He offers to become his bowling manager and is rebuffed, but quickly decides to go Amish undercover after staging a robbery attempt on his landlord where his plan to be the savior goes oh, so horribly wrong. History has shown Amish Randy Quaid to be far more normal than real-life Randy Quaid, but I digress. He then heads to his job of selling bowling supplies - supplies which include glow-in-the-dark condoms - and discovers Amish Randy Quaid crushing pins. “Hey, Roy, can you get sick from drinking piss?” He also has good friends and neighbors who ask him things like: (Why doesn’t he put the rubber hand on first? Because then you don’t laugh uncontrollably watching him destroy shit. We’re treated to a typical day in his life of watching him destroy alarm clocks, door handles, car mirrors and cheap suit coats with the hook. I question whether just sticking his hand in the ball return would shred it to pieces - otherwise, how the hell do the bowling balls make it back up? - but I wanted to believe in the magic, so I never looked that up.įast forward 15 or 20 years, and Roy is living in a crappy apartment in some northeastern city with a giant rubber hand which fits over the hook he’s been left with. And if you do that, you’re gonna be decent, you’re gonna be moral and you’re gonna be a good man.”Īnd up until the moment he met Ernie McCracken, Roy Munson seemed well on his way to becoming all of those things his father promised, albeit slightly cocky - so it is there the sick, dark, twisted, beyond-f*cked-up-at-times story of Kingpin is off and running.Īfter leaving his Iowa home, Roy defeats “Big Ern” McCracken to win his first professional bowling tournament to the tune of something like $1500 and long story short, Big Ern then gets him involved in a con gone wrong which results in Roy losing his right hand. “You can apply everything I’ve taught you about bowling to your daily life.
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