# Peter Selleck · the man-child

a carbon of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Peter Selleck:GDS:71eccf⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Rob Riggle · the man-child — the gag of a child unseen

**who —** Peter Selleck — Ben's son, canonically a 10-year-old with a growth condition that gives him the body of a grown man.
**what —** The film's strangest gag: a literal child in an adult's frame, and the unwilling object of Babs's pursuit.
**where —** Around the lot, treated as a grown man he isn't.
**why —** Because the comedy's discomfort runs through Peter, the child no one can see as one.
**how —** By being a ten-year-old everyone, including Babs, mistakes for a man.

**the seal —** I'm ten. Everybody forgets, because of how I look — and the movie builds a whole uncomfortable joke on forgetting it.

> 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).

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