>>93318846I knew someone would say this. Rudy's an anchor. He pulls Louise down, because he is about to die. Bob gets himself into trouble just as much as Linda does. Whenever either one gets passioned about something, the other joins in and becomes competitive or tries to talk them out of it. Or just let them be, as they have enough of their own problems to focus on.
But Rudy's an anchor. He is not talking Louise out of anything. He is not causing Louise to rethink whatever they're doing. Louise pauses doing whatever funny shenanigans she learned from movies, because Rudy is killing himself.
Rudy is funny as the wheezing joke as he is, but theres nothing there to ship. He is just bringing a main character down from her purpose, that doesn't even need shipping. And he offers nothing, because he is a simple joke character. Even if they later on gave him more depth to reason the ship, the intension to ship came before the reason to ship.
Even the build up for this ship is bad. She made herself jealous out of her own misunderstanding, and as she tries to fix things up, she offers Rudy pity. I understand why it happened and how it goes with her character. Same season on later episode she even saves another kid from bullies and gets attention for it. But the ship/shipping itself is character assassination.
