# What one object would you most strongly associate with a tv character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 19, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084 "2022-01-19T23:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/101 "2022-01-21T00:14:51Z")
Alex Trebek (with ‘70s porno 'stache) – A $50 bill he would relentlessly wave in front of contestants on _High Rollers_ (“Take the fifty! _Take_ the fifty!”) Devon (Keir Dullea on _The Starlost_) - The computer that asks “May I be of… assistance?” Eddie Munster - Wolfie Joe Friday - Badge #714 Number 6 (_The Prisoner_) – Lotus 7 Ren and Stimpy – The History Erasure Button or the _Don’t Whiz on the Electric Fence_ boardgame Rod Serling - cigarette Any member of the Scott family (_The Thunderbirds_) - All of the vehicles really, but most especially #2. Lady Penelope - Lady Penelope’s car > [@terentii](#): > > …Thurston Howell’s ascot and Panama hat. Teddy. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/102 "2022-01-21T00:45:48Z")
Gus, from _Psych_ – blue Toyota Yaris hatchback ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/103 "2022-01-21T01:12:19Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Any member of the Scott family ( _The Thunderbirds_ ) - All of the vehicles really, but most especially #2. Just remembered the family name is Tracy. ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > Sorry, _Cathy_ Gale’s leather catsuits. > > Dorothy Gale wore gingham. Damn it-Now I can’t get the image of Dorothy Gale in a gingham catsuit out of my mind. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/105 "2022-01-21T04:05:07Z")
Wednesday Addams’s headless doll. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/106 "2022-01-21T04:57:45Z")
Morticia Addams’ lounge chair. Thing’s box. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/107 "2022-01-21T05:01:30Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Underdog - a secret compartment in his ring he fills with an Underdog super energy pill Mr Terrific’s secret Power Pill. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/108 "2022-01-21T06:00:49Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Any member of the Scott family ( _The Thunderbirds_ ) - In your understandable excitement I think you meant to say the Tracy family. You could add Brains’s big specs, and Lady Penelope’s foot-long cigarette holder. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/109 "2022-01-21T06:42:46Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Riker – chairs, just for that weird way he sits down > Troi – chocolate cake > Crusher – medical tricorder Riker – beard Troi – completely redundant Bridge station Beverly Crusher – Wesley Crusher (also redundant) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/110 "2022-01-21T07:53:12Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > I am trying to think of something for Sam Malone that isn’t the bar, itself. Hair, I guess. Coach—clip-on tie. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/111 "2022-01-21T16:28:12Z")
Samantha’s twitch. ---
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Oscar the Grouch’s garbage can. ---
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Detective Murdoch’s bicycle Inspector Brackenreid’s liquor bottles A bit of a stretch: Constable Crabtree, a dead body. “What have you, George?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084/114 "2022-01-21T17:17:48Z")
Data’s cat. ---
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Star Trek: In terms of the Spock character, I would say the tricorder. I can remember several episodes where he uses that with its postage-stamp-size TV screen. I guess that I’m just not big enough of a fan to recount the episode(s) where he has a slide rule. The Beverly Hillbillies: The truck. Green Acres: Lisa’s hotcakes. Get Smart: The shoe phone has already been mentioned, so I’ll add “the cone of silence”. Cannon: William Conrad’s Lincoln Mark. ---
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> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Star Trek: In terms of the Spock character, I would say the tricorder. I can remember several episodes where he uses that with its postage-stamp-size TV screen. I guess that I’m just not big enough of a fan to recount the episode(s) where he has a slide rule. Scroll down from the first two entries: > **[Props Re-used](https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/props-re-used.81174/page-7)** > > Alchemist: > > Sorry to digress; this is a great thread! > > I don't think I've seen that TMP "sensor bee" still from your avatar. Do you have a larger... ---
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Maxwell Smart - Shoe Phone (also, Cone of Silence but you said _one_ thing) ---
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Popeye: +pipe, +tattoo If the Peanuts gang count as TV characters we could be here for a few more days 😀 ---
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Snoopy—doghouse/supper dish/Woodstock Linus—security blanket/Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown—oversized baseball cap/kite-eating tree Lucy—football ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > Charlie Brown—oversized baseball cap/kite-eating tree I’d say Charlie Brown is more strongly associated with his iconic yellow t-shirt with the black zigzag. That’s how Quentin Tarantino invoked him in [Kill Bill.](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.tarantino.info%2Fimages%2FKB_1_charlie_brown.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.tarantino.info%2Findex.php%2FCharlie_Brown&tbnid=gEIDYcJeegA6fM&vet=12ahUKEwjequOa18P1AhWxwykDHdOcBjUQMygBegQIARBy..i&docid=-EDhTCtcTAJ_UM&w=244&h=256&q=kill%20bill%20charlie%20brown&safe=active&ved=2ahUKEwjequOa18P1AhWxwykDHdOcBjUQMygBegQIARBy) Also: Schroeder - toy piano [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-object-would-you-most-strongly-associate-with-a-tv-character/958084.md?page=7)