mac saying he’s in love with johnny and doesn’t wanna be with anyone else because he has to be with him only for dennis to scream I AM JOHNNY oh it’s bad
the layers of comedy of. someone writing a script. for bryan cranston to perform. as bryan cranston. as bryan cranston ACTING. performing in a way that mirrors his breaking bad scenes. acting that comes across as sincere to the characters in the moment. but performed in a way that makes it funny to an audience. bryan cranston acting as bryan cranston, acting. i will watch that monologue on loop when i rewatch
as an econ major, hearing charlie and frank try to explain inflation is so funny cause like the way my professors talk about inflation is by showing us complicated graphs and making us solve insane equations and the way charlie and frank talk about it is like if they read one britannica article about it once very briefly
I think the diamond is supposed to represent dennis —they're beautiful and the toughest material on earth, how Dennis wants to be viewed. a "golden god" (hence the diamond shining gold), perfect, royal, while also trying to seem unaffected by annoyances and inconveniences. Dennis telling the gang not to make diamonds with the pressure cooker makes me think of tgtb and him trying to get the gang to see past his façade, and to stop reinforcing it.
also, the "running against the system" while his blood pressure escalates along with the use of "Listen to Your Heart" seems like Dennis trying to "take a vacation from himself" and keep his anger in, thus building up pressure, but no matter how much he tries to keep it all suppressed, he fails, which leads to him giving into the "pressure". but instead of this pressure release happening in public like it has before, it happens in his mind or heart. and through this internal release, he allows his façade to remain intact as we're brought back to see that it essentially was all him using random people as devices to let out his frustrations. the diamond cannibalism having him consume or become one with the diamond.
that episode was fucking insane. dennis wants to be with mac so badly but he can’t so he has to come up with insane ways to get close to him. it’s too much