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Boardsies Decide: Greatest Sitcom Character (US & Canada)

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  • #1592
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Most votes after 90 Minutes is the winner! Don't forget to give a reason or your vote won't count! Stronger the reason the better!

    Semi Final 1

    Back to Back battles here for Rachel as she now takes on the eccentric Niles...

    Rachel Green (Friends)
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    vs

    Niles Crane (Frasier)
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    Remember to give a Reason for your vote. Reasons to be taken in to consideration in the event of a tie-break.
    Most Votes after 90 Minutes wins


  • #1593
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    NY v Indiana v Seattle!


  • #1594
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Rachel.

    Hotter, more iconic, part of a much better show imo also.

    Also if she's good enough to beat Perry Cox I'm backing her for the overall win.


  • #1595
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Niles!!!!!

    Because DHP plays him brilliantly. And his interactions with Frasier, and Daphne, and Martin, and Roz in the early seasons when they hated each other. And for his never seen relationship with Maris.


  • #1596
    eldamo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭eldamo


    Niles, because I would rather a no friends final than an all friends final.

    seriously funny character, expertly played, I have a sneaking suspicion that he may be geordi laforges favourite too.


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  • #1597
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Rachel, all the main characters in friends were fun. She seemed down to earth and good humoured, except when on a break.


  • #1598
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,901 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Rachel, she knows fashion goes from bad waitress to working at Ralph Lauren
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  • #1599
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,203 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Niles, he was pure brilliance

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • #1600
    Ectoplasm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Niles Crane. Genuinely one of the funniest characters on TV, very flawed, very funny. His little asides are just brilliant and the diversity of the relationships he has with the rest of the case make him the best character in the show.


  • #1601
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    Niles vs Rachel is a tough one. I will go with Rachel, although she would lose to the other Crane if he is still in it. Jennifer Aniston has great comic timing.


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  • #1602
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I take thee Rachel. Hot and makes a good trifle.


  • #1603
    BigBlackDog
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭BigBlackDog


    Niles. Just for his descriptions of Maris.


  • #1604
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Rachel, she was the only character who didnt grow stale throughout the series, Niles could be a bit repetitive


  • #1605
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,566 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Rachel mainly cause I'd let Jennifer Aniston do unspeakable things to me


  • #1606
    eldamo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭eldamo


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Rachel mainly cause I'd let Jennifer Aniston do unspeakable things to me
    let her comfort you and tell you not to worry, it happens to a lot of guys...


    yeah, me too


  • #1607
    Irish Aris
    Registered Users Posts: 4,934 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Rachel Green.

    From the first moment she walked in Central Perk all dressed in her wedding gown, you could tell that her character would be pivotal in the events coming up.
    I always thought Ross a bit of a twat (excuse my language) so in the whole saga I always found Rachel the more important part of the equation. . . even when they were on a break!!!!
    To quote Ross himself "It's always been you Rach"


  • #1608
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Rachael for me icon of the 90s , and needs some reward for all those years in frozen studios !!


  • #1609
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Yester


    Niles. His life was a constant competition with Fraiser, he deserves a win.

    Also this 5 min clip of Nile accidentally causing a fire is genius.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpImet3Xwgw&list=RDEpImet3Xwgw&start_radio=1&t=56

    (Quality is a bit ****e though)


  • #1610
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I'm gonna have to vote Niles here despite being more familiar with Friends. Rachel Green should not be in the final of a competition for Best Sitcom Character Ever. She'd hardly crack the Top 5 for me in Friends to be honest.


  • #1611
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    As much as I love Niles (and resent the vocal anti-Frasier sentiments by some people here >_< ) I have to go with Rachel here, for the same reason Trigger gave (though not the bit about Niles being repetitive):
    Trigger wrote: »
    Rachel, she was the only character who didnt grow stale throughout the series

    Rachel evolves throughout Friends, whereas the rest of the characters....unevolve? (devolve?)

    Monica - becomes unbearably loud, shrill and neurotic
    Phoebe - becomes bitchy, self-absorbed, not someone anyone would want to be friends with
    Joey - literal man child whose selfishness was overindulged, also kind of a creep with women
    Ross - petty jealousy and borderline psychopath, although somewhat redeemed by the end of the show
    Chandler - more consistent than the other four but he was at his best playing off the rest and mocking them, so when they went downhill he also suffered as a result.

    Rachel would actually be a worthy winner of the whole competition, imo.


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  • #1612
    Sawduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    Rachel, from the very first episode as a runaway bride, you know Rachel Green was special. I loved her journey throughout the series (well apart from her fling with joey) she grew so much and became a 90s iconic, I mean who doesn't know Rachel from friends?


  • #1613
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Sawduck wrote: »
    Rachel, from the very first episode as a runaway bride, you know Rachel Green was special. I loved her journey throughout the series (well apart from her fling with joey) she grew so much and became a 90s iconic, I mean who doesn't know Rachel from friends?

    Aye, her fling with Joey was 'Fonz jumps a shark' style writing. And they knew it too, given how quickly they tossed it in the fire in the final season.


  • #1614
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    With an 11-7 victory, our first Finalist is Rachel Green as Niles Crane's journey finally comes to a close... Good Night, Sweet Prince!

    Semi Final 2

    Most votes after 90 Minutes is the winner! Don't forget to give a reason or your vote won't count! Stronger the reason the better!

    Will it be an all Friends Final, or does a more recent contender have a shot here...

    Chandler Bing (Friends)
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    vs

    Ron Swanson (Parks & Recreation)
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    Remember to give a Reason for your vote. Reasons to be taken in to consideration in the event of a tie-break.
    Most Votes after 90 Minutes wins


  • #1615
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,203 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I'm going to pick Chandler to give us a Friend's finale.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • #1616
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Gotta be Chandler. Everyone's favourite transponster.


  • #1617
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Ron, the man the legend and the tache.. a brilliant character who makes the series what it is, a head of govt who is against government, and he hates those pesky Vegans. Endlessly quotable

    "I think I'll have that third steak afterall"

    Legand

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  • #1618
    Barney92
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Barney92


    I'm quite late to the party here but I'm going to go for Ron Swanson. Whilst I think Chandler has his ups and downs (and also annoys me at times), Ron Swanson is consistent gold. I don't think I'd tire of seeing that man's face on screen. One of my favourite episodes is probably when he has to do all those meetings on one day.

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  • #1619
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Chandler for his comical timing. We all want a friendly final.


  • #1620
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,901 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    For an epic Friends final, Chandler, I mean could he be anymore funnier
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  • #1621
    Sawduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    Ron, I love chandler too but I'd rather two different shows in the final, plus Ron is a fantastic character and I am pleased he's getting a lot of love on here


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