How come people like Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin are loved...

[Deja Q]

on television, but people who are like that in real life are despised?

[Initech]

1. I think it's because they're cartoon charcters

[Deja Q]

2. Add Al Bundy and Maxwell Smart into the fray.

Now what's your take?

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Because they're fictional characters.

[Deja Q]

6. But some people in real life are the same way.

Why are they not revered in the same way?

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Because the consequences of the actions of a fictional character...

Are not the same as the consequences of the actions of a real person.

[Deja Q]

11. Yet we design fictional characters out of real peoples' actions,

and then profit by them.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. But the fictional characters are exaggerrated versions...

And I hope to god people can tell the difference.

[Deja Q]

13. 7 times out of 10, they are obviously magnified caricatures of reality.

Still, 3 times out of 10 combined with real people who do make mistakes...

[buddhamama]

3. i enjoy them for the humor of it

but seriously, i would not want to be with anyone like Peter because emotionally he is too child-like. I want a relationship with a person, i don't want to be their mommy.

[Deja Q]

7. How about Commander Data?

He was childlike too... just a different sort of child.

[buddhamama]

8. you have me there

he i'd be with.

[Deja Q]

9. I know you don't speak for all women,

but you just gave me hope in this life.

[RedStateShame]

4. Those people, you don't know them for 20-odd minutes a week...

...in fact, they never seem to go away.