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"facebook dialogPinterestPhoto courtesy of Universal Pictures\n\n\"You've Got Male,\" which appears in our August issue, discusses how female screenwriters are creating male characters who are far more realistic and convincing (see: Chris O'Dowd as the cop in Bridesmaids; Paul Dano's role in this month's Ruby Sparks) than the overgrown toddlers often penned by male writers. But in the spirit of equality (and in the interest of helping you kill some time), here are seven of our favorite man-children\u2014with clips!\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nMark Wahlberg in Ted (2012): The Stunted Bong-Ripper\n\n The 35-year-old worships a potty-mouthed teddy bear, ditches his smoking-hot girlfriend (Mila Kunis) to snort coke with Flash Gordon, and can barely hold down a crappy job.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nSteve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005): The Childlike Wonder\n\n Decorates his furniture-less home with miniature action figures still in their original boxes; thinks female breasts feel like bags of sand.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nThe Guys from The Hangover (2009): The Three Stooges\n\n In a single night, these men roofie themselves, agree to be tased, steal a tiger and a squad car, and lose all credibility as real people.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nAdam Sandler in Funny People (2009): The Disaffected Douchebag\n\n Lies to the girlfriend he used to cheat on about having a serious illness; gets pissed at his assistant for thwarting his plans to ruin a marriage.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\n__\n\nPaul Rudd in Our Idiot Brother (2011): The Blissed-Out Bum\n\n__\n\n Sells drugs to a cop, breaks his nephew's fingers while playing hide-and-seek, and can't keep a job or a couch to crash on.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nJohn C. Reilly and Will Ferrell in Step Brothers (2008): Dumb and Dumber*\n\nAs middle-aged men who live with their parents, these two screw up job interviews, fake deaths and asbestos poisoning, and powwow in a tree house\u2014which would be fine, if they weren't forty-somethings.\n\n**Speaking of which, that's another classic.*\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nJason Segel in Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012): The Basement Dweller\n\n Lives in his mom's house; instead of looking for a job, looks for cosmic signs from the universe to tell him what to do.\n\n\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\n\u2014Rachel Rosenblit, entertainment editor at Details"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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