# Character Names you love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138 "2025-02-10T16:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/81 "2025-02-12T02:23:57Z")
Grima Wormtongue ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/82 "2025-02-12T02:26:30Z")
> [@Quondam\_Mechanic](#): > > There were all the fake staff names on Car Talk My favorite was Picov Andropov. [https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits](https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits) ---
**Author:** ![SpinyNorma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SpinyNorma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinyNorma)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/83 "2025-02-12T02:27:25Z")
I’ve loved several of the names mentioned here (High on the list is lawyer Bob Loblaw–never fails to make me giggle) but the character name that I’ve loved since the first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird is Boo Radley. I don’t know exactly why it appeals to me so much but it does. Later I named a cat Boo Radley. My Boo never rescued a young boy but he was a large cat with a gentle nature. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/84 "2025-02-12T02:27:27Z")
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/85 "2025-02-12T02:32:08Z")
Raymond Luxury Yacht (pronounced “Throatwobbler Mangrove”) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/86 "2025-02-12T02:37:05Z")
Amanda Hugginkis ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/87 "2025-02-12T02:38:16Z")
Harlan Ellison’s Cordwainer Bird One from my radio days: Geoffrey French-Snogg, aka “Mr Geoffrey, Roving Lifestyle Reporter.” ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/88 "2025-02-12T02:39:57Z")
Mike Hunt Homer Sekshul ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/89 "2025-02-12T02:42:27Z")
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/90 "2025-02-12T02:45:06Z")
Jethro Q Walrustitty Nigel Incubator-Jones Anne Elk Adolf Hilter Heinrich Bimmler Hermann McGoering Ron Ribbentrop ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/91 "2025-02-12T04:28:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Rufus T Firefly > Otis B Driftwood > Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones This thread reminds me of Roger Ebert’s First Law of Funny Names: “No names are funny unless used by W.C. Fields or Groucho Marx. Funny names, in general, are a sign of desperation at the screenplay level.” I’m not sure I agree. I also like some of the names mentioned in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/92 "2025-02-12T14:26:20Z")
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr Anne Uumellmahaye [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YT0CScFzp1o/hqdefault.jpg "Dr Hfuhruhurr Meets Ann Uumellmahaye: The Man With Two Brains") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0CScFzp1o) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/93 "2025-02-12T14:32:57Z")
Hiro Protagonist ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/94 "2025-02-12T15:11:33Z")
I already mentioned him upthread. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/95 "2025-02-12T15:26:24Z")
Sorry, missed that. It’s a long thread with a lot of names now. Excellent name though. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/96 "2025-02-12T15:57:39Z")
Or Plenty O’Toole, a woman with a male porn name for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/97 "2025-02-12T16:19:40Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > There’s a lot of great character names on Seinfeld: > … > Crazy Joe Davola Who was one of the producers of the show. I always wondered, as the on-screen Davola got weirder and weirder, did real-life Davola have second thoughts about (presumably) giving permission to use his name? Especially because I assume he’d be meeting people who’d respond “Joe Davola? THE Joe Davola? _‘Oh, you’re not crazy, that’s perfectly normal, Joe!’_ Davola?” . > [@Mahaloth](#): > > There once was a boy named Eustace Scrubb and he almost deserved it. That would also be my vote for best opening line of a book (one of the Narnia ones)… That C. S. Lewis, what a whacky guy. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/98 "2025-02-12T16:21:18Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Or Plenty O’Toole, a woman with a male porn name for some reason. The name of Lana Wood’s mammary-gifted character in the movie **Diamonds are Forever** “Named after your father, no doubt,” Bond comment drily Lana was Natalie Wood’s sister (born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin), and she had a fair career in film and TV. She’s still around, and 78 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/99 "2025-02-12T17:19:06Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Who was one of the producers of the show. Another Seinfeld producer whose name got used as a character was Alec Berg. “Great John Houseman name…Alec Berrrrrg.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/100 "2025-02-12T18:14:48Z")
Amelia Bedelia. Loved it when I was 5 and still do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138.md?page=6)