# Identify these characters' stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156 "2005-08-29T21:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/41 "2005-09-23T08:10:50Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Since this thread seems to have died, and nobody answered it, ‘J’ was the faceless assassin that [Got Carter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/) Yeah, I get that idea too… 😕 Fronk was the Hispanic gardener on _Make Room for Daddy_ (Danny Thomas). Lance Crossfire was Roger Ramjet’s rival. Belker was the scruffy little cop from _Hill Street Blues._ here are ten more: 1. Mr. Shellheimer 2. Mr. Bender 3. Mr. Van Rensselaer 4. Flora 5. Annie (not Annie of the comic strip) 6. Nelson Muntz 7. Crabby Appleton 8. Ajax Filstrup 9. Pandora Sparks 10. Jimmy Getzoff ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/42 "2005-09-23T09:09:38Z")
1. Flora : The somewhat frivolous Princess of Amber from the Amber novels. 2. Nelson Muntz : Stocky bully that harrasses Bart Simpson and has an annoying laugh. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/43 "2005-09-23T11:35:27Z")
1. Crabby Appleton – the nemesis of **Tom Terrific** (with his dog, **The Mighty Manfred** , who mostly just slept), the funnel-wearing Terrytoon character shown on **Captain Kangeroo**. “Crabby Apppleton – Rotten to the Core” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/44 "2005-09-23T17:43:48Z")
Since this thread’s been revived, here are a few of mine that remain unanswered: NDP 1) Fred Fenster. NDP 2) Gavin Elster. NDP 4) Harry Buttle. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/45 "2005-09-23T17:53:01Z")
Wasn’t **Harry Buttle** a character in **Brazil**? The one who got wrongfully sentenced when a fly got in the works? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/46 "2005-09-23T23:05:08Z")
Golly, NDP, I’m sorry…I’ve heard of Tom Glavin and Darren McGaven but that’s about it. 😕 The “Flora” I mentioned was Alberta Nelson’s character on _The Andy Griffith Show,_ who decided to make Andy her beau, and took Goober’s job away from him at the gas station. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/47 "2005-09-23T23:20:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Wasn’t **Harry Buttle** a character in **Brazil**? > The one who got wrongfully sentenced when a fly got in the works? Correct. NDP 1 is still open. (However, I will hint that he’s almost always called by just his last name.) NDP 2 is also unanswered. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/48 "2005-09-23T23:53:40Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Since this thread’s been revived, here are a few of mine that remain unanswered: > > NDP 1) Fred Fenster. > > NDP 2) Gavin Elster. > > NDP 4) Harry Buttle. Gavin Elster is the millionaire old friend of Scottie (Jimmy Stewart) who hires him to tail his wife Madelyne (actually imposter Judy) around San Francisco in **Vertigo**. I’ll toss out a few more: - Niki Smith - Graf Orlok - Barbara Anne Boopstein - Benjamin Compson - Velma Cruther - Nick Thinblood - Scott Free ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/49 "2005-09-24T00:16:21Z")
Graf Orlok is the vampire in _Nosferatu_. Barbara Anne Boopstein is _Doonesbury_’s Boopsie. Scott Free is DC Comics’ **Mister Miracle**. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/50 "2005-09-24T22:04:50Z")
I thought some of the Teeming Millions would know these! 1. Mr. Shellheimer was the head of the toy department in the movie _Miracle on 34th Street._ 2. Mr. Bender was the drunk on the short-lived TV series _[Good Guys_ in 1970. 3. Mr. Van Rensselaer (Bill Quinn) was the blind man at the bar on _Archie Bunker’s Place._ 4. Annie (played by Lillian Randolph) was the black maid employed by Peter and “Ma” Bailey (George’s mother) in _It’s a Wonderful Life._ 5. Ajax was the dog belonging to the Filstrup family in Virgil Partch’s comic strip “Big George!” 6. Pandora Sparks was Elizabeth Montgomery’s cast credit for Samantha’s look-alike cousin she played, on _Bewitched._ 7. Jimmy Getzoff was a violinist with Lawrence Welk’s orchestra. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/51 "2005-09-24T23:23:39Z")
Okay, of mine, everyone’s been ID except for Fred Fenster (NDP 1). I thought somebody would’ve picked it by now but I guess another hint is in order: the character is from a movie from the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/52 "2005-09-24T23:41:26Z")
I did look that up, but only to check I’d got the answer right. Fred Fenster is one of “The Usual Suspects” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/53 "2005-09-25T00:09:34Z")
> [@silverfish](#): > > I did look that up, but only to check I’d got the answer right. Fred Fenster is one of “The Usual Suspects” Correct, but what’s his story? ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/54 "2005-09-25T23:34:25Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Correct, but what’s his story? I can’t remember much about his particular part in the film, beyond what I hinted at in my answer, that he was one of the suspects in the line-up, and thus part of the makeshift gang formed with the other members of the line-up. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/55 "2005-09-26T06:26:47Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Pandora Sparks was Elizabeth Montgomery’s cast credit for Samantha’s look-alike cousin she played, on _Bewitched._ Actually, Pandora [Spocks](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000548/) was credited with playing the role of Serena. From **Art Vandelay, Architect** ’s list: Benjamin “Benjy” Compson is the mentally retarded man who narrates part of William Faulkner’s _The Sound and the Fury_. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/56 "2005-10-01T07:36:02Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Actually, Pandora [Spocks](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000548/) was credited with playing the role of Serena. Spocks it may be according to that site; however, I remember the spelling \*Sparks \* at the close of episodes. (I associated the name with Randy Sparks of the New Christy Minstrels.) Here are ten more: 1. Miss Lotta Love 2. Dash Riprock 3. Charlie (as played by Dick Bakalyan) 4. Dr. Forrest Lundeen 5. Karla Göteborg 6. Miss Torso 7. Mr. Quigley 8. Gina (a little girl) 9. Policewoman Dorothy Miller 10. Comet ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/57 "2005-10-22T20:50:15Z")
I’m sorry if this thread has become boring… ☹ Hint: “Miss Lotta Love” was Roger Ramjet’s girl. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156/58 "2005-10-22T23:05:31Z")
Fred Fenster is one of [The Usual Suspects.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-characters-stories/319156.md?page=2)