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To ask you for your top 3 sitcom characters ever?

372 replies

CheapSausagesAndSpam · 01/02/2018 12:08

3 isn't many is it?

Here's mine

Jill Tyrell-Nighty Night
David Brent even though he annoys me so much
Basil Fawlty

Now people will come along with theirs and I'll think I've chosen the wrong ones!

OP posts:
BellMcEnd · 02/02/2018 20:15

Frankie from Grace & Frankie
Karen from Will & Grace
JD and Turk from Scrubs (have to be together)

BellMcEnd · 02/02/2018 20:17

Oh and Amy Farrah Fowler from TBBT

ShowOfHands · 02/02/2018 20:19

Bren from dinnerladies. Beautifully written and acted, comic and tragic in equal measure. I am still so sad that Victoria died.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 02/02/2018 20:24

Dave Coaches from Gavin + Stacey
Cheryl from The Royle Family
Kryten from Red Dwarf

Always have a proper soft spot for people I feel slightly sorry for...

GrooovyLass · 02/02/2018 20:51

Not rtft so not sure if these have already been mentioned. Very difficult to narrow down to three and would probably be different if you asked me tomorrow! No particular order...

Bernard Black from Black Books
Gloria Pritchett from Modern Family
Jim Royle from the Royle Family

AskBasil · 02/02/2018 21:31

Margot Leadbetter
Queenie from Blackadder II
Niles Crane

ohlalalala · 02/02/2018 21:35

Joey from friends
Nan from Catherine Tate
David Brent

FairNotFair · 02/02/2018 21:52

Joy - My Name is Earl
Overweight Monica and pre-nose-job Rachel - Friends
Father Noel Furlong - Father Ted

AaronPurrSir · 02/02/2018 22:00

Marshall Erickson from HIMYM
He’s so sweet, kind and funny, but also incredibly sexy - you just know he’s dynamite in the sack. Every woman wants to marry a Marshall.

Father Dougal
He can crack you up with just a facial expression. Even when he’s not speaking or the focus of the scene, he’s hilarious. Such truly brilliant comic acting from AOH

Nessa from Gavin & Stacey
Unashamedly confident, takes absolutely no shit from anybody and tells it like it is. We should all aspire to be more like Ness.

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 02/02/2018 22:03

Hawkeye - MASH

The Peralta/Holt combo in Brooklyn 99

Howard Moon, Mighty Boosh

But so many more - chandler, Moss, Caroline Todd and Fran (so Tamsin Greig)... so so many.

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 02/02/2018 22:03

Agree that I am in love with Marshall.

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 02/02/2018 22:04

Oh and in Freaks and Geeks!

AaronPurrSir · 02/02/2018 22:05

Boyfromthebigbadcity Jason Segel is incredibly sexy!

Carouselfish · 02/02/2018 23:48

Michael Scott from US Office. I would be his Holly.
Larry David from Curb.
Hyacinth Bucket. Just really started appreciating the re-runs of KUA.

AnnabelleLecter · 03/02/2018 00:03

Vince and Penny - Just good friends
Wolfie- Citizen Smith

Tigertots · 03/02/2018 00:42

Rudy from the Cosby Show (such a beauty & a cutie!)
Rik & Vyvyan from the Young Ones

Not many other British people will know Full House, but I like Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) and Michelle (the Olsen twins).

Oh my, and there's Jay from the Inbetweeners!
And I fancied Adam in the early episodes of Butterflies, although I'm not attracted to Lyndhurst otherwise.

HelenaDove · 03/02/2018 00:48

Kris Marshall was bloody funny as Nick in My Family.

Not a sitcom popular with the critics as i recall.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 03/02/2018 01:05

Holt from Brooklyn 99.
Bren from Dinnerladies.
Andy Kaufman in Taxi. The best of his generation, gone long before his time.Sad

Taytotots · 03/02/2018 01:25

Moss - it crowd
Sue white - green wing
Maggie - northern exposure

Was really hard to pick though - could have gone for Father Dougal, Nessa, cat from red dwarf or Carole, Brittas empire amongst others.

ohthelights · 03/02/2018 01:40

Wait for it....

Barney Stinson

Legen-dary

ohthelights · 03/02/2018 01:45

And JD, Turk, Dr Cox and Elliot.

And the janitor! And Ted.

RunningjustasfastasIcan99 · 03/02/2018 11:37

Janice (Friends)
Howard (fresh meat)
Dolly (dinner ladies) great 1 liners.

doctorcuntybollocks · 03/02/2018 12:19

Super Hans from Peep Show

Niles Crane from Frasier

Alan Partridge

HandbagKrabby · 03/02/2018 12:52

Blackadder

Pauline & Mickey Luv from the League of Gentleman

Father Ted

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 03/02/2018 14:19

@Redcrayons someone in my office once told me that all my colleagues thought I was just like Karen. I was a bit taken aback...