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The episode with Gerald learning to ride a bike is bullsh*t

posted 8 years ago by watcher101
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I get the theme, try and you'll succeed, but come on, the progress Gerald made was utterly ridiculous. He spends a week practicing for a bike race, making little to no progress. The day before the race, he's hardly any better, he can barely steer, and is slow slow that a little kid on a toddler's tricycle is faster than him. In disgust, he calls it quits, but has a nightmare that night, so he rides his bike down the hill he went down as a child.

The very next morning, he's not only riding his bike perfectly, but is faster than anyone, able to ride the bike to the very top before everyone else, wait for Arnold to catch up (allow others to pass him in the process), exchange a few words with him, and then still be fast enough to win the race.

What kind of BS is that?!

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[–] watcher101 8 years ago

Yeah, barely. Yet in a single night, he goes from the absolute worse and slowest rider in the whole city to the fastest. In fact, he's so fast, that he can now beat everyone else in the city, who have been riding bikes for years when he's only been riding for a week at most, and even has time to let them pass as he waits for Arnold to catch up and exchange words with him, and STILL come in first place. Please.
I don't know, but for some reason the whole way this was done just really irritated me.

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[–] watcher101 8 years ago

THAT'S my point! The whole thing was ridiculous. And as for him riding in prior episodes, this one must take place before them in the time line.

[–] Purplecover101 8 years ago

It's kind of similar in Lizzie McGuire when she found out that Ethan was cheating on Miranda and being a jerk ion that marriage project, but Lizzie and Miranda continued to like him in later episodes.