Also, ficwise, I'm hoping this'll push meme!Charlie further away from 'this is my interpretation of what he's really like' and make him slowly more and more outrageous and based on the worst excesses of his comic persona. Because as much as I love the meme, I can't read anything where he's gentle and nice. I know IRL he is definitely a really lovely guy - a lot of the appeal of his persona comes from the fact that it knows this too, and it hates that as much as it hates anything - but I don't want to read about nice!Charlie the whole time, I want to read about the worst excesses of Screen Wipe/News Wipe Charlie who pours boiling water on the hands of his production team, shouts sarcastic angry nonsense at innocents and wanks to the eight year old who sung the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, who I don't see a lot of. So I think an event that forces the gulf between real!Charlie and fiction!Charlie wider will be good for the tonal range of fic in the long run.