her to someone she hated).
I need to do a sketch of Selkie eating goldfish like popcorn now
Or popcorn shrimp.
Could Selkie eat breading? Or would she need her popcorn shrimp naked?
Todd made her cheese poppers during the playdate that were just fried, crispy cheese on the outside. Maybe he could wrap the shrimp in cheese and fry it in butter?
That sounds pretty good. Going to try making that this weekend.
Thank you. It’s midnight, I need to sleep. But now I’m hungry.
Thanks a lot!
Am I the only one that’s praying that he actually points out that Amanda openly insulting people requires more of a response then “be nice”. That her verbal aggression has turned violent and physical and she can’t just let Amanda’s actions go with a sigh and poultry verbal comment.
without trying to White Knight here, but how would YOU have dealt with your kid saying that “everyone here is dumb” when asked a personal question, which seemingly from the angles involved, was in a semi private moment while at a PUBLIC function?? would you have gone all Samuel L. Jackson Pulp-Fiction on her? or maybe walloped him up the back-side with your belt?, or maybe yeah, just said that you need to be nice WHILE here IN PUBLIC, then when you get in the car to go home… THAT’S when you lay down the Law in slightly more detail than you did in the spur of the moment at the public gathering…
kitenkaiba – I think you meant “paltry” verbal comment, but I’m having Selkie-level glee considering what a “poultry” verbal comment might entail.
i took it as a euphemism for a “chicken-s$%T” reply. meaning that it wasn’t emphatic or forceful enough for the situation.
“Say what again!”
xD
That was supposed to be going to your comment from 9:10.. ._.
I hope he gets escorted from the building over this stunt. You don’t bring shit like this to someone’s workplace. Especially if you are just meeting them. All he’s doing is teaching Heather how to bully people since he damn well knows no one can afford to make a scene at thier jobs.
Even if Andi had been Amanda’s full time mom this is so innapropriate. Add in all the other people around and it’s clear his only goal is to humiliate Andi.
I understand wanting to protect your child but this is going overboard. As others have said the incident went down a while back and was handled. Does he really want to encourage his daughter to hold grudges?
Also I reeeeally hope Todd says something about this. Todd didn’t bring his problems when Selkie had her shirt stolen to his job. He really shouldn’t let this fly. He knows Andi hasn’t had Amanda long and had nothing to do with hitting Heather.
True.
This is the sort of discussion you have in private, not in front of children and not in someone’s workplace.
Heather’s dad, aside from certain blindspots about his privileges, has shown himself to be levelheaded so far. He and his wife had Todd and Selkie over to start reconciling with Heather, for one, and managed that well.
So I see his broaching this subject with Andi the response of a concerned parent talking to another, starting a civil dialogue. He doesn’t seem the type to start yelling or castigating her or Amanda in a public place. He just wants to find out if he and she are on the same page and can agree that her daughter’s behavior needs to change.
I can see why Todd is frowning. This is NOT a conversation to have in public, raking Amanda over the coals in front of all the other kids! Kenneth may not yet be aware that Andi is also one of the exhibiting artists here, but that makes this an even worse choice of moment.
What he should have said was, “Can we have a talk later?” Selkie would still have picked up on the fact that Amanda was likely getting in much-deserved trouble, and she’d still have been gleeful about it, but at least it wouldn’t have been the public humiliation of a child in front of all her peers.
Amanda has been tormenting “all the other kids” to a greater or lesser degree with her behavior. If she is going to be raked over the coals, that may well be therapeutic for the others. And if the other orphans pipe in with Amanda has been doing to them, in addition to what Andi already knows and what Kenneth is going to tell her, she´ll realize what a b-word Amanda has been and what a monumental task of changing Amanda´s behavior is ahead of her.
I’ll agree to MOST of what you said about the results of the dinner, and it’s effects on the girls friendship, but I’m going to have to point out that you’re a bit “off” on WHY he wanted to have the dinner in the first place… it WASN’T about Heather and Selkie… it WAS very much about HIS REPUTATION AT WORK… while he DOES seem to be an extremely level-headed individual when it comes to preconceived notions and new evidence to the contrary concerning them, as compared to Truck’s Dad… however, it must be pointed out that he initially was more worried about how the incident would affect HIM at work than the girls.
and i DO agree with Sessine’s post that he really shouldn’t be bringing the subject up HERE, in Public… i can’t QUITE say that he “should have known” that Andi was one of the Artist’s being shown versus “just” one of the other kids mom, what with Heather’s less-than-enthusiastic response to even GOING to the show… heck, Heather may have not said anything about Andi even being the artist AT ALL.
Legitimate points, and on reflection I also agree that he could have phrased his initial approach to Andi better.
But that’s real life, right? And part of the charm of this strip, that Dave shows this so well in his art and writing.
after reading all the comments, why do i foresee a Dinner Invite for Todd, Selkie, Amanda and Andi, in the near future?… once Todd bites the bullet (figuratively that is) and pipes up that HE is Amanda’s DAD… and that they are “working on it” as concerning Amanda’s behavior…
I would also point out that to Kenneth Heather is the victim in this particular case – when he was being level-headed she was the aggressor and very clearly in the wrong, so going into apology-mode/make it right mode made sense. Right now he’s acting in a very aggressive don’t hurt my little girl way – and perhaps *needing* to show Heather that she can count on him not to just have fun but to trust in him when she’s hurt and that he’ll do whatever it takes to back her up.
Hopefully he’ll remember how calm Todd was when it was his little girl and Heather was the aggressor, but there’s a part of me that would like to see Kenneth acting more – natural I guess – not everyone thinks before they speak/act as adults, and while I applaud those that stand out for this like Todd and his family, I don’t think every adult should be sterling either. That’s part of what makes this so likable.
He’s defending his kid. I’m with him.
Also, heating up the popcorns.
Very shortly, Kenneth to Todd: “Uh, will you please give me a list of *all* of your daughters with Issues so I don’t accidentally get into trouble with you yet again?”