I think the problem with the show is not so much that Bertie's stupider in it as that it doesn't show the progression in his intelligence that we get in the stories. Bertie starts out being pretty naïve and dim in them, but he gets progressively smarter as the series goes on. In the show, the stories they adapted are out of order, so there'll be one episode where Bertie's intelligence is just fine, and then the next one he'll be kind of an idiot, then he's back to being smartish, and so on.
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