# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/21 "1999-11-12T16:31:00Z")
My physcial appearance gets one of two comparisons: Brendan Frasier or Cameron from “Ferris Bueller” Go figure. * * * Back off, man. I’m a scientist. ---
**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, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/22 "1999-11-12T17:11:00Z")
Silent Bob IS Kevin Smith. Anyway, seeing as there is a marked shortage of ordinary looking, single, 30 year old vet techs on TV, I don’t resemble anyone. Not in looks or in personality. PS. I am almost up to my 500th post! * * * Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.–Coleridge ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/23 "1999-11-12T17:23:00Z")
Hmmmm. I’d have to say Doctor Yat Fu, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Yat Fu’s Herb and Curio Shop, from THE MYSTERIES OF CHINATOWN (ABC, 1949-50). * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/24 "1999-11-12T19:48:00Z")
Personality-wise, I’d have to say Norm from _Cheers_. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/25 "1999-11-12T20:04:00Z")
Honey West. I have a radio transmitter in my lipstick, a pet ocelot (no, not in my lipstick), and I always have an attractive male sidekick around. I am also capable of achieving the perfect flip hairdo. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/26 "1999-11-12T20:26:00Z")
I would have to say I resemble old 90210 Shannon Doherty in a bitchy attitude, temper, hair-in-face, snotty sort of way. But my eyes aren’t as crooked. * * * Formerly “Melanie the Computer Idiot” ---
**Author:** ![Rousseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rousseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rousseau)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/27 "1999-11-12T21:26:00Z")
I am equal parts Doogie Howser, Alex P. Keaton, Mike Seaver, and George Costanza. Imagine that. * * * The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/28 "1999-11-12T22:04:00Z")
Fred Garvin * * * Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/29 "1999-11-12T22:06:00Z")
Cliff Clavin from Cheers, because I fill in the little-known facts missing from ordinary discourse. I can’t help it; there are gaping chasms of ignorance to be filled in, and sometimes you’ve just gotta augment your position with a certain amount of borrowed credibility. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/30 "1999-11-12T22:39:00Z")
Whenever I’ve acted on stage, depending on the role I have been compared to John Cleese or Rowan Atkinson. Which, in a way, isn’t surprising, as I admire them both very very much. But in actual personality I’m more… Ernie and Bert combined. * * * -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**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, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/31 "1999-11-12T23:28:00Z")
Guano, as long as your not like Elmo! ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/32 "1999-11-12T23:38:00Z")
Hmmm … probably Roseanne (I mean in the first few years when the show didn’t suck yet) or Carla from _Cheers_. I can be a bit, uh, caustic IRL, though I keep trying to tone it down. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/33 "1999-11-13T03:59:00Z")
## Daria Morgendorfer, definitely. I’ll be there Where I’ll teach what I’ve been taught And I’ve been taught… ---
**Author:** ![Darwinself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Darwinself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwinself)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/34 "1999-11-14T10:21:00Z")
I’ve been compared to Lucy. I really wanna be Mr. Wizard. Mama maroon ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 1999, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/35 "1999-11-15T06:13:00Z")
I’m with Mullinator and AWB. I’m like Chandler, and it’s FUN! I guess all the stuff I’ve learned from The Newspaper Column That Shall Not Be Named has made me a little Cliff-Claven-ish, too. * * * JMcC, San Francisco [http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) “Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they’re snoring” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/36 "1999-11-14T19:18:00Z")
Ditto on Daria ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 1999, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/37 "1999-11-15T00:34:00Z")
Although I am nothing like her as far as looks or personality, the bullshit Ally McBeal and her roommate go through with men could have easily been written from the experiences of me and my best friend. ## Sad, isn’t it. \>^,^\< KITTEN Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point. ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/38 "1999-11-16T00:16:00Z")
Not TV, movies… Leia Organa: short, brunette, and imperious, and I have a Wookiee (all right, she’s a cat, but that is her name.) * * * ~If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.~ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/39 "1999-11-16T13:02:00Z")
A cross between Hope Steadman from \*thirtysomething \* and Roseanne. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 1999, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-are-you-like-on-tv/11415/40 "1999-11-20T21:21:00Z")
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