User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Tobias Wilson - The Joke of a Jock/@comment-31194372-20191226074332

Two blog posts in less than the span of the month? Impressive.

Whether or not this was in any way bait for me, as Tobias' biggest fan, I feel personally honored that you would right such a meaty piece about why is character is so great, and truth be told, I have very little to add to the conversation. As usual, you've hit the nail on the head here.

What you briefly made a point of close to the very top—"Regardless of the episode he in which he is featured, he always manages to make the scene."—is precisely what's so great about Tobias; his existence and presence are enough to be funny, and there's something legitimately magical about a character with that much consistency while adhering to such specific personality traits. It's the self-defeat buried under an unconvincing layer of machismo. Even in the worst episodes, like, well, "The Worst," he rises to the top and delivers his A-game.

It's not just that Tobias is the show's punching bag, an easy role to fill but one that becomes tiresome in its repetition; he's like Charlie Brown and the football if Charlie knew, in his heart of hearts, that the football was going to be taken away from him. His role in the show is always reactionary; regardless of how he weighs the odds of a potential action he could take, he takes the action if there's a faint glimmer of it furthering the cool guy image he has of himself... and it rarely, if not never works. I love that; he's not someone who ever makes us feel bad because he always bounces back, and even if he's overwhelmingly pathetic, he's got this weird drive that bars him from pity and just makes him a lovable goofball in his wimpiness. That's the secret ingredient, in my opinion.

So yeah, that's my two cents. Stellar write-up as always, and thanks for doing my man justice! Looking forward to your next article being not about Nicole :)