# What TV character are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890 "2008-01-09T19:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/1 "2008-01-09T19:39:53Z")
This thread is suggested by [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9349629&postcount=63) about the TV show Bones, in which WhyNot writes: > [@](#): > > I’ve been accused, by more than one person, of being the model for Temperence Brennan’s speech patterns. I’m afraid I DO talk like that, and I’m just as vocally bewildered and amused by anthropologic/sociologic foibles of both individuals and groups as she is. And I likey the run-on sentence, as you can see. What about the rest of you? What TV character do you have an uncanny (and maybe disquieting) similarity to? For myself, the first one that comes to mind is a minor (as in one-shot) character from the _West Wing_: a Russian diplomat who knew the word “onomatopoeia,” but not common English slang. When we were watching the episode, my then-girlfriend turned to me and said, “I didn’t know Aaron Sorkin was basing characters on you.” Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/2 "2008-01-09T19:47:02Z")
How embarrassing. I didn’t even mention my penchant for TMI at the dinner table, completely oblivious that other people aren’t as excited by cervical mucus as I am. Or the fact that my friends and family all refer people to me with bizarre questions because, and I quote: “[WhyNot] knows stuff.” (Occasionally I do, and when I don’t, I can bluff with a straight face. And then I come here the next day to find out how wrong I was.) On a brighter note, I was trying to tell my husband that quote in your sig last night, only I couldn’t quite remember it or who had it, so I’m glad to see it again! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/3 "2008-01-09T20:02:22Z")
I’ll just claim Gregory House now and be done with it, when in all truthfulness I’m more like Boner from Growing Pains. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/4 "2008-01-09T20:15:48Z")
Fry from Futurama has a doppleganger. His name is **Flander**. Doesn’t help that I’m a fan of the show and tend to quote him a lot in conversations. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/5 "2008-01-09T21:08:08Z")
Nobody that I can think of. I’m sort of like Jerry Seinfeld, except not Jewish and not as funny. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/6 "2008-01-09T21:24:31Z")
As a teenager I was a lot like Angela Chase from **My So-Called Life**. Now that I’m older and more cynical I’ve kind of morphed into Miranda from **Sex and the City**. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/7 "2008-01-09T21:57:53Z")
I aspire to one day reach the same heights as Al Bundy. But my wife isn’t a redhead (and won’t die her hair red), and I’ve yet to find employment selling cheap women’s shoes. And my daughter isn’t officially (or unofficially) recognized as the state slut. My neighbors, however… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/8 "2008-01-09T22:07:42Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] I aspire to one day reach the same heights as Al Bundy. But my wife isn’t a redhead (and won’t die her hair red), and I’ve yet to find employment selling cheap women’s shoes. And my daughter isn’t officially (or unofficially) recognized as the state slut. My neighbors, however… [/QUOTE] Would you settle for Red Foreman? (That 70’s Show) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/9 "2008-01-09T22:19:30Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] Would you settle for Red Foreman? (That 70’s Show) [/QUOTE] If it means Tanya Roberts as a neighbor, in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/10 "2008-01-09T22:27:18Z")
A bit like that the teenage assistant in Saxondale…except I’m 31 now… ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/11 "2008-01-09T22:28:09Z")
I am [The Todd](http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/The_Todd) from Scrubs. I am not a surgeon, but I can make anything sound dirty. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/12 "2008-01-09T22:58:03Z")
Years ago, a guy I was quickly becoming friends with at work said to me: “Have you ever seen that cartoon **The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy**? You are _totally_ Mandy!!!” I have since seen said cartoon, and yeah, I’d agree. I’m not blonde though. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/13 "2008-01-09T23:20:04Z")
As ashamed as I am to admit it, Dawson Leary. Pick a character trait and that’s me. Friends of mine seem to think I’m more like Joey from Friends. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/14 "2008-01-09T23:29:07Z")
I’m a lot like Mr. Peabody’s pet boy Sherman, but I do lack a Mr. Peabody and I am still looking for a Way-Back Machine. Still… ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/15 "2008-01-09T23:29:33Z")
After watching _Azumanga Daioh_, my husband, brother, and mother all deemed the character [Ayumu Kasuga - better known as “Osaka”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Kasuga) to be modelled after me. Personality-wise, anyway - she looks nothing like me. Sardines. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/16 "2008-01-09T23:45:30Z")
A friend of mine insists that I’m Chloe from **24**. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/17 "2008-01-09T23:54:22Z")
I’m Bender, from Futurama… but a bit more restrained outwardly. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/18 "2008-01-10T00:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] I’m Bender, from Futurama… but a bit more restrained outwardly. [/QUOTE] I am too, except I’m a chick with no restraint whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/19 "2008-01-10T00:19:24Z")
My husband is definitely Adrian Monk. I hope to God that doesn’t make me Natalie Krieger, because she annoys the hell out of me sometimes. I could deal with being Sharona. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890/20 "2008-01-10T00:31:21Z")
Who am I? I don’t know–who’s a character that’s smart, but waaaayyy too nice? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-are-you/432890.md?page=2)