Yep. The guy who posted about how only stupid characters are funny is dead wrong, IMO. Stupid characters are stupid funny. Smart characters are smart funny. There’s a place for both, but given the choice, I’d take the latter 99% of the time.
IOW, I’d take season 2 Jim over season 5 Michael any day of the week.
Which one is easier to write, though? For that matter, which one has the lowest-common-denominator appeal among the audience?
But this makes sense for those (few) of us who watched the spin-off. But in our family we argue a lot about whether, if Gavan O’Herlihy had told Garry Marshall he’d rather stay with Happy Days, Fonz would’ve stepped into the Older Brother role.
I actually got to ask Henry Winkler that! He owns a place in Madison, WI that he bought for his daughter going to school here, and he’s hung out at my coffee shop nearby. He said that maybe Fonzie would’ve stayed more the rebel. And stayed more irresponsible, less of a role model.
“And not jumped any sharks?” asked I. All I got was a scowl and an “Ayyyyyy…”
But the return of the old Radar when Potter shows up and he tells him to F off because he’s sunning himself
It wasn’t so fast, but the Archie Bunker of Archie Bunker’s Place was a whole lot more accepting and involved with minorities (niece, housekeeper, partner) than the Archie at the beginning of All in the Family.
a whole lot
Pretty much the entire cast of Heroes seem to act like they’ve got those Krusty doll Good/Evil switches on their backs, and they all get their settings changed at least once a season. Character consistency has not really been a priority for the show.
Janet in “Three’s Company” seems more bubbly and fun loving, but eventually becomes a lot “stricter” and humourless. My brother and his buddies used to use “curly haired Janet” and “straight haired Janet” as short hand for a roommate who had her bitchy moments.
This is really stretching the bounds of what I laughingly call my memory, but I believe that in the original movie MASH, Radar sold tickets to the hole in the nurses’ shower tent.
He certainly was not the innocent that he became in the show.
A lot of people claim Picard changed when he went from TV to movies. The only time that I would say he acted out of character was in Insurrection when he let Ru’afo die.
That’s pushing it. It was McCoy who said, “I wish we didn’t have to do that,” and Kirk showed some sympathy to that viewpoint. There was regret, yes, but at no time did Kirk really second-guess his decisions in that episode.