Crash (Crash & Bernstein)

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"'🎵Yo, I'ma let you finish but, ding dong! (Who’s that?) Yo, it's Crash at the door. Don't wait for you to open kick it down Hardcore! I’m purple with a 'tude, Where your mom hide the food? (In the fridge), I'ma eat it, Then we tear it up, dude. (No makeup or feelings, Tea parties or dolls), Now it's ninjas and football, and face slams! (Good call)🎵'

- Crash & Bernstein intro"

Crash Bernstein, referred to as Crash, is the titular anti-heroic protagonist of Crash & Bernstein. He is a whatnot and living puppet with many interesting abilities such as eating sandwiches the size of basketballs and eating a watermelon with a straw, and he comes with ninja weapons, such as ninja swords and a small cannon.

Crash was created by Wyatt Bernstein and then came to life. He is an extreme, crazy, loud, and daredevil-ish puppet. Crash, apparently becomes Wyatt's adoptive brother. He is not very bright and often harms himself in the process. Crash also bathes in the toilet because he doesn't like going in public pools because of what kids do in there. Crash "face slams" people that he loves, especially Wyatt as it is when Crash slams his head into the other person's head. Crash uses himself as a basketball. Crash can't spell, milkshakes go right through him. His eyes were the inspiration for ping pong balls, as said in a promo. Crash watches a lot of telenovelas and wrestling.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) To write down the first problem about him, he comes across as a complete rip-off of Walter from The Muppets.
 * 2) * Not only because of looking a bit similar to him, but it comes from how they both have a similar premise of them being naive puppets who interact with the world around them and learning things about their lives in adventurous ways. It doesn't help that Crash's puppet design is made by the same people who worked on The Muppets.
 * 3) He often tends to cause destruction and mayhem in a clumsy and chaotic manner due to his recklessly immature antics and it can get overbearing or unfunny at times. Especially when he tends to terrorize Bernstein's family and is constantly causing trouble because of his sheer hyperactivity and mischievous tendencies.
 * 4) * His rivalry towards Cleo, while warranted, is a little petty and childish.
 * 5) Even though it can be funny to watch most of the time, he's often seen making fun of Pesto in an attempt to have Bernstein all to himself, even when in some cases he acts like a complete jerk to Bernstein.
 * 6) * Sometimes he does stupid things to irritate and talk down to Pesto for no reason, like the episode "Motorcycle Crash" when he hops onto Pesto's seat and tries distracting him by covering his eyes to tell Pesto that "a good driver trusts his instincts" which makes him lose, and Crash says that Pesto has 'terrible instincts', which is just rude and demeaning.
 * 7) He has no character development since he only has one motive for breaking stuff (as his name implies), and hardly gets to have a serious moment with Wyatt. Not to mention, the number of crimes he commits, and he doesn't even learn his lesson from his actions most of the time.
 * 8) Speaking of which, while he is the protagonist, his stupidity and childishness can make him out to be a bizarre faux antagonist/anti-hero sometimes, best examples of these are seen in "Crash vs. Flex" and "Like Father, Like Purple".
 * 9) * The episode "Crash vs. Flex", has Crash made out to be a anti-hero at first who cares very much for Wyatt but has envy over Flex. Despite reconciling with Bernstein and the maker of Flex Fletcher at the end of the episode, he had a villainous scenario with Flex; which was caused by Jasmine playing with the Princess Glitter doll and using Flex Fletcher as her boyfriend in pretend, Crash gets angered with malice and irritation over Flex "stealing" his girl when Jasmine pretends to make Flex kiss the doll, which makes Crash attempt murdering him and failing at it in a comedic fashion.
 * 10) ** Where Crash's stupidity causes these plans to backfire on himself, he attempts at getting homicidal by planning to stab Flex with a sword bigger than his (on purpose), flatten Flex Fletcher with a waffle maker while forgetting his hand was in there, and throwing him off a balcony with a boomerang. All of which makes him seem morally grey despite caring very much for Wyatt.
 * 11) There are episodes where he can do some obliviously rude, insensitive, problematic, and messed up things, these include:
 * 12) * Crash Lands: He immediately committed his first act by destroying a bunch of the antiques, and in the same episode he tore down a wall in the apartment.
 * 13) * Scaredy Crash: He constantly makes fun of Bernstein's fear of bugs and even tried to cure him by putting bugs on him, which just made it worse.
 * 14) * Coach Crash: When he became a coach, not only did he trash-talk the gym's coach to the point he quitted his job, but he also overworked the boys' basketball team, even when they said they were tired he still made them exercise and he didn't have any remorse until they fired him.
 * 15) *Crash Ask Too Many Questions: He asks Cassie stupid questions, which causes her to get fired since she had a ton of frustrated anger due to this. The writers would have at least had him zipping Crash's mouth or tied him on the chair as a form of punishment.
 * 16) * Like Father, Like Purple: He was stupidly clingy, childish, and egotistical about Wyatt being attached to his foresaken father by being hostile to him, even when Crash should know better than to get competitive and jealous with Wyatt's biological father. When Crash caused the episode's problem, he also vandalizes the school by bursting through a wall by using a mechanical bull to meet up with Wyatt in his class. All for "helping" Wyatt with his school project, he then got the misguided idea to destroy everyone's bridges because of Wyatt's dad, unintentionally, breaking someone's bridge by accident.
 * 17) * Escape from Bigfoot Island: He left someone stranded on an island for no good reason.
 * 18) He can be so incredibly moronic and screwy, he says and does some bizarre things that no sane person would do, whether it's done comically or not. His idiocy can be the source of the episode's problem, to begin with.
 * 19) * In the episode "Crash Jacked", Wyatt tells Cleo how often he is so distracted and scatterbrained with his acts of stupidity, that he gets himself lost or stuck in places more often than not, when Wyatt is simply looking for Crash when he left the hotel.
 * 20) * Following the previous example, Crash's acts of lunacy seem to imply something more about his dumb personality that is never explained. In the episode "Crashus Maximus", he thought it was a good idea to go outside with a sword to "stab" lightening on an impulse when Bernstein warned him of the consequences. Which Crash being electrocuted led to showing the quirky personas he has as his lineup of alter egos that give him different personalities at random, making it seem like he has a dissociative personality disorder.
 * 21) *In the episode "Crash Ask Too Many Questions", he asks the stupidest questions to Cassie as mentioned above, even to the point of laughing about Cassie mixing the words "dog" and "poo" together. Also, these questions led to Cassie being fired because of her pure frustration with Crash's idiotic questions (as mentioned before).
 * 22) * In the episode "Trash & Bernstein", he found a giant magnet he calls a "candy horseshoe", where Bernstein thought to warn Crash and blatantly said how Crash would eat the magnet anyway, Crash says "am not" and does it anyway. This leads to Crash being humorously attacked by any metallic object.
 * 23) * In the episode "Crash Is Having A Baby", he hires a professional vilionist to teach "violence" lessons, teaching his infant son how to play football in the balcony; the same place Wyatt's mom and Cleo are practicing yoga (trying to throw his football to his own son leading to the ball hitting the Bernstein's property), and got his egg "son" an actual horse to ride on as a pet without asking for Wyatt's moms' permission. All of which not only demonstrate how bad Crash is at his attempts to parent an "infant", but it shows that Crash has a problematic and... questionable way of solving problems.
 * 24) On the topic of Crash's intelligence, despite having genius tactics and a certain field of knowledge he has about the world to the extent of knowing it automatically, he still acts like a brainlessly naive person who doesn't know what germs are or what lightning is, making his levels of intelligence and stupidity seem weirdly written and inconsistent.
 * 25) * In the episode "Crash Is Having A Baby", even though Crash is so recklessly stupid and crazy that he'd confuse viloin lessons with violence lessons, he so just happens to be smart enough to install convenient safety nets to save his egg son from falling onto the floor when Bernstein tries so hard to kill the egg Crash is nurturing.
 * 26) * In the episode "Party Crasher", despite Crash being smart enough to defeat Pesto at air hockey with good deception tricks and briefly having a chance to get accepted into the party when he meets Trey, Crash makes many dumb decisions like acting reckless towards a waiter when he became a muscleman and seriously thought his "Muscle Shakes" would help him and his friends become muscular by simply drinking a protein shake alone. It doesn't help that in the same episode, he attempted at making his and Wyatt's TVs movable to the hotel's elevator for the two to play video games; a bit of a smart idea but Crash overlooks the fact he made the TVs cable still attached to their room, which caused the TV to go up the gap of the elevator to their floor as soon as the elevator door opens.
 * 27) Speaking of his silly antics, they can be somewhat misleading and dangerous for young viewers to think that it is safe to face slam into each other's foreheads. This was carried to the point where Disney XD had to put countless disclaimers in every episode to remind kids to not do what Crash is capable of since he had a bad Caillou, Jeffy, George Pig and Peppa Pig case of having kids repeating the same things that Crash would do on-screen like his traditional face slam for example.
 * 28) Much like Wild Woody, he can his moments with be annoying with his crazed behavior, excessively over-the-top actions, and his loud yelling.
 * 29) He has the personality traits of the aforementioned Wild Woody, Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants, Wayne Cramp from The Cramp Twins, Gelatin from Battle for Dream Island, Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rodney J. Squirrel from Squirrel Boy, Crumbles from Doodle Toons and Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in a nutshell, except with the mediocre treatment that those aforementioned characters had, hence making him a little bit clichéd somehow. He's basically a generic "I'm gonna save the day" type of protagonist who's a wacky goofball and a jerk, hence the explanation.
 * 30) Gross-out behavior: He can do some disgusting things for the sake of gross-out humor, which is often tasteless to watch.
 * 31) * This includes him belching a lot, spinning around in a toilet while it's flushed in the epsiode "Home Alone...With Crash", enjoying the fact that he is having garbage being poured on him in the episode "Trash and Bernstein" (which is an episode that further shows how passionate Crash is with loving actual garbage or anything crude), blowing his nose on Wyatt's poster in "Action Zero", was seen chewing on an old lady's toenails in the episode "Man Crash", making snacks by filling his mouth with swiss cheese and spitting them onto crackers in the episode "Frat Chance", digging through his butt to get a dream-catcher he got for Bernstein in the episode "Undercover Crash" (right after pulling an object out of his ear which he stole from a craft's fair no-less), and the list goes on.
 * 32) ** Not to mention that in the episode "Merry Crashenfest", where Bernstein was gonna say that his family doesn't celebrate Christmas, Crash hastily claims he knows what was said, and then he told him that he swallowed 73 pounds of Christmas lights and puked it onto a Christmas tree as his way to have the tree "ridiculously overdecorated". He even fires an ornament he also swallowed at Bernstein for whatever sadistic reason of his.
 * 33) ** It doesn't help that in the episode "Crashington", his irrational fear and anxiety over germs led to locking himself into a transparent globe. And at one point, he starts puking on-screen upon thinking he's not sick. Everyone treats this as a "awesome" moment however.
 * 34) While his voice isn't bad, it is rather out-of-place and doesn't fit his character as a teenager, especially compared to other characters like Sonic the Hedgehog or The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He sounds more like a middle-aged man than a preteen.
 * 35) He can be a bit of a hypocrite sometimes, mainly because of poor writing and lack of continuity.
 * 36) * In "Crashington", he says that Wyatt's sisters are 'disgusting', when there is an episode called "Trash and Bernstein" that is dedicated to how much Crash loves his trash by having it poured onto him/etc (to the point of making his very own song called "I'm A Junkman").
 * 37) * In "Coach Crash", he comedically roasts the dorky coach by saying “I've seen better plays in a kindergarten theater class!” and “Ah, you couldn't coach the side of a barn!”, even when Crash never went to school as it was established in "Educating Crash" nor knows anything about real coaching.
 * 38) * In "Action Zero", Crash acts cocky and tells Wyatt that he's "living in a fantasy world" after Wyatt revealed what actually happened when Bernstein was letting Crash win in arm-wrestling, which not only makes him hypocritical since there are countless moments (including this one) where he is in his own world in actuality, but it also makes him seem pretty delusional as well.
 * 39) There are moments here and there when he can come across as actually masochistic (as the protagonist in a kids show).
 * 40) * In "Monster Crash", he expresses how much he enjoys having mud sprayed all over him as if it was a lucky thing to happen to him, where everyone else (other than Wyatt) were in complete disgust when the Wyatts and the rest forgot to put on their wrap during the durby.
 * 41) * In "Shorty Crash", at one point he went to a ride he wanted to go to that was called "The Decapitator", and he claims to enjoy the ride; telling his family this when his head is shown to be desembodied, with the stuffing visibly sticking out of Crash's head in the manner of blood for a decapitated head, on-screen. For the fact he's a puppet saying this, with stuffing coming from his head makes him seem a little sick in the head.
 * 42) He can also come across as sadistic, despite being the protagonist. He often takes pleasure in seeing others like Pesto suffer just as much he takes pleasure in seeing himself in pain, signifying that he is also a sadomasochist.
 * 43) ** In "Home Alone...With Crash", he willingly offers to be the cleaning tool for Wyatt's snowboard, and when Wyatt clumsily swipes Crash off of the board and brutally falls of the balcony as well as hitting the ground. Instead of feeling hurt or upset for being chucked off the balcony, he cheerfully shouts multiple times for Bernstein to do it again as if it's a ride. To of which Wyatt's mom pauses him by saying "don't", and when Crash asks her "don't what?", Wyatt's mom then tells him to don't do anything he considers "fun"; he presumably asks Wyatt if it'd be fun to drop water balloons on his mom, Wyatt objects to this and Crash says it's a idea he can do. All of which delves further into Crash's implications of sadomasochism.

Good Qualities

 * 1) He has plenty of funny moments.
 * 2) * In the episode "Merry Crashenfest", the cutaway gag when it was Hanukkah, Crash somehow made a menorah rocket for whatever reason; which comically freaks everyone out. (which could also fit as another example of BQ#8 in any way you look at it)
 * 3) Despite all of his flaws listed above, his goofy, wild & whimsical antics are always very entertaining and hilarious to watch.
 * 4) * While he is a Karma Houdini in the Pranksgiving series, his prankster personality in said series is very entertaining as well as well-written. Especially for the way he interacts with many Disney XD actors from multiple shows that were popular for the time.
 * 5) He may act extremely dumb, absent-minded, immature, and crazy, but he has moments of showing talent. Like how his bizarre abilities and his off-the-wall silliness can be useful and sometimes resourceful, depending on the episode.
 * 6) * In "Trash and Bernstein", he was able to stack cups in a fast way even when in the replay, he somehow learned it slowly to do so despite doing it in a speedy way. (An example that'd also fit in BQ#8)
 * 7) * In "Crash Jacked", his stupidity and immaturity allows him to have fun with typical situations he himself, can't take seriously, like how he revealed to Bernstein that the Slapper had him held hostage and was basically having fun with pretending to be a dramatic hostage in a rather entertaining way.
 * 8) ** He also does this as seen in "Crash On The Run", where he and Wyatt's antics allowed them escape from Mr. Green, the sadistic member of the Build A Bestie retrievement, who tried killing Crash with a chipper as a report from Portugal. This happens by Wyatt using his heroic introduction with the words "punching someone in the gut" to motivate Crash to get a silly idea to trick Mr. Green by tickling him and running off.
 * 9) Tim Lagasse does a great job at voicing him and portraying the character despite sounding way too mature for a teenager. He also did an amazing job at puppeteering him since Crash can be very expressive (often comedically), his face when he is mad for example.
 * 10) Despite being weirdly written as a character, he does have many great quotes and one-liners, such as:
 * 11) * “We're all out of Grizzly Flakes! Grizzly Flakes! NOOOO!! Why?! Why?! Why?!”
 * 12) * “Hey Jake MaPhony!! I'm in your lair! I left you a present, you can't see it but you can smell it!! Oh, I guess you can see it... I'm talking to you 'jerk real pony! I challenge you to a smash down! No gloves! No helmet, just my orthopedic insoles! I have black feet!!!”
 * 13) * “Oh I got a cramp in my goallooklike! That's what a goal looks like!”
 * 14) * “Hey Bernstein, would it be fun if we dropped a water balloon on your mom? Oh goodie then we can do it!”
 * 15) * “Bernstein! Bernstein! I just had the craziest- wait! I'm not falling for that again! Mustache attack!!”
 * 16) * “I'm a spiral!”
 * 17) * “I'm science!”
 * 18) * “I'm the bait!”
 * 19) * “I said! A shot of wheatgrass! Are you threatening me?? Are you threatening me? If you're feeling froggy just jump girl!”
 * 20) * “You want a piece of me? Cause I do come apart!”
 * 21) * “Hey, you want a piece of me pal? I will mess up your world!!”
 * 22) * “Why aren't pancakes a fruit?”
 * 23) * “I'm sorry this isn't working for me... I mean who wrote this? What's my motivation?? When's lunch?”
 * 24) * “Uh Wyatt, I'm pretty sure it is. I got an H in Geography.”
 * 25) * “You are going down Fisher! I hope you're hungry for some, purple, fist!!!”
 * 26) * “I am NOT a side-kick! This, is a side-kick! And now here's Susie with the weather, hey Bernstein!! I'm on the radio!!!”
 * 27) * “I'm Crash, and this is my life!”
 * 28) He's not as evil as his "villainous" moments imply. In fact, the episode "Frat Chance" showcases him and Mrs. Lopez hating some man named Raul for being a genuinely evil person and Crash shows kindness towards her. It's the fact that most of his stupidity tends to blind him to his immoral actions and eventually backfires on him the majority of the time. His immaturity aside, he is usually a very chill guy who wants to have fun and is well-intentioned (for the most part anyway).
 * 29) Even though Crash never learns his lesson in most episodes, he usually gets punished as he gets hurt a lot usually after doing something bad, stupid, or for his mere existence. He can occasionally learn from his mistakes and can have some insight out of his sheer moronitude.
 * 30) While he acts like an annoying imbecile most of the time, Crash's goofiest moments and his most awesome moments are enjoyably off-the-wall.
 * 31) * Despite some of his irritating moments, he can be viewed as somewhat likable for being a (mostly) well-meaning friend to Wyatt, in spite of Crash's stupidity. Especially for how much Crash more often than not brightens up Wyatt, intentionally or not. Not to mention that he can be an occasionally empathetic character towards others at times.

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Trivia

 * Crash hosted a public service announcement in all episodes (including subsequent airings of the first episode) where he says the following words: "I am made of cloth and stuffing. All the wild and crazy awesome things I do on the show cannot hurt me or anyone else. You, however, are not made of cloth and stuffing. So keep it real and leave all the mayhem and face-slamming to me. Rock on."
 * He was the mascot of Disney XD, until he was replaced by Future-Worm!.
 * Following from a pointer described in BQ#6, him being electrocuted to the point that his alter ego would change on a whim by the sound of lightning, all of his alternative personality traits seem like Crash has some sort of vague hinting of Bipolar disorder and possibly multi-personality disorder, the former would explain where Crash's levels of insanity come from.