Anyone ever call you the name of a tv character as an insult

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I was called Boss Hog, at the ages of 8 and 9, for obvious reasons. I wasn't the skinniest kid.

Omg I've been called that one. I've been asked like the characters in the film ask " what are you stupid or something?"

That guy from Boston legal whose name I can't remember. All the time.

It's interesting you mention it as Vulcans (in the backstory) started to control their emotions because they were overly emotional and have stronger emotions than humans.

I also got called Spock once or twice in school. My mother called me Monk from time to time.

Being from Buffalo and close to the Canadian boarder my brother and I watched Mr. Dress-up on one of the two Canadian channels we got when we were little. Thanks for the good flashback of my childhood.



I was called that in the resteraunt I use to work at they use to call my friend Tom Norm from the same show because the two of us were always sitting together in breakroom or hanging out.

As a kid, after the ET movie had come out, there were a couple of kids at school who liked to say 'ET - have you found your planet yet?' to me. I think because I tended to be in a world of my own and was considered a bit weird.

Screech from Saved By The Bell.. .because we both have big curly hair.

I still get this. Some punks at a pub last week thought they were being clever and original. It's easiest just to ignore them.

There's some boys at my school who call me that all the time.

In Year 6 I got called Braceface a lot (cos I had braces). But I didn't care, cos even at the time I was aware that the joke would be on them when they had to have braces in a few years time when I'd have already had mine taken off .

I had a VERY MEAN boy in the third grade who the teacher seperated from the rest of the class just like she did me (she made us sit next to each other and he would hurt me physicaly when the teacher wasn't looking). I had just gotten eyeglasses and when I went to school with them he called me Pewee Herman. I have no idea what the conection between Pewee Herman and wearing eyeglasses was but I knew it was mean in mean spirit.

My friend from camp calls me bones, but it's definitely not an insult. I really love it, actually. It's a more affectionate kind of thing. She's actually the only person who knows i have aspergers and understands what it is and all that. In fact, she even figured out i was an aspie before i told her!

There must have been no one on television that reminded them of me but I got called plenty of other names.

Not as an insult, no. I recall being once called Seven of Nine but that's about it.

My friend from camp calls me bones, but it's definitely not an insult. I really love it, actually. It's a more affectionate kind of thing. She's actually the only person who knows i have aspergers and understands what it is and all that. In fact, she even figured out i was an aspie before i told her!

I was called Rowdy Roddy Piper from Hulk Hogan's Rockin Wrestling by the son of a family friend when I was 11.

In middle school some popular b*****s (sorry, but that's the most accurate term) called me "Mr. Rogers" because I was wearing an apparently dorky sweater. Then again, I got ripped on for anything. Man, I hated middle school. I wish I had kicked some ass when I was still young enough to sort of get away with it.

Neutrally, an older co-worker often called me The Marshall, after Marshall Dillon from the old TV show, Gunsmoke. He didn't know my name is spelled Dylan.

I've also ended up being likened to Spock once, which is funny b/c I'm not a guy.

Edit: and also like the above poster, I'm actually pretty emotional, too. It was also intended as a complement in my case.

I think it's lucky in my case that's I'm naturally a brunette, as there are a bunch of female characters that are brunettes and tough/apparently not that emotional. e.g. pretty much every character played by Angelina Jolie, the surviving (due to being logical) character in most horror films, Hermione Granger, Trinity from The Matrix, Ripley from the Alien movies, etc. I speculate that it is seen as more socially acceptable, due to this cultural influence, for brunette females to be less emotional. It's like a shortcut from "you're not bubbly, how weird" to "hey, she might be pretty cool." That's just a theory, though.

Edit2: Hey, Whatsherhame, if you ever come back to this thread, is the person in your avatar Louise Brooks? I was looking for a source to support my point for my rambling first edit and the person (#12) here looks the same: 25 celebrity brunetttes

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