That actually speaks volumes. He's really never left . He remains the sheltered and dependent child he certainly was at "home" in Cheeseland with that enabling Clown Rally. That is who he will always be, a spoiled and self centered shameless man-baby, acting out when he doesn't get his way, because THAT'S who they created.
Away from there he has little to no control over other people. Even JoJo and the others around him barely tolerate him. It's so apparent. He's an emotional and financial drain on everyone he is near or who has to be near him. Even Lora, ol' reliable Lora the Hora, eventually knew enough, learned the hard way apparently, to keep him at arm's length___ don't take him seriously, because he's not reliable and he'd throw you under the bus in a heartbeat for anything he views as 'better' when it comes along.
He seeks out someone like Discount Durliat, a desperate and needy soul with a decent job and benefits at a place he needs to haunt to get by with his odious vlogs, but 'home' in Wisconsin is where he's learned he 'gets his way' almost always. He's a child, emotionally and socially, and he always will be, a clown much like his old man, but a clown without the grease paint and the support Mom has provided to her clown. And we covet what we see every day, and Pallo has seen the pattern he's acting out. With Durliat, Pallo is the clown and she is the real foundation, the breadwinner and support. And if she accepts the role, for however long, she will be like his mother and that will be her fixed role with 'her' clown.
Pallo never learned the lesson so beautifully encapsulated by Thomas Wolf in his classic work
'You Can't Go Home Again.' In so many ways the title says it brilliantly. Pallo wants to return to that home he always found safe and comforting, and, knowingly or not (and I doubt he's smart enough to do it knowlingly) he's recreating a perverse version of what he saw all his young life. It can only fail.
But he can return to Saulkville, opine his sad little high school world outside of "home" with his enabling family, a world where people were mean to him and made fun of him, but, truly and with absolute certainty, his past is forever gone and, try as he might, he cannot ever 'go home again.'
He is still an interesting case study in abnormal psychology and on any number of levels. And he also is a weird and stereotypical little cliché in many ways. I suppose it's why he still has interest for me, if only as an aside and a guilty pleasure.
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