Why was Dale considered a loser again?

Why was Dale considered a loser again?

He was the only member of the main 4 to have actual friends (Octavio, the gun club). Even hank barely had any friends outside of work.

He had a job that he loved and a hot wife. Who cares if he wasn't Josephs biological father? There were multiple episodes where Dale out-cucked john redcorn by raising his son.

>out-cucked john redcorn by raising his son

and doing a better job of it, and being oblivious to the fact.

The short answer is that Dale is still a loser because it's a sitcom and they're all flawed characters. Hank is still an uptight weirdo who's wrong at least as often as he's right, Boomhauer is portrayed as a clueless creep as often as he is a charming ladies man, and Bill is shown more than once to ultimately have a bigger heart than everyone else on Rainey Street.

Remember the time Dale refrigerated his whole house?

Why aren't Hank Bill and Boomhauer considered "actual friends"?

They've all been friends since childhood.

>Dale out-cucked john redcorn by raising his son.

Even if your raising someone's son better than they would, your still the bigger cuck

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Not really, he'd have to know about it first.

They're actual friends, they just don't count because they're part of the main cast.

Hank doesn't have any friends outside of work. in fact, it was a big deal for him to meet a similar guy (voiced by drew carrey) like him.

>I'm gonna miss that crazy bastard

I never really considered him a loser.

Just a crazy paranoid conspiracy theorist, which is, you know, pretty sad, but not for "loser" reasons.

Boomhauer has a lot of lady friends

He means a life outside the four.
His job was basically a hobby that makes enough money to pay a single bill of the house.
I don't think finally preventing your wife from wanting to fuck another man whom at that point she'd considered more of a lover than you really counts as outcucking. If anything he finally broke even.
Also he's a nice dad but not really a good one, Redcorn from the sounds of it did some backseat dadding.

But in the end Dale is considered a loser because he's an oblivious paranoid dork who is so inept at keeping himself alive it's a two man job between his wife and best friend to keep him from ending up in poverty or dead.
It's a good thing him and his club have such a hard on for gun safety or he would've undoubtedly blown his brains out by accident.
I could see it, it's the morning, an EMT carts away Dale covered in a sheet. Nancy still in shock watches them drive her husband away and the fellas ask what happened and she just says in a deadpan voice "he was cleaning his gun, he looked down the barrel, and his head exploded" and they'd just respond in a slightly defeated "Yep" "Yep" "Mmhmm"

No if anything wouldn't that make him moreso?

Down to brass tacks. Which is the bigger cuck? The guy who knows nothing about his wife's affair and illegitimate children or the guy who's just so utterly pathetic he can't do anything and just goes along?

Remember the time Dale turned up the heat during a heat wave in texas? Something about fighting fire with fire

This needs to get nerfed in the game

They're all temporary though. Octavio and the gun club are in a couple episodes

Dale had a Negligent Discharge in the clubhouse. Thats why the gun club decided to vote for Mad Dog in the first place

the latter.
because that's the definition of a cuck.

Nah the definition makes no real denotation towards awareness.

Boomhauer is the character we know of the least out of the 4. We didn't even find out what he did for a living until the series finale. Who knows if he does or doesn't have friends outside of them. It was neither confirmed nor deconfirmed like the other 3 were.

Dale states clearly in the show in various episodes that if Nancy cheated on him it would destroy him, everyone else also states this

>Why was Dale considered a loser again?

Nobody ever treated or talked about Dale as a loser in the show. A nutcase or idiot, yes, but never a loser.

Bill was the loser.

Yeah but it's not as pathetic.
Dale genuinely believes Joseph is his, and even though Redcorn is his biological father. By all accounts Dale is Joseph's "real" dad.

>Nah the definition makes no real denotation towards awareness.

It kind of does.

It's derived from the Cuckoo bird, where the parents really do unwittingly raise their child.

The term entered usage during a time when extramarital affairs, and especially the children of those affairs were not as publicly acknowledged as they are today.

And the term has been adapted to evolutionary biology to specifically refer to males who unwittingly raise others' offspring that have no genetic relationship with them.

To expand the term cuckold to be as broad as "any guy whose partner cheated on him" is really stretching the original meaning/implications of the term.

It's sort of like how "emo" used to mean something until the internet used it to refer to anyone expressing meloncholoy.

Bill's the loser though.
Dale is an idiot, which is different.

Then wouldn't that make the former closer to the actual definition in your terms?

>And the term has been adapted to evolutionary biology
I'd like some examples

As has been said Dale's not really a loser in the show, though his character would probably be viewed as one by most people watching.

What I find sort of weird is that Hank has specifically called Dale his best friend over the other two. I guess it makes sense, since Bill's so pathetic and Boomhauer probably has his own life outside the guys, and Hank enjoys fixing the things Dale inevitably destroys etc. Just that Dale's stabbed him in the back a ridiculous number of times.

Except husband of an adulterous woman is the dictionary definition of cuckold.

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everyone treats dale like a liability, when they are working on fixing some shit bill is right there with hank and boohaur but they always give dale useless stupid pretend things to do to keep him busy

>There were multiple episodes where Dale out-cucked john redcorn by raising his son.
"Cuckold" is derived from the cuckoo bird which was known for laying it's eggs in another bird's nest so it would raise it in the cuckoo's stead, so Dale raising Redcorn's son - even if the boy saw Dale a preferable to John - wouldn't really be "out-cucking" anyone. However, it wouldn't mean that John isn't getting screwed over by not being able to raise his own blood and that he isn't always gonna feel that much more terrible about it for being the herald of his own misery.