Who are you 3 favorite sitcom characters?

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**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

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There are so many great comic actors here. I’d still have trouble if we were only narrowing it down to the top 10.

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  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.

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Claire Dumphie, Modern Family
Agent 99, Get Smart
Hawkeye Pierce, MAS*H

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Ralph Kramden.

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Dan Fielding - Night Court

Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP

The third one is a 99 way tie.

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Al Bundy

George Costanza

Homer Simpson

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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).

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So tell us-who is 99 tied with? :smiley:

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That clip was one of my favorite clips of all time.

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Kirk, Spock, MCoy

What? :stuck_out_tongue:

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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.

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Rhoda. Then Murphy Brown. Then Hawkeye Pierce, if MASH counts as a sitcom.

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Alex P. Keaton, Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, and George Jefferson.

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Fonzie, Grandpa Munster, the Professor

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Dietrich, from Barney Miller.
Laura Petrie, from the Dick Van Dyke show.
Fonzie.

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Frasier Crane: the ultimate in pomposity and angry sarcasm
Jack Tripper: Just seemed like a great best friend to have
George Jefferson: a hoot