there are a lot of well-loved characters on the show but one guy that I've never heard a single negative word about was Gary if I catch you talking like that again I'll kick your ass all right I'm backing down one man's trash is another man's [Music] treasure hey folks welcome to squirrel tactics like subscribe check out the patreon let's do this Gary casner voiced by Carl Riner in his first and last appearances with Maurice Lamar Marsh or Lamar I've seen several different ways to pronounce it voicing him in the one in the middle he was Tilly's boyfriend who spoke in an old school yetish Manor or is Bobby considered it Arizona talk Hank you want I should come over there you want I should come over there that is so Arizona we know from his tattoo that he served in the US Navy on board the submarine USS trout 2 though he says this Bobby when asked if he's a war hero like cotton are you a war hero like my biological grandfather a hero no no no I spent most of Korea in a submarine deep in the Pacific the second USS trout was commissioned in 1952 but was operated out of Connecticut and stayed on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal through the Korean War though it is possible that he served on more than one ship at his career anywh who we first meet Gary in the unbearable blindness of Lane when he and Tilly traveled to Arland to celebrate the holidays mostly Christmas but also Hanukkah seen as Gary's Jewish with Hank and Peggy meeting them at the airport since they live in Arizona and Hank didn't start off with a very good opinion of Gary firstly because it's a guy dating his mom so yeah he's going to be defensive but then Hank sees Tilly carrying all the luggage which he marks as another strike against Gary oh Hank Gary's nothing like cotton he's got a big heart of course now the doctors call it enlarged however she's carrying the bags because Gary had heart surgery and it's best that he not lift anything too heavy and when we meet Gary He's just a guy you'd love to spend time with and he does make Hank rather uncomfortable but it's in the sweetest most heartwarming way I'm glad to meet you at last Boi hey hey let go never never you'll never get away basically Gary is the anti cotton he treats people right and he's fun to be around back at the house Hank informs every one of the sleeping arrangements with Gary sleeping on a coton Bobby's room and Tilly in the den with Luanne Gary thinks it would be easier for him and Tilly to just stay in the living room and he's right but Hank won't hear of it and we find out pretty quick why don't tell me you're uncomfortable with the thought of me and Gary sleeping in the same room I didn't have that thought Mom you put that thought in my head Hank talks to the guys about Gary informing them he's Jewish which yeah they're cool with why wouldn't they be and the conversation moves to whether Gary is funny with Hank claiming that he isn't funny but the guys make a point I bet he's funnier than cotton cotton ain't no funny at all man he got the P can't man go bamb boo shoot talkinging about putting them in D fingernails man don't freak me out about that that night as Bobby and Gary are get ready for bed the two Bond and Bobby loves Gary's way of speaking again it's an old-fashioned Yiddish way kind of like how Yoda talked you I like you said you I like instead of I like you that's funny I like that Hank has a hard time getting to sleep so he goes into the living room where Gary is eating some leftovers though he isn't exactly sure what is that he's eating it's some kind of delicious cutlet chicken fried steak oh well I'm going to count this under chicken yep chicken fried steak you know Texas weener schnitzel because that's where it comes from German and Austrian immigrants in Texas where their traditional foods were changed to better suit the local instead of using F like weener schnitzel chicken fried steak is typically cube steak which is significantly cheaper any who Gary tries to talk with Hank but Hank Cuts him off by claiming that the faith healer preacher on TV is his favorite show Hank your mother means a great deal to me it's been a long time since I've had these feelings sorry but now is a bad time uh this is my program which is a surprise to Gary but this comes back later it comes be gone well I guess there's nothing we can be gone piggy mentions to Hank that she wants to pick up a manora so that they can celebrate Hanukkah with Gary the same way he's celebrating Christmas with them yeah that just seems fair after all Jesus was Jewish but Hank has an issue with this mostly because he refuses to even entertain the idea of liking Gary Bobby could blow out all the candles on Hanukkah Eve and make a wish no he's the new guy why should we change anything for him he hasn't made any offers to change for me the hills head off to watch an eighth grade basketball game giving Tilly and Gary some alone time and considering they'd been apart the night before they wanted to make up for that lost time mister it's certainly been a long hot night I got your mistletoe right here which wouldn't have been an issue except Hank realize that Peggy didn't grab the basketball number one foam finger leading him to turn around strange because he was in such a hurry earlier did you remember to bring the styrofoam finger yes Han does it say number one on it yes Han the basketball one and when he got back home he followed a trail of Tilly and Gary's clothes to find him making the Beast with two backs on the kitchen table which I kind of find odd because they started in the kitchen then moved to the living room to get naked on their way back to the kitchen yeah the logistics are kind of off here long story short Hank sees what no one should ever have to see and he goes blind huh my eyes so yeah Hank's now blind but after visiting the doctor he admits to Peggy what he saw though what disturbs her about it is a little different different from what Disturbed Hank how would you feel if you saw your mother on the kitchen table in the arms of a 65-year-old man wearing nothing but a submarine tattoo I eat breakfast on that table and when they get home Hank makes up a story about poking himself in the eye with the other eye compensating for this by shutting itself down something that Gary is justifiably confused by seen as its complete BS I I never heard of an eye sympathetically shutting down I've got a magazine you ought to read it's called The Ten Commandments who's he talking to he's Jewish Hank it's quite possible he knows the Ten Commandments better than you do they celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas with Hank being standof fish then Peggy asked Gary to drive Hank to Cotton for lunch which Gary agrees to much to Hank surprise every block we put between me and the kitchen table is a load off my mind I'm meant to that now where am I going H Peggy Hank wants to ride the truck bed but Gary overrides him and instead decides to describe everything they're driving past since you know Hank can't see it something that yeah Hank gets rather tired of rather quickly here we got a billboard they want us to buy some filing cabinets shut up you're driving me insane they make their way down to Houston to have lunch at Cotton's house and right off the bat cotton has to be cotton and make sure that Hank is actually blinded not just faking it and either you blind to you're slow I believe both cotton then notices Gary and asks who he is and I got to say I did not expect Cotton's reaction here I'm not surprised that he recognized casner as a Jewish last name but rather the fact that he immediately wishes him a happy Hanukkah something that Hank wouldn't even do Gary kasner kasner happy Hanukkah I serve with one of your tribe in the Pacific name of Brooklyn you know him I know a Joe Brook Stein that's him after shooting down a Christmas tree no Ready Aim Timber this time they sit down to have lunch and cotton finds out that Gary is dating Tilly and again cotton being cotton he starts mouthing off and bad talking Tilly which Hank tries to play off cuz that's what Hank does but much like homy T clown yeah Gary don't play that game and he proceeds to make cotton back down you don't talk about her like that til's a great woman a wonderful woman and all you did was dump on her shame on you Gary decides to wait for Hank out in the truck and when Hank's ready to leave Gary helps Hank to the truck and noticed that Gary is more than willing to help Hank because he needs help whereas cotton just Shrugged him off didn't have to leave early on my account where's my eggnog bring me my eggnog no problem and rather than just take Hank back home Gary takes him somewhere else where he's hoping that maybe Hank can come to terms with what's causing his blindness but Hank thinks that Gary is taking him to a Jewish Temple look it's nothing personal I'm just not crazy about the idea of my God seeing me and your God Temple it's the same God Hank I know you know that no Gary took Hank to the faith healer that Hank had earlier claimed was his favorite show actually pretty nice if Gary to remember that though Gary figures it was a lie to get out of having a conversation which he is correct about and finally Hank and Gary start having a conversation that Hank should have been willing to have a long time ago you saw me and your mother in the kitchen I'm not flattered that it made you go blind but obviously it's something psychologic go with you that's why we're here getting the fact that Hank saw them doing the mattress Momo out of the way and Hank finally being willing to admit that Gary is a good guy even if Hank hadn't been treating him as such and that he was okay with Gary Dayton his mom which led to an interesting reaction from Gary that Hank did not see [Music] coming hey hey no fair I I didn't see you coming okay got your jollies by now Gary then pushes Hank forward when the preacher asks if anyone needed to be healed and we get a nice little moment where Hank and Gary admit that they'd be okay with Hank possibly being Gary's son-in-law someday which breaks the psychological Block in Hank's head and allows him to see again is this man your son I'd like to think maybe one day yeah well I guess that would be an all right way to be thinking blindness leave this man I can see ra boy I knew you could the as we see of Gary in this episode he's eating dinner with the hills and we find out that he likes to mix his mashed potatoes with cranberry sauce the next time we see Gary is in Peggy's Turtle song when Hank's Mother's Day called a Tilly is brought to an end due to Gary showing Tilly what his present to her was well wait a minute I remember you had a yellow car when I was little oh uh Hank I got to go uh Gary's here with my Mother's Day press h but wait Mom I love you too honey got to go I hope you like it I can't returno it his last appearance was in I don't want to wait and no I'm not saying the entire thing just go listen to the Paula Cole song after this video when Bobby visits Arizona more specifically the hly Springs retirement community in Phoenix for the summer which is just a great time to go to Phoenix this city should not exist it is a monument to man's arrogance possibly Piggy's Best Line there anywh who Tilly gives Bobby his gift early which is a toy Min for much younger children and Gary recognizes pretty quick that Bobby is a little too old for Tilly's gift especially considering he's 13 which for those of you that don't know is a rather important age for boys in Judaism you know in my religion 13 is your official passage into manhood it's called abam Mitzvah or big party is that an Arizona Thing Arizona New York Miami I got so many fancy pen and pencil sets I was giving them away for years you know a strange thing occurred to me as I was rewatching this episode that had never clicked before and that's back when I was you know just a wee little squirrel I remember getting fancy paper and Pen sets from older relatives for birthdays and Christmases maybe it was just something older people did yeah sorry that just kind of got to me I just got a lot of those sets randomly as a kid any who Gary decides to take Bobby under his wing and you know be a loving male role model and serious props to Gary he always treated Bobby as though he were his own grandson I'll tell you what tomorrow you spend the day with me and I'll show you how a man enjoys Arizona by the time you leave here you'll have hair on your kishkas he even takes Bobby to his bachelor pad and tells Bobby to treat it as if it's his own bachelor pad and after Bobby tells him about Connie and Joseph even showing him a picture of them Gary leaves to give Bobby some privacy but not before giving him a little something feel free to give your little friend a call I'll give you some privacy oh I almost forgot use my cart [Music] nice catch there hot hand you're the best player on our team later when Bobby is on the plane heading home he finds a gift that Gary had snuck into his bag because you know Gary's got to be Gary to Mr Bobby Hill huh yes today I am a [Music] man and that's the last we see of Gary outside of his Cameo at lucky and luan's wedding he is mentioned one more time in The Honeymooners when Hank finds out that he and til he broke up and I do not blame him considering the reason and it really bothers me just how dismissive Tilly is about the whole thing I'm getting married really well that's great I've always liked Gary any man who eats that much brisket can't be all bad oh not to Gary Gary and I broke up weeks ago what why he got paranoid Hank he was always snooping around that's how he found out about me and Chuck what who's Chuck we met a couple of months ago the wedding is next weekend hope you can make it honey bye who's Chuck so Gary casner the man who only did right by those around him and tried to bring joy and laughter everywhere he went even though he was only dating Tilly he still treated her family as if they were his own and he tried to avoid issues with Hank by simply talking things out though it was Hank who wasn't on board with doing so until he literally went blind Gary was quick to defend Tilly ironic seeing as she ended up cheating on him without an ounce of remorse and he's one of the few people that stood up to Cotton let alone getting cotton to back down Gary was a good man who'd liked to eat a lot hence his bypass surgery and was a big fan of brisket which I've been informed is apparently normal for Jewish people that kind of makes sense they donate pork so yeah barbecues are pretty much going to be brisket Gary was one of the better characters on the show possibly the best character I mean who's better than Gary and he really got done Dirty by how they handled getting rid of him he deserved a lot better and should have been used in more episodes honestly I'd have been fine with him sticking around instead of Tilly and let's not Overlook how he wasn't just willing to celebrate another religion's holiday but to even take Hank to another religion's place of worship if it meant helping him Gary really was a standup guy and it Bears repeating he so deserved better I like them flat press harder piggy So Okay who wants to make cookies oh look a hitchhiker with a beard a gun and a dog I think we'll pick him up it maybe take you out of this mood you're in he looks like a nice guy no no but we can take the dog no he lick your face you'll feel better no no no don't you like dogs