Joe Powell of ‘Cup of Joe Powell’ fame has a great Friday afternoon question:
Who are the ten most memorable TV characters
Here are mine, in no particular order:
Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers) – John Cleese
Mary Tyler Moore (D.V Dyke and her show)
Andre Braugher from Homicide
Homer Simpson (d’oh!)
George Castanza – Seinfeld(Jason Alexander)
Jackie Gleason (Honeymooner’s) so sue me..i’m older than most of you and he has been the inspiration for countless TV sitcom characters
Lucille Ball (for the ‘I love Lucy’ shows, not the dreadful ‘Lucy Show’)
Don Knotts as Barney
Sarah Michelle Geller (Buffy)
James Gandolfini (Sopranos)
As usual, with lists like these, there are probably another 20 characters that could easily be in anyone’s Top 10..Kristin Bell as Veronica Mars, Shatner as Captain Kirk, Tony Randall in Odd Couple, A host of people from SNL, Alan Alda in M*A*S*H, Cosby as Dr. Huxtable….
thanks again for the mention — after some serious Blogger probs this afternoon I finally got my list up.
and great minds think alike – Homer and Buffy are MUST haves!
I might argue Kramer is more memorable than George on Seinfeld. Though the episode where George sleeps on a little shelf under his desk is one of my favorites.