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Anything Chip. All of Worm's characters stink but Uncle Paul and Ted could occasionally be funny depending on the context but Chip is always irredeemably unamusing and by far the most overused.
For all O&A's talk about how Jim made it okay for people to acknowledge bombs, Chip is the most transparant attempt to get away with bombing. Norton making cheesy or failed jokes in earnest and getting nothing is funny, drawing attention to it in such a show-stopping way isn't. It's the difference between the genuine slapstick schadenfreude belly laugh you get when someone trips and fall on accident, and watching a bunch of circus clowns or jesters bumbling around on stage and them not even getting a smirk out of you.
Chip got even more insufferable over time when Norton started thinking the character had worth in it's own right and kept interjecting it in anything. Someone on Youtube catalogued all the Scorch bashings by year and the latest one is borderline unlistenable because Norton keeps derailing everything with his dumb act. It's one of the most damning illustrations of how da show began to get stale in later years, along with AntH's joyless race rants.
For all O&A's talk about how Jim made it okay for people to acknowledge bombs, Chip is the most transparant attempt to get away with bombing. Norton making cheesy or failed jokes in earnest and getting nothing is funny, drawing attention to it in such a show-stopping way isn't. It's the difference between the genuine slapstick schadenfreude belly laugh you get when someone trips and fall on accident, and watching a bunch of circus clowns or jesters bumbling around on stage and them not even getting a smirk out of you.
Chip got even more insufferable over time when Norton started thinking the character had worth in it's own right and kept interjecting it in anything. Someone on Youtube catalogued all the Scorch bashings by year and the latest one is borderline unlistenable because Norton keeps derailing everything with his dumb act. It's one of the most damning illustrations of how da show began to get stale in later years, along with AntH's joyless race rants.