This week’s suggestion of our good friend to the North, and noted aficionado of all thing hobo-population controlling, Scotchnaut. He suggested “best supporting athlete/actor ever” as a topic. He actually suggested it a while ago and I like it enough to bookmark it for a night when it was really hot and humid in Connecticut and I’d spent the day at the gym, installing air-conditioners for a friend of ours who just had spinal surgery, walking the dog 2 miles because he’s too dumb to realize it’s hot, and then kayaking for nearly two hours because I’m too dumb to read a map and correctly estimate a distance, (but I did get to see an osprey power-dive into the water after a fish; it was not successful), and then start drinking before realizing it was Sunday night.
You know, like tonight.
Anyway, we’re going with the person you’d pick if you needed an assist. I am going to expand it to any figure from pop culture who give the main character a much-needed boost to get things done. And also from the world of sports. The only limitation is that it has to be a figure from the public world; we don’t care how helpful your grandmother’s neighbor is. That’s a draft for ‘Bill Belichick in an alternate world,’ something I am not willing to promise I will never do.
With the first pick Scotchy is taking Bobby Jones of basketball fame, specifically your newly crowned champions Denver Nuggets, and later on Philadelphia 76ers.
Here’s Bobby getting ready to make what looks like a pass leading to an assist. First one I found.
With the second pick I will take the NHL leader is assists, (2,223; I had to look it up), one Wayne Gretzky.
I desperately need a shower, so the rest of you are on the clock.
2. Morgana, Joker’s cat-in-disguise (not a cat!) from Persona 5. Teaches you lockpicking and the making of, other thieving shit, and is your ride in the Metaverse. As long as you don’t call him a cat.
Got here late but I can clean up with the late rounds sweeping through the games world.
1. Miles “Tails” Prower. He can fly, he can’t die if you’re playing as Sonic, he has a plane, and if you get all the Super Emeralds he can kill everything on the screen.
2nd pick: Al Cowlings
I lied about Sancho being my last pick. Given the graphic and title for this week’s draft, I would be remiss if I didn’t take Thing T. Thing. So helpful to Morticia and the whole family…
Much friendlier than the other Thing.
Sgt. Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes – his assists allowed them to get away so much.
4. Kato!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbUD7FRStbY&ab_channel=PinkPantherClips
Young WCS bruised ribs laughing at this.
Ahh Kato! My little yellow friend!
Yeah, probably not getting that line past management today.
There’s two Kato attacks in this movie!
My dog just snuck up behind me just as I stepped backwards and I came down hard on both of his front paws and the yip he let out would raise the dead if we were a block closer to that colonial cemetery up the street.
I have already given him a treat to make up for it while praising him from being just the best boy imaginable and am going to spend the rest of the day feeling guilty about this, even though it is completely his fault.
Aww. Poor boy paid the price for loyalty.
(Try not to dwell on it. He probably forgot the incident as soon as the treat was produced.)
Last one. Sancho Panza.
Norm MacDonald’s “Pigeon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdPStp6lSY
I don’t think Ron Swanson could have asked for an assistant that better fit his management philosophy than April Ludgate…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCOYbk_IM0
Ed Norton
I love Gromit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41BX9zn_qZo&ab_channel=Wallace%26Gromit
Q
Genius pick
Brock Samson
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4th rounder: Roger T. “Race” Bannon
I’m sure it’s just a complete coincidence that Race was picked directly after Smithers was…..
Mr. Waylon Smithers.
I haven’t seen Scotchy yet, and since this is his topic I’m going to step in and make a pick for him, Kevin de Bruyne, shown here with the large human that de Bruyne sends gorgeous pass after gorgeous pass to before said large human deposits the ball into the back of the net.
Ha! I wasn’t even paying attention to who made the Igor pick. Sorry Scotchy, but at least you got The Broom out of me trying to do too many things at once.
Nicely done!
I’m back much earlier than expected, and much to RTD’s disappointment.
One of the drawbacks to remote depositions is that you occasionally run into people that are even more helpless with technology than I am and can’t their video, audio, or both to work.
[looks up from the lunch he is eating after just getting home from the beach]
Wait, I was in charge?
I mean, c’mon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfhgywG9g6M&ab_channel=MOVClips
It’s pronounced EYE-gore.