People somehow neither understand nor appreciate David Koechner's brilliant and complex character Gerald "T-Bones" Tibbons.
T-Bones is a brilliant mind, disguised/trapped in a hobo's body/lifestyle.
He does loads of drugs, but then he makes literary references as though he were an expert in literature and studied Noam Chomsky. He does so matter-of-factly, not to rub it in anyone's face, he is just smart. Despite this, he absolutely fails in society.
Take the following quote from the Naked Trucker and T-Bones CD Live At the Troubadour
"Really, Ho Chi Minh? Nobody came out tonight to discuss Dialectical Materialism. Oh wait, everybody pull out your Marx-Engels reader. Oh, here's my copy of Das Kapital. There's light reading...
Oh, we're in the presence of Noam Chomsky everybody! I think there should be a copy of Manufacturing Consent on all your tables. Lets have a look and find out how all your major media outlets are owned by multi-national corporations. Where do you get your news? Think about it."
So, if you don't like the humor, fine, but you can't dislike it based on your love or hatred of redneck comedy such as the Blue Collar Comedians. If you do, then you just don't get it.
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I agree. He was actually the genius and the retard at the same time. Trucker was just the straight man who kept him alive. Is this similar to Rain Man?
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