Top 5 television characters

[Splendid Splinter]

The sitcom thread by @Cosmo - made me think of creating this thread. Who are your top five television characters?

-Archie Bunker
-Cliff Clavin
-George Costanza
-Jax Teller
-Ralph Kramden

 

[Tighthead]

Thomas Sullivan Magnum

 

[playthrough]

Dr. Johnny Fever
JR Ewing

 

[User 150927]

My personal top five?

Hawkeye Pierce
Spock
David Rose
Jon Snow
Murphy Brown

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Phillip Jennings
Toby Zeigler
Archie Bunker
Vic Mackey
Greg House

 

[sgreenwell]

In no particular order...

- Homer Simpson
- Bill McNeal
- George Costanza
- Selina Meyer
- Lenny Briscoe

McNeal is probably the flimsiest one, but christ, Hartman was so ****ing good.

 

[da man]

I'll take Burt Campbell.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Christ I forgot Pete Campbell

 

[DanOregon]

Hard to separate the character from the performance. But I do think of shows that wouldn't have existed been/been worth watching without them. Another one.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Jethro Gibbs
Andy Sipowitz
Elaine Benes
Stewie Griffin
Jack McCoy

 

[User 150927]

Walter White

 

[DanOregon]

Fun to think about the great shows and the characters who were indispensable to their success. (Leads excepted) A few of the previous shows mentioned:
Mad Men: Peggy Olson
Agree with Fever and WKRP
All in the Family: Edith
Mary Tyler Moore: Lou Grant
Sons of Anarchy: Gemma
The Shield: Wyms

And pretty much every character played by Andre Braugher

 

[Vombatus]

Fun to think about the great shows and the characters who were indispensable to their success. (Leads excepted) A few of the previous shows mentioned:
Mad Men: Peggy Olson
Agree with Fever and WKRP
All in the Family: Edith
Mary Tyler Moore: Lou Grant
Sons of Anarchy: Gemma
The Shield: Wyms

And pretty much every character played by Andre Braugher

Dan - off topic: I saw an Oregon license plate that was dark yellow and said “ TRANSPORTER” at the bottom. What the heck is that? Thanks in advance.

 

[Vombatus]

On Topic:

Eddie Haskell

 

[misterbc]

Early MASH doesn’t work without Frank Burns.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Dan - off topic: I saw an Oregon license plate that was dark yellow and said “ TRANSPORTER” at the bottom. What the heck is that? Thanks in advance.

Transporter plates are used by the transportation industry to transport unregistered vehicles from one point to another (usually from the manufacturer to a dealer lot). These plates may be moved from vehicle to vehicle.

 

[Tighthead]

For secondary characters, I was a big fan of Tim Gutterson in Justified.

 

[Vombatus]

Transporter plates are used by the transportation industry to transport unregistered vehicles from one point to another (usually from the manufacturer to a dealer lot). These plates may be moved from vehicle to vehicle.

The one I saw was driving in Maryland like an asshole.

 

[Vombatus]

On Topic:

Eddie Haskell

Mork from Ork

 

[Tighthead]

Early MASH doesn’t work without Frank Burns.

Agreed, but Winchester was a good change up. I thought BJ was a huge bring down from Trapper.