Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.
All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.
I had read about this scene, if I remember correctly, in the biography of Tosches. By pure chance I found the video on YouTube. Among other things, the video also testifies how Tosches did not invent anything and that the FACTS narrated are true. This is one of the many testimonies on the matter. And that's one of the many things Dean said after the breakup that pisses me off 😡
To Bob Newhart's "Are you sure you worked with Jerry?"
Dean replies "A lot of his stuff wasn't this funny" 😡
It wasn't true! He had the best laughs with Jerry, why did he even go so far as to deny it? 😭
The essential points of this video in my opinion are:
1) Dean always reads from the cue cards. It is evident that he is looking in front of him but not looking directly at the comedian in front of him. And on the starting card there are lines written by the authors of the program, certainly not by him.
2) All the time he giggles, smiles … but it is ONLY when he hears Jerry's name that he breaks completely into a laugh of his "own" and certainly not dictated by the authors.
3) Obviously the name is enough … it was not necessary to specify which Jerry it was.
Dean = Jerry.
4) After saying those hateful words about how little fun Jerry was, it seems to me that Dean gets serious for a few seconds. He has a serious glow in his eyes but quickly returns to character.
5) The Jerry line I think is his only real impromptu line in the whole skit. Jerry, albeit from a distance, albeit badly, pushed him to improvise as he never did after the breakup.
Dean was really just himself with Jerry!
Remember that moment in ITSV, when Miles first meets his world's Spider-Man and their spider senses do the thing?
The background behind Peter is as we'd expect; the classic red and blue.
But at first Miles' background is green and purple, two colors he's never associated with at all throughout the movie. As the moment goes on, it shifts to match Peter's.
We are literally watching Miles' fate change and the anomaly happen.
It's well established that the spider that bit him was not supposed to even be in that universe, meaning our Miles was supposed to be something else before it happened.
This isn't true for ITSV, but in every other version of Spider-Man, the main color scheme for the Prowler is green and purple.
Our Miles was supposed to become the next Prowler in his world. And the only reason he's not, is because of the original Prowler. Miles switched his fate with Earth-42 Miles.