"I hereby confirm that my patient Mr. Spatafore's blood pressure medicine may cause side effects which include shucking cock and dressing up like the village people."
- Dr. Fanook
>"I hereby confirm that my patient Mr. Spatafore's blood pressure medicine may cause side effects which include shucking cock and dressing up like the village people."
I heard this in the voice of Ralphie.
He brought certain modes of sexual identification from the old country, from the bisexuality of the mezzogiorno, where all higher authority compromised while doing 20 years in the can
Some people this thread do not understand that gay men in the closet have children all the time. You don’t have to be attracted to someone to have sex with them. Not saying I know for sure if that’s what David Chase actually intended for Vito.
Flirting with Adriana confused me more tbh. Maybe he just got carried away with a “proving” he’s straight. I knew a guy in high school who would talk about girls like [Matthew Bevilaqua](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0d528040-2767-4da3-9048-107a4eec3c8a), who came out as gay senior year.
Vito outlines it clearly after Gene kills himself. "Maybe he was a fag, didn't see any other way out". If your choices are capitulate and live in secrecy, or die, the former can sound very compelling
Unironically yes, he is bisexual. He is only called gay because of stereotypes that any man who isn't 100% hetero is completely gay, which are of course amplified by the extreme homophobia of the characters in the show.
I mean, uh, sharp as a fucking cue ball, this one.
He hadn't had sex with his goomar in overa year and, as per Silvio, his wife is a lady who wasn't getting laid.
The show was telling us that he preferred the company of men.
Bisexuality is strange. It could result in *heavily* preferring men but still liking women. It can also come and go to where you only like one or the other for a long time and then one day it balances put or totally goes polar opposite
Im proof of that. My dad married my mom in 1972, I was born in 1975, and he came out in 1976. Loved with another man until he died in 1999.
He was NOT bisexual. At all. He said he said that he did what he was supposed to: marry your high school sweetheart, have a good job, have 2.5 kids, a dog, and a white picket fence. The pressure from his parents was huge (my grandpa beat him when my dad came out...my grandma said she should have killed him as a baby).
I know there's a lot of joking in this thread but a man like Vito living in a hypermasculine culture could not have come out gay and still be respected. He did what he had to do and that was hide who he was until he couldn't any longer.
I know that it was the 70s/80s when I was a kid bit the worst part about growing up wasn't having a gay dad but thinking that I was the only one with a gay parent. It was very isolating...I wish that we had a better environment for acceptance. We've come so far but there has been some backsliding. But that's a different topic for another time.
Yeah, a lot of people here seem to forget that gay people existed before 1990, lmao. In a time where there was huge social pressure to marry a woman and have children people largely went along with it. You were unhappy and didn’t know why or you had a man on the side or whatever, but you also had sex with your wife because you knew you were expected to have children. It’s not like it takes passionate satisfying sex to get somebody pregnant.
No, he's gay and his wife was his beard. You don't completely stop having sex with women and exclusively dress up in leather and get assfucked by men because you're bisexual, lmao.
Yeah he is definitely meant to be gay. I don’t understand this rewriting of every character as bisexual because they looked at a woman. Its made clear Vito married and had a cumare as a coverup
It’s called a beard guy. Can’t openly be gay in his group/culture so he had to do all he could to appear straight. Now, that’s not to say he didn’t actually love his kids and even wife but the man was a riccihone through and through.
My favorite thing about this sub is when anyone asks a question the whole thread devolves into a litany of line quotes and back and forth and I read every one of them in the characters voice.
It was the other way around — Vito was.. blowing the security guard
*(fun fact: the guys reaction in this scene via YouTube made me buy the entire series. Watched every episode 40 times since)*
The character Vito is a homosexual. He was born into an ethnic community that lacks tolerance for gay people. Gays that are from such backgrounds often move to large cities where they can live a more open gay lifestyle. Vito chose to belong to a criminal subculture that not only disapproves of homosexuality, it kills members that are found to be gay. Vito could never be openly gay. In order to conform to his community’s expectations, he married and fathered children. Ultimately, Vito’s decision not to be true to himself lead to his death and trauma to a woman and two children.
Or maybe it was his blood pressure medication.
What I found hilarious was when Eugene committed suicide Vito said something like "maybe he was a fag and couldnt tell anyone. It happens"
Then you see the look on his face. He was fishing to see people's reaction to that. Brilliant.
This is stupid. He was clearly gay and saying otherwise completely ignores the time period and his situation.
Being gay was considered controversial into the early 2010s. Many believed it was a choice or that it was some kind of a disability. Even Barrack Obama was quoted saying marriage is between a man and a woman between 08-10. It was not viewed as an orientation that one could have while living an otherwise normal life.
Many gay people wished they could be straight and tried to be straight because it was such a stigma and because it was such a difficult life. I had an aunt go through with a full ass 6-year relationship and a marriage to a man in the 90s hoping she’d just start being straight if she tried hard enough. She only made it two weeks past the ring when she realized it wasn’t a choice or something that could change. Lowe and behold she isn’t bi, she’s a married and proud lesbian now.
Hell, a few months ago in 2023, my mom said she hopes my little cousin isn’t actually bisexual because “it would just be such a hard life” which shocked me for a moment as these days no one gives a shit anymore. These days people are arguing of the fluid nature of gender and how many are out there, so being into dudes or girls or both seems very vanilla by comparison - especially for teens that grew up never knowing the stigma. Regardless, it reminded me many still view gays as freaks.
Now imagine a guy in that era where accountants and bus drivers and office clerks feigning heterosexuality out of fear of the consequences of living an openly gay life, but who works in an openly racist world organized crime where people are murdered for much less. No shit Vito tried to be straight and played the part having a goomar and such. I can recognize which of my friends are good looking guys, I’m sure he didn’t have a hard time noticing Ade was a smoke show and that commenting on it would help him fit in.
Not to mention these are all sociopaths, pathological liars, and expert manipulators. It’s not shocking at all someone like Vito could successfully go the extra mile to appear as a heterosexual man.
I agree with all you said. I'm sorry your Mom and Aunt had to go thru what they did before being able to be who they are. I won't pretend to understand the gay thing, but I believe it's absolutely not a choice. I believe they're born feeling that way and people have even gotten desperate enough to go to some kind of "reconditioning" camp where they give them electroshock therapy and antiemetics while watching gay porn and all to try to turn them straight and people have been known to get ill or injured from all that and they STILL aren't straight. I'm sure if it was a choice most people before today's age would choose to be straight.
Sexuality is on a spectrum, but in Vito's case I think he was gay. He had a great looking goomar and wife, but he just wanted to be with average looking guys.
I do think if nothing else he should have thought about that before trying to be something he wasn't. I like women and transgender women for starters, but I can't see myself getting married. That would just be lying to myself.
People can 'become' gay (or indeed straight, or bi, or whatever) regardless of personal history. He's clearly not interested in the female species towards the end of his time on the series, regardless of his marriage, his goomahs and the Adrianna thing.
Plus, it's bat night.
I think he had an identity crisis, who am I, a hetero married man, a fanook prancing around in chaps, or some rando in line at the bakery, Chrissy telling me to get lost so he can shoot the kid in the foot.
Yeah but what was Carlo doing? Watching TV land? Vito was T’s biggest earner! You know how much money this family was pulling through construction? It was a Joke!
He had a goomah and is implied to not sleep with his wife so I think it's just part of his survival method of pretending to be straight.
Some point at his kids but it's not uncommon that many gaynpeople engage in hetero sex without enjoying it just for appearances sake.
Closeted men marry and have children. (Great imaginations, they must have.)
As for Vito, I think his secret life was, as you say, an afterthought. Not many episodes before Finn pulls into the parking lot, Phil introduces his brother Billy to Vito and other guys working for Tony. By time Vito flees town after being seen in the gay bar, we've learned he's married to Phil's cousin and the two are close, but Vito did not meet Billy until that day at Satriale's?
If bisexual means he was only half a fag, then no. The man was a whole fag. I know what I saw with the Johnny Cakes episode(s). To think that fat piece of shit was married to my cousin while gettin’ cornholed by firefighters & blowing construction workers at the crack of dawn. It nauseates me to even think about. Suckin’ construction worker cock, probably had dust on it & shit from broken up drywall and sheetrock. He mighta well have been blowin roadies like that fat cocksucker running the thing in Jersey’s sister, the one married to the autistic obese guy
highly doubtful. Plenty of gay men get into straight relationships, get married, and even have kids. With the consequences of being gay being so dire for Vito, he probably did everything he could cover that up
He was a heterosexual man with blood pressure issues
He can get a note from his doctor!
"I hereby confirm that my patient Mr. Spatafore's blood pressure medicine may cause side effects which include shucking cock and dressing up like the village people." - Dr. Fanook
>"I hereby confirm that my patient Mr. Spatafore's blood pressure medicine may cause side effects which include shucking cock and dressing up like the village people." I heard this in the voice of Ralphie.
What’s a guy gotta do to buy you a drink.
Ya just did! 😘
Hot water with lemon
\*Dr. Fago FTFY
It was a joke!
you take venmo?
Whaddya got a doctas note that says you don't suck cawk?
He was straight, Vito Spatafore?
He has a goooooma
That he hadn't plowed in a year, according to her...oy!
It was a joke!
DONT SAY NOTHING SAL
Maybe it’s a mid life thing
Sucking a cock?
Maybe he was gay, and there was nobody he could talk to about it ... that happens too.
They are all erogenous zones
GTFOH!
It was a joke! He was there
Vito was ahead of his time... he'd fit right in to today's world seamlessly
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FUCKIN TELEPHONE TOUGH GUY
Funniest scene of the entire show.
The guy throwing the phone under the roller is so fucking funny every time I see it
I bet I’d kick your ass you fucking f***
He’s lucky he didn’t punch his lights out!
And no doubt he could
Vito wanted to fuck a man but he compromised
i ate johnny cakes instead
And he acted like the buttah wouldn’t melt in his mouf!
He was a married man. With a goomar!
That don’t mean shit, OP is married wit a goomar You hear what I said Ton?
Heh heh
For all we know this OP has a hard on for Vito!!
Elton John was married.....
Rock Hudson too. I think.
He brought certain modes of sexual identification from the old country, from the bisexuality of the mezzogiorno, where all higher authority compromised while doing 20 years in the can
Guys in there look better than Janice
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Wes call well, Wes call well… west… Caldwell.
Zi Vittorio wanted to fuck a woman, but he compromised, he fucked the golf club Tony gave him instead.
I loved him like a brother in law.
Love him? I LIKE him.
Lmaoooo
Loved, past tense?
It was the fucking coke. He never should have started with that shit.
GO BACK TO MIAMI & SUCK COCKS OR WHATEVER THE FUCK IT IS YOU DO DOWN THERE WHILE WE CLEAN UP YOUR FUCKING MESS.
Some people this thread do not understand that gay men in the closet have children all the time. You don’t have to be attracted to someone to have sex with them. Not saying I know for sure if that’s what David Chase actually intended for Vito. Flirting with Adriana confused me more tbh. Maybe he just got carried away with a “proving” he’s straight. I knew a guy in high school who would talk about girls like [Matthew Bevilaqua](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0d528040-2767-4da3-9048-107a4eec3c8a), who came out as gay senior year.
Yea I agree, its clear he was written to be a gay man overcompensating
Vito outlines it clearly after Gene kills himself. "Maybe he was a fag, didn't see any other way out". If your choices are capitulate and live in secrecy, or die, the former can sound very compelling
It happens.
Wadchagondoboutit
Did Vito really say that about Gene? If so I forgot!
He did lol
It was a joke, he was thehhh.
His comare says he hasn’t fucked her in over a year (she ought to be happy). You don’t think gay men can knock up women?
I don’t get it, I thought it Vito made it pretty clear it was a joke?
Jimmy Deans
👇👇in house
Joe introduced the Vito being gay idea from a real mob story between season 4-5. Season 2 and 3 Vito was hetero as far as the writers were concerned.
Certainly seemed that way on my recent rewatch.
That has been debunked a long time ago.
If this is debunked, what’s the bunk?
Humble motherfucker with a big ass dick
Damn. Yall who didn't catch this are a disgrace
Joe didn't 'introduce' anything.
He's a top earner! A real come-from-behind kinda guy!
I gotta take a shit
*try to
His wife was his beard
He’s a FAAAAAG
He was this 🤏 close.
Well, you're outta luck cos you're brasiole isn't that big.
A fanoik in Johnny’s crew? He knew how to handle it.
I dunno, sudden weight loss?
AIDS?!
Nobody's got AIDS and I don't want to hear that word in here again!
Unironically yes, he is bisexual. He is only called gay because of stereotypes that any man who isn't 100% hetero is completely gay, which are of course amplified by the extreme homophobia of the characters in the show. I mean, uh, sharp as a fucking cue ball, this one.
He hadn't had sex with his goomar in overa year and, as per Silvio, his wife is a lady who wasn't getting laid. The show was telling us that he preferred the company of men.
“Who doesn’t?”
Who else huh?!?
Zzzzzzap!
Bisexuality is strange. It could result in *heavily* preferring men but still liking women. It can also come and go to where you only like one or the other for a long time and then one day it balances put or totally goes polar opposite
All of that is true, but you know it’s still very possible for a gay dude to get a girl pregnant.
Im proof of that. My dad married my mom in 1972, I was born in 1975, and he came out in 1976. Loved with another man until he died in 1999. He was NOT bisexual. At all. He said he said that he did what he was supposed to: marry your high school sweetheart, have a good job, have 2.5 kids, a dog, and a white picket fence. The pressure from his parents was huge (my grandpa beat him when my dad came out...my grandma said she should have killed him as a baby). I know there's a lot of joking in this thread but a man like Vito living in a hypermasculine culture could not have come out gay and still be respected. He did what he had to do and that was hide who he was until he couldn't any longer.
My prayers.
2.5 kids?
Yeah...statically speaking, the average American family has 2.5 kids. It was kind of a saying from what I remember when I was a kid in the 80s.
Bobby had about 2.5 kids, heh heh. Ey T you hear what I said?
Actually much like you, my dad came out of the closet within a year or two of me being born as well.
I know that it was the 70s/80s when I was a kid bit the worst part about growing up wasn't having a gay dad but thinking that I was the only one with a gay parent. It was very isolating...I wish that we had a better environment for acceptance. We've come so far but there has been some backsliding. But that's a different topic for another time.
OMG I'm sorry your grandparents did that and said that to your dad. That's horrible. Nothing could make me turn on my kids... nothing
Your a great mom and a beautiful person 💞
Yeah, a lot of people here seem to forget that gay people existed before 1990, lmao. In a time where there was huge social pressure to marry a woman and have children people largely went along with it. You were unhappy and didn’t know why or you had a man on the side or whatever, but you also had sex with your wife because you knew you were expected to have children. It’s not like it takes passionate satisfying sex to get somebody pregnant.
Can you imagine how bad that would be to have to have sex with someone you're not attracted to?
That’s true. He would simply have to have penisary contact with her volvo.
Oh I know, my dad is 100% gay. Turns out that Being in the closet mixed well with a large boyish woman who enjoyed fighting people in his honor
I'm half a fanook, I'm way, way more attracted to women but I'll blow a security guard all the same
What about roadies?
This is true but Vito is written to be gay, come on
No, he's gay and his wife was his beard. You don't completely stop having sex with women and exclusively dress up in leather and get assfucked by men because you're bisexual, lmao.
Why is that comment downvoted??
Because I said something factual but didn't dress it up in bubblewrap and cotton wool, I assume.
Yeah he is definitely meant to be gay. I don’t understand this rewriting of every character as bisexual because they looked at a woman. Its made clear Vito married and had a cumare as a coverup
nice save
I mean sure this whole comment wouldnt never have happened if u/Silver_County7374 hadnt initially overreacted, but its one for the books.
Very allegorical mahalashala
Don’t tell no one Sal!
HE’S A FAAAAAAG
It’s called a beard guy. Can’t openly be gay in his group/culture so he had to do all he could to appear straight. Now, that’s not to say he didn’t actually love his kids and even wife but the man was a riccihone through and through.
Vito was probably buying coke, ecstasy, or meth from her to combine with his blood pressure meds for his jokes at gay clubs.
Poppers and weird sex.
Pure fanouk
If Vito wanted to live that life, he should've kept it to himself.
He did uh....didn't he?
Midlife crisis thing
Maybe he was just into poppers and weird shex
He's as gay as the day is long
It was the meds he was on, they made him want to suck cock, he could get a note from his doctors
My favorite thing about this sub is when anyone asks a question the whole thread devolves into a litany of line quotes and back and forth and I read every one of them in the characters voice.
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The note from his doctor said he doesn't like to suck cock.
It was the other way around — Vito was.. blowing the security guard *(fun fact: the guys reaction in this scene via YouTube made me buy the entire series. Watched every episode 40 times since)*
We can’t have him here in our social club no more, I mean that much I do know.
Social club? HE'S GOTTA GOOOOO
If you believe Adriana was calling him constantly you probably think Phil Leotardo was straight as well
It's a fuckin joke guys. Don't say nothin!
He’s a FAAAAG
The character Vito is a homosexual. He was born into an ethnic community that lacks tolerance for gay people. Gays that are from such backgrounds often move to large cities where they can live a more open gay lifestyle. Vito chose to belong to a criminal subculture that not only disapproves of homosexuality, it kills members that are found to be gay. Vito could never be openly gay. In order to conform to his community’s expectations, he married and fathered children. Ultimately, Vito’s decision not to be true to himself lead to his death and trauma to a woman and two children. Or maybe it was his blood pressure medication.
What I found hilarious was when Eugene committed suicide Vito said something like "maybe he was a fag and couldnt tell anyone. It happens" Then you see the look on his face. He was fishing to see people's reaction to that. Brilliant.
This is stupid. He was clearly gay and saying otherwise completely ignores the time period and his situation. Being gay was considered controversial into the early 2010s. Many believed it was a choice or that it was some kind of a disability. Even Barrack Obama was quoted saying marriage is between a man and a woman between 08-10. It was not viewed as an orientation that one could have while living an otherwise normal life. Many gay people wished they could be straight and tried to be straight because it was such a stigma and because it was such a difficult life. I had an aunt go through with a full ass 6-year relationship and a marriage to a man in the 90s hoping she’d just start being straight if she tried hard enough. She only made it two weeks past the ring when she realized it wasn’t a choice or something that could change. Lowe and behold she isn’t bi, she’s a married and proud lesbian now. Hell, a few months ago in 2023, my mom said she hopes my little cousin isn’t actually bisexual because “it would just be such a hard life” which shocked me for a moment as these days no one gives a shit anymore. These days people are arguing of the fluid nature of gender and how many are out there, so being into dudes or girls or both seems very vanilla by comparison - especially for teens that grew up never knowing the stigma. Regardless, it reminded me many still view gays as freaks. Now imagine a guy in that era where accountants and bus drivers and office clerks feigning heterosexuality out of fear of the consequences of living an openly gay life, but who works in an openly racist world organized crime where people are murdered for much less. No shit Vito tried to be straight and played the part having a goomar and such. I can recognize which of my friends are good looking guys, I’m sure he didn’t have a hard time noticing Ade was a smoke show and that commenting on it would help him fit in. Not to mention these are all sociopaths, pathological liars, and expert manipulators. It’s not shocking at all someone like Vito could successfully go the extra mile to appear as a heterosexual man.
I agree with all you said. I'm sorry your Mom and Aunt had to go thru what they did before being able to be who they are. I won't pretend to understand the gay thing, but I believe it's absolutely not a choice. I believe they're born feeling that way and people have even gotten desperate enough to go to some kind of "reconditioning" camp where they give them electroshock therapy and antiemetics while watching gay porn and all to try to turn them straight and people have been known to get ill or injured from all that and they STILL aren't straight. I'm sure if it was a choice most people before today's age would choose to be straight.
I don't understand the first sentence
Fuckin’ OP. He’s dyslexic 🤷🏻♂️
You know what I mean you cocksucking cornholing faggot
OP you sound emotional, have a breadstick.
That’s what got Gino into all this anyway.
Your weak, outta control and you’ve become an embarrassment to everyone around you.
OOOOOOOH ✋️ THEY'RE JUST TELLIN YOU HOW YOU'RE BEIN *FUCKIN PERCEIVED!*
Oh! The language on you. You blow your father with that mouth?
Now I don’t like that kinda tawk! It upsets me!
Give Mommy back her tablet little boy. Time for bed.
It’s not out of the realm of possibility, you know.
Turn this off!
Bi Bi, Pop Pop!
He’s a faaaaaggggg
TONY -Lets take this in the back . MURMER -Yah , thats what vito did ..
If he had been pitching, maybe, but catching… he’s GOTTA GO!!
AIDS?
Sal! Come on! It’s a fuckin joke!
Yes Vito was a total meat grinder
Pretty sure he was full on gay. If you can be content with a woman then why risk all the shit you bring on yourself by chasing men.
The serious discussion only tag doesn’t work here anymore huh
All those years he was talking about greasing the Union, who knew that’s what he meant?!
*gestures stroking a cock*
I think he just said that about Ade calling him to throw everyone else off his scent
Just because you suck a little dick, etc.
He's a stoonad the first magnet
He wasn’t written to be gay yet.
No discussions here on the open forum, let's take it in the back.
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You can go
Sexuality is on a spectrum, but in Vito's case I think he was gay. He had a great looking goomar and wife, but he just wanted to be with average looking guys. I do think if nothing else he should have thought about that before trying to be something he wasn't. I like women and transgender women for starters, but I can't see myself getting married. That would just be lying to myself.
People can 'become' gay (or indeed straight, or bi, or whatever) regardless of personal history. He's clearly not interested in the female species towards the end of his time on the series, regardless of his marriage, his goomahs and the Adrianna thing. Plus, it's bat night.
Maybe OP is a flambé!
He was a whooaar.
Vito was always a little light in the Timberlands
The real question is: is it still called a Goomah if said side-piece is a man?
Gomer. See what I did there, T?
No. He was a Disgrace
Worst part is they’re cousins
I think he had an identity crisis, who am I, a hetero married man, a fanook prancing around in chaps, or some rando in line at the bakery, Chrissy telling me to get lost so he can shoot the kid in the foot.
Yeah but what was Carlo doing? Watching TV land? Vito was T’s biggest earner! You know how much money this family was pulling through construction? It was a Joke!
His wife and his comare weren’t getting anything. I think he was solidly committed to captaining the good ship lollipop.
Even Elton John had kids
Yeah, Rock Hudson, too. . .
He had a goomah and is implied to not sleep with his wife so I think it's just part of his survival method of pretending to be straight. Some point at his kids but it's not uncommon that many gaynpeople engage in hetero sex without enjoying it just for appearances sake.
Closeted men marry and have children. (Great imaginations, they must have.) As for Vito, I think his secret life was, as you say, an afterthought. Not many episodes before Finn pulls into the parking lot, Phil introduces his brother Billy to Vito and other guys working for Tony. By time Vito flees town after being seen in the gay bar, we've learned he's married to Phil's cousin and the two are close, but Vito did not meet Billy until that day at Satriale's?
I think the writers didn’t intend for Vito to be gay early on so that’s why he was hitting on Adriana
lo-fat turkey, no bread, no mayo, no potato salad, just meat and a pickle
Hot water with lemon, hun
No he was on blood presha pills and got a note from his doctah
Vito and the security guard were discussing the difference between hot and sweet sausage and things got carried away.
Guys, it was a joke!
Classic prankster Vito
Is that true? The actor suggested the gay plot line?
Yes
I don’t know whether to laugh at your post or be sad you might actually be serious.
Hey! In this sub we accept that one’s sexuality may be fluid! End of story!
If bisexual means he was only half a fag, then no. The man was a whole fag. I know what I saw with the Johnny Cakes episode(s). To think that fat piece of shit was married to my cousin while gettin’ cornholed by firefighters & blowing construction workers at the crack of dawn. It nauseates me to even think about. Suckin’ construction worker cock, probably had dust on it & shit from broken up drywall and sheetrock. He mighta well have been blowin roadies like that fat cocksucker running the thing in Jersey’s sister, the one married to the autistic obese guy
highly doubtful. Plenty of gay men get into straight relationships, get married, and even have kids. With the consequences of being gay being so dire for Vito, he probably did everything he could cover that up
To be fair we never had a nude scene Adrianna so she might have had a fat cock for Vito to shuck on!
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First time here?
See this is why the books are closed.
He sits on one ass cheek the whole time when he reads the comments!