Susan Heffley is a TERRIBLE Mother

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[@1Rez_EZ1]

Get some rest man.

[@mahij9652]

R e s t

[@mr_man1206]

lmao

[@springshadeslab2334]

Great video! For your next video on this, you should add the music back from the last two videos

[@aaa-nn8iz]

you should rest

[@oranjaglad8648]

Yeah... I’m glad that I’m not the only one who hates Greg’s parents. I still remember that one time in one of the books where Greg says that Susan punished him for telling her that Rodrick said a swear word when he was little INSTEAD of punishing Rodrick for saying the word in front of Greg. What an idiot...

[@aflcrowslegend9061]

Oh yeah that was messed up. If Susan was my parent, I would commit suicide. Also in the Dog Days movie, Greg and Frank get scared about the fact that Susan would lose it because of the dog slobber steak and Tingy Just messed up.

[@gabrielplayzytdalt2299]

Wait which book is this, and which page?

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@gabrielplayzytdalt2299 Rodrick Rules.

[@gabrielplayzytdalt2299]

@@hunterolaughlin Oh i found it! its on Page 104-

[@russian_knight]

I felt pretty bad for Frank really, he probably does love his kids but is afraid of stepping out of line and getting yelled at by his wife, of course he's not completely innocent but I don't think its all his fault

[@Netheraptr]

The Heffleys are honestly one of the most dysfunctional families ever. The only family member who isn’t severely screwed up is Roderick, but I definitely wouldn’t call him a model citizen either

[@P1r4n]

Thank you, so many people are acting like Rodrick is Jesus Christ in this comment section. He’s definitely nowhere near as bad as his family, but has done some pretty messed up things.

[@bessieburnet9816]

Rodrick isn't perfect, he is a troubled teen with that for a family after all. But that's not be point. We're saying he is normal and decent for his age compared to his family.

[@Hellothere-ky4jr]

@@bessieburnet9816 that is true rodrick is the only decent person in the family he might have done same messed up things but he still the only decent person in that household

[@starmancrusader]

Probably even more than the Simpsons

[@cupio-stardust]

As a person he sucks but he’s the most sane one, and his sanity levels are low too.

[@apertureAI-jw1iz]

Growing up, I thought Greg was the only sane one in the family, but now I know Rodrick is the only normal person there, he's just a teenager going through a phase and acting out.

[@cosmicalize]

Kids early on often act similar to Greg. They think that almost everything they do is sane. That's why having 6 wimpy kid books as a kid was like having the infinity stones ...and probably still is for alot of people

[@thebcwonder4850]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP you make AxxL look good

[@numberenderdude3461]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP what the hell are your garbage videos, i actually spent tome i cant get back looking at your garbage

[@Moved506]

even Greg is tame compared to the rest of the cast.

[@rowigat6678]

@@numberenderdude3461they are trying to get views by making u angry

[@ashlight.]

Fun Fact: Greg created his own pirate costume by himself and his mom got Manny a LUXURY pirate costume and didn’t even THINK of buying Greg one

[@emmanserv960]

I think she bought two for the two of them??

[@ashlight.]

@@emmanserv960 No in the books Greg creates his own and his mom gets Manny a luxury one so they can go trick or treating together.

[@andypham1636]

Also she covered up his costume so no one getting hurt

[@TotalDramaOwenandNoah]

And on top of that she forced Greg to take Manny with him and then forced Frank and slammed the door in their faces

[@bookaki4160]

​@@andypham1636 I think that was Rowley's knight costume that his mom altered if I'm not mistaken

[@fablethewolf825]

Fun fact: Kids at and around age three absolutely WILL act out to test their limits and see what they can get away with. That's why it is CRUCIAL to set firm limits for them, Susan.

[@appsogot1740]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP look at your head

[@RatchelRach]

The fact that her name is Susan makes this comment so much better

[@regalblade8171]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP 1. LateNightPies is a commentary channel not a gaming channel 2. One of your videos is making fun of 9/11 which is a instant red flag of an asshole 3. Your videos aren't good, I can barely hear the eareape tts, you basically tried to force android users to switch to iPhone when they don't want to (I use android and used to own an iPhone, the latter died from falling 4 feet and my android is immortal) 4. Just because YT removes your video or you get blocked by someone you don't need to make a vid and rant on it like it's their fault, I've seen some of your videos and I can see why they did so 5. You get angry when peopel spam your comment, yet you're spamming LNP's comments, so good job hypocrite

[@thelieutenant6141]

@Existance_Intolerant dude i was a untameable beast when i was between 3-7 i spat in drinks broke a tv and a book and heater if i did anything more i would be 6 ft under

[@waddles6805]

@@thelieutenant6141 You shouldn’t be proud of that.

[@darealconman]

Frank may be a bad parent, but Susan is 100x worse. She literally forced an entire town to go electronics-free in Old School, she can't take criticism very well, she shoots down everyone's awesome ideas for what to do with Aunt Reba's money in Wrecking Ball. I'd rather be tormented by Frank 24/7 than to see Susan take away my electronics the second she sees me use them.

[@snapperhd]

Sounds like most unfit Karen mothers out there in the real world

[@jjfrenzy789]

In all fairness she had to get 100+ people to sign a petition for the electronics one. Nothing for the rest though.

[@mystrrrreioucuszthlpepperac]

Story of my life

[@78anurag]

I would like to talk to with Jeff Kinney for using my Mom in his book franchise without my permission, number or email pls?

[@mystrrrreioucuszthlpepperac]

@@78anurag twitter is the best way

[@GunnarTobus]

Susan: Horrible Mother who can’t discipline her children Frank: Horrible Father who can’t care for his children Greg: Horrible Son who acts like a narcissist Manny: Horrible Son who gets away with everything Rodrick: Made to be a villain but is actually the normal one.

[@bumbogaming1934]

Yes

[@AAA17273]

Come to think of it I don’t think frank even wanted to have children it was all susan

[@aperson0356]

All of this is true and i think rodrick is the mvp

[@osmanyousif7849]

Maybe re-read Rodrick Rules an rethink that.....

[@territ7859]

yh greg is a sociapath but hes also mistreated

[@jordythecat7181]

There was a part in the original “Rodrick Rules” book where Greg was pretty much locked in the basement for the entire party. When his parents eventually do find out about Rodrick’s party, Susan grounds *both* of them because Greg was his accomplice (or whatever some kind of bullshit mom logic). The movie adapts it to make a little more sense with Greg breaking out and joining in.

[@bendytheshowoff271]

when the genuinely crap film has better logic than the OG book

[@raidabi-thegooppagappa]

@@bendytheshowoff271 is the film really that bad? i thought the diary of a wimpy kid movies (not the long haul) were decent

[@mrvespuccia.k.ameganite1747]

Raidabi Ashraf Honestly the movie version of rodrick rules is even better bc it had a good message which the book didn’t have

[@i_like_nerf_memes]

i think accomplice by hiding the evidence and cleaning the house before they arrive

[@hoaxstage]

​@@raidabi-thegooppagappa I think they're talking about the animated movie, not live action

[@hunterolaughlin]

The irony is that she has parenting books that are supposed to help her learn how to be a good parent, yet she sucks at being one. Shows that not even parenting books can make Susan Heffley a better parent.

[@technicalhazard]

yup

[@melonlord2801]

Most parenting books are written by people who don’t have children.

[@fatnga12292]

wow

[@ortherner]

@@melonlord2801 lol

[@livtastic3971]

660 likes

[@Based-BunnyGirl]

Susan: “Yeah my children are fine!” Manny: *Literally turns off the power and heat in the house during a snowstorm except in his room literally not giving a shit about his family.*

[@thunderviperx4009]

Lmfaoooo cabin fever legendary

[@valydendor4472]

My mom would've killed me then and there.

[@MorNloR]

@@valydendor4472 every fucking family in existence*

[@firetreeman]

My mom would have sent me to boarding school

[@firetreeman]

@{ Gacha_Spade } because his mom did not stop Roderick doing the same to him as a child

[@sussy3778]

Susan in the long haul has to be one of the most unlikable and dense mothers I ever saw in media, she drags her family into a road trip that no one wanted, forced her husband to use his vacations, only wanted to go to places she desired and created one of the worst experiences Greg ever had in his life, I swear when I read The Long Haul I was expecting Greg to just lash out as Susan for being so selfish.

[@hunterolaughlin]

And let’s not forget at the beginning of the book, she and her husband wanted to take the kids to Disney World but caved in to Manny’s temper tantrum because he wanted to go to their great Aunt Loretta’s nursing home to play shuffleboard. So thanks to both Susan and Manny, Greg never got to ride The Great Movie Ride. 🤦‍♂️

[@sussy3778]

@@hunterolaughlin Yep

[@mevavideos5922]

@@hunterolaughlin What a weird kid Manny is to not like Disney World but want to go to a nursing home instead and play shuffleboard 🙄. Then again, why am I even surprised?

[@pepperwaffles4228]

@@sussy3778 I really want a scene at some point where someone gives Susan a reality check, because she SERIOUSLY needs one

[@isaiahjoseph7352]

Dead ass "fruit kids meals" lets cram greg to the back Yeah when I first read it, it was pretty annoying

[@binchicken5079]

The funny thing is she writes articles about kids when she can’t handle her own

[@marianna6412]

YES IT'S TRUE. If I'm not wrong it was in the Ugly Truth book. Like giving advices about raising kids but. You? Giving advices??? 😃? Like mf you're the least reliable person to give advices about raising children and teens

[@EEVEE_fan16]

Maybe instead of writing them she should read some

[@thethingyofthething]

​@@EEVEE_fan16 She gets here nearly every idea from the family frolic, according to greg himself

[@JoaoVitor-dj1wl]

So, she's realistic.

[@_Protonic_]

@EEVEE_fan16 She literally has parenting books in her closet and yet she’s still horrible

[@irvinmorales1409]

You forgot to mention that she's way overprotective. In that same Old School book, she tracked Greg via a tracker she had placed on his shoelaces and an app on her smartphone. That's just creepy!

[@hisLoneliness2961]

Wasn't there a case where she made a spy cam teddy bear with a recorder so she can find her kids secrets?

[@AspectCave]

@@hisLoneliness2961 yea its creepy, you wont know what greg does

[@yeetdelete851]

@@hisLoneliness2961 ahh, an infringement to her children's right to privacy.

[@hisLoneliness2961]

@@yeetdelete851 she even told them that the teddy bear was their friend and it's safe to say secrets to it!

[@yeetdelete851]

@@hisLoneliness2961 ok that's fucked up. Abusing a child's trust to try and infringe an inalienable right. I'm actually disgusted by this woman.

[@ERlC_CARTMAN]

Just to remind you that Susan didn’t allow Greg to have pet dogs but she allowed Manny to have a pet PIG.

[@thanoswife1254]

ikr? and apparently, Frank can't even buy pants without her say so? like she treats her own husband like a child.

[@johnnyfingersgood6927]

@DropkicktheDecepticon Yup but dogs would be a more civilized choice, and she’s also favoriting Manny

[@spirittail4958]

I'm not defending her but to their credit they accidently won that pig and didn't intend to keep it but it was because of the people at the carnival or whatever that caused them to keep the pig becaude they didn't take the damn animal back "oh here's the surprise reward a baby pig what you don't want it well screw you then it's not our fault we didn't tell you what you would get if you guessed right you should've just been a bystander and let someone who could actually handle caring for a pig play the game"

[@h193013]

They did get a dog at one point in the series

[@ERlC_CARTMAN]

@@spirittail4958 Yes you are right, but the fact that Susan LET Manny keep the pig as a house pet and not give it away?

[@zumonachoinc8524]

Not actually fun fact: When Greg was a child, a cat bit his hand, and he goes crying to Susan... And what Susan did was "teaching" Greg how to fucking spell Cat.

[@Hellothere-ky4jr]

I remember that book I hated Susan when she did that like what the actual. HECK

[@setsers1]

@@TheMagicalMudkip2 It was never Greg's fault

[@Popplio3323]

The cat SCRATCHED Greg

[@zumonachoinc8524]

@@Popplio3323 that's true

[@blokvader8283]

My dad does that shit If something goes wrong, he tries to turn it into a teaching moment instead of actually helping.

[@kookyotakuvibes238]

Greg when he gets an F on a test Susan:GROUNDED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! Manny when he committees 200 crimes including bombing America and causing war Susan:”hEs OnLY thR33”

[@candycane1744]

Greg and Rod existing: Susan: no! Bad! >:( Manny: *commits genocide Susan: owo uwu you are innocent

[@isolated_illust]

Manny: [bombs the house] Also Manny: Im OnWy ThWeE.

[@Tigershark_3082]

Manny: signs up to go to Vietnam, and singlehandedly commits the entire Mai Lai massacre by himself Also manny: "I'm onwy fwee!"

[@sneakyfoxgamer7484]

Manny from hell!

[@sophiaminecraft2753]

This isnt a joke this is fact

[@zadock6370]

plot twist, Manny turns out to be frisk from Undertale on the genocide route.

[@Tree_e888]

A controlling yet absent-minded mother, a deadbeat father, a psychopathic son along with a possibly sociopathic one, and a third son who is a lazy slacker, this whole family just needs to get their stuff together.

[@ianhawke2203]

I agree that Rodrick is kind of a slacker, but he has dreams and aspirations, unlike the rest of the family, and is easily the most normal one.

[@nobody5333]

One of these is not like the others

[@milx7210]

Doesnt it say it the books that Rodrick only slacks off and acts dumb so he doesn’t need to live up to any expectations? That’s pretty smart tbh

[@nuclearbomb9483]

@@milx7210 bruh so every kid in this house is manipulative ( rodrick obviously barely but still )

[@Gloom_Shroom_Gaming]

All the kids being bad, even Manny, can probably be excused by poor parenting lol. Does that make Manny a good person? Hell no. But it's not his own fault he's so bad.

[@realsanmer]

I still remember how, in the 5th book, Greg mentions some pictures of him and his brothers across the years, and how Rodrick started out pretty happy kid but grew bitter as time passed by; Greg thinks it's because a lack of attention, and being replaced as the centerpiece by him and Manny, but I think it's just because he was the one who had to endure his parents' bullshit the most.

[@thelastjerkbender2505]

Yup, they neglected Rodrick, put unrealistic expectations on Greg and spoiled Manny. Frank is dumb but Susan's a bad mother.

[@kimhuynh7116]

True

[@Nakia11798]

Rodrick definitely has the oldest child thing where he's the one with the strictest rules, basically a test run for his parents... Who suck either way.

[@Tanaka-kun9313]

Damn Thats FACTS??????Know wonder why his mean to Greg half of the time

[@BobThePenguin.]

its probably both to be honest

[@Greenisanidiot]

Manny: blows up 3 orphanages, crashes 9 planes, starts 4 civil wars and kills 800 people Manny: *I'm onwy thwee*

[@Nobodyknowsm]

Hey man are you still active

[@Nobodyknowsm]

Or are you dead just waiting for a reply from you sir

[@spiritbomb0719]

You forgot to mention how disapproving she is about Greg's life, openly expressing her disappointment about his interests and constantly tried to force other interests on him, being even more disappointed when he doesn't pick them up.😑 Which is funny, giving how she Spoils Manny, essentially ignored Rodrick, but is always ready to humiliate & punish Greg daily to the point where she often punishes him for What the other two did (eg: punishing Greg for telling her Roddick swore)

[@Lasanga95]

Yeah. She litetrly showed a entire bar off soap in his mouth.

[@shaansingh6048]

she parents them all in a different direction, which is why they're all fucked up in a different way.

[@lindamedina64]

@@shaansingh6048 truth

[@adragonwithalaptop9630]

@@Lasanga95 Greg didn’t even say the swear word. He spelled the word for her.

[@Lasanga95]

@@adragonwithalaptop9630 I know.

[@ianhawke2203]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who despises Susan. Frank is a saint compared to her and he’s already a bad parent.

[@justagreendorito213]

Ikr

[@C0wy_]

Ya...

[@Conner420matt]

I think the dad is a fine dad

[@sygneg7348]

Indeed.

[@hunterolaughlin]

@Anthrax the bacterium Mostly Susan’s fault due to constantly spoiling him and not disciplining him. We see in flashbacks of Manny as a baby that he was a normal baby. I think Susan’s parenting tactic made him the psychopath he is.

[@sarahsims6164]

I remember another part about the cookie in the console: Manny gave Greg a crappy dangerous gift to make up for it and Susan refused to let him throw it away. Later on when Rowley sat on it, he hurt himself and that bitch NEVER ADMITTED THAT GREG WAS RIGHT!

[@hunterolaughlin]

Something similar happens in The Ugly Truth when Greg finds out the maid that his mom hired to take care of the house is lazy and he tries to tell her but she doesn’t believe him. And then when she comes home and sees the maid and her friends having a soap opera viewing party in her living room without her consent and discovers that her son was telling the truth and after she fires the maid, she doesn’t even apologize to her son even though he told her the maid was lazy in the first place. 🤦‍♂️

[@LongDeadArtist]

@@hunterolaughlin she even said the maid was keeping the house clean when that was the whole FAMILY doing the work to keep standards

[@iris-needs-more-history-books]

Dang the likes are 666

[@womenhavehivemind9043]

I hate susan b!tch so much. She's the reason manny is pyscho and she always forces "family" bullshit

[@kawee1]

P.us Rowley is the nicest character in the wimpy kid universe, plus he has been through enough

[@RealCoolstriker64]

He cut the power and heating to the entire house *except HIS ROOM* during a blizzard. Intentionally. So his family would freeze.

[@friskdreemurrundertale]

hey u stole my soul D:

[@USA-IRS]

Fr bro, Manny is terrifyingly strategic

[@PauClaireIsUnderratedAF]

Just because he was never taught how to tie this shoes What. The phuck.

[@stephano1019]

Which makes me wonder what would he have even done had his family actually succumbed to the blizzard? Like would he even react with emotion to the situation or no?

[@bartsimpsonanoffan]

Mom: Karen Dad: deadbeat Manny: psychopath Greg: sociopath Rodrick: a cool guy

[@pure_RAGE]

Rodrick: idk someone said hes a sadistic

[@PlushBro-f6w]

I fell Rodriks the only sane characters

[@C0w_1nk]

Rodrick is by far the only normal person in the family.

[@funisinfinite.]

Still, even with Rodrick being sane, he's still a heffley. And everyone who knows diary of a wimpy kid knows the heffley's have some Kind of problem with mentality.

[@retrochimdev3868]

I'm gonna say Frank and Rodrick are probably the best people in the heffleys, none of them are great but compared to the rest, Rodrick is just a normal older brother and Frank is a decent dad he just doesn't pay a ton of attention to his kids because he works often and is often tired

[@bluethelucario6194]

It’s funny how the one Heffely family member who is touted as the ‘bad one’, Roderick, is actually the most okay one.

[@bakedbeans4620]

He still is.

[@PineappleLiar]

It’s like that one saying. ‘If you go through your day and meet an asshole, you just met an asshole. I you go through your day and everyone you meet is an asshole, you’re the asshole.’

[@danatedawg1018]

Last like seven books he has been so chill

[@osmanyousif7849]

You really didn't read the 2nd book did you?

[@snooze2699]

@@osmanyousif7849 teenagers Are assholes in Books And movies.

[@lilbill7385]

I’ll never forgive Susan heffley for killing Greg’s angelfish

[@cheesefart570]

The fact that angelfish are really peaceful fish aswell

[@genericname2747]

Justice for my boy, Angelfish

[@ilikecats9886]

Right like he actually put a lot of effort into taking care of it.

[@joarroyo6737]

I remember 9yr old me actually being livid when she killed it

[@lilbill7385]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP get out of here

[@hehestories]

In "The Long Haul", Susan didn't even allow everyone to have a REAL vacation. Greg and Rodrick couldn't bring their phones along bc she was afraid they would "interrupt" the fun. She even forced them to learn sth on board, it's like teachers providing us a bunch of homeworks for long holidays and "You'll have nothing to do anyway, finish it". 🙂

[@thymecrafter]

and you just explained why homework is unhealthy it makes you work during a break so just school overtime

[@alonzo9940]

I never really liked Susan as the mother of the family. To me she's a type of mom that would sign you up for a summer camp without even letting you know, and not even considering any plans that you may have yourself. Not even a considerate mother of her children, she's just doing things her way and very controlling.

[@BlueMoonRaccoon016]

yeah i have always despised susan because she is just waaaaaay over controlling.

[@78anurag]

My life basically

[@dislikebomb6680]

Sounds like my mother She forced me to go to camp when I wanted to enjoy my vacation at home

[@thanoswife1254]

I one hundred percent believe she did that to her kids at one point.

[@AufWiedersehen550]

SUSan: Karen, over protective, extremely stupid, and controlling over her husband Frank: very serious father who doesn't care for his kids Manny: committed many war crimes and is a sex offender on multiple accounts Greg: selfish brat Rodrick: a "normal" older brother

[@paraneil]

I can't wait for his rodrick video to blow all our minds

[@hunterolaughlin]

Grandpa: Eccentric grandpa that loves his grandkids as they are. Although he is a bad cook.

[@ianhawke2203]

@@hunterolaughlin He put Manny to bed at 4 in the afternoon, but that’s kinda justifiable.

[@AuraKumo104]

@@ianhawke2203 Manny is a toddler though, it's normal for kids that little to take naps in the day.

[@ianhawke2203]

@@AuraKumo104 I was kinda joking, but I brought it up because even Greg was surprised about it. Besides, grandpa was putting him to bed for the rest of the day.

[@jdaisy_09]

Another example: when the heffley family was decorating the tree in what i think was cabin fever, manny came downstairs and started crying because they were decorating it without them, so susan gave him an ornament. But manny wanted his ornament to be the first one on the tree, so susan forced everyone to take all the ornaments off so manny could get his way.

[@hunterolaughlin]

If Susan wanted them to decorate the tree with Manny or make sure his favorite ornament was the first on the tree and that he got to hang it himself, then why didn’t she tell them to wait till after Manny finished his nap?! If the family’s already decorating the tree, you tell him that next Christmas, they’ll make sure they won’t do it without him.

[@dids3384]

@@hunterolaughlin Exactly. And a child that age will get over it quickly anyway.

[@whowhy7554]

@@dids3384 true most kids forget what they were crying over as soon as they see something more interesting

[@johnnyfingersgood6927]

@@hunterolaughlinOr Susan could’ve just made him put the star up on the tree if that makes him feel something, though he IS a spoiled brat

[@mrcritical6751]

Why did she decorate it without Manny to begin with? Most kids love decorating the tree of coarse he was going to be mad they started without him

[@ProjektTaku]

How is the immature and childish rowley somehow the best person in this book?

[@the_dionysus_cabin]

yes

[@chronicwasp]

he's not a chad, but a gigachad

[@marialogan5360]

I think he’s a very nice boy, but acts too much like a five year old. His parents probably make everything easy for him, and treat him like a little kid. He needs to adapt to the real world.

[@xueyanghe7704]

Well he can’t take no criticism

[@elliottpak]

@@marialogan5360Rowley is the Stimpy of the diary of a wimpy kid series

[@notdemomantf2294]

Ok, but manny replied to getting confronted about the gane console with "I'm only 3", so he knows that his age is an excuse for that? He'd either have to be incredibly smart or get away with a lot of things because "he's only 3" and learn it. Either way, bad parent or sociopath.

[@etherealhatred]

Technically bad parenting can lead to sociopathy, afterall, is something caused by experiences on life

[@clancysworld8188]

When I was mannys age I didn't get out of trouble with "I'm only thwee" no my parents showed me the belt and put me on the straight and narrow.

[@hadbetterdays8118]

She's paving the way for the devil at this point

[@valydendor4472]

@@clancysworld8188 Hear hear.

[@dorioncarter5829]

@@clancysworld8188 yeah my mom would have beat my black ass when I was in manny age

[@averycursedboi273]

Everyone else: *has some mental issues* Rodrick: A teen who doesn’t know how to write and loves rock and roll I’m pretty sure Rodrick is the most normal one out there

[@dustyrose192]

I mean... thats pretty bad that his parents woint get him the help he needs with his schooling

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Nah he’s kind of abusive

[@coolsceegaming6178]

@@cosmicspacething3474 seems to just be the big brother being a dick, not abuse.

[@mariustan9275]

@@cosmicspacething3474 I agree. He blackmailed Greg, and he used the advantage he had over his brother. Though, compared to the rest of the family, he IS the most normal one.

[@miticaBEP07]

@@mariustan9275 even when that happened he was in a bad place mentally. He has asked Greg to record a Löded Diper performance, but he had refused, so Susan had to do it instead, but it all came off blurry and filled with nagging comments about their behavior on stage. He got mad at Susan for ruining what he saw as a perfect chance for stardom, and then at Greg for not having taken the recording duty.

[@Cheeseanonioncrisps]

Even as a kid, I always thought that Greg's mother was a pretty terrible parent. Especially considering how she acts like she wants him to have more hobbies, but then shits all over everything he actually shows an interest in. Greg likes video games, so Susan tries to keep him from playing them. Greg becomes interested in Dungeons and Dragons, so Susan insists on playing along too and blocking every in-game decision that Greg tries to make. Susan starts a book club because she claims that she wants to get Greg interested in reading- Greg brings along a book he is actually excited about and wants to read, Susan declares it unsuitable and insists that they all read the classic kids books that *she* likes instead. She's so intensely focused on her idealised image of 'the perfect family' that she's completely unwilling to work with the family she actually has.

[@shakespeareangentleman]

Yeah and when the wrecking ball book came out they had their own ideas for the house but Susan shot all of them down and made them do exactly what she wanted. She's always so controlling Frank can't buy pants without her approval she always controls things all the time and put a tracking device on Greg and didn't let Frank or Greg get a dog(until it was bought secretly) but Manny can have a pig that you could have just let loose while Manny was asleep.

[@williamwoolf8072]

yup classic narcissism at work. its more common in families than you think

[@nineinchthread]

She's the kind of parent to raise their kid in a religious cult

[@elliottpak]

I remember I used to hate Greg’s mom mainly for how she spoils manny and how she tries to make everything exactly how SHE wants it. I mean,my mom can be a bit controlling but she still respects other’s opinions and decisions and she doesn’t hypocritically act super strict towards the older family members while spoiling the youngest one.

[@chim-chimkerfuffles9612]

It'd sure be a shame if susan suddenly disappeared without a trace, definitely NOT in a bloody mess.

[@emmanserv960]

The worst thing I've remembered about her is when Manny called Greg Ploopy and it didn't matter to her but when Greg did the same at the church to Manny, he let it all out and she's mad at Greg.

[@matheusmariani3108]

he acted like Ploopy was the N word for toddlers

[@justin2308]

To be fair, Greg gave her a rebuttal and so she banned the word from everyone.

[@deadlyaciddizzyacid7093]

Also, when i read “long haul”, I remember getting super angry, over the fact that when greg, Susan’s SON, got scratched by a cat, she turned it into a “teaching moment”. Like, excuse me? Help you crying, hurt, child! That still upsets me

[@shadowthefurryscientist]

Susan should not exist

[@deadlyaciddizzyacid7093]

@@shadowthefurryscientist i agree to a level

[@shadowthefurryscientist]

@@deadlyaciddizzyacid7093 me too

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@shadowthefurryscientist Ironically, the main character Greg wouldn’t exist then.

[@cupio-stardust]

@@hunterolaughlin He doesn’t deserve to.

[@cattrainboy05]

I think one example a lot of people forget about is this one time when Manny threw a temper tantrum in preschool over his sandwich being cut in half instead of quarters (the way he likes it) and Susan actually drove all the way down there just to make one extra slice in the sandwich instead of just telling the school to tell Manny to just eat the sandwich as it was. It only shows how much she clearly favors the little brat over Greg and Rodrick.

[@hunterolaughlin]

Or just have one of the cafeteria workers or teacher cut it in quarters for Manny instead of calling Susan to leave her job and drive all the way to the preschool for a dumb reason.

[@Solamente_Cypher]

bruh she's so fucking stupid she literally could've told the school how to fucking cut it

[@SaloniBaloney_25]

Ikr it really shows the favoritism

[@atanaZion]

How she treat Manny in relation to the other children isn't even the point, it's just the fact he unable and spoil him so damn much

[@trinny_y]

When manny grows up he won’t be able to do ANYTHING mithout Susan or anybody else to do it for him. He probably won’t get a job because Wh would’ve EXPECTED him to have a steady income from his parents. Then they will eventually pass away and he ends of on the streets, never to attract someone to give him money or a job.

[@slurples149]

We need a complete spinoff where we see the perspective of Rodrick

[@bustedsiderods8544]

And at the end he calls child protective services, gets therapy, and moves on with his life so jeff kinney can finally be rid of this god forsaken series and spend his time writing other books and, more importantly, spending time with his family

[@castlegarden2999]

I'm gonna admit though, it'll be tough for Kinny and his team to write and proof read. Unless they retcon Rodrick's inability to spell on the first page.

[@chillycoldchomper9389]

It would be really hard to read, and I'm not talking about Rodricks capabilities.

[@wandering4104]

Diary of a generic teen Yeah that doesn't sound like it'll sell well

[@Miminoichiji]

In the end he better get the hell away from his parents while also taking his siblings no way is he gonna just leave them.

[@Adelicousbottleosyrup]

The funny part is that she thought greg, a narcissist who’s in sixth grade, would listen to her about the bomber jacket. I honestly think frank would’ve just said “yeah sure you can wear it in the summer if you’re careful” but then Susan is like “NOPE WE AINT LETTING YOU WEAR THIS”, despite the fact it doesn’t fit frank anymore, and they’ll never sell it. Meaning she doesn’t trust Greg with even buying himself a pair of socks. And she is, in fact, a Karen. She does bad things, like break the law, and being biased towards her own children. I mean, she knew that manny shoved that cookie in the console ON PURPOSE, and she’s just like “meh it was an accident no punishment”

[@powderedbasil2322]

One example of Susan's idiocy that's stuck with me for years is when Greg ratted Rodrick out for saying a curse word to Susan. So Susan asked Greg what Rodrick said. After Greg said the word Susan stuck a bar of soap in his mouth as punishment for saying a curse word, and let Rodrick get off scott free

[@powderedbasil2322]

@ShiftTheDestroyer Oh god. It's even worse than I remember

[@barkingsandwich]

@College_Knockout bruhh

[@Digicara64]

LITERAL CHILD ABUSE!!!! I HAVE TO SAY THIS, THAT TO ME IS THE TEXT BOOK DEFINITION OF CHILD ABUSE!! THAT IS INHUMANE!!!! F*** SUSAN!!!!

[@mi1412]

in which book was this (ik this comment is 10 months old lol)

[@powderedbasil2322]

@@mi1412 Whichever one had Rodrick's party. So either the first or second one

[@naveenparamasivan2124]

The worst thing she did imo was in The Third Wheel when Greg wears his father’s leather jacket to school, something his father gave him permission to wear btw, and Susan literally goes to the school and embarrasses him in front of his classmates because she disapproves of him wearing it.

[@emmanserv960]

and worse she made him wore HER JACKET when he's on his way to home from school.

[@amandapanda5087]

@@emmanserv960 Greg deserved a better mother. He didn't even do anything wrong, really

[@emmanserv960]

@@amandapanda5087 I read big shot and his mother was really supportive of him

[@SunnyMoonwilluploadin]

@@emmanserv960she made him switch to another team hoping he’d make them lose

[@manjugoswami2233]

​​@@SunnyMoonwilluploadin True. And based off another comment I just read, she even FORCED Greg to play basketball, despite knowing very well how bad he is at it. And all that just so she can relieve her middle school balling days. P.S. Whenever Greg actually DOES have interest in something, Susan takes it and chucks it out the window. She opened a book club and Greg was actually excited about showing the books he had. And what did she do? Disproved of his choice and made him read classic books like Old Yeller, Little Women and Moby Dick (maybe it was Tale of Two Cities, idk), the stuff she read when she was Greg's age. She's also been shown to be a massive hypocrite and an overall bad parent. In the DOAWK book Old School, she forced the entire town to go without electronics for the entire weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, by getting a hundred signatures on some damn petition. When Greg ran away with Frew and Billy (who's in Community Service for stealing a pack of sour gummy worms), she tracked Greg by using a PHONE APP to track his location with a sensor that was in his shoelace. Worst part is, she never told Greg about this.

[@johnclough3199]

What upset me most of all about her parenting was when we found out she attached a tracking device to Greg’s shoelace, this is borderline psychotic to be tracking your child’s every move with them being none the wiser

[@rawcookiedough7518]

She didn't even tell him about it. It wouldn't have been that bad if she did but that didn't happen

[@raidabi-thegooppagappa]

what's also infuriating is that susan declared that particular weekend to be completely "electronic free" and forced her entire family along with everyone in the town to stop going on their phones and devices and to socialize with each other through her stupid petition yet here she is using her phone to find greg via the tracking device she's the biggest hypocrite i've seen

[@LegoReader12345hello]

@@raidabi-thegooppagappa indeed especially since she told Greg it was wrong to sell water to people who are spending their time with working yet she was one of the FIRST ones to buy the Girl Scout cookies

[@eliminator1472]

Many parents do that except they track their kid’s phone.

[@johnclough3199]

@@eliminator1472 but at least then the child had awareness of the fact, and when they don’t the same applies

[@Pancaykz]

There’s also that one moment in one of the books when Greg was young, Rodrick said a really long bad word in front of him, and when Greg went to tell Susan, he ended up with a damn bar of soap in his mouth just for doing the right thing. W o n d e r f u l.

[@lordkinesis4432]

You know who isn't getting any credit? Greg's Grandpa! That man may not have the most enjoyable place to stay at, but at least he ACTUALLY LOVES his family and even admits Greg is his favorite! He doesn't hide it like Susan and the grandma do with Manny. Can we admit his Grandpa is a good man despite being the boring one?

[@averagecoasterenjoyer]

Yeah, he's out of style and boring, but if I lived with the Heffley's, I'd pay to live with him

[@shakespeareangentleman]

Yeah he's just trying to have fun. I actually feel bad for him. Though the whole throwing a party in someone else's house isn't very nice.

[@aurorawizard7045]

To be fair, the only bad thing he ever really does that I remember is running over Frank's dog and lying about it, but otherwise he's pretty nice.

[@aurorawizard7045]

@𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚒𝚛𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗𝚘 I know, and I know he said it to not make Frank sad. But it also said he had said that they can laugh about it or something

[@andypham1636]

@@shakespeareangentleman that was an accident

[@nightterror6727]

Manny: Summons Cthulhu and starts World War 3 Susan: Nothing wrong here Greg and Rodrick: Does something every average kid does Susan: Now this is an avengers level threat

[@abhay4147]

Manny is the one invading Ukraine

[@hollowsid9623]

@@abhay4147 bruh

[@Abyss_Maid]

@@abhay4147 why are you making jokes about that? people are dying because of that

[@Abyss_Maid]

greg : * wears his dad jacket to look cool on school" susan : how dare you manny : * almost killed his family because nobody teach him how to tie his shoes " susan : this is fine

[@prettyteeen529]

Manny dropping a Russian nuke into Ukraine ooo

[@Pandadude-eg9li]

Or when Manny invents a new curse word to insult his older brothers, he doesn't get punished, but the first time Greg says it, Manny "starts bawling" which leads to said word being banned.

[@insertnamehere4088]

Ikr it makes no fecking sense...

[@garfeldi7860]

I Thought That Said Manny Starts Ballin’

[@garfeldi7860]

*YO MANNY FUCKIN BALLIN’!!!!!1!1!!!*

[@insertnamehere4088]

@@garfeldi7860 HE IS TOO DANGEROUS TO BE KEPT ALIVE!

[@cubical3]

.... Ploopy.

[@godricktheminecrafted3113]

0:49 *that one didn’t âge quite so well*

[@oboo1225]

Not so un anymore😔

[@OmniSync]

:(

[@NispoTheHispo]

​@@oboo1225she died cuz she was aged why you even sad

[@sillysillysillysillysillys1lly]

(un) dead

[@Imamotherfreakingavocado]

I love how basically the only redeemable character in Diary of the Wimpy Kid is my man Rowley

[@captaindoesyoutube7925]

I find him to be the worst He won’t survive 3 seconds in my old school

[@splatom5515]

rowley is a saint

[@mystrrrreioucuszthlpepperac]

Rowley my beloved

[@78anurag]

Rowley is an absolute chad

[@carmie9163]

ABSOLUTE CHAD

[@Ratburger_]

She’s a great example of mothers that have (what I like to call) lab rat children. She experiments with different parenting methods on all her kids and when they fail she tries a different strategy on the next waiting for a kid to come out correctly (but we all know that’s never gonna happen).

[@mrvespuccia.k.ameganite1747]

What’s even worse is that she sticks with the one that doesn’t work instead of modifying it making it reallly unequal

[@Satoshi9801]

I can't blame Greg for being the way he is when he has a neglectful, generally unloving father like Frank, a misguided mother like Susan, and a demon of a younger brother like Manny.

[@drillaybop]

Don’t forget to mention an emo brother like Rodrick.

[@seacatgirls]

@@drillaybop except roderick is genuinely the most normal

[@drillaybop]

@@seacatgirls except he’s emo.

[@seacatgirls]

@@drillaybop didn’t say he’s completely normal my guy

[@redfatseal2407]

@@seacatgirls but this is what rodrick did to greg Shove him out of the hotel room when he's naked Drives full speed when greg is sitting in the back Locks him in the basement while having a party Blackmail him into cleaning the mess Gets greg in trouble along with him when Frank and Susan finds out about the party Exposes greg after black mailing him Last but not least, he shot greg with a painball gun. Does this make you guys think rodrick is really mean?

[@legendarywiimaster]

Let’s not forget when Greg as a joke showed Manny a spider to scare him, and then Susan says to Manny to pull an object out of the refrigerator to represent the size of the spider, and Manny lies and pulls out and orange, and Susan believes him. The Heffley family are a classic example of the youngest child getting everything

[@gamecube.pizzabroken]

I hated manny for that, Greg should’ve never played with manny in the first place

[@jbcatz5]

When Susan does try to parent, she treats Greg like he’s five and everyone is in a more harmonious, simple time. She nor Frank know how to handle teenagers, and the conflicting personalities make it all dysfunctional. Greg tried to hide the mother son dance flyer from her because he didn’t want to go and it’s the kind of thing she laps up. Susan Heffley has no grasp on the world as it actually is.

[@SaloniBaloney_25]

She tries to make everyone relive her past so that’s why she made Greg join a basketball team just because she used to play, & have screen-free weekends since she didn’t have those when she was a child.

[@alyssamay9237]

Remember when Greg and Rowley went to a haunted house and Susan went full Karen on an actor who was DOING HIS JOB?

[@hunterolaughlin]

I’m sure that chainsaw didn’t even have the chain on it. I know from experience. I’ve been with my dad to a haunted hayride and one of the costumed people in the woods is a guy with a chainsaw. I remember the first ride, he pretended to saw my legs off with that chainsaw, but I wasn’t hurt because the chainsaw didn’t have the chain.

[@alyssamay9237]

@@hunterolaughlin Yeah, imagine the lawsuits if they did have the chains on them

[@kawee1]

That was in the first book I think

[@mariotuber2866]

Yep

[@lordkinesis4432]

I like to think she tried suing the haunted house after and failed.

[@Gregornmy]

i remember when i was little i had fish and was absolutely FURIOUS at Susan for putting Greg's fish in with Rodrick's fish

[@dmk12345]

It was more of her putting Rodrick's fish with Greg's, but it was still stupid.

[@larryfoulkeofficial8609]

FR

[@lakshmithesussybaka]

I used to have goldfish when I was young too

[@dracko158]

Plus Greg didn't even get time to mourn about it as they are supposed to meet Grandpa for Brunch. And when Greg told dad what's wrong, he dismisses it and say he never heard of a pet dying before and throws the "Nutty and the Butterfly Farm" story around, a lot.

[@HeavenlyMercury2800]

She's pretty hypocritical as well. She gives Manny all kinds of privileges that Grey and Rodrick most likely never got, yet angrily accuses Gramma of favoritism with Manny

[@huntergrant7282]

Also manny gets every toy he wants for Christmas but Greg gets cloths and books and his socking is practically empty while manny’s is stuffed

[@dummy3467]

Lets face it: Nobody likes getting clothes and books for Christmas, but we just accept it anyway for the sake of others.

[@yeetdelete851]

@@dummy3467 I like getting clothes and books personally.

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@dummy3467 Well, clothes are a necessity more than toys. Food as well.

[@dummy3467]

@@hunterolaughlin But its not as exciting as a new bike or a new video game

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@dummy3467 True. But it’s at least stuff we *need*

[@tild5098]

The mom watching manny throwing the plate: Oh you couldn’t of done that. Manny: yes plain wowked!

[@abigailmedina3461]

i know!

[@cheeselovingtheriznasaurus5730]

I hated when his dad was fine with him wearing his leather jacket then his mom was like no no and embarrassed him infront of all of his class

[@eshaanreza832]

She's just jealous because Greg is obviously going to be cooler than her.

[@diamondjack47]

Greg's dad was proud of him for finding the jacket but Susan was stupid.

[@DarkKirby8976]

That's what turns me off when I read "The Third Wheel"

[@crazypenguin2246]

What's pissed me off the most was they never explained how does she know that Greg took the jacket ?

[@bananasinfrench]

Having two parents giving a kid opposing messages can be super damaging, too. Poor kid

[@Orphanobliterater1]

0:49 aged like milk

[@Zippoguy338]

Bruh 😭

[@Smiley0.1]

I love how Rodrick looks constantly pissed even at 6 years old.

[@elliottpak]

It’s his eyebrows

[@matiasvazquez6844]

Greg said that it was because no one cares about him anymore, basically what happened to Greg when Manny was born

[@hunterolaughlin]

He must’ve known how bad his parents were at such a young age.

[@Dustinsmith246]

I would be too if that was my family lol

[@ShaunLindblade]

Theory: Rodrick's a jerk because Greg had to sleep in a drawer when they could afford a bed.

[@sekundaforgamer1238]

Another example of Greg’s mom being a Karen: Remember in Rodrick rules where Greg says he used to be a tattle tale, and he told off Rodrick for saying a bad word, and instead of punishing Rodrick, Susan punished Greg for knowing how to say a bad word? 🙄🤦

[@frogy3192]

Oh and also she made him put a bar of soap in his mouth

[@BABS_SEED]

Shes basicly punishing him for his intelligence

[@aubaubs_]

I read the book today during homeroom and that’s exactly what I said-

[@abhilashatiwari5155]

@@frogy3192 yeah this is straight up poison

[@mrcritical6751]

Even worse Greg only said the bad word because Susan asked him to repeat it. Greg didn’t say what it was initially so Susan asked him what Rodrick said

[@orangeville1978]

Come to think of it, Frank's life would've been so much happier had he not met Susan

[@hunterolaughlin]

But then Rodrick, Greg and Manny wouldn’t be born. And there’d be no book series. Lol

[@Dragon_Fire_2468]

@@hunterolaughlin good

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@Dragon_Fire_2468 Good for Manny. I wouldn’t say the same for Rodrick and Greg. The series would almost be entirely different if the main protagonist never existed. Like Rowley’s life would be different without Greg.

[@Dragon_Fire_2468]

@@hunterolaughlin hmm, interesting

[@osmanyousif7849]

He's a simp for staying with her for all those years.

[@cosmic_suki]

Btw, didnt Greg in like the first movie say something about wanting a family that actually loves him- that just shows how little Greg thinks his family cares about him. :(

[@aurorawizard7045]

Correction: that's how little Greg KNOWS his family cares about him

[@cosmic_suki]

@@aurorawizard7045 thanks for making me remember I made this comment :3

[@aurorawizard7045]

@@cosmic_suki Np! I hope everyone pays for their awfulness in these books

[@FrenzyFanboy]

Next should be about rodrick and how he’s the “best” heffley ever to Greg sure he might be rude sometimes but he could be a good older (at the right moment)

[@Koi73]

Black mage

[@Coolman87]

Yes

[@mattpace1026]

@Pee Pee Finally, someone who speaks the truth. Edit: not to mention his severely low intelligence that makes his status as a high school student questionable.

[@foam3132]

Roderick is the god amongst men

[@lewismartin3430]

he's a teenager. the fact he's rude proves he's the most normal heffley

[@stepneytanker]

The angel fish really lived up to it’s name once Susan got her hand on it

[@i_likemen5614]

It kinda makes sense since his parents ignore him

[@brendanstreecko7847]

Oof

[@genocider9782]

Oof

[@beyondviolet]

I remember being so mad that Manny didn’t get punished at all for purposefully making his entire family freeze during a blizzard in Cabin Fever. Also, none of them were even that concerned when he disappeared for ages?? The Heffley’s really are all terrible people

[@johnnyfingersgood6927]

I didn’t read that book but I’m planning to, but did he get punished?

[@beyondviolet]

@@johnnyfingersgood6927 I already said he didn’t get punished lol

[@johnnyfingersgood6927]

@@beyondviolet I miss read that but dang Susan is a horrible mother wtf is she thinking?!

[@beyondviolet]

@@johnnyfingersgood6927 no idea honestly. I didn’t appreciate him enough as a kid but Rodrick really is the only normal one

[@pokerface4]

That part legit annoyed me. Manny barely gets a slap on the wrist when he does some bad stuff that he either blames on someone else or just doesn't get punished. I'm rereading the first book rn and planning on reading the rest I have but dang, Susan is already annoying tf out of me.

[@thl3]

"like he's the undead queen of Britain" this aged well

[@dummy3467]

If a single old-school mom somehow actually manages to make an entire town go electronic free for 2 days on a WEEKEND, *I’d go fuckin insane in the first hour.*

[@lordlantern599]

Same bro, I'd probably just sit in my room hoping for it to end

[@Oliviagarry69420]

I will fuckin just leave home flipping those people off

[@irvinmorales1409]

She ironically used tech to find Greg after he ran away with Frew via a TRACKER in his shoelace.

[@ivanvaldez9323]

@@irvinmorales1409 now that's called hypocrisy. And she does that a lot as well.

[@Gloom_Shroom_Gaming]

If I found out about a mom trying to do that, I would fully charge mobile devices until it actually happened so I could actually use them.

[@toyotagazooracer4455]

Susan: A horrible mother that defends the spoiled brat and bullies her other kids Frank: A selfish workaholic that wants his kids to grow up and go away Greg: A narcissist that has a bad life thanks to Susan Manny: The spoiled brat that can get away with genocide Rodrick: The teen that isn't a model citizen but is the least affected by his parents so he is ok

[@morgiri9512]

No I remember Greg gets his revenge on Roderick and Roderick got 2 weeks grounded

[@i_like_nerf_memes]

no manny is the spoiled brat that can get away with genocide with his mom backing his side

[@toyotagazooracer4455]

@@morgiri9512Which book though I gotta get myself a load of that.

[@morgiri9512]

@@toyotagazooracer4455 Roderick is a narcissist who only cares about himself

[@chim-chimkerfuffles9612]

@@toyotagazooracer4455 rodrick rules, i think about halfway through

[@edwardchocolate8898]

I can see why Frank doesn't spend time with his wife Susan.

[@iwantpancakes838]

“My civil war figurines wouldn’t do this to me”

[@pepperwaffles4228]

@@iwantpancakes838 underrated comment

[@edwardchocolate8898]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP Did I ask though?

[@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798]

@@edwardchocolate8898 Pretty sure it's a bot, ignore it.

[@jbcatz5]

How did they even meet, let alone begin a relationship? A relationship that hasn’t completely collapsed in on itself yet? Did having kids make her think she’s Super Mom or something?

[@DOCTORRGLASS]

That queen joke aged like jhonny chedder after 20 years

[@stormy_person7530]

Susan and Frank are defined by how they view the past, and how they go about trying to control the narrative. Frank hated his time in middle school - he was a nerdy kid who got bullied, just like Greg, and tried to get his son to be a "man" so that he could like vicariously though him, but ultimately gave up and neglected his family because he didn't get what he wanted. He dislikes Roderick because he's rebellious and probably sees a lot of his own bullies in him. He dislikes Greg because he reminds him of his worst years, but has no aspirations to fix that and just dreams of being rich and famous without putting in any effort. He doesn't yet dislike Manny because, well... "he's onwy thwee" and can still be molded into a tool for him to make himself feel better about his past. Susan is nostalgia personafied; she too tries to relive her past, but only as she remembers it - nobody else gets to have a say in her narrative. She tries to get devices banned so that everything's like her childhood, she treats all her children as if they're infants because she wants to always have the omnipotent control over them she had when they were children, she forces them to do things with her because she's deluding herself into believing she's the "cool mom" who all her children love, and she domineers Frank because he's the only other person with the level of control she has, and he wants to _rewrite_ the past rather than just relive it. Frank might put his sons down for disappointing him, but Susan goes beyond even that. When she found out how bad Greg was at basketball after forcing him to do it to relive her days as a player, she TRADES HIM TO THE RIVAL TEAM IN HOPES THAT HE MAKES THEM LOSE. Having your mom care more about her favorite team winning a game (a MIDDLESCHOOL GAME no less) than about your self-esteem has to hurt. Thankfully, she gets her just desserts; Greg gets the winning shot and celebrates with the team she hoped would be brought down by him, while she has to stew in her plans being foiled. Greg is a lot more like the two of them than he'd care to admit though. Where his parents take refuge in the past, Greg takes solace in the future, dreaming up a scene where he's rich and famous. He rejects reality and never tries to actually put the effort needed to make that dream a reality though. He also tries to live vicariously in the future by setting up a dynamic with Rowley where Rowley puts in the effort and Greg reaps the rewards. Roderick is the only one of them to actually have a realistic perspective. He doesn't delude himself and try to control the story, he just puts the effort in to make his wishes a reality. He _is_ a drummer for a band, he _does_ have fans, and based on what we see of how he does take responsibility for cleaning up his messes, he's got everything he needs to actually have the life he wants, instead of projecting it onto other people.

[@isaacthegoat1432]

Don't over analyse.

[@PorkSKing]

Damn, true

[@isaacthegoat1432]

@@PorkSKing 🤡

[@pepperwaffles4228]

Wait I don’t remember a basketball scene? Was it in one of the movies or something?

[@isaacthegoat1432]

@@pepperwaffles4228 New book called Big Shot.

[@ananyanyan]

Manny- Literally turns off all the heating and electricity in the house while his family is trapped in a snowstorm Susan- doesn't care Greg- Watches a horror movie Susan- So you have chosen death?

[@thunderfella8831]

Bro she literally signed greg for a book club and never allowed him to play video games. What a Karen

[@sneakyfoxgamer7484]

What a b%#th she is!

[@kontroller5304]

Oh no! The mother signs her child up for a book club? What a horrible idea! I get this isnt the point you want to make but still.

[@Gloom_Shroom_Gaming]

@@kontroller5304 It is a horrible idea if Greg doesn't want to do it. It's probably not good parenting to force your kid to take a certain hobby. Let them like what they want to like!

[@fabio.b3711]

In all honesty when a kid is young, parents have to force kids in activities to realize their talents. But if they hate it even after trying, the parents should consider dropping him from it.

[@Gloom_Shroom_Gaming]

@@fabio.b3711 when they're really young yeah, but not when they're in middle school!

[@goldenblyat4681]

0:50 That joke aged like milk

[@coldrain4115]

FR LMAO, I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT

[@barzalaep]

@@coldrain4115a year later and same lol

[@pecurka1]

Hahahaaaa 😂

[@hedgehogpower194]

Context?

[@Charmander1352-zg3ns]

Rip our queen of england

[@Snowfang00]

Also don’t forget that Susan tried to set up a book club for the local kids and drove everyone away to the point where the club was literally only Greg.

[@i_like_nerf_memes]

because she wasn't happy with what the kids brought even though one brought sudoku which can a kid's brain to develop making them better at puzzle sloving skills

[@terryleung37]

As a guy who loves reading,i think she has gone way too far

[@manjugoswami2233]

​@@i_like_nerf_memes as far as I'm concerned, video game cheats could come in handy

[@xstar4698]

seriously. If I went to her book club and brought game of thrones, she'd get mad at me cus the books had bad words in them.

[@Carolinetheidiot_]

Fr. if i ever brought a graphic novel to her book club, she would say "GrApHiC nOvElS aReNt ReAl bOoKs"

[@TheGamesMaster6]

Is nobody gonna talk about how Manny tried to murder his entire family by rerouting all the electricity of the house to his room and hoarding up almost all the supplies?. I mean if Rowley hadn't informed Greg then who knows what would've happened.

[@esakiappankandan1117]

Cabin fever would have been darker than ever if Rowley did not tell greg.

[@morayfrye]

If they didn't check Manny's room then yeah I guess so

[@theonewhoknocks382]

And it was because nobody taught him how to tie his shoes

[@randomperson1437]

@@theonewhoknocks382 Manny was like: Hmph They didn't teach me to tie my shoes, let's let my family freeze to death and starve!

[@ineedbleach]

Or Manny didn't want to live with this bullshit of a family

[@stevemc01]

Manny: Lack of sensible care Susan: Lack of aware(ness) Frank: Lack of any parental care Greg: Lack of fair Rodrick: Lack of despair

[@funwithfish1507]

Rodrick is very happy?

[@redfatseal2407]

@@funwithfish1507 yeah, cus he doesn't care about his failing grade and lets everything slide

[@jcdagoat14]

Greg: Kind of a jerk but he’s relatable No! You should be ashamed Rodrick: Average teenager No! You should be ashamed Manny: Kill-count: 127, Global Terrorist, Dr*g dealer, Steals $74,000,000 worth of weapons, has nukes and bombs in his back room, guarded by slaves You are so nice! Here’s a gift for being such a good kid!

[@jcdagoat14]

Manny’s full criminal record: Global Terrorism 256127 accounts of first degree murder 3490 accounts of second degree murder 33374 accounts of manslaughter $7,246,135,124 worth of illegal weapons $352,246,241 worth of illegal dr*gs Top of the FBIs most wanted list Wanted for a reward of $7,000,000,000,000,000,000

[@1EmuFan]

@@jcdagoat14don’t they live on 7 survey street? Ok give me the money now

[@EllisHudsonn]

@@jcdagoat14lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂

[@rat-1567]

Manny: (takes over the world) Susan: how cute! Greg:( breathes) Susan: *NANI?!*

[@RatPerson101]

Why she called a ugly looking alligator cute lol

[@theyearthreethousand911]

@@RatPerson101 hes a human not an alligator

[@the-rickster]

@@theyearthreethousand911 no hes an alligator

[@i_likemen5614]

@@RatPerson101 LOL FR

[@RatPerson101]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP No

[@leeshwan903]

Seriously though, I can think of two more _prime_ examples of Susan being a terrible, _terrible_ parent:In Wrecking Ball when she mentions that the family got a massive inheritance and she planned to use it to add on an extra space to the Heffley house, everyone excitedly pitched in with their own ideas, all of which Susan shot down immediately because they didn't "benefit the family" or whatever. And when a realtor friend of Susan's said that the furniture in their house was "outdated", the family pictures that were on the walls needed to be taken down and that the basement should be locked up so people don't see what's down there before they could hold an open house, Susan brushed off the friend's advice and decided to hold the open house herself and decided that she and Greg would pose as potential buyers for the house, she piped in with her own two cents whenever someone said something negative about the house, which happened about every two minutes. And I _clearly_ remember rolling my eyes at Susan's Karen-like behavior at that. Also, what kinda mother doesn't approve of her own sons' interests and hobbies? I mean, seriously, Greg is interested in video games and she shuts it down instantly. Greg's interest in a D&D-style game? She more or less "bends it to her will" so it's less fun and more like Lord of the Rings without any of the good parts. And we already know she's the last person Greg would turn to if his social life is in need of fixing, since every attempt she makes to "fix" Greg's social life results in him being a prime target for bullies. And while we're at it, my mother is almost the _exact_ opposite of Susan:She's a really down-to-earth and cool person, lets me play Angry Birds nonstop if I get all my chores done first and actually gives _good_ advice on how to improve my social life. Case in point: Susan Heffley is a _terrible_ mother and should be locked up. And this is all coming from a 15-year-old high school freshman who has a family, while still dysfunctional in some places, that's still way more normal than all of the Heffley's _combined!!!!_

[@hunterolaughlin]

I definitely remember that part in Rodrick Rules. Thought she had the right to intrude on Leland’s game when she should’ve been more glad to see her son going out and socializing and not just sitting in the house and playing video games, and she wouldn’t let anything she didn’t approve in the game like beer or violence. If she was in the Fellowship, she definitely wouldn’t have lasted long and been the first member to die before Boromir during the battle with the orcs in the Mines of Moria. Giving the orcs their food definitely wouldn’t have helped her or saved her life in that scenario. Susan: “It’s not nice to attack others! Why don’t you have some of our…” (Gets decapitated by an orc and dies)

[@leeshwan903]

@@hunterolaughlin Agreed.

[@thedman1754]

your mom sounds real nice :)

[@r5t6y7u8]

Susan hates Greg. Manny is her #1, Rodrick is #2 and Greg is a waste of oxygen. She killed his fish on purpose.

[@theamazingtommo]

i got a cool family too my friend:)

[@Kleebo]

A book where they take group therapy together would be really funny

[@wickerhazbrownsauce8564]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: "Child protective services"

[@CrazyIshan69]

Lol. 😂

[@geekymetalhead5112]

Roderick and Loded Diper: *I'm out of this bitch!*

[@mostafamostafamohamed6117]

Frank: A dad who doesnt care about any of his kids Susan: A karen that spoils manny so much Rodrick: A brother that trolls greg but sometimes okay Greg: A sociopath but got raised badly Manny: A psychopath that uses excuses to get away from punishments

[@purkle200]

Rodrick seems like he loathes their mom the most

[@marcohidalgo1101]

I mean she punished him for a magazine that his evil baby brother brought to daycare. Who wouldn't loathe their mom after that?

[@yeetdelete851]

@@marcohidalgo1101 I think the worst part is Manny wasn't punished for snooping, but Rodrick was shamed for possession of said magazine.

[@inky5574]

@@yeetdelete851 Even though he's a teenager. Another example of how she knows absolutely nothing about kids Rodrick's and Greg's age

[@i_likemen5614]

Probably because she practically ignores him

[@cupio-stardust]

@@inky5574 Exactly he’s like 15, boys that age are into that kinda stuff.

[@rhinestoneage0125]

Are we not going to talk about how she told Greg about how weird it is for him to profit off of people doing manual labor who are desperate for water before suddenly purchasing Girl Scout Cookies? Dear Lord what kind of woman did Frank fall in love with?!

[@asianjackass237]

Its theorized that Frank might have signed the birth certificate confirming he is the father without DNA checking and that those kids arent even his

[@RealStarlo]

i think susan told frank to sign the certificate

[@womenhavehivemind9043]

Bruh just now l rode this. And she event tracked greg with gps even though she wanted kids to move back from tech

[@asianjackass237]

@@womenhavehivemind9043 And mind you the only reason she even succeed with that petition is because she forced a bunch of housemaids that arent even her housemaid to sign

[@CapsirusPrime]

There was also that time Greg got scratched by his Grandma’s cat and instead of comforting her 6 year old son, which is what you should DO! Karen… oh sorry, I meant Susan decided to turn the whole situation into a lesson.

[@oranjaglad8648]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who hated that moment. Seriously, it’s like every flashback involving her she just has zero redeeming qualities...

[@mr.popatochisp9349]

As a Hispanic, one of the moments I hate the most was when she told Greg, "Te Amo" meant, "Thank you". LEARN THE FUCKING LANGUAGE BEFORE YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THE WRONG THING BITCH!

[@ABCSYTTR]

@@mr.popatochisp9349 isn't thank you "gracious" in spanish or idk how to spell it cause I speak English and a little russian

[@samaraliu2083]

@@ABCSYTTR its spelled ‘gracias’ but yeah you were spot on

[@inky5574]

@@mr.popatochisp9349 *Peggy Hill flashbacks*

[@ShaunLindblade]

She also forged a signature for the ONE book Greg wanted to read.

[@KirbyProductions]

I never realized how evil Manny was, until the book where they go on a vacation and Manny let a BOX JELLYFISH FREE

[@clinteastwood1629]

Wait what ? Those things are extremely lethal

[@KirbyProductions]

@@clinteastwood1629 yep, and Manny throws it in the public pool 0_0

[@clinteastwood1629]

@@KirbyProductions wait what?! That's basically asking for someone to die when did this happen

[@KirbyProductions]

@@clinteastwood1629 it happened in the book The Getaway, and in all honesty, that whole book is just Manny being the cause of all the trouble

[@clinteastwood1629]

@@KirbyProductions how has no body died between that and what happened with cabin fever I'm surprised no has died yet because of him

[@alexjewett7455]

With Greg's mom's parenting style, Manny could literally get away with murder if he wanted to. And that's not hyperbole.

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

It was that damn Johnny Cheddar

[@prettyprince7711]

“What? Manny got away with murder? I can’t say I approve but at least he’s trying something new” - Susan, probably

[@genocider9782]

He was really close to that in cabin fever sheesh

[@AAA17273]

That reminds me the youngest serial killer was 8 years old, killed three babies (around that I’m pretty sure) and his parents knew all about it and didn’t do anything that lead to prison.

[@raldjones489]

Susan is overbearing, Frank is uptight, Manny is sociopathic, Roddrick is rebellious, and Greg is narcissistic.

[@PerfectSonic1998]

Another thing, near the end of the video, you said she tried to get the whole town to shut off all technology for a weekend. Well, when she did that she also got the town to clean up the park, but Greg tried to get out of that. However, when he did, she revealed that she was using a tracking device on his shoelace. That not only proves she doesn’t trust him, but she also broke her own rule in a day.

[@12hayy4]

A Sociopath is a mental condition, therefore Greg has no control over it.

[@abdielreinoso2406]

I remember HATING that scene. Just gies to show how much of a hypocrite she really is.

[@chim-chimkerfuffles9612]

Also, right before that scene, Greg was selling water to the volunteers, making money and helping the volunteers simultaneously. Then good old Susie came along and shut it down, right before all the volunteers stole Greg's water.

[@abdielreinoso2406]

@@chim-chimkerfuffles9612 And she claimed she did that because it was unfair to cheat off the workers by selling them the water. BUT then, everyone else, including her, goes to buy girl scout cookies? Really?

[@chim-chimkerfuffles9612]

@@abdielreinoso2406 Not only is this an absolute Karen move, but it also shows her kids that hypocrisy is acceptable. Terrible parenting.

[@justinian536]

imagine being such a bad parent that you read parenting magazines even with two teenagers and a demon

[@uno9971]

Greg: **happily enjoying life** Susan: ITS SCREEN FREE WEEKEND

[@therewasnoattempt8373]

Next video should be about "why Rodrick is the only normal character in Diary of a wimpy kid"

[@PC_23]

@ALM [I make good content] UTTP stop you dumb bot

[@markborishnikoff5485]

Idk, rodrick's a dick too, he probably gave greg brain damage making him ride in a car with no seats, locked him in the basement for his party, and blackmailed him multiple time with the leisure towers video. Movie rodrick's better in certain aspects.

[@auberginemanproductions1608]

@@markborishnikoff5485 Yeah, I think movie Rodrick made people forget that he did some pretty fucked up stuff too in the books

[@darkpinkgirl6684]

@@markborishnikoff5485 true. i got pissed off at people in the comments treating roderick like he's completely normal and not a jackass but this made me realize almost everyone's referring to the movie, not the books

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Nah he’s kind of abusive

[@Issei_Midoriya]

Edit I have a theory of the journals. The reason why there are so many "books" is because he's beginning to get more confident is exposing his family for who they are, such as his mom not being a good mother, his older brother being abusive, his younger brother being manipulative, and his dad never being proud of him. Like maybe that could be one of the reasons why there's 16 books and he's still in Middle School. Maybe some of the books could possibly be memories he has such as he remembers when he was a baby that his mom had him sleep in a drawer. Like maybe he's writing every bad memory he has with his family because he wants to expose them for who the Heffleys really are.

[@Issei_Midoriya]

@Sebas7710 Maybe if we remove the psychologist part maybe Greg had an idea and kept nagging his mom for the journal

[@Issei_Midoriya]

@Sebas7710 maybe the reason he wants people to see it when he's older is because when he shows the journal to everyone his family will be seen as horrible people and Greg will be "rich and famous" because he's seen as the victim in the journals

[@soggymilquetoast]

I feel like we have to remember that it’s written from Greg’s POV, which means some details will be left out and some will be amplified to make his actions and such more justified.

[@Issei_Midoriya]

@@soggymilquetoast exactly like maybe he's trying to paint himself as a victim cause there's a theory about him being a sociopath

[@joshuahecht6866]

@Sebas7710 The brother being a lie because rodrick isn’t a douche and is a genuine good guy.

[@thewanderingcreative7173]

Anyone remember the time susan forged the signature of Greg’s favorite author just cause she didn’t want to wait in the queue line?

[@giorgialoduca3937]

I do, and that’s even sorse than everything told in this video

[@v5xb3rryxe]

I remember reading the books and thinking: “If I was Greg, I’d run away from my family and start a new life.” I guess I wasn’t the only one that thought his family was messed up

[@brandyDC]

In the movie when Greg said “I wonder what it’s like to have a family that actually loves me” I felt so bad for him

[@libandualeh7621]

Now I think Rodrick should leave

[@ventingmachine101]

nahhh he actually says something along the lines of that

[@williamwoolf8072]

@@brandyDC yeah. it makes perfect sense why he would turn out so emotionless. he had to shut off his emotions because of how much pain he's in

[@amandapanda5087]

No you aren't the only one, I never read the books but I don't need to to know that this family is messed up

[@TravellerZasha]

The real antagonists of this book is the parents. Growing up i thought these parents were okay to have because my parents were like that and the media says it's okay. Now i realize how toxic is it and i wish children shows would show how toxic karen mothers and dead beat dads are

[@redfatseal2407]

Susan, ima spoil Manny and abusive Greg and rodrick Frank, Ima be even with my kids therefore I abuse all 3 of them Which one is worse

[@ootfan7882]

@@redfatseal2407 both.

[@redfatseal2407]

@@ootfan7882 can't agree more.

[@ootfan7882]

@@redfatseal2407 same

[@shakespeareangentleman]

@@redfatseal2407 tbf Susan is also controlling ASF to Frank

[@lukatrickovic8619]

Wait, so manny knows how to: Be manipulative, use his imaginary friends for an advantage, make up excuses, and know whats a circuit breaker and use it correctly, BUT he doesn't know how to tie his shoes? what

[@hunterolaughlin]

I’m sure he does. Just uses it as an excuse to get off Scott free.

[@lukatrickovic8619]

@@hunterolaughlin I guess

[@thanoswife1254]

I think he does, he just said that to get off scot free, he's obviously aware of what to say and do to get away with things.

[@lukatrickovic8619]

@@thanoswife1254 Yeah. most likely.

[@lukatrickovic8619]

@-Azyy- gaming..