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Posted by 3mdk55@reddit | lebowski | View on Reddit | 52 comments
So I’m flipping around and see the movie is starting. This is just now! Catch the beginning of the credits and of course the bowling alley discussion.
Unanswerable question: why didn’t The Dude just bring his rug to the cleaners? Or a laundromat with oversized machines? Never occurred to me before.
Discuss.
Powellhurst@reddit
You think it's easy to find a place to clean a rug? On a weekday?
Malakai0013@reddit
Is this a... what day is this?
TheRealDylanTobak@reddit
I can get you a rug cleaned. I can get you a rug cleaned by 3 o'clock this afternoon.
hornwalker@reddit
The 90s was we a funny time, piss on something and it gets donated to the landfill.
See for example Seinfeld and him throwing away a belt that touched the inside of a urinal.
Piss was considered more unclean back then, maybe.
3mdk55@reddit (OP)
So I think this is the alternate universe version of the movie. Either (a) Dude asks Walter to help him take the rug to the cleaners, he refuses because it’s Shabbos, what does he do… or (b) he tries to raise money to get a pro cleaner to come to his place. Maybe the real Jeffrey L. offers him a job when he goes to visit him. Or he sells his porn collection back to Jackie Treehorn. Or…
901Soccer@reddit
The Chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill!
HubrisSnifferBot@reddit
This was a valued rug.
DragonflyScared813@reddit
And this guy peed on it...
schriepes@reddit
Donny. Please.
davster39@reddit
Was it not
Worth-Ad8569@reddit
Also, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature dude. Asian American, please.
Subject-Relevant@reddit
This isnt a guy who built the railroads, here.
PsychologicalSelf991@reddit
No man, Wu peed on the rug
Billy-no-mate@reddit
He didn’t build the fucking railroads
cranzome@reddit
Well, he’s already nine days late on his rent, and having a rug professionally cleaned ain’t cheap.
901Soccer@reddit
Dude, uh, tomorrow's already the 10th
Malakai0013@reddit
Far out, man.
Pale_Shift_4910@reddit
The dude just wants to be compensated for his rug. So he went to Mr. Lebowski to be compensated... he was told to take any rug in the house. Since he has a new rug why would he keep the chinaman's urine stained rug?
It just like in Nam, you save a brother in arm's life, you expect him to do the same... but you just end up watching your buddies die face down in the muck...
Existing-Move-2646@reddit
The rug is a MacGuffin. It really ties the movies plot together.
BraveryDave@reddit
Like an Irish monk?
SkeltonJustCalled@reddit
Far from it, Dude.
901Soccer@reddit
A brother Seamus!
LongStable6837@reddit
SHAMUS
PsychologicalSelf991@reddit
Beautiful use of MacGuffin
HoboOperative@reddit
The ringer cannot look empty.
Ralph--Hinkley@reddit
He could have just been sitting there with pee stains on his rug.
WalkAffectionate4641@reddit
It's a complicated case 3mdk55 alotta ins, alotta outs
Jayman44Spc@reddit
Dudes writing post dated checks for half and half. You think he’s got rug cleaning money?
2wheelsThx@reddit
Well, it did really tie the room together.
carl_showalter96@reddit
Fuckin a
sourdieselfuel@reddit
And this guy peed on it.
carl_showalter96@reddit
u/sourdieselfuel, please.
thrance@reddit
First of all, Dude, it’s not just a rug. Secondly, it’s fucking Persian with fucking provenance. You can’t launder it. It curls up. The fibers fall out. Fucking rug has fucking provenance!
Dmiller360@reddit
What are you a rug specialist now?
Flat_6_Theory@reddit
Wasn’t he the heir to some small fortune in a cut scene? Would explain not having to work. And Donnie would still be throwing rocks.
But then we wouldn’t have a movie either, dude.
torontopeter@reddit
What in gods holy name are you blathering about?
irate_alien@reddit
The rug is not the issue here, Dude. I’m talking about drawing a line in the sand. Across this line you do not…also, Dude, rug is not the preferred nomenclature. Textile floor covering, please.
PoolNoob69@reddit
Those rich fucks! This while fucking thing!
Autodidactic_I_is@reddit
Not everyone runs too the fuckin laundromat man. And what the fuck you want the Dude to do? Walk across town carrying a piss soaked rug? Are you even paying attention man?
TooManyCharacte@reddit
Were you listening to the Dude's story?
HoboOperative@reddit
I was bowling.
Aggravating_Speed665@reddit
HUH?!
bobthenob1989@reddit
So every time his rug is micturated upon he has to be the one to get it cleaned?
2wheelsThx@reddit
In a fit of un-Dude-like rage, he took it down to Venice beach and tossed it into the ocean. Now it's polluting the beaches of southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carillo, and on up to Pismo.
hullgreebles@reddit
Do we ever see The Dude's OG rug? I only know the rug that has sentimental value to Maude.
HoboOperative@reddit
I believe so; it's much more plain and 'Dudish,' in the parlance of our times. Maude's was a big upgrade.
AdventurousTravel509@reddit
Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming the Dude for not cleaning his rug, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know…
901Soccer@reddit
What in God's holy name are you blathering about?
ObvsUreNotAGolfer@reddit
Are you employed, sir?
901Soccer@reddit
Employed?
PositiveBlueberry2@reddit
We’re talking about unchecked aggression here, Dude.
AmbitiousTooth6025@reddit
Well dude we just don’t know