Mayor Adam West

In the world of television, there are different levels of creativity. Animated series can be a lot more creative, and really have to be, because there needs to be full character design and voices created. This can lead to some really good stuff. That said, the animated TV series Family Guy has gone above and beyond with their creativity on the character of "Mayor Adam West".

They've taken a real person, a semi-celebrity (sorry, but he's not exactly a big name these days outside of Family Guy, even though he was TV's "Batman" in the 1960s), and made him into a character in their world. OK. It's easy (and lazy?) to port a real person into a fictional, even animated, world. Adam West even provides the voice (no cheap imitations). But they took it a few steps beyond what's easy.

He's not a major character, but he seems to pop up at just the right moment to provide another joke. Why so funny? They made him NUTS, and they made him the mayor of the town. Brilliant.