20 Characters Everyone Rolls Their Eyes At Who Were Right All Along

Narrative storytelling requires walking a delicate line: You have to keep the action going, but you also need conflict. In other words, you need someone or something trying to stop the action. When it turns out that action is hilariously dangerous and foolish, you run into an eternal scriptwriter’s dilemma: creating a fuddy-duddy antagonist who is unfortunately completely right.

On the other hand, a flighty daydreamer can add some fun, paranoid flavor, but they must remain truly delusional. If they start getting too much right and the rest of the gang plunges into denial, you have to start wondering who the real space case is.

That’s why user pee_bee_and_jay asked r/AskReddit, “Which movie or TV character was supposed to be ‘the crazy one’ but actually made a lot of sense?”

20 Ghostbusters

19 Breaking Bad

18 Smallville

17 Veep

16 One Foot in the Grave

15 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

14 The Fox and the Hound

13 Justice League Unlimited

12 Buffy the Vampire Slayer

11 The Cabin in the Woods

10 Pinky and the Brain

9 Bee Movie

8 Friday the 13th

7 Office Space

6 The A-Team

5 Futurama

4 Taxi

3 Seinfeld

2 Barbie

1 Rent

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