Top 5 TV Show Characters

Meltdown99

brianlux said:

My favorite top five off the top of my head:

Jim Rockford, Rockford Files

Columbo, Columbo (his character first name is never mentioned)

Lieutenant Theo Kojak, Kojak

Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H

Emma Peel, The Avengers

And for those not familiar with Ms Peel:

Jim Rockford ...excellent choice Brian.  That's my Dad's favourite actor, he loves the rockford files...

Meltdown99

pjhawks said:

George Costanza - Seinfeld

Hawkeye Pierce - M.A.S.H

Al Bundy - Married with Children

Bugs Bunny

Woody Boyd - Cheers

Al Bundy yes...

No Coder

Dr Mark Greene - ER
Coach Eric Taylor - FNL
Manuel - Fawtly Towers
Jed Barlet - West Wing
Mike "Wags" Wagner - Billions

TalonTedd

Gilligan
Lavern...not Shirly
Larry curly and moe

pjhawks

No Coder said:

Dr Mark Greene - ER
Coach Eric Taylor - FNL
Manuel - Fawtly Towers
Jed Barlet - West Wing
Mike "Wags" Wagner - Billions

great addition.  love that character

brianlux

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

My favorite top five off the top of my head:

Jim Rockford, Rockford Files

Columbo, Columbo (his character first name is never mentioned)

Lieutenant Theo Kojak, Kojak

Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H

Emma Peel, The Avengers

And for those not familiar with Ms Peel:

Jim Rockford ...excellent choice Brian.  That's my Dad's favourite actor, he loves the rockford files...

I've been a big fan since way back.  I have all the DVDs and still enjoy them a lot.  My mom was absolutely ga-ga over James Garner, lol! (So is my wife, come to think of it, haha!)

No Coder

pjhawks said:

No Coder said:

Dr Mark Greene - ER
Coach Eric Taylor - FNL
Manuel - Fawtly Towers
Jed Barlet - West Wing
Mike "Wags" Wagner - Billions

great addition.  love that character

He's hilarious - and the show is better with every scene he's in

cutz

"Wags" is a good one

Archie Bunker
Fred Sanford
Sam, Carla, Woody, Norm!!  Cliff Clavin
Al Bundy
Hank Moody
Marty Kaan
The Gallagher's (especially  Frank  Fiona & Carl)

dankind

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

My favorite top five off the top of my head:

Jim Rockford, Rockford Files

Columbo, Columbo (his character first name is never mentioned)

Lieutenant Theo Kojak, Kojak

Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H

Emma Peel, The Avengers

And for those not familiar with Ms Peel:

Jim Rockford ...excellent choice Brian.  That's my Dad's favourite actor, he loves the rockford files...

I was friends with one of the Rockford writers; he has since passed.

ed243421

Charlie - sunny
michael scott - office
Lucille Bluth - arrested
henry winkler - arrested
Phil Hartman - news radio

tbergs

ed243421 said:

Charlie - sunny
michael scott - office
Lucille Bluth - arrested
henry winkler - arrested
Phil Hartman - news radio

Oh, nice one! He made that show so much better.

njnancy

There are so many shows that I haven't seen now that there are so many outlets. Some interesting new ones and yes, this is a fun thread. 
I couldn't choose from Lost which character was best though I was Team Jack. 

Two I thought of and had difficulty with which was the best character vs my favorite character - 

Crowley - Supernatural (I want to pick them all but Crowley is the most outrageous, I mean - he was a human blood junkie - awesomeness)

Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) - six feet under 

njnancy

Oh and Kramer is definitely the Seinfeld choice. 

EdsonNascimento

1. Jim Ignatowski - Taxi
2. Archie Bunker
3. Homer Simpson
3. Lucille Ball
4. Fred Sanford

And no, I'm not THAT old.   

dankind

njnancy said:

There are so many shows that I haven't seen now that there are so many outlets. Some interesting new ones and yes, this is a fun thread. 
I couldn't choose from Lost which character was best though I was Team Jack. 

Two I thought of and had difficulty with which was the best character vs my favorite character - 

Crowley - Supernatural (I want to pick them all but Crowley is the most outrageous, I mean - he was a human blood junkie - awesomeness)

Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) - six feet under 

Hot mess!

njnancy

dankind

njnancy said:

Yes, exactly how I felt for Brenda. Always tough to watch someone, even a TV character, struggle the way that she did. 

I need to go back an rewatch it, skipping the entirety of season 3 (which was just too overbearing for me), but did she ever pull herself out of the muck? I can't remember. Hers was probably the character with which I had the most empathy.

njnancy

dankind said:

njnancy said:

Yes, exactly how I felt for Brenda. Always tough to watch someone, even a TV character, struggle the way that she did. 

I need to go back an rewatch it, skipping the entirety of season 3 (which was just too overbearing for me), but did she ever pull herself out of the muck? I can't remember. Hers was probably the character with which I had the most empathy.

I was always pulling for her. As far as her getting it together - as long as she and her brother were so enmeshed, there could never be any real relief  --  they had been screwed up from early on. In the final episode, where everyone dies which was a fitting way to end the show, she and her brother are white haired and maniacally debating and it looks like they had both just fallen into the abyss.

HesCalledDyer

njnancy said:

There are so many shows that I haven't seen now that there are so many outlets. Some interesting new ones and yes, this is a fun thread. 
I couldn't choose from Lost which character was best though I was Team Jack. 

Two I thought of and had difficulty with which was the best character vs my favorite character - 

Crowley - Supernatural (I want to pick them all but Crowley is the most outrageous, I mean - he was a human blood junkie - awesomeness)

Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) - six feet under 

Lost was full of excellent characters, it's hard to point to just one.  I think that's what made the show great for such a long time before the story just went completely off the rails - you got to invest in the characters and know them like friends.  It was a diverse group of people all with different pasts and skeletons in their closet. They had a realism about them and almost everyone who watched could either relate to one of the characters themselves or knew someone they could relate to one of them.

dankind

HesCalledDyer said:

njnancy said:

There are so many shows that I haven't seen now that there are so many outlets. Some interesting new ones and yes, this is a fun thread. 
I couldn't choose from Lost which character was best though I was Team Jack. 

Two I thought of and had difficulty with which was the best character vs my favorite character - 

Crowley - Supernatural (I want to pick them all but Crowley is the most outrageous, I mean - he was a human blood junkie - awesomeness)

Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) - six feet under 

Lost was full of excellent characters, it's hard to point to just one.  I think that's what made the show great for such a long time before the story just went completely off the rails - you got to invest in the characters and know them like friends.  It was a diverse group of people all with different pasts and skeletons in their closet. They had a realism about them and almost everyone who watched could either relate to one of the characters themselves or knew someone they could relate to one of them.

Lost is another one that I've never watched.

One of these days....