User blog comment:Bridgejandro/Is Owen overrated?/@comment-4726418-20190201232659

I go absent from the wiki for ages and still feel the need to defend this OG TD goofball<3

If anything, I'd call Owen underrated because even some of his fans underestimate how important he is to the show. In regards to 'not being a deserving winner', considering he was arguably the most innocent and naive of everyone, so I understand why the producers brought him to the end for it. And this is proven by the 'bad plans for the money' which I just interpret as him wanting to pay for a party that'd give everyone a good time (even if he never got to throw that party).

I forgot anyone even had an issue with him being in RR honestly. If anything that season just made me like him more. He constantly put his partner's interests before his own, he proved he wasn't a liability at challenges like his haters think he is (usually being the one who actually saved his team from being out), and he was always eager to do as well as he could in a racing format, which hardly would've been easy for him.

I didn't really like him in TDA, mainly as people mentionwd because of his return, but overall I think Owen's a good, usually GREAT, contestant who proves that in a show with lots of scheming, competitive backstabbers, there exists someone who still sees the good in everyone anyhow.

(and he's not really just fart or eating jokes either. He has jokes of slapstick, verbal miscommunication, his over-bearing affection, his constant optimism, I can see why he's the comic relief of the cast for this).