re: Mount Rushmore of TV characters

Jackie Gleason
Shatner
Carol Burnett
Larry Hagman

Reading through the thread, Homer Simpson is getting lots of love.

As is Andy Griffith (so I assume Andy Taylor).

Lots of people are saying Jackie Gleason, but he's a real person, not a TV character. So I assume that to mean Ralph Kramden?

Archie Bunker also getting a good bit of mentions.

victor newman and al bundy for sure.

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Ari Gold

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Who?

Frasier is, probably, my favorite television character of all time.

Lucy is almost synonomous with scripted television shows, particularly sitcoms.

I like Belzer's Munch character, but it's tough to put him in this company, quite yet.

Let's talk about Ozzie & Harriet, Matt Dillon, Archie Bunker, Hawkeye Pierce, Jerry Seinfeld (the character), heck, even Homer Simpson probably gets the nod over Munch.

Now - if it's required the character actually appear on a number of programs, that probably knocks out a number of the obviously more influential characters I named.

In that case, I at least take Archie Bunker and Mr. Worf over Munch.

i tried to stick to network tv sitcoms (except i cheated with carson and if i can pick him someone may argue Oprah but whatever...)

men
Johnny Carson
Archie Bunker
Ralph Cramden
Andy Taylor


women

Lucy
Carol Burnett
Mary Richards
Roseanne Connor

OR the cast of the Golden Girls b/c why not


black (das raycess)

Cliff Huxtable
Fred Sanford
George Jefferson
Steve Urkel/Arnold Drummond (depending on your age i guess)



dads that DGAF

Al Bundy
Homer Simpson
Ray Barone
Peter Griffin



Single Guys

Seinfeld
Jack Tripper
Barney Stinson
Sam Malone

dumb friend
GOB/Buster/Tobias (pick one)
Lowell (Wings)
Chrissy (Threes Company)
Woody- Cheers



perverted oversexed friend

Dan Fielding
Larry Dallas
Blanche Devereaux
Glen Quagmire


dumb oversexed friend

Joey Tribiani
Buddy Lembeck
Michael Kelso
Kelly Bundy (doesn't fit the category but too good to ignore)


Quirky friend

Kramer
Tracey Jordan
Jack Macfarland
Reverend Jim Ignatowski


quirky protagonist

Sheldon Cooper
Mork
Balki Bartokomus (sp?)
Lucy (i'm putting her twice)



teenage son

Alex P Keaton
Mike Seaver
Greg Brady
Theo Huxtable


teenage son protagonists
kevin arnold
Zack Morris
fresh prince of bel air
tie: Malcolm (malcolm in the middle)/Corey Matthews

sassy

Flo -(Alice)
Flo- (The Jeffersons)
Carla - Cheers
Julia Sugarbaker- Designing Women (what? i had a mom growing up)


i'm tired of doing these now....

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Damn you pulling up all those sitcoms.

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Sitcoms are going to dominate because of the volume of them and the number of them that had extended runs.

I think we have another problem, as well. We may need a TV actor category, separate from the characters. Who doesn't want to see Bob Newhart up there? But he played 3 differing characters (and that can be argued for Lucy as well, but there's much less differentiation) - same for Ted Knight, although he wasn't the lead on MTM. Ditto for Lou Grant - started as a sitcom support character and became a dramatic lead in a very different type of series - played by the same guy.

James Garner, Andy Griffith and Michael Landon all might get the nod as actors, while no individual character might make the cut for the "character" Mount Rushmore of this thread.

Just food for thought.

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TDTGodfather

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That's way more than 4.