# Any sitcom characters you'd like to be friends with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942 "2012-07-11T23:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/61 "2012-07-12T21:59:24Z")
The gang from… “Burns and Allen” “The Jack Benny Program” “The Dick Van Dyke Show” “The Andy Griffith Show” “Gilligan’s Island” “Hogan’s Heroes” “McHale’s Navy” “Cheers!” “Night Court” “Married … With Children” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/62 "2012-07-12T22:57:44Z")
Charlie Harper Chandler Bing ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/63 "2012-07-12T23:14:11Z")
Rerun! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/64 "2012-07-13T00:45:56Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Unless we’re talking FWB, I’d have a tough time being “friends” with either of these two. 😉 It’s okay. I’d totally sleep with Ted, so I at least won’t quibble over the use of the word “friend,” and I’m betting a lot of other people feel the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/65 "2012-07-13T02:55:35Z")
Homer Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/66 "2012-07-13T16:57:58Z")
Fred Mertz would be an awesome friend (William Frawley) from I Love Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/67 "2012-07-13T17:14:09Z")
Red Foreman… Boomhauer… Holling Gustav Vincouer…(kind of a sitcom) Mike, Lionel and A Bunker…all at the same time! I’ll buy. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/68 "2012-07-13T21:36:36Z")
The Janitor from Scrubs, for the lulz Cliff “mine of useless information” Clavin, cos he’s awesome! Howard Walowitz, so he can leave messages punctuated with “it’s Howard” on my answering machine ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/69 "2012-07-14T01:01:34Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > Holling Gustav Vincouer…(kind of a sitcom) And also Chris Stevens and Ed Chigliak! Eldin the permanent, live-in housepainter from _Murphy Brown_ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/70 "2012-07-16T13:41:26Z")
Sally Solomon from _Third Rock from the Sun_. Ron Fucking Swanson and/or Leslie Knope. Lisa and Oliver Wendell Douglas Drew Carey from _The Drew Carey Show_, but his parties are probably pretty loud. Jeannie and Tony Nelson from I Dream of Jeannie, not because I’d have any interest one way or the other about living near them, but to have some prime Cocoa Beach oceanfront property ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sitcom-characters-youd-like-to-be-friends-with/627942/71 "2012-07-16T14:15:01Z")
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