Has there been an N TV character in a sitcom? I swear, I think that has the making of a show that would be popular. Along with the N, there would have to be some other more interesting characters, some very good writing, and of course a laugh-track to let us know the audience is laughing at the ridiculous behavior, not booing it..
One clip:
Dad walks into kitchen. Mom is standing at the kitchen sink, looking at two stacks of quarters on the kitchen windowsill. Dad put them there at her request. She had advised the two little kids that they would each have allowances four quarters a day, payable at the end of the day if they were good, and they could lose some or all of each day's allowance for bad behavior.
Mom is looking at the two stacks of quarters, because one is taller than the other. She asks Dad if he added a quarter to one stack for some reason. He says no. She says that one has four and one has five, instead of both having four. Dad says that he doesn't know HOW that happened. Mom watches him in his denial. She finds it interesting. He can't admit to making even the tiniest mistake, no matter how obvious it is that he did. He has no idea that he is making a fool of himself. She finds it fascinating, amusing, and just a bit sickening. He is oblivious to everything except his own viewpoint, as she says nothing. From the camera's angle they can see her expression. Dad can't see it.
In a later conversation that day she mentions how fascinating it is to watch him, when he cannot says the words, cannot admit to a mistake. He becomes angry at the push of the button, and with a tinge of rage in his voice talks about how it's not important. She agrees that it is of no consequence whatsoever, and reiterates that it is a fascinating phenomenon, his inability to admit making a mistake. He cannot do it, and she has never seen this before. She walks away.
The talk about this show, around the water cooler at the office the next day is that Dad is quite sure that he didn't make a mistake, although clearly he's in denial, and "Why?" "It's so trivial." "Who cares?" Dad's always pretty sure that he never made any mistakes. But he also spends almost no time ensuring that he does things well. "What's wrong with this picture?" Viewers speculate about whether he will ever wake up and smell the coffee. Some know people like this. They say "No way. He's not going to change." Others say that nobody is really that weird. They have never known anybody like that...
