Sheriff Pepper: The Jar Jar Binks of the 1970s

WHEN YOUSA WAS YOUNG, AND YOUSA'S HEART WAS AN OPEN BOOK...

Really, is it just that EON saw something side splitting in the character that no one else did? For a comedy sidekick character, he has barely any interaction with Bond in LALD, meaning the movie has to keep awkwardly cutting back to him for the hijinks--it's pretty much where comic timing and pacing goes to die. Hell, we practically get to know him more than Kananga! Why is it so important to know that his brother Billy Bob has the fastest boat on the river? Would it really disrupt the scene if we didn't know whose boat the henchman was stealing? And while he's in pursuit, Pepper goes into Ruby Rhod levels of never shutting the hell up. I haven't even seen TMWTGG yet, so I've got that to look forward to.

Now, I don't mean to insult anything about the late Clifton James, I'm sure he's very...holy sh!t he's still alive? Didn't expect that.

If you must blink, do it now.