# What TV character would you most like to be friends with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071 "2010-06-30T15:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/21 "2010-06-30T18:50:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “But what if he’s dead?” > “What if he’s did what?” Murry is actually [pretty funny](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgzcnxitww0) in real life. Bret McKenzie’s “Out of Character” was entertaining, but not as much so, and in a different way entirely. Now if I actually have to hang out with a character with our clothes on, I’d probably choose Lucille Bluth. I know she’s a surly, unpleasant, drunken old woman, but so am I. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/22 "2010-06-30T18:53:23Z")
I haven’t seen the TV series, so I don’t know how they changed the character, but ever since I read the first Sookie novel I’ve wanted to be BFF with her. She seems like a really cool person, lots of fun with a unique perspective on people (due to the whole telepath thing) and many interesting things happen to her. Also, with that many hot guys after her, I might be able to grab one of them that she’s rejected/done with. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/23 "2010-06-30T19:28:34Z")
\*\*Gil Grissom \*\*from \*CSI \*(I’ve always found his encyclopedic knowledge of quirky stuff fascinating, not to mention his interest and tolerance/compassion for oddballs and oddball lifestyles). I think he’d be a great guy to just hang out with and talk. \*\*Data \*\*from _ST:TNG_ might be fun, as would \*\*Niles Crane \*\*from _Frasier_. I’d pick **Dr. House** , but much as I love the character I don’t think my sense of privacy could survive a friendship with him. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/24 "2010-06-30T19:31:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I think I’d pick Bill Crosby. Yeah sure he’s pretty self righteous, but at least he’s funny most of the time. Is that the black guy who makes witty observations on life and sings “White Christmas”? ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/25 "2010-06-30T19:33:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Is that the black guy who makes witty observations on life and sings “White Christmas”? You are thinking of Bing Cosby. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/26 "2010-06-30T19:38:12Z")
> [@Hook](#): > > There is only one answer to this question - Jim Rockford. Dang right! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/27 "2010-06-30T19:44:31Z")
Disney’s _Aladdin_ was also a kid’s TV series, right? Yeah…ok then, I’ll take Genie (working under the assumption that I’d have to have found the lamp first). ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/28 "2010-06-30T19:46:00Z")
Suki from Gilmore Girls. What? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/29 "2010-06-30T19:51:30Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > by “be friends with” I mean “have sex with.” Belle Watley. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/30 "2010-06-30T19:53:30Z")
Just off the top of my head, [Kel Mitchell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005239/), who became famous starting with _Kenan and Kel_ and went on from there. He’s funny, and always seems to have a real zest for life, a good fashion sense and, well, he’s just acts a damn fool. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/31 "2010-06-30T19:55:35Z")
Abby Sciuto from NCIS. Smart, sexy, quirky, geeky… What’s not to like? Did I mention sexy? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/32 "2010-06-30T19:58:30Z")
I’m seriously torn between Abby Sciuto and Jim Rockford. I’ll choose Alex Rieger. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/33 "2010-06-30T20:01:55Z")
Randy Hickey from My Name Is Earl. He’d be as loyal as a dog and just as easy to impress. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/34 "2010-06-30T20:06:29Z")
Tara, from _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. She’s smart and sweet and witchy. But Anthony Bourdain is a great answer, too! Dr. House, I’d love to shadow for a day, but he’d probably make me cry if he even noticed I was in the room. On the plus side, he’d have his interns doing all my (nursing) work, so it’d be an easy shift. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/35 "2010-06-30T20:16:12Z")
Ducky from NCIS. They always cut his stories off too soon, damn it. Plus friendship with Ducky implies proximity too Abby that is nonetheless not focused on her. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/36 "2010-06-30T20:20:52Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Suki from Gilmore Girls. What? Not if you’re a vegetarian. And probably not if you’re diabetic. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/37 "2010-06-30T20:22:53Z")
I think I’d like to hang out not only with Bill Cosby for his humor and affability, but also with Pierce Brosnon as Remington Steele for his downright coolness, Robert Stack as Eliot Ness in \*The Untouchables \*to have around as the resident tough guy, as well as William Hung of _American Idol_ “She Bang” fame to keep us entertained. So let’s see that would be … … … (wait for it) … … Cosby, Steele, Ness and Hung. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/38 "2010-06-30T20:31:15Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > . . . Steele for his downright coolness, . . . . > > So let’s see that would be … … … (wait for it) … … > > Cosby, Steele, Ness and Hung. Shouldn’t that be Michael Steele then? At least he thinks so and he is quite a character. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/39 "2010-06-30T20:32:31Z")
Dr. Who! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071/40 "2010-06-30T20:32:37Z")
Tabitha Stevens, in [_Tabitha_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075590/), the short-lived _Bewitched_ spinoff. A hot, 21-year-old single babe with magic powers? Sign me up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-most-like-to-be-friends-with/545071.md?page=3)