User blog:AustinDR/Favorite Idiots in Cartoons

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 * 1) Ed: Growing up, Ed, Edd n Eddy was one of my faves from Cartoon Network. It was a mostly normal, slice of life show about three boys who have similar names and how they try to scam the Cul-de-sac kids out of their money in order to obtain jawbreakers. It shouldn't take much to realize that Ed is unintelligent. To describe it, Ed lives in his own little world where he obsesses over comic books and scary movies. Ed has three loves in his life: chickens, buttered toast, and of course, gravy. In addition, Ed serves as the muscle behind Eddy's scams, while Edd (or Double D) plays as the smart guy. While Ed may not be one of the sharpest tools in the shed, Ed is friendly (though naive), and he is a loyal friend. He also tries to be a good brother towards his young brat of a sister, Sarah. What I love about Ed is how he is very quotable some of my favorite quotes being "I'm a woodpecker, except with dirt!", "Canadians are weird!", and he also may have predicted some aspects of meme culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC151S7DBsY.
 * 2) Leni: OK, so I wouldn't go as far as to say that Leni is an idiot; at most, I believe she's just inattentive to her surroundings, and slightly simple-minded. I would argue that Leni may have a learning disability, but I wouldn't be the expert on that, and at most, any instances of this would be coincidental. Anyway, what's not to love about Leni? She's pretty, friendly, and generally pleasant. In addition, several of her lines are very hilarious. In all seriousness, she's a pretty quotable character. I also like those few moments where she shows some traits of being smart (in her own way, of course). For instance how she knew how to pick a lock to the case in "4x the Loud House." That's not to mean that she isn't without her flaws; I mean, sometimes the instances of her being played as the "dumb girl"/"valley girl" trope can range from being funny to insufferable. But overall, she tends to be good natured, though absentminded.
 * 3) Patrick Star: Well, real life sea stars have no brains, so...Like the other two mentioned, Patrick has several lines that are legitimately funny such as "the inner mechanisms of my mind are an enigma," or "is mayonaise an instrument?" Even though he tends to be borderline idiotic, he proves several times to be a loyal friend to SpongeBob, and his idiocy was often lighthearted as he never once acted out of true malice. Of course that changed later on, as Patrick's behavior got worst in the following seasons. He acted like a massive jerk who seemed to go out of his way to make other prople miserable. He acted too much like a child and would through tantrums if he didn't get his way. Worse, it felt as though his actions were more deliberate. Yeah, there was that one theory circulating around the episode "The Card" where Patrick acknowledges that he's dumb and that he constantly changes his stupidity to keep the others on their toes, but I only saw it as a joke; his idiotic moments strictly depend on the writer I would say.
 * 4) Billy: With Billy, I liked him in some regards because he seemed to genuinely value Grim as a friend unlike say Mandy who mostly treats Grim as a servant/slave. Also, his fear of the mailman, spiders and clowns was also hilarious. However, with Billy, sometimes I felt slightly nauseous at some of his behavior so it kind of made me somewhat reluctant to watch the show (not so much because it was scary).
 * 5) GIR: GIR is adorable. GIR is a robot constructed from pieces of metal, a trash can, and bubblegum, mostly because the Tallests didn't want to waste an actual SIR unit on Zim. GIR is wild, loves tacos, and his "Doom Song" is quite an ear worm.
 * 6) Homer Simpson: He's a bumbling dad who may not know some things, but he had typically been depicted as a well-meaning father who genuinely loves his family. He loves doughnuts, beer, strangles his son if said son were to humiliate him in some way, and he has several memorable catchphrases some of which had been added to a dictionary.
 * 7) Peter Griffin: In the early seasons of Family Guy, while Peter was stupid, he was at the very least a loving father (most of the time). However, as the show progressed, Peter had gotten worse as a character. This is a man who doesn't care if he causes his family to suffer from his crazy schemes, he acts childish most of the time, he is prone to using extreme violence. One instance of this is when he was hunting with Quagmire and Joe. Without much reason, he shoots Quagmire in the arm, but then you're expected to feel sorry for Peter when Quagmire broke off the friendship. With Peter, the writers try to justify Peter's actions as being the result of being mentally retarded, but it's been shown several times that there needs to be at least some deliberate thought into what Peter does. As such, he is not as likable as he was when the show first premiered.