# Which TV character do you think is terrifically cool? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093 "2004-09-04T06:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [September 12, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093/81 "2004-09-12T18:46:15Z")
Frank Drebin? I am so out of touch. Who is he? I have to vote for Chris Stevens from Northern Exposure. One of the best shows ever and sadly, sadly missed. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093/82 "2004-09-12T18:49:48Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Frank Drebin? I am so out of touch. Who is he? Police Squad! (1982) > **[Police Squad! (TV Series 1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083466/)** > > Police Squad!: Created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. With Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, Ed Williams. Sight gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for the very... ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093/83 "2004-09-13T19:27:10Z")
Daniel Jackson? Pffftt. Five words: Colonel (Now General) Jack O’Neil. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093/84 "2004-09-13T23:17:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Not really a TV character, but after seeing some episodes of “Whose Line is It Anyway,” I’ve developed such a thing for Wayne Brady. He can imitate anyone or anything, and that singing voice…MY! [hijack]I actually met him in Milwaukee a few summers ago, he was touring and his pianist hurt his hand so my sister received a phone call, could she come up and play for him. We drove her from Chicago & met him before the show & watched them rehearse. Shook my hand and everything, total cutie pie, even better looking in person. And a class act. They had the world’s worst stage hands at this theatre, they wouldn’t follow his “lights down” cue (even the audience realized it & started shouting “lights!”); some kind of fake snow kept falling from the rafters; and then towards the end these great wafting billows of reefer smoke issued from stage left. But Mr. Brady kept his cool & was a real professional throughout, and very gracious towards my sister, even complimented her riffs.[/hijack] Coolest character ever? Columbo, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093/85 "2004-09-13T23:17:51Z")
Cain from _Kung Fu_. I win. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-do-you-think-is-terrifically-cool/263093.md?page=4)