# Babs Merrick · the crew (and the uncomfortable gag)

a carbon of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Babs Merrick:GDS:45b0b9⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Kathryn Hahn · the crew's wild card — also UD0's Naomi in The Last Mimzy

**who —** Babs Merrick — the lone woman of Don's crew, whose subplot is a deliberately uncomfortable obsession with the man-child Peter Selleck.
**what —** The crew's wild card, and the vehicle of one of the film's most awkward-by-design bits.
**where —** On the lot and fixated, uneasily, on Peter.
**why —** Because the comedy courts discomfort, and Babs's storyline is built to unsettle.
**how —** By pursuing Peter — a 10-year-old in a grown man's body — as the gag the film knows is wrong.

**the seal —** I'm the closer who fell for the wrong mark. The joke's supposed to make you squirm — and it does.

> a catalogued personification of a character/trope of The Goods (2009) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's failures), not an original creation, not endorsed by the
> rights-holders (© Paramount Vantage).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · GDS · The Goods · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0