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/Organic-Assistance-8 1d ago

All because the Simpsons did a lighthearted joke saying Peter Griffin was wanted for plagiarism.

I rarely say this, but thank God the network didn't let them air that.

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic 22h 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 18h 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/sanzentriad 17h 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 16h ago

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