as the seasons progress the IQs drop
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counting down our picks for the top ten
TV characters who got dumber
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every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at those
television characters who became
progressively Dumber throughout the
series run these are the characters who
began the show was somewhat aloof and
goofy and a little thick but as the
series continued have steadily become
less and less intelligent you have to
take the tray to the customer number 10
Andy Dwyer Parks and Recreation to the
left all right whatever
the inhabitants of Pawnee aren’t the
brightest Bunch however no other
character comes close to Andy Dwyer in
the early seasons Andy wasn’t exactly
the smartest man in the room but he
wasn’t terribly stupid either he was
simply lazy childish and more than a
little inconsiderate however as the
series wore on he became hopelessly
stupid to the point where one couldn’t
help but wonder how he made it through
the day can’t believe her at Hogwarts no
that’s Buckingham Palace Hogwarts is
fictional he doesn’t know left from
right
he thinks Buckingham Palace is Hogwarts
and he doesn’t understand the concept of
a children’s book he’s still lovable but
he really went out on an intellectual
low note I found all three differences
those are two completely different
pictures number nine Charlie Kelly It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia just
couldn’t even make my friends more
smarter every character on Always Sunny
has suffered from Flanders ation over
the seasons he has grown shrill and sad
dennis is a full-on sociopath
max insecure homoeroticism has become
less subtle Frank has gone from an
intelligent businessman to whatever
Frank is now however perhaps the worst
culprit is Charlie who’s gone from a bit
dim-witted and creepy and earlier
seasons to fully dysfunctional he eats
cat food on a nightly basis he cannot
read or write see that door right there
pirate you think a pirate lives in there
see a door marked private that the door
you’re talking about he burns garbage
and thinks the smoke creates stars some
fans have theorized that this change
could be attributed to his drug use but
whatever the reason he is clearly in an
aggressive downward spiral closed it
says closed Charlie okay yeah right I
can see that now but you know you can’t
really read it from the inside you can’t
read it follow me out I know what number
eight Kelly Bundy married with children
Wow Kelly what happened to you at the
beginning of the series
Kelly was your typical rebellious
teenager she had bleached blond hair
dressed in t-shirts and jeans and hung
out with a bad crowd however she went
through a transformation after the first
season which saw her begin dressing
incredibly inappropriately for her age
and regressing into the stereotypical
dumb blonde archetype well she does show
flashes of intelligence like solving
complex math equations such moments are
the exception to the rule for crying out
loud she can’t even read her own high
number seven Michael Scott the office
sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I
don’t even Horace going while most of
the characters on the American version
of the office suffered some form of
Flanders ation over the years Michael
and Kevin suffered the most becoming
aggressively dumber as the seasons went
on at the beginning of the show
Michael was crude ignorant and obnoxious
but he certainly wasn’t stupid and he
was shown to be a talented salesman he
was promoted to regional manager for a
reason I’m going to give you my best man
you may have Toby he’s not a salesperson
however you wonder how later seasons
Michael has survived so long if he’s not
genuinely using fake mustaches as a
disguise he’s literally driving his car
into a lake because his GPS told him to
it seems to be a rule with sitcoms if
you have a dumb blonde in the show
sooner or later they’re gonna inhabit
that personality to a dysfunctional
degree
well Chrissy started as the somewhat
ditzy blonde character she was made
progressively Dumber throughout the
show’s run
she was seemingly always confused about
basic things and similar to a small
child was quick to have an overly
emotional reaction to situations large
and small the world is made up of two
kinds of people twos and ones sometimes
two ones become a tool and other times
one of the ones that the two gets tired
of being at or wants to become a one
again while many people now remember
Chrissy as being an incoherent
nonsensical bimbo there are those who
recall that she was actually fairly
intelligent in the earlier episodes well
this is typical getting a girl pregnant
only a man would do a thing like that
number five Jake Harper two and a Half
Men you’re the one who told me I should
follow my dreams
I’m dreams like doctor or lawyer not
crash-test dummy honestly we don’t know
how Jake didn’t manage to survive the
series when two and a Half Men started
Jake was the cute kid who more often
than not had a snarky comeback or
comment to make however as he grew the
writers basically did away with any
semblance of normalcy and made Jake a
walking punch line hi I’m Jake Harper
and this is the human volcano
he took the smoking insane amounts of
pot in the later seasons was constantly
eating and added frequent farting to his
comedic repertoire
he basically regressed from cute but
kind of bratty kid to completely
hopeless idiot but hey that is
long-running Network sitcoms for you
[Music]
[Laughter]
number four Michael Kelso that 70 show
yes for a show that revolves around a
bunch of potheads it’s natural that at
least one person in the group would be
designated the stereotypical brain-dead
buffoon as the show progressed that role
was given to Kelso who soon became far
too stupid to be considered realistic in
earlier episodes Kelso was certainly a
little dopey and clumsy
however he becomes full-on stupid in
later seasons and increasingly childish
just wouldn’t happen to know what time
of this video it’s always pretty much
everything that comes out of his mouth
should be deemed nonsensical and he is
extremely slow to catch on to a
conversation but hey he’s got his looks
going for him so at least there’s that
Michael you’re coming over my house
tonight and we’re gonna study fine
number three
Patrick Starr SpongeBob SquarePants even
kid shows aren’t immune at the beginning
of the series Patrick was a little slow
but he wasn’t stupid to a
non-functioning degree in fact he was
able to aid spongebob on numerous
occasions like when he helped him earn
his boating license however starting
around season two Patrick was suddenly a
lot slower and began making some
incredibly silly and nonsensical
declarations okay Patrick
and then around seasons five and six his
IQ seemingly took another sharp nosedive
and he’s now known as one of the
goofiest and most incompetent characters
in television but kids love them some
silly characters so whatever works the
inner machinations of my mind are an
number two joey tribianni friends
perhaps the most famous example of a
character becoming increasingly dumb
across the show’s run is Joey a man who
started off a little odd but ended up
too dumb for words in the beginning of
the series Joey was a goofy guy who had
just enough smarts to be believable and
just enough intellectual shortcomings to
make him endearing however he soon
became dense to a cartoonish degree for
example he thinks there are 56 states
say hello to the new champ of Chandler’s
dumb States game 56 and while struggling
to learn a second language is
understandable the fact that Joey is
seemingly incapable of imitating simple
phonetic sounds correctly is harder to
swallow Jimenez clawed at the plea blue
number one Homer Simpson The Simpsons
[Music]
Homer is perhaps the most infamous
example of a character getting dumber in
the earlier seasons of the show Homer
was certainly no genius but he was a
flawed and loving family man however
over 600 episodes later and homers
personality has degraded into that of a
gigantic child he’s become uncommon his
emotional stability has taken a massive
nosedive at least the writers are
self-aware enough to acknowledge his
devolvement over the years having poked
fun at it on numerous occasions everyone
is stupid except me regardless Homer is
now not only the poster child for the
idiotic father trope but also for the
progressive loss of intelligence and
long-running characters then me and my
friend we’re about to press it but the
man said not to press it but we pressed
it anyway and we ran away it in a giant
tire do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
TV characters who got dumber
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at those
television characters who became
progressively Dumber throughout the
series run these are the characters who
began the show was somewhat aloof and
goofy and a little thick but as the
series continued have steadily become
less and less intelligent you have to
take the tray to the customer number 10
Andy Dwyer Parks and Recreation to the
left all right whatever
the inhabitants of Pawnee aren’t the
brightest Bunch however no other
character comes close to Andy Dwyer in
the early seasons Andy wasn’t exactly
the smartest man in the room but he
wasn’t terribly stupid either he was
simply lazy childish and more than a
little inconsiderate however as the
series wore on he became hopelessly
stupid to the point where one couldn’t
help but wonder how he made it through
the day can’t believe her at Hogwarts no
that’s Buckingham Palace Hogwarts is
fictional he doesn’t know left from
right
he thinks Buckingham Palace is Hogwarts
and he doesn’t understand the concept of
a children’s book he’s still lovable but
he really went out on an intellectual
low note I found all three differences
those are two completely different
pictures number nine Charlie Kelly It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia just
couldn’t even make my friends more
smarter every character on Always Sunny
has suffered from Flanders ation over
the seasons he has grown shrill and sad
dennis is a full-on sociopath
max insecure homoeroticism has become
less subtle Frank has gone from an
intelligent businessman to whatever
Frank is now however perhaps the worst
culprit is Charlie who’s gone from a bit
dim-witted and creepy and earlier
seasons to fully dysfunctional he eats
cat food on a nightly basis he cannot
read or write see that door right there
pirate you think a pirate lives in there
see a door marked private that the door
you’re talking about he burns garbage
and thinks the smoke creates stars some
fans have theorized that this change
could be attributed to his drug use but
whatever the reason he is clearly in an
aggressive downward spiral closed it
says closed Charlie okay yeah right I
can see that now but you know you can’t
really read it from the inside you can’t
read it follow me out I know what number
eight Kelly Bundy married with children
Wow Kelly what happened to you at the
beginning of the series
Kelly was your typical rebellious
teenager she had bleached blond hair
dressed in t-shirts and jeans and hung
out with a bad crowd however she went
through a transformation after the first
season which saw her begin dressing
incredibly inappropriately for her age
and regressing into the stereotypical
dumb blonde archetype well she does show
flashes of intelligence like solving
complex math equations such moments are
the exception to the rule for crying out
loud she can’t even read her own high
number seven Michael Scott the office
sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I
don’t even Horace going while most of
the characters on the American version
of the office suffered some form of
Flanders ation over the years Michael
and Kevin suffered the most becoming
aggressively dumber as the seasons went
on at the beginning of the show
Michael was crude ignorant and obnoxious
but he certainly wasn’t stupid and he
was shown to be a talented salesman he
was promoted to regional manager for a
reason I’m going to give you my best man
you may have Toby he’s not a salesperson
however you wonder how later seasons
Michael has survived so long if he’s not
genuinely using fake mustaches as a
disguise he’s literally driving his car
into a lake because his GPS told him to
it seems to be a rule with sitcoms if
you have a dumb blonde in the show
sooner or later they’re gonna inhabit
that personality to a dysfunctional
degree
well Chrissy started as the somewhat
ditzy blonde character she was made
progressively Dumber throughout the
show’s run
she was seemingly always confused about
basic things and similar to a small
child was quick to have an overly
emotional reaction to situations large
and small the world is made up of two
kinds of people twos and ones sometimes
two ones become a tool and other times
one of the ones that the two gets tired
of being at or wants to become a one
again while many people now remember
Chrissy as being an incoherent
nonsensical bimbo there are those who
recall that she was actually fairly
intelligent in the earlier episodes well
this is typical getting a girl pregnant
only a man would do a thing like that
number five Jake Harper two and a Half
Men you’re the one who told me I should
follow my dreams
I’m dreams like doctor or lawyer not
crash-test dummy honestly we don’t know
how Jake didn’t manage to survive the
series when two and a Half Men started
Jake was the cute kid who more often
than not had a snarky comeback or
comment to make however as he grew the
writers basically did away with any
semblance of normalcy and made Jake a
walking punch line hi I’m Jake Harper
and this is the human volcano
he took the smoking insane amounts of
pot in the later seasons was constantly
eating and added frequent farting to his
comedic repertoire
he basically regressed from cute but
kind of bratty kid to completely
hopeless idiot but hey that is
long-running Network sitcoms for you
[Music]
[Laughter]
number four Michael Kelso that 70 show
yes for a show that revolves around a
bunch of potheads it’s natural that at
least one person in the group would be
designated the stereotypical brain-dead
buffoon as the show progressed that role
was given to Kelso who soon became far
too stupid to be considered realistic in
earlier episodes Kelso was certainly a
little dopey and clumsy
however he becomes full-on stupid in
later seasons and increasingly childish
just wouldn’t happen to know what time
of this video it’s always pretty much
everything that comes out of his mouth
should be deemed nonsensical and he is
extremely slow to catch on to a
conversation but hey he’s got his looks
going for him so at least there’s that
Michael you’re coming over my house
tonight and we’re gonna study fine
number three
Patrick Starr SpongeBob SquarePants even
kid shows aren’t immune at the beginning
of the series Patrick was a little slow
but he wasn’t stupid to a
non-functioning degree in fact he was
able to aid spongebob on numerous
occasions like when he helped him earn
his boating license however starting
around season two Patrick was suddenly a
lot slower and began making some
incredibly silly and nonsensical
declarations okay Patrick
and then around seasons five and six his
IQ seemingly took another sharp nosedive
and he’s now known as one of the
goofiest and most incompetent characters
in television but kids love them some
silly characters so whatever works the
inner machinations of my mind are an
number two joey tribianni friends
perhaps the most famous example of a
character becoming increasingly dumb
across the show’s run is Joey a man who
started off a little odd but ended up
too dumb for words in the beginning of
the series Joey was a goofy guy who had
just enough smarts to be believable and
just enough intellectual shortcomings to
make him endearing however he soon
became dense to a cartoonish degree for
example he thinks there are 56 states
say hello to the new champ of Chandler’s
dumb States game 56 and while struggling
to learn a second language is
understandable the fact that Joey is
seemingly incapable of imitating simple
phonetic sounds correctly is harder to
swallow Jimenez clawed at the plea blue
number one Homer Simpson The Simpsons
[Music]
Homer is perhaps the most infamous
example of a character getting dumber in
the earlier seasons of the show Homer
was certainly no genius but he was a
flawed and loving family man however
over 600 episodes later and homers
personality has degraded into that of a
gigantic child he’s become uncommon his
emotional stability has taken a massive
nosedive at least the writers are
self-aware enough to acknowledge his
devolvement over the years having poked
fun at it on numerous occasions everyone
is stupid except me regardless Homer is
now not only the poster child for the
idiotic father trope but also for the
progressive loss of intelligence and
long-running characters then me and my
friend we’re about to press it but the
man said not to press it but we pressed
it anyway and we ran away it in a giant
tire do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
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