Ever get so sick of a character’s constant self pity you just want to scream enough already god!
Rusty Venture on The Venture Brothers, brilliant show but man oh man does Rusty’s endless pit of self pity get old. Its probably more accurate to life than an animated satire should be though, with Rusty seeing himself as life’s victim even as he inflicts equal or worse trauma on his own children and others(never realizing this at all).
For awhile I thought they were going to eventually have him turn into one of the super villains, and the whole thing would have been a kind of character study of what kind of damaged psyche would become a costumed villain in the first place. But they didn’t go that way.
“Ray, would you help me with the kids?” “oh…whine…”
“Ray, dear, I bought you some underpants” “oh, Maaaaaa…”
“Ray, turn on the game, son” “oh, Dad…whine…”
“Mr. Romano, your son’s test scores are low, you need to help” “oh, whine…”
Life is so difficult. Why don’t they leave him alone to watch the game and play golf?
Max on “Two Broke Girls” - I get that they’re playing her bad life for laughs, but she tells us how her life sucks/sucked multiple times in every episode. There have been plenty of characters on tv who had bad lives that were played for laughs, and they didn’t whine about it all the time
Different strokes, I guess - I don’t see her as whiny. She doesn’t really seem to be complaining about her life to me, more contrasting it to the princess’s, and then she moves on. I think she’d need to dwell on it more to be whining.
I’m going to preface this by saying that I love both of these shows, but both Ted and JD are both pretty big whiners on How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs. In fact, I consider them pretty similar characters in a lot of respects. In fact, other then the goofiness in Scrubs, the shows pretty similar as well.