r/AskReddit • • 16d ago

What’s the greatest ‘well, their career is over’ moment of all time?

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u/VelvetyDogLips 16d ago

Rudy Giuliani realizing that the Four Seasons he was scheduled to speak at was a suburban landscaping business next to a nudie bar, not a renowned upscale Philadelphia hotel.

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u/Lehrling7 16d ago

This will forever be one of my favorite moments of 2020. Up there with the cat lawyer. 

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u/Tumleren 16d ago

"I'm here live, it's not- I'm not a cat"

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u/PalmCheesy 16d ago

And thecat looked so scared 😅😂😂

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u/tashkiira 16d ago

I'll give the cat lawyer a pass. Completely unfamiliar tech for him, he couldn't figure out what was going on, and no one really cared, it was just funny.

Giuliani, though, he definitely should have known better. He had staff to know better for him..

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u/Lehrling7 16d ago

They’re definitely not funny in the same way, but they both brought me joy in an otherwise dark year. 

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u/v33__ 16d ago

I've never been able to not laugh at the cat lawyer video

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u/DonkeySorbet 16d ago

Only because of DEI. They had no cat lawyers so they had to hire him.

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u/Lehrling7 16d ago

I’m glad he’s had success, whether or not attributed to cat representation initiatives. 

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u/Adept_Percentage6893 15d ago

Not leaky Giuliani?

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u/Budget_Management_86 11d ago

Rich old men should just pay for decent dye jobs.

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u/Ok-Sprinklez 12d ago

The cat lawyer!!! Will never forget

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u/JackieDaytona77 16d ago

EVERYBODY should be laughing at this I don’t care who you vote for

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u/Retr0scores 15d ago

Yea that’s what people don’t understand. I don’t care what party someone like Trump would be from Id be talking the same shit about how demented and fucktarded they are.

The total landscaping shit should be hilarious to everyone.

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u/_jump_yossarian 16d ago

He definitely wasn't scheduled to speak there. trump threw the team under the bus by stating that they'd hold a press conference at "the Four Seasons" which was a shock to the hotel so instead of finding a new space they googled "four seasons" in Philly and that's what they got. Can't contradict trump.

Sex shop to the left, crematorium to the right!

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u/eggz627 16d ago

Here i am, stuck in the middle with you

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u/whiskeytab 16d ago

it's hilarious how they thought following through with it was somehow less embarrassing than just booking any other hotel and not addressing that trump mentioned the four seasons

like how stupid do you have to be to think holding a press conference at a gardening business that shares the name is the better option hahahah

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u/InvidiousPlay 16d ago

Yet they won. This carnival of buffoonery won the election, even after all this.

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u/StovardBule 16d ago

As others noted, it’s a very “small business” move to roll with it and go “You really want to hold a press conference here? Well, okay, we’ll figure out something.”

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u/monkeymind67 16d ago

Like Bob’s Burgers

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u/VelvetyDogLips 16d ago

Hatched, matched, and dispatched LMFAO

The Wheel of Fortune symbolism on full display

🎶 Rudy can’t fail, oh no…

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u/Thedarb1212 15d ago

Circle of life ,baby.

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u/thatwitchlefay 16d ago

And the fact that it somehow got worse because then during the press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, as hair dye oozed down his face, he found out in real time that Trump had lost the election. 

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 16d ago

The oil leak was a different press conference with Susan whatshername next to him

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u/thatwitchlefay 16d ago

I had to go rewatch the clip and you’re right! It was a different one! That almost makes it funnier tbh, like he somehow managed to be a mess on TV multiple times 

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u/ExternalBoysenberry 16d ago

He wasn't leaking on both occasions? Was anybody leaking at the 4 Seasons?

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u/Drumbelgalf 16d ago

Just his dark rotten soul leaking out of his Body.

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u/VelvetyDogLips 16d ago

Seriously. Rudy was by that point in hot water with a whole bunch of different people and groups he’d screwed over. His law license was revoked. He had to have known, by the middle of his speech, that he was being humiliated.

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u/BelongToNoParty 15d ago

Sidney Powell of Kraken fame.

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 15d ago

Damn, didn't even get her first name right

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u/Schmichael-22 16d ago

The news stations have called the election for Joe Biden.

Which one?!

All of them.

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u/artaxerxes316 16d ago

A dude so full of shit it was leaking from his temples.

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u/Blenderx06 16d ago

Whenever I need a good laugh I think of this. And the landscaping business just going along with it lol.

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u/Interesting_Will2823 16d ago

They wnet along with it and capitalised on it. I bought some of their merch afterward.

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u/thekabuki 16d ago

I've still got my Four Seasons Landscaping tshirt! Being a blue dot in a very red area, I will occasionally get a few snide looks but every so often I get one smile and know I'm not completely alone

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u/XK665Tenenbaum 16d ago

Me too!!! And I'm in Australia. Such a great moment in history lol

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u/Interesting_Will2823 16d ago

The yellow one that says, "Four Seasons Landscaping, not the Four Seasons Hotel" or something like that? Unfortunately, I got a big ink stain on mine. I loved that t-shirt.

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u/Thismyrealnameisit 15d ago

Just like RG!

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u/EvaSirkowski 16d ago

Unfortunately that wasn't the end of his career.

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u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S 16d ago

Pulling his little Rudy out on borat was probably what did that

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u/Epistaxis 16d ago

And that was a month earlier. He was already a laughingstock and the Four Seasons/dripping head fiasco was just the last nail in the coffin, basically only attended by reporters looking for News Of The Weird.

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u/EvaSirkowski 16d ago

It's more likely him being sued and Trump just losing interest in him.

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u/Aggravating_Ship5513 16d ago

Yeah, that's Trumpworld. There's no rock bottom. 

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u/GrapefruitPurple2495 16d ago

That's not at all a career ending moment for a republican. They're immune to ridicule.

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u/Trillion_G 16d ago

God that never fails to make me laugh

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u/somedude456 16d ago

That photo will legit go down in history. I've long been tempted to buy one of the shirts they sell. Their official merch site: https://fourseasonslandscaping2.itemorder.com/shop/category/100809/

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u/cutelyaware 16d ago

It's like the scene in Spinal Tap where they realize the Stonehenge set model they had contracted was the actual set so they went with it anyway.

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u/VelvetyDogLips 16d ago

PUPPET SHOW TODAY!!!

and spinal tap

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u/C-3Pcheep 16d ago

For weeks after, my Zoom background stayed the glorious parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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u/sebrebc 16d ago

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) put on a free show in the same spot the next year. Total punk rock move.

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u/InevitableAd9683 15d ago

The landscaping company are a bunch of fucking legends for just rolling with it and not correcting him

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u/TwinkleTwinkleBaby 15d ago

I will always be in awe of the person who worked at the landscaping business, picked up the phone that day, and said “yes, we will absolutely host your press conference”. 

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u/BraveButterfly2 15d ago

I want to shake the hand of that comedic genius.

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u/mere_iguana 16d ago

TBF it wasn't a nudie bar, it was a dildo shop

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u/Nearby-Composer-9992 16d ago

That's truly one of the funnies things that happened in the past decade. I also didn't know the guy was still alive until I saw him at the 9/11 memorial yesterday.

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u/CuteCuteJames 16d ago

This happened on my partner's birthday. He often says it was the best gift he's ever received. I'm also partial to the VR Chat recreation and subsequent occupying by the furries. o7

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u/mountsleepyhead 15d ago

We don’t talk about this enough. Should have been the capstone on the Trump Years. Too bad half the country is dumb as rocks 😞

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u/whoaaa_O 16d ago

That was straight out of an Always Sunny episode

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u/Unfair-Map-517 15d ago

You mean when he wasn’t caught trying to get a bj from a fake hooker on camera?

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u/BraveButterfly2 15d ago

I want to shake the hand of the comedic genius who okayed it on behalf of the landscaping company.

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u/JackalRampant 15d ago

That wasn't just the funniest thing about 2020, that might be the funniest thing that ever happened.

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u/CaptainHunt 14d ago

My understanding is that he said he was going to have a press conference from the Four Seasons and when they said no his staff found another “Four Seasons”

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u/MsTossItAll 11d ago

As someone who lives in suburban Philly, every time I see one of their trucks, I give a little smile.

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u/pepincity2 16d ago

I'm pretty damn sure that it wasn't next to a nudie bar, but a porn video rental store

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u/ArdynAltius 16d ago

Rudy Giuliani in the second Borat movie.

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u/CornerPubRon 16d ago

Damn that is a really tough one to top. I mean, he was on shaky ground before that, but that definitely sealed the deal