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The Hitchhiker was a real ingrate

posted 10 years ago by tenantennae
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I mean, people are generous enough to give this scruffy wanker a ride, and he doesn't even warn them about the circumstances of their impending doom?

Oh no! He saves that juicy tidbit for the audience. It's like, "Hey, you know that person who was kind enough to give me a ride just now? Oh, well they're about to DIE. And it's gonna be really, really ironic."

How about the irony of their generosity going unrewarded, as they are mocked by the very same transient they helped, you jackass?

What a terrible representative for hitchhikers. If you're ever broke down on a desert highway, trying to thumb a ride to no avail, you know who to blame.

[–] filmdummy 10 years ago

Hmmm...I never thought of it that way.

"David...you're hurting my feelings!"
-Jack Goodman
from An American Werewolf in London (1981)

[–] SacrifyX 10 years ago

The plot is 'A Lesson Learned' like many horror anthology series, The Hitchhiker usually encounters terrible, *beep* people that deserve whatever they get. Adulterers, murderers, thieves, greedy people, crooked cops, or people who have done something terrible in their past, and it comes back to haunt them.