Did you give your thoughts about the colonoscopies? I would love to know your take on what was said and implied because I have some thoughts..
I almost didnāt do it but okay letās go.
The Brolonoscopy (they pronounced it as Brolinoscopy?)
I will once more start with the puzzle piece reference. Letās see the exact quote: āWell, the technical term is colonoscopy when a doctor explores your large intestine with a little camera to check for signs of cancer, polyps, gastrointestinal abnormalities, missing puzzle pieces. It could be anything.ā Okay, with all the objectivity I can master, the possibility of this being a throw-away statement and not a reference to their own old video is, very seriously, below 1%. Letās start from what the joke is on the surface. The superficial joke is the weird objects people insert in their rectum for sexual gratification. But why say puzzle pieces of all things? I donāt think I need to explain why a puzzle piece has a shape that is not meant to offer any pleasure but is sure to cause huge discomfort. Nobody (I hope) would like the idea of sticking a puzzle piece up there = 0% pleasure, 100% cuts and pain. So why go with puzzle pieces and not a million other objects that would have a more reasonable shape? Furthermore, notice that it is the ONLY irrelevant item Rhett mentions. He says cancer, polyp, other health abnormalitiesā¦ and MISSING PUZZLE PIECES. He jumps to it straight away. It is not part of a series of items that have no business in your butt. He just says this one, in specific, all alone and nothing else. Lastly, of course this quote is from the scripted intro. No incoherence, no thoughtless blabbering. Scripted intentional statement.
The Link butt flashing is nothing truly important, itās a throwback, Link had also done it in the brosectomy. Rhett looked the other way but there was also a cut there lol
I love how butt flashing Link thought Rhett was being indecent because a little bit of the shoulder was showing š
Letās go to drugged up Rhett. The things he says are: a) using buttplugs regularly, b) eating a lot of hotdogs (although when sane he has said he doesnāt often opt for actual hot dogs), c) a man fond of looking and entering the asshole (although when sane he identified as a vagina fan man). So he spoke of three things and all were associated with anal sex and more so gay anal sex (hot dog). I think at some point Linkās embarrassment almost became genuine. Thereās more to be said here but I will come back to this later.
Rhett was somehow so endearing when he was mumbling how Link complains about everything except peanut butter.
Link makes it clear heās fine with something going up his dookie shoot.
Overall, sedated Link is more of a normally sedated person than Rhett was and there is stuff to be said about it. But first, letās talk about the normal stuff: when Link is brought to during the colonoscopy, he initially is antsy, has discomfort, asks repeatedly if the doctor found anything bad, tries to move. Those reactions were normal. The only not normal one up to this point was wanting to canoe down a colonā¦ But, again, thereās a lot more to be said.
āIām glad we saved ourselves for each other and broke the seal togetherā intentional joke when Rhett was fully awake.
Link also said something like āI spent all my life with a cone up my assā probably a metaphor of repression.
And now: THE REAL PART
As a person who has had an endoscopy with anaesthesia (maybe more than a regular dosage), a relative who had one with half the typical dosage of anaesthesia and a thug relative who did it with NO anaesthesia, in case you are young and vibrant and healthy, which I very much hope so, and have not undergone such a procedure yet, let me tell you something: regarding many parts of their incoherent sedation, THATāS NOT HOW BEING INCOHERENT DURING SEDATION WORKS.
Link commented in the end of the video that he was more out of it than Rhett was and Rhett disagreed due to all the insane stuff he had said, for which he took no responsibility. The thing is, Link was telling the truth and perhaps intentionally. He was more out of it than Rhett. āOut of itā here means being more sedated and therefore more incapable of communicating or talking. And certainly NOT saying sexual and other supposedly crazy stuff with extraordinary detail. There is proof for that in the video, as spoken by the doctor, which was not edited out.
The doctor said Rhett took less medicine than the typical dosage is and, you know, doctors have the tendency to minimize pain anyway. Which means that for the doctor to be impressed that Rhett handled it so well, he was in fact not all that drugged up. The dosage that was given to him was apparently enough to numb the pain / discomfort but he was pretty conscious for most of the time. Compare it to Link, who was given more medicine and when they tried to wake him as much as Rhett, he had discomfort, was making motions and asking the doctor questions about his health. Linkās state was making a lot more sense. There are several cuts and edits during Rhettās colonoscopy but in general I feel like he took one up for the team (literally) so that he would say certain things under the cover of incoherence. Like they said, they asked the doctor to use the minimum drug dosage so they could be as alert and conscious as possible - apparently Rhett was able to tolerate a lower dosage that inevitably made him remain more alert for a longer time. Bodies are different. In any case, Rhett took much less drug than his doctor expected him to need, which means he was able to communicate well and maintain an unusual level of consciousness during such a procedure. Besides all the sex jokes he made with full phrases, this is more obvious in the āJessieā question. Hereās how sedation works: if you are in the state that you donāt remember your mother for example, you definitely also donāt remember the lyrics of an obscure song you listened to once. End of story. What happens with Rhett here is exactly that. He supposedly is incapable of remembering his wife but he has no problem rememberingā¦ letās analyse this.
Doctor: So, Rhett, whoās Jessie? You got a tattoo.
Link: Thatās his favourite proctologist.
Rhett: Youāre talking about Jesse Pinkman?
Doctor: We got Jessie on your right buttcheek.
Rhett: ā¦ he was the right hand man of Walter White in Breaking Bad.
Link: No, they are talking about your wife, dude.
Rhett: Jesse James was aā¦
(Irrelevant chatter about endoscope going in.)
Nobody:
Rhett: Jussie Smollet was aā¦
Link: No, letās not talk about him.
Also look:
Look at him. He is pretty alert. He looks at Link when he talks to him, he is wide-eyed, he raises his head. He also repeatedly looked to his right (our left) during the Jessie conversation. This was a bit. Perhaps the various Jessies were written on a paper there because he could have a problem remembering them on his own. When the endoscope was inserted, he was like āoh yeah hehe there it is, hello, ask for consent maybe heheā. Itās funny, itās inappropriate but IT IS NOT incoherent. It was a sex joke very suitable to the situation. He knew what he was saying at all times. Therefore, no matter how numbed he was, he was not enough to forget his own wife or repeatedly ignore the cues Link and the doctors gave him about her, all while listing a sidekick character from a show, a notorious bandit from the American civil war and a controversial but little known gay actor who staged an assault against himself and has mythomanic tendencies.
Link emphasises on the bit by saying to the doctor: ā I wonder if heās gonna remember his wife when he wakes up. Because he certainly remembered every other Jessie heās ever heard aboutā.
Like, okay? Trust me on this. Anaesthesia doesnāt work like selective amnesia. And few very particular amnesias work like remembering the obscure thing and forgetting the pivotal one.
This. Was. A. Bit.
And even Linkās embarrassment is parts real, parts a bit. Like, emphasising on how Rhett canāt think of anything besides buttholes.
Meanwhile, Linkās eyes are half-lidded and whenever the endoscope moves he tries to move and the nurses stop him. Heās on a bigger dosage and heās more sensitive to this procedure than Rhett. Honestly, Link is just way more normal, I donāt know if Rhett was that hell of a champ or there was crazy editing going on. But Link is brought at some point more to as well. And then he says this:
āYou know, Rhett, I am glad you are here for me. Why donāt we hold hands?ā *Editing with a lot of stuff about polyps, business decision etc, at this point Link communicates well too* āI am so grateful that I get to have something shoved deep into my colon, in your presenceā¦ because you know thatās what life is all about.ā Throughout this monologue, Link also looks somewhere at Rhettās left and he is a little robotic. Maybe he was reading as well. This, too, was a bit.
And just like with all recent videos, this has similar vibes to another one. Letās go back to the We Dug A Medium Sized Hole. As Rhett and Link dig with their shovels, Link says;
āYou know, there is nothing Iād rather be doing now than digging a hole. Seriously, this is exactly what I want to be doing. And thereās no one else I would rather be digging a hole with.ā
Thatās all from me, you said you had thoughts as well, if they are additional or different, I would love to read them!
