However, in many ways, his behavior actually gets worse once he’s in a relationship.

At that point, there’s really no excuse.

However, once he came back to Earth, he drove everyone nuts with his constant boasting about it.

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By the end, he’s a parody of a sad sack, which is a shame.

As the show goes on, though, things get worse and worse.

His mom becomes not just overprotective, but fat, ugly, annoying, etc.

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It’s not a good look.

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