# Most memorable minor characters from TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167 "2010-11-28T15:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/21 "2010-11-29T03:03:27Z")
Walter Koenig as **Bester** in Babylon 5. I know, he becomes major later on, but he starts minor and is wonderfully evil and memorable. **Clem** from Buffy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/22 "2010-11-29T03:16:15Z")
Lwaxana Troi. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/23 "2010-11-29T03:26:55Z")
Lady Heather from CSI. I always thought her relationship with Grissom was deeper and more meaningful than his with Sara. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/24 "2010-11-29T04:18:26Z")
How about a couple of oldies: Lance White (Tom Selleck) from _The Rockford Files_ - “Clues just turn up Jim.” Gandolph Fitch (Issac Hayes) from Rockford - “Hey Rockfish” Elliot Carlin (Jack Riley) from \*The Bob Newhart Show \*- “You know its a bad party when Elliot Carlin is the happiest guy in the room.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/25 "2010-11-29T04:47:20Z")
Edith Keeler ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/26 "2010-11-29T07:05:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > …[Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013535/) from Law & Order (and Law & Order: Criminal Intent), portrayed by [Leslie Hendrix](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376890/). She’s by far the most believable medical examiner on any of the cop shows (sorry, Ducky!) and has a believable, human hotness about her that the parade of model/ADAs on that show do not. She’s a good one, but I think Emil Skoda, played by the incomparable J.K. Simmons, blew her away in the memorableness department. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/27 "2010-11-29T23:18:42Z")
**Ainsley Hayes** from **The West Wing** just stole every episode she was in. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/28 "2010-11-29T23:32:11Z")
**Donnie DiMauro** from **Just Shoot Me** “Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/29 "2010-11-29T23:38:04Z")
Bebe, Frasier’s agent, on **Frasier** Soup Nazi, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/30 "2010-11-29T23:42:31Z")
[Muttley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttley). ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/31 "2010-11-29T23:47:56Z")
Marcy Rhoades D’Arcy, _Married with Children._ So much fun to see Al and Peg’s constant bad influence sand off the sweet yuppie facade to reveal the hard-hearted, anger-filled flaming bitch underneath. Fine actress too and I think the prettiest female cast member (yes, counting Christina). ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/32 "2010-11-30T01:29:57Z")
Q from ST:TNG Kosh from B5 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/33 "2010-11-30T01:30:25Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I always thought MASH’s Colonel Flag was a classic—The first couple of times he was featured, it was strictly all laughs, but later he was involved in at least one dramatic episode, where he executed a Korean woman guerrilla fighter, with Hawkeye helpless to stop him… That wasn’t Flagg, it was a [South Korean officer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638319/). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/34 "2010-11-30T01:57:51Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Soup Nazi, anyone? Yeah, there were a ton of great minor characters on _Seinfeld_. Many of them (like the Soup Nazi) were one-off characters, but some of the great recurring ones were: Newman Uncle Leo Tim Whatley George Steinbrenner Mr. Pitt J. Peterman Puddy Kenny Bania Jackie Chiles Crazy Joe Davola Poppy The Maestro ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/35 "2010-11-30T02:10:42Z")
One/three of my favorites: Larry, Darryl, and Darryl from Newhart. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/36 "2010-11-30T02:10:49Z")
Vito Giotto, in the _Dick Van Dyke Show_ episode, “Give Me Your Walls!” A great performance by Vito Scotti. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/37 "2010-11-30T02:30:29Z")
Reading the thread title, I immediately thought of Lenny and Squiggy. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/38 "2010-11-30T03:25:34Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Reading the thread title, I immediately thought of Lenny and Squiggy. That reminded me of Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/39 "2010-11-30T04:33:25Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Damn! Beat me to it. > > Also from _Doctor Who_, Reinette from “The Girl In The Fireplace”. > > Brittany from _Glee_. Show’s worth watching just for her absurdities. Heather Morris is pretty, but it’s her deadpan lines and her amazing dance moves that sell Brittany. Since we were both beaten to [Sally Sparrow](http://careymulligan.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/16.jpg), I’ll add [Jenny](http://www.sliceofscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/doctors_daughter.jpg), a real Doctor’s daughter as The Doctor’s Daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167/40 "2010-11-30T11:40:27Z")
Gary Jones, as CMSargeant Walter Harriman on “Stargate SG-1” who did a great job as “The Chevron Guy” and went with Hammond of Texas when he assumed command of the “Promethesus” to do battle with the false god Anubis in “Lost City” Jenny Tomasin as scullery Ruby Finch (Lord Bellamy had to ask Mrs Bridges what her last name was after some 20 years of service) on “Upstairs, Downstairs” If a main actor in a recurring role is needed. Hans Conried as Uncle Tonoose in “Make Room for Daddy”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-minor-characters-from-tv-shows/562167.md?page=3)