How come as the show progressed the writers made him so stupid he wasn't like it at first but then suddenly he became stupid.
shareActually from the very first episode there were signs of his stupidity.
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Umm he was stupid the whole show
shareUmm he was stupid the whole show
I've been binge watching the show for the past month and they definitely ramped up Adam's stupidity in the last seasons. I liked him much more in the earlier episodes when he was slightly ditsy but still realistic. They turned him into Homer Simpson where he can't understand the simplest thing anymore and it really detracts from any realism there might be.
The same thing happened years ago on the Bob Newhart Show with Howard Borden. They turned his character from a loveable scatterbrain into a cartoonish caricature barely able to feed or clothe himself.
I've gotten to the point with Adam where I dread his scenes because I know they're going to be silly and cringe-worthy. It was as if he got hit over the head at some point and suffered severe head trauma and now can barely function as an adult human being.
I think they wanted to make him in the mold of a "Joey Tribbiani", but with a girlfriend/almost wife.
shareTo be fair, Joey wasn't stupid in the first season of friends, a little in the second season, and he became dumber as the show progressed. Same with Adam, he was pretty normal in S01, S02.
shareI agree, Joey was portrayed as a street smart, not so rich working actor who knew a lot about picking up women. Making him less smart made him more humorous, but they balanced that out by giving him that signature pick-up line "How you doing". Making Adam more gullible made him more interesting and humorous.
shareOh, I do not care. This is Oliver Hudson. He can be dumb as a stump if he wants. He is forgiven.
shareThey really did gradually make his character cartoonish..... Come on! The day of his wedding he is concerned about what his pet bird will wear?
Instead of the total stupidity, they should have stuck with his so called superiority. I found that funny. He was a cross country runner in high school. He was an expert! Right! He loaded up on his carbs the very morning of a marathon. He knew about hiking and nature! When it came to hiking in the woods to look at the leaves he was an expert! Right! He wound up with poison ivy all over him and he needed help in unzipping his pants to go pee!
I know people like that. They seem to think they are experts when they know nothing!
A lot of shows use a stupid character for humor. Look at Cheers and Friends.
shareI don't know but he stayed being the funniest character throughout the entirety of the show. I can't think of any off the top, but I do seem to remember that he had a lot of "clever" misunderstandings. Clever on the writer's part.
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