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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
Wow I called this one and I didn’t even know what the story intends to do.
I’m waiting for when they go to the police station and start to describe Terrance the police chief goes, “He sounds like someone we’ve been looking for for the past year. He escaped from a mental asylum”
I’ve been seeing a lot of this recently. Terrance isn’t insane. Yes, he lives in a world that is different from reality, but the only difference is that, in Terrance-world, Terrance is always right. He’s not nuts, he just never stops to double-check or reconsider, because there’s no need. He’s right, so why waste the time? Therefore, any time he seems to fail or be wrong, someone else must have sabotaged him. Probably someone he already has a low opinion of, therefore proving he was right to dislike them. And if anyone doesn’t like Terrance, clearly they’re either jealous or evil, because how could you not like Terrance? He’s great!
Exactly right.
Terrence isn’t insane.
Terrence is just THAT MUCH of an asshole.
Dunning-Kruger Effect…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I dunno… He’s pretty much dinged every box for narcissistic sociopathy. Even in your description of him.
I tend to shorthand that as ‘insane’. His brain does not work with facts, it works with some mumbo-jumbo it made up on the fly. That does not count as sanity from where I’m sitting.
@Viktor: I was using the phrase ‘mental asylum’ for a comedic effect, knowing that it is an extreme and derogatory term for those who are in need of professional help.
And yes I’ve known assholes and professional victims like Terrence. Short of electroshock therapy*, there isn’t that much one can do with them.
*Again an exaggeration for comedic effect
I’ve discovered the legal definition of actual insanity has one specific symptom that Terrance doesn’t seem to have manifested, hallucinations.