Has anyone mentioned Daria?

Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants reminds me of my aspie husband because he often calls people "moron" but not to their face of course!

What about that loudmouth robot on Futurama? My husband loves that character, not sure what his name is.

Far from it.
Stereotypical frat boy.
Simply an obnoxious jerk, there as a foil.

If so, it's not because he talks the way he does; that's a Southern dialect--I don't remember exactly where from.

Thanks for the mentions of all those webcomics; I'll look at them, or some of them.

Have you read "8-bit theater"? If you're at all familiar with role-playing games or video games, you might find it absurdly, laugh-until-you-hyperventilate amusing. And the author seems, from his posts, like a great guy. It's at nuklearpower.com.

Can we extend the topic of this thread to fictional characters in general with Asperger's, whether or not they are cartoons?

Sure thing, I  just started the thread as making the theme about cartoon characters, because I tend to watch alot of cartoons myself and pick up on cute Aspie jokes in them.

I also wanted to mention, I was watching the show Mike Lu and Og on Boomerang. Og is really aspie, like Mike, (it's a girl, I think she's supposed to be really tomboyish, so she changed her name to a more male sounding nickname) and Og were playing a game, and Og kept getting distracted by animals..and kept referring to them by their latin scientific name.

http://www.paranoiaagent.com/

I only ever saw the 1st episode, but it featured an aspie-like cartoonist girl/woman:

"Tsukiko Sagi"
[contains SPOILER]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiko_Sagi
[contains SPOILER]: http://www.absoluteanime.com/paranoia_agent/tsukiko.htm

Apparently her character changes in subsequent episodes, so I am not sure whether she is really as autistic as she seemed in episode #1.  Now I want to see the whole thing...

I can't say I'm really that surprised, since there seems to be alot of Aspieish characters in Anime. I really love the cute doggy Maromi!

I should go to Best Buy and see if they have a boxset of the series. I really don't like buying the DVDs of a series seperatley, because if the last episode ends with a cliffhanger..you have to wait till you buy the new DVD to find out what happens.

I just saw it somewhere.  If it wasn't best buy it was amazon.

Perceval (aka Parzifal) from the Holy Grail stories. He's intelligent, but very naive, and he's not sure how to deal with other peoples' emotions (when he leaves his mother to go with King Arthur's knights, he's confused by her tears). He's also very literal-minded; for instance, he misses out on learning the secret of what the Grail is because he won't ask "What is it?", his mother having told him that it's polite not to speak unless spoken to.

Luzhin, from Nabokov's The Defence (chess master, thinks of nothing but chess, shambling, disheveled, different reaction from social situations than the norm).

Prof. Larry Fleinhart from the American TV series "NUMB3RS" (only eats white foods, moves twitchily).

Geoff Murdoch from the British TV series "Coupling" (thinks in a very offbeat, very literal manner; paralyzed with embarassment in social situations).

oh yeah i forgot that guy in coupling!!  he's gotta be the same one i remember thinking something along the lines of "that is one messed-up aspie".  when he met that crazy girl and they had a relationship.

the other guy on numbers should have been aspie (the mathematical brother, the "protagonist") but they sort of made him more and more NT over time.  Although he still can't tell when a girl likes him.

Have you seen the movie THE LUZHIN DEFENCE?  It's great... terribly sad... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211492/ well, imdb says it's based on that book.  he does seem aspie in the movie too.

Thinking of numbers, made me remember BONES in which the lead forensic scientist woman is very aspie.

oh also...
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/bio..._bio.shtml

The guy who plays an aspie-like professor in numbers also played an aspie-like lawyer in ALLY McBEALE:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118254/quotes

This post was last modified: 07-19-2006 02:39 PM by Natalia.

Someone could also try mentioning Lisa Simpson. She is an obvious one. As is Jimmy Neutron and probably Carl and Sheen as well. Kif from Futurama is also probably autistic.

If your going to go for simpsons characters, go for Martin Prince, Comic Book guy and proffesor Frink. Glaven.

Hehe.
I can still re-watch episodes in my head, to an extent.

The Simpsons, Futurama, and NOVA are probably the only TV shows that I somewhat miss (though of course not enough to get off my high horse and turn on the aptly named idiot box again).

Martin and the professor I can see.

Comic Book Guy is just a complete A--hole.

Comicbook guy makes me think of the episode where Homer became Mr. X:  "There is no emoticon to express my anger!"

Just sounds to me like an aspie thing to say, it certainly stuck with me.

Correction:
"There's no emoticon to express what I'm feeling!"
Sorry, I am a Simpsons nut.