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NotActuallyALonghorn

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8 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

I’m mystified by how many people haven’t seen it.  There isn’t a close #2 series in my mind. It’s that good. I thought about Slim, Bunny, Ziggy, Cutty, and even the Dickensian Aspect pencil dick editor. I hated that guy, but his character was so awesome because I’ve worked with a ton of HR type fuckheads like him throughout my career. 

The Wire is great, but Deadwood is better. Fight me.

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Jerry Callo

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Can't have a list with almost every character from The Wire and leave off Snoop Pearson. She stepped out of her regular life as a drug dealer and former inmate onto the set. After the show, she ended back in jail for dealing drugs.

I heard Michael K. Williams interviewed once and he said the best character in The Wire was the City of Baltimore.

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7 hours ago, slorch said:

Maybe not Top 5, but definitely belong in the thread, you recency biased motherfuckers...

Benjamin Franklin Pierce

George Jefferson

Jim Rockford

Jack Tripper

Mork from Ork

Rockford wasn't even the best character on the show.  Angel Martin all day long.

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Tony Soprano

Christopher Moltisanti

Paulie Walnuts

Saul Goodman

Mike Ehrmantraut

Walter White

Don Draper

Roger F'ing Sterling

Ron Swanson

Michael Scott 

Raylen Givens

Boyd Crowder

Tyrion Lannister

Jon Snow

Stringer Bell

McNulty & Bunk

Frank Sobotka

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17 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

I’m mystified by how many people haven’t seen it.  There isn’t a close #2 series in my mind. It’s that good. I thought about Slim, Bunny, Ziggy, Cutty, and even the Dickensian Aspect pencil dick editor. I hated that guy, but his character was so awesome because I’ve worked with a ton of HR type fuckheads like him throughout my career. 

I've never seen The Wire. Is it good or something? If it came on one of the cable channels that would explain why i never watched it. Same thing with  The Soprano's, been meaning to watch it but just haven't. ALSO, never watched an episode of Breaking Bad.

I bet i just made some of y'all's heads explode

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21 hours ago, DeepEastTexas said:

Al Swearengen 

For me, this really is the one true answer.  There is no character on tv or anywhere else that is as complicated and kickass as Al.  In the first season, he orders Dan to murder the squarehead girl.  In the end, I love the guy despite the fact that it was entirely consistent with his character.  

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One of the great episodes of WKRP that never gets talked about was when Herb Tarlek was in the hospital to be examined for a heart condition. He got scared and fled. The rest of the gang tracked him down and found him at a 3-D porn theater.

While they were trying to talk him into going back to the hospital, everyone who was wearing 3-D glasses would occasionally all lurch to one side simultaneously. Lol. At the end of the scene, the lights come on, someone shouts “It’s a raid!” and, as the cops come in and the rest of the audience flees, Johnny stands up, digs both hands into his pockets, and throws the contents into the seats on the other side of the aisle.

So much greatness. 

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C-Man

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Cosmo Kramer

George Costanza

Sam Malone

Larry Sanders/Artie/Hank Kingsley

Gob Bluth

Don Draper

Selina Meyer

Jonah Ryan

Laszlo Cravensworth

Nandor the Relentless

Colonel Blake

Dan Fielding

Randy Marsh

Frank Reynolds

Larry David

Thomas Magnum

Tony Soprano

Tyrion Lannister

Sterling Archer

Ron Swanson

Ali G/Borat

 

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Costanza 

Troy & Abed

Too many from the Wire but I’d say Slim Charles, Stringer Bell, Lester Freamon and Chris Partlow

Ron Swanson

Recent watch - Lance Stater

its funny for as much as I liked the US Office, I can’t put one character on this list.  probably went too many seasons or I would say Dwight 

Ron Donald gets an honorable mention 

 

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Beantown Express 2.0

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It seems like most of the great ones have been named but I will throw out a few I think weren’t mentioned yet.

Norm Peterson

Cliff Clavin 

Frazier Crane (Cheers version)

Lucille Bluth

Buster Bluth

Latka Gravas

Newman

Carlton Banks (just for the dance)

Alex P Keaton

Joffrey Baratheon (I don’t think I have hated a character more which shows how good the kid was that played him).

Huggy Bear 

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17 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

 

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A New York-based channel on my dish plays two episodes of Seinfeld every night. Last night I turned on the tv halfway through the episode and George was trying to convince someone in a coma that he wasn’t really engaged, although he said that he was. “It’s just something you say.”  Wtf. 

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12 hours ago, Bojack said:

For me, this really is the one true answer.  There is no character on tv or anywhere else that is as complicated and kickass as Al.  In the first season, he orders Dan to murder the squarehead girl.  In the end, I love the guy despite the fact that it was entirely consistent with his character.  

I often watch Al’s lecture to the newspaper editor after Al slapped him. One unique set of ethics, for sure. 

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2 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

A New York-based channel on my dish plays two episodes of Seinfeld every night. Last night I turned on the tv halfway through the episode and George was trying to convince someone in a coma that he wasn’t really engaged, although he said that he was. “It’s just something you say.”  Wtf. 

George Costanza Seinfeld GIF

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