Uncle Brownie (Character)

## Brownie

**Brownie** is Elora's uncle who lives in the woods.

## History

### Youth

Brownie played football in high school, but realized school wasn't for him and dropped out. He continued to drive his friends who were still in school around to parties. At one such party, they did acid. He was unaware that it was Maximus's first time doing acid. As they came down, he had Maximus drive them home. When he claimed he saw an alien, they laughed at him and said it was just the drugs.

### Cookie's Death

On the day Cookie died, their whole group of friends had been drinking. They tried to stop Cookie's boyfriend, Rodney, from driving and Rodney and Browning even got into a fight about it, but they ended up leaving anyway. Rodney ended up crashing the car.

### Getting Out of the Woods

The Rez Dogs drove out to Brownie's place in the woods to find him so he could teach them to fight, as legend held that he'd knocked out ten people in two minutes. He quickly dismissed them, even after learning that Elora was Cookie's daughter, and continued digging his yard. When he found a jar, he loudly celebrated. He showed the kids, who hadn't yet left, that it was marijuana he'd buried fifteen years prior. He then asked them what they wanted and learned they wanted him to teach them to fight. He said that he didn't mess with kids and corrected that instead of ten people, like they'd heard, it was actually twenty and a cop. Brownie asked them to leave and they did, but only after Elora spotted a picture of her mother on the wall and asked Brownie to tell her more about Cookie. Brownie said he couldn't because it would make him cry.

They got back to their car only to find Brownie had followed them out. He said he'd teach them some things in exchange for them taking him to town to sell his weed plus $30. He also told them that the deer they had in their truck needed to be gutted and butchered. They went around town and offered his weed to several people, who all turned it down. Willie Jack finally suggested he try selling it to the dispensary. They went to the dispensary, where Jumbo sampled the weed and said he couldn't sell it. Instead, he gave Brownie a different kind of weed, which got Brownie very high immediately.

After giving the kids a few fighting tips, Brownie realized he knew some people who would appreciate his weed and had Elora drive him to a bar, the same bar where he'd knocked out twenty people and a cop. The bartender quickly corrected that it was thirty people and two cops. She and the bar patrons were still upset with Brownie over it, but he made peace with the weed plus backstrap from the deer in the trunk. He and Elora went outside so he could butcher the deer. They ended up getting sprayed with blood. Elora apologized for dragging Brownie out, but he said it was good for him. Then he went back to butcher the deer.

### Tornado

Brownie rode around down on a lawn mower telling people that a tornado was coming. He said if they had an ax, he could stop it, but no one believed him. Big later found him and said the lawn mower he was driving was stolen and he needed to take it back, but then hail started falling from the sky, forcing them to seek shelter on a porch. He said if Big had an ax, he could stop the tornado, but Big just said he was lucky he wasn't getting arrested. As the storm worsened, Brownie went to a friend's house and banged on the door. When he got no answer, he opened the garage and took an ax. Then he found a ladder and used it to get on top of a house, where he held up the ax and told the tornado to go away.

The next morning, he woke up in a field, still holding the ax. He was unharmed, but totally nude. When he held up the ax, it disintegrated. Spirit then appeared to him and said they'd heard his prayer, but they had to take something in return for redirecting the tornado. It was either his clothes or his life. Brownie asked if Spirit was there to take him and Spirit said no, he was there to show Brownie the good life.

### Reversing the Curse

Because of what he'd done with the tornado, Brownie believed himself to be a spirit, despite Spirit visiting him and telling him he wasn't. He began throwing out his raunchy posters and movies, saying they were inappropriate for a holy man. When Willie Jack came to him and said she needed help, he said she caught him in the middle of trying to make himself a better man. She told him the curse she did flipped on her, so Brownie said to go back to the person who put the curse on and start there. While he was there, Cheese noticed that Brownie's movies weren't in order and offered to fix that for him.

Later, while Cheese was watching Brownie's VHS of Big Trouble in Little China, he told Brownie that Willie Jack and Bear were working with Bucky. Brownie told Cheese to turn off the movie and pulled Cheese in a wagon behind the lawn mower as they searched for them.

They caught up with them as Willie Jack was asking Jackie's friends for some of her things. When they gave them to her, Brownie and Bucky faced off over old beef about Brownie sleeping with Bucky's girlfriend when they were broken up. Then they agreed they'd go down to the river the next morning to reverse the curse.

At the river, Brownie and Bucky led Cheese and Willie Jack through the process. While they did this, Bucky and Brownie also made peace between them. Then they threw Jackie's things in the river and sang Free Fallin'. Once the song was over, Brownie told them the curse was lifted, but they needed to stop being shitasses.

### Mabel's Death

Brownie came to Mabel's house when he learned she was dying. He sat by her bedside and held her hand. He then sat around with the others, eating and sharing stories. Early the next morning, Brownie told Elora it was time. They all stayed in the room with Mabel as she took her final breaths.

### Camping Trip

At the request of Irene, Brownie, along with Bucky and Big, took Cheese on a camping trip to get him out of the house when she noticed he was avoiding his friends. They took him out to the woods and taught him to fish and to notice and enjoy the nature around him. After they ate, Cheese, bewildered by the elders' declaration that they would just sit around, started a feelings circle. He shared that he was generally happy and then passed the stick to Brownie and Bucky, who expressed similar feelings. Finally, Big said he'd lost two friends and put it all on himself. As a man, he was taught not to feel things and he regretted not doing more. He started crying and Bucky and Brownie soon followed, telling Cheese that Cheese reminded them of their friend, Maximus, whom they lost because they didn't believe him and allowed it to divide them. With all three men sobbing, Cheese declared the feelings circle a success and promised not to become like Maximus. He called his friends, who brought Sonic and joined them in the woods.

### Fixico's Funeral

When Old Man Fixico died, Brownie was one of the many who came to mourn him. He spent the time catching up with Maximus and talking to his old friends.

## Relationships

### Familial

He considered Cookie Postoak his sister. When Cookie died, Brownie was devastated and retreated to the woods, where he lived mostly in isolation.

## Appearances

 **#02** | "NDN Clinic"
 **#03** | "Uncle Brownie"

## References

1. ↑ House Made of Bongs, 3x05
2. ↑ California Dreamin', 1x07
3. ↑ Uncle Brownie, 1x03
4. ↑ Satvrday, 1x08
5. ↑ The Curse, 2x01
6. ↑ Run, 2x02
7. ↑ Mabel, 2x04
8. ↑ Frankfurter Sandwich, 3x06
9. ↑ Dig, 3x10
10. ↑ Uncle Brownie, 1x03