Author Topic: Yahoo's 99 Greatest TV Characters since Tony Soprano (so basically of the 2000s) (Read 28382 times)

Hazell · « **Reply #41 on:** March 7, 2015, 06:32:49 pm »

Ah, the man who was once described as the Gorbals Goebbels.

El Lobo · « **Reply #42 on:** March 7, 2015, 06:37:13 pm »

Quote from: Malaysian Kopite on March 7, 2015, 06:19:32 pm

I think Homer will be in the top 3, just for his mainstream recognition alone.

Loooong before Tony Soprano

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #43 on:** March 7, 2015, 06:56:37 pm »

Quote from: Malaysian Kopite on March 7, 2015, 06:19:32 pm

I think Homer will be in the top 3, just for his mainstream recognition alone.

he pre-dates Tony Soprano by quite some time.

Zephyr · « **Reply #44 on:** March 7, 2015, 06:58:28 pm »

Lists like this are always shite.

Xxavi · « **Reply #45 on:** March 7, 2015, 07:01:24 pm »

Quote from: Achmat on March 7, 2015, 05:51:29 pm

People who haven't read the books like to use it as an "inside joke" amongst themselves.

A terrible joke that.

Regarding this list, I am slightly disappointed that Joffrey Baratheon is not higher up on the list. Don't know if there is any more disliked character in that list. That alone should move him up.

Pradan · « **Reply #46 on:** March 7, 2015, 08:37:50 pm »

Seth Cohen at 50? What the fuck?

Pistolero · « **Reply #47 on:** March 7, 2015, 09:01:42 pm »

Quote from: Il Capitano on March 7, 2015, 05:55:50 pm

What's everybody's beef with Richard Harrow?

mine is that he's not in the top 20...

Clayton Bigsby · « **Reply #48 on:** March 8, 2015, 02:55:10 am »

Scholfied has to be Top 10 for me

Vork+The Knights of Good · « **Reply #49 on:** March 8, 2015, 03:05:51 am »

Quote from: Macphisto80 on March 7, 2015, 01:00:43 pm

Walter Bishop at 93?

That alone tells you that list was compiled by morons. I'm not the biggest fan of Fringe, but John Noble in that was outstanding. He made that show by himself.

Amen.

Ron Swanson and Mrs. Coach better be top 10 or I do not understand the point of this list.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #50 on:** March 8, 2015, 09:43:11 am »

Quote from: 10 years on on March 7, 2015, 06:21:12 pm

2000s?

Oh aye, forgot about that

10 years on · « **Reply #51 on:** March 8, 2015, 12:54:04 pm »

Quote from: Clayton Bigsby on March 8, 2015, 02:55:10 am

Scholfied has to be Top 10 for me

tee-bag as well.

Latenight Surfer · « **Reply #52 on:** March 8, 2015, 02:08:59 pm »

What about this muppet?

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #53 on:** March 8, 2015, 03:00:24 pm »

If I was going to pick just one character from The Wire, I'd go for Bubbles.

Roopy · « **Reply #54 on:** March 9, 2015, 06:15:46 am »

I'd go with Bender from Futurama

Nothing can top a cigar smoking, alcohol & gambling-addicted, conniving robot!

tommy LFC · « **Reply #55 on:** March 9, 2015, 07:03:45 am »

the good half · « **Reply #56 on:** March 9, 2015, 08:00:19 am »

JR Ewing

The greatest of 'em all.

WelshMike · « **Reply #57 on:** March 9, 2015, 11:42:56 am »

Actually, surely Eric Cartman (+ Randy Marsh) deserve inclusion since the bulk of South Park has been post-2000, particularly at its peak with those characters.

Rob K · « **Reply #58 on:** March 9, 2015, 10:59:47 pm »

Next ten (40's) finally added to the OP.

Yahoo list makers clearly don't work weekends.

Latenight Surfer · « **Reply #59 on:** March 9, 2015, 11:05:54 pm »

Ari Gold is 53

Redcap · « **Reply #60 on:** March 9, 2015, 11:23:19 pm »

Basically a pointless list. Most characters would have as strong a claim as another.

Locks for top 10:

Tyrion Lannister
Walter White
Don Draper
Omar Little

Other characters with a good shot, but which I don't necessarily endorse:

Peggy Olsen (Mad Men - they'll need a strong female character and it'll be Peggy or Leslie)
Louis C.K. (Louis - probably the strongest sitcom character in this time?)
Nucky Thompson (Boardwalk Empire - No Boardwalk fan likes Nucky more than Richard Harrow, but he'll end up higher because the list makes no sense)
Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec - see Peggy above)
Hannah Horvath (Girls - because Lena Dunham is a voice of a generation)

Also.. Finn the Human from Adventure Time?

GOB from Arrested Development should rank fairly highly too, as would Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Oh and Liz Lemon!

Kashinoda · « **Reply #61 on:** March 10, 2015, 02:31:20 am »

45. Stringer Bell, The Wire

Desmond from lost needs to be up their somewhere, I expect there to be a lot of LOST characters to be honest.

Xxavi · « **Reply #62 on:** March 10, 2015, 02:32:12 am »

I have watched plenty of Justified. Raylan Givens is a boring, one-dimensional character. Absolutely nothing remarkable in him.

Newman96 · « **Reply #63 on:** March 10, 2015, 09:57:54 am »

Hope they stick Sterling Archer in somewhere

GlenJohnson2 · « **Reply #64 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:09:41 am »

64 and 53 should be higher.

Redcap · « **Reply #65 on:** March 10, 2015, 11:28:38 am »

Quote from: Newman96 on March 10, 2015, 09:57:54 am

Hope they stick Sterling Archer in somewhere

Not even the best character in Archer, when you consider that he shares a show with Pam, Krieger, Ray and Cheryl.

Archer is like Arrested Development in a lot of ways, not least of which is that the supporting cast is one of its strongest qualities.

Rob K · « **Reply #66 on:** March 10, 2015, 05:23:51 pm »

Today's ten are up for critique.

Popcorn · « **Reply #67 on:** March 10, 2015, 05:28:18 pm »

I only seen the first season of Orange is the New Black and 2/3 episodes of the second but that Crazy eyes being in the 30's and ahead of some of those names is mental to me anyway.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #68 on:** March 10, 2015, 05:50:05 pm »

I'm surprised House is so low. I've never watched it, but he seemed very popular.

Red Viper · « **Reply #69 on:** March 10, 2015, 06:11:21 pm »

Crazy eyes!??? What the fuck.

I wouldn't even class her as one of the main characters.

WelshMike · « **Reply #70 on:** March 10, 2015, 06:17:13 pm »

She's the award-winner of the bunch... yeah, it's odd to me too. I understand having Red in the list because she's great (and she's nowhere near that high) but it's an ensemble piece with only two seasons so far, so none of them really merit inclusion.

As for Barney from HIMYM, really? Only seen the first season but you might as well include Joey from Friends. Equally ridiculous and insubstantial.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #71 on:** March 10, 2015, 07:02:50 pm »

Two seasons is bad (and so much higher than Jesse Pinkman?), but number 99 is in a show that's been on since January.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #72 on:** March 10, 2015, 07:38:44 pm »

Quote from: WelshMike on March 10, 2015, 06:17:13 pm

She's the award-winner of the bunch... yeah, it's odd to me too. I understand having Red in the list because she's great (and she's nowhere near that high) but it's an ensemble piece with only two seasons so far, so none of them really merit inclusion.

As for Barney from HIMYM, really? Only seen the first season but you might as well include Joey from Friends. Equally ridiculous and insubstantial.

Big mainstream impact, Joey could still be on the list but if there's anyone from Friends it should be one of Ross/Chandler.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #73 on:** March 10, 2015, 07:40:10 pm »

Friends was on too early for inclusion, wasn't it?

Matt LeBlanc playing himself in Episodes could have been on the list.

La Vecchia Magpie · « **Reply #74 on:** March 10, 2015, 07:41:52 pm »

If Omar isn't no.1, this is pointless.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #75 on:** March 10, 2015, 08:33:26 pm »

Quote from: La Vecchia Magpie on March 10, 2015, 07:41:52 pm

If Omar isn't no.1, this is pointless.

It's a virtual certainty that Walter White is going to be first.

dave 5516 · « **Reply #76 on:** March 10, 2015, 09:05:18 pm »

If it's not Al..then the listmakers a....

10 years on · « **Reply #77 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:09:22 pm »

No one from prison break on the list?

red mongoose · « **Reply #78 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:35:47 pm »

Quote from: dave 5516 on March 10, 2015, 09:05:18 pm

If it's not Al..then the listmakers a....

red mongoose · « **Reply #79 on:** March 10, 2015, 10:43:15 pm »

42. Cristina. Motherfucking. Yang.

Haha. You couldn't make this shit up. I mean, Yahoo totally made this shit up, but still. The only thing to say is: lolz
The one and only positive thing that is happening: this list, and other turds of its ilk, are meant as clickbait. Because Rob was kind enough to post it in here, we aren't giving the clunge merchants any clicks on the actual site.