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Question About Benny When George Was Growing Up


In the episode where we find out Max's friend Ricky's mom was a drunk, why does George say that his mother was mean but she wasn't a drunk? It's been established in other episodes that she was a drunk when he grew up. Was this an error or was she not a bad as George makes her out to be? Was it because she was able to keep down a job and was functioning?

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I asked that too, he talks all the time about she was drunk all the time, she woke up sweating tequila and hugging the toilet, etc. But somebody else pointed out despite Benny's drinking, she kept her job at the factory for over 30 years so she had to have herself pulled together THAT much anyway, which yeah IS an improvement over Ricky's mom.

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^This. On YouTube, I think it was, someone pointed out that though Benny was a drunk, she still managed to be there for George and function. She wasn't a complete loser mess like Ricky's mother was....

It's so ironic that Ozzy Ozbourne, the Prince Of Darkness, is so damn adorable.

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That's true, in all the flashbacks we saw of her when he was a baby, when he was a kid, even when he was married, she smoked all the time but she wasn't drunk, she was pulled together, never in her bathrobe and pajamas, she actually looked nice, scary.

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Benny was a drunk but never to that extent

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Surprisingly it seems Benny can get through the whole work day without a drink, but as soon as the work day's over, she's hitting Thirsty's, or George's fridge.

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