Top 5 TV Show Characters

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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    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...
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    pjhawks said:
    George Costanza - Seinfeld
    Hawkeye Pierce - M.A.S.H
    Al Bundy - Married with Children
    Bugs Bunny
    Woody Boyd - Cheers
    Al Bundy yes...
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    Dr Mark Greene - ER
    Coach Eric Taylor - FNL
    Manuel - Fawtly Towers
    Jed Barlet - West Wing
    Mike "Wags" Wagner - Billions
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

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  • TalonTedd
    TalonTedd Toronto Posts: 835
    Gilligan
    Lavern...not Shirly
    Larry curly and moe
    I remember when, yeah. I swore I knew everything, oh yeah.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,066
    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
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    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!)
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  • No Coder
    No Coder Brisbane Posts: 1,126
    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
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me

    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
    *BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
    *BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
    *QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
    *Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
    *EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,326
    "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
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    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.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,756
    Charlie - sunny
    michael scott - office
    Lucille Bluth - arrested
    henry winkler - arrested
    Phil Hartman - news radio


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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,502
    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.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    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
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    Oh and Kramer is definitely the Seinfeld choice. 
  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    1. Jim Ignatowski - Taxi
    2. Archie Bunker
    3. Homer Simpson
    3. Lucille Ball
    4. Fred Sanford

    And no, I'm not THAT old.   
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    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!
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    :anguished:
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited September 2018
    njnancy said:
    :anguished:
    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.
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  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    dankind said:
    njnancy said:
    :anguished:
    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
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,500
    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.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited September 2018
    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....
    I SAW PEARL JAM

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