The character seems, oddly enough, to be modeled after U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle. They are both youthful Vice Presidents perceived as lightweights, have similar first names, and have last names that are homophones for birds in the pheasant family.
- This has been noted. TR 16:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- One of several possible interpretations, or he might be an original. Turtle Fan 13:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Know what hit me about this guy today, as I was planning the rest of my TL-191 reviews? After he surrendered to Morrell (who is not a diplomat nor otherwise a representative of the civilian government, by the way) he was like:
- "Now if you don't mind I have to go back to running the CSA."
- "No you don't. There is no CSA any longer. You just signed away its existence moments ago."
- "What? I did? When did I do that? Oh, shit!"
HT constantly told us he was dumb, but he never actually showed us--until the one scene in which we were supposed to take him seriously! Turtle Fan 01:34, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
Bad Jokes[]
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall we saw him tell Featherston one joke, and Featherston reflected that it was pretty good. Turtle Fan (talk) 03:56, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure we were told a couple of times that he told bad jokes. But, yes, ironically the only time we were shown him telling a joke, it wasn't a bad one. TR (talk) 15:49, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
- I wish HT had put the joke into the text instead of leaving us to take Jake's word for it that it was a good one.
- Maybe we can mentally insert our own? I know one about a country boy all alone in the big city, a madam, and a chicken that got a pretty good laugh when I told it at the bar last weekend. Turtle Fan (talk) 04:28, July 22, 2014 (UTC)