# Which Character Would You Give A Spin Off Show To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399 "2010-02-10T06:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/61 "2010-02-16T18:18:40Z")
Another vote for _It’s Niles!_, assuming Hyde-Pierce, Leeves, and the _Frasier_ writers are on board. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/62 "2010-02-16T19:06:05Z")
Ducky’s World from NCIS - kind of like a \*Murder, She Wrote \*series - where Ducky has this private practice on the side with his psychology side - and ends up solving non-naval murders. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/63 "2010-02-16T19:13:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I would love to have a show portraying Jerry Stiller as both Seinfeld’s Frank Cazanta and the King of Queen’s Arthur Spooner, showing the hillarity of one person trying to live a double life. That is so amazingly awesome an idea my eyeballs are smoking. I love it! P.S. It’s “Costanza.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/64 "2010-02-16T19:53:09Z")
I’m just a little hesitant in thinking he might be able to carry an entire show, especially into a second season, but I think the Cho character on The Mentalist is helping that show’s popularity at least as much as the star. The Jack Webb / Joe Friday cloning is being written and performed well and his character is getting progressively more face time. [Tim Kang](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1085727/) deserves a shot as far as I’m concerned. But an entire show based on Cho, unless it’s modified a lot, might be a niche audience type of thing. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/65 "2010-02-16T20:41:03Z")
Elmo. I don’t know why they haven’t spun him off from **Sesame Street** already. As it stands, “Elmo’s World” eats up almost the entire last half hour of each episode; why not just give him his own show already, and let CTW come up with more Sesame goodness to fill that last half hour? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/66 "2010-02-16T21:11:57Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Freema Agyeman was the Dr. Who sidekick (sorry, ‘companion’) for a series. I’d like her to get her own show. Preferably, each episode would consist of two hours of steady camerawork just looking at Frema Agyeman. Perhaps she could walk or talk a bit as well, but there’d be no need to burden the show with irrelevant trivia such as characters, plot, dialogue and so on. I even have a snappy title for the show. It could be called, ‘Two More Hours That Will Enrich Your Life In Every Conceivabe Way And Somehow Make It All Seem Worthwhile’. Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/67 "2010-02-17T11:52:08Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I’d love to see The Darlene and David Show. I loved Roseanne and I think that Darlene was the best character on the show. I would have been glad to see what happened with her and the baby after Roseanne went off the air. They did - it’s called the Big Bang theory. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/68 "2010-02-18T14:27:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That is so amazingly awesome an idea my eyeballs are smoking. I love it! Thank you. I’d also like to see a show about a young Boston police officer dealing with his two sons while his wife is doing her residency in psychiatry, with his just-past-the-bar womanizing cousin providing comic relie. I’d call it: Crane Cousins–The Adventures of Martin & Denny. ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/69 "2010-02-18T14:42:56Z")
Cousin Mose from _The Office_. A Beverly Hillbillies-style show where he leaves the beet farm for the big city, and hijinks ensue. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/70 "2010-02-18T18:06:20Z")
_Titan_, with Capt. Riker and Couns. Troi’s continuing adventures as a married couple aboard another starship. It could draw upon the book series, or go in a different direction. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399/71 "2010-02-25T14:59:59Z")
Hank Scorpio, he’s the man, the man who wants to rule the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-character-would-you-give-a-spin-off-show-to/528399.md?page=3)