Parasocial Relationship

My favorite cartoon when I was young (and maybe still today) was Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy on Cartoon Network. The protagonists of the show were the three “Eds,” living in suburbia like me, each with a wildly different personality. Ed was an absurdist oaf, Edd was a nebbish nerd, and Eddy was a conniving prankster. Two friends and I thought the show was hilarious, and in my head I (reductively) mapped us each onto an Ed (I was “Double-D” Edd). The characters were boys like us, at our age, in our sort of community, and the show’s sense of humor was weird like ours, and I at least definitely had a somewhat “parasocial” relationship with the characters.