Thester Carbomb IV is the evil sidekick of Gerald Fitzgerald and the secondary antagonist of Season 2, before it was revealed he was secretly a hero. He is a charismatic British comedian, who tends to be very bad at his job, on account of him prioritizing being funny over being competent. He first appeared in "Paradise Found". He is voiced by Dana Snyder.
Biography
In "Paradise Found", Thester assisted Fitz with his evil plans. Thester pulled out a gun and got ready to kill Kevin but Fitz stopped him, saying they can't just flat out kill him. They need to have a plan. Thester felt so bad about his stupidity that he threatened to kill himself, just begging Fitz to say the word.
Fitz needed to get a disguise so that he could infiltrate The Cloud and steal the evidence that cleared Dusty's name, so Thester gave Fitz a disguise of himself. Fitz told him how stupid that was and Thester doused himself in gasoline and lit a match just begging Fitz to say the word. Fitz told Thester to go back to Paradise Rental Costumes and buy a better costume. Thester went back to the costume shop and bought him a Captain Crunch costume.
At the end of the episode, Thester notified Fitz that due to Dusty's name being cleared, his Dippin' Dots Business went down under, when sales plummeted. However, all hope was not lost because now, he had assembled a team of evildoers to create a team called The Legion of Dooooom, spelled with 5 "O"s to avoid copyright. The team consisted of Frank Flipperfist, Jerry Flipperfist, Pedro Pooptooth, Edna Dorsaldigits, Puffy the Cigarette, Pat Robertson, and Harvey Weinstein. The latter was quickly cut from the team for being too evil for even them.
In "Big Ball Energy", Fitz asked Thester for information on Houndstooth Meth, as it was their competition in the drug selling business. Thester was doing Houndstooth Meth, giving money to the company, which really pissed Fitz off. It was later revealed that Thester was doing these drugs with Jojo Siwa.
In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge D**k", Thester was driving a truck full of highly explosive drug chemicals to make Houndstooth Meth and he decided to take a sharp turn down a rocky road of bumps and potholes, as this is what his Waze app told him to do. Fitz told him that if Thester kept that up, he would get them killed. Just then, Gal-Qaeda hunted them down and pulled them over, kidnapping them and taking them back to their secret hideout.
Fitz and Thester tried to sneak out of the hideout by dressing as Madea and Mrs. Doubtfire, respectively but they were quickly caught and the leader of Gal-Qaeda explained to them their evil plan, which they called "Operation: D.D.". Fitz was pissed that they stole his plan name and Thester volunteered to haggle with them. Thester offered to let them take the name and a bunch of money, completely failing Fitz. Because of this, Fitz had to take matters into his own hands and defeat Tucker Carlson on his own. However, Thester did competently assist Fitz in the finishing blow, by cranking up the AC to shrink Carlson down to size, so that he'd become weaker and more vulnerable to his upcoming death.
In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", Thester and Frank planted a bomb under Randall's car.
In "The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note", Thester put all the money The Legion of Dooooom made off of selling houndstooth meth into a storage unit, which he lost custody of, having not paid the rent on account of all his money being trapped in said storage unit. Thester had to help Fitz get the money back by going to Miss Geraldine's house (the current owner of the money) and trick her into giving it back.
In "Flip the Vote", Thester helped Fitz win the Paradise mayoral election against Karen Crawford.
In "Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry", Thester tracked down Paradise P.D. in Brickleberry National Park after they fled the city to escape the unholy of reign of Fitz.
In "Operation DD", Thester tracked the cops down and revealed to them that he was actually a hero pretending to be a villain, working for Fitz. He said that he was a psychologist, who was trying to cure Fitz of his evil personality. Fitz used to be a good cop who worked for the Chicago P.D. but during a fight with the drug-dealing criminal, The Kingpin, Fitz got caught in an explosion, which nearly killed him and succeeded in killing The Kingpin. This incident gave Fitz PTSD and Multiple Personality Disorder. Fitz developed an alternate personality of The Kingpin and so Thester worked as his psychologist to hypnotize him into trapping The Kingpin in an imaginary prison called Pussyland, based on a nursery rhyme that his grandmother used to sing to him as a child. Thester had the corpse of his diminutive grandmother taxidermied so he could use it as a puppet to sing the Pussyland song with. Eventually, The Kingpin must have taken over and trapped Fitz's true personality in Pussyland and now they had to stop them.
Thester took Paradise P.D. to Fitz's Lair. On their way there, Thester would bring out his dead granny again sing more of the Pussyland song, which annoyed Randall into punching the old lady's head off. When they finally got there, The Legion of Dooooom had the surrounded at the entrance, revealing that Thester intentionally led them directly into a trap, which gave them the impression that he was evil all along. Thester assured them that he wasn't evil at first. He just became evil, shortly after Randall punched the head of his nana.
Thester eventually went back to being a hero again and admitted that he had sex with his taxidermy grandmother's corpse, while also trying to say that he was a supporter of the #MeToo movement, during the song "Bad Guys Don't Have to be Bad at Being Guys". When The Kingpin was finally defeated and Fitz returned to his normal self, Thester said that there was still a nuclear bomb headed toward Paradise, which everybody failed to stop. This led to Paradise getting nuked and turned into a giant pizza.
Although he didn't appear in "Top Cops", it can be inferred that he, along with the rest of The Legion of Dooooom disbanded, when Fitz called for the end of the team.
In "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", Thester appeared again, now extremely overweight, going to Weight Watchers and saying that after he left The Legion of Dooooom, he fell into a deep depression, once he realized he looked like Patton Oswalt and started to eat away his feelings, making him fat and ironically making him look even more like Patton Oswalt.
Thester would later join Dusty's fat cult, after being told by him that big is beautiful, making Thester proud to be an unsightly, Patton Oswalt-looking fatass. Thester would support Dusty's cult by emptying his bank account to him, murdering strangers in his name, and occasionally donating him body to him for sex. Most of the time, however, Thester would mainly just tell a bunch of shitty jokes and do random performances, not unlike he did back when working for Dooooom.
Thester followed the cult into the Golden Corral and feasted like a pig at the all-you-can-eat buffet. After misinterpreting Dusty's commands, Thester doused the entire restaurant in gasoline and immolated the place, which got them all trapped inside. He and the other fatties were ultimately saved by Gina who jerked off to him and the other fatties until she came and put out all the fires with her squirts.
Appearance
Thester is a short, adult Caucasian middle-aged man with sallow skin and thinning murky blond hair that looks like Count Olaf's. He wears a fecal green turtleneck, a maroon jacket, dark gray pants, and black shoes.
Personality
Thester is an incompetent evil henchman who always proposes stupid ideas and enacts horrible plans that are doomed to fail from the start, though it is later revealed that much of this is an act. He has a knack for telling jokes and has even admitted that when it comes to business, he prioritizes comedy over everything else, leading to him sacrificing potential successes for the sake of telling a cheap joke, which he flat-out admitted in "The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note". Thester does, however, feel contrite, whenever he botches his plans and exhibits it overtly and loudly by racking his brain, insulting himself, and of course, attempting violent suicides, as exemplified in "Paradise Found".
In "Operation DD", it was revealed that Thester was secretly a hero, who pretends to be an incompetent evil sidekick of his villainous targets so that he can better understand them as people and more easily take them down, just like he was doing with Gerald Fitzgerald (AKA "The Kingpin"). His primary career is a mental psychologist, who helps patients who suffer even the most extreme cases of mental problems. He will go to great lengths to help his patients, even if that involves hypnosis, imprisonment, or dedicating large portions of his own life to playing along with their delusional charades.
As implied previously, Thester is a master of disguise and a usury expert. Aside from just getting into character with a different persona, Thester will also occasionally go in disguise as various characters and give them complex backstories and fun personalities in order to trick people, as seen in "Tucker Carlson is a Huge D**k", when he dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire to deceive and escape Gal-Qaeda and in "The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note", when he dressed as a Nigerian prince to con Miss Geraldine out of her money.
Despite being a doctor of mental health, Thester seems to suffer from some serious problems of his own. For example, in "Operation DD", it as seen that he has an unhealthy emotional attachment to his long-deceased nana, who he had stuffed like a taxidermy animal and carries around with him and occasionally uses as a puppet so that he can pretend she's still alive. Later in the episode, the depths of this issue were shown to go much deeper, when Thester admitted to having sex with the corpse of his dead grandmother, which easily diagnoses him as a perverted, incestuous necrophile with some severe mental and psychological issues.
Relationships
Co-Workers
- Gerald Fitzgerald - Thester is the psychologist of Fitz. He uses hypnotism to help Fitz overcome his PTSD from the Chicago incident as well as his multiple personality disorder. When Fitz's kingpin personality took over his body, Thester pretended to be his henchman and assembled The Legion of Dooooom, thinking that playing along with the facade would help cure him. This meant that the otherwise heroic Thester dedicated a lot of time to evil, making him a very morally ambiguous individual although at the end of the day, Thester swears he's good and his goal is to cure Fitz of his mental disorders. Although Thester is a devoted and close assistant to Fitz, he is also very buffoonish and incompetent, which may very likely be intentional as Thester wants to try and hinder Fitz's evil plans, so that even while doing evil with him, he can still minimize the harm he does. Such buffoonish acts include buying Fitz a disguise that looked like himself in "Paradise Found", losing all of The Legion of Dooooom's money in "The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note", and offering Gal-Qaeda the option of dissolving their dicks and stealing the plan name "Operation: D.D." in "Tucker Carlson is a Huge D**k". All of which drive Fitz crazy and get him to smack his forehead and judge Thester for his stupidity. Whenever Fitz judges Thester, the latter beats himself up and threatens to kill himself, making Fitz feel the need to dial it back with the criticism in order to keep his henchman alive. This may also be another one of Thester's psychologically manipulative tricks to stop Fitz from doing evil, thinking that if he makes Fitz stop fussing at him for doing wrong, he'll be more tolerant of his burdensome tomfoolery and eventually, allow his plans to be ruined.
- Frank Flipperfist - Thester works alongside Frank in The Legion of Dooooom. Thester is the one who originally hired Frank, starting with "Paradise Found". In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", Thester and Frank were supposed to plant a dolly bomb on Randall's car and Thester threw scissors on Frank's paper, making him plant the bomb even though he was less qualified. Frank was very annoyed with Thester's snide and smug behavior against him.
- Dusty Marlow - In "Paradise Found", Thester supported keeping Dusty wrongfully incarcerated and abused for the sake of keeping Fitz's Dippin' Dots Factory flourishing. In "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", Thester had a more direct interaction with Dusty, proudly supporting him and obeying his every command, when he joined his Weight Watchers Cult. However, Thester proved to be just as incompetent and bumbling with Dusty as he was with his former boss, when he misinterpreted his orders and immolated the entire Golden Corral restaurant they were in, nearly killing them all.
Enemies
- Randall Crawford - When Randall found out who Thester was in "Operation DD", he drove away from him in fear before realized he was armed and shooting at him. Thester explained to him that he wasn't really a villain and was only pretending to be Fitz's henchman to try and help him. Even after becoming Thester's ally, Randall still fucking hated him, lashing out at him for playing with puppets and punching the head off his nana's corpse because of how annoying he was. Still, Randall knows he has to sit through his shit because he's on his side. Thester stood strong against Randall and the rest of the law in "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", when he joined a fat cult and opposed him in a siege at the Golden Corral.
- Karen Crawford - In "Flip the Vote", Thester protested against Karen becoming mayor of Paradise again in favor of Fitz becoming the new mayor. He even started a chant, endorsing Karen being incarcerated on account of being a woman.
Episode Appearances
- Paradise Found
- Big Ball Energy
- Tucker Carlson is a Huge D**k
- Who Ate Wally's Waffles? (Cameo)
- The Father, The Son, and The Post-It Note
- Flip the Vote
- Paradise PD Meets Brickleberry
- Operation DD
- Showdown at the O-bese Corral
- A Star is Porn
- Good Jeans
- The Shartist
- The Butt Cut
- Boat!
- King of the Norf
- Sack to the Future (Hologram)
- The Eternal Reckoning
Trivia
- Thester is a parody on Count Olaf from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
- Thester has been compared to Patton Oswalt on multiple occasions;
- In "Operation DD", Dusty said that Thester looked like Patton Oswalt.
- In "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", Thester admitted that he looked like Patton Oswalt, which made him so depressed, that he ate away his feelings until he became so fat, that he looked even more like Patton Oswalt.
- Thester's consistent failure as a villainous sidekick was actually done on purpose because, as seen in "Operation DD", the whole time, Thester was secretly a hero, who wanted to foil Fitz's plans from the inside. All of Thester's mistakes could have likely been done intentionally to compromise Operation: D.D..
- When Fitz woke up from his coma and revealed his evil plan to a person over the phone in "Christmas in Paradise", it's likely that the person on the other end of the phone was Thester.
- In "Tucker Carlson is a Huge D**k", Thester was an avid user of Waze.
- In "Who Ate Wally's Waffles?", it was revealed that his last name was "Carbomb". Not only this, but he was the fourth person down his family line to have this name.
- In "Flip the Vote," Thester let Grimeth suck his dick, making his sexuality still unknown.
- In "Operation DD", it was revealed that Thester is in possession of the corpse of his diminutive grandmother, which he has taxidermied and now uses as a hand puppet and an occasional sex doll.
- Thester refers to himself as a psychologist, one who studies psychology, even though he seems to practice psychiatry since he diagnosed, hypnotized, and tried to treat Fitz.
- In "Showdown at the O-bese Corral", Thester became depressed after leaving The Legion of Dooooom and ate away his feelings until he became extremely fat.
- in "Good Jeans", it was revealed that Thester is a virgin.
- In "Boat!", Thester reveals he never learned how to read or write.
Continuity
- In "Operation DD", Thester works with Frank Flipperfist to put a car bomb under Chief Crawford's car. Although Frank lost a game of rock, paper, scissors since he can only throw paper, Thester does not stop him from planting the bomb. This contradicts his role trying to suppress Fitzgerald's Kingpin persona.