| “ | You screwed your life up, Stanley Yelnats, and it's up to you to fix it. It's not gonna be easy, but you'd be surprised what you can accomplish once you set your mind to it. Even Zero here isn't completely worthless. What about you, Zero? What do you like to do? You just won't talk with me, will you? You think you're better than all this? | „ |
| ~ A typical session with Dr. Pendanski. |
| “ | You might as well teach this shovel to read. Go ahead, Zero. Take it. It's all you'll ever be good for. D-I-G. What's that spell? | „ |
| ~ Dr. Pendanski finally pushing Zero to his brink. |
| “ | I can do anything, but I'm telling you, no one is going to come looking for him. No one cares about Hector Zeroni. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Pendanski trying to make sure Zero dies. |
Dr. Pendanski is a major antagonist of Louis Sacher's 1998 novel Holes, as well as its 2003 film adaptation of the same name.
He was portrayed by Tim Blake Nelson.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- Like Mr. Sir, he has a past as a known criminal (although it's not elaborated on). And according to him, Pendanski isn't a real doctor at all.
- To speed up progress with finding Kate Barlow's treasure, he helps the Warden enlist disturbed teenage boys to help them dig it up. The prisoners are forced to work too much and rest too little in a barren waterbed, have minimal protection from venomous reptiles, and their pettiness towards each other rarely goes noticed, let alone punished.
- He only ever shows contrived forms of affability most of the campers, and he's outright horrible to Zero, picking on a defenseless child who's done absolutely nothing to make Pendanski despise him. (He says he's not completely worthless, which is obviously sarcasm.) Finally, Zero decides he's had enough of his nonsense and smashes him with a shovel he'd most foolishly handed to him mere moments prior. Barely conscious, he fantasizes about eating chicken tenders, which just makes it even more satisfying still.
- He's an argumentative jerk when the Warden tells him to fill everyone's canteens, and it takes threatening to make him dig Stanley's hole for him to make him shut his pie hole and knock it off.
- He has a vulgar sense of humor, saying the room he's in smells like urine from a mule who eats a lot of asparagus. It's also apparent he doesn't know "ruminate" isn't a synonym for "consume" since mules don't chew their cud, which makes him come off as uneducated.
- When Hector flees, he leaves him to die and aids and abets the Warden's utterly self-centered attempt to destroy Hector's files and replace him, depravedly claiming that he's nobody and that no one cares about him in the slightest.
- Like the Warden, Mr. Sir, and Charles Walker, Dr. Pendanski has nothing redeeming about him whatsoever.
External Links[]
- Dr. Pendanski on the Villains Wiki
- Dr. Pendanski on the Disney Wiki
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