“Hey! That happened to be my can of pudding! And you wasted it. You should never get between people and their pudding.”
Milly Thompson Quotes
2 quotes from Trigun, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
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Never adjusts her behavior to fit the desert, which the series eventually reveals as a position rather than an obliviousness. Quoted for pudding jokes; worth more than that.
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“Secondhand smoke is bad for the baby, darling.”
Delivered to a chain-smoking priest with no baby in evidence, and it lands as a domestic joke until the arc it belongs to closes. What the line establishes is a claim on him: an insistence that he is a person with a future to be careful for, made by the only character who talks to him that way. The series then takes that future away, and the joke is what is left holding the loss.
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Milly punctuates the pudding complaint by knocking the offenders out with her stun gun. The action makes the joke work, but the sentence by itself offers little beyond a familiar contrast between an apparently gentle person and an unexpectedly forceful response. It is a thin sample of what the episode gives her. Later, Wolfwood thanks her for saving him at chess, and she explains the practice she got from playing with her brother. That is competence with a history, delivered without a speech about being underestimated. The pudding is funny partly because it keeps her priorities stubbornly ordinary; danger has not made every small pleasure embarrassing to her. But giving this complaint the status of a philosophy would ask it to do work the writing performs elsewhere. The better evidence for Milly is the combination of practical ability and unceremonious kindness around the gag. A snack can establish a comic rhythm. It cannot, on its own, explain why another person is grateful to have her beside him.