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so, uhm... the check?..


It's still a mystery why that real estate firm sent Bellow & Hare a check for $7k, and an even bigger mystery, I think, why Bellow & Hare didn't cash it.


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I wondered about why the writers used a check as MacGuffin
Raises more questions than answering questions

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I do remember Keith giving a simple possiblity when Dory was getting ready to retreat after their intimate night. I forget exactly what he said but I would guess that Is what happened.

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What are you responding to?

What does this have to do with the $7000 check?


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Keith told dory that sometimes real estate companies give tax refunds so it was probably just a tax refund. Although, I don't know why you would throw away a 7000 dollar check but maybe they used one of those phone apps where you take a picture to deposit the check.... but then again I think there is a limit on how big of a check you can deposit using those apps. Its a real head scratcher.

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Ah, right, I didn't think of the app, even though I've used it myself (very few payments come by check anymore). But you are right, there are limits.

I mean, it still doesn't explain everything, but at least the part about why the check was thrown out is a little clearer. 


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Since the show is about millennials, depositing a check via app is a very millennial thing to do I guess. Also, I just realized that its business account so maybe they have higher app deposit limits in this fictional world?

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Well, the thing is, there just aren't that many occasions for someone like me to use the app because I am paid by direct deposit. Things like tax refunds are done electronically. Since the time I first installed the app like two years ago, I have maybe only had the occasion to use it twice. And I haven't used my own personal checks (or owned a checkbook) in about a decade now.

I don't know, maybe checks are a bigger part of their reality?.. Although the people working at the shop were older in any case, not millennials. 


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Good question. It could have been a crazy Loraine fake. The real estate company people pointed out that Loraine made a fake business card. Maybe she made a fake check and when the cult realized it was fake they trashed it.

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