# Guess the TV/movie character: A Game\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122 "2006-04-10T18:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/1 "2006-04-10T18:51:51Z")
Here’s the deal…describe yourself as if you were a TV or movie character, and let’s see if we can guess who you are and what movie/TV show you are from! Obviously, some spoilers are unavoidable. If you can’t describe your character without giving away a major plot point, try to rework it. I’ll go first. Ahem: _My sponsor died unexpectedly. I was forced to pretend to be someone I wasn’t in order to earn enough money to get me and my comrades home. Along the way I earned the emnity of a former champion of the sport I particpated in and the love of a beautiful woman. Who am I?_ \*Yes, I e-mailed **Dex** , and he said a game was okay. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/2 "2006-04-10T20:05:37Z")
**ivylass** : Are you William Thatcher/Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein from **A Knight’s Tale**? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/3 "2006-04-10T20:10:59Z")
I am an ordinary civil servant and I keep my promises. This pays off for a couple of down-and-out people and helps me see who I am truly compatible with. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/4 "2006-04-10T20:42:56Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > **ivylass** : Are you William Thatcher/Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein from **A Knight’s Tale**? Obviously, that was too easy. 😉 Let me try again: I live in Minnesota and I feud constantly with my neighbor, but Og forbid anyone else mess with him. We once got into a fight on a frozen lake that my father had to break up. **gigi** , I’m stumped. Can I have some more info? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/5 "2006-04-10T20:52:20Z")
Okay, I’ll give it a whirl: I demand that my tenants pay me the rent on time. Or else my brother (who actually owns the property) will give me hell for not being a more ruthless landlord. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/6 "2006-04-10T21:16:21Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I live in Minnesota and I feud constantly with my neighbor, but Og forbid anyone else mess with him. We once got into a fight on a frozen lake that my father had to break up. You would be Jack Lemmon in _Grumpy Old Men_. …or was the lake fight scene in _Grumpier Old Men_? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/7 "2006-04-10T21:21:20Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > You would be Jack Lemmon in _Grumpy Old Men_. > …or was the lake fight scene in _Grumpier Old Men_? Yes. The character’s name is John Gustafson. Obviously, I can’t think of hard ones. Try to guess **gigi** ’s or **Art** ’s. I’ll come back later. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/8 "2006-04-10T21:26:47Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Okay, I’ll give it a whirl: I demand that my tenants pay me the rent on time. Or else my brother (who actually owns the property) will give me hell for not being a more ruthless landlord. Mr Furley? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/9 "2006-04-10T21:27:12Z")
Related online games: [Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character](http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html) [Guess the TV Show or Movie Name](http://www.guessthename.com/) > [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Okay, I’ll give it a whirl: I demand that my tenants pay me the rent on time. Or else my brother (who actually owns the property) will give me hell for not being a more ruthless landlord. Ralph Furley, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/10 "2006-04-10T21:28:27Z")
I am an ordinary civil servant [a cop] and I keep my promises [Anyone would do what I did. _No one would do what you did_\*!\*]. This pays off for a couple of down-and-out people [including a cute girl] and helps me see who I am truly compatible with [and it’s not my wife]. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/11 "2006-04-10T21:37:28Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I am an ordinary civil servant [a cop] and I keep my promises [Anyone would do what I did. _No one would do what you did_\*!\*]. This pays off for a couple of down-and-out people [including a cute girl] and helps me see who I am truly compatible with [and it’s not my wife]. Nick Cage’s character in “It Could Happen to You?” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/12 "2006-04-10T22:34:02Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Related online games: > [Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character](http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html) > [Guess the TV Show or Movie Name](http://www.guessthename.com/) > Ralph Furley, is that you? Sputter\* sputter\* goggle eyes\* JAY-ACK! Is that you?? And CHRISSIE too! Ya got me. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/13 "2006-04-10T22:44:39Z")
I’m rather loveable, if a little annoying (but charmingly so!) I have a deep fondness for cats, much to my adopted family’s dismay. But I came in handy too - I even helped a family friend through her alcoholism crisis. The woman next door eventually had a son who could talk endlessly about nothing (and had a strange fascination with Superman) but I never actually met him. I think he lived in New York. After about 4 years, I left my family to be with my sweet girlfriend and my pal, but things didn’t work out quite the way I had hoped… Now I’m resigned to shilling telephone services. Ain’t life fun? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/14 "2006-04-10T22:50:32Z")
Ma called me “Giuseppe” but I don’t go by that anymore. I was one of the best marksmen in my class, until this guy from Washington came by the range. Said he wanted me to join him. I thought it was a joke at first… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/15 "2006-04-10T23:16:00Z")
I studied hard from my youth under my teacher, but faced an unexpected crisis when a close friend became my enemy. Now I’m old and weary, and one of the lone survivors of a great tragedy, but soon when a new hope comes, I will be more powerful than you can ever imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/16 "2006-04-10T23:20:48Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I studied hard from my youth under my teacher, but faced an unexpected crisis when a close friend became my enemy. Now I’m old and weary, and one of the lone survivors of a great tragedy, but soon when a new hope comes, I will be more powerful than you can ever imagine. Obi-Wan! You’re my only hope! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/17 "2006-04-10T23:33:27Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I’m rather loveable, if a little annoying (but charmingly so!) I have a deep fondness for cats, much to my adopted family’s dismay. But I came in handy too - I even helped a family friend through her alcoholism crisis. The woman next door eventually had a son who could talk endlessly about nothing (and had a strange fascination with Superman) but I never actually met him. I think he lived in New York. After about 4 years, I left my family to be with my sweet girlfriend and my pal, but things didn’t work out quite the way I had hoped… Now I’m resigned to shilling telephone services. Ain’t life fun? ALF? I’m an airline navigator who lives in an apartment building. I spend a lot of time in my friends’ apartment, a psychologist and his wife. I just walk in, it is never necessary to knock, and I invite myself to dinner often. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/18 "2006-04-10T23:40:07Z")
I’m just a simple bus driver, with a fondness for banana’s. Everyone is so nice to me – or they’re trying to kill me… ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/19 "2006-04-11T02:02:58Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > I’m an airline navigator who lives in an apartment building. I spend a lot of time in my friends’ apartment, a psychologist and his wife. I just walk in, it is never necessary to knock, and I invite myself to dinner often. Why do I suddenly have a craving for Moo Goo Gai Pan? It’s Howard Borden! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122/20 "2006-04-11T02:03:39Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Ma called me “Giuseppe” but I don’t go by that anymore. I was one of the best marksmen in my class, until this guy from Washington came by the range. Said he wanted me to join him. I thought it was a joke at first… “It’s better than you, ya stinkin’ Irish pig.” > [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > I’m an airline navigator who lives in an apartment building. I spend a lot of time in my friends’ apartment, a psychologist and his wife. I just walk in, it is never necessary to knock, and I invite myself to dinner often. Howard Borden! * * * I’m terrified of my dog Phil. * * * I’m a convict doing life in prison. Both of my sons were murdered. My daughter-in-law was killed in a crash, but the grandchild survived. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-movie-character-a-game/352122.md?page=2)