Getting Overly Sentimental About a Fictional Character

I was JUST ABOUT to go to bed, and then I remembered that I was trying to post in my blog every day in November.

I needed a topic, and right quick, and given that tonight was NBC’s Thursday comedy line-up, of course there was someone who immediately came to mind…

Ben Wyatt, Human Disaster, and My Dream Boyfriend.

I am pretty much convinced that I will never want to get married. However, all that might probably change if I were to ever meet the real life Ben Wyatt.

I think my compatibility with Ben Wyatt is well demonstrated by this scene:

He is a stickler for rules AND he is a sincere fan of well-made television. He is a huge nerd AND extremely attractive.

I used to be all on about Jim Halpert. All the ladies were. In fact, I used to be all on about The Office, and I hotly resented Parks & Recreation. How things have changed! I don’t watch The Office at all, and Parks & Recreation is the show I look forward to the most all week. And Ben Wyatt is way more appealing than Jim Halpert. (In fact, I don’t think Jim Halpert was ever my type. He just had the earnest devotion that’s so appealing. Ben Wyatt, however, I think may be precisely my type.)

I have loved a lot of fictional characters, but none of them were actually ever right for me. Jim Halpert was cute, but honestly, I do not care for pranks at all, OR casual disregard for the rules. I actually have a lot more in common with Dwight. Josh Lyman? Totally hot, but way more driven and obnoxious than I could actually tolerate. The Doctor–yes, dreamy, but I am not at all brave and I love routine, so I would make the worst Doctor’s companion ever. Ned the Piemaker is as cute as they come, but ultimately too emotionally closed off. Ben Wyatt is where it is at. Forever and ever, amen.

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