# Cartoon Characters with ADD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 9, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326 "2003-07-09T21:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/1 "2003-07-09T21:47:37Z")

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I’m watching a King of the HIll rerun in which Bobby is diagnosed with ADD, which leads me to wonder how many other characters were diagnosed with ADD in an cartoon, I’ve made a (brief) list so far

1. Bobby Hill
2. Bart Simpson
3. Ghandi (from Clone High)

If you can’t think of any more, then name characters which should or could have been diagnosed with ADD (like Bugs Bunny, or Ed of Ed, Edd, and Eddy fame)

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/2 "2003-07-09T23:28:58Z")

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I’d think Ed is more mentally retarded than Add’d.

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**Author:** ![Sauroposeidon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sauroposeidon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauroposeidon)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/3 "2003-07-10T01:13:02Z")

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All of the kids on South Park (in Episode 404, “Timmy 2000”).

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**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/4 "2003-07-10T01:16:09Z")

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Impulse, from the DC comic of the same name.

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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/5 "2003-07-10T01:19:18Z")

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Calvin

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/6 "2003-07-10T05:32:33Z")

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Not diagnosed, but a classic case:

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV. (Cowboy Bebop) But when she hyperfocuses, look out.

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**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoon-characters-with-add/187326/7 "2003-07-10T08:18:32Z")

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I thought of Edward from Cowboy Bebop the moment I saw this thread, thought I tend to lean more toward a diagnosis of Aspergers than ADD. But ADD would explain the hyperfocusing better, now that I think of it.

I kind of wonder about Vash the Stampede from Trigun, too… I mean he’s got bigger problems than ADD but when he gets going he gets going, and does he ever sit still?