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Buffy
Deputy Chief Brenda-Lee Johnson (I just love the way she says the whole thing...every time)
KITT
Jack Bauer
Chloe O'Brien

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Emma Peel, The Avengers, a true Renaissance woman! Brains, beauty and a good karate chop!
Dana Scully, The X-Files, for being a good partner even if she doesn't have the same beliefs as Mulder
Brenda Leigh Johnson, The Closer, yes, I too love the way she says all of it but also because she's so human-work driven, sweet-eating, not the best dressed.. but oh so wonderful!
Kramer, Seinfeld, what can you say about a man who believes so much in himself?! Not to mention a sharp dresser!
Carmela Soprano, The Sopranos, such a complicated woman... worried mother, dutiful wife but no dummy... she seems like the glue that holds that family together.
Oh.. there are so many more!

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Willow Rosenberg
Veronica Mars
Ava & Adrian Moore (can't decide between them but boy were they interesting)

And more I can't be bothered to think of.

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Thomas Lennon's Lieutenant Dangle on "Reno 911."

Shattner's Denny Crain on "Boston Legal."

Peter Krause's Nate on "Six Feet Under."

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Rhoda Morgenstern -- She taught me what irreverant meant.

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not sure how many watch bbc or bbc america but:

Jeff Murdoch (Coupling UK)

Easily the best character on TV EVER! If you dont believe me or have never heard of him, take the day off work and watch season 1 of coupling.

in america its Jack Bauer.
or bill cosby

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Captain James T. Kirk
Jack Bauer
Angel
Niles Crane
Mal Reynolds
Ricky Ricardo
Homer J. Simpson
Dr. House
Archie Bunker
Frank Burns
Frog (from the short lived sitcom Best of the West)

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Off the top of my head (not in any particular order):

Andy Sipowitz (NYPD Blue)
Archie Bunker (All in the Family)
Tony Soprano (The Sopranos)
HawkEye Pierce (M.A.S.H.)
Al Bundy (Married With Children)
Kramer (Seinfeld)
George Costanza (Seinfeld)

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Dr. House (House)
Grissom (CSI)
Greg Sanders (CSI)
Phoebe (Friends)
Det. Stabler (SVU)
Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
Gideon (Criminal Minds)
Mac Taylor (CSI: NY)

I am addicted to Crime Dramas :P

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Omar, I totally agree on Jeff. Easily he has some of the greatest lines EVER written for television.

to add to the list:
Harvey in the head scorpius- Farscape
Hawk- Spencer for Hire
G'Kar- Babylon 5
Darien Fawkes- Invisible Man

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I forgot to include: Colombo

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Gregory House
Hawkeye Pierce
Fox Mulder (and cigarette smoking man)
Malcolm Reynolds
Dr. Who (old and new)
both spies from "I Spy"
Michael Bluth
Bailey and Christina on Grey's Anatomy
...to name a few

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Fun topic - and in the interest of brevity, I'll nix the idea of doing them by sex that my instinct is to do.


Homer Simpson. Never.Not.Funny. I know he's a cartoon, but he in many ways embodies the best and worst in humanity. And is never not funny after season 3.


Uncle Arthur. Everybody loves a clown. And growing up gay, he was the one shimmeringly unapologetic sistah we knew we could count on, if only for a wacky time.


Dana Scully. I love to watch the reruns now - man, she was mousy in the beginning. When Gillian started bringing that undercurrent of sensuality to Dana, the whole character icon-ified to me. She was my Jessica Fletcher, someone I would stay loyal to until I was 90. Like Matlock. Only way hotter.


Alan Shore. The most complicated human being I ever felt like was being written for the most compelling parts of my psyche. Spader is arguably as bankable as Kelsey Grammer, talent wise, and I for one feel he was robbed of a nomination this year.


Frasier Crane. For the simple fact that he violated the natural law of television - the spinoff can not be superior.

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Al F@!*&ing Swearingen ! Best character ever.

Fox Mulder & Dana Scully as people have said

Monk great memorable character

Capt. Picard (better actor then Shatner)

The entire cast of Arrested development and Seinfeld (the two funniest shows of all time)


and lastly, The fresh Prince of Bel Air, when Will Smith was still funny and genuine.

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Leo McGarry
Frank Pembleton
Murphy Brown
Tony Soprano
Sue Ann Nivens
Dana Scully
'Fitz' (Cracker) Fitzgerald -- the original of course
Isaac Jaffe

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Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer
MacGyver
Jack Bauer
MacGyver

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Let's go back to the golden age: the one, the only...Barney Fife

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Floyd the Barber
Alan Brady
Ted Baxter
Inspector Morse
Sarah(Upstairs Downstairs)
Spike
Hoss Cartwright
Jim West
President and Mrs. Charles Logan
Seth Cohen
Michel(Gilmore Girls)
Major Frank Burns
Aunt Esther

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How can people mention Fox Mulder and Dana Scully without giving props to the tv character that inspired their very creation? CARL KOLCHAK!

Toolz.

The Doctor (Doctor Who) also needs to be listed. Gawd knows without that series Whedon couldn't have riffed as much material to put into Buffy, and the Wachowskis would still be obscure filmmakers.

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Sharon Valerii (Battlestar Galactica)

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