List your five favorite sitcom characters, in order.

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1

  1. Archie Bunker - All in the Family

  2. Arthur Dietrich - Barney Miller

  3. Rob Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show

  4. Frank Burns - MASH*

  5. Felix Unger - The Odd Couple

2

  1. Ed Norton - The Honeymooners

  2. **Homer Simpson **- The Simpsons

  3. Eliot Carlin -* The Bob Newhart Show*

  4. Dwight Schrute - The Office (USA version)

  5. Otis Campbell (aka Otis the Drunk) - The Andy Griffith Show

3

George Jefferson
Dorothy Zbornack
Sophia Patrillo
Rose Nylan
Fred Sanford
ETA: Ed Norton and Archie Bunker are great choices.

4

Fry
Bender
Homer
Kramer
Lowell from Wings

5

  1. Norm Peterson - Cheers

  2. Archie Bunker -All In The Family

  3. **Homer Simpson **- The Simpsons

  4. Barney Stinson - How I Met Your Mother

  5. Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl- Newhart

6

Hawkeye Pierce
Jack Tripper
Snyder
Montgomery Burns
Arnold Drummond

7

Justin Credible, I have never seen a single episode of wings, but the rest of your choices are so awesome, I have to seek out Wings on line, now.

8

  1. Homer Simpson

  2. George Costanza

  3. G.O.B. Bluth (Arrested Development)

  4. Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

  5. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)

9

  1. Jessica Tate - Soap!

  2. Sir Humphrey Appleby - Yes, Minister & Yes, Prime Minister

  3. Charles Emerson Winchester III - MASH*

  4. Les Nessman - WKRP in Cincinnati

  5. Detective Sergeant Arthur Dietrich - Barney Miller
    Special mention to Dharma Freedom Montgomery - Dharma & Greg

I order them the way I do because, although Maj. Winchester is a funnier character in many respects than Sir Humphrey, both Sir Humphrey and Jessica Tate are prime characters, sine qua nons of the series they were part of. Les Nessman may be one of the funniest, and best acted sit com characters EVER. Oh the humanity!

10

  1. Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock - Hancock’s Half Hour/Hancock.

  2. Harold Steptoe - Steptoe & Son.

  3. Dr. Frasier Crane - Cheers/Frasier.

  4. Gary Strang - Men Behaving Badly.

  5. Sheldon Cooper - The Big Bang Theory.

11

Rob Petrie
Peter Dragon (Action)
Jeff Murdoch (Coupling – UK version)
George Bluth (Arrested Development – though I could also add several others in the cast)
Randy Hickey (My Name is Earl)

12

Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP in Cincinnati
Deputy Barney Fife - The Andy Griffith Show
Agent 86 Maxwell Smart - Get Smart
Jim Ignatowski - Taxi
Eldin the live in house painter - Murphy Brown

13

Chandler Bing (Friends-- screw you all, I LOVED that show)

Evelyn William McNeal (Newsradio)

Linda (Jesse)

Christine Hughes (Yes, Dear-- O.K., Liza Snyder should be on all sit coms at all times)

Toss up between Alison Laplaca in Open House or Duets and Christine Baranski in anything ever. I like acerbic women in my sit coms.

14

Philip J. Fry
Homer J. Simpson
George Costanza
Cosmo Kramer
Bender Bending Rodriguez

15
  1. Dr. Perry Cox - “[Scrubs]”
  2. Dr. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce - “MAS*H”
  3. Steve Taylor - “Coupling” (UK version)
  4. Chandler Bing - “Friends”
  5. Freddie Benson - “iCarly”
16

  1. Col. Potter - MASH *

  2. Tobias Funke - Arrested Development

  3. Jack Donaghy - 30 Rock

  4. GOB Bluth - Arrested Development

  5. John Dorian - Scrubs **

  • I just love his character. Not super funny, but likeable.

** I know, he’s annoying. But I find him funny more frequently than irritating.

17
  1. Dr. Perry Cox, Scrubs
  2. Basil Fawlty, Fawlty Towers
  3. Murphy Brown,* Murphy Brown
  4. Chandler Bing, Friends
  5. Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

*Although, I doubt she would have been nearly as funny without her fantastic supporting cast. I think without the great cast, she would have been a cynical liberal with some jokes instead of a comedienne making cynical liberal jokes.

18

A lot of my favorites already mentioned so I will name a couple not already nominated.

Henry Blake
Floyd the Barber
Carla Tortelli
Jackie Harris
Louie DePalma

19

This is much harder than I thought it would be!

  1. Barney Fife

  2. Dan Fielding

  3. George Costanza

  4. Barney Stinson

  5. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)

Tons of Honorable Mentions:

Alex P. Keaton
Ari Gold
Cliff Clavin
Dale Gribble
Daria Morgandorfer
GOB
Johnny Drama
Lilith Sternen-Crane
Lucy Ricardo
Mimi (Drew Carey)
Moe Szcylslak
Niles Crane
Nina Van Horn
Phoebe Buffay
Roger the Alien
Sophia Petrillo
Ted the Lawyer
That Fat White Kid from the Cosby Show
The Todd
Tobias Fuenke

Nice old school Fox reference.

20

Jim Rockford
Artemus Gordon
Samantha Stevens
Maxwell Smart
Mary Richards