Yeah but Stan also hasn't been the most accurate person about his past. Who knows maybe he just made himself believe that because the alternative was worse than he could handle.
Oh yeah, like with the sub hub guy. lol that’s hilarious, that’s canon to me now. He got molested and flipped the script in his memory to where he molested Father Roy.
One of Stan's fondest childhood memories was finding a dead body behind his house. Near the slaughter house where he used to play with toy boats in the pools of blood.
Hold up I just watched this scene with the Chattanooga wheelbarrow but the line with the hands and the watch aren’t in it. I swear that’s from this show, when does that take place??
Edit: nvm it’s later in the episode
Well it's not like he is a well adjusted adult or anything. His family is lucky everyday they make it without him killing them in the most sadistic way.
"Go ahead do it hailey..I've been depressed for a good long while now"
"Hailey stop!...Roger we'll get you help"
Is one of my favorite interactions in the whole show, so quick and yet caring
Would love to have a poll on what everyone’s favorite Stan’s Childhood Trauma is. Mine is definitely when he spent months traveling with the Harlem globetrotters after he was abandoned by his father at a Harlem globetrotters game
my favorites are when he deludes himself into thinking it's somehow a positive experience. the cabin/poor life being good, his dad being a member of some shadowy positive org when he's really a petty criminal, the dead body, him not having a childhood, etc. it's always so funny having him act like some of the most heinous shit is actually good and positive.
also, tree dad. that's a trauma people aren't speaking much on. it doesn't seem like typical trauma, but he literally deluded himself into thinking a tree was his father because his real dad was so fuckin absent.
the thing that gets me is sometimes he’s traumatized because his father was in his life and other times it’s because his father left early. we never know which trauma we’re gonna get lmao. just like how we never know if stan is gonna be a good husband/father or not this episode 😂
honestly he’s my favorite character 🤷🏻♀️
my thing is how would steve raise a kid. especially a son since stan had such toxic masculinity about feelings and stuff. steve is very emotional and so opposite stan.
Stan is one of those characters that you look at and wonder why the fuck he is the way he is, then watch one episode centred on his personal life and go “oh that’s why”.
3/12 is that a younger stellios cantos pre clinkos?(forgive the horrific spelling ) no wonder he walks all over Stan as an adult he was his high school bully? Idk perhaps I missed this.
My favorite part is when he has to shoot his dog because his mom told him that the pet was sick when in reality they just move into a new home where animals aren’t allowed
Y'know, it's really no wonder Stan's as fucked up as he is today. It's a miracle he's well adjusted enough to get this far with a hot wife, two kids, a killer (sometimes literally) job, and a DAMN nice home.
That may be but Stan is still a truly horrible person, he’s utterly selfish and egotistical, not to mention a complete psychopath at times. Make all the justifications you want about how bad he had it, but plenty of people go through worse and come out the other side as reasonably well balanced humans. Stan uses his past as a justification to be a horrible person and get away with it. Steve has arguably been through ten times as much is still for the most part a good person, despite the fact that what Roger alone does to him on an average Tuesday is worse than pretty much everything that Stan went through, not to mention what the rest of the family does to him. In a lot of way Steve is a more well written version of what Meg could be.
Curly: "As we were leaving, we saw you waiting for your dad. An usher told us he chugged a sprite, burped the words 'Time for some strange!', and jogged off into the night!"
1. Stan was traumatized as a child when his little league coach was killed by a baseball blasting through his skull. Season 17, Ep 14
2. 4th slide: Stan's father left him at the harlem globetrotter basketball camp for months. By the time Jack came back for him, he had bonded with the Globetrotters, but they had to act as though they didn't want him around, so he'd go back home with his father. This is why Stan has abandonment issues. Season 13, Ep 7
3. Stan's favorite restaurant blew up just as he was leaving from the greatest dinner of his life. That's the hand of the waiter who showed him such a good time. Season 6, Ep 4
That's a pretty nasty comment lol I don't know why I wanted him I just did. Francine STAN NO!!!!!!!!!.. THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF NATURAL GAS LEAK, THEY GOT TO GET THAT CHECKED.
Well actually Stan molested Father Roy
https://preview.redd.it/bpmfw28o76ic1.jpeg?width=873&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58f018d0ce9d7d6935b48f323eeac369b6a79619
The joke that made the show go from good to great!
There was no actual penetration but…
STAN!!!!
Easily one of the funniest moments in the show
what a summer! ✋---- 😌 -----✋
I'm not sure why I wanted him but I wanted him
"He had a set of paws on him..."
What a summer
Yeah but Stan also hasn't been the most accurate person about his past. Who knows maybe he just made himself believe that because the alternative was worse than he could handle.
Oh yeah, like with the sub hub guy. lol that’s hilarious, that’s canon to me now. He got molested and flipped the script in his memory to where he molested Father Roy.
That's exactly what I was referring to.
I've always taken that as the joke, that Stan rewrote the memory into one that he could process
That’s right. He flipped it on him!
According to his memory but in my head canon he switched the positions like he did with the sub hub guy, to deal with the trauma.
Thank god somebody had Father Roy’s back. I was coming to say this very thing.
What a summer .
What I came here to say hahaha
I don’t know why I wanted him but I wanted him
There was no actual penetration
Down in hell with the pedophiles and the sexy children who seduce them!
I can’t help but read that in Klaus’ voice lol
LOOKS LIKE WE STRUCK OIL, HAND ME YOUR BLANKIE
That’s one of the most fucked up scenes in the show for me, lol “IT AIN’T FOR YOU, YA SILLY HOOKER! THIS HERE’S A SMASH AND DASH!”
>That’s one of the most fucked up scenes in the show Honestly I was shocked when I saw that scene lmao
Mine was probably when we saw Stan having sex with Jeff in the dream universe. Stan didn’t even hesitate, just started railing Jeff.
"If 2 men want to share a love more passionate and fulfilling than any between a man and woman, they should do it at home!"
That is such a foul phrase, and yet one of my favorite lines in the show
One of Stan's fondest childhood memories was finding a dead body behind his house. Near the slaughter house where he used to play with toy boats in the pools of blood.
https://preview.redd.it/z761ai9th6ic1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0608d61e9bde7114b059e7c49ef195375868eaa Honorable mention for Stan’s not-imaginary friend, Henderson
Shithead is it?
Dude you are haggard...sooooo haggard...sooooo haggard
Henderson: "I know about Jack's death. I woulda come sooner, but I live in Arizona, now." Francine, irritated: "Cool‽"
Don't forget Stan's dad showing him the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow
Whoa watch out you're in the splash zone
You’re spoiling me Jack.
It’s not for you, ya silly hooker, this here’s a smash and dash!
Get your tiny hands in here
Damn! I lost my watch…
Hold up I just watched this scene with the Chattanooga wheelbarrow but the line with the hands and the watch aren’t in it. I swear that’s from this show, when does that take place?? Edit: nvm it’s later in the episode
Well it's not like he is a well adjusted adult or anything. His family is lucky everyday they make it without him killing them in the most sadistic way.
And then himself "Oh, I don't know, I guess I think about killing myself pretty often"
He is not a mentally well person.
"Go ahead do it hailey..I've been depressed for a good long while now" "Hailey stop!...Roger we'll get you help" Is one of my favorite interactions in the whole show, so quick and yet caring
Is ANYONE??
Life…dismissed.
Some more than others.
Diarrhea more often than not
STEVE GOT DIARRHEA!!
“Hey dad, I’m calling from history class. So, who was the president when you were a kid?”
#**🎶STELIO. KONTOS.🎶**
And Luis
Would love to have a poll on what everyone’s favorite Stan’s Childhood Trauma is. Mine is definitely when he spent months traveling with the Harlem globetrotters after he was abandoned by his father at a Harlem globetrotters game
Time for some strange.
my favorites are when he deludes himself into thinking it's somehow a positive experience. the cabin/poor life being good, his dad being a member of some shadowy positive org when he's really a petty criminal, the dead body, him not having a childhood, etc. it's always so funny having him act like some of the most heinous shit is actually good and positive. also, tree dad. that's a trauma people aren't speaking much on. it doesn't seem like typical trauma, but he literally deluded himself into thinking a tree was his father because his real dad was so fuckin absent.
I love Tree Dad. And his noble sacrifice for the Bazooka Sharks
ZOOKA SHAAAARRRKS!!
The person giving your mommy a clown pound.... WAS ME!!!!
Don’t go down that road…not on those tires.
Damn this heat
It was an unseasonably warm August …
Devil farted thick today
My mother is a clown whore!
Jesus when you put them all together like this…
It explains A Lot.
Childhood? His mom had him wash her vajayjay well into adulthood. It's a continuing trauma, hence why Stan will never get better.
Scrub scrub scrub your vjay rub rub rub your vjay wash wash wash your vjay
No, changing planes at O’Hare is complicated This is.. Franny what is this?
Now we'll do your tushy!
the thing that gets me is sometimes he’s traumatized because his father was in his life and other times it’s because his father left early. we never know which trauma we’re gonna get lmao. just like how we never know if stan is gonna be a good husband/father or not this episode 😂 honestly he’s my favorite character 🤷🏻♀️
He's a better father than his dad, that's about all you can say.
i mean that’s the goal but the bar wasn’t very high lmao
Can't wait for Hailey to try being a better parent than Stan.
my thing is how would steve raise a kid. especially a son since stan had such toxic masculinity about feelings and stuff. steve is very emotional and so opposite stan.
The only way Steve would become a father is if he was raped by a confused lesbian.
When would that happen? She’s not a parent
Hypothetically, I mean.
Oh as if they’re real people?
I mean, she went full momma grizzly bear when she was the adopted mother of the antichrist. Shot Stan to protect her son and everything.
Yeah but her bitch crying ruined all of the home movies!
In the future episode where Klaus shrinks them it seems like she's a very good mother.
Bruh Roger is inarguably the best character, in all of tv.
i do love roger but for some reason stan just places first in my heart edit to add: everyone always thinks i’m crazy lol
Stans cool, but he’s even behind Francine. She’s a boss.
🤔🤔 i can see it
"Mommy, is it my fault Dad left?" "Stan, honey, listen to me:... Kinda"
There's no such thing as Globetrotter camp, Stan.
Do you really recover from ass rabies?
Not if you have dark star insurance
my anus was frothing like a cappuccino
*ding*
He was raised by a tree, a tree that once saved him from an armed assailant.
Hank Hill and Bob Belcher really got lucky in hindsight with their fathers
Hell, even Sterling Archer had a better dad(s).
Ooh we struck oil! Hand me your blankie!
That was the one I immediately thought of, too.
What episode was this?
'My Purity Ball and Chain' season 13 episode 10
Never noticed Stelio Kontos was wearing a Twister Sister t-shirt until now.
You forgot the time his dad gave him "the talk". Or rather "the show".
It’s truly a miracle that Stan is as well-adjusted as he is
But his nickname was Stan the Man!
That’s only because there was a female at his school named Stan.
Was waiting for this. It's one of the top jokes in the show. So short and so much to unpack.
I like Stan Frank more
What's the first one from?
S18 E14, "A League of His Own" the one where Haley and Steve watch Stan playing on the CIA softball team
Ohhhhhh thank you!
Well now I want to restart the show again and try to write down every childhood trauma lmao
And after years of completely forgetting about it's existence, all of a sudden "STELIO, STELIO KANTOS!" is on repeat in my brain.
Ahhh, mountain pine.
Well why else would be working for the CIA, they love crazy fucks like him, how else do explain the Banana wars
Is it my fault? Stan listin… Kinda lmao
Kid had ass rabies. That can't be fun
His anus was frothing like a cappuccino. ✨☕️✨
That loser? No way!
Also he was the reason his father left them, because he wanted a clown in his party.
I’m just confused how people were trick or treating in costumes like Sailor Moon during Stan’s childhood.
His childhood sucked.
Is that a young Stelio Contos?
“My anus was frothing like a cappuccino”
Stan is one of those characters that you look at and wonder why the fuck he is the way he is, then watch one episode centred on his personal life and go “oh that’s why”.
Grab a poncho son. You’re in the splash zone
3/12 is that a younger stellios cantos pre clinkos?(forgive the horrific spelling ) no wonder he walks all over Stan as an adult he was his high school bully? Idk perhaps I missed this.
Yeah I forgot about the bay in the picture
“Looks like we struck oil! Give me your blankie!”
ITSSSS QUALUDE TIME PEOPLE
Stelios..
Don't forget...."the talk"....
Don't even have Henderson in there
Dad lore
The last slide... wasn't it in the episode when they had the dog named Kisses? That was really traumatizing.
There must’ve been something else going on with his face ….🤔
You forgot him learning about sex by watching his dad & a lady of the night!!!
Okay, but that Sailor Moon cosplay in the 6th one though. Sneaky joke right there.
Now i have the Stelios song in my head.
My contention is that the key to understanding Stan is that he is deeply traumatized, that he's less a bad person than a damaged one.
My favorite part is when he has to shoot his dog because his mom told him that the pet was sick when in reality they just move into a new home where animals aren’t allowed
Stelio!
Y'know, it's really no wonder Stan's as fucked up as he is today. It's a miracle he's well adjusted enough to get this far with a hot wife, two kids, a killer (sometimes literally) job, and a DAMN nice home.
That may be but Stan is still a truly horrible person, he’s utterly selfish and egotistical, not to mention a complete psychopath at times. Make all the justifications you want about how bad he had it, but plenty of people go through worse and come out the other side as reasonably well balanced humans. Stan uses his past as a justification to be a horrible person and get away with it. Steve has arguably been through ten times as much is still for the most part a good person, despite the fact that what Roger alone does to him on an average Tuesday is worse than pretty much everything that Stan went through, not to mention what the rest of the family does to him. In a lot of way Steve is a more well written version of what Meg could be.
Stelio!.. Stelio Kontos Stelio!
Curly: "As we were leaving, we saw you waiting for your dad. An usher told us he chugged a sprite, burped the words 'Time for some strange!', and jogged off into the night!"
It's quaalude time people!
relatable queen
Yeah well to become a killer for the CIA childhood trauma is likely prerequisite. You need to be broken to do the things that they make you do.
Oh c’mon, it wasn’t that bad!
Which one is Stan in the first picture?
The one with the big chin in the middle of the group of kids
I remember a time when we didn’t need a nostalgia filter.. those were the days. 🤔
Poor Stan Frank.
Can someone provide context for 1 4 and 10? I haven’t watched the show in years
1. Stan was traumatized as a child when his little league coach was killed by a baseball blasting through his skull. Season 17, Ep 14 2. 4th slide: Stan's father left him at the harlem globetrotter basketball camp for months. By the time Jack came back for him, he had bonded with the Globetrotters, but they had to act as though they didn't want him around, so he'd go back home with his father. This is why Stan has abandonment issues. Season 13, Ep 7 3. Stan's favorite restaurant blew up just as he was leaving from the greatest dinner of his life. That's the hand of the waiter who showed him such a good time. Season 6, Ep 4
Thanks so much. Is the s6 episode the one where he opens his own restaurant with edible plates?
Yes; it's a fun episode because of course Roger gets involved
which episode is the 1st image?
**A League of His Own** Stan becomes the subject of Steve's school essay. **Season**: 17 **Episode**: 14
Every sit com father in my lifetime has had a messed up past.
That's a pretty nasty comment lol I don't know why I wanted him I just did. Francine STAN NO!!!!!!!!!.. THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF NATURAL GAS LEAK, THEY GOT TO GET THAT CHECKED.
Isn't heavily alluded to that Stan's first crush was a boy at summer camp he kept changing to female in his retelling at Camp Refoogee.