# Which character are you like on TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 1999, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415 "1999-11-11T21:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/1 "1999-11-11T21:30:00Z")
I was wondering if anyone else is ever told they remind somebody of a TV character (real/cartoon/etc). I am repeatedly told that I remind people of Chandler Bing on Friends. Not from looks, but mainly from actions and the fact that I try to turn just about any situation into a good laugh. Of course the odd thing is that my wife acts just like Monica on that show. We are a match made in sitcom heaven I guess. Anybody else out there that gets this kind of thing? And, if anyone says they are like Scrappy Doo, I want this thread immediately destroyed in every possible way. * * * Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling. ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/2 "1999-11-11T22:04:00Z")
I’m sort of like Fonzy. Well without the motorcycle. Oh yeah, and I don’t have the magical thumb, or his way girls. Oh shit, maybe I’m more like Potsy ☹ * * * “Trying is the first step towards failure.” Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/3 "1999-11-11T22:06:00Z")
I tried to be funny in my previous post, and that’s all I could think of. I guess I’m most like Ralph Malph. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/4 "1999-11-11T22:19:00Z")
People have referred to me as McGuyver before (I think because I fix things with duct tape and paper clips and such), but more commonly people say I laugh like Butt-Head(ya know: uh huh huh…) DOH! * * * “I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.” -Æschylus. 525-456 B. C. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/5 "1999-11-11T22:39:00Z")
Frazier meets Howard Stern… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/6 "1999-11-11T22:43:00Z")
Wile E. Coyote; I don’t start falling until I realize that I’ve run over the edge of the canyon. Plus I love to eat roadrunners. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/7 "1999-11-11T22:46:00Z")
Well,like I said before,a cross between Felix Unger and Racheal of Friends! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/8 "1999-11-11T22:47:00Z")
Uh, a cross between Kevin Heffernan, Archie Bunker, and Gilligan??? ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/9 "1999-11-11T23:26:00Z")
People call me john stamos, i don’t have any illusions about being good looking, i think it’s the hair. * * * I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction–Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/10 "1999-11-11T23:27:00Z")
Oh yeah, johnny depp too. hair again. and i get called richard greico alot. hair. * * * I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction–Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/11 "1999-11-12T01:41:00Z")
Remember Chris “In The Morning” from _Northern Exposure_? I’m him, minus the sexism. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/12 "1999-11-12T02:08:00Z")
Doctor Who. Not any one of them, all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/13 "1999-11-12T02:30:00Z")
TennHippie: Chris from Northern Exposure? In voice or looks? NOT that that would matter at all…yummmm. Me? Winona Ryder Hair and face shape with a cross between Janeane Garafalo, Matthew Perry and Ellen Degeneres ( Minus Ann Heche) personality. Ok, I’m embellishing…I’m Joanie Loves Chachi. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/14 "1999-11-12T02:36:00Z")
Lisa Simpson…I think I am smart like she is and I try to do the right thing but I have no illusions about the rest of society. * * * –Gail “Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/15 "1999-11-12T03:00:00Z")
When I was in high school, I was told I looked like Doc from “The Love Boat”. Ah, the early eighties. Gotta love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/16 "1999-11-12T14:59:00Z")
I think in dispensation I’m like Arthur on “It’s Like, You Know . . .” Not that that’s a bad thing–Chris Eigemann is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/17 "1999-11-12T15:14:00Z")
Won’t be a TV character for a while yet, but I look and act a lot like Silent Bob from Kevin Smith’s movies (and the upcoming Clerks animated series, coming to ABC in March!) * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/18 "1999-11-12T15:19:00Z")
Oh yeah, and I did have the nickname Scrappy Doo when I was in drum corps. The shortest of the contra players by a good 5 inches (I’m _only_ 5’8") I was easily the strongest. Couple that with being the young guy… * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/19 "1999-11-12T16:01:00Z")
Chandler on Friends. I’m always trying to make a joke, even if I have to stretch the references beyond what anyone else would understand. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/20 "1999-11-12T16:13:00Z")
Some people tell me I look somewhat like Sylvester Stallone, minus the muscles. They don’t live to tell about it though 😉 Personality: mmmmmmm say, some sort of Frasier meets Norm ? The king of one-liners and witty responses on the one hand, and the eloquent, sophisticated and educated Bon Vivant on the other hand. Send your marriage proposals to cold@xs4all.nl 🙂 ## I’m also extremely non-arrogant, did I mention that ? Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415.md?page=2)