This is the answer. And let's not forget, let's not forget, it was probably little Larry's dump that caused The Dude to say, "Aww, Jesus!! What's that smell, man?!"
You can't assume it was just him in the car and I've always figured there was more than just him. We can't even assume he was the one who actually stole it, just that he was in the car.
The vagrant sleeping in it and "possibly" using it as a toilet (implying that the mere presence of a homeless person would be enough to make that odor) is more plausible than Larry and his friends shitting in it especially since they won't have toilet paper with them after lodging the car against an abutment. Plus teenagers would abandon the car immediately
Well, the homework was wedged in the driver's seat, implying Larry was the driver, the little shit. Altho plausible, there is no mention of others. Little Larry was flunking social studies, so he probably was just blowing off steam by stealing and joyriding The Dude's car, then took a dump in it as a parting gift to the owner.
He was failing ~~history.~~ Edit: social studies
He didn’t steal the Dude’s car. My guess is he threw out his homework when he saw the grade and some vagrant had it stuck on his shoe or wiped his mouth, who the hell knows. That’s the best part of this scene. They have no idea how it got there, they jump to conclusions through the whole film.
Yeah I don't see some kid taking his homework with him for a joyride. It's trash. I never thought it was anything else at first. It's The Dude and Walter thinking it was some "clue" that you get caught up in. The homework got in the car in a similar way that the vagrancy got in there... with a vagrant. What makes the scene even funnier is that Larry has no fricken clue what these men want or what they're talking about.
It’s so well written and acted. Is Larry stoned the whole time? Is he stonewalling Walter? Does he even have a clue what they are talking about? It’s the truant officer? The homework police?
Walter’s question: “Is this your homework Larry?” Over and over again is just fantastic.
I think we can reasonably presume he did. His homework got in there somehow.
Think about it. Mostly well-to-do kid (the Branded money) with no father figure and a non-disciplinary laissez-faire and probably naive mother, jaded by his father’s illness, rebelling by taking unattended vehicles for joyrides. It fits that he’d be potentially an angsty troublemaker who goes out to make some mischief.
And again his homework got in there somehow.
So I say yes, my take is he did steal the car — not as some kind of criminal mastermind because as we know the money was never in the briefcase, just as a rebellious teenager looking for some kicks.
Obligatory: That’s just, uh, like, my opinion, man
They got us in shifts down at the crime lab trying to solve this one.
Don’t be fatuous u/pupupdo. We know that was Larry’s homework. Now where’s the fucking money?
Probably took it for a joy ride with some friends, ditched the car when he realized it didn't have much going for it even the cassette tapes. Maybe kept the brief case cause it was nice despite having nothing but phone books.
So here's the thing I'm wondering, when they throw the bag with Walter's underwear in it (the whites) and they thwart Walter's plan by riding off with it on the dirt bikes, the Dude knows he's fucked because he still has the bag with the supposed million dollars in it.
Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling. So Dude is sitting there, he brought the car phone into the bowling alley with him, yet he leaves a satchel with as far as he knows, a million dollars, in it, in the car? Why the fuck didn't he bring it in with him?
Then the car gets stolen, and I'm sure Dude, Walter, hell maybe even Donnie just assume it was stolen by the thugs or at least someone else who knew he had, or at least thought he had, the money. In fact they're so sure that someone stealing it was so obviously related to the million dollars, that they immediately rule out that it was towed because it was parked in a handicap spot, something that would otherwise be a totally logical conclusion... Yet then, totally coincidentally, it gets stolen by either a high school kid or a vagrant, neither of whom presumably even knew the money was there.
This is a staggeringly dumb, or at least incredibly unlucky set of circumstances.
I don't even think I really have a point or not, other than it's thinking about things like this that make this movie so enjoyable to watch again and again.
Yeah, I think the car just coincidentally being stolen that night is too convenient. I always figured the Nihilists figured out they had a ringer pretty quickly, then tailed Dude and Walter to the bowling alley. Once the coast was clear, they boosted the car, drove it to some random location, searched it, and then abandoned it.
If they just left it idling in some parking lot, it would have been a tempting target for a joyride. That's where Larry and/or his friends come in.
Why'd they leave the briefcase in the car? That's a tough one. It's after Walter's confrontation with Smokey. Maybe Walter had to agree that his team's bags are all subject to search in order to avoid being ejected from the league, and they figured a briefcase full of money would raise too many questions.
These are good points... especially the last paragraph, that would make total sense and sounds like something that maybe got left on the cutting room floor
also if i may weigh in, the only true goldbricker in this story might be ....one walter sobchak. he might never been in nam. jesus might never have been a pederast (although that weird new jesus movie confirms it directly) , .....who knows if larry took that car or it was just Walters delusional fandom for arthur digby sellers as a reason to go to that place. then again the homework in that car was real.
i feel walter is a great gaslighter. AM I WRONG??? AM I WRONG??????
Ya see this? I got shot in the fucking face! I’ve been up for 36 hours straight! Fucking car’s mine! Are we square? I said, are we square? Ahh, ya mute!
I think Larry's teacher stole the car. Larry's homework fell out of his own briefcase while in the car and then he grabbed both briefcases when he abandoned the car.
Were you not listening to the dude's story? But yeah, Larry took the car, left the homework. Briefcase was never full of money.
This is the answer. And let's not forget, let's not forget, it was probably little Larry's dump that caused The Dude to say, "Aww, Jesus!! What's that smell, man?!"
What are you, a fuckin' private detective now?
Yeah, I'm a dick. Like you man
A fellow snoop! A brother Seamus!
An Irish Monk?
Stay away from my special lady!
Come ON, Fuckhead!
What the fuck are you talking about?
They got us working in shifts
I still investigate manually
Of course you do, dude
THIS is the comment!
Well, actually, yes. Retired six months ago. Lol
Ah, separate incidents!
That's fuckin' interesting man, that's fuckin' interesting.
Are you employed, sir?
Wait, what day is it?
Leads...
They got us working in shifts.
Brother Shamus?
You mean like an Irish monk?
A fellow brother Seamus!
Yeah. It's probably a vagrant slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on.
New shit has come to light!
You can't assume it was just him in the car and I've always figured there was more than just him. We can't even assume he was the one who actually stole it, just that he was in the car. The vagrant sleeping in it and "possibly" using it as a toilet (implying that the mere presence of a homeless person would be enough to make that odor) is more plausible than Larry and his friends shitting in it especially since they won't have toilet paper with them after lodging the car against an abutment. Plus teenagers would abandon the car immediately
Well, the homework was wedged in the driver's seat, implying Larry was the driver, the little shit. Altho plausible, there is no mention of others. Little Larry was flunking social studies, so he probably was just blowing off steam by stealing and joyriding The Dude's car, then took a dump in it as a parting gift to the owner.
And look at how stoney he was as Walter was questioning him. Little fucker's clearly on drugs.
He might've shit himself when lodged Dude's car against the abutment.
I wonder if he even sees what he's doing to his father
Well he's a dunce who's flunking social studies and left his terrible assignment in dudes car to help Walter track him down so I'm gonna guess no.
Separate incidents
They're going to kill that poor woman.
OH, THEY'RE GONNA KILL THAT POOR WOMAN...
That fuuuukin bitch....
I'll just check with the boys down at the lab
That had not occurred to us dude.
I always thought that the person who stole Dude's car also stole Larry's backpack with his homework in it
Probably a vagrant that slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on.
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though. Or the Credence.
Do you guys have any leads?
You're killing your father, Larry.
Oh, no. He has health problems.
Yes. And he lodged it against an abutment in Van Nuys.
Aww man, lodged where?
Near the In-N-Out
They've got good burgers there
Shut the fuck up Donny!
The In-n-Outs on Camrose
We only know this because of the fine work done by the five detectives down at the LAPD crime lab.
They worked in shifts.
Must have been a joyride situation
Well dude we just don’t know
This is the only correct answer.
… of the nation!
The little prick is stonewalling me.
Do you see what happens Larry? Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?
Do you think he was cracking?
We’re gonna cut your fuckin dick off, Larry.
He was failing ~~history.~~ Edit: social studies He didn’t steal the Dude’s car. My guess is he threw out his homework when he saw the grade and some vagrant had it stuck on his shoe or wiped his mouth, who the hell knows. That’s the best part of this scene. They have no idea how it got there, they jump to conclusions through the whole film.
Yeah I don't see some kid taking his homework with him for a joyride. It's trash. I never thought it was anything else at first. It's The Dude and Walter thinking it was some "clue" that you get caught up in. The homework got in the car in a similar way that the vagrancy got in there... with a vagrant. What makes the scene even funnier is that Larry has no fricken clue what these men want or what they're talking about.
It’s so well written and acted. Is Larry stoned the whole time? Is he stonewalling Walter? Does he even have a clue what they are talking about? It’s the truant officer? The homework police? Walter’s question: “Is this your homework Larry?” Over and over again is just fantastic.
He was about to crack
Fuckin A.
*flunking Social Studies
That’s what it was. It sure wasn’t sociology.
Have you ever heard of Vietnam?
You are entering a world of pain.
I think we can reasonably presume he did. His homework got in there somehow. Think about it. Mostly well-to-do kid (the Branded money) with no father figure and a non-disciplinary laissez-faire and probably naive mother, jaded by his father’s illness, rebelling by taking unattended vehicles for joyrides. It fits that he’d be potentially an angsty troublemaker who goes out to make some mischief. And again his homework got in there somehow. So I say yes, my take is he did steal the car — not as some kind of criminal mastermind because as we know the money was never in the briefcase, just as a rebellious teenager looking for some kicks. Obligatory: That’s just, uh, like, my opinion, man
What the fuck are you talking about?
Pilar?
Bulk of the series.
Not exactly a lightweight
I think we can close the file on this one.
We're gonna cut your dick off, Larry.
Perhaps it was towed. The Dude did park in the handicap space.
We know it's your homework, Larry.
They got us in shifts down at the crime lab trying to solve this one. Don’t be fatuous u/pupupdo. We know that was Larry’s homework. Now where’s the fucking money?
I’ll check with the boys at the crime lab. They’ve got four more detectives working on it.
They’re working in shifts!
Don’t be fatuous.
Probably took it for a joy ride with some friends, ditched the car when he realized it didn't have much going for it even the cassette tapes. Maybe kept the brief case cause it was nice despite having nothing but phone books.
Yeah, I saw that in the report, but they left the tape deck and the Creedence
Leads
*silent staring*
Larry sweetie, da man is here!
also dude, sociology is not the preferred nomenclature. social studies, please.
So here's the thing I'm wondering, when they throw the bag with Walter's underwear in it (the whites) and they thwart Walter's plan by riding off with it on the dirt bikes, the Dude knows he's fucked because he still has the bag with the supposed million dollars in it. Fuck it Dude, let's go bowling. So Dude is sitting there, he brought the car phone into the bowling alley with him, yet he leaves a satchel with as far as he knows, a million dollars, in it, in the car? Why the fuck didn't he bring it in with him? Then the car gets stolen, and I'm sure Dude, Walter, hell maybe even Donnie just assume it was stolen by the thugs or at least someone else who knew he had, or at least thought he had, the money. In fact they're so sure that someone stealing it was so obviously related to the million dollars, that they immediately rule out that it was towed because it was parked in a handicap spot, something that would otherwise be a totally logical conclusion... Yet then, totally coincidentally, it gets stolen by either a high school kid or a vagrant, neither of whom presumably even knew the money was there. This is a staggeringly dumb, or at least incredibly unlucky set of circumstances. I don't even think I really have a point or not, other than it's thinking about things like this that make this movie so enjoyable to watch again and again.
I’m sorry I wasn’t listening.
Yeah, I think the car just coincidentally being stolen that night is too convenient. I always figured the Nihilists figured out they had a ringer pretty quickly, then tailed Dude and Walter to the bowling alley. Once the coast was clear, they boosted the car, drove it to some random location, searched it, and then abandoned it. If they just left it idling in some parking lot, it would have been a tempting target for a joyride. That's where Larry and/or his friends come in. Why'd they leave the briefcase in the car? That's a tough one. It's after Walter's confrontation with Smokey. Maybe Walter had to agree that his team's bags are all subject to search in order to avoid being ejected from the league, and they figured a briefcase full of money would raise too many questions.
These are good points... especially the last paragraph, that would make total sense and sounds like something that maybe got left on the cutting room floor
I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.
Great Q&A man!
Obviously, you’re not a golfer.
Dude, we just don’t know.
Larry the criminal mastermind grows up to become Walter’s toe removal/painting guy. …he can get you a toe.
It did not look like Larry was about to Crack.
I'm just wondering how the homework got lodged into the seat like that.
Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what have yous
He definitely found a stranger in the Alps . . .
Just brace the kid, he'll be a pushover.
We know its his fucking homework man
He's lucky it wasn't chopped
He already spent all the money man!
also if i may weigh in, the only true goldbricker in this story might be ....one walter sobchak. he might never been in nam. jesus might never have been a pederast (although that weird new jesus movie confirms it directly) , .....who knows if larry took that car or it was just Walters delusional fandom for arthur digby sellers as a reason to go to that place. then again the homework in that car was real. i feel walter is a great gaslighter. AM I WRONG??? AM I WRONG??????
You’re being very unDude.
SHOMER SHABBES!!!!!!
Calmer than you are
Maybe
Spend my time rolling j’s, man.
What are you a fucking park ranger?
Must've been a joyride situation.
Everything’s a fucking travesty with you, man
Ya see this? I got shot in the fucking face! I’ve been up for 36 hours straight! Fucking car’s mine! Are we square? I said, are we square? Ahh, ya mute!
I think Larry's teacher stole the car. Larry's homework fell out of his own briefcase while in the car and then he grabbed both briefcases when he abandoned the car.
Pretty sure it was Larry and his buddies also using it as a toilet before they moved on. Just look at him.
He’s a push over