Watching Andy has become a bit of a revealation for me. I'm sure many of us have scummy associates. Without getting into excessive TMI detail, there are people in my life who have begun to make much more sense after viewing Andy. They obviously aren't quite as extreme as the Poopsquatch, they're all functional, relatively normal seeming people. But the patterns of behavior, the specific rhetoric, the tactics of Andy's abuse are all too familiar. I think that's ultimately why Andy is so fascinating to me personally; he's a cartoonishly insane caricature of a very smug, toxic form of emotional abuse that I'm sure many of us have encountered before. People who try to maintain social control over others by way of lies, manipulation, emotional blackmail, and feigned victimhood, they're a dime a dozen. They run around ruining people's days and lives by going systematically antagonizing people and casting everyone else as irrational assholes as soon as anyone gets frustrated. Sometimes it's for manipulative gain, sometimes as an emotional defense when they feel like they're losing control, and sometimes its just for fun. Andy is like a Superjail bit about those kinds of disgusting people, except he's real.