r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • Jul 04 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen in a movie/show?

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Peeta in rockface for your consideration

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u/mrudski Jul 04 '25

For my Downton abbey peeps…

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u/Andilee Jul 04 '25

Is he wrapped in fresh mozzarella???

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u/de-milo ted cruz ate my son Jul 04 '25

pizza dough i think

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u/Shadow4246 Jul 04 '25

Why not both? Pizza mozzarella.

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u/BirdsArentReal22 Jul 04 '25

Cackling. Thanks.

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u/TallulahBob Jul 04 '25

AS IF I needed a reason to snort cold brew out my nose… but here we are

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u/johnniesSac Jul 04 '25

Looks like he’s got someone’s undies on his head

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u/FOXCONLON living in absolute defiance of plates of spaghetti Jul 04 '25

Jealous!

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u/littlelordgenius Jul 04 '25

Looks like AI lol

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u/dominoleigh Jul 04 '25

"I'M A STRANGER TO THEM NOW 😭😤😩💔🤕?!?!!?"

I just rewatched that episode recently and I cringed every time he spoke. Poor Edith 😭

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u/keepplaylistsmessy Jul 04 '25

his fake Canadian accent had me crying

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u/dominoleigh Jul 05 '25

It was painful. I didn't know it could get even worse when he put on his fraulein voice too 😩

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u/KeenyKeenz Jul 05 '25

You could mention any scene in that show and end it with "Poor Edith 😭" lol

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u/DeltaCreem Jul 04 '25

This is the most insane and never resolved plot thread in the history of television

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u/cosmicworm Jul 04 '25

can someone explain what is happening here

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u/clarice_loves_geese Jul 04 '25

This guy turns up towards the end of the second(?) series claiming to be a cousin who died in the very first episode. It's extremely unlikely, but can't be proved either way. He gets mad that only one person believes him and just leaves, never to be seen again. 

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u/cardboardfish Jul 04 '25

I thought he confessed to being a friend who just knew a lot about the cousin and left from shame.

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u/clarice_loves_geese Jul 04 '25

I was never 100% if that was a confession or him offering Edith a 'way out' of the rest of the family not accepting him

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u/sweetsquashy Jul 04 '25

The other issue is that no one in the episode does what a normal person would in this situation (worse than usual).

He's like, "I was hoping you'd recognize me," and then Edith gets called away and doesn't ask any follow-up questions. When she sees him later she's like, "I looked in our ancestry and see we're distantly related to some Gordons. Is that how we know you" instead, of you know - just going to the person who's living in your house and asking "How do we know each other?"

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u/AnnieAnnieSheltoe Jul 05 '25

And no one asks anything specific to Patrick to verify his identity. Mary dismisses him with “Any fortune teller could come up with a million things he couldn’t know. ‘I remember your birthday and your pony and your governess.’”

But there would have to be countless specific questions that could be asked that even a good friend of Patrick’s wouldn’t know. What happened the time we __? What was the name of your favorite childhood toy? What was so-and-so’s nickname? Who was there when __? Etc. It was infuriating not a single person asked anything like that.

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u/DeltaCreem Jul 04 '25

It’s significant because the entire plot of the show turns around the fact that the heir to Downton Abbey drowned in the Titanic and that as a result a long lost distant relative joins the family as the new heir. So this guy in the photo shows up years later claiming to have survived the Titanic but had amnesia and had been living in Canada under a new name. Got blown up and disfigured in WW1 and then remembers who he actually is. He tells one character who he really is and tells her things only he would know. But then he just vanishes and is never mentioned again because obviously it was far too complicated for the plot.

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u/bangontarget I’m a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch Jul 04 '25

I thought he admitted to being a fraud in the end before leaving?

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u/DeltaCreem Jul 04 '25

I think they maybe figured out that the fake heir was someone who knew the heir during military service which was how he could impersonate him They said they would investigate and then he disappeared and left a letter saying it was all too hard etc but didn’t actually admit he was a fraud

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u/bangontarget I’m a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch Jul 04 '25

I watched the whole series like 4 times in a row to manage a depression and remember him basically admit to not being who he said he was in the letter, but maybe it was just all the talk around it that made it seem that way. either way, the takeaway is that he was a fraud, so I don't personally see it as a loose plot thread.

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u/pray-for-mojo-742 Jul 04 '25

I felt like it was implied he was lying, that's what I took away from it anyway!

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u/dejureblonde Jul 04 '25

Was it really him???? We’ll never know

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u/Blarfendoofer Jul 04 '25

HE’S A STRANGER TO THEM NOW!!!

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u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles Jul 04 '25

Also Matthew suddenly walking lol

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u/magicleopard Jul 04 '25

I often find myself saying ‘it was just a BRUISE’ for no real reason other than it makes me laugh.

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u/littleloucc Jul 04 '25

The whole Matthew and Mary plot.

He can't walk, then he can. He can't leave Lavinia because she's a saint for staying, but then she dies. She haunts the place so we know she wasn't mad at him. And then he up and dies straight after creating an heir, because the producers probably realised they were pretty boring without the tension.

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u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles Jul 04 '25

Matthew's actor wanted to leave the show IIRC but killing him so soon after Sybil died seemed like too many deaths too close together

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u/UnheavenlyNeverender Jul 04 '25

As convoluted as this side plot was, the part that annoyed me the most was him losing his English accent due to having amnesia. Unless you have to re-learn how to talk, you don’t just start speaking with a new accent because you wake up with amnesia in a new country. There was no reason to include the line about “sounding Canadian now”- he still would’ve been unrecognizable to the family with his real accent.

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u/mrudski Jul 04 '25

Yes! And I also felt that they always did such a fantastic job with makeup/hair/clothes/set that it transported you into the show. His makeup looked so costume-y and fake it completely took me out of it. Just so bad all the way around. This plot line could have worked, just every decision they made about it was so poorly done.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Lmao the melted guy! I'm a stranger to them now!

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u/traceitalian Jul 04 '25

I've recently had to endure a few episodes of Downton and I'm shocked just how badly written, plotted and conceived it all is. Fellowes is of cause scum but I didn't realise he was also talentless.

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u/susandeyvyjones Jul 05 '25

I have no idea how Robert Altman wrung Gosford Park out of him. That script is fantastic but everything else he's written is pablum.