Another regular, Paige Peterson, an actress, writer and illustrator, said something would be missing at Elaine's — "that shuffling, grouchy, marvelous character".
Docter felt that Grant's personality influenced Carl's deceased wife Ellie more than the grouchy main character, and Carl was primarily based on Spencer Tracy, Walter Matthau, James Whitmore, and their own grandparents, because there was "something sweet about these grumpy old guys".
MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the most frequently shown Republican campaign commercial here so far, a grouchy cast of characters complain that "no one has shown up we can trust as a conservative".
Lear's most famous character, the grouchy, epithet-loving blowhard Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor, and the public's reaction to Archie, seems to have new resonance in the Trump era.
Maybe your character is grouchy most of the time, but whenever he does his favorite sport or is with his little sister he's nicer.
(Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow).
There's a touch of Mr Incredible to Clooney's character, too: a grouchy surrogate dad whose resignation is overturned by youthful enthusiasm.
By the early 60s its title character – a bright green, grouchy, cave-dwelling monster – was already being figuratively employed to describe a spoilsport or grump.
This time around, analysts cited concerns that the lead character of "Up," a grouchy old man, would not resonate with young audiences, and worried about the absence of major female characters and the lack of interest from retailers.
