Its Neat How Charlie Days Character In Monsters University Shares A Lot Of Elements With Charlie Kelly:

It’s neat how Charlie Day’s character in Monsters University shares a lot of elements with Charlie Kelly:

Keeping a dream journal

Defending his hobby of spending time in the sewers

Overall wild card personality

Adaptable

Appreciates school dances and has signature dance moves

Alexa play Moonbeam Kiss by Joe Brook

dennis reynolds is morosexual

dennis: I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. mac asked me what the spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

mac: evolution isn’t real

dennis, already taking off his clothes: mac you’re so fucking stupid

....and i bet he’s still sticking to his Mac’s Famous Mac n’ Cheese story with them because Dennis is the only one who knows

when they’re sitting around the table in mac’s apartment at the start of that new trailer, are they eating mac and cheese??

There won’t be an episode where Dennis comes back to Philly on his own, because instead the gang goes to North Dakota to find and bring him back because they can’t put up with Mac

It’s been established Dennis scratches, so... 👀

Love how you put this.

i don’t know exactly how to phrase it but like… a big part of the charm of iasip for me is how there’s a lot of nuance and not a lot of subtext, if that makes sense?

things that could easily be subtextual – the characters’ trauma and ow it affects them, as a very broad example, or mac being in love with dennis, as a more specific example – is straight up acknowledged within the show (in a way thats Good and not hamfisted)

but then those things splinter out into more detailed bits and pieces and fragments of character’s more specific behaviors and such 

the big pieces aren’t subtle but there’s still levels of subtlety in a way that’s just overall really well done