Who are your most memorable sitcom characters?
 

We don't watch a lot of TV anymore, but every once and a while a certain television character, or a scene from an old sitcom will come to mind, and bring a smile...

I'm not sure who my all time favorite character is...but, the following stand out:

The stoic/gruff performance of Ed Asner as Lou Grant in the Mary Tyler Moore show

Peter Faulk as Columbo

James Garner as Jim Rockford in the Rockford Files

George Wendt as Norm on Cheers

Carol Burnett...in her variety show

Goldie Hawn as the airhead blonde in Laugh-In

Lucy and Ethel, working on the chocolate candy assembly line

Audrey Meadows, just standing there, with her hand on her hip, watching Ralph rant and rave


And who didn't belly laugh at Harvey Korman and Tim Conway in that skit in the dentist chair?

Or the "Elephant Story" on the Carol Burnett show when Conway went totally off script when they were live, and the rest of the cast couldn't keep a straight face

"The Music Box"...Laurel and Hardy won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject Comedy for this one...The boys struggle to deliver a piano up a long flight of stairs. The stairs are still there...I climbed them while on a trip to Hollywood a few years back

Jack Tripper on Three's Company

Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties

Laura Petrie in Dick Van Dyke show

Frazier Crane, Martin Crane and Daphne Moon on Frazier

Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes on Seinfeld

Hands down, Al Bundy, Married With Children. Honorable mention, Archie Bunker, All In the Family.

Larry, Daryl, and,.... that other guy...

Al Bundy was reincarnated as "Jay" on Modern Family...

He is my "Spirit Animal" and the grandfather I hope to be... :bigbow::bigbow::bigbow:

Norm on Cheers, followed by Coach
Newman on Seinfeld
Archie on All in the Family

My favorite of all time? — the entire cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun.

When we see Lithgow as Winston Churchill in The Crown or a serial killer in Dexter, we can see what a brilliant dramatic actor he is.

But Lithgow’s comedic genius as Dick, the alien in his human form — as an arrogant, confused college professor — makes me laugh out loud. The rest of his “family” does, too.

And Mrs. Dubcek, their aging, horny landlady, with her cigarette holder and her tacky, exotic wardrobe is a classic.

I think 3rd Rock from the Sun has one of the best casts ever put together for a sitcom. And some of the topics will take you down memory lane to the 1990s.

Thanks for the question, OP. I am a fan of sitcoms, but there are not many good ones anymore. Young Sheldon is the only sitcom I watch now. I always liked Big Bang Theory, maybe because I know some people like those lovable, clueless geeks.

Boomer

George Costanza on Seinfeld.

OMG. Where to begin?
 

My drastically pared down group.
Al and Peggy Bundy
Fred Sanford
The Kingfish
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet")
Rose (second incarnation on Keeping Up Appearances)
Entire cast of The I. T. Crowd
Miranda
Compo and Nora Batty (Last of the Summer Wine)
Almost forgot Captain Binghamton

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Gladys Kravitz and her husband Abner from "Bewitched". Understand she retired and moved to The Villages. ;)

Archie for sure. Also Col. Potter of M.A.S.H.

Uncle Joe Petticoat Junction
Jim Rockford
Danny Devito on Taxi
Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres
Hank Kimball on Green Acres
Huggy Bear on Starsky and Hutch
Ernest T. Bass on Andy Griffith
Gruber (Carl Ballantine) McHales Navy
Bob Conrad on Wild West
Vic Morrow on Combat
Robert Stack on the Untouchables
Mr. Petterman on Seinfeld aka John O Hurly
And on and on.....

Bob Newhart on both of his sitcoms, pus the pilot on the first one.

Red from That's 70's Show
The cast of Taxi...

Two and a half men, Rose, Alan, Berta, hilarious

How could I have forgotten my all-time favorite favorite — The Vicar of Dibley. Every character in the cast.

Boomer

Newman & Gilligan

No, she lives next door to me up in MD... :icon_wink:

:shrug: Then who is it down here looking out her window at people sitting in lawn chairs, in the street, smoking cigarettes ? Abner come here and look at this. :1rotfl:

Yes, 3rd Rock (have you read the satyrical books Lithgow wrote on a certain political figure?).
Loved Taxi, brilliant cast.

Loved Mary Tyler Moore and whole cast. Genius writing.

So many really good sitcoms, not too much around now.:ohdear:

Frank Gallagher on Shameless.
Ed Norton on The Honeymooners.
Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Percy Dovetonsils on Ernie Kovacs.

Jethro Clampett drives up in front of the mansion with a bunch of canines in the bed of the pickup. Jed ponders it for a bit and finally slowly says…

“Weeelllll dogies.” My quiet, soft spoken, never let anything ruffle his feathers father just about busted a gut. One of the fondest memories of my childhood. ������

And Elly May wasn’t bad either. :D

William Shatner as Denny Crane in Boston Legal
Alan Alda as Hawkeyes Pierce in Mash
John Larroquette as Dan Fielding in Night Court
Ray Romano as Ray in Everybody Loves Raymond

Agree about Third Rock From the Sun......LOVE French Stewart in his role.

Yes, yes, yes. Charlie Sheen was better than Ashton Kutcher. LOVE that show.

Must be a British show. I looked it up on IMDb and it stars Dawn French.

Daisy Duke - Dukes of Hazzard

Yvonne DeCarlo - Lilly Munster

Lynda Carter - Wonder Woman

Erin Gray - Buck Rogers

Betty White Golden Girls
Archie Bunker
Charlie Sheen Two and a Half Men.
Barney Andy Griffith

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Another vote for Barney! The show was never the same after Don Knotts left

And also another vote for “Denny, Denny Crane”

Frasier Crane!!!

I believe it is available on Prime Streaming. Very funny, very British, very entertaining.

The Vicar of Dibley is streaming on Prime.

To me there there are many but the one who stands out the most is Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker

Why would you want that info?

Love the cast of Boston Legal, especially James Spader.

Night court anyone?

Second vote for Third Rock from the Sun. Also Niles in Frazier.

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Andy Kaufman (aka Latka) on Taxi.
Arte Johnson (the German soldier, the dirty, old man on the park bench with Ruth Buzzi) on Laugh-in.

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