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{{quote|<poem>'''Joe:''' I could do a lot of things if it was necessary.

'''Joe:''' It ain't necessary.'' ''</poem>|''[[Showboat]]''Showboat (1936)'''}}

Of course, every now and then you get a '''Lazy Bum''' who is more self-aware. These tend to be [[Smug Snake]]s who think it's hilarious that other people bother to do work instead of just leeching. Then there are the ones who are ''really'' self-aware, and almost [[Humphrey|philosophically devoted]] to being lazy. They [[DismotivationLazy Bum|scheme so hard at getting out of work]] that it's actually harder work than just doing the work. Usually, because their boss is a humorless [[Control Freak]] who is so annoying that we root for the worthless slacker instead.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Lazy-Sensei]] from ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Haré+Guu]]'', who enforces "siesta" time on his class purely to get himself more shut-eye. Nevermind that his students range in age from 9 to late teens, and are all past the need for naptimes.

* Genma Saotome of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' sits somewhere between subverting this and playing it straight. In the series itself, he [[Wants the Work Done for Them|almost never bothers to do anything]] besides loaf around, eat, and play shogi, leaving his son to handle any problem that pops up. [[Sins of Our Fathers|Even if Genma caused that problem in the first place.]] However, prior to the series, Genma willingly left his [[Supreme Chef]] wife and the comfort of his home to travel the highways and byways of Japan and China for over a decade, in order to help his son become a powerful martial artist, and in fact designed two schools of techniques (the Yamasenken and Umisenken) that are amongst the most powerful in the series, with near-perfect invisibility, [[Razor Wind|vacuum blades that can cut through steel like runny butter]], spine-snapping bearhugs, and more. He has also displayed mental sloth in regards teaching Ranma - for example, failing to read the [[Useless Useful Spell|Nekoken]] training scroll [[Now You Tell Me|all the way through]], or taking his son to [[Transformation Ray|Jusenkyo]] simply on the virtue that it sounded impressive, without bothering to find out ''why'' it was called "The Valley of Cursed Springs".

* Victor Tugelbend is the hero of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'', who puts an extraordinary amount of thought and effort into being lazy. He finds the student life at [[Wizarding School|Unseen University]] very cushy so he studies extra extra hard to get exactly 84% on all his exams. 88% is the minimum passing grade for UU, and he has to get at least 80% to keep his trust fund. He's also in very good shape, so he doesn't have to waste energy hauling around excess body mass.

* Mr. Lazy from ''[[The Mr. Men Show|Mr. Lazy]]''.

* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball|]]'': Richard Watterson]], GumballsGumball's dad, who's an over grownovergrown [[Man Child]] who sits in the couch all day.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|]]'': Rainbow Dash]], who is [[Brilliant but Lazy|super speedy and athletic but also very lazy]]. Even ''she'' lampshades this sometimes: