Title character of Ray Billingsley's comic strip "Curtis". Wears a green baseball hat to the side, does poorly in school, loves rap music and big dinners, tries in vain to get his father to stop smoking, sleeps in the same bed as his brother Barry (who he claims has a bed-wetting problem), gets bullied by Derrick and "Onion", fawns over a stuck-up rich girl named Michelle, and is in turn fawned over by a sweet girl named Chutney.