# Sitcom characters who would make good friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145 "2014-11-09T13:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/41 "2014-11-10T18:44:23Z")
Jeannie (Barbara Eden) would have been great to have as a friend. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/42 "2014-11-10T20:23:34Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > I’d like to live in Sheldon and Leonard’s building. The group from The Big Bang Theory are just whacky enough to be fun without edging into annoying. I sometimes think Sheldon’s nuttiness would irritate the bejeezus out of me after a while but so far, it hasn’t. . Other than Sheldon, those guys are pretty much like some of my friends. I can see playing D&D with them, no problems. Sheldon is unrealistic, no one would put up with that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/43 "2014-11-10T20:23:46Z")
I could hang out with Christy and Bonnie from **Mom**. But then I would hit on both of them. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/44 "2014-11-10T21:10:52Z")
Rob and Laura Petrie. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/45 "2014-11-10T21:18:22Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Troy and Abed from _Community_ would be awesome to hang out with. They would be fun to hang with. So would Fry and Bender. Hanging with the Always Sunny crew would be fun too. Except for Frank. Frank is one sketchy son of a bitch. Extra bonus would be if Mac’s cousin, Country Mac, hung out as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/46 "2014-11-10T22:08:01Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I think I’d get along well with Amy Farrah Fowler. I think I could hang out with Amy and Bernadette, but not Penny. She’s too mean. > [@xizor](#): > > Troy and Abed from _Community_ would be awesome to hang out with. I must respectfully disagree - I think they would be exhausting and irritating to hang out with. I can’t even imagine having a normal conversation with them. I think my choice would be Winston from “New Girl” - he’s just weird enough to keep things interesting, and I love his face so very, very much. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/47 "2014-11-10T22:08:39Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](#): > > Tim Taylor from Home Improvement would be my fist choice, just in case I need shelves put up. If you want those shelves to stay up, I think I’d choose Al over Tim. 🙂 As far as being friends, I’d choose Berta from Two and a Half Men. She seems like she’d be a hoot to hang out with. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/48 "2014-11-10T22:26:35Z")
I know it wasn’t a sitcom, but I have so much for love for Tami Taylor from **Friday Night Lights** that she deserves a mention. Denise Huxtable from **The Cosby Show**. She had just the right amount of craziness to make her fun. And for my sarcasm fix: Dorothy Zbornak from **The Golden Girls**. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/49 "2014-11-10T22:30:47Z")
Jeannie, Penny and Bender. Marge Simpson. Monica Geller-Bing. Walden Schmidt from 2.5 Men. Ted F’in Baxter. Anyone major character on MASH except Klinger or Radar. Even Burns would be a hoot as a friend. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/50 "2014-11-10T22:58:31Z")
Syler We have the same goals. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/51 "2014-11-11T00:23:39Z")
Richie, Potsie, and even Ralph Malph, but mostly just to get in with Arthur Fonzarelli. That dude’s got your back no matter what, even if you come home from Greenland and get all drunk and angsty up in his grill, or get slobbery with his girl and catch mono from her. Plus he’d be the best wingman ever. Or maybe the worst since the ladies were apparently prepared to stand in line and wait for. ---
**Author:** ![btthegreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@btthegreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btthegreat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/52 "2014-11-11T03:14:19Z")
Mary richards. Maude Finley. Samantha Stevens dear Aunt Clara, the entire Cheers gang, and I’d let Zeb and Esther Walton move into my cottage behind the house. ---
**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 11, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/53 "2014-11-11T08:43:29Z")
The kids from _That '70s Show_ would be great to hang out with. I wish I’d had friends like them when I was in high school. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/54 "2014-11-12T23:13:36Z")
In no particular order…maybe at a dinner party, I’d like: Amy Farah Fowler Rhoda Morgenstern Mary Richards Phil Dunphy Gloria Pritchett Jake Peralta (Brooklyn 99) The Gang from I Love Lucy Mike Brady Alice the housekeeper Laverne and Shirley And throw Frasier and Niles Crane in, to observe the debacle ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/55 "2014-11-13T05:28:25Z")
Most of the FRIENDS (except for Joey) Max and Caroline from 2Broke Girls Will & Grace, with Karen & Jack as well The entire gang from How I Met Your mother (including the mother! Gawd I wish they had done a full season with her in it!) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/56 "2014-11-13T07:13:48Z")
Rhoda and Brenda Amy Farrah-Fowler Leonard Hoffstater Niles Crane Molly The Petries Dorothy Zbornak Not a sitcom, but I’d love being friends with ST:TNG’s Data. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/57 "2014-11-14T02:50:28Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > There was a show a few years ago called _My Boys_. It was set in Chicago, and populated by 30-something single guys and the girl who was their mutual friend. All were flawed but likable characters. They would get my vote. I loved that show. I’d love to hang out at their bar and play games with them. I think I could also be friends with How I Met Your Mother’s Lily and Marshall. The rest of them would be too much, but when they weren’t too wacky, those two were my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/58 "2014-11-14T16:50:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hanging with the Always Sunny crew would be fun too. Except for Frank. Frank is one sketchy son of a bitch. Extra bonus would be if Mac’s cousin, Country Mac, hung out as well. :eek: I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to the show. Every normal person these bozos come into contact with get dragged down into their personal hell. Look what happened to poor Father Mara and The Waitress! Yeah, I’d _totally_ hang out with them! It would be a kick! 😃 I’d stay away from The Workaholics, except for Alice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/59 "2014-11-14T16:54:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > :eek: > > I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to the show. Every normal person these bozos come into contact with get dragged down into their personal hell. Look what happened to poor Father Mara and The Waitress! How do you know that wouldn’t be a step up for me? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145/60 "2014-11-14T16:59:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Nah. Uncle Fester may try to put you on the rack or hook you up to a live electrical current and Gomez might have you wire up the dynamite to his train set or challenge you to a fencing match, but what’s the worst that could happen? The entire history of sitcoms is built around that question! I’d certainly hang out with Tom and Barbara Good. Though maybe a little more time with Barbara, I admit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-characters-who-would-make-good-friends/704145.md?page=4)