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* Jerry Seinfeld once talked about how the character he played on ''[[Seinfeld]]'' is actually funnier than the others because he "brings the sanity back" by making everyone else look just as crazy as they should in real life in comparison to him, and therefore even funnier than they otherwise would. This is especially true whenever another character tries to get advice from/explain whatever's going on to Jerry, who usually not only sees through, but plays along, often quite indulgently, with the other characters' bizarre motivations and logic.

** Also subverted, as while Jerry thinks he's the only sane man, but it's more in comparison to his friends as he is shown to have a lot of troubles too, the most apparent being his tendency [[Man Hands|to break up for petty reasons]], being a [[Neat Freak]] and being a bit of an [[Adult Child]].

* ''[[Friends]]'' is a rather unusual example of this trope. In the beginning, Monica was definitely this (she was a 3, to be exact). However, as her obsessive-compulsiveness gradually shot [[Up to Eleven]] and Chandler's quippiness/snarkiness decreased, ''he'' gradually became the [[Only Sane Man]] of the group. Albeit more of a 2 than a 3.

*In [[Magnum PI]] Magnum is a PI, Rick is a bartender at a posh club of the sort people only get into in movies, and is on friendly terms with gangsters and has an intelligence pipeline into the local underworld; and Higgins is a Major-domo of a rich man's estate and an absurdly cultured all knowing insufferable genius who loves telling war-stories that are so varied they end up putting in several continents at once doing several missions at once. TC on the other hand, has a mundane and respectable business flying tourists in a helicoptor, and off work he does laudable but equally mundane work helping local youth groups.