Suicide: The process of ending one’s own life. Usually, not desirable.
Happy Harry Hard On: Christian Slater‘s on-air personality from Pump Up the Volume. Slater plays Mark Hunter, an outsider kid who has recently moved to a new town and attends a terrible high school. So with a ham radio his parents bought him and stealing school documents from his school commissioner father, he takes to the airwaves as the raunchy radio disc jockey Happy Harry Hard On to attack the school, play hardcore music and Leonard Cohen and call up listener’s who send him letters about their “problems” – usually sexual in nature.
Harry gets one letter from “I’m Serious,” a nerdy kid from the school who asks if he should kill himself. He calls him up and tries to talk him out of it but is unsuccessful. Mark feels responsible and many of the teachers at the school who hate his underground radio personality blame him for the death.
Dr. Newt doesn’t want Unsure to kill himself or herself so instead of trying to talk him or her out of it offers up some rather violent, unpleasant ends in order to scare Unsure out of it.
Newtercology: Psychology done by newts.
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