And you would have started the first church there, which would have Rand spinning in her grave.
I am MTM’s Rhoda Morgenstern’s twin (well, as much as a middle-aged gay man can be). Though lately I think I’m turning into her mother, Ida.
I don’t really see it, but my family and friends think I’m Natalie from “The Facts of Life” tv show. She was my favorite character on the show and there’s a vague resemblance in looks, but not much. Also, the character was way goofier than I’ve ever been.
I was a kid during its original run, and I remember my mother once making a comment that I reminded her of Natalie.
And apparently a “Facts of Life” reunion movie was on cable a couple of months ago, because I came home from work one night to find a voice-mail from a friend…something to the effect of, “Hey! Why didn’t you let me know you were going to be on television tonight?!”
Fraser Crane’s ex-wife. Gosh, we even both wear our hair in buns.
Rereading this thread and my post, I suddenly remembered the character I most identify with – Dante from Clerks. It’s not something to be proud of but I can definitely relate, especially consdering I was working in a gas station when I first saw the movie.
Sometimes I feel like Mr. Miyagi.
Tre Styles, from BOYZ IN THE HOOD. Childhood, parent relationships, and living situations were very similar to mine, right down to thug friends, comic book collection, Catholic school girlfriend and being a virgin in my late teens. The major difference is that if I decided to go on a ride-along looking for the fools who killed my friend, I wouldn’t have gotten out of the car. Man UP, nigga.
Chandler. For a lot of reasons.
I picked my username because I identify with this passage from Stand On Zanzibar :
That reminds me that a former co-worker used to swear I was Darlene from Roseanne. Not looks-wise (I probably resemble Roseanne herself more :eek: ), but personality- and wisecrack-wise. I’m ok with that.
A cross between Lindsey from ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and Jordan from ‘Real Genius.’ I like the intellegence of their characters and yet they can’t quite figure how to fit in socially. I will admit to being a bit more sarcastic than either of them.
I feel like I’m the Burgess Merditith Character from the Twilight zone episode “Time enough at last”.
With one exception. The first time my wife would tell me that I’m not allowed to read, to even try to stop it, or so help me god, even try to damage one of my books, I’d divorce her right then and that. Barring that, Bash her head in with the heaviest book I had.
Hermione Granger with a little Lisa Simpson thrown in for pizzazz. I think there might be a lot Dopers out there who identify with both those characters.
I’ve always sort of identified with Susan from the Discword books. Not that there was anything . . .odd. . . about my grandfather, but I do identify with the problem of being pretty fundamentally rational about pretty romantic topics–about recognizing that things have to get done and three’s no point in worrrying about who ought to do them, and the marytr complex, and the tendency to miss important things because I have to remind myself to listen to other poeple, they can contribute much of value.
And my inner child is Butters from South Park. But isn’t everybodies?
Years ago I identified with Mona Ramsey from Tales of the City.
Now I think I’m a bit more like Carol Kane’s character in The Princess Bride.
On a good day, Sherlock Homes.
On a bad day, Doctor Watson.
On a good day: Sean O Lochlainn, the Dr Watson analogue in the Lord Darcy stories by Randall Garrett. (For those who aren’t familiar with them, Sean’s job title is Chief Forensic Sorcerer to the Duke of Normandy.)
On a bad day . . . you don’t want to know.
From the screen, the only ones that come to mind are the Professor, from Gilligan’s Island, and Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I have a ton of respect for MacGuyver, too, but he’s just not me.
From literature, though, there are myriad examples. Top of the list is Charles Wallace Murray, from A Wrinkle in Time and sequels, but Prospero, of The Tempest, is also up there. I’ll also add Ender Wiggins, of Ender’s Game; D. B. Davis, of The Door into Summer; Mycroft, of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Daedelus of the Greek myths; and despite the gender difference, Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter books.
If this means that you’re cute, funny, and boinking Courtney Cox, then colour me jealous!
I was reading those “Hogwarts” book JK Rowling wrote (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them and Quidditch Through thet Ages) and I begin to realize that I would have been exactly like Hermione: going to the library everyday and learning as much about the wizard world as possible. If I were raised as a Muggle and told that I was a witch at age 11, I could not idly pass up the library like Harry Potter does.