I have always thought that the character from whom I have taken my username would have been a wonderfully entertaining (and probably short-lived) troll somewhere on these boards.
Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about.
Mycroft Holmes is Sherlock’s brilliant, couch potato brother.
What’s the name of Adrian Monk’s brother? Can’t google it, but he’d be a good candidate. His responses in GQ might get a tad encyclopedic, but nobody would be able to accuse them of being incomplete.
Dr Temperance Brennan (from BONES TV show)
Peter Wimsey (from Dorothy Sayers’ novels)
Technically not “in front”.
Barbara Gordon is Commissioner Gordon’s daughter (Commissioner Gordon being Batman’s connection and occasionally friend in the Gotham police force). She was formerly Batgirl, until she took a bullet to the spine which she has somehow not miraculously recovered from. Instead, she became a superhero-level computer hacker named Oracle. She basically knows everything about everything and could out-tough-guy the Internet Tough Guys as well.
Hagbard Celine
“You missed a comma.”
“What?”
“Right there, after the clause. You should have a comma.”
“Oh all right. Anyway, who do you think is the killer, OCDdetective?”
“Not until you go back and change the original post to add the comma.”
<The administrator has limited editing of posts to 5 minutes. This time has expired.>
OCDdetective: “What? What did that say?”
Doctor Watson could do regular MMP updates: “You’ll never believe our weekend with the Giant Rat of Sumatra!”
Hamlet, of course! The Diet of Worms joke alone is proof enough.
NM
I don’t think she’d bother out-toughing internet tough guys. I mean, she used to be a superhero; her best friend is Black Canary; she used to sleep with Dick Grayson and, in some continuities, Bruce Wayne; and she has Clark Kent’s home phone number. Virtual tough guys would at best amuse her.
Oh come on. Once Venkman (Bill Murray’s character from Ghostbusters to those who don’t recognize the name) discovered internet porn do you really think he’s going to spend any time here on the Dope? 
Adrian Monk is a Sherlock Holmes type character with OCD and a ton of phobias on a show called Monk.
Cliff Clavin was a blow hard know-it-all mailman in the series Cheers.
Chiun. Font of knowledge, and destroyer of trolls.
I was reading about a new BBC series called Sherlock, where the characters are updated to modern day. In it Watson is still a military doctor wounded in Afghanistan. He posts their adventures to his blog.
I was going to say “So… which of the GQ posters ISN’T Cliff Clavin?”
But you sorta beat me to it… Cliff.
In Cafe Society:
Statler and/or Waldorf
Jay Sherman
Rob, Dick, and Barry from High Fidelity
Mr. Universe in Cafe Society or The Pit would be a blast.
“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there’s the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public.”
Paris Geller from Gilmore Girls
“OH MY GOD!! Am I the only one here even TRYING to fight ignorance?!”