Forgive me for not plowing through the rest of the posts…This may have been brought up already:
Has Hurley/Hugo ever explained why he changed his name?
I really liked this one. Hurley is one of my favorites and I enjoyed the backstory, except I didn’t quite get why Leonard Sims was in the mental hospital and what he was yelling as they dragged him out. I caught the bit about the town in Australia, but that was it.
Hurley gets the best lines: “Hey, French chick!” “She says ‘hey.’”
Was he? Do you mean the actual flashback scene of the hospital? In that one, he was just there to visit Lenny, the friend who he got the numbers from, to ask him questions.
Or was there some other reference about him being a patient in psych wards?
Lenny has been in the hospital for X years, the doctor knows Hurley, Hurley knows his way around the place to some extent - how else would Hurley know Lenny if he hadn’t been there?
Hurley takes great offense, on several occasions in this episode, at being called crazy or loony.
Hurley talked about causing his family problems in the years before winning the lottery.
And let’s not forget the sidestory of Locke and Clarie. Locke enlists Claire (of all people) to help him with a task. We all reasonably assume that he is building some kind of animal trap. Turns out, he’s building a crib for Claire’s baby. I can’t remember, but how much does this crib resemble the one Claire saw in her dream? You know, the one where Locke was the stand-in for the psychic.
It’s Claire’s birthday. Locke say’s that’s “good luck” to have her birthday so close to that of her baby’s. Coincidence that “good luck” is brought up in an episode where “bad luck” plays such a prominant role? I think not…
I think you’re right. Originally, I was thinking that the doctor knowing him just meant maybe he had seen the doctor once or twice before, not that he was a patient there. But I just looked at that scene again, and Hurley (while not knowing Lenny’s last name), says, “I mean the guy’s been here for, like, ever. He knows me.”
Then the doctor just a few moments later says, “It’s good to see you. What are you doing back here?”
So, you’re right – there’s a new Hurley mystery.
I thought about that, too, after the crib scene in this one. Went back to check, and the dream crib is bigger and looks store-bought. White. Carved bars and posts. The one Locke built is more of a cradle, that can be rocked.
Man, I hate not being able to watch this when it’s on, everyone makes all the points I want to before I get the chance…
IIRC he said something to the effect that “Hurley” is a nickname, but he didn’t give any specifics as to the origin of it.
I caught the Locke/Hurley connection right away too. As for the sneaker factory, perhaps Boone’s mother did business with them? I missed Hurley’s appearance on Korean TV so I don’t know what footage it was, but maybe since Hurley is so diversified he does business in Korea? Maybe there’s a link to Sun’s father’s factory that was closed?
Does anyone else notice that it seems most of the time when someone reveals something about their past the person they reveal it to doesn’t believe it? Charlie disbelieves Hurley tonight, Boone didn’t believe Locke worked for a box company, and so on.
Other posters have compared Hurley to Pandora. Maybe he’s also a Cassandra figure - doomed to tell important truths but never be believed.
Another possible metaphor invoked - if Claire’s baby has some kind of destiny and Locke has some kind of agenda, he might be seeking to become “the hand that rocks the cradle”.
Something I’ve read about the next new episode:
I’ve heard it will have another Locke flashback. Looking forward to it.
There probably is not much of a mystery here. He probably had a bad year or two, dead end job at the chicken shack or whatever kind of uniform he was wearing, maybe he had depression or was borderline suicidal. It’s not that hard to get into the crazy house for a short stay.
Question: How the hell did Claire know it was her birthday? I can assume someone is keeping track of the days, but Claire has amnesia and lost her memory since right before the crash. Did I miss a conversation where someone told her, “Oh, yeah, today is the 17th?”
I don’t know why they don’t invite the French chick to join them. And what is this mysterious illness she keeps talking about?
Did anyone notice that while everyone around him has bad luck, Hurley seems to keep coming up roses? The sneaker company burned down, but it was overinsured. He was arrested, but won a false arrest lawsuit. The plane crashed, but he’s spry and is able to avoid traps. I wonder if Hurley will continue to have an invisible shield around him.
I don’t know, I just assumed he’d volunteered there in the past. But maybe you guys are right - he’s very sensitive about being called crazy, so maybe he has been “on the inside” before. Hmm. New stuff to think about.
I thought it was completely obvious that he had been on the inside of the chicken shack, what with all the hints he dropped; to his mom, in the TV interview, to Charlie and the French Lady…
Foregone conclusion: at some point in the past, Hugo waws committed.
Well, Locke was using a kid’s sneaker to spread sand on the hide he was curing…
Lenny did say that Hurley had “opened the box…”
The mysterious illness that all the other members of her team came down with, which is why she murdered them all, and which she expects the Castaways to come down with, too. This might maybe just possibly have something to do with why they haven’t invited her to join them…
My question: How much money does Hurley owe Walt???
My husband said the same thing: “Dude! He’s one of my people! How did I not recognize him?” (Hubbie is Mexican.) And Ethilrist: I think it is $83,000, or something like that. $80-something thou.
The inside joke with Hurley being falsely arrested again points to his appearance on the HBO program “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. If you recall, Jorge Garcia played a drug dealer in LA, and sells pot to Larry David.
I still think that was clip from that program in the Korean household. Do they watch HBO in Korea? Would a child? Beats me.
When Hurley’s mom was ragging on him about his TV-watching, his response reminded me of Mystery Men, when the Blue Raja’s mom was asking what he was doing in his room…
