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Mr. Pendlehurst

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Name:
Mr. Pendlehurst
Voice:
Age:
Late 30's/40's
Occupation:
Disciplinarian
First and Only Appearance:

Mr. Pendlehurst is a one time character on Home Movies. He is a Disciplinarian and former prison guard. He likes taking unruly kids back to jail and being powerful.

Pendlehurst at first appears to be a strict, intimidating paragon of order, grilling Brendon, Melissa and Jason for "trespassing" on the school playground at the weekend. He claims that "I am hard... but I am fair". Of course, by the end of Time to Pay the Price, he is proven to be neither.

He threatens punishment at the smallest of provocations, especially "smart-mouthing"; over the course of the episode, his sensitivity becomes more and more apparent, culminating in his threat to lock Brendon, Melissa and Jason up in prison for the entire weekend. His only authority is promptly stripped from him at this climax, the prison warden appearing in shadow to kick him out. Fittingly, Pendlehurst's abuse of power is only defeated by a superior, yet spiritually identical, abuse of power. He plays a draconian game, and wins a draconian fate: "This is my prison... get out of here before I put YOU in one of the cells!"

Humiliated, he has to plead with the kids to keep the incident quiet. It turns out that Pendlehurst was fired from the prison for neglect, concluding his character arc neatly: A weak man who worships and craves power, but is too incompetent to get any.

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