The Great TV Sitcom Battle, Male Characters, Round 2. Choose your favorites

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This is Round Two of the Great TV Sitcom Battle, Male Characters edition. Rankings are based on input gathered in another thread. Vote for your favorite character in each of the following 16 head-to-head battles. Polls will close when the voting starts tapering off.

  • Barney Fife - The Andy Griffith Show (1)
  • Earl Hickey - My Name is Earl (50)
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  • Maxwell Smart - Get Smart (2)
  • Harry Stone - Night Court (46)
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  • Archie Bunker - All in the Family (3)
  • Ernie “Coach” Pantusso - Cheers (44)
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  • Dr. Niles Crane - Frasier (4)
  • Les Nessman - WKRP in Cincinnati (40)
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  • Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers (5)
  • George Jefferson - The Jeffersons (36)
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  • Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP in Cincinnati (6)
  • Dick Solomon - 3rd Rock from the Sun (34)
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  • Ed Norton - The Honeymooners (7)
  • Sam Malone - Cheers (30)
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  • George Costanza - Seinfeld (8)
  • Gomez Addams - The Addams Family (27)
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  • Jim Ignatowski - Taxi (9)
  • Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeld (26)
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  • Lou Grant - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (10)
  • Cliff Clavin - Cheers (25)
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  • Norm Peterson - Cheers (11)
  • Al Bundy - Married…with Children (23)
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  • Ron Swanson - Parks and Recreation (12)
  • Ted Baxter - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (22)
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  • Arthur Dietrich - Barney Miller (13)
  • Hawkeye Pierce - MASH (21)
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  • Dr. Bob Hartley - The Bob Newhart Show (14)
  • Dr. Frasier Crane - Frasier (20)
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  • Rob Petrie - The Dick Van Dyke Show (16)
  • Dan Fielding - Night Court (19)
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  • Sherman Potter - MASH (17)
  • Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli - Happy Days (18)
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So Round 1 voting is over?

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Yes.

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The Great TV Sitcom Battle, Male Characters, Round 1. Choose your favorites
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Fun to be the “current swing vote,” yet the first two that came to mind overall were Dan Fielding and Archie.

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I voted for the one I knew, not the one I thought was better, on most of these. Didn’t vote on three of them, because I didn’t know either of the two.

Why are there only 16, instead of 24? Who was summarily ejected, and why?

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Never mind. I’m confused.

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I’m confused too. I’m seeing characters who I thought lost in Round 1 return. I’m not sure I understand the methodology here.

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Yes, some of the head-to-head battles in Round 1 have made it into round 2. There were 25 round 1 winners and I needed a bracket of 32 (16 battles) in round 2.

So I added seven round 1 losers to accomplish this. I did it based on how many votes they got in round 1. the seven-highest vote getters amongst the losers advanced. They were seeded in this bracket based on their original rankings.

Sorry, I should have explained this from the get-go.

It should be smooth sailing from here on.

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Can we get someone to break the George Costanza/Gomez Addams deadlock?

If it doesn’t happen in the next 12 hours or so, I will advance the higher seed of the two (which would be Mr. Costanza).

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I undid my vote for Gomez Addams. I only voted for him because I don’t like Seinfield. I don’t know either character. But, if it becomes a tie again, then add a vote for Gomez.

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Thank you for your service, Mr. or Ms. Balk.

And now we have a different tie. I will advance the higher seed lest we be here forever.

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Round 3 polls are now live.

Further votes in this thread will not count.

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