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| That shirt was to Stiles what leather jackets and VD were to the Fonz. |
Following the same layout as my previous post, this one will attempt to give you some insight to one of the most complex characters ever to plaster themselves across the silver screen. Unfortunately, that character (Stiles from Teen Wolf) had only one legit youtube clip and it was one of his weaker scenes. It appears that youtube was hijacked on the Teen Wolf movie clips in exchange for some lame reboot MTV version. FACT: The actor who played Stiles went on to direct half of the great episodes from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's stellar third season.
So I instead turned to the third-greatest film character in that movie, as well as third-greatest in the history of cinema, (behind Stiles and the fat guy, Boof which went on to be the 4th most popular boy's name in Thailand in 1986, the year after Teen Wolf hit theatres) that character's name is "Coach Bobby Finstock." For your consideration as the Nebraska school system's anti-role model, Coach Finstock's unconventional style of inappropriate advice, complete lack of basketball fundamentals, and questionable hygiene ethics leads his high school basketball team to new heights.
Attention: here is a comment on Teen Wolf's imdb page that needed to be mentioned about a story set in Nebraska.
-There are no palm trees in Nebraska.
00:04 - I am hazarding a guess that the actor playing Coach Finstock was Steve Guttenberg's stunt double during the food fight scene in It Takes Two.
00:10 - Master motivational tool - offer fried chicken in return for excellent basketball play. That is probably an excerpt from Pat Riley's The Winner Within talking about how he used to motivate the Showtime Lakers in the 80's. Finstock is clearly well-versed in the study of motivation.
00:22 - Good to see there's a coach out there taking up his mantle as role model seriously, he let's his player know that he is here to help.
00:29 - So much for that. Solving problems is hard and requires effort that clueless high school coaches like Finstock don't have time for. I see his point.
00:49 - I've been covering the IRS vendetta against the Finstock brood since my first year on my grade school newspaper.
1:05 - "I'm sorry I didn't notice, but I haven't been hanging around the locker room all that much." A major implication that he usually keeps an eye out for his athletes going through puberty and reacting with a congratulations or at least a Hallmark card for growing hair down there. I'd be upset If I were Michael J. Fox as well. He had to sit through and watch everyone else get the coaches attention upon reaching their manhood, but Fox reaches werewolf-hood and all he gets is a belated offer of stale fried chicken. Maybe if Finstock had the same attentive eyes on his financial statements he wouldn't be running into repeated IRS trouble.
1:44 - Tougher adolescence: being the fatherless kid in that story, who dropped out of high school to help out his crippled mom or being a fat kid named Boof?
1:49 - Notice the "No Students Allowed" sticker on Finstock's office window.
1:55 - He didn't need a third-stringer, but he does need a less annoying habit that doesn't involve him chomping down gum like Violet Beauregarde.
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| Shoop-da-Boof was Salt-N-Peppa's ode to this stud. |
2:20 - BOOOOOOOOF!!!!! Don't cry.
2:29 - He really doesn't have much pride in his job, and I can't help wondering if he is just in that locker room staking out who is going through ch-ch-ch-changes.
2:50 - I didn't think he had it in him. But Coach Bobby Finstock just gave the best three pieces of advice I've ever heard. Not only that, but he was able to stick a, "and everything else is cream cheese," in there. BREAKING NEWS: not ironically "cream cheese" was in Finstock's word-of-the-day for toddlers calendar that day.
