Your favorite television characters...and why!

--Greene, ER: Was the glue that held an excellently casted show together. Show went down the tubes when Anthony Edwards left.

--Sipowicz, NYPD Blue: The perfect example of the flawed hero, the off-center center of a show. Batted absurdly out of his league, female-wise, tho.

--Dan Conner, Roseanne: The one who kept the madhouse in order. When John Goodman left, a great show went down the loo.

-- Lilly Rush, Cold Case: A great combination of fragility and resolve.

More to come, I'm sure.

 

I really gotta think, but I definitely know Johnny Drama in "Entourage" is fantastic.

 

Oooooh, can't forget Victor Ehrlich and Mark Craig from St. Elsewhere.

 

Alex was like every kid who slowly came to realize he didn't like the costume he chose.

 

This thread has been pretty damn good.

Gotta echo the sentiments on the following...

Sophia Petrillo - Golden Girls - Not so much for her outrageous statements, but for her absolutely perfect timing.I don't think she delivered a line that she didn't completely nail. Estelle Getty's chemistry with Bea Arthur as Dorothy Sbornak was phenomenal forever.

Stan Zbornak - Golden Girls - A sad, pathetic man, but so damn funny.

EARLY John Carter - ER - Greene was absolutely the heart of the show, but Carter's evolution from scared intern to competent doctor was fascinating.

 

Since we're talking ER, two of my favorites: Dr. Benton, for being such a hard-ass, and Dr. Romano, for being so sarcastically funny.

Some others:

1. Stone Cold Steve Austin, circa 1997. It was great when he was a heel, and the fans kept cheering him anyways.

2. The Rock: Same as Stone Cold, only he was just as much fun when he became a babyface.

3. The grandfather from Silver Spoons.

4. Mork, from Ork. Nanoo, nanoo.

5. Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane

6. And unless I missed it, nobody has mentioned Arthur Fonzarelli yet?

 

Butters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters

Omar, Prez, Bubbles and Bunk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Little
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Moreland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbles_%28The_Wire%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_%22Prez%22_Pryzbylewski



Lenny Briscoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Briscoe

Jack Donaghy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donaghy

James "Jim" Halpert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Halpert


Just to name a few.

 

Pilot, I've been trying to figure out who from Battlestar Galactica I would put on the list. I dismissed Lee and Starbuck for the reasons you mentioned. I've still been stuck between Adama, Tigh and Baltar.

I would have said Baltar right up until this season. I love the complexity of the character, the brilliance, the insanity and the desperate acts for the sake of self-preservation. The moment when he switched to the dialect and speech patterns that he grew up with was brilliant as well.

I'm just so sick of the current messiah storyline. It is just ruining the character for me. So, for now, I'd agree with you and put Bill Adama at the top of my list.

 

Starbuck was a guy - played by Dirk Benedict.
Adama was an old man that I don't recall anybody calling Bill - played by Lorne Greene

(old school Galactica fan)

 

True, but it would have been a hell of a lot wierder for Starbuck to have sex with Baltar and call out Apollo's name on the old show.

 

Shockey, you are correct, Lou Grant belongs on the list. Maybe also Sue Ann Nivens.

And if I may add Frank Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond and his Holy Crap line.

From the world of TV drama, I'll reiterate what a few of you have said ... Lenny Briscoe from Law & Order and Leo McGarry, who held The West Wing together.

 

I tried watching a couple of episodes of the new Galatica when it first aired and couldn't get into it...now I hear about the good stuff I missed by not staying with it longer.