Elvis Cridlington (seasons 6-present)

Elvis Cridlington is a character from the children's TV show Fireman Sam.

While he was good in the first five seasons of the show, he was unfortunately flanderized beginning with Season 6.

Why He Sucks Now

 * 1) In the first five seasons of the show, he was portrayed as a not so bright, but friendly firefighter, but during season 6-present, he is a stupid, annoying man who acts like an absolute knucklehead.
 * 2) He completely sucks at doing his job as a firefighter and is seemingly unable to do anything right, while it is true that in the first five seasons he sometimes did some mistakes or even did things that a normal firefighter wouldn't do (for example: he tried to put out an electrical fire with a bucket in A Real Live Wire), but it was only every one in a while, but since Season 6, he now does these things on a regular basis:
 * 3) *He is scared of being in a helicopter armrest, even though firefighters are supposed to be brave at doing jobs like that one.
 * 4) *He once even mistaked chocolate for dogs treats and didn't even know that it could of made Radar the fire station dog very sick and could of even killed him.
 * 5) *He keeps losing control of whatever he is doing when he ends up sneezing, even to the point where he accidentally pressed a button on Tom's helicopter and even nearly crashed in a rescue tender, while it is true that you can somewhat lose control when you are sneezing, you don't lose THAT much control.
 * 6) His UK voice is rather annoying to listen to and it sounds like Steven Kynman trying to impersonate Elvis' voice, but failing miserably as a result.
 * 7) He has an ugly character design, much like the rest of the characters in the show since Season 6.
 * 8) *However, this can be blamed on the fact that the animation team for mh:besttvshows:Fireman Sam since Season 6 didn't do a great job at translating the stop-motion animation into CGI.
 * 9) At certain points, he can act extremely immature for his age.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite his flanderization, he is still friendly to the other firefighters and to the town of Pontypandy and he still tries to help anyone that is in trouble.
 * 2) *During "The Great Fire of Pontypandy", he once even risked his own life by leaping across to save Sam from getting hit by a burning branch.
 * 3) He still has a passionate love for music and for playing the guitar, much like in the previous seasons.
 * 4) Even though Steve Kynman gave Elvis an annoying voice since Season 6, at least he (and Andrew Hodwitz, who is the actor for Elvis in the US dub) at least did a good-to-decent at voicing him.

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