# Supporting characters who deserve their own shows. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713 "2019-10-30T20:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [October 31, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/41 "2019-10-31T19:17:54Z")
Tig and Happy could’ve done a Sons of Anarchy spin off. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/42 "2019-10-31T19:33:53Z")
I’d like to see a Trek take on the seedy underbelly that is Firefly, starring Thadiun " The Outrageous" Okona. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/43 "2019-10-31T19:44:47Z")
Kasper Gutman searched for the Maltese Falcon for seventeen years before the events in the movie took place. I’d really like a prequel showing the search. In my opinion he’s a lot more interesting than Sam Spade. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/44 "2019-10-31T20:16:35Z")
Elaine from _Seinfeld_ could have had her own show. I doubt any of the other principal actors could have done so. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/45 "2019-10-31T20:25:53Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There a lot of possibilities for characters who could have had long running shows of their own. How about Joey from Friends? Or Joanie and Chachi from Happy Days? > > Oh, this is a real good one, Mr. and Mrs. Roper from Three’s Company! What next, give Gomer Pyle from _Andy Griffith_ his own show? I know, Gomer could become a Marine… And in reply to **zimaane** , I have one word: Kramer! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/46 "2019-10-31T20:59:34Z")
Investigator John Munch. Solves crimes by day. Stops alien abductions by night. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/47 "2019-10-31T21:15:01Z")
If Angela hadn’t ended up with Dwight, he and Oscar could’ve had a great sitcom. Uptight religious woman gets taken in by her gay co-worker to help raise her bastard son? It practically writes itself. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/48 "2019-10-31T21:29:58Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > I could see a family sitcom about Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Chances for this went down the tube when he was caught on tape offering to punch Junior’s mamma right in the mouth as soon as he got home. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/49 "2019-10-31T21:37:47Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > How about Joey from Friends? [How about Joey from _Friends_ from _Married With Children_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Heap), which had [it’s own spin-off](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnie_%26_Bobby)? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/50 "2019-10-31T21:45:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > What next, give Gomer Pyle from _Andy Griffith_ his own show? I know, Gomer could become a Marine… They should have bit the bullet (so to speak) and sent him to Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/51 "2019-10-31T22:39:52Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Chances for this went down the tube when he was caught on tape offering to punch Junior’s mamma right in the mouth as soon as he got home. You say it’s his mamma, but there ain’t no way…_no way_ that he could’ve sprung from his loins. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/52 "2019-10-31T23:02:14Z")
in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, it’s hinted that Indiana Jones once respected Rene Belloq as a colleague, and there are moments where he seems to have some misgivings over having cast his lot with the Nazis. There’s more humanity in that character than most movie bad guys. What was Belloq like before he became villainous? What events led him town the path of greed and treachery? I’d watch his origin story. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/53 "2019-10-31T23:21:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > There was an attempt made for a _Married…With Children_ spinoff with David Garrison as Steve Rhoads which would have taken place at Trumaine University, the college that Bud Bundy attended. I think a Bud Bundy series would work now, actually. ---
**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/54 "2019-11-01T01:09:16Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard from NCIS could easily have his own spin-off. Steal the format from the old “Young Indiana Jones” show. Most of each episode is actually a flashback where we actually see a young Ducky living the stories his elder self is recounting to a classroom full of young medical students. I was also going to suggest Ducky, from the bits and pieces of his early years we see in NCIS I think the character could make a good tv series ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/55 "2019-11-01T01:11:47Z")
I’ve heard that James Norrington (from Pirates of the Caribbean 1#) was only meant to be a minor character for movie 1# and never seen again, but the audiences loved him so much that there was a clamor to bring him back and so the movie makers featured him in movie 2# as well. ---
**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 1, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/56 "2019-11-01T02:33:26Z")
How about a series where we find out where Richie Cunningham’s older brother, Chuck, went? ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/57 "2019-11-01T11:44:12Z")
I’d watch _[Fenton](https://that70sshow.fandom.com/wiki/Fenton)_. ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/58 "2019-11-01T12:09:35Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > NSFW > **[Dank and Dabby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1zmiPGzNQ)** Those two were the only funny part of that show and the only reason I sat through both seasons. SNL was smart to pick up Chris Redd and I think Betsy Sodaro would make a great addition to the cast as well. ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/59 "2019-11-01T12:11:14Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > You say it’s his mamma, but there ain’t no way…_no way_ that he could’ve sprung from his loins. I feel like a bad person every time I laugh at that scene…but I just can’t help myself. It is too funny ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713/60 "2019-11-01T13:53:30Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > How about a series where we find out where Richie Cunningham’s older brother, Chuck, went? Well, after serving his sentence for you-know-what, he moved to Point Place, Wisconsin and married Tina Pinciotti. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-characters-who-deserve-their-own-shows/842713.md?page=4)