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Lazy Husband
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A husband who is usually seen lounging around at home while his wife does all the housework, rarely seen getting to relax. She often berates him for being lazy. Sometimes the Lazy Husband is a bit bossy and expects everyone to wait on him, and sometimes he's just more laid-back. His laziness often extends to work as well. Depending on who is portrayed as more sympathetic, this could overlap with either Women Are Wiser (if the husband being lazy is emphasized, especially in the cases where he's also lazy at work) or Henpecked Husband (if the wife is portrayed as being overly naggy and bossy — especially if she complains whenever he does something, even if he does it right). Also similar to Bumbling Dad, but this is more about the husband-wife dynamic than just focusing on the dad being stupid (and not all lazy husbands are fathers). The distaff counterpart of this character, the Lazy Wife, is almost never seen in popular media paired with a diligent, hard-working husband, but is more common when paired with this character. Contrast Househusband. Also see Men Can't Keep House; Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife; and Guys are Slobs. Examples |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson could be the posterboy of this trope. He outright refuses to do any housework, spends nearly every minute of free time on the couch with a beer, watching TV, and whenever Marge isn't present and he's left in charge, the house inevitably becomes a total sty. In fact, Homer's ideal existence has been shown to be a life where he literally does not have to move a muscle, as shown when he briefly hides out with Grandpa at the retirement home, and enjoys having the staff feed him and help him move over in bed. On the rare occasions he does do what Marge asks him to, he always screws it up massively. | |
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Back at the Barnyard has Nora Beady's husband Nathan who just sits on the couch all day and drinks soda. | |
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The episode 26 alternate universe of Neon Genesis Evangelion has Yui gently berating Gendo for being lazy, saying that she'll get complaints from Fuyutsuki if he's late from work. His only reaction is to hum and continue to read the newspaper. | |
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Al Bundy from Married... with Children. He is often seen in his trademark couch potato pose - seated on the sofa with one hand stuck under the waistband of his pants. However, Peg herself isn't really much better, though she does try for the sake of appearances. | |
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In Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra Barone frequently berates her easygoing husband Ray for his failings and general willingness to leave the housework to her. But his father Frank makes him look positively workaholic domestically. | |
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Played with in A Brother's Price. Keeping house is considered a man's duty, and while a Lazy Husband occasionally exists, most women evaluate a potential husband's housekeeping qualities before they marry him. The abusive Keifer Porter is said to have been very lazy on top of his abuse. | |
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Andy Capp. He is often unshaven, frequently intoxicated (indicated by a prominent red nose and dishevelled clothing), lazy, freeloading, belligerent, and confrontational. Andy is perpetually unemployed and lacks motivation. | |
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Doug Heffernan in The King of Queens is another example. His idea of division of labour around the house is that he eats and Carrie washes up after him. | |
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Pete on Goof Troop is often seen lazing about and being nagged by his wife Peg, though generally speaking if he wants something done he'll take advantage of his dimwitted neighbor or his Extreme Doormat son instead of her. | |
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Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances is definitely lazy. He is also very intelligent, and his wife doesn't do much work, either, so this might count as a subversion. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball has Richard Watterson, the epitome of this trope, with his wise but workaholic wife Nicole as a foil. In one episode, it's shown that his trying to get a job goes so against the fundamental premises of their world that the universe itself is threatened and his success as a modest deliveryman has to be prevented. | |
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Eustace Bagge from Courage the Cowardly Dog who does nothing but watch TV, read the paper, demand Muriel make him dinner and wait for Courage to save him from various creepy threats yet still Kick the Dog anyways. | |
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As shown in the page image, the eponymous Kevin of Kevin Can F**k Himself proudly and shamelessly lives up to this trope, leaving all the housework to his put-upon wife Allison. Fitting the series' premise as a Subverted Sitcom and Genre Deconstruction, this trope is torn apart in showing just how tiring and annoying such behavior gets after a while, with Allison becoming increasingly resentful and frustrated with Kevin's continued immaturity and utter refusal to learn even the bare minimum of responsibility after a decade of marriage. | |
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In Happy Yarou Wedding, Professor Akira Todou is one, especially in the last chapter of the manga. Yuuhi, his "man-wife", outright states that even his obnoxious little brother Kazuki is more useful to have around than him. | |
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Jim Royle in The Royle Family. | |
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Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy says that his father is very lazy. After his dad comes home from work, he just wants to relax, sit on the couch and watch TV. He doesn't care about whatever personal problems Ed and Sarah put up with. | |
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Blondie: Dagwood. Blondie's husband and a kind and loving, yet clumsy, naïve, and lazy man. Dagwood can also often be seen napping on his own couch. | |
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Hey Arnold!.: Oskar Kokoschka: He not only does none of the housework, but his wife's also the only breadwinner and he spends most of the money. Big Bob has some traces of this as well. When he and Helga go to the supermarket as Miriam is out of town, he is actually surprised none of the food on sale is already prepared. |
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Family Guy: An increasing source of friction between Peter Griffin and Lois, especially in later seasons, revolves around Lois being forced to basically run the house, cook, clean and look after the kids by herself, while Peter is off doing whatever random nonsense popped into his head this week. When called on this, Peter either ignores it or becomes defensive, then does whatever he wants anyway. | |
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Leroy Lockhorn of The Lockhorns. The man of the house who drinks a lot, plays golf too much and chases everything good-looking in a skirt. | |
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