User blog comment:Weavillain/POLL: Is Lincoln Being the Butt of Jokes Acceptable?/@comment-32202721-20170613164926

I'm pretty conflicted.

On one hand, I get that he's supposed to be the unlucky everydude. I read somewhere that Chris Savino was heavily influenced by Peanuts, and I can definitely see similarities between Lincoln's character and Charlie Brown's.

And for the most part, the show has been pretty good about tempering Lincoln's butt monkey status by letting him win every now and then ("Pulp Friction" being a prime example), and having him use his ingenuity and cleverness to get himself out of binds.

Note, however, that I said "for the most part", not "always". There are times when the show goes a little too far, and it just gets upsetting (like, for example... ah, forget it, you already know what episode I'm thinking of).

Also, I can't help but feel that there's a double standard at play. The fact that the family's only male child is on the receiving end of roughly 90% of the slapstick is kind of troubling to me. I mean, if the show was centered around Linka and her ten brothers, do you think she'd be subjected to the same level of punishment as Lincoln is? I'm not so sure she would.