# How DO these characters get laid as often as they do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497 "2008-10-11T19:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/21 "2008-10-11T23:27:29Z")
How about Joey Tribbiani from _Friends_? He’s not attractive (well, his body is kinda okay, but not that mug), he’s a mental midget, and “How _you_ doin’?” isn’t a line that would make me wanna sleep with anybody. Much like Jerry Seinfeld, he also inexplicably bagged the gorgeous Kristin Davis. Which reminds me: pretty much everyone but Kristin Davis’s Charlotte on _Sex & the City_. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/22 "2008-10-11T23:32:19Z")
Another overlooked notch on JD Dorien’s gunbelt is the bartender played by [Chrystee Pharris](http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/45/96/0000004596_20060919224755.jpg). I’d nominate the loser Ross Gellar from Friends, scoring with characters playerd by Jennifer Aniston, Aisha Tyler, et al, with no detectable personality. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/23 "2008-10-11T23:37:36Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I’d nominate the loser Ross Gellar from Friends, scoring with characters playerd by Jennifer Aniston, Aisha Tyler, et al, with no detectable personality. Good one! His girlfriends are all drop dead gorgeous as well. Joey, on the other hand, reminds me of a few friends of mine who also have rather long lists on conquests. I’ve never understood it, it’s just instinct for them and I sort of looked at Joey the same way. I don’t know how you top either Kramer or George Costanza though. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/24 "2008-10-11T23:48:23Z")
Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) from _Night Court_. He’s not a terrible looking guy, but a hunk he ain’t, and his character had no money and no class. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/25 "2008-10-11T23:53:15Z")
Dorian is a bad example of this. First of all, there aren’t that many George Clooneys or Brad Pitts out there. There are a lot more hot women than hot men (based purely on looks). The excess hot women have to date someone. Plus looks are less important to women than to men, and Dorian isn’t spectacularly bad looking for a guy. Some women find him attractive, plus he is a doctor and has a sense of humor some might like. Most importantly, the women he dates haven’t been watching the show. They don’t know all the faults you mention, and they have bizarre personality issues of their own anyway. Now, George on Seinfeld I agree with. He really has nothing to recommend him. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/26 "2008-10-11T23:54:38Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Another overlooked notch on JD Dorien’s gunbelt is the bartender played by [Chrystee Pharris](http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/45/96/0000004596_20060919224755.jpg). I didn’t forget her; I just didn’t feel like finding out her name and looking for a SFW picture of her. by Jennifer Aniston, Aisha Tyler, et al, with no detectable personality. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/27 "2008-10-11T23:57:40Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > Most importantly, the women he dates haven’t been watching the show. They don’t know all the faults you mention, and they have bizarre personality issues of their own anyway. How long would you have to spend in JD’s company to realize he was, ah, touched? Now Jordan’s an exception; she never dated him, slept with him all but once, and is nuts. Elliot broke up with a much better catch for JD’s sake, but she’s as self-destructive as he is; in fact the best reason for them to stay together is to spare the rest of the thirtysomethings in their nameless city the trauma of dating either of them. But the others? Only possible because the whole show’s JD’s fantasy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/28 "2008-10-12T00:10:22Z")
Zapp Brannigan has gotten laid exactly twice in his life, which for him is an improbably high rate of romantic success. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/29 "2008-10-12T00:13:56Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Drew Carey on “The Drew Carey Show” had a rather higher-than-believable number of absurdly hot girlfriends. Eh - Drew Carey’s character was unusual for a sitcom, though, insofar as he was actually a decent, fairly smart human being. His dating success might have been - hell, certainly was - unrealistic, but not as wildly so as JD’s. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/30 "2008-10-12T00:47:26Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] I’d nominate the loser Ross Gellar from Friends, scoring with characters playerd by Jennifer Aniston, Aisha Tyler, et al, with no detectable personality. [/QUOTE] I must take issue with this. Ross Gellar _had_ a personality…a diseased, and increasingly twisted personality. Seriously, over the course of the series, he crossed the lines from “annoying” to “eccentric” to, ultimately, “rotten brain.” Nothing some [del]therapy[/del] medication and possibly invasive psychosurgery couldn’t correct, I’m sure. But it was, technically, character development, so I’ve got to give credit where due. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/31 "2008-10-12T00:49:51Z")
I’d argue that in later series, Joey was the only character on Friends who actually seemed vaguely like a human being, making him by far the least personally repulsive of the whole bunch (Ross being at the other end of the scale). So from a certain way of looking at it, he was literally the only person in the (Friends) world worth dating. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/32 "2008-10-12T01:17:45Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > All of whom are evidence for my theory that most of the events on Scrubs happen only in JD’s imagination, and in “reality” he is living Doug’s life. Are you sure that the reality you describe isn’t just occurring in Tommy Westphall’s imagination? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/33 "2008-10-12T02:59:41Z")
Not to nitpick, but JD never actually slept with Heather Graham or Keri Russell. He sure did try, but failed to reach home plate. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/34 "2008-10-12T03:03:43Z")
> [@Dead\_Badger](#): > > I’d argue that in later series, Joey was the only character on Friends who actually seemed vaguely like a human being, making him by far the least personally repulsive of the whole bunch (Ross being at the other end of the scale). So from a certain way of looking at it, he was literally the only person in the (Friends) world worth dating. I agree. Joey was just a dumb good natured Guido from Brooklyn who liked to sleep around a lot. It’s actually kind of a NYC archtype. I don’t recall Ross and Chandler getting laid all that much. I recall Ross getting married a lot. Don’t forget with these NYC shows, NYC is a very different place to be single than most of the rest of the world. You can pretty much find single women everywhere all the time. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/35 "2008-10-12T03:47:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Brian on _Queer as Folk_- he’s certainly [good looking](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/gallery/falltvsexyguys/gale_herold.jpg), but not traffic stopping drop dead gorgeous by any means and he’s a self-obsessed overly cynical bastard to people who meets. I don’t disagree with anything you said about him… but being relatively good-looking is pretty much all it takes to get laid on a nightly basis if you’re so inclined when you’re out clubbing as much as Brian was, no? I’ve certainly seen less attractive guys do it. I’d say the more unrealistic thing there was that Pittsburgh was magically inhabited by ten million extremely attractive gay men who all went to the same club every night. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/36 "2008-10-12T04:34:35Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Otherwise known as the John Dorian Award nominations. > Which brings us to the thread question: what TV & movie character have improbably high rates of romantic success given their personalities and/or appearance? Dorian is truly despicable. It’s a wonder more of his patients don’t die horrible deaths.His sense of humor is his only redeeming characteristic. > [@Tengu](#): > > Elliot’s even worse than JD…at least JD’s able to act like a grownup when doing his job…at least to the point of not using phrases like ‘icky-sticky’. Blonde doctor has the advantage of being a hell of a lot smarter than JD, and good looking. > [@Carmady](#): > > Now, George on Seinfeld I agree with. He really has nothing to recommend him. George is at least honest with himself. He knows he is a bum and a liar. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/37 "2008-10-12T04:37:20Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Zapp Brannigan has gotten laid exactly twice in his life, which for him is an improbably high rate of romantic success. Including snu-snu? ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/38 "2008-10-12T05:10:28Z")
The fact that I get laid in real life pretty much wipes out any lingering disbelief I might have about TV characters landing anyone. If **I** can star in a hot threesome whenever the mood strikes me, the road is pretty much open for any troglodyte/hottie combination. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/39 "2008-10-12T05:48:39Z")
Death by snu-snu! ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497/40 "2008-10-12T06:26:09Z")
I’ve read Joss Whedon talk about Xander’s girlfriends in BTVS. He basically said that in reality this would never happen, but girlfriends make the story a lot more interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-these-characters-get-laid-as-often-as-they-do/467497.md?page=3)