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James Toodles is the overeaching antagonist of taffy cherry.

He is the abusive, alcoholic father of Taffy Toodles, Rachel Toodles and Logan Toodles.

His wife is Mary Toodles. He frequently complains about his "lousy stinking dead-end job".

Biography[]

Merry Hanukkah[]

James' first noteworthy role was in the Season 1 finale, where James, finally tired of faking a love and happy married life with his wife Mary angrily demands to know from her who has been "inside" her. Disgusted and as equally hateful for her spouse, Mary coldly tells him that she wants a divorce. James is happy to obligue and storms out, the family ruined on Hanukkah day.

It is revealed in the next season ultimatelly that James did stay with Mary because his (and all of Los Angeles)'s honorable nature frowns upon it, and stays up with her to keep up appearances, rather than smooth things over however it only makes James worse.

Nature[]

The season 2 finale begins with James spanking his daughter Taffy, a common occurrence. Taffy inquires about James not lecturing her more about whatever she did to receive this spanking, which is not specified in the episode. Taffy looks up at a deer head that James has presumably mantled himself. James begins staring at it too, and decides its time for him and Taffy to go on "the father daughter hunting trip", which is a Toodles tradition despite Taffy not being happy about the hunting part if the trip. James takes Taffy down a hallway of all the weapony James owns, showing off some specific guns and explaining why hunting is necessary, explaining it as "mercifully saving animals from nature's cruelties." Taffy and James get to a gun named "Ol' Gunny", which is part of a Toodles tradition, where the father of a Toodles household would pass down the gun to the "choosen child". James decides to not give Taffy "Ol' Gunny", instead giving her a regular pistol.

A week later, James and Taffy go on their hunting trip. During the drive Taffy tries to start conversation but James immediately shoots it down by turning the radio on. As soon as they get there James starts drinking immediately, and it is revealed he has packed several bottles of alcohol.

During the hunt Taffy has trouble bringing herself to kill animals. This agitates James and he begins to drink heavily. Eventually a deer licks Taffy, causing James to pull Taffy away stating "Never fraternize with the enemy". Taffy and James argue about shooting the deer, with James arguing that its miserable because it lives in nature, and Taffy believing that it looks perfectly happy. James then shoots the deer, which upsets Taffy. James states that he 'wins' and then decides to shoot someone's hunting cat, trying to claim it is a rat.

By now heavily drunk, James cooks and eats the cat. Taffy states that she is hungry, but James does not let her eat any of the cat because Taffy did not kill it. Taffy asks if James packed any food, but James states that they are surrounded by food, and questions why would he 'pack legless food'. Taffy muses she should probably hunt something, but decides against it, stating that her dad is maybe "too drunk to hunt". This leads James into a a long, drunken rant about how 'drunk is nature', how he hates himself, and how women pull men in and trap them into a relationships. He screams at his bottle, asking why it doesn't work anymore, while slowly being covered in locusts.

James Toodles during his rant.

This ends with Taffy firing the revolver she was holding, ending Part 1 of the episode.

Part 2 opens with Taffy asking her father if he's okay. James however laughs, enraged that Taffy has accidentally shot his last two bottles of liquor, remarking that its the only thing she has shot since they started the trip. For the first time, Taffy confronts him, telling him he becomes a bad person when he drinks. James then tries to spank Taffy, but has trouble taking off his belt and falls onto the tent, sobbing and flailing his legs. He grabs his rifle stating it's time Taffy 'become a man', and while holding the rifle in random places accidently shoots Taffy in the leg. He denies his responsibility, putting the blame on Taffy herself, saying she should be more careful next time. Taffy states that it hurts, and James replies that its supposed to, calling pain 'Nature's spankings.' He then says he needs to make a tourniquet, ripping Taffy's shirt, upsetting her further. James then states that his gun trumped Taffy's shirt. Taffy states that he has some disinfectant in her bag, which angers James because he had told Taffy not to bring first aid. James than takes out some rubbing alcohol, and drinks it all, as Taffy watches in disbelief. Taffy, completely disillusioned with her father, calmly and flatly tells him she hates him. James retorts with 'Hate away, sister. Hate away' before passing out.

A bear then shows up to the campsite, attracted to James mumbling in his sleep. Taffy apologizes to the bear before shooting and killing it.

Taffy Toodles after shooting the bear.

In the morning James wakes up and sees his daughter disheveled. Rather than try help her he simply demands his sleeping bag so he can block out the light. During the afternoon when James has woken up fully Taffy reminds her father he shot her (James protests his innocence on the grounds he doesn't remember it). James then spots the bear Taffy shot lying in the campsite and, daring to believe his daughter made him proud and killed an animal, asks Taffy if she shot it. Rather than please her father however Taffy coldly lies and tells James that he shot it, leaving James visibly disappointed. James ends the hunting trip by taking Taffy to the town doctor, because he is good at "keeping his mouth shut and doing his job".

The episode ends with Taffy bedridden and asking her mother, Mary, why she married James. Mary can only reply with "Why not?" Taffy tells her that 'when he drinks, he changes'. Mary however shrugs it off, simply stating "He doesn't change, Taffy. That's just his true nature coming out", and she hastily walks out of Taffy's room.

Numb[]

James is not seen until the end of the episode, and it is revealed while drunkenly stumbling through the house he overhears Taffy asking Mary why she married him, and her statement that he changes when he drinks. The conversation ends again with Mary dismissing it as James's nature, and then we see what happens when she leaves Taffy's bedroom - she breaks down crying in the hallway. Upon noticing James, she stops crying and coldly returns to their bedroom. James follows her and lies down in the same position as her in their separate beds, contemplating their shattered marriage divided by a tall black board.

Help[]

Detailing how he ended up married, the episode is told from Mary's perspective. It's revealed James and Mary met at a relative of Mary's wedding. Feeling cut off and distant from her family and desperate to fulfill what she sees as her duty to become a wife and have a family, she introduces James to alcohol, manipulates him into feeling dependent on her, and eventually marrying her (right before the ceremony has even finished however it is shown that James's newfound alcoholism and womanizing have ruined the marriage before it even begun).

Passing[]

The second episode detailing James's past, it is revealed James had a a non-religious father, Edward, and a religious fanatic mother, Emily who deemed James 'her one and only ever.' James is spoiled rotten by Emily on account of her having suffered ten previous miscarriages, due to smoking, alcohol and other lifestyle choices. When he finds out there was originally ten children before him, he is devestated as he feels he is not Emily's "one and only ever" anymore.

In revenge James fakes his own suicide as a prank, causing Emily to have a heart attack and die. When he finds out, James's father Edward gets ready to strike James with the back of his hand, before eventually deciding against it, coldly telling James "You're not even worth it." This led to James learning to assossiate physical abuse with affection, and only furthered his path as the dependent, attention-craving abusive narcissist his mother's coddling and suicide helped create. A montage is shown of James doing actions and saying things that would anger his father enough to strike him, sometimes stating "Am I worth it now?"

Edward describes how passing down a gun called 'Ol Gunny' is a family tradition, which he can be seen trying to pass down to James near the beginning of the episode. But after James's prank leads to Emily's death, he refuses to pass down the gun to James. James however, promises Ol Gunny he'll "keep the tradition alive".

Trivia[]

• In general, James serves as a reflection of what Taffy could have become if she allowed her bitterness and hatred to consume her and didn't acknowledge her mistakes nor try to learn from them. From James's perspective, he tries doing exactly that, showing that any child that has an abusive and unhappy childhood is destined to end up as bad as him. But as Taffy begins to recover and constantly prove herself the bigger person, the entire third season ends up serving as one big villainous breakdown for James.
• James's abuse of Taffy and the rest of his family also serves to show how on account of Edward refusing to beat him in "Passing"' and telling him "You're not even worth it.", James came to associate physical abuse with love.
• Between his drunken rant in "Sacrifice" about him associating physical abuse with love, it is possible that somewhere James did at some point have a genuine love for Taffy, Mary, the rest of his family, but his own nature prevented him from ever showing or acting on it. Whether or not James is capable of love and genuine human feeling or any of it he shows is a ploy for attention however is ambiguous.