Who's awesome?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Far too much Red Bull on Saturday night led to the need to compose a list. A list of the top 10 most awesome people on TV. It was much more of a challenge than initially expected and ended up taking two hours - so I want to see your lists.

Rough rules - TV characters only. No real people, no films, no animation.
Awesome criteria: Gets the best lines/wisecracks, is badass, gets all the chicks/dudes.

Grim... and Craster's list of the Awesomest Ever TV Characters (not ordered)

House
Rick Castle/Mal Reynolds/Captain Hammer (basically the same character)
Jayne Cobb
Barney Stinson
BA Baracus
Spike
Dr Horrible
Badger/Crowley/The Lawyer Dude From Galactica
Dr Cox
The Fonz

Yes, it's very Whedon-heavy, and yes they're all dudes. I've also merged a few where they might not make the list individually. And it was 5am. You do better!

Alberto · **Joined:** 28th Jan, 2011 **Posts:** 1198

Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks.

imtypingonakeyboard · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 18:11

Alan Partridge
George Dawes
Dexter
Liz Lemon/Tracy Jordan/Dr Specimen
Kramer
Doctor Who
Bergerac*

*Just kidding

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

In no order

House
Doctor who
Spike
Morse
Jeeves
Tommy Gavin
CM Punk
Hutch
Gene Hunt
Det. Sgt. George Carter

I feel bad that there are no women on my list.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26107

I thought Russell had started a thread about himself for a second there.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Mimi wrote:

I thought Russell had started a thread about himself for a second there.

That would've been called "Who's a giant Mr Dave?"

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

House
Castle/Mal Reynolds
Edmund Blackadder the second
The Doctor
Parker (Leverage)

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

In rough order

The Doctor (Doctors are cool)
Tyrian Lannister
Larry David (oh, to live my life that free)
Sherlock Holmes
Mal Reynolds
Jeff Winger (Community)
Kramer
Admiral Odama

Plissken · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 19:12

Snake Plissken is awesome.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 20:19

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Timmy Westphall

Nemmie · **Joined:** 13th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1643

Connor Macleod

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 22:33

Many of the above, but also:

Dr Cal Lightman (from Lie to Me).

Most of my other favourite characters from things are awesome, but not in the way described in the first post.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Then they are not awesome.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 23:04

Colt Seavers
Monkey
Jean-Luc Picard
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Tony Suprano
Vivian
Jack Bauer
Buck Rodgers
Number 6
The Equaliser

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Tyrion Lannister
Col. Saul Tigh
Vampire Jessica
The Seventh Doctor
Mike out of Spaced
Optimus Prime
Sterling Archer
Brian Griffin
Cartman
Captain Jean-Luc Picard

YES.

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

Quote:

Grim... and Craster's list of the Awesomest Ever TV Characters (not ordered)

Dr Horrible

That's not a TV character!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26107

Fox Mulder. He's kind of geeky smouldering sexy - does that fit the criteria?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:19

Surely this list should begin and end at Garth Marenghi.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38668

Patrick Jayne. He literally got away with murder.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:02

GovernmentYard wrote:

Tyrion Lannister
Col. Saul Tigh
Vampire Jessica
The Seventh Doctor
Mike out of Spaced
Optimus Prime
Sterling Archer
Brian Griffin
Cartman
Captain Jean-Luc Picard

YES.

NO.

Quote:

no animation

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I agree with the OP list. However, you have criminally left off Alan Shore and Denny Crane.

DENNY CRANE.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Unfortunately, because it was a joint list, we both had to have seen the programme. And Grim... has never seen Boston Legal so Denny and/or Alan couldn't go on the list.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Craster wrote:

Unfortunately, because it was a joint list, we both had to have seen the programme. And Grim... has never seen Boston Legal so Denny and/or Alan couldn't go on the list.

Then your list is broken. And so is Grim.... In fact, so much so to the extent that, correct as it may be, your entire list is null and void.

You also missed off the Fonz.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38668

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

You also missed off the Fonz.

Oh dear

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:31

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

DavPaz wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

You also missed off the Fonz.

Oh dear

His list was null and void so had no one on it. Pay attention.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:04

Some people are having as much trouble counting to ten as we were.

I'm still not entirely happy with Badger.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Grim... wrote:

Some people are having as much trouble counting to ten as we were.

I'm still not entirely happy with Badger.

Badger didn't get any girls, of course.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Grim... wrote:

I'm still not entirely happy with Badger.

No, likewise.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Craster wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I'm still not entirely happy with Badger.

No, likewise.

Denny. Crane.

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:21

Craster wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I'm still not entirely happy with Badger.

No, likewise.

I was puzzled to see him on the list. I've not seen the actor's other stuff, but Badger seemed a pretty unremarkable character.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:21

Knock him off the list, then.

Although there's not been much in the way of inspiration.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Pretty hard to pick who is the most awesome from Breaking Bad. One of Walter White/Gus Fring/Saul Goodman.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

LewieP wrote:

Pretty hard to pick who is the most awesome from Breaking Bad. One of Walter White/Gus Fring/Saul Goodman.

Mike. Duh.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11899

Surely Cpt Kirk should be in there.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:22

Kirk is a fop.

Picard is the best Captain.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11899

Awesome criteria: Gets the best lines/wisecracks, is badass, gets all the chicks/dudes.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:36

He's a simpleton.

If he fell in a barrel of tits he'd come out sucking his thumb.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11899

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I love that gif so much.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:46

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Pretty hard to pick who is the most awesome from Breaking Bad. One of Walter White/Gus Fring/Saul Goodman.

Mike. Duh.

Definitely Mike.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:54

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 14:23

Brisco County Junior. And not unrelatedly, Ashley Williams.

Hans Gruber.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

Bunk (The Wire) - "Fuck you very much"
Gob (Arrested Development) - "COME ON"
Al Swearengen (Deadwood)- "I will profane your fucking remains, E.B."
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) - charm and obnoxiousness perfected and personified.
Jeff (Curb again) - deep down everyone wants a friend like him.
Jay Wratten (Shadow Line) - never seen menace and crack pot insanity like it. Suited the off-beat tone of the show perfectly.
Mike (Spaced) - needs no explanation
Boyd Crowder (Justified) - brilliantly devious and articulate right-wing pyromaniac.
Francis (Malcolm in the Middle) - one of the few things to make me want an older sibling.
Steve McBride (Shameless) - not a name I'd recognise (had to Google it), but James McAvoy's character in Shameless' first series is pretty much one of the coolest (if inevitably flawed) people I've seen on TV.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

"Gets the best lines/wisecracks, is badass, gets all the chicks/dudes."

which of these does Mike from Spaced fit under, pray tell?

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

"Gets the best lines/wisecracks, is badass, gets all the chicks/dudes."

which of these does Mike from Spaced fit under, pray tell?

He gets the landlady. Pure, tobacco-stained filth in a nightgown.

But Jiminy Cricket, I forgot Alan Partridge. He takes Francis "Malcolm in the Middle"'s place.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Findus Fop wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

"Gets the best lines/wisecracks, is badass, gets all the chicks/dudes."

which of these does Mike from Spaced fit under, pray tell?

He gets the landlady. Pure, tobacco-stained filth in a nightgown.

Janet Street Porter in a nightgown, at that. Bleurg.

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 15:59

I thought Brian got together with the landlady?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Plissken wrote:

I thought Brian got together with the landlady?

Yep, then Mike does in series 2.

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