I cant stand Dewey

He was adorable and hilarious the first couple seasons. He did get annoying later on.

To each their own. He was consistently my favorite character.

He's one of the main reasons I love the show. Oddly, I find Malcolm the most obnoxious and irritating and largely unfunny character in the show. He's selfish and always looks out for number one. I always thought Dewey was more balanced in that he could be selfish but he also had empathy.

I'm watching the series now and I can't stand him, either. In the episode with his dog Marshmallow, he's completely unbearable.

Dewy is the reason I continued to watch after season three (actually during )

That is why he was so good as the youngest brother (until Jamie showed up).

Dewey is extremely unrealistic. He's almost like a Mary Sue. He has 'realistic' childish viewpoints and expectations of the world, but not realistic reactions, emotions, or attention span (excepts when it serves the story).

This character just feels so fake, it exists for the sake of an unrealistic kid, and boy, we haven't seen THOSE at all yet in TV and movie trope world at all.. kids who are unrealistically smart, for example, children, especially girls, who outsmart adults, especially men.. NEVER seen that before!

Dewey is just a tired cliché of a 'super kid' that can never exist in reality. I mean, you can't really befriend a fly, now can you? The fly would just do whatever, it wouldn't just fly to your shoulder if you are moping, so you can say 'Tony! I can't stay angry at you".

I guess Dewey is one of those 'surreal' characters writers love to toy with but ultimately, don't know what to do with. He can use and abuse his 'cuteness' (such as it is), and he can be useful in many ways, but sometimes he's just nothing but irritating and groan-inducingly unrealistic.

Sometimes writers like to create some 'super character' so they can write THEMSELVES into a TV show or a movie - Wesley in TNG is the perfect example of this, he's such a damn Mary Sue, it's hard to find a better example. I think Watterson also tried this a couple of times, but then settled for 'being Hobbes'. He looks in real life like Calvin's dad, but I think one attempt was when they brought in the weird 'friend of the family' who mentioned that he thinks all his friends have been imaginary.

Uncle Max, was it?

I suspect Dewey might be something like this.. some writer or writers want to live IN the show, so they use Dewey for that purpose. I don't know why writers do this, though.. it wouldn't occur to me to do it, but even someone as un-artistic (even self-admittedly so) lunatic (sadly) as that bald billionaire is, wrote himself in the comic. The gag was, he couldn't get out. Yawn.

I liked Dewey and how he manipulated his brothers as well as Hal. I love the episode he sees another mum and the one he gets rid of the comfy mattress telling Malcolm, "of course it was a dream; you were happy."