Okay -- now this, folks, this next revelation is ten times more embarrassing to admit than my Holly fetish, so please either scroll ahead or promise not to laugh. When MamaTheo tells the camera, "It was great to have that experience of togetherness with my son," I get misty. I do. I can't help it. Damn. Damn. Oh B/M, I'm going to get you. Someday. You just wait. She goes on, "In a way we were together as one unit falling through the skies." And the worst part is that right as she finishes talking, Theo puts his arm around her and she kisses him on the cheek. Damn. Excuse me I'll be right back
I'm better now, thanks. MayorSteve gives the kids ten tokens (worth a thousand bucks each), and then proceeds to hand out gifts to the parents as well. The parents are all excited and they open the wrapper to find framed photos of their kids. "Fucking great," they seem to be thinking. "We just jumped off a fucking crane! At least give us a DVD player. Fucking video-capture picture in a K-mart frame? Eat me, B/M. Eat me raw." Well, at least that's what I would say. Theo earns fifty bucks from B/M by voice-overing how his mom hasn't had a picture of him in over a year, so this is a really great present. For some reason we get six, yes SIX, screen images of the stupid framed Theo photo as His Hickness says, "Let's go hang out with our moms, yo." Theo's the yo.
Restaurant. Theo and MamaTheo/James and MamaJames eating. Graphic of Stupid reads, "Okay With It." Quick montage of what looks like a rather uncomfortable dining experience as Theo voice-over babbles about how good it was to see his mom, and how he's getting older and realizing they don't have a lot in common, and that he's learning new things and he's going to let time take its course, but it was good to see her and she looked good and she was happy to get to see him too. Basically he really says nothing, which for once is okay, as this kind of stuff is hard and not necessarily solvable with one tandem bungee jump. We see Theo and his mom hug and say goodbye at her hotel room door as he continues to voice-over-yodel about how he has an emotional hole in him in terms of affection, but "those scars are being healed every day." And freeze on Theo's face, like the end of an episode of CHiPs or something.













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