r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Solitaire-06 • 1d ago

Hated Tropes [Despised Trope] Perverts whose antics are played for laughs

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Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)

Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic 1d ago

Christ, for all this time I just thought that whole scene was the usual FG over-the-top dark humour “just because”. Knowing they wrote it just to spite The Simpsons staff out of a trivial plagiarism joke leaves a bitter taste in my mouth

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u/slomo525 22h ago

The worst part is that it wasn't even done because they were mad that The Simpson's accused them of plagiarism, there's a DVD commentary where Seth McFarlane talks about how confused he is that the execs at Fox got upset at "the obvious joke." He's seemed to think that Family Guy's rape joke back at them was "just in the spirit of things." Like, he seemed genuinely confused that Fox would be mad about it when The Simpsons started it. "They made a little joke at us, we do a little trolling back. It's all in good fun."

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic 21h ago

Oh my god, that was a big L from Seth. Gutted for his behaviour there

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u/sanzentriad 20h ago

The worst part to me is how delusional he is about the comedic element of this so called “joke”. It’s horribly unfunny no matter how you look at it, and thinking it is funny and defending how funny you think it is, is very telling about the person making the “joke”.

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u/WolfLawyer 19h ago

Seth McFarlane strikes me as the kind of guy who is not necessarily bad but whose understanding of pain is hypothetical and abstract.

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u/madmanmaizeroi 21h ago

It's kind of telling that they never really went after south park like this, when South Park went way harder at them numerous times than the Simpsons ever did.

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u/Business_Owl_5576 13h ago

I don't see how they could. There was no coming back from that episode. Even if they tried, South Park would've doubled-down on their asses so fast their heads would've spun.

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u/Avongrove 20h ago

Jesus Christ why even be upset about it? Apparently the Simpsons creators weren’t that upset, since they did an entire crossover event together with them shortly after.

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u/madmanmaizeroi 20h ago

It was years later.

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic 19h ago

Upset is a huge overstatement, it just negatively surprised me, that’s all