Ryan, being the supportive and kind friend that he is, just has to gently mock.

There was a great Saturday Night Live skit in the 80’s with John Malcovich, Dana Carvey, and Jon Lovitz, where Carvey & Lovitz played servants to Malcovich, a 1700’s French Royalty-type…. spouting poetic-ness about “the moon mocks me and I will not BE mocked!” meanwhile the servants are mocking him behind his back! At some point they just lose it and crack up! It’s a great skit! My siblings and I still chime “I will not be mocked… you mock me! I will not be mocked! you mock me!”