Flanderization of TV characters

[PeteFTM]

Only just learned this term, but it’s helped me label something else that irritates me.

“Flanderization is the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they constitute their entire personality, or at least exaggerated while other traits remain”

Madge from Benidorm was a good example, went from someone we’ve all been around to just a cartoon character.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia seems to have also gone that way, but they do seem to continue to make it funny.

Any other examples, irritating or non-irritating?

 

[fixxxer]

That complex fictional character, Madge from Benidorm

 

[PinzaC55]

Bill & Ted.

 

[PeteFTM]

That complex fictional character, Madge from Benidorm

She is tbf, she had layers to her. Tough exterior, rough life, hardened but has a love for her family that she doesn’t know. Tough yet vulnerable.

 

[0verlord44]

Okilly Dokilly

 

[redandwhiterob]

She is tbf, she had layers to her. Tough exterior, rough life, hardened but has a love for her family that she doesn’t know. Tough yet vulnerable.

Married to a ruff arse adulterous builder will do that to you

 

[shadowplay]

I take it's named after Ned Flanders? Homer and Lisa at least are far worse examples.

 

[Grimes]

That complex fictional character, Madge from Benidorm

Madge was everyone of our grandmas growing up like, a really relatable and funny character who’d had a hard life

 

[pinewaves1868]

Hope its Flanders.

 

[PeteFTM]

Madge was everyone of our grandmas growing up like, a really relatable and funny character who’d had a hard life

Exactly. Will be thousands of North East lads who had a Nana who was 5 stone yet feared by everyone, never without a tab in her mouth and insisting everyone eats 24/7.

 

[Grimes]

Exactly. Will be thousands of North East lads who had a Nana who was 5 stone yet feared by everyone, never without a tab in her mouth and insisting everyone eats 24/7.

You’ve just described what mine was like to a tee

 

[Harry Gates]

99% of american tv comedies i've tried to watch.

 

[BMX Bandit]

elmo

 

[tooliohelmet]

All of the characters in the 3rd series of Auf Wiedersehen, just caricatures

 

[BMX Bandit]

Stan smith became Peter griffin

 

[Harry Angstrom]

Last of The Summer Wine started as an elegy on getting old and the complications that women bring into a bloke’s life.
It turned into utter nonsense.

 

[PeteFTM]

You’ve just described what mine was like to a tee

I’d say we must be related but I’ve just described 95% of North East Nanas!

I take it's named after Ned Flanders? Homer and Lisa at least are far worse examples.

The wiki says something along those lines also. Never been into the Simpsons so don’t know.

More interestingly, there must be a long running show that hasn’t fell into the trap, if it is a trap.

 

[Dennis]

Trigger

 

[PTR]

Ironically, Homer. Went from being a daft dad to being an absolute braindead idiot with no other character traits.

 

[CEF]

Last couple of series of Friends. Became irritating caricatures of themselves