babyrandall
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Well What do you Know It scaers little kids and little monsters!
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Post by babyrandall on Oct 23, 2005 14:49:42 GMT -5
Sorry Randall! I take it that you hate the picture!!
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Post by RandallBoggs on Oct 23, 2005 14:52:31 GMT -5
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! HECK IT'S HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE!"
Uh oh...heh heh....
"Wait a sec....no do
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 28, 2008 13:22:06 GMT -5
Ok, I always thought to myself about Randall's childhood that:
1. He had no siblings 2. No parents taking responsibility and caring for him 3. No personal friend 4. Was left on the orphange doorstep at birth
I know I sound really harsh, but that's the exact way I pictured it all... I'm sorry for dwelling on Randall's past, because sometimes it can hurt.
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 28, 2008 15:12:54 GMT -5
Ok, I always thought to myself about Randall's childhood that: 1. He had no siblings 2. No parents taking responsibility and caring for him 3. No personal friend 4. Was left on the orphange doorstep at birth I know I sound really harsh, but that's the exact way I pictured it all... I'm sorry for dwelling on Randall's past, because sometimes it can hurt. Whether or not Randall was abandoned as an infant, I DO believe that he had no family, or at least, no family that gave a rat's buttocks where he was, or how he was doing, at the time of the movie. Whether he lost his family early in life, and was brought up in foster care, or whether he became emotionally separated from his family for whatever reasons later on, he didn't have anyone he could count on or go to at the time of the movie's events, and no one who would notice if he just disappeared, no one to come looking for him at the factory or inquiring as to his whereabouts-no one besides creditors, anyway. I've mentioned before that some of Randall's behavior patterns are consistent with someone raised in foster homes, being shuffled from one family to another, one school to another, and feeling unwanted. I got that information, by the way, from a published study on behavior issues in foster children, and from my own experiences. You see, I'm a school teacher, and over the years, I've had many homeless and foster kids in my classroom. One of the study's findings were that long-term foster kids tended to grow into adults who were "distant" and even openly hostile towards others, since they'd learned as kids not to form close relationships with anyone, since they'd just be "uprooted" and moved to another home, another city, another school. In their way of thinking, relationships are useless, since they cannot last, and the closer you get to someone, the more it hurts when you inevitably are separated from them. Combined with a feeling of being unwanted(sadly, many foster "parents" only do this for the government cheque they receive monthly), this has got to leave some pretty strong emotional scars on someone that can take a long, long time to overcome, even if that person's situation changes, and they find a loving, permanent home. I know that most of the foster kids I've taught had problems with aggression and other inappropriate behaviors, either that, or they were excessively "clingy". Of course, Randall's lack of a family made him a prime choice, among other things, for Waternoose's plan. No one to come snooping if Randall had to be disposed of(and I don't doubt that this would have been his ultimate fate whether or not the Scream Extractor prototype had worked), no one to blab to, no one to call the insurance companies about claims due following the loss of a loved one. Waternoose could have easily arranged to pay off any depts Randall had incurred in his day-to-day life, once the project was finalized, to keep the creditors from calling the factory, so it would basically have been as though Randall Boggs had never existed-just a random Social Security number that would have eventually been removed from the data base. pitbulllady
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 28, 2008 15:51:25 GMT -5
It makes me upset to think of Randall as unwanted, but you clearly speak the truth as always Pitbulllady.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 28, 2008 20:01:36 GMT -5
1. Possible he might, but circumstances may have seperated them... 2. At the current time most likely... 3. At least none he could confied in 4. Not sure if it's AT BIRTH, but a few years brush off. ---------------------- Add in that the company play, which took at least a year later, nobody seemed to be there to question Randall's disappearence.
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 29, 2008 4:48:38 GMT -5
Yes that is true that nobody wondered where the heck Randall had gone, which is horrible in my opinian. To treat him like he was never even there... . But... I've just thought about someone... Fungus. What about Fungus? Didn't he know where his scaring partner had got too? The last time he had saw him was when he was riding off into the door vault. I get the impression that nobody cared about him and well, just thought of him and treated him like a creep. Fungus was probably the only thing as close to a friend Randall got, and even Fungus feared him! I even remember Needleman in the Scarer Cards on the DVD: "Uhh, he creeps me out..." Let's just say if I worked at the factory, I'd be bringing Sullivan and Wazowski into interrogation .
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 29, 2008 9:54:51 GMT -5
Yes that is true that nobody wondered where the heck Randall had gone, which is horrible in my opinian. To treat him like he was never even there... . But... I've just thought about someone... Fungus. What about Fungus? Didn't he know where his scaring partner had got too? The last time he had saw him was when he was riding off into the door vault. I get the impression that nobody cared about him and well, just thought of him and treated him like a creep. Fungus was probably the only thing as close to a friend Randall got, and even Fungus feared him! I even remember Needleman in the Scarer Cards on the DVD: "Uhh, he creeps me out..." Let's just say if I worked at the factory, I'd be bringing Sullivan and Wazowski into interrogation . I don't know how much of a friend Fungus actually was, and I honestly DON'T think he knew what happened to Randall, or at least, he didn't know WHO was actually responsible. I have to wonder if the "official" word as to Randall's fate wasn't something like, "oh, he ACCIDENTALLY wound up in the Human World and we felt it was too dangerous to send a search party...", something to that effect. How anyone like Fungus, if he actually knew what had happened and HOW it happened, could keep quiet about it for long, would be beyond my understanding! If you tell him something, you might as well put it on the front page of the Monster World's version of CNN! That's probably a large part of why Randall had had to step up the threats(more on those in a moment)-to keep him quiet, and also why Randall had led him to believe that the Scream Extractor was HIS idea, hence Fungus's comment to Mike that it was Randall's "evil plot". If Fungus knew who was REALLY behind it, it wouldn't be long before EVERYONE would know...and guess whose head would be on the proverbial chopping block then? At some point, Randall probably realized that this was too much of an undertaking for him alone, and convinced his boss to let him bring his geek assistant in on the project, under the stipulation that Fungus not be given any ideas of Waternoose's involvement. While I don't think that Randall and Fungus were like, best buddies-maybe at one point, but that habit Fungus has of running his mouth instead of actually doing his JOB would have to have gotten under the skin of a workaholic like Randall in short order. One thing is for certain, though-Fungus is NOT as afraid of Randall as he pretends to be. Not only that, but HE is really the one who is in control. That scene in the bathroom, when Randall is wetting his fronds, trying to calm down, and Fungus comes barging in with the newspaper to announce to all the world that "the kid" in the restaurat is "THE kid"-just watch Fungus's face as he is entering, before he speaks. He is grinning from one side of his glasses to the other! He knows Randall is stressed out, and can see him there at the sink trying to get a grip, and he KNOWS Randall is absolutely going to freak out if Fungus just walks in and says something about "the kid", so what does he do? Just walks in and says something about "the kid", that's what! He was taking great delight in nearly causing his Scare partner to have an aneurysm! It is clear, from that scene, and from the one on the Scare Floor, that Fungus doesn't mind being yelled at, maybe even enjoys it in some twisted sort of way...and he knows how to manipulate Randall and stress him even more, which means that Fungus is the one really in charge of the situation. He knows that Randall's threats are empty and meaningless, but he gets some perverse satisfaction in knowing that whenever Randall is pushed to that point, HE, not Fungus, is the one who is really under the most stress, and therefore the most vulnerable. pitbulllady
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 29, 2008 11:45:19 GMT -5
Oh yeah! He was smiling as he entered. To me now, Fungus doesn't seem helpless, but evil minded and twisted . Having pleasure by making somebody stressed...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 29, 2008 19:58:15 GMT -5
Weird how the supposed "villain" has an even more vile lacky ^_^
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 30, 2008 5:19:08 GMT -5
Weird how the supposed "villain" has an even more vile lacky ^_^ Yeah! It's just made me mad to think Fungus would do such a thing !
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 30, 2008 20:11:24 GMT -5
*folds arms* Suspect Fungus himself might be half-racist...seeing as Wazowski probably IS one, and they both speak to each other (albiet one-line) in flat terms *shrugs*
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 30, 2008 21:28:09 GMT -5
*folds arms* Suspect Fungus himself might be half-racist...seeing as Wazowski probably IS one, and they both speak to each other (albiet one-line) in flat terms *shrugs* I honestly do NOT think that Fungus' behavior has anything to do with Randall's appearance, so much as it does with Fungus' personality. He's probably been the butt of much ridicule himself, as a kid especially-I mean, we all know how the geeks and nerds get singled out-and this is his little way of getting even. It would be a mistake to underestimate his intelligence and ability to use that intelligence to control others, not just Randall, either, in most probability. AND, I would even venture so far as to say that he gets some sort of twisted satisfaction from being yelled out, since as I pointed out, Fungus is smart enough to know that doing so makes the yell-ER weaker than the yell-EE. Nerd logic, at its best...or worst, depending on your POV. pitbulllady
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DinoGirl
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Aladar sure has one sparkling eye!
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Post by DinoGirl on Dec 31, 2008 14:04:39 GMT -5
Yeah, the school world isolates differences out very quickly . I was vaguely reminded of the scene from St. Trinians then ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 31, 2008 20:01:39 GMT -5
That it does...
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