Mike’s the type of dog who’s the type of guy who think he’s the type of dog who bites back! No Mercy Mike is what they used to call him! A family man my ass! He punished Joey!
LOL!
Before Joey took the "position," he heard the question he dreaded most when Kike asked him, "Does Daddy have a big muscle?"
All kidding aside, in addition to his ostentatiously hetero persona, we all know the man was a looney. I can almost understand his teenaged frustrations and anger ("I'll show them!"). A teenager is flooded with hormones and his brain is still developing. Pair that with how he was bullied (probably to a far greater degree than he let on), and his wacky mindset makes even more sense -- *for a teenager*.
By the time PI was filmed, he was a grown-ass man with a career and family to take care of; still, he was stuck in that self-arrested mindset that lead him to think in extremes. "I'm the kind of dog that's not just gonna roll over and die"...
Granted, most of his contemporaries were no deep philosophers themselves, like that dude that blathered on about the "wolf on the hill" :/ But, really: what sane ADULT person internalises things the way Rusty Fenderenski did?
Fucking lunatic.