after my 939494th rewatch of this damn movie, cliff asking george what happens when squeaky gets pissed off just hit me. i mean it’s already obvious what cliff thinks the hippies are doing to george but the fact that he asked specifically about squeaky, george’s...i guess partner, it made me think about the flashback of him and his wife on the boat.

“what happens when she gets pissed off, george?”

cliff is sitting quietly, opening a new can of beer as his wife berates him and purposely provokes him for them to get into a fight. she tells him her sisters were right, he’s a loser. and he sits there quietly, almost as if resigned.

“what happens when she gets pissed off?”