Anyone seen the new midseason replacement program Doodle McBride? I read somewhere that it is based on the long-running British program Kensington Place, only now it takes place in New York and has been re-written for American sensibilities.
Doodle is a newspaper cartoonist (caricaturist) who wears sandals wherever he goes, which is difficult since he lost his feet in Iraq when a military transport driver backed over them, panicked, drove over them again, and finally put the truck into park on top of them, then ran off in a hysterical fit to find a medic, losing the keys in the process. (The driver received a commendation for bravery since he had to run for hours through enemy controlled terrain to reach a medic, dodging bullets to do so, but ironically Doodle wasn't awarded because the accident itself occurred off the battlefield.) Doodle has a special pair of prosthetic feet built with a slot for the sandal straps (the sandles are actually flip-flops, because Doodle refuses to wear anything else, saying they are the only "comfortable shoes" vis a vis his phantom limb pain).
But Doodle isn't bitter, because he is the eternal optimist, a philosophical viewpoint which goes into each of his political cartoons. This makes him unpopular with his editor, played as a perennial pessimist by Ed Asner, and this competition between them (to demonstrate to the other the appropriateness of his worldview) is the main source of conflict in the series.