TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld

No, I’ll let you have it-- I just didn’t want round 4.

  1. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess

She always had money, even if it wasn’t a lot, but the very few times she’s shown picking up some kind of reward for her heroics, she always gives it to charity.

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Penny - The Big Bang Theory

Penny? she had a high school diploma, and had been accepted to Pasadena Community College, but never went far. She was employed as a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory, while going on auditions to be an actress. She was in a productions of The Diary of Anne Frank, a hemorrhoids cream commercial, and an episode of some cop show with Mark Harmon where her part was cut.

After that, she quit acting and the Cheesecake Factory, and found work as a pharmaceuticals representative, where she was very successful, and made a lot of money.

Cripes, I know her resume better than I know my brother’s.

How does she qualify?

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son

In her early days, I thought she was out of work as an actress more than she was employed. I thought she got the gig at Cheesecake Factory much later, and then did all the other stuff. So yeah, I guess she doesn’t qualify.

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless
  6. Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless
  6. Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi
  7. Harry Solomon, Third Rock From The Sun

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless
  6. Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi
  7. Harry Solomon, Third Rock From The Sun
  8. Mearth, Mork & Mindy

Weird little aside-- for quite a while, I thought Penny had been in some experimental play called Anne Frank above a Bowling Alley, because the play was ALWAYS referred to that way, never just “Anne Frank,” or “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless
  6. Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi
  7. Harry Solomon, Third Rock From The Sun
  8. Mearth, Mork & Mindy
  9. Michael Stivic, All in the Family

He was married to Gloria while still a student and was living with her in the Bunker home; then after Joey came they moved next door (?) but it was still never clear where he was getting his money.

-“BB”-

Unemployed, underemployed, or an unclear employment situation

  1. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld
  2. Xena, Xena, Warrior Princess
  3. Barney Rubble, The Flintstones
  4. Grady, Sanford & Son
  5. Frank Gallagher, Shameless
  6. Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi
  7. Harry Solomon, Third Rock From The Sun
  8. Mearth, Mork & Mindy
  9. Michael Stivic, All in the Family
  10. Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad

Would Mr White fit in this category?

Let’s go with an earlier suggestion:

Sidekicks

  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners

Sidekicks

  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
  2. Randy Hickey, My Name Is Earl
  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
  2. Randy Hickey, My Name Is Earl
  3. Gabrielle, Xena, Warrior Princess

There’s even an ep where someone asks her about sidekicking, and she says “Nice work, if you can get it.”

Sidekicks

  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
  2. Randy Hickey, My Name Is Earl
  3. Gabrielle, Xena, Warrior Princess
  4. Darryl Thompson I and Darryl Thompson II, Newhart

“This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl”

-“BB”-

Sidekicks

  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
  2. Randy Hickey, My Name Is Earl
  3. Gabrielle, Xena, Warrior Princess
  4. Darryl Thompson I and Darryl Thompson II, Newhart
  5. Arthur Everest, The Tick

Sidekicks

  1. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
  2. Randy Hickey, My Name Is Earl
  3. Gabrielle, Xena, Warrior Princess
  4. Darryl Thompson I and Darryl Thompson II, Newhart
  5. Arthur Everest, The Tick
  6. Robin, Batman

He was a teacher.

By this time, Michael has completed his college studies, has taken a teaching job, and he and Gloria move out of the Bunker house, and into the former house of George and Louise Jefferson, next door.