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Gavin

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May 3, 2008, 10:09 PM BST
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Homer Simpson.
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Richard Wells
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May 3, 2008, 10:59 PM BST
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Yea Homer for me as well.
Admit it, you would all love to have Homer Simpson as your dad lol.
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May 3, 2008, 11:07 PM BST
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Errr...
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Richard Wells
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May 3, 2008, 11:10 PM BST
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Actually Ned Flanders might make a better dad lol.
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May 3, 2008, 11:15 PM BST
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I'll name a couple I don't think got a mention. SGT Carter was always funny on Gomer Pyle. Currently, Charlie Kelly on It's Always Sunny is hysterical.
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May 4, 2008, 9:39 PM BST
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Charles Montgomery Burns
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Aaron

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May 4, 2008, 9:53 PM BST
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Arthur.
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May 4, 2008, 10:33 PM BST
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Quote: catskillz @ May 3 2008, 8:53 PM BST
The Golden Girls (all of them were great)
Karen Walker
Granny Clampett
Peggy Bundy
Gladys Pugh
Hyacinth Bucket
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I didn't know Gladys and Hyacinth were American. They disguise their voices so well.
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May 4, 2008, 11:26 PM BST Edited by catskillz on May 5 2008, 12:25 AM BST
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Oh yeah, I forgot.
As for Fonzie, did you know that Henry Winkler was was 29 when Happy Days first started, and the series ran for 10 years! I always thought he looked a bit out of place, hanging around all those High School kids, in the toilets of Al's Diner.
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David Chapman
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May 4, 2008, 11:33 PM BST
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Quote: catskillz @ May 4 2008, 11:26 PM BST
As for Fonzie, did you know he was 29 when Happy Days first started, and the series ran for 10 years! I always thought he looked a bit out of place, hanging around all those High School kids, in the toilets of Al's Diner.
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I could never get into Happy Days. I could never understand why a short-arsed twat who hung around with geeks could be considered "cool".
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May 4, 2008, 11:37 PM BST
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Quote: David Chapman @ May 4 2008, 11:33 PM BST
I could never understand why a short-arsed twat who hung around with geeks could be considered "cool".
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Ermmm...
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manchester's trendy chorlton
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May 5, 2008, 11:21 AM BST
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@Dave CHapman - you've missed the point. Fonzie was never meant to be cool - he was a deliberate subversion of a greaser. American network television was incredibly conservative at the time; by making a previously very cool (ie james dean-esque) type a bit of a dweeb, they were very cutely subverting the stereotype, making it their own if you like.
He was allowed to be cool to an extent...just in a very limited and 'safe' sense.
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David Chapman
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May 5, 2008, 12:27 PM BST
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But I never found it funny either.
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May 5, 2008, 1:20 PM BST
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Fair enough! For the record, I agree.
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May 6, 2008, 2:41 PM BST
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Go with the Homer and Bilko crowd but also Dr. Bob Kelso in Scrubs as a modern twist. Though all the Frasier characters are well put together.
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