• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s a tired trope. By giving him character flaws they created a lot of opportunities to show personal growth, and teach lessons. His anonymous neighbor was usually the one to throw down the wisdom which he would take to heart.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Tim was cartoonishly flawed- the way he treated everyone was awful, even after all that character growth. His kids. His wife. Al. Even his wisdom-dispensing neighbor.

      Most of the wisdom that was dispensed was forgotten by the next episode.

      Which, I think might just have been the actor’s fault more recently he was on another show my parents tried to get me to start watching and I had to walk out of the room- the sexism was that bad.

      But it was the 90’s and sexist pigs was one of the only typecasting for male leads in sitcoms. Of the ones I watched, I think fraiser was the only one that wasn’t…. But that was a gay comedy…

      (Don’t judge I was in middle school, I wasn’t the one picking the shows.)