If you do check out this website
http://www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator/
Its pretty damn cool, I wasted a couple hours here yesterday. I was amazed at how pathetic some of my choices were, damn those 80’s.
…actually lots of times…
I think it just keeps asking you questions until it guesses correctly. But still…coolness.
For me it guessed
Jeanie for I Dream Of Jeanie
Jack McFarland from Will and Grace
And Drew from Drew Carey Show.
I think that’s pretty impressive.
I tried one and it lost. Tim from Home Improvement. gonna go give it a second chance though. 
It just guessed Roseanne and Doogie Howser for me. Pretty cool site. I’ll have to think of something harder so I can stump this thing!
We used to have something like this when we were little - my dad had written a program in basic that did it. Ours was for animals, though.
SwimmingRiddles - it keeps asking questions until
a) it’s narrowed it down to one character it knows.
b) your answers have eliminated all of the characters it knows.
And every time you stump it, it “learns” your character, and adds your question to it’s list.
I tried to think of obscure characters, and Erin from Titus tripped it up.
But it’s dead on with the dictators. It got Chairman Mao in like 7 questions.
I just beat it.
I was Dr. Robert McDonald from MY LIVING DOLL, and it had no idea that I lived with Julie Newmar playing a girl robot back in 1964.
I just stumped it on Woody from Cheers.
It couldn’t handle me as Uncle Joe from PETTICOAT JUNCTION, either.
It guessed me. I was Norm from Cheers.
Once it asked me if my best friend was a mailman, I knew it got me.
Now I must go play again!
I stumped it with Angela from “Who’s the Boss”. It thought I was describing Chrissy from “Three’s Company”.
It just got Topanga from Boy Meets World, but I stumped it with Ray Campbell from Sister,Sister.
Ha!
I beat it with Holly Marshall from ‘Land Of The Lost’.
She was the babe when I was just a tot.
I beat it with Ensign Chekov, but it figured out Willis Drummond, of whatchewtalkinboutwillis fame.
It couldn’t figure out Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP either.
I don’t want to piss on anybody’s parade, but I am now officially sick of this site.
But, don’t take my word for it.
BTW, you really want to screw it up? Get it stumped anyway you can, and when it asks you to add a question, make sure that it’s so vague it could be anything. (“Do you breathe? Do you have ears?”) Do this about a hundred times and it’ll never get anything right, it’ll be a shot in the dark.
I beat it two out of three tries.
It guessed I was Jack from Will & Grace
It didn’t guess that I was Doctor Who
It didn’t get that I was Edina from Ab Fab
so a hint for anyone who wants to beat it: try British tv characters.
It guessed Floyd Lawson from the Andy Griffith show…damn them!
Has everyone been answering the last question and typing in who you were so it gets better? I stumped it with Willis, and added it, I wonder if thast what got it for Rysdad.
BTW, has anyone got the Dudley from Diff’rent Strokes question yet? I was rolling. I don’t want to ruin it for anyone.