# Who are you 3 favorite sitcom characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2015, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445 "2015-10-22T10:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/41 "2015-10-23T21:22:44Z")
\*\ ***Ralph Kramden** **- The Honeymooners** Cosmo Kramer\*\* – Seinfeld **Niles Crane** – Frasier Niles was the best in my book, if only for this: [Frasier - A valentine for Niles - YouTube](https://youtu.be/7XN-J_0nYhI) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/42 "2015-10-23T21:35:06Z")
There are so many great comic actors here. I’d still have trouble if we were only narrowing it down to the top 10. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/43 "2015-10-23T21:51:18Z")
1. George Jefferson - Just so hysterically funny and pompous and insecure and genuinely human. 2. Colonel Sherman Potter - Another tough guy with an outsize personality, but such a good heart. 3. Barney Miller - Warm and funny and giving such a great impression of being in control, even when he wasn’t. All three of them are just barely holding it together in the face of chaos – something about that really appeals to me. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/44 "2015-10-23T21:53:14Z")
Claire Dumphie, Modern Family Agent 99, Get Smart Hawkeye Pierce, M_A_S\*H ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/45 "2015-10-23T22:00:01Z")
Ralph Kramden. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/46 "2015-10-23T22:01:25Z")
Dan Fielding - Night Court Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP The third one is a 99 way tie. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/47 "2015-10-23T22:56:30Z")
Al Bundy George Costanza Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/48 "2015-10-24T01:54:09Z")
Three choices for three different reasons… **Bill McNeal** (NewsRadio) was the perfect use of Phil Hartman’s prodigious comedic abilities. **Niles Crane** (Frasier) brilliantly skewered the faux-intellectual crowd that includes yours truly. On a show chock full of lovable acting talent, **Louie DePalma** (Taxi) was willing to be hated in order to make the comedy work. That of course leaves out Fred Sanford, Michael Stivic, Joey and Chandler and Phoebe, everyone from Seinfeld, Phil Fish, Venus Flytrap, Harry Solomon, and the amazingly clueless Tom Willis (The Jeffersons). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/49 "2015-10-24T01:59:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Dan Fielding - Night Court > > Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP > > The third one is a 99 way tie. So tell us-who is 99 tied with? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/50 "2015-10-24T02:20:38Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > \*\ ***Ralph Kramden** **- The Honeymooners** > > Cosmo Kramer\*\* – Seinfeld > > **Niles Crane** – Frasier > > Niles was the best in my book, if only for this: [https://youtu.be/7XN-J\_0nYhI](https://youtu.be/7XN-J_0nYhI) That clip was one of my favorite clips of all time. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/51 "2015-10-24T02:30:18Z")
Kirk, Spock, MCoy What? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/52 "2015-10-24T02:37:43Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > When I saw Rip Torn (Artie) mentioned I had #2. > > As for #3, let’s double up on the Larry Sander’s Show with Hank Kingsley. Agree with those two, and Jim Ignatowski from Taxi. Also, Less Nessman from WKRP. Betty White (as Sue Ann Nivens) and Ted Knight from the MTM days. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/53 "2015-10-24T02:58:55Z")
Rhoda. Then Murphy Brown. Then Hawkeye Pierce, if MASH counts as a sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/54 "2015-10-24T08:16:08Z")
Alex P. Keaton, Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, and George Jefferson. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/55 "2015-10-24T11:46:56Z")
Fonzie, Grandpa Munster, the Professor ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/56 "2015-10-24T12:11:17Z")
Dietrich, from Barney Miller. Laura Petrie, from the Dick Van Dyke show. Fonzie. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445/57 "2015-10-24T16:01:32Z")
Frasier Crane: the ultimate in pomposity and angry sarcasm Jack Tripper: Just seemed like a great best friend to have George Jefferson: a hoot [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-3-favorite-sitcom-characters/735445.md?page=2)