# Do you like "stupid" characters?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-stupid-characters/960908>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-stupid-characters/960908 "2022-03-11T17:03:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-stupid-characters/960908/101 "2022-03-25T02:46:35Z")

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Ethan Suplee, Randy from My Name Is Earl, played a simpleton and I found his character hilarious.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-stupid-characters/960908/102 "2022-03-30T16:15:40Z")

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I liked Ted Baxter on **The Mary Tyler Moore Show**. I think he qualifies as a "Stupid Character. Did a search a did not see his name.

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**Author:** ![SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpacemanSpiff_II)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-stupid-characters/960908/103 "2022-03-31T14:02:13Z")

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> [@Ignatz](#):
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> When I was a kid I disliked the scripted grammar errors by The Lone Ranger’s Indigian sidekick, Tonto, played by Jay Silverheels, and later in life I would even refer (internally) to such errors I heard from other people as “tontoisms”. Then much later I got into Spanish and learned that the Spanish word tonto means stupid or dumb in English.

OTOH, what about kemosabe? 😀

[C Apache expression for a The Lone Ranger, long since retired, makes an unpleasant discovery. - ) (ifunny.co)](https://ifunny.co/picture/c-apache-expression-for-a-the-lone-ranger-long-since-bsL1yiJv46)

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