# TV \*characters\* you have wanted to date **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401 "2002-04-30T01:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/1 "2002-04-30T01:45:02Z")
I mean that as literally as humanly possible. I’m not talking about the actors or actresses, but the actual characters. And I don’t mean just screw, or lick, or Eris knows what, but go on an actual, honest-to-god date. I know. The things I think about. But, anyway, to get it off my chest… Pre-Billy Ally McBeal. Scully from X-Files at _any_ time. And, I must say without reservation and possibly with some emphasis, Twin Peaks’ Audrey Horne (If I’m not mistaken, Ms Horne, your father is Benjamin horne, the owner of this fine establishment. So I imagine you can sit anywhere you like. :D) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/2 "2002-04-30T01:53:06Z")
Cathy from _The Patty Duke Show_. I love a brainy girl. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/3 "2002-04-30T02:27:02Z")
Brisco County, Jr. (Young) Indiana Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/4 "2002-04-30T03:35:42Z")
Dot Matrix from ReBoot. I’ve really got to stop falling for the fictional characters… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/5 "2002-04-30T03:39:54Z")
Chandler Bing. I just had a conversation over the weekend with my sister where we both admitted we’d date a guy like Chandler in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/6 "2002-04-30T04:16:40Z")
Lucy Hatcher from The Practice. No question about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/7 "2002-04-30T05:03:59Z")
Ro Laren. She’s tough and I like her take-no-crap attitude. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/8 "2002-04-30T05:16:02Z")
Another Chandler here as well. Dr. Carter from ER would also be cool. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/9 "2002-04-30T06:27:09Z")
Clark Kent. And Superman too (the Dean Cain version, BTW) Oh, and Michael Wiseman/Newman from _Now and Again_. Um…after the brain transplant. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/10 "2002-04-30T06:36:06Z")
Agree on Audrey Horne and Scully. I’ll add Diane Chambers from _Cheers_. (Actually, I knew a few girls like her in high school.) (I’m so pathetic.) ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/11 "2002-04-30T07:25:15Z")
Abby, from ER. Cause you know she’d be better off with a short starving musician such as myself, instead of one of those tall square-jawed doctors. Or . . . here’s an obscure one . . . Natalie from Sports Night. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/12 "2002-04-30T07:31:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*Cathy from _The Patty Duke Show_. I love a brainy girl. \*\* HELL YES! What does she look like now? That show was out like 20 years or so before I was born, but I still think shes DA BIZZOMB!! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/13 "2002-04-30T07:32:48Z")
Keith Partridge (all the other girls would have been sooo jealous) Robin of Sherwood (Great stories) Xena (there is no way it could possibly be boring) Susan Ivanova (she’s Russian, second in command of a space station and a fighter pilot) Any of the Big Three on the Secret Adventures of Jules Vern. (one is the brillant Mr. Vern and the others: Mr Phileas Fogg and his cousin, Rebecca-in HM Secret Service) Sidney from Relic Hunter. (female Indiana Jones) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/14 "2002-04-30T07:47:07Z")
I always liked Diane from **Cheers**. I have high hopes that I could keep her from talking too much. Still pretentious but a mild flaw but if I keep reminder her how great a bowler she is I should be able to keep that in check too. Of Beverly Crusher from **ST:TNG**. For obvious reasons. Maybe I can get to her before Jack and Jean-Luc. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/15 "2002-04-30T08:23:48Z")
I think I’d dig casting spells with Willow Rosenberg. If she decides to go back to liking guys, that is. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2002, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/16 "2002-04-30T10:06:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hoops \* > \*\* > Or . . . here’s an obscure one . . . Natalie from Sports Night. Ouch. \*\* No way, man! _She’s MINE_!!! Also, Donna from _The West Wing_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/17 "2002-04-30T10:12:34Z")
CJ Craig from _The West Wing_. I see by the promo for this week that she’s receiving death threats. To keep her safe, I volunteer to throw myself on top of her until the maniac is apprehended I don’t care how many episodes it takes! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/18 "2002-04-30T12:26:59Z")
Dana Scully. I have the hots for Gillian Anderson, but I hear she’s a huge flake and a kook. It’s not her I want, but Scully, the smart one. Irony is, I probably have a much better chance with Gillian - Dana wouldn’t give me the time of day. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/19 "2002-04-30T13:27:32Z")
Lorelai Gilmore of _Gilmore Girls_. Kooky and flighty, but also nurturing. I could really go for a woman like that right about now. Romana I from _Doctor Who_. She’d always be lording over me about how smart she is, and I’d keep goading her into it because I like when she acts snooty and aloof. Nikki from _Spin City_. A neurotic redhead, and a major hottie. I second Rebecca Fogg from _The Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne_. A smart, beautiful, dangerous woman who knows her way around weapons, espionage, and upper crust Victorian society. All while filling out that steampunk spybabe bodysuit to perfection. Yuummmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401/20 "2002-04-30T13:32:40Z")
I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but Chloe Sullivan from Smallville. Perky and chipper with short blond hair that goes every which way. She’s a born writer who won’t let anything stand between her and the story. Oh yeah, and Allison Mack is cute as hell. So…yeah…Chloe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-characters-you-have-wanted-to-date/106401.md?page=2)