“#kinda tired of how ppl make tater out to be some child just because he cant speak english very well” THANK YOU I AGREE SO MUCH and your post kind of fueled this new hc I have of one too many assholes chirping tater on the ice for being a “big dumb russian” that the falcs pr team just snaps and releases a feature on the scholarship program tater got started for foreign-born students hoping to go to college in the u.s. and included is a clip (w/ subtitles of course) of tater talking with (1/2)

gutsybitsies:

a grad student in animated russian about the kid’s research project about fucking quantum mechanics and even the other guys on the falcs are like “tater wtf how do you know this shit???” and he just kinda shrugs and goes, “physics is best? there is english idiom i’m thinking of… ‘it grew on me’? yes, grew on me when I was teenager. i’m see physics and think ‘okay, tell me how to put puck in net, is good class’” 2/2 

exactly!!!! is tater an overexcitable pupper? yes definitely. but is he also a goddamn adult man who understands complex emotions and things? motherfucking yes. 

and i love that idea of him starting a scholarship program!!! falcs tv does a huge segment on it and it’s a huge fucking deal. also bonus points for tater funding a ton of research projects, writing competitions, etc.