Your favorite sitcom characters.
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Not much going on in sports so here is a diversion. List up to ten.
- Eddie Haskell --Leave it to Beaver.
- Ralph Kramden -- Honeymooners.
- Newman -- Seinfeld. The best of a great cast. Used sparingly which made his appearances memorable.
- Louie DePalma -- Taxi
- Grandpa Munster -- Munster
- Barney Fife -- Andy Griffith Show.
- Maj Winchester -- MASH
- Mr. Haney -- Green Acres. Terrible show but Pat Butram played the Haney charachter well.
- Laverne DeFazio -- Laverne and Shirley. Found her to be one of the few really funny lady comics.
- Mel Cooley -- Dick Van Dyke show. Splendid straight man.
Realized that I missed many sitcom runs entirely, especially the more recent ones. This is what i got.
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Michael Scott - The Office - The Robert Deniro of sitcoms conveying a vast array of emotions with facial expressions alone
Larry David - Curb your Enthusiasm
Jim Halpert - The Office
Ryan Howard - The Office
Alex P Keaton - Family Ties
Jerry Seinfeld - Seinfeld
Darryl Philbin - The Office
Frank Costanza - Seinfeld (George's father always yelling out a word while he spoke)
Last 2 can be anyone other than characters from 2-1/2 Men or Big Bang Theory - 2 of the most inexplicably successful shows in history with "days ahead of time" telegraphed punchlines.
I hope you mean the real office not the american version. Why is it even a thing to copy a hit show with american actors , just show the episodes that are already made.
Cool...an argument on the second reply.
Kramer all the way. "Hey Buddy"
Fonzarelli
Crap...I forgot Al Bundy.
I am thinking #4 and dropping Mel Cooley.
I'll never forget Cliff Clavin and his Jeopardy dream board. And how he clutched at final Jeopardy.
Beckett - Castle couldn't survive without her (even though that Fillion sissy blocked me on Twitter, it was still an entertaining detective show)
(Whatever JLHs character was on Ghost Whisperer) - the series wouldn't exist without her "accoutrements"
Finch or Reese - Person on Interest was just a bit ahead of it's time, both were fantastic and the rest of the cast pretty incredible also
Elliot Anderson - perfectly timed, but Mr Robot has to move on to bigger things and the series will end far before it's time (sorry Slater)
Morey Amsterdam on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Christopher Lloyd on Taxi
Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond
Larry Linville on MASH
Alvy Moore on Green Acres (Hank Kimball)
Alf on ALF.
Roger - American Dad
Edith Bunker.
Uncle Fester or Grandpa Munster.
Stars
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) - I Love Lucy
Alex P. Keaton - Michael J Fox - Family Ties
Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) - The Wonder Years
Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) - The Honeymooners
David Addison (Bruce Willis) - Moonlighting
Supporting
Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ernie ‘Coach’ Pantuso (Nick Colasanto) - Cheers
Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson, Professor Frink, et al (Hank Azaria) - The Simpsons
Bill McNeill (Phil Hartman) Newsradio
Lt. Bookman (Philip Baker Hall) - Seinfeld*
*I am a massive fan of the show and this is perhaps the first GREAT guest performance of the series. And _The Library_ is one of the best written and performed episodes - without a doubt.
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I may add a plus one for the entire cast of Barney Miller. Drier and funnier than hell and no one actor really stook out. They worked well together.
Also have to add Barney Fife- I grew up watching The Andy Griffith Show re-runs, and he really made that show what it is. Also Ralph Kramden and Norton - I couldn't wait to see what kind of hair brained scheme they would come up with to get rich.
Never watched the show until a friend recommended it well into the run. First episode I saw, said WTF and was hooked.
Do you watch Fillion's new show the Rookie? Episode 1 of this season he looks deathly ill, like he lost 30 pounds over the summer break.
And Steinbrenner still wouldn't fire him. LOL
No, the preview I saw looked pretty awful.
@bronco2078 said:
I hope you mean the real office not the american version. Why is it even a thing to copy a hit show with american actors , just show the episodes that are already made.
If you actually watched the British version, you would recognize that the character names I listed were not from that show.
1)Col. Flagg on the early original cast of MASH. He was the paranoid, patriot CID/CIA, intelligence officer. P.S. any character from the original cast of MASH (TV). 2)Barney Fyfe. 3)Archie Bunker. Never fail to watch these reruns of the reruns of the reruns.
Flagg was good.
Here's something different for any Futurama fans. Roberto the crazy robot was a great reoccurring character.
I didn't actually watch either !
Funfact he is also rumored to be the current whistleblower at the whitehouse
Lumpy and Eddie Haskel on Leave It To Beaver.
While not personal favorites, it is always worth mentioning that the best friends of brothers Ben and Mike Seaver on Growing Pains were nicknamed (and referred to almost exclusively as) Stinky and Boner.
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POTD!!
I never saw an episode of the Andy Griffith show that wasn't funny if Don Knotts was in it, then after he
left the show I never again saw a funny episode of Andy Griffith. And no Howard was not funny, neither
was the deputy that took Barney's place.
no one wants to hear the story of the nickname stinky boner
huh ? yeah huh? yeah huh? yeah huh? , you mean that guy?
George Glass.
Warren. He was only in about six episodes. They knew they were screwed.
I liked Howard, and still watched the now in living color, show. Ir was different but still decent.
Remember when they took poor paralyzed floyd and propped him up with a board like a scarecrow ?
Andy was kind of a jerk
Andy was a jerk. Always lying to the townsfolk to get ahead/
Locked up a whole band to get his buddy an audition.
and on guitar , mr roscoe P coltrain
Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe...
"Now go away son you bother me"
LOL...What?
I always loved that episode, especially at the end, when Jim Lindsey gets ticked off and starts playing the heck out of that guitar, and then the band members join in. Great stuff!
One of my favorite episodes of The Andy Griffith Show is the case of the punch in the nose, when Barney re-opens that old case between Mr. Foley and Floyd about the shave Mr. Foley didn't want. Everyone starts punching each other in the nose. I always get a kick out of watching Andy get riled up because of Barney.
I'm tellin momma on you ....... unless you give me a quarter
Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko certainly deserves an honorable mention.
The Big Ragoo, Carmine Ragusa. Don't remember his real name.
Jake from Two and a half men.
Ensign Parker, Tim Conway from McHales Navy
Mork!
and Mindy too!!!!!
Steve