The audience is supposed to snicker at him for his own small-mindedness and insecurity over his sexuality. The possibility that Frank Reynolds is Charlie’s actual father has been heavily hinted at throughout the sequence. Charlie finds out that Frank had a one-night stand along with his mother, Bonnie, 30 years earlier, roughly concurrently Charlie’s conception. Charlie tries to steer Frank to take a paternity test, but Frank adamantly refuses. Later, when his mom informs Charlie that he survived an abortion, she tells him that Frank is his father and pushed her to get the abortion, although Frank insists that Bonnie was known for being a “large whore” and therefore maintains that he’s not Charlie’s father.
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