# Middle names of TV Characters

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 17, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668 "2018-11-17T05:21:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668/61 "2018-11-20T21:56:43Z")

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“Fred G Sanford, the G stands for \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\*”

- whatever that episode’s joke required: Gorilla, Gracious, Gonna put one across your lip

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668/62 "2018-11-20T22:54:44Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> While his father is Kirk Evelyn Van Houten. Not funny, IMHO. OTOH there is Mary Wrestlemania Spuckler. Rainier Luftwaffe Wolfcastle. Cecil Underdunk Terwilliger and Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, and Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Springfield (that’s not a typo).

\*Hans Sprungfeld

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668/63 "2018-11-20T22:57:04Z")

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Jessica Beatrice Fletcher (nee MacGill) from _Murder She Wrote_

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668/64 "2018-11-20T23:28:24Z")

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A tricky one. Ethel May Mertz? Ethel Louise Mertz? Or Ethel Roberta Mertz?

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-names-of-tv-characters/824668/65 "2018-11-21T09:13:29Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> While his father is Kirk Evelyn Van Houten. Not funny, IMHO.

Maybe not to you, but a lot of people snigger when they meet a man with one of these unisex names (Evelyn, Jocelyn, Shirley, Vivian, etc.) that has lately become overwhelmingly used for females. The brother of a friend of mine is named Beverly and absolutely hates it for this reason.

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