My honest thoughts on Curly Thaddeus as a character
So I’m going to be honest, even as a kid….. he always made me pretty uncomfortable with the way his character was portrayed. Locking himself in Principal Wartz office and going on a huge rampage over a small misunderstanding on Mr. Simmons’ part (I get he was frustrated understandably so, but man, that episode was insanely chaotic, lol), going absolutely nuts over what happened to his Wanky Land pencil after lending it to Eugene (come on, a pencil? It was eventually going to get small anyway if he was actually using it. How long did he think it would last?), creeping on Rhonda and even bribing her to be his girlfriend, etc. Mostly with the fact that it just feels like he’s a ticking time bomb ready to explode and you have to walk on egg shells around him.
That said, he definitely has his funny moments like freeing the animals from the zoo while painted like a giraffe and stealing the ball away from Lugwig’s team of 4th graders in “New Bully on the Block.” Otherwise……… yeah, he only reminds me of mentally unstable people I knew in real life who were just like Curly so I have felt a bit uneasy whenever he was on screen.
But hey, that’s where I can give credit where credit is due. They really did a great job at showing this kid clearly has some issues, however I do think it would have been nice if we got to see one episode with his parents. It really makes you wonder how they raise him or if they’re even aware of the crazy shenanigans their son gets into.
So I’m going to be honest, even as a kid….. he always made me pretty uncomfortable with the way his character was portrayed. Locking himself in Principal Wartz office and going on a huge rampage over a small misunderstanding on Mr. Simmons’ part (I get he was frustrated understandably so, but man, that episode was insanely chaotic, lol), going absolutely nuts over what happened to his Wanky Land pencil after lending it to Eugene (come on, a pencil? It was eventually going to get small anyway if he was actually using it. How long did he think it would last?), creeping on Rhonda and even bribing her to be his girlfriend, etc. Mostly with the fact that it just feels like he’s a ticking time bomb ready to explode and you have to walk on egg shells around him.
That said, he definitely has his funny moments like freeing the animals from the zoo while painted like a giraffe and stealing the ball away from Lugwig’s team of 4th graders in “New Bully on the Block.” Otherwise……… yeah, he only reminds me of mentally unstable people I knew in real life who were just like Curly so I have felt a bit uneasy whenever he was on screen.
But hey, that’s where I can give credit where credit is due. They really did a great job at showing this kid clearly has some issues, however I do think it would have been nice if we got to see one episode with his parents. It really makes you wonder how they raise him or if they’re even aware of the crazy shenanigans their son gets into.