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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2047718)

Howdy Doody

Gumby

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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2047719)

Gumby

Anything done by Sid Ceasar

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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2047725)

Anything done by Sid Ceasar

Art Carney ............worked in the sewers

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2047322)

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

Topcha I’ll take that as a complement. On more than one occasion people have said you look like Al Bundy and I thought wow what an insult. Going way back when I was in my 20s I called on an account and there were people there who said I look like “meathead” on all in the family.

Cliff the Mailman

Jim Ignatowski on Taxi

Everybody on Green Acres. I also loved, Sledge Hammer. A parody of Dirty Harry.

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Originally Posted by jbrown132 (Post 2047594)

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

Hands down Archie Bunker.
All in the Family forever changed American sitcoms.

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Originally Posted by Jeffery M (Post 2047776)

Everybody on Green Acres. I also loved, Sledge Hammer. A parody of Dirty Harry.

My favorite from Green Acres was Arnold (the talking pig).

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Originally Posted by davem4616 (Post 2047312)

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

Frazier and Niles Crane.

Some like it hot

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2047322)

hands down, al bundy, married with children. Honorable mention, archie bunker, all in the family.

i will never, ever forget al using his tv remote control to shut off peggy's overpowering libido. He pointed and pressed all of the buttons to no avail

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Originally Posted by New Englander (Post 2047349)

George Costanza on Seinfeld.

“I was in the pool”

Dagwood Bumstead!

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Cosmo Cramer and Frank Costanza - Seinfeld
Lou Grant and Ted Baxter - Mary Tyler Moore Show
Norm and Cliff - Cheers
Ted Lasso

Sledge Hammer, yes!

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Originally Posted by Jeffery M (Post 2047776)

Everybody on Green Acres. I also loved, Sledge Hammer. A parody of Dirty Harry.

Sledge Hammer was one of several short lived sitcoms that we often overlook, like Herman's Head, where you could hear what he was really thinking when no one else could.