Who is the most Flanderized character in TV?
Kevin from The Office turned into a moron who couldn't tie his shoe or know a turtle is dead.
Who is the most Flanderized character in TV?
Who is the most Flanderized character in TV?
Kevin from The Office turned into a moron who couldn't tie his shoe or know a turtle is dead.
joey went from kinda dumb to being unable to open a milk carton
Ed went from kinda dumb to being barely sentient.
I can't believe I sat through that whole episode where Phoebe tries to teach him French.
A Bloo bluee!
>unable to open a milk carton
If it catches wrong, you're fricked though.
Wasn't he at first just the normal guy among all the nerds and college grads and people who came from money and had no grasp of the real world?
Led to some legitimately funny moments
>pulling out his stack of condoms
>baby kangaroo Tribbiani
i move away from the mic to breathe in
Some stay dry.
but others feel the pain
JD around season 4 of scrubs
God.
Probably Ned Flanders.
Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob went from being a dirtbag boss to someone the Ferengi would cringe at.
There's definitely a reason this phenomenon is named after him. Went from Better Homer to Jesus Freak to Annoying Moralizing homosexual
It's a shame what they done to Ned Flanders
the neighbor from home improvement always had some shit in front of his face
House goes from being a highly competent doctor to being a soothsayer
Britta, but in a good way. She went from being a smart independent feminist to an daffy activist airhead who always gets things wrong. Arguably a far truer representation of what "strong independent women" are actually like.
Ron Swanson, his bits are hilarious in the early seasons of parks and rec but completely unwatchable in the latter half of the series. The "le masculine mustache bacon guy" bit resonated a little too well with the reddit crowd and they just beat it to absolute death by the end. Every scene is just a repeat of the same overused joke
at least her character went through a transformation. They realized there wasn't much comedic potential in her playing the straight guy and turned her into a doofus for laughs. She was unironically hotter as the dumb stoner bartender than the flawless moral backbone of the group
Same thing happened with Ross. He was the straight man in the early episodes then they went full zany with him.
Britta poster here. Yes, and I think it could also be seen as her character eventually becoming the person she actually is. She puts up the eco-protest warrior activist front bc she thought that would work for her in college. But keeping the front up was exhausting and disliked by the people around her so she just gives up the facade and becomes who she actually is: a ditsy blonde goof. It made her character both funnier and more likeable - and helped the dynamics of the show in general, since (as you mentioned) her as the moral backbone was an awkward fit. The study group was better when they were all crazy people.
All the characters in parks and rec got fricked over. It started out as a spoof of American small town government with awful people that were meant to be exaggerations of incompetent civil servants. Over time they just become characters we're magically supposed to root for despite having the same flaws.
The show turned into some sort of bizarre half-baked psy-op to prep the American public for Hillary being president.
Plus Leslie was in love with Joe Biden
>The series averaged 5.97 million viewers an episode in its first season, making it the ninety-fourth most-watched show on network television. It did worse the next year, losing more than a million viewers.
>Facing imminent cancellation, the writers came up with a plan to save the show: they would turn Leslie into a superhero. A series that began as a parody of the earnest take on government exemplified by The West Wing turned into its Obama-era equivalent.
>At the outset of the third season, Pawnee’s government was gushing red ink and the parks department was in danger of being eliminated, a plot point that neatly brought together the real-life austerity crunch of 2010 and the show’s own precarious standing. By the end of the year, Leslie had—with the support of her scrappy team—saved the parks department, found love with a Paul Ryan–ish auditor the state had sent to trim the town budget, and been courted to run for city council. She won that race in season four, setting her off on a path that, the series finale heavily suggested, would end at the White House. In the first season, the writers had played the idea of a Knope presidency for laughs; six years later, it had turned into a prophecy.
>Critics lapped up West Wing: Pawnee, and politicians were just as smitten. Though the show obviously leaned Democratic, Leslie was at heart a partisan of the American political system, and the producers snagged major figures from both parties for a litany of excruciating cameos. The roster of guest stars included Madeleine Albright, Newt Gingrich, Cory Booker, Orrin Hatch, Barbara Boxer, Olympia Snowe, and Michelle Obama, plus two appearances each from John McCain and Joe Biden. Ratings remained low, but it was a hit with TV executives’ favorite kind of viewer: the rich kind. It did better with affluent households than every network comedy but Modern Family, giving Schur and his team the cachet they needed to keep the series on air for 125 episodes.
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i watched it for a while but i guess my hatred for women and leftists prevented me from ever seeing them as heroes or positive role models. i only really remember the boss with the mustache who hated the government and chris pratt. no idea at what point i stopped watching though. i know its a meme joey tier story but pratt was very noticeable better than everyone and it was always weird in the early season that he only had tiny screen time
oh yeah those two israelites. they were very annoying even though their "thing" was to be very annoying
>First episode of season two is some gay marriage shit
Great.
Scully.
Season 1:
>I've never seen aliens so they aren't real.
Season 9:
>Aliens have abducted and probed me a hundred times now but they still aren't real.
this is what put me off of the xfiles after a season
>Aliens have abducted and probed me a hundred times now but they still aren't real.
This never happens. Only people who don't watch X-Files say this.
bruh she had an alien baby, who are you trying to fool
Obvious samegay but he's talking about the 2nd part.
Samegays don't exist Mulder, you're jumping to conclusions without evidence.
nobody gives enough of a shit about you to samegay, moron
she literally gets abducted and the aliens probe her so hard it gives her cancer or something, IDK man it's been ten years since I've seen it.
There are definitely times where her skepticism seems strained because of the show's patterns, but her attitude toward the conspiracy is a lot more nuanced than people give credit, even before Doggett shows up.
She was literally carrying an alien out of a secret government facility in season 1.
Oh you mean the American version of the Office. Never watched it.
why haven't watched the most normie show of all normiecore shows, bro?
I have
pretty much every character in trailer park boys in later post netflix seasons
Dale Gribble
from
> paranoid conspiracy theorist who was blind to the conspiracies his wife made in his personal wife
> to bumbling idiot who keeps sand in his pocket to throw at people
Have you ever gotten sand thrown in your eyes Anon?
Being blind in a fight effectively handicaps you in a big way.
that's why I keep spectacles in my pocket
always keep a pair of swim goggles in your pocket on the day you suspect you may get in a fight, especially in dirty areas
>hating on pocket sand
frick off, autistic homosexual
Pocketsand was the comedic highpoint of the series
>t. blinded by pocket sand
Can't believe he went from an idiot to an idiot. Wow.
>paranoid conspiracy theorist
>doesn't have pocket sand incase "they" arrive to take him
Its like you don't even get his character
Pocket sand was worth
Pretty much any stupid character (Homer Simpson, Patrick Star) becomes a drooling imbecile the longer the show goes on.
They did this to cosmo in fairly odd parents. Season 1 he was a little goofy but he wasn't a spastic moron with a high pitched voice.
The indian guy in the league. I remember there was that taco gay but the indian guy was eating dog shit at some point.
Wasn't it the entire cast of the show after season 2? They all became annoying caricatures
from
> pudding pops
to
> poppin pills in your drink
It was the other way round actually
First season Kelly Bundy is a brat who is nearly failing in school because she runs around with boys too much. Bud calls her an idiot but that's just his opinion.
Mid-seasons Kelly is an actual moron who thinks it's night time because someone throws a sheet over her head.
The last couple of seasons they walked it back a bit but nobody ever watches the short-haired Kelly episodes.
>short-haired Kelly episodes
holy shit i completely forgot about that. haven't watched in a long time. she was so fricking hot in her prime god damn
They're not even in rotation on TBS. They will show episodes from seasons 1-8 most of the time.
>Mid-seasons Kelly is an actual moron who thinks it's night time because someone throws a sheet over her head.
All three of the children did that in that specific episode and it clearly worked as they slept for several days, moron.
However, this is partially explained by Kelly getting bit many times by highly venomous insects during a Verminator publicity stunt. When she comes come from this she is noticeably dumber.
Note that she still has the ability to spell words and sentences here. Later on she can't even spell three letter words correctly.
Later episode explained her as having hit her head in the car when she was 6.
Short hair Kelly was the bawd that fricked everything. Before that was just implied as a joke/
The only instance of reverse-fladerization (not a good thing either in this case):
90's show:
> absolute moron
2020's seasons:
> sometimes has coherent thoughts and good ideas
Yeah they're really trying to modernize the show by making them have stronger unique personality quirks. Especially Beavis. It's really jarring.
Kid Jake is kind of slow on the uptake but not exactly stupid.
Adult Pothead Jake is one of the dumbest characters to ever be on television.
Ryan Malloy from Unhappily Ever After is stupider, but he was stupid from the beginning and just stayed stupid. I'm not sure he counts because he's IASIP-tier of on purpose comedy moronic.
Also, now that I'm thinking of it didn't they announce a Married.. With Children animated reunion show was coming out a couple of years ago?
I guess that got canceled.
>Season 1
Fat lazy coworkers.
>Season 6
They are obsessed with chairs and sitting.
They’re funny though. The guy on the left calls people beta cucks.
What show is this?
Brooklyn 99
I kind of like the theory that he tried to hang himself after his fiancee Stacy left him but he wasn't successful and was left with permanent brain damage.
Yeah, it's an American comedy. Americans don't understand subtlety, they cannot handle comedies with nuanced characters or any semblance of reality. They couldn't handle the boss in the office being at all unlikeable so they made him into a literal child who will drive into a lake if his GPs tells him to. There is no better IQ test known to man than simply asking someone 'Do you prefer the US or UK version of The Office?'
Oh yeah when packer threw his shoe over the pub it was mind blowing.
I would say he was more gentrified than flanderized.
Morn
>season 1: annoying nerd neighbor
>season 2: annoying nerd neighbor
>season 3: annoying nerd neighbor
>season 4: annoying nerd neighbor
>season 5: invents a potion to become a cool alter-ego
>season 6: has a machine that turns him into Bruce Lee
>season 7: can clone himself
>season 8: time travel
>season 9: psychic powers and goes to space
The Bruce Lee ep was kino I'd give him some of my cheese
Tell me if you think this is funny.
>UK
Only four characters have lines of dialog almost everyone else doesn't have lines or only has a feature in some of the episodes
>US
All irrelevant characters are able to talk and they even have plotlines Kevin who is a joke character has apparently been flanderized
Kevin having so much dialog since S1 is honestly already a lot I like him because he's remained consistently funny like Creed
For me its the episode of the Indian office where Kevinder spills the poo bucket all over the floor.
The entire Griffin family in Family Guy
Peter went from obnoxious husband to moronic alcoholic
Lois went from strong decent mom to trashy cumbawd
Meg went from awkward loser to completely pathetic psycho
Chris went from autistic fat kid to annoying teen angst homosexual
Stewie went from matricidal evil genius to nonstop gay jokes
Randy Marsh went from laidback dad to hypochondriac but still not any dumber than the rest of the town to an outright moron who doesn't know what a Neandarthal is despite being a scientist.