Why does the Dude smell the half and half at Ralph’s

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BusyStudio5759@reddit

Just being thorough, dudes always been about quality control.

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desmond609@reddit

Its just sn added note to the narrative of how cheap the dude is. He's writing a check for it reinforced the character build up

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weaponized_sasquatch@reddit

That's something the square community won't give a shit about.

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It's muscle memory. Remember, the Dude keeps his half n half out and unrefrigerated at home. He sniffs it every time until it's too curdled for him to tolerate instead of just putting it in the fridge.

The dude is the laziest man in LA county

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SmoovyJ@reddit

What’re you a fucking milkman now?

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bustanut_dabmaster@reddit

I’m a brother Seamus!

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Z_e_e_e_G@reddit

Let me say, I dig your work.

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Micturating-Fool-919@reddit

Fuck off, Dafino

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Longjumping-Hunt-543@reddit

Like an Irish monk?

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EyeHaveNoBanana@reddit

Which puts him on the shortlist for laziest man in America.

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CrunchySockTaco@reddit

The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did. Get a job!

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

Which puts him in the running for the laziest man in America

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savoryreflex@reddit

And that puts him in the runnin' for laziest worldwide

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

Dang it 🤣

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remsleepwagon@reddit

That's fucking interesting, man. That's fucking interesting.

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MightyBigMinus@reddit

this guy abides

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GhostIsAlwaysThere@reddit

He’s bought some that was spoiled before?

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

The beauty is the simplicity

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GhostIsAlwaysThere@reddit

Thanks, that was the simplest reason.

It’s just an idiosyncrasy, an odd behavior attributed to an odd man. Why do people do what they do? Those small details really tie the movie together There is no reason why. I imagine one of the cohen brothers observed this behavior once. Who knows.?

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

Once a plan gets too complex, everything can go wrong

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SmoovyJ@reddit

If you’re post-dating a check for 69 cents, you’re gonna make damn sure that half and half hadn’t gone off, dude

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Brandt@reddit

Nice

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

So upsetting to watch the carpet pissers ruin his $0.69 purchase.

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Brainstick@reddit

Man, because of your comment, I just realized Dude had to go back to Ralph's, sniff another carton of half-and-half and postdate another check for 69 cents.

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Technical_Choice_629@reddit

Uhhhh, uhhh, uhhhh uhhhh.

He did have the magnum of kahlua for emergencies just like this. Probably hit the vodka kahlua on lots of ice, and you know... uhhh

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S3xyhom3d3pot@reddit

Not as much as it hurts to see half and half cost .69 cents

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NocaSun38@reddit

In Los Angeles! ...or The City of Angels, in the parlance of our times.

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LinuxLinus@reddit

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hotelpopcornceiling@reddit

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taco_bones@reddit

a goddamn quart!

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strongsilenttypos@reddit

The good ole times!

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slowerlearner1212@reddit

No, no, no don’t…

not on the RUG mannn….

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Independent-Cap-4585@reddit

That carpet did tie the room together…did it not?

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

Fuckin eh

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SmoovyJ@reddit

You think the carpet-pissers did this?

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Impossible_Major5276@reddit

The chinaman pissed on your rug, dude?

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Claymore_79@reddit

Well we kinda know, dude

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Repulsive_Aside_4122@reddit

$0.69 down the toilet

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AffectionateBass361@reddit

I do imagine the Dude as a rather broke bloke. Though in the original script he was an heir the Rubik’s cube fortune

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swayinandsippin@reddit

yeah but it wuddn’t over

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SmoovyJ@reddit

You’re entering a world of pain

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CalmTeam1932@reddit

Maybe it’s marked down because it’s close to expiration

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THEBUS1NESS@reddit

I always thought it was a play on a wine connoisseur sniffing and tasting whine. He’s not into all the brevity.

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Papergame_82@reddit

Fuck it dude. Let’s go bowling

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choopie-chup-chup@reddit

This whole thing stinks to high heaven

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bustanut_dabmaster@reddit

OH JESUS WHAT’S THAT SMELL, MAN?

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choopie-chup-chup@reddit

You think the carpet pissers did this?

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Reasons_2resist@reddit

Doesn’t he also have a milk mustache?

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bigmattyc@reddit

Once, uh, like, bitten, you know, like, don't get fooled again, man

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drinkslinger1974@reddit

It show that despite showing up in public in a robe and pajamas, post dating a check for 69 cents, and not being very well presentable in general, the dude still has standards and wants the best of what’s offered within his grasp.

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Awkward_Archer2726@reddit

I agree with this, but it also is a great way to immediately give you a sense of his priorities. The Dude cares about his White Russians enough to go to out to the store and buy one carton of half and half when he runs out.

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

Love this

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DubiousScruples@reddit

This is a really good question because I have an interpretation of the movies meaning that hinges off this very scene. The Dudeist philosophy is rooted in a cosmic law that suggests if everyone abides by their own nature then they will be rewarded with cool. Once you start scamming people you become intertwined in their chaos and the cosmic balance gets thrown out along with your chill. The Dude, wittingly or not, violates the law of staying in your lane by sneaking a sample of creamer before pulling a whole one from the back while the divine narrator was busy remembering what he was talking about. This throws off the cosmic balance that the Dude has been holding together and allows the rest of the story to unfold. Apparently the universe required the Dudes rug, Donnie, and the creation of a little Lebowski as compensation to right this small but critical affront against it. He is the laziest man in LA county, and the whole dern world, because we are all counting on him to keep the balance and abide. Once our savior falls, we all fall with him.

I know this is a bit Dudeist for this sub, so bring on the one liners...

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guybrushthreepwood67@reddit

Easter egg the date on his check is 9/11/91…

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Laxku@reddit

As he's watching a president Bush launch a war in the Middle East on TV.

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j_ly@reddit

And the "this aggression will not stand" speech was on August 5, 1990, so... you know.

Lotta ins, lotta outs.

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TheNJGM@reddit

Lotta what-have-yous.

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Laxku@reddit

Lotta strands to keep straight in the old Duder's head

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guybrushthreepwood67@reddit

So prophetic and ahead of its time in so many ways…

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ifthedudeabidesman@reddit (OP)

Tomorrows already the 10th

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Delvis43@reddit

I finally got the venue I wanted.

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polygonalopportunist@reddit

Far out man

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Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit

Just slip the rent under my doah

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joeganis@reddit

The real easter egg is that he post dated it over 1 year out:

President George H.W. Bush famously declared "This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait" on August 5, 1990.

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Necessary-Lock-3738@reddit

And the cashier seemed really upset by the whole thing.

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Money-Look4227@reddit

I don't believe that speech was supposed to be a live airing. That clip ran over and over again for quite some time, on literally every news channel, as I recall from living through it. I don't think that clip was supposed to anchor the story to an exact date, but to give you an idea of the time period. As someone else pointed out, the day after the dudes rug gets micturated upon, his landlord tells him "tomorrow is already the 10th" so that means he purchased the half and half on the 8th. If we were to assume the speech on TV was occurring the day of, he post dated his check 1 year, 1 month and 6 days. I think it's more likely he post dated the check a couple of days.

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Charles-Headlee@reddit

The year on the check was 1991. The shit on the TV happened in 90. Were you listening to the dude's story?

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Haunting_Ant_5061@reddit

Is this a… what holiday is this?

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guybrushthreepwood67@reddit

My buddies didn’t die face down in the muck to have you ask dumbass questions on Reddit. YOURE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT. You’re like a child that just wanders into the middle of a movie.

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