Norman Price (seasons 6-present)

Norman Price is a character from the children's TV show Fireman Sam, in the Original Series 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

 * 1) As mentioned above, his character was flanderized, he went from a mischievous boy who only played harmless tricks on his friends to a winey, bratty jerk who wants to forcefully get he wants without thinking of others.
 * 2) His voice is loud, unbearable and simply annoying.
 * 3) Sometimes he does horrible things to other characters for the most pettiest reasons.
 * 4) * In one episode, Norman ties up James into a chair for a stupid stunt video in a room that is covered with flamable liquid.
 * 5) * And in another episode, Norman purposely locks James in the swimming pool training room just so he could do a stupid dance.
 * 6) In most of the episodes, he is the cause for the emergencies.
 * 7) Unlike in the Original Series, he never learns his lesson or gets properly disciplined, he justs gets a warning from the fire brigade that he would immediately forget in the next episode and nothing else!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite his flanderization, there are some episodes where he is downrigt heroic, especially in the special "Fireman Sam: Alien Alert", where he exposes Buck Douglas' scheme

2. Deep down, Norman does care about the others around him.

3. Despite his obnoxious voice, at least his voice actors (Steven Kynman (UK), 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. Heck, his first US voice actor actually had a fitting voice for him, as he was a child-teenager back when he voiced him.