Yeah, but good luck with the word search, you idiot.
Phil, from Modern Family.
Charlie, from Fringe.
Walter, from Fringe.
Sheldon, from Big Bang Theory. (Yeah, I know.)
House, from House.
John Oliver, from The Daily Show and others.
Rumplestiltskin/Gold from Once Upon A Time. I like the show well enough, but when he shows up, his scenes are just mesmerizing!
Well, I’m giving up on the idea of a poll because there would be way too many names on the list. If anybody else wants to do so, I have no problem with that.
I collected all the names from earlier posts that I could add to my own list and maybe there will be others later. Here’s a summary:
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Yesterday, 12:56 PM
—Rollo Tomasi
My favorite Boardwalk Empire character is and forever will be Arnold Rothstein.
Others:
Joan Harris from Mad Men (I could fill up this entire list with just Mad Men characters, honestly)
Raylan Givens, Justified
Yesterday, 01:01 PM
—Skald the Rhymer
I really like Patrick Jane, title character of the The Mentalist, and Kimball Cho, one of that show’s supporting characters. Jane is just fun to watch in general, and Cho is very engaging. It occurs to me that the two of them are very much alike in many ways. They’re both only nominally interested in the law, and though they seem to be subordinate to Lisbon, in fact neither of them ever does anything that they don’t wan to do in the first place. And I don’t think it’s because they’re simply ornery; I think they feel doing things they don’t think they should do is immoral. Works for me.
I also like Lisbon. She’s a bit too lawfully constricted for me, but I like the way that she obviously loves Jane but genuinely can just barely stand him. It’s an amusing conflict, particularly because the conflict isn’t reciprocal. That is, Jane loves her no less than she loves him, but he finds her a lot easier to get along with than he does.
Rigsby and Van Pelt are … okay, I guess. But kinda boring. And I’ve liked two of the four bosses.
Yesterday, 01:19 PM
—Cat Whisperer
I adore Walter from “Fringe.”
I have a great affection for Cho and Jane from “The Mentalist,” too.
Yesterday, 01:29 PM
—well he’s back
I agree that Jane & Cho from the Mentalist are good characters.
Also Kalinda from Good Wife.
eta - CatWhisperer - thanks for reminding me about Walter. I gave up on Fringe, but Walter is one of my favorite characters ever. John Noble deserves awards that.
Yesterday, 01:32 PM
—TriPolar
Richard Harrow on Boardwalk Empire. Very compelling character.
Yesterday, 04:39 PM
—Tapiotar
Jane and Cho and, to a lesser degree, Lisbon from the Mentalist.
Yesterday, 04:58 PM
—Ethilrist
Agent Farnsworth from Fringe.
Yesterday, 07:09 PM
—I Made French Toast For You
The Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey.
Yesterday, 08:21 PM
—chizzuk
Dr. Wilson, House
Yesterday, 09:04 PM
—Tangent
Debra fucking Morgan from Dexter
Jessie Pinkman from Breaking Bad, bitches
Yesterday, 09:32 PM
—Simplicio
I like Saul on Homeland. With all the over-reacting, super-dramatic characters on TV (or for that matter, on Homeland), its nice having one guy that’s pretty unflappable no matter what.
Yesterday, 10:41 PM
—standingwave
Walter White, Breaking Bad
Yesterday, 11:42 PM
—panache45
Walter, from Fringe.
House, from House.
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Castle on Castle. Though I like all four main characters on that show really.
Monroe on Grimm. Rosalie’s a lucky woman.
Debra Fucking Morgan. Unpredictable, believable, good development as a character.
Parker on Leverage. They’re all great, but she’s my favourite.
Sam and Dean (Supernatural)
Monroe (Grimm)
Sheldon (BBT)
Rodney McKay (SGA)
Joan Watson (Elementary)
Claudia [actually I like everybody on that show] (Warehouse13)
Walter, and Astrid (Fringe)
Daryl (TWD)
Gus ‘n’ Shawn (Psych)
Rumplestilskin (Once Upon A Time)
Roger (American Dad)
Brian (Family Guy)
Castle (Castle)
I’ll n’th Arnold Rothstein from (Boardwalk Empire), and Angela Darmody too.
Zaraki Kenpachi (Bleach) - a blunt instrument who wants the same thing the audience wants: hilariously awesome fights.
Tyrion from Game of Thrones
Troy and Abed from Community
Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec (Not the funniest character but I would love to hang out with him)
Marshall from How I met Your Mother (see Ben Wyatt above)
Nick from New Girl (one of the funniest characters on TV right now)
Schmidt from New Girl (also very funny)
Luke from Modern Family
Provenza from “the Closer,” and now “Major Crimes.”
Limiting myself to one per show that I watch nowadays:
Sterling Archer, Archer
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Tyrion, Game of Thrones
Raj, Big Bang Theory
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey
Garth (and the boys of course) on Supernatural.
Tracy on 30 Rock.
Timmy on Rules of Engagement.
Bernadette on Big Bang Theory. After last weeks episode she is now my favorite.
Amy: And tell your husband he owes me $200.
Bernie: Well that doesn’t make sense either.
AMy: Why?
Bernie: Because I’m the one who had it towed!
Rory on Doctor Who
I love the no nonsense style that I’ve been seeing in the character of Danny from the Blue Bloods show. 
God bless you always!!!
Holly
I must be the only one around here who watches Raising Hope. Just about everyone on that show cracks me up, but especially Burt and Virginia Chance.
Amy Farrah-Fowler, The Big Bang Theory
River Song, Doctor Who
Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess Of Grantham, Downton Abbey
Troy and Abed, Community
Cersei Lannister, Game Of Thrones
Jesse Pinkman, Bitches, Breaking Bad
Joan Harris, Mad Men
Zoey, Nurse Jackie
Marshall Erikson (BBT)
Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
One who occurred to me this morning was Maura Isles, everyone’s favorite ostensibly-straight-but-clearly-unconsciously-in-love-with-her-best-girlfriend from Rizzoli & Isles. She’s just so sweet. Her unashamed, optimistic, friendly, joyful geekiness would make her fun to watch even if she weren’t beautiful, and Sasha Alexander is quite lovely, especially with light hair. And that smile!
To me Mike and Eve are the best characters on The Last Man Standing.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
:smack: Marshall is from How I Met Your Mother.
Seconded. I remember SA from NCIS, and though she was kinda meh. She really does look better as a honey blonde. And Maura is a much better character: smart, sweet, quirky-but-not-annoyingly-so (I’ve almost given up on Bones, because the title character is really starting to grate on me with her psuedo-Asperger’s cluelessness). Her chemistry with Jane Rizzoli is the centerpiece of the show (it sure isn’t the “procedural-crime drama” part). And who knew Angie Harmon was so funny??
Hank, Breaking Bad.
Barney, How I met your mother.
Pam, True Blood (only reason to watch it)
Roger, Mad Men.