Norman Price (seasons 6-present)

Norman Price is a character from the children's TV show Fireman Sam, in the first five seasons of the show, he was a 7 year old boy who often caused mischief and also liked to play harmless tricks on his friends and even the people in the Fire Brigade.

However since Season 6, his character got flanderized.

Why He Sucks Now

 * 1) His character has been severely flanderized beyond recognition. He started out as a mischievous boy who only played harmless tricks on his friends, but has now turned into a whiny, bratty jerk who wants to forcefully get what he wants without thinking of others.
 * 2) His voice is extremely annoying and unbearable to listen to (mainly in the UK dub).
 * 3) One of the worst things about him nowadays is that he often does silly things without realising what he is doing and even does horrible things to others for the most pettiest reasons:
 * 4) * He once tied up James to a chair for a stunt video in a room that is covered with flammable liquids, considerably dangerous.
 * 5) * He even purposely locked James in the swimming pool changing room by gluing the door shut, just so he could be the star of a synchronized swimming show.
 * 6) * He even stole Joe Sparkes' rescue submarine and crashes it at bottom of lake, just to try to film some monster that probably isn't even real.
 * 7) * He took the batteries from the Floods' smoke alarm to use for his boom box in a magic show.
 * 8) * He convinced James into watching a rescue demonstration from the fire station's pitched roof at its Open Day, and then in another episode, attempts to get James's plane down from a tree with a unstable piles of logs, resulting in them both stuck in tree.
 * 9) * He manipulated Mandy to set off a flare they found which Mandy refused to do, luckily she gave it to Penny, stuck on the cliffs, instead.
 * 10) * He tried to play with his football inside his mother's shop, all because it was "too windy" outside
 * 11) ** In addition, his mother took it away, which caused Norman to deliberately set off the fire alarm just so he could get it back, refusing to own up to it.
 * 12) * Norman and his cousin Derek used fire beaters as oars to go rowing alone and end up losing them in the river when a grassland fire occurs.
 * 13) Because of all of his actions in the show nowadays, he is the cause of the emergencies in most of the episodes he is in.
 * 14) * While it is true that in most of the older seasons of the show, he would occasionally make mistakes or doing something silly that leads to an emergency, but that was only every once in a while, but here, he does these things in nearly every episode.
 * 15) Even when he isn't causing any emergencies, he can still act like a jerk to the others around him.
 * 16) * One example of him being cruel in the episode "Going Out with a Bang". In that episode, Sarah and James are both scared because they don't know if their cat Lion is okay, Norman then says that maybe the cat is hiding in Mike's shed (which was on flames when he said this) which is a beyond cruel and traumatic thing to say to Sarah and James.
 * 17) Whenever he is the cause for the emergency, he never learns his lesson or gets properly disciplined like in previous seasons. He just gets a warning from the fire brigade that he immediately forgets in the next episode and nothing else, making him completely one-demensional in these seasons.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite his flanderization, there are some episodes where he is actually likable and even heroic, like in the special "Fireman Sam: Alien Alert", where he exposes Buck Douglas' scheme. And some episodes, he's innocent or obedient or doesn't cause disasters, like he didn't cause the gas canister explosion and forest fire which Sarah and Mandy caused after disobeying Ellie.
 * 2) Deep down, Norman does care about others around him.
 * 3) Despite his obnoxious voice in the UK, at least his US voice actors, Carter Treneer (US, series 6-10, specials 1-3), and Mark Ricci (US, seasons 11-current, specials 4-current)) did a decent-to-good job voicing him. In fact, his first US voice actor actually had a fitting voice for him, as he was a child-teenager back when he voiced him.
 * 4) At least he apologizes and shows regret for the things he has done.