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Mine, in no particular order, are as follows:

Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Jax Teller (Sons Of Anarchy)
David Brent (The Office UK)
Coach Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
Luther (Luther)

Minnie Caldwell
Zippy the Hare
Debbie McGee
Bob Monkhouse
Arthur Mullard

 Good question, I'm going to have a little think about it.... :hmmm:

Strong top 5..

I genuinely would have thought that your top 5 characters would have come from the wireles... from simpler times..

Ian Beale
Zippy from rainbow
Father Dougal McGuire
Maurice Moss
Trigger

Jack Bauer
Sydney Bristow
Inspector Blake
Buffy Summers
Edmund Blackadder

I'm instinctively feeling kids shows from the 50's, early 60's...and maybe Thomas the Tank Engine  :)

So....

Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men

Noggin the Nog

Steve Zodiac

Spock

Basil Fawlty
Penfold
Sir Topham Hatt
Brian Potter
Michael Knight

Weed

Off the cuff, without really thinking about...

MALE

George Costanza (Seinfeld)
Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny)
Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
Alan Partridge (Anything he's been in)
Tommy Saxondale (Saxondale)

Plenty of others can make the list depending on mood - Malcolm Tucker, David Brent, Sgt. Bilko, Dwight Schrute, Buster Bluth, Lionel Hutz, Hank Hill etc

FEMALE

Elaine Benes (Seinfeld)
Peggy Hill (The King of the Hill)
Selina Meyer (Veep)
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec)

Quite possibly  ;)

I'm with you on this... Dwight Schrute, Alan Partridge, Michael Scott, Saxondale, Bryn West, Andy Millman, Malcolm Tucker... they could have all made the list.. so many to choose from!!

Yep. Tommy Saxondale would make my contender list.

That was a very underrated show.

Also, Garth Marenghi/Rick Dagless, Dean Learner/Thornton Reed, Todd Rivers/Lucien Sanchez...

Darkplace was only brilliant, for me, during my watching-stuff-on-DVD-at-3am-with-my-uni-housemates. You can guess the rest.

I've tried watching it in later years and while I still enjoy it, it's not quite the same......

Good question. My offering:

Josh Lyman (West Wing)
Malcolm Tucker (The Thick Of It)
Alan Partridge
Sir Humphrey Appleby (Yes Minister)
Barbara Good (The Good Life)

Strangely, I understand entirely... although, I think it's still brilliant.

Tony Soprano
Lester Freamon (The Wire)
Homer Simpson
Harvey Specter (Suits)
Dewey (Malcolm in the Middle)

I probably could've named five from The Wire alone. David Simon is fantastic at developing characters.

Yosser hughes from boys from the black stuff. Brilliant series and a great commentary on Thatcher's England. Hard to watch at times but one of the best bits of telly.
John cleese as basil Fawlty.
Jimmy nail as oz in Aug wiedersehen pet.
Mike ehrmantraut in breaking bad or better call Saul which I prefer
G'kar in Babylon 5

Most already mentioned:

David Brent
Malcolm Tucker
Alan Partridge
Brian Potter (Phoenix Nights)
Dr Cox (Scrubs)

I loved Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad.. out of interest, what was it that you prefered in BCS to BB?

I got pissed off with the walter white character. Preferred Jessie but mike was really interesting but bcs develops his character really well. Saul Goodman is a quality character as well.

That's cool. I just wondered as it was the first time I'd seen that someone had preferred BCS to BB  8)

Nice to hear others prefer Better Call Saul over Breaking Bad. I love the characters and pace of the series, it feels more personal.

Top 5 off the top of my head:

Malcolm Tucker (The Thick of It)
Omar (The Wire)
Dana Scully (X Files)
Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead)
Father Ted Crilly

Kim is a great character too and Chuck is worse than Tuco and Gus combined

Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit. Sorry, I'm going to have to put Tim Bisley after that (Spaced) - as in I am quoting him/Simon Pegg.
Bernard L Black (Black Books)
Detective Frank Pembleton (Homicide: Life on the Street)
Paulie Walnuts (Sopranos)
And all of the others that everyone else has - Alan, Bunk Morland etc.

Best sci fi ever. Hang your head in shame.

Tough. I've already seen Dr. Cox, Scrubs and Tony Soprano so I'll give them a miss.

Ari Gold (Entourage)
House (House)
Jones (Nathan Barley)
Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Captain Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

I went to look up Captain Holt and remembered how much I also love Jake and Gina from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but decided Gina was also worth a space.

David Brent all day long for me.

Professionalism is.....

....and that is what I want.

Tony Soprano

There aren't 4 more who are that close to him

Baldrick. /thread

Tyrion Lannister
Number Six
Vic Mackey
Any from Red Dwarf
Thomas Shelby

Thomas Shelby.
Selina Meyer. (veep).
Alan Partridge.
Malcolm Tucker.
Absolute undisputed number one for me is Jim Royle.

...my arse.

Arthur Daley
Father Ted
Jack Regan
Brian Potter
OZ Auf wiedershen

Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Baldrick (Blackadder 2,3 & 4)
Rick Tomkins (Rik Mayall in the Young ones)
Larry (Kenny Hotz from Testees THE funniest program I have ever seen)
Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn in Ripper Street)

Impossible to pick 5 so I won't bother.

Breaking bad is better than better call Saul, in my opinion as it's been mentioned. Significantly better I'd say.

That's Prick Tomkins, with a silent 'P'  ;)

Tyrion Lannister
Greg House
Dexter
Leonard (Big Bang)
Rodney Trotter

Stringer Bell (The Wire)
Omar Little (The Wire)
Bubbles (The Wire)
Lester Freamon (The Wire)
Bunk Moreland (The Wire)

That's a tough one....

Basil Fawlty (Flowery Twats)
Eddie Hitler (Bottom)
Father Jack Hackett (Father Ted)
Bod (Bod)
And finally cant decide between
Martin "Shit on it" Goodman or the neighbour Jim (Friday night dinner)

Flowery Twats :D

Farty Towels
Flay Otters
Fatty Owls
Warty Towels
Watery Fowls

Vic Mackey (The Shield)
Father Jack Hackett (Drink! Girls! Feck! That would be an ecumenical question)
Kryton
Samwell Tarley
Marine Boy

CJ (Baywatch)

Jim Rockford
Angel Martin
Corporal Klinger
Rupert Rigsby
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin

BIG fan of this show!

Likewise. It's the best TV show of all time.

It's certainly one of mine, along with Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights & Band Of Brothers..

Scott tracey
Virgil tracey
Captain scarlet
Troy tempest
Those ball things in terrahawks

Walter White
Homer Simpson
Peter Griffin
Randy Marsh
The Janitor

I almost chose a terrahawks character as I loved that as a kid. Ninestein was one I think?

Saul Goodman
Whoever Diana Rigg plays in Game of Thrones (not a fan of the show but she's amazing in it)
Lynne from Partridge
Hans Moleman
The pink power ranger

https://www.buzzfeed.com/billypeltzer/32-signs-youre-the-hans-moleman-ecuv#.irPqJ3y2r

Hahaha. I genuinely have all of those except being hit in the groin. (Yes, I do control an underground fortress.)

Although what might be even sadder is I read the last picture and finished the quote off in my head which is "except that"..

I reckon every time I give my top 5 it would change.

I can think of loads. On top of the ones already mentioned, i'd add Ari Gold (Entourage), Rigsby (Rising Damp), Basil Fawlty, Del Trotter, Homer Simpson, The Janitor (Scrubs), Ted Buckland (Scrubs), Quagmire (Family Guy), Dexter, Seeley Booth (Bones)

Love this..

You being hit in the groin, and having an underground fortress, those two things sound linked.

I'm not here to judge.

I've been in and out of hospital recently (I'm fine) and one of the doctors asked me how I felt the other day and I just said "I feel like Hans Moleman"

He didn't know what I meant. Fucking NHS workers eh :) Watch more Simpsons!

I fucking would if I got any fucking days off!!

 :-[

It's twats that keep coming in and out isn't it  :D

Something like that... 80 hours overtime this month.. 7 more weeks and I have 5 weeks off!!

Tiger Ninestein

That's the fella.

Man I forgot

Mr Jelly (Psychoville)
Pauline CJ  (League of Gentlemen)

All of the LOG are outstanding but Reece Shearsmith's grumpy characters just get me. Perfectly nuanced, I say as a grumpy fuck myself.

I forgot Skinny Pete and Badger- almost the ultimate double act.

I also forgot most of the characters from Twin Peaks.

Well thanks to this thread I now know that half the usernames on this site are from TV series I've never seen.

I forgot frank grimes and thecwhole cast of northern exposure

Lorne malvo
Detective Rust Cohle
Stringer Bell
Paulie walnuts Gualtieri
Partridge

Or Grimey, as he liked to be called.

I still use his pencils.

Fawlty
Brent
Rick Spleen
Partridge
Tommy Shelby

Jim Rockford.
Jack Regan.
Tony Soprano.
Walter White.
Del Boy.

"....at the tone leave your name and number..." best show ever in my book

Yep. I could also include his dad, Rocky and his mate, Angel. Loved that show.

Angel's in mine.brilliant show made even better when he was involved