Odd Couple character treatment:

Thomas Turner is a slightly obsessive , wound up, widowed, mid 60 year old English fellow who enjoys having quite nights in front of the television watching the news and sports channels, he prefers comfortable clothes like jeans and a plain shirt with a small overcoat. He is quite a friendly fellow but not overly chatty, preferring to speak about daily news and find out what is going on in his local area. He lives in a semi-detached house alone; he quite likes the privacy but still misses his wife who passed away a number of years ago in a fluke double lightning strike event. He takes pride in his minimalistic furnished home but is sometimes a little too much of an obsessive neat freak. He noticed this when one of his friends came around for a visit and strangely he couldn’t wait for them to leave so that he could wash their tea cup and plate that had biscuits on, put it back in place and then vacuum the whole room which he had been in. He is not fond of having dogs or cats in his house as they leave fur but can tolerate this, however he despises insects – once he had a minor ant infestation that he took care of with a can of gas, lighter fluid and a few matches. After setting fire to a small portion of his kitchen he still used an entire can of ant poison (which took the entire nights to slowly drip into the hole) to make sure the nest was eradicated ( which unknowing to him missed the ant nest completely and went through a old pipe leading straight to his prize cabbage patch and destroying 80% of his crop) - you will be happy to know the ants escaped the initial inferno and poisoning then decided to move next door away from this half crazed fellow . Thomas Turner is his own worst enemy.

He was born in a family of two boys and one girl, him being the youngest son, his dad was an ex soldier ( Rank of drill sergeant) who lived a full and health life and Thomas’s mom worked in a bank as a cashier later on in life at the age of 46 – they had known each other from school.

Thomas and wife has produced two children, a boy and a girl – the girl being the eldest by two years. His son is the manager of a ‘Frankie and Bennies’ Restaurant and his daughter is into interior decorating – they are both successful in their careers. They stay in contact with Thomas at least once a week but do not tend to visit very often as their careers and families don’t leave them much time to do so, they are a loving and tight family.