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Funny how you can hear words sometimes
KOTH has so many amazing quotables
"NO HE AIN'T... He's Laotian. Ain't ya Mr. Kahn?"
What ocean?
Ironically, his name is Cotton. And it's kinda funny how this maniac character turned out to not be racist, so much as he just hates Japanese nationals for personal reasons.
I mean, he is kind of racist considering he treats Khan like a valet after that
He's just not that kind of racist
Cotton's good moments in the series are so funny. Like when Peggy ends up in the hospital and Cotton says "Hank! Whatdjya do to yer wife?! I didn’t teachya that!" I just like how throughout the series, Cotton isn't shown to have no moral compass, he just has his own very specific moral compass. He's disturbed by people calling Kahn Japanese, disgusted when he thinks Hank beat his wife, and is generally shown to be a good Dad to GH and a good grandpa to Bobby.
CW SUICIDE
The episode where he makes serious suicide plans until he has his baby in his arms always gets me. Cotton clearly cares about his family, as poorly as he's treated Hank throughout the years. Cotton trying to commit suicide for life insurance is one of the best plot points in the entire series. KOTH is a fairly conservative show, but the way the characters are made are so realistic that I think you really could get any message out of the show. Cotton killing himself because he can't provide for his family hits so hard as someone living with a family under capitalism. I've had the exact same thoughts a million times over. If someone asked me if I'd shoot myself if it meant my family would get 50 grand, I would turn my gun before the sentence was finished.With that being said, the emotional moments in the later seasons are so fucking bad, they even ruin previous moments like this. Cotton deciding to die in the moment is funny, but I really don't think Cotton would decide to die just to spite Peggy. GH is Cotton's baby. Cotton may have been terrible to Hank, but Hank recognizes that Cotton was doing good for GH and kept him mouth shut to keep it going. Cotton loved that baby more than anything else he's ever loved in the show. Cotton seems like he'd give up killing 50 men if it meant something good for GH. Cotton would have outlived Peggy out of spite.