chowder deserves to be on the sharks. let him live his dream!
also discovered that my favorite patater trope is when alexei has a huge crush on kent and kent is oblivious and thinks his own crush is unrequited. and then its slow burn only because it takes 10k words and lots of antics for them to accidentally realize they've been in love the whole time.
never forget that Joyce, Hopper, and Murray took Alexei to the hospital after he was shot and he recovered entirely besides a little scar and he became an american citizen and now he lives with Murray and he drinks a lot of (cherry) slurpees and watches a lot of cartoons and keeps his stuffed Woody Woodpecker on his bed and every so often he calls Robin so she can practice her Russian and he can practice his English and he loves the kids and sends them money Murray hid (albeit not well) “specifically for emergencies” on their birthdays and he goes to joyce and hopper’s for dinner every other sunday and everyone calls him uncle alyosha and he and dustin build “machinas” together and he helps El with her math homework and
i want the 'if I got a nickel for every time murray bauman fell in love with a russian man, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice' meme to happen in s5 ngl