# TV Shows Where Two Characters Have The Same First Name And Appear Together **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756 "2011-06-16T23:27:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/21 "2011-06-17T13:33:29Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > …_Sealab 2021_ had two Debbies, which they mined for comic effect on occasion. “Why is she ‘Black Debbie’? Why not call her ‘Debbie’ and the other one ‘White Debbie’?” … a bit that they stole from _All In The Family_. Not actual on-screen characters, but Archie referred to two guys he worked with, Black Leonard and Regular Leonard. (Not sure it was “Leonard” but that’s the gist) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/22 "2011-06-17T15:08:28Z")
Not a TV series, but the webcomic _Multiplex_ had two characters named Angie. There was a brief [discussion](http://www.multiplexcomic.com/strip/513) among the characters in the strip about what they were going to call the new Angie when she was hired. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/23 "2011-06-17T15:12:02Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first to mention Lucille and Lucille 2 on _Arrested Development_. Also the loose seal. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/24 "2011-06-17T15:19:31Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I can’t believe I’m the first to mention Lucille and Lucille 2 on _Arrested Development_. Good catch. There was also George, Oscar, George Oscar, Michael, Girl Michael, and George Michael. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/25 "2011-06-17T17:25:25Z")
I’m not sure if they appeared together, but on House, Cuddy’s daughter is named Rachel, which is also the same name as Taub’s wife. I’m sure they’ve been in the same episodes, but not onscreen together. ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/26 "2011-06-17T18:29:46Z")
It was Elmo and Black Elmo on All in the Family. Rescue Me has Sean and Black Sean. In fact, when the firehouse hired the 2nd (black) Sean, the characters tried to call original (white) Sean by his middle name – Leslie. But that never stuck and it’s back to Sean and Black Sean. As an aside, I once worked in an office where the manager was Debbie and a temp named Debbie was hired for the summer. I tried to get everyone to call them New Debbie & Old Debbie, but it didn’t stick. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/27 "2011-06-17T18:40:18Z")
The new receptionist on _The Office_ was named Kelly, but because they already had a Kelly she agreed to go by her middle name, Erin, to avoid confusion. I don’t recall this ever coming up again after her first episode (she’s just plain Erin now) so I think it was simply a gag to emphasize the original Kelly’s childish pettiness. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/28 "2011-06-17T22:16:21Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > There was, of course, the Monty Python episode about the Philosophy Department at the University of Woolloomooloo, where everyone was called Bruce “to avoid confusion”. Not to mention the various Pets Named Eric. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/29 "2011-06-17T22:37:40Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > What about Larry, Darryl and Darryl? > > There were two Tony characters on _The Sopranos_ for a whole season when Gandolfini and Buscemi were cousins. There were also two characters named “Pussy.” And nearly every male character had a son with the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/30 "2011-06-17T22:46:32Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > There were also two characters named “Pussy.” And nearly every male character had a son with the same name. That reminds me of the litany in _Goodfellas_ where all the guys were Peter or Paul and the women Marie. Wasn’t Uncle Junior calling one of the Pussy names when he shot Tony? Malanga maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/31 "2011-06-17T22:48:26Z")
Yep, he shouted “Malanga!” right before shooting Tony. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/32 "2011-06-17T22:49:42Z")
“The New Adventures of Old Christine” is based on the premise that Julie Louis Dreyfus’s ex has a new wife who shares her name. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/33 "2011-06-18T04:33:57Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > The new receptionist on _The Office_ was named Kelly, but because they already had a Kelly she agreed to go by her middle name, Erin, to avoid confusion. I don’t recall this ever coming up again after her first episode (she’s just plain Erin now) so I think it was simply a gag to emphasize the original Kelly’s childish pettiness. It was mentioned in passing this season. I remember a little _ding_ of “Oh yeah…Erin is actually another Kelly…I forgot about that”. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/34 "2011-06-18T14:53:01Z")
> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#): > > The Adventures Of Pete & Pete. I think this is the ultimate example, as the characters with the same name were the two main characters and the show was named after them. There are two supporting characters on _Glee_ named David, but while they’ve both been in several of the same episodes I’m pretty sure they haven’t had a scene together. One of them is a very minor character, a senior member of the Dalton Academy Warblers. (He’s the black guy on the left at the beginning of [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xiCbUqEENs).) The other is a much more important character, football player and bully David Karofsky. He’s almost always just called “Karofsky”, though. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/35 "2011-06-18T15:14:02Z")
If we are talking about off screen characters, Colonel Potter and Colonel Blakes wife were named Mildred (Blake’s wife was later named Lorraine). Trapper’s and Frank’s wife were both named Louise. Technically, on Dallas, Jock, JR, and John Ross Ewing all had the same first name and middle name: John Ross. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/36 "2011-06-18T16:04:22Z")
In _Game of Thrones_, Robb(ert) Stark shared a couple of scenes with his namesake, King Robert. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/37 "2011-06-18T16:11:59Z")
OK, he probably doesn’t qualify as a “character” but how about little Jerry Seinfeld on the cock fighting episode of “Seinfeld”? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/38 "2011-06-18T16:26:45Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > OK, he probably doesn’t qualify as a “character” but how about little Jerry Seinfeld on the cock fighting episode of “Seinfeld”? There was an episode of Frasier where there was talk of a bird at the local zoo named Frasier Crane. (Did it actually appear onscreen? I don’t recall) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/39 "2011-06-18T16:56:14Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > On the TV show Soap, the Latin American revolutionary El Puerco had two henchmen both name Juan. They were referred to as Juan one, and Juan two. And Juan One was played by Joe Mantegna. My contribution to the scholarship, as I have already been beaten to both the Big and Little Pussies and the Two Tonys, is to provide the following TV Tropes link: [One Steve Limit](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneSteveLimit) Warning: TV Tropes link. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756/40 "2011-06-18T17:10:04Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > There was an episode of Frasier where there was talk of a bird at the local zoo named Frasier Crane. (Did it actually appear onscreen? I don’t recall) Oh yeah, he did. They go to the zoo and Martin accidentally unleashes it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-two-characters-have-the-same-first-name-and-appear-together/585756.md?page=3)