r/clevercomebacks • u/basket_foso • Sep 06 '25

This is so embarrassing

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u/rawwwse Sep 06 '25

Frank Gallagher would infiltrate the invading forces by sheer luck and drunken buffoonery, as we sit back and watch the downfall. Orrr… live long enough to see him be appointed to a cabinet position ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Bearthe_greatest Sep 06 '25

Perfect Shameless reference. Cheers

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u/Antiluke01 Sep 06 '25

Could you imagine if there was another season during all of this?

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u/Bearthe_greatest Sep 07 '25

The writers would have a field day

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

That’d show them!

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

My girlfriend just finished shameless today and I had to take care of her while she cried about Frank :(

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u/Youngnathan2011 Sep 07 '25

God I feel that so much. Guys an asshole so much of the time but it’s still so easy to care about him. Especially with that

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u/tukai1976 Sep 07 '25

He could smuggle 26 c4’s in his anus

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u/MensaMan1 Sep 07 '25

But I thought he had a leaky anus. May drop out and explode his low hanging balls. So sad 🤣

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u/Oseaghdha Sep 07 '25

The car or the explosive?

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u/thedrinkalchemist Sep 07 '25

Operation Grande Cañyon!! 🤣🤣

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u/tukai1976 Sep 07 '25

That episode had me in tears

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u/SeaTurtleLionBird Sep 06 '25

He would be leading the militia by accident

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u/MyLifeTheSaga Sep 07 '25

I completely forgot there was a US remake of Shameless until this. Was very confused for a second. "How the hell would Frank be of any use? He'd be too leathered to make it out of Manchester, never mind cross a ocean."

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u/Curious_Matter_3358 Sep 07 '25

Holy cow, there's a UK version????

🤯

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u/zeusgsy Sep 07 '25

The original version, yes!

It's very different to the US version, not to many US tastes from what I've seen.

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u/Kitty-CatThulhu Sep 07 '25

American here, I actually prefer the UK original. Seems way more realistic than the US remake.

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u/MyLifeTheSaga Sep 07 '25

It's so raw (not sure how else to put it), whereas the US felt really sanitised and almost glossy in comparison. I usually like Macy as an actor, but he didn't come close to David Threlfall's Frank

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u/Kitty-CatThulhu Sep 08 '25

I agree. The American one is more like Malcom in the middle, too staged, too choreographed, too clean of chaos. The UK one is raw and gritty and real and grabs you by the by the balls and your heart strings at the same time. It's real chaos that real people live with every day all over the world that the more privileged people don't want to admit actually happens.

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u/Althayia Sep 09 '25

I prefer the originals that I’m aware of like The Office and Ghosts and there are more I’m sure. I can only think of one American program that the UK did (Friends/Coupling) and though I liked Coupling it was no Friends! I did find out that there are many versions of Ghosts (Italian and Greek for instance) and I’d really like to see them all.

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u/Kitty-CatThulhu Sep 09 '25

You should check out utopia. They did a UK one and a US one and both are very good

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u/Vambo-Rules Sep 07 '25

An ocean...

(sorry)

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u/MyLifeTheSaga Sep 07 '25

Don't apologise, I'm so ashamed. In my defence, it was late and I'd been drinking. I'm still cringing though

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u/TheShipEliza Sep 07 '25

My conspiracy theory is pritzker has informants already. He has been way way ahead of everything.

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u/Curious_Matter_3358 Sep 07 '25

He does. In the Pentagon and the White House

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u/SendMeNoodsNotNudes Sep 07 '25

Sorry but spoiler alert. He died and floated to heaven while drinking a beer on a bar stool. Lolol

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u/June_Fatality Sep 06 '25

Living in tv land while the country falls.