Best Characters On TV (Past And Present)

[gimmewhitecastles]

that list is from the more recent entertainment weekly mag. top 100 characters from the last 20 years

If you notice from the thread title, OP is looking for best TV characters. Most of the characters on the list can be scrapped.

 

[Loop2kil]

Tony Soprano
Walter H. White - Breaking bad (can't believe no one mentioned him yet)

 

[JoPh]

If you notice from the thread title, OP is looking for best TV characters. Most of the characters on the list can be scrapped.

yeah but i didnt care. i saw the list in the mag. so i was going to post it anyway. people can look at it anyway

 

[dainthomas]

Cordell Walker

/thread

 

[darkxshade]

Al Bundy
Eric Cartman
George Costanza
Q
Macgyver
Jack Bauer
Homer Simpson
The Ninja Turtles

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Corporal Maxwell Klinger.

/thread

You do not win, sir.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I'm going add one none of you has probably even heard of:

Dabney Coleman as Buffalo Bill Bittinger. He was the most convincing and hilarious sleaze ball ever!
The cast featured a young and unbelievably HAWT Geena Davis, too!

You mean he reprised his role from 9 to 5. I can't stand TV shows that do this. <3 Dabney Coleman, buck fuck Buffalo Bill.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I'm going add one none of you has probably even heard of:

Dabney Coleman as Buffalo Bill Bittinger. He was the most convincing and hilarious sleaze ball ever!
The cast featured a young and unbelievably HAWT Geena Davis, too!

I recall that show... somewhere between BJ and the Bear and Salvage-1.

You mean he reprised his role from 9 to 5. I can't stand TV shows that do this. <3 Dabney Coleman, but fuck Buffalo Bill.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Jack Bauer (24)
Jonas Blane (The Unit)
Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
Ziva David (NCIS)

I'm crying a little for humanity right now...

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Vince Masuka is easily the best character on Dexter.

That show went insanely down hill in the middle of season 1. The only guy in the whole cast who can act, plays a dead guy.

 

[chr6]

al bundy
homer simpson
stewie
alex p keaton
macguyver
alf
lucy
fred
ari gold

 

[KLin]

Going a little further back:

The Fonz
Al Bundy
Jack Tripper
Dan Fielding (John Laroquette's character from Night Court)
Alex P Keaton

KT

Fixed

 

[KeithTalent]

Fixed

Yeah I was really tired when I posted that. Fielding was such an awesome character. I wonder if that show even remotely holds up. :hmm:

KT

 

[Perknose]

I recall that show... somewhere between BJ and the Bear and Salvage-1.

This statement proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that you obviously don't really know what the fuck you're talking about.

Buffalo Bill was the edgiest program of it's day BY FAR. Comparing it with BJ and the Bear is uber fail.

Allow me to reiterate and re-educate you:

The series received 11 Emmy Award nominations (including two for Outstanding Comedy Series). [Even though it lasted LESS than two full seasons.]

Buffalo Bill has developed a cult following ever since its original network run, even though it was re-aired just once on A&E.

Former NBC President Brandon Tartikoff wrote in his memoirs that his biggest professional regret was canceling the show.

Excerpts from some reviews:

But this show was at its best when Coleman was at his most corrosive. There were touchy subjects delved into here (racism, work ethics, demanding relationships, etc.), all sharpened to razor-keenness and delivered unflinchingly with only the slightest sugar-coating.

And HERE'S the weird part: after winning accolade after accolade from reviewers, magazines, TV fans and just about everybody else...it got CANCELED! WHY??! Well, probably because it dove a little TOO deep into what goes on behind the scenes of a TV show. Oh, those crazy network suits and their 180's....

Executive producer Bernie Brillstein went on to oversee THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW, and he's said he considers that successful HBO sitcom (also about an insecure talk show host) to have been the critical and ratings hit BUFFALO BILL should have been.

... the show was emotionally draining for an early-1980s sitcom. In one two-parter Jo-Jo, pregnant with Bill's baby, vindictively gets an abortion. In another episode, the racist Bill fires his black makeup man Newdell (Charlie Robinson), only to have a nightmare where he's chased by grotesque black stereotypes who lip sync to Ray Charles' "Hit the Road, Jack." Bill rehires Newdell and is congratulated on his enlightenment. In other words, WE GOT IT MADE or MAMA'S FAMILY this wasn't.

The titles of many reviews say it all:

One of the most underrated TV shows of all time

One of the Best,

What The Office Wished It Were

Way before its time.

"TV too good for TV"

Brilliant

It was the best of the best.........

BJ and the Bear? I think not, nipstinks.

 

[MadAmos]

Bruce Campbell - Jack Of All Trades, Brisco County, Jr and Burn Notice.

Absolutely