Complex sentence: In the comics, he was depicted as being unintelligent, but in the TV series, he was a surfer In the television show he is not particularly bright sometimes, but always cool, collected, and dependable.
Split into simpler sentences: In the comics, he was depicted as being unintelligent. However, in the TV series, he was a surfer and shown as not particularly bright, but always cool, collected, and dependable.