Lame and stupid

And then Dean stares at his dick.

Despite what Monk or the company Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics might have you think, OCD doesn’t necessarily mean you’re neat and particular. Those of you into freak shows (sorry, reality shows): Have you ever seen that show Hoarders? Hoarding is often a symptom of OCD.Compulsions vary. Sometimes they correspond to fears, like washing your hands because you’re scared of contamination. Sometimes there’s no real logic behind them, like when you have to jump over a line on the floor because otherwise everybody you know will die horribly and it will be all your fault.

Many don’t have physical compulsions at all, instead suffering from “purely obsessional” OCD, where all they have are obsessions. And some people with diagnosed OCD even obsessively doubt the fact that they have OCD. How’s that for a mindfuck?

OCD, at heart, is an anxiety disorder. Yet movie and TV characters with OCD are often shown washing their hands or straightening things, never suffering from overbearing anxiety. This is probably because writing is hard and it’s easier to show someone cleaning than to show someone going through extreme mental anguish.

With one glance, you know that Christopher Walken has never had a normal life. You don’t come out looking like a man-ferret and sounding like a bridge troll who received elocution lessons from the Lost in Space robot after a lifetime spent slinging horse meat at Arby’s. So while it was certainly unexpected, we can’t really say we were surprised to learn that Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer in a traveling circus as a teenager. (He was also a clown as a child. Seriously. That’s him.)

Actually, he was more of a lion tamer’s assistant – not even Christopher “Makes Broadway Dance Moves Intimidating” Walken could leap, unharmed, directly into the mouth of a great cat straight out of junior high. But that doesn’t mean he just did the sweeping up – it only means that he trained one lion at a time instead of several. According to Walken, it was “more like a big dog than anything.”

Think that’s an understatement?