Do you know any "characters"?

[lechat]

So with a bunch of whacky tv and movie characters being based on real people I gotz ta wondering what real life versions of TV of movie characters you all have stumbled upon during your travels.
Me personally i am lucky to have the very famous "target lady" working at my local supermarket:

my version might be a bit more low energy but the passion for products and specials is uncanny.

 

[Foolery]

Yeah, I do. Too many, actually. For starters, there was this local town alcoholic named 'Mr.Woods'. Used to tack 20 dollar bills to his shirt with a safety pin so he wouldn't lose it when he got too drunk. Another fun one, was an elderly chap named 'O'Doyle'. O'Doyle lost his license, due to his eyesight going in his old age, so he drove a lawn tractor around town. Called it his 'noble steed'.

 

[Eddie the head]

I do know a guy that acts a lot like Wayne form Wayne's world. Just says "dude" every other word, total metal head, and the nicest guy I've ever known. He goes down to bars to pick up drunk people so they don't need to drive home.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

No, I don't know anyone who is so over-reacts in a such a stereotypical was as show in sitcoms. Maybe that's why I've never liked a sticom before; I never could relate to the situation, nor did I know anyone who acted so...poorly.

The weirdest thing anyone I know does is my brother says "Take care" after you sneeze because of that Cowboy Bebop line where if you don't say take care, the person turns into a fairy.
Outside of that barely notable quirk, everyone I know is straight up and down "Hey whats up?" "Not much. You?" "Off work today. Wanna grab lunch?" "Sure. 1 o'clock?" "Sounds good."

I'll never get why sitcoms are so popular.

 

[TakerFoxx]

I work with a guy who is super nice and positive to a bizarre degree, is extremely enthusiastic about the oddest conspiracy theories that he seems to make up on the spot, and is a pathological liar. Makes having a conversation with him an interesting experience.

Captcha: nth degree. Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[FPLOON]

Last Friday, there was this "drunk" dude outside my local grocery store, swearing at the store and trying to throw cotton balls at it while switching between the urge to take off his shirt and going up to those coming in/out of the store just to say "Are you agreeing me with this shit?" like he was a waiter at a fancy restaurant... The fact that I was listening to <link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwRPCttBFl0>this in my car while all this was going down gave me mixed emotions for all the neutral reasons...

Other than that, I am a character, but don't tell myself that... He might just use it for his writing warm-ups or some shit like that...

 

[Odbarc]

I have an aunt whose infamously late to everything. Family event starts at noon? Everyone aims to be there at noon.
Around 8PM, she'll arrive. If she's two hours late, she's probably at home getting ready and caught in a loop of "one more thing before I go"
She also has this tendency to try and include other people who aren't part of conversations by approaching them while laughing assuming they heard a story/joke she just heard.
Her laugh is something completely alien. It's like...
G'fu hh hh hh hh, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, hh hh hh. And it's loud. Like, hearing it a block away.
She once decided to park in the middle of the street. And it was two blocks away from a hospital so it's illegal to park on the road there. She's blocking traffic from two ends.
She's even walked through a strangers house in boots covered in snow because "Oh, I'll just be a minute." excuse like it didn't track dirt and snow through an entire house and she didn't even know the person.

 

[FalloutJack]

Character...character...

MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!!

Ah, that would be me, I suppose.

 

[Guffe]

Yeah... The one who's always late is one of my friends, if he shows up that is
Other type of characters I'm not sure about, I know some goofy people but not sitcom level goofy I think.

 

[GabeZhul]

Everyone is a character when you only see them from a distance or rarely enough.

Then when you get to talk to them and get to know them better they become deep, multi-layered characters.

Then you learn even more about them, and they suddenly become flawed characters.

Finally you learn more about them than you wanted to know and they abruptly become people. Beautiful, ugly, lovable, annoying, sad, cheerful, friendly, rude people. Usually that is the point when you have to decide whether you want to kill them, marry them or just run away screaming (hopefully only figuratively, in either case).

 

[Zhukov]

I had a housemate who was basically a walking "Jock" stereotype.

Case in point, I once came home to find him drinking a bear with one hand and pumping a weight in the other while watching a sports match. When his pumping arm got tired he'd swap with his beer arm.

Not a bad fellow, all things considered. Bit dense I suppose, but very easygoing and a good housemate.

EDIT: Whoops. Typo. Leaving it in because "drinking a bear" made me chuckle.)

 

[Spider RedNight]

My sister reminds me of Cave Johnson ALL the time. She's kind of boisterious and hilariously straight-faced about a lot of her humour and she's rather enthusiastic about bad ideas. It's like... the way she carries herself just seems "Cave Johnson-y"

 

[sanquin]

I know a very typical stoner dude. Very much like you see in movies. Just maybe a little less stoner chuckling. I also had a class clown in my class during high school. And lastly I seem to have "that friendly non-descript couple next door just there to fill in the neighbour slot" neighbours which you see a lot in TV series.