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December 02, 2003

Character Actor of the Week

Some character actors are expertly annoying, some hilarious, and some you just want to take home and take big bites out of. Such it is with this week's winner.

Character Actor of the Week for 11/30-12/6: Erik Per Sullivan

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Don't deny it, you know you want to adopt Dewey. He's weird and adorable, even as he's grown from munchkin to pre-teen. Remember that one where he set his hamster free into the world in a plastic rolly-ball, and then Dewey imagined himself walking down the street in a Dewey-sized plastic rolling ball? Or just last week when he conned a sales clerk for a free jar of sauce by coughing and twitching and saying that "my parents say this is going to be a very special Thanksgiving, but I don't know why"? Anyway, yeah, priceless shit.

What you might not know about Erik is that his mother is a Swedish cocktail waitress, and his dad owns a Mexican restaurant outside of Worcester, MA, and Erik has a high-functioning form of autism which makes it impossible for him to function socially and he's a black-belt in Tai Kwan Do. So yeah, we'll just love him from afar.

Posted by The Twins at December 2, 2003 09:41 AM

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Comments

Don't most actors have a high-functioning form of autism?

Posted by: cw at December 2, 2003 02:50 PM

I think I would actually say most people do.

Posted by: EV at December 2, 2003 02:56 PM

AJ gets called "Dewey" a lot. I guess that's inevitable.
My favorite is when Malcolm and the other kids all have fantasy thought bubbles thinking about riding on a motorcycle (I believe), and then they show Dewey's thought bubble and he's thinking of an enormous chocolate chip cookie. Or maybe when he tangoes with Bea Arthur.

Posted by: Jess at December 2, 2003 03:22 PM

Speaking of Bea Arthur, if you haven't seen this yet, go now. And you can get me the t-shirt for Christmas:

http://www.brandonbird.com/bea.html

Posted by: EV at December 2, 2003 03:28 PM