TV Couch: Pop psych ‘diagnoses’ of which mental disorders TV or reality TV characters suffer from
This has been making the rounds of the Internet lately: If you know someone with, um, too much of a sense of humor, there just might be a biochemical explanation for that.
Witzelsucht, which sounds like some sort of wonderfully powdered dessert, is instead a condition in which the sufferer insists upon making jokes, really bad jokes, in the worst possible circumstances. Which makes every single person around him or her the sufferers.
In other words… Michael Scott.
He’s totally hilarious… in his own mind. Via
Steve Carell’s uniquely horrible boss is so uniquely horrible, it’s tough to imagine the TV world without him.
Although one of the finest examples of character humor in modern television, Michael Scott would make, nonetheless, an absolutely horrible boss, customer, employee, roommate, or boyfriend. Fun to watch, not so much fun to be around.
What makes for good television can also make for horrific company. A recent episode of The Office (DISH 120, NBC, Thursdays, 9 PM EST) traced Michael’s love life, which he admitted was “a freak show.” They ain’t got nothin’ on their ex, one of those “funny” people who amuses the world only in his own mind.
No word on what the treatment for Witzelsucht might be, given that anyone who’s met this guy knows all too well that social conditioning doesn’t working. Missing social cues is part of the smash. But for those who are inflicted by those who are inflicted with Witzelsucht, may I suggest alcohol. Or a previously compiled list of many, many excuses.
