I didn't notice it when I was younger! But now, I realize he kinda has symptoms for a possible minor schizophrenic . He always said the most unusual things.
1) when Lois was pregnant, he mentions that the unborn baby is telling hi to do things.
2) when Dewey wanted that stuffed blue elephant toy, he fantasizes about the toy elephant talking to him and convincing him to if he doesn't buy him, he'll die.
Maybe, but I think those episodes went away as he got older.
shareI think he is too or he has some mental problem, but that doesn't mean I'm insulting him. I don't care if he has a mental problem, I still love him. Hal and Dewey both established they were crazy in that episode where Chad came to sleep over.
I'm a Timelord.
Right, not pompous at all then.
Hal was also having the same fantasies that Dewey had in that episode where the TV commercial was talking to him.
Maybe he inherited it from Hal?
They call me the Mayor, 'Cause I spend all my days here
The father has the exact same thing. He thinks animals are talking to him all the time. People with that are also usually creative.
shareNo, he was not mentally ill. He had no schizophrenia.
Remember, this is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. If he's not specifically WRITTEN to have something, then he doesn't have that something. You can create conjecture all you want, but this is the fact. He's just a vessel for the writers' weird ideas they wanted to express in the show, that's all he was. He was never a real human being, therefore, he could never be mentally ill.
Also, a child has vivid imagination, one of the sad things about this world and its so-called 'education system' is that it absolutely murders this natural part of human beings, and perhaps this is what LEADS to mental health problems.
To add another perspective; who is to say that unborn baby DIDN'T talk to him? Children are still sensitive to telepathic influences and higher realms, their chakras are still relatively open, especially their crown chakra, that closes surprisingly late (the physical side of the skull mimics this, by remaining 'open' for a surprisingly long time).
Considering all these things, and that 'newborn babies' are just old souls incarnating again, there's absolutely no reason why Dewey COULDN'T be hearing actual beings communicating with him from the higher realm using the fetus as a conduit of sorts to strengthen their presence enough to be able to establish access to Dewey's receptive mind.
Of course this probably already sounds like cookie talk to people, whose chakras are as closed as their imagination dead.