Yeah, I see what you mean. Jan was more physically tough where Marcia fought back verbally, intellectually. Peter was a good brother protecting his bullied sister from that Buddy Hinton---whose family was unarguably dysfunctional well before the word became part of common usage.
The only trouble with that was Eve Plumb didn't actually appear in this episode as it was one of the five season 2 absences! Barry Williams was the only member of the kids that was in every episode!
Jan would fight dirty. She would have kicked Buddy in the balls and then clawed his throat open. She lacks the brute strength that Peter has, but she makes up for it with her superior dexterity and critical hits.
I saw heavy-weight boxing, invented by Alice, at the cafe wha. Kid just came out of the army. I said to him, "Kid, I don't know what you call it-talent, charisma, magic-but you've got it.
...you know...out of the 3 Brothers, PETER seems to have the best rapport with ALL three Sisters; he's on equal ground with Jan (being 'middle' Children), respects Marcia (when she's not in her head), and VERY protective of Cindy (3:42).... Greg's usually indifferent & Bobby's never around......Yay, PETER... (2:52)
Jan actually did have a good rapport with Bobby too...they were just close in different ways though, but Cindy got along with all the boys best. Bobby & Jan had connected over being closest to Alice and thinking similarly about many things....including Bobby not even being embarrassed on the cartoon that he being a boy knew who Wonder Woman was. (Also he thought big sister Jan was too.)
Bullies actually built character and made you tougher. I got bullied in elementary school by a guy all the time until I stood up to him and actually beat his ass. Guy never bothered me again.
Yeah, it's good if you can do that, but it's not possible in every case. I was bullied by kids who took advantage of my very poor vision so I couldn't see who did things, or couldn't react in time to their tripping me or knocking me down. There's bullies and then there's bullies.
It might work in a case like in the clip where it's a 1:1 bully to victim ratio, but a whole other story when it's two or more bullies on one. I just don't understand it when people say it's a right of passage, totally normal, it builds character. Personally, I know of nobody who ever truly found bullying to be beneficial in any way---it only caused long term emotional scars And Good God, targeting a sight impaired kid. Why do bullies never make it a "fair fight"....? Because they're cowards !
@@msr1116- VERY well said!! Bullying is wrong period!! NOTHING good becomes of bullying!! All it does is perpetuate the cycle of bullying!! It's been proven by hard statistics!
Peter's the best. Of course these days, most people are total Karens and run straight to the police who along with DAs that have nothing better to do apparently will run the person through their meat grinder causing FAR more pain and trouble than a black eye.
For three solid years, ages 13 to 16. Then we moved to another state and all the comedy routine I'd developed to cope with being tormented, punched, kicked and publicly humiliated worked out great at the new school, where no one knew about my past. I became popular. For years I had the toughest time dealing with people being kind to me and liking me. It felt creepy, like I could hardly stand it and wanted to run away.
