re: What’s your pantheon of greatest television characters ever (any genre)?

Hank hill

Sergeant Schultz
Fred Sanford
Barney Fife
Jed Clampett
Ralph Kramden

What about Ron Pearlman when he played that cat who lived in the sewer?

Basil Fawlty
Ari Gold
Michael Scott
Ron Swanson


Would add Jack Donaghy but Baldwin is so detestable

Ed Norton - Art Carney (Ralph was the star but Ed and Alice made the show)
Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Conner
Alex P. Keaton - Michael J. Fox
Boyd Crowder - Walton Coggins
Kramer - Michael Richards

Honorable Mention:
Beth Dutton/Rip
JR Ewing
Walter White

Lots of good ones mentioned. I’ll add:

Louis DePalma

For you youngins, he was played by a young Danny Devito in the sitcom, Taxi.

Archie Bunker
Don Draper
Roger Sterling
Sterling Archer
Jeannie
Tony Soprano

quote:

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Ed Norton

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When I was in elementary school I wanted to be a garbage man. It was because we never had sewers in the small towns where we lived. That was the closest thing I could come up with to live like Norton did.

Amos Burton - The Expanse (Originally on SyFy)

Ahsoka Tano - Clone Wars (originally on Cartoon Network)

John Reese - Person of Interest

Harley Quinn - Batman the Animated Series (introduced there before the comics)

Dean and Sam Winchester - Supernatural

1) Boyd Crowder
2) Shawn Spencer and Gus Burton
3) Columbo
4) George Costanza
5) Gregory House
6) Homer Simpson
7) Sterling Archer
8) Malcolm Reynolds
9) Niles Crane
10) Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin
11) Howard Borden



And two honorable mentions from "Just entering Puberty" Magildachunks: Kelly Kapowski and Al Lambert.