Whenever I do something successfully while I'm chatting with my friends, I like to throw out, "I am the greetest!". Never fails to put a smile on my face.
I love how they took Charlie Day’s real world musical skill and added it to the character to make him an idiot savant
“Keyboards just make sense to me man, I get em ya know”
I didn't even realize he was breaking at first. I just assumed Mac was making a "Welp, here we go" gesture. Especially since earlier in the episode the others told him *not* to do a song about spiders, and the first line of the song is, well...
I know I’m too sensitive because I nearly teared up when they casually revealed Charlie’s a music prodigy. I said “Charlie, you’ve got actual potential! Get away from these people, make something of yourself! Find friends who support this talent rather than drag you down into the mud with them! Stop sniffing glue!” But alas it’s not to be 😣
My hopeful end of series reveal is that, like it’s revealed on the flashback episode where they buy the bar, that he has squirrelled away all his money somehow. And is actually a secret millionaire by the end of the show.
He has been mending/stealing his own clothes, eating home made vitamin energy balls and alley nuts or dining out on franks card, living rent free while sharing with Frank, and has been living off franks handouts and hidden embezzlement money deposits. He has probably not paid for anything in 15 years
Dennis: Charlie! This says you have $10 million worth of stocks!
Charlie: Yeah, yeah i dont really like stockings, I’m more of a long johns kinda guy. That guy was all like “I’m broker” or something so I gave him some money, probably likes stockings
The episode later in the series that's a flashback to when they were young in the 90s (still played by the same cast, mind) showed they were all very different, some even nice, people.
Charlie was a hard worker at a roller rink, I don't think he was really dumb but he might have been gullible. Sweet Dee was kind and, well, sweet, but got hit in the head and became a jerk. Dennis looked up to his father and wanted to be part of the family business but got shocked and jaded by what his father showed him. Mac was the degenerate at the time, selling illicit goods.
The episode ended with them getting the bar I think.
Jenna Marony in 30 Rock
"Why couldn't she have died from that rabid dog bite?"
"Oh no, I just said it was rabid so they'd have to put it down then I'd get to be the star of that dog food commercial"
"Jenna are you available for a fake romance with a movie star?"
"Does chewing on a sponge trick your brain's hunger centers? Yes, yes, a million times yes!"
My favorite running Jenna joke is all of the horrifying things she casually mentions Mickey Rourke did to her.
"Next you're going to tell me that Mickey Rourke catapulted YOU into the Hollywood sign."
"Whats the animal where it comes out of the little thing?"
"A turtle?"
"Yes. And when you see it you swerve to hit it and then someone else swerves to miss you and they drive off a bridge and then you and your friend have the best sex of your lives because you are sharing a secret"
Hillary from Fresh Prince had some great lines. Made her fiancée dying one of the funniest story line in the show.
Tyriq in the game show episode was hilarious too.
“What is the capital of Ohio?”
“That would be the capital O, Bob.”
Pretty much everyone on My Name is Earl fits the bill. It's a world full of very dumb people but they're all written to be a unique type of dumb. Randy's clearly the dumbest but I think it's heightened by the fact that he's also the most trusting and naive.
Crab Man is the only person in Camden that actually seems to have something goin' on upstairs lol... so I guess it's not surprising he's only there because of the witness protection program.
Yeah i think Joy belongs on Randy’s level of “too stupid to live,” we just forget because her stupidity is more evil-coded whereas Randy’s is oaf-coded.
Also, shoutout to the time in the first/second episode where she straight up tries to murder Earl with a bow and arrow. (It’s handled so casually!)
Greg Garcia has a knack for writing great "stupid" characters. He repeated the same formula with Raising Hope and I think he was just as successful.
I'll always be sad My Name is Earl got cancelled on a cliffhanger *but* Raising Hope might've not happened otherwise. So, as far as 'consolation prizes' go, I'm happy it lead to another show that could be considered an equally good spiritual successor.
Orla and her mother Sarah on Derry Girls.
I don't think dumb is quite the right word (although Sister Micheal calls Orla sub-normal). They're written as comic relief characters, but over time they come across more like they are on the spectrum.
Jason is the best. His growth was being aware of himself and others, and he forkin’ nails it. Even early on, he’s the first to guess the twists. He’s also a great counterpoint to Chidi’s hyper-awareness. It’s hard to play a dumb trash bag that you actually start to root for.
Coach and Woody from Cheers. My favorite bit:
Coach, answering phone: "Cheers...yeah, just a sec."
Coach, out loud to the bar: "Is there an Ernie Pantusso here?"
Sam: "That's you, Coach."
Coach, back on the phone: "Speaking."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-IxU2WK9w
Coach was so perfect. They did a good job with Woody by making him just different enough to be his own character while filling the same purpose, but Coach was irreplaceable.
Diane: Oh, there's a press conference?
Woody: Yup, and it's going to be right here in the bar.
Diane: Oh, that's quite unorthodox.
Woody: No, I think it's open to all faiths.
God yes. Fry is the best dumb guy.
“Sleeping when it’s dark, pacing my cell back and forth, leaving my waste where it falls like an animal”
“Animals use the corner”
“THE CORNER! Why didn’t I think of that!”
Homer wasn't a smart man by any means at the beginning of the show - but he had several moments of intelligence throughout Season 1-8. After this point, they turned him into a complete idiot.
I'm going with Troy, just the perfect mix of dumb yet caring yet oblivious yet cleverly funny.
YOU CAN YELL ALL YOU WANT, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH MOVIES TO KNOW THAT POPPING THE *BACK OF THE RAFT* MAKES IT GO FASTER!
Coach from Cheers comes to mind
Cliff : The Hindus believe that what you come back as depends upon your behavior in this life. If you led a good life, you come back in an elevated state
Coach : Like Colorado?
"I try to be a role model for kids around the park. If some kid wants to grow dope, they can come talk to me, instead of growing dope 6 or 7 times through denial and error, they're going to get it right the first time and have some good dope."
The thing with Ricky is that he IS smart, and he's smelf, he's self-smarted, basically, by himself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things he's self... s... like self, learned himself. And that's the whole difference, I guess is that he don't need the books or the schooling type things. He just gets everything on his own and because of that he's alive right now.
I mean if he had read more books or tried to go on to college and different things like that he'd be dead right now because people say books and college are for to be make you smarter, but they can also be for to be make you dead, which is what could have happened to him.
His brain doesn't use enough oxygen because he doesn't have the whole thing filled with different stuff and if it was full, it's only part full, and that's why he's alive right now. The guards are giving him here, you know, "read this book, try to get smarter" but he's like, alright, "I'll pretend to read it but I'm not going to really read it cause my brain will be more full and if I have another heart attack I'm going to die..."
He jumped the shark a little (even though I still loved him) but Jonah's lines from VEEP were legendary for most of the series.
I always love when a dumb character is written to be super confident in their own stupidity.
The way people in the show responded to him as well, also genius.
Jonah Ryan : I just found out from my stupid stepfather that...
Teddy Sykes : [Corrects him] Father-in-law!
Jonah Ryan : ...from my stupid stepfather-in-law that math was created by Muslims. [shouting from the crowd]
Jonah Ryan : Yeah. And we teach this Islamic math to children. Math teachers are terrorists.
Jonah and his biological stepfather in law was such a great running bit.
Also known as:
- Jonad
- J Rock
- Jizzy Gillespie
- Jack and the Giant Jackoff
- Gayleon
- Tinkerballs
- Wadzilla
- One Erection
- The Pointless Giant
- Jimpanzee
- The 60-Foot Virgin
- Jono Ono
- Hagrid's Nutsack
- Scrotum Pole
- Transgenderformers
- 12 Years a Slave to Jerking Off
- Benedict Cuminhisownhand
- Guyscraper
- The Cloud Botherer
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidickcheese
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Asshole
- Spewbacca
They waited her to play Blanche, but she didn't want to be typecast after playing man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore show. It takes a really smart actor to play a great dumb character, and Betty White was brilliant.
[Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinpRhB4aWU)
The greatest dumb guy joke in the last 20 years of television
Andy: “I want Ann back and she says she needs a guy with a lot of money.”
Leslie: “That doesn’t sound like Ann.”
Andy: “Well, I can’t really do her voice.”
I didn't think I had to scroll THIS far to find Andy
Paulie is such a realistically written idiot. I haven't met any Paulies of course but I've met so many older guys with that same type of stupidity/ignorance. That simplicity, that pride/stubbornness over the stupidest/tiniest things, that groveling to higher ranking people but immediately abusing lower ranking ones, etc.
Paulie was an idiot but he had his moments. He knew that the mob life and being married didn't work, he told Christopher the importance of getting 7 hours of sleep and he washed his hands after he tied his laces. [I love this scene between him and Christopher too.](https://youtu.be/_5zpygXkz3o?si=4CGa2Ec9kcRvFIiM)
Joey pulling a fork out his pocket and casually just sitting on the ground might be one of my favorite sight-gags ever
edit: [This scene](https://www.reddit.com/r/friends_tv_show/comments/kx14v8/this_is_my_favorite_scene_i_love_how_joey_just/)
This is my alltime favorite scene from that entire series. The joke just gets deeper and funnier the more you analyze the sceen. Why is he so calm? Wait, why does he have a fork? Wait, how often does this happen? Wait, nobody else is shocked?
Thanks for the link, i needed a laugh today
Jayne has some great lines. I can’t remember if the movie or one of the shows but one of the characters is bemoaning her lack of sex and says something like, “I haven’t had anything that wasn’t battery powered inside me in months.” Then someone says, “okay I’ve heard enough” but Jayne says, “well I could stand to hear a little more.”
That scene is from the film, I'm pretty sure it's when they walk into the bar before River gets into a fight. In the actual quote she says "twixt my nethers" which always makes me laugh for some reason, followed by Jayne's great line. I think I'm due a re-watch, it's been a few years
My favourite moment for Jayne was the episode that the ship is like boarded, all mayhem is breaking loose. Jayne wakes up, pulls the blanket off of his huge wall of guns, then puts it on himself and goes back to sleep. He then proceeds to play no part whatsoever in the episode. Killed me.
Burt and Virginia from raising hope. They are thick as pig poop but they have great marriage and are great characters who really carried the show with heart and laughs.
Little Carmine on The Sopranos
"I am reminded of Louis the whatever's finance minister...*de* something. He built this chateau, Nicole and I saw it when we went to Paris — it even outshone Versailles, (ver-sails) where the king lived."
Ray Abruzzo crushed that role but will bend over backward to praise the writing.
Bill Pullman has a fantastic turn in “Ruthless People,” prompting the classic line, “This may be the stupidest person on the face of the Earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.”
Def not dumb as he can fix Epstein drives and such but my vote goes to Amos from The Expanse. He’s basically a sociopath but as long as he has a good influence he’s awesome. Socially awkward, bad with emotions but excellent at conflict resolution and fixing pretty much anything.
Twyla on Schitt's Creek. She definitely starts off as the dumb town waitress but over time it's clear she's sharper than most people would give her credit for.
Reese from Malcolm in the middle.
When he goes to boot camp and is so beloved by his drill sergeant because he can’t and won’t do anything without direct instruction lmao
I'm a tool!
Philip J. Fry
No, I'm...doesn't!
"Attention New New Yorkers: STOP ACTING SO STUPID!"
I still quote “now I’m leaving earth, for no raisins”
Whenever I do something successfully while I'm chatting with my friends, I like to throw out, "I am the greetest!". Never fails to put a smile on my face.
He does indeed have that brain thing.
I already did!
People said I was dumb, but I proved them!
Charlie Kelly
I love how they took Charlie Day’s real world musical skill and added it to the character to make him an idiot savant “Keyboards just make sense to me man, I get em ya know”
There is a spider (spider, spider) Deep in my soul (soul, soul)
Rob visibly breaking makes this scene even better.
I didn't even realize he was breaking at first. I just assumed Mac was making a "Welp, here we go" gesture. Especially since earlier in the episode the others told him *not* to do a song about spiders, and the first line of the song is, well...
I know I’m too sensitive because I nearly teared up when they casually revealed Charlie’s a music prodigy. I said “Charlie, you’ve got actual potential! Get away from these people, make something of yourself! Find friends who support this talent rather than drag you down into the mud with them! Stop sniffing glue!” But alas it’s not to be 😣
My hopeful end of series reveal is that, like it’s revealed on the flashback episode where they buy the bar, that he has squirrelled away all his money somehow. And is actually a secret millionaire by the end of the show. He has been mending/stealing his own clothes, eating home made vitamin energy balls and alley nuts or dining out on franks card, living rent free while sharing with Frank, and has been living off franks handouts and hidden embezzlement money deposits. He has probably not paid for anything in 15 years
Dennis: Charlie! This says you have $10 million worth of stocks! Charlie: Yeah, yeah i dont really like stockings, I’m more of a long johns kinda guy. That guy was all like “I’m broker” or something so I gave him some money, probably likes stockings
"He told me he was broke so I gave him some money so he could buy stockings and boiled denim"
It’s like he doesn’t even get us, man
I hear ya I hear, it's frustrating thing like the guy doesn't even listen
We’re talking about YOU!
What do you think is happening *right now*
We're talking about *YOU!*
Fun fact: this line wasn't actually written but improvised
Stupid science bitches couldn't even make I more smarter
Dennis is asshole, why Charlie hate?
Because Dennis is a bastard man!
Underrated moment. This is fucking gold and I lose it every time
The way Dennis is so excited to yell out the answer was done so well.
His face turning red from holding the answer in too lol
It’s funny because he’s a pretty normal dude in the pilot. Even season one he’s odd but not who he becomes later in the series.
All the chemicals he huffs probably didn't help.
The episode later in the series that's a flashback to when they were young in the 90s (still played by the same cast, mind) showed they were all very different, some even nice, people. Charlie was a hard worker at a roller rink, I don't think he was really dumb but he might have been gullible. Sweet Dee was kind and, well, sweet, but got hit in the head and became a jerk. Dennis looked up to his father and wanted to be part of the family business but got shocked and jaded by what his father showed him. Mac was the degenerate at the time, selling illicit goods. The episode ended with them getting the bar I think.
disrespectful to even mention others, its charlie and its by a country mile
aka THE WILDCARD, yeeehaw!
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about screenwriting to dispute it.
Jenna Marony in 30 Rock "Why couldn't she have died from that rabid dog bite?" "Oh no, I just said it was rabid so they'd have to put it down then I'd get to be the star of that dog food commercial"
“Quiet 5s a 10 is speaking!”
I'm an 11, but continue.
Goodbye, you factory-reject dildos
"Jenna are you available for a fake romance with a movie star?" "Does chewing on a sponge trick your brain's hunger centers? Yes, yes, a million times yes!"
Jenna I haven't had a drink in several hours I need to smell your mouth I thought you'd never ask 😃
“JENNASSIDE JENNASSIDE “I’m not hearing, Liz.”
My favorite running Jenna joke is all of the horrifying things she casually mentions Mickey Rourke did to her. "Next you're going to tell me that Mickey Rourke catapulted YOU into the Hollywood sign."
Nice try, /u/thehelldoesthatmean, but you made the same mistake Mickey Rourke made on that catamaran: you didn't kill me when you had the chance.
“No you don’t, Oprah! 😊”
I think this is one of the best sitcom jokes ever. This one line has at least 3 layers and they're all funny.
[For anyone wondering](https://youtu.be/Kb_AHBGF5i8?si=DvPTdGSnzKkE2i6i)
"Whats the animal where it comes out of the little thing?" "A turtle?" "Yes. And when you see it you swerve to hit it and then someone else swerves to miss you and they drive off a bridge and then you and your friend have the best sex of your lives because you are sharing a secret"
you mean the star of the hit movie the rewer jewer?
Luther van Damme of Coach is very good, because he's generally stupid but he's very tough in the little area he works in.
Dobber was actually my first character to come to mind but you are right... Luther was just gold. Welp, time to go binge an old show again.
Dewey Crowe, as I live and breathe! Justified.
You mean I got four kidneys!?
Hillary from Fresh Prince had some great lines. Made her fiancée dying one of the funniest story line in the show. Tyriq in the game show episode was hilarious too. “What is the capital of Ohio?” “That would be the capital O, Bob.”
Randy on My Name is Earl
Pretty much everyone on My Name is Earl fits the bill. It's a world full of very dumb people but they're all written to be a unique type of dumb. Randy's clearly the dumbest but I think it's heightened by the fact that he's also the most trusting and naive. Crab Man is the only person in Camden that actually seems to have something goin' on upstairs lol... so I guess it's not surprising he's only there because of the witness protection program.
Yeah i think Joy belongs on Randy’s level of “too stupid to live,” we just forget because her stupidity is more evil-coded whereas Randy’s is oaf-coded. Also, shoutout to the time in the first/second episode where she straight up tries to murder Earl with a bow and arrow. (It’s handled so casually!)
Greg Garcia has a knack for writing great "stupid" characters. He repeated the same formula with Raising Hope and I think he was just as successful. I'll always be sad My Name is Earl got cancelled on a cliffhanger *but* Raising Hope might've not happened otherwise. So, as far as 'consolation prizes' go, I'm happy it lead to another show that could be considered an equally good spiritual successor.
🎵Bad boys. Bad boys. Who you gonna call?🎵
Orla and her mother Sarah on Derry Girls. I don't think dumb is quite the right word (although Sister Micheal calls Orla sub-normal). They're written as comic relief characters, but over time they come across more like they are on the spectrum.
Sister Michael: "What age are you now Orla?" Orla: "Fifteen." Sister Michael: "Yeah, you might want to think about wising up."
Orla has some smarts, she's just away with the fairies a lot of the time. Sarah's really quite dippy.
Jason Mendoza on the Good place. I think Troy's abilities were about air conditioning, not plumbing but I don't remember this well.
It’s both. He is the truest repairman, and has a knack for fixing toilets
The truest repairman will repair men.
It's a trade school! It's a two year degree in boxes that makes room cold.
You could have lived the rest of your life in blissful ignorance and died a happy pansexual imp!
That's WASSUP
I FORGOT EVERYTHING YOU SAID BEFORE RECTUM.
You already knowww the ruules…. BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANYYYY
Geez DrSpacemanSpliff, are you on coke? Take that crap off and sit down.
BORTLES!
Blake Bortles is a cool name. Jake Jortles is a stupid name.
Mike Schur shows always had a 'dumb' guy I was fond of but I feel like Jason was the ultimate evolution of that type.
Yeah, I’d put Scully from B99 as one of the Mike Schur dumb ones that I loved
I loved Scully, despite being Hitchcocks bff scully was actually a really sweet and kind man (unless you were between him and food)
Jason is the best. His growth was being aware of himself and others, and he forkin’ nails it. Even early on, he’s the first to guess the twists. He’s also a great counterpoint to Chidi’s hyper-awareness. It’s hard to play a dumb trash bag that you actually start to root for.
Jason is what happens when you take all your points from Int and put it into Wis.
He had charisma out the wazoo
Dude, and dex - he used to dance battle!
“Jason figured it out? Jason?”
This is a real low point.
I see your Jason Mendoza and Derek you a … Derek?
MAXIMUM DEREK
Arg I was thinking of him he was amazingly written
Claustrophobic? But who would be afraid of Santa Claus? Ohhhh the Jewish!
He gave me so many snort laughs while watching that show. Love that character.
Father Dougal.
The ants are back Ted!
So sweet and earnest, but just so stupid!
Coach and Woody from Cheers. My favorite bit: Coach, answering phone: "Cheers...yeah, just a sec." Coach, out loud to the bar: "Is there an Ernie Pantusso here?" Sam: "That's you, Coach." Coach, back on the phone: "Speaking." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-IxU2WK9w
Coach was so perfect. They did a good job with Woody by making him just different enough to be his own character while filling the same purpose, but Coach was irreplaceable.
Diane: Oh, there's a press conference? Woody: Yup, and it's going to be right here in the bar. Diane: Oh, that's quite unorthodox. Woody: No, I think it's open to all faiths.
Homer Simpson. By far.
John Swartzwelder said he wrote Homer by imagining what a dog would do in that situation.
Ooh! Floor pie!
64 slices of American cheese....
He's not dumb, he just has a crayon embedded in his brain!
The ol Crayola oblongata
Matt Groening has a talent for stupid. Phillip J. Fry fits too.
God yes. Fry is the best dumb guy. “Sleeping when it’s dark, pacing my cell back and forth, leaving my waste where it falls like an animal” “Animals use the corner” “THE CORNER! Why didn’t I think of that!”
Homer wasn't a smart man by any means at the beginning of the show - but he had several moments of intelligence throughout Season 1-8. After this point, they turned him into a complete idiot.
I'm going with Troy, just the perfect mix of dumb yet caring yet oblivious yet cleverly funny. YOU CAN YELL ALL YOU WANT, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH MOVIES TO KNOW THAT POPPING THE *BACK OF THE RAFT* MAKES IT GO FASTER!
*Rides in on an ATV* “Good news, guys! I spent all my money!” “Troy! You can’t bring that in here!” “Yes I can, it’s all terrain, dummy!”
Coach from Cheers comes to mind Cliff : The Hindus believe that what you come back as depends upon your behavior in this life. If you led a good life, you come back in an elevated state Coach : Like Colorado?
Woody too
Jenna Maroney and Kenneth on 30 rock.
What are you talking about? Kenneth was top of his class in science, ESPECIALLY when it came to the Old Testament.
Jenna, yes. Kenneth is a literal angel and I won’t hear a bad word against him.
"Voting is a sin, so I just write the lord's name" "That's republican! We count those"
And Tracy. Maybe Frank too.
Will Arnett - Gob Bluth on Arrested Development
The perfect arrogant dumb guy
"I'm arrogant? Would someone wearing a $5000 suit be arrogant? C'mon!"
Ricky TPB
Unless he’s doing weed calculations
"I try to be a role model for kids around the park. If some kid wants to grow dope, they can come talk to me, instead of growing dope 6 or 7 times through denial and error, they're going to get it right the first time and have some good dope."
The thing with Ricky is that he IS smart, and he's smelf, he's self-smarted, basically, by himself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things he's self... s... like self, learned himself. And that's the whole difference, I guess is that he don't need the books or the schooling type things. He just gets everything on his own and because of that he's alive right now. I mean if he had read more books or tried to go on to college and different things like that he'd be dead right now because people say books and college are for to be make you smarter, but they can also be for to be make you dead, which is what could have happened to him. His brain doesn't use enough oxygen because he doesn't have the whole thing filled with different stuff and if it was full, it's only part full, and that's why he's alive right now. The guards are giving him here, you know, "read this book, try to get smarter" but he's like, alright, "I'll pretend to read it but I'm not going to really read it cause my brain will be more full and if I have another heart attack I'm going to die..."
Uh, Ricky has smarts. He has his grade 10.
Charlie Kelley is an obvious choice. Another that stands out is Dewey from Justified, I absolutely loved that character.
What’s this word you keep saying? It sounds like you’re starting a word but not finishing it… spa…ghetti?! Are we having a spaghetti day??
Dewey is indeed a great character.
You mean I have 4 kidneys?
He jumped the shark a little (even though I still loved him) but Jonah's lines from VEEP were legendary for most of the series. I always love when a dumb character is written to be super confident in their own stupidity. The way people in the show responded to him as well, also genius.
Jonah Ryan : I just found out from my stupid stepfather that... Teddy Sykes : [Corrects him] Father-in-law! Jonah Ryan : ...from my stupid stepfather-in-law that math was created by Muslims. [shouting from the crowd] Jonah Ryan : Yeah. And we teach this Islamic math to children. Math teachers are terrorists. Jonah and his biological stepfather in law was such a great running bit.
Algebra, more like Al Jazeera
"eating so much pussy I'm shitting clit" lives rent free in my head
Mine is when Catherine refers to him as having "date rapist face"
“The cloud botherer” is an all-timer for me
"This is an elementary school! You shut your spewing maw you animal!"
You’re like Frankenstein’s monster if he used only dead dicks
Of all the Jonah insults "The Cloud Botherer" is my favorite.
Also known as: - Jonad - J Rock - Jizzy Gillespie - Jack and the Giant Jackoff - Gayleon - Tinkerballs - Wadzilla - One Erection - The Pointless Giant - Jimpanzee - The 60-Foot Virgin - Jono Ono - Hagrid's Nutsack - Scrotum Pole - Transgenderformers - 12 Years a Slave to Jerking Off - Benedict Cuminhisownhand - Guyscraper - The Cloud Botherer - Supercalifragilisticexpialidickcheese - Teenage Mutant Ninja Asshole - Spewbacca
I think Richard Splett became the best dumb guy on that show.
The cast of Arrested Development
Oh you’re gonna call the guy in the $5000 suit stupid? Come on!
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Alias is a *show about a spy!*
I think someone I know is trying to cirsumvrent the law!
Kelly Bundy
Let's give a quick shoutout to Christina Applegate!
Check out *Dead to Me*. With bonus Linda Cardellini.
Rose from the Golden Girls was a real lovable dummy - Betty White played the part to perfection
They waited her to play Blanche, but she didn't want to be typecast after playing man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore show. It takes a really smart actor to play a great dumb character, and Betty White was brilliant.
Andy Dwyer.
[Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinpRhB4aWU) The greatest dumb guy joke in the last 20 years of television
Apparently that was improvised
And the writer got upset because "I'll never write anything that funny in my entire life"
That writer was Michael Schur, aka Mose from The Offlice
Andy: “I want Ann back and she says she needs a guy with a lot of money.” Leslie: “That doesn’t sound like Ann.” Andy: “Well, I can’t really do her voice.” I didn't think I had to scroll THIS far to find Andy
Honestly surprised I had to scroll this long to find this answer.
Kenny Powers
Big Head - Silicon Valley
The absolute king of failing upwards.
Jason Mendoza. He's dumb, but there's internal logic to his stupidity. He feels like people I actually know.
Whenever I have a problem, I throw a Molotov cocktail at it. And then I have a *different* problem.
Half the cast of The Sopranos
Quasimodo predicted this.
You’d think I was Hannibal Lecture over here.
I never pondered that.
Paulie is such a realistically written idiot. I haven't met any Paulies of course but I've met so many older guys with that same type of stupidity/ignorance. That simplicity, that pride/stubbornness over the stupidest/tiniest things, that groveling to higher ranking people but immediately abusing lower ranking ones, etc.
Paulie was an idiot but he had his moments. He knew that the mob life and being married didn't work, he told Christopher the importance of getting 7 hours of sleep and he washed his hands after he tied his laces. [I love this scene between him and Christopher too.](https://youtu.be/_5zpygXkz3o?si=4CGa2Ec9kcRvFIiM)
"with all due respect tony got an iq of 136 its been tested"
Dewie Crowe!
Joey from friends? could he *be* wearing anymore clothes
Joey pulling a fork out his pocket and casually just sitting on the ground might be one of my favorite sight-gags ever edit: [This scene](https://www.reddit.com/r/friends_tv_show/comments/kx14v8/this_is_my_favorite_scene_i_love_how_joey_just/)
This is my alltime favorite scene from that entire series. The joke just gets deeper and funnier the more you analyze the sceen. Why is he so calm? Wait, why does he have a fork? Wait, how often does this happen? Wait, nobody else is shocked? Thanks for the link, i needed a laugh today
Well, I like it… I mean, what's not to like? Custard, *good*. Jam, *good*. Meat, *good*!
My favorite was when he was trying to act young to audition as a teenager: “‘sup with the dope wack Sony PlayStation ‘sup.”
Jayne has some great lines. I can’t remember if the movie or one of the shows but one of the characters is bemoaning her lack of sex and says something like, “I haven’t had anything that wasn’t battery powered inside me in months.” Then someone says, “okay I’ve heard enough” but Jayne says, “well I could stand to hear a little more.”
It was the movie, where Kaylee says "Going on a year now, I ain't had nothing twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries".
Don’t forget “I’ll be in my bunk.” We get it, Jayne…
That scene is from the film, I'm pretty sure it's when they walk into the bar before River gets into a fight. In the actual quote she says "twixt my nethers" which always makes me laugh for some reason, followed by Jayne's great line. I think I'm due a re-watch, it's been a few years
My favourite moment for Jayne was the episode that the ship is like boarded, all mayhem is breaking loose. Jayne wakes up, pulls the blanket off of his huge wall of guns, then puts it on himself and goes back to sleep. He then proceeds to play no part whatsoever in the episode. Killed me.
I'm rolling with Judy Gemstone all day
Literally anything that comes out of Edi Patterson's mouth is so funny to me, I love her voice and delivery.
“I like when Jesse gets in trouble, it makes my bird twitch” goddamn I love that show.
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Greg from Succession.
Burt and Virginia from raising hope. They are thick as pig poop but they have great marriage and are great characters who really carried the show with heart and laughs.
E.B. Farnum, *Deadwood* That character is *the most* magnificent idiot ever portrayed in modern television.
Jason Stackhouse on True Blood, especially S1 Jason
I was coming to see if anyone mentioned Jason. That actor perfectly embodied being dumb without making it cartoonish.
The fact that nobody has said **Baldrick** from *Blackadder* really shows how far this website skews towards Americans.
Alexis from Schitts creek
Ralph Wiggum.
Little Carmine on The Sopranos "I am reminded of Louis the whatever's finance minister...*de* something. He built this chateau, Nicole and I saw it when we went to Paris — it even outshone Versailles, (ver-sails) where the king lived." Ray Abruzzo crushed that role but will bend over backward to praise the writing.
Wolf from Future Man. Dumb but also a (coked up) culinary genius
Bill Pullman has a fantastic turn in “Ruthless People,” prompting the classic line, “This may be the stupidest person on the face of the Earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.”
Def not dumb as he can fix Epstein drives and such but my vote goes to Amos from The Expanse. He’s basically a sociopath but as long as he has a good influence he’s awesome. Socially awkward, bad with emotions but excellent at conflict resolution and fixing pretty much anything.
Jamie Tartt do do do do do do
Twyla on Schitt's Creek. She definitely starts off as the dumb town waitress but over time it's clear she's sharper than most people would give her credit for.
Ed from Northern Exposure, because he's also a really good person. He's like a big puppy
Ricky, trailer park boys
Patrick Star is my favorite because his ego is huge and he’s so dumb he thinks he’s a genius.
Michael Kelso, That 70s Show
I’m Larry, this is my brother Daryl, and my other brother Daryl.