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Will Smith

Will Smith is the fictional character from the TV Series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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You&#39;re trapped at home. It&#39;s getting real lonely out there. The only &quot;friends&quot; you can invite into your living room are Chandler, Ross, Joey, Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe. But what if you could invite those characters into your house for real? Which <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/tv-shows-you-wish-you-were-on/ranker-tv" target="_blank">sitcom character</a>&nbsp;would you want to be quarantined with? Michael Scott from The Office? Michael Bluth from Arrested Development? Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation? Vote for the sitcom character you most want to spend the rest of quarantine eating frozen pizzas and hunting for toilet paper with.

Which Sitcom Character Would You Want to Quarantine With?

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Dave Schilling

After spending so very many hours watching a TV show, we form strong attachments - and revulsions - to certain characters. Let's rank 'em.

TV Characters We Love & Hate

Best TV

These are the funniest television characters ever created, as determined by the votes and selections of Ranker users. Lots of things make up truly iconic, timelessly funny characters... the actor, the writing, the supporting cast... but in the end, it's just the character that makes you laugh yourself weak.What are the funniest characters on TV? These are the characters that still make you roll on the floor no matter if you are watching new episodes or reruns from 20 years ago. A lot of the funniest TV characters of all time, like Homer Simpson and Stewie Griffin, tend to be cartoons but there are lots of funny characters that are real-life people too. Vote for your funniest picks and add any characters you see missing. If you want to really impact this list's order, make your own ranking and add it!

Cosmo Kramer

The Funniest TV Characters of All Time

Funniest TV Characters of All Time | List of Funny Television Roles

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List of TV's most memorable characters, of all time, chosen by the Ranker community. What makes a character live on in the public's memory, even years after the original run of their respective TV programs? In some cases, it's the amount of depth that the show's writers, actors and other creators were able to bring to the character over the course of many years. For many of the greatest TV characters of all time, audiences feel like they get to know personalities like Dexter Morgan from &quot;Dexter.&quot; Even after the show leaves the air, they may not want that relationship to end. (Thankfully, they don't have to, as many shows live on for years after their cancellation on DVD and in syndication.) The best TV characters are ones that you feel like you know and that you'd want to be friends with.TV has brought many famous characters to life who have been extremely compelling, even if they are not entirely likeable. Viewers may not wish to know dangerous, shadowy figures like Tony Soprano, Vernon Schillinger, and Omar Little in reality, but following their exploits safely from the comfort of your living room can be appealing. Likewise, people who might be aloof or downright unpleasant in real life - think &quot;Mad Men's&quot; Don Draper or Al Swearengen of &quot;Deadwood&quot; - can prove charming, even admirable, when seen at a distance, with the subtext and intricacy that a top long-running TV show can provide.Who is the greatest TV character ever? This list contains the names of the greatest, most fascinating, and most enduring fictional characters from TV of all time. Be sure to vote for your favorites, and if some of your favorite popular characters aren't represented, go ahead and re-rank the list to contribute to the discussion.

Jerry Seinfeld

The Greatest TV Characters of All Time

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Favorite TV Characters | List of Television's Greatest Characters

Looking at standout roles, unforgettable performances, and behind-the-scenes drama of famous and forgotten actors.

Casting Calls

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Everyone has to start somewhere. Sure, it’s hard to imagine Tom Hanks ever putting on a wig and high heels, or Jim Carrey playing a silly red alien, but that’s how these future Hollywood acting legends got their start in the business. Did you know that Brad Pitt appeared on the soap opera Dallas? Do you remember that Kevin Bacon played one of the frat pledges that you rooted against in Animal House? You do now! Lots of famous actors got their start in small parts that might surprise you.Can you name your favorite famous actors' first significant roles? We may have skipped over some inconsequential roles with little or no speaking lines, but these first parts played by now famous stars will definitely take you back. These roles and characters mark first time that we actually got to see these great actors in action. Some of these guys hit a home run during their first at bat, like Edward Norton, who received an Oscar nomination for his role in Primal Fear, and Michael Douglas, who garnered a Golden Globe nod for Hail, Hero!Of course, on the other end of the spectrum, there is the embarrassment factor. Just ask Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had to have his lines dubbed in post because his Austrian accent was incomprehensible in the movie Hercules in New York. Or worse yet, Sylvester Stallone, who dabbled in soft core porn as a character named Stud in the adult film The Party at Kitty and Stud's.&nbsp;Do you remember these early roles from top Hollywood actors? Many of these parts came before these actors were famous and helped launch their careers. Upvote the best first roles played by now famous actors below and see how these men have changed and how far they've come since early in their careers!

Danny Robbins

The Best First Roles By Your Favorite Actors

Actors First Roles | Early Parts Played by Famous Actors

Ann Casano

What were you watching during TV's greatest era?

'90s TV We'll Never Forget

Who were the best TV characters of the &#39;90s? From Frasier, Friends, and Married With Children all the way to kid favorites like Clarissa Explains it All, Doug, and Saved By the Bell, these shows greatly impacted 90s culture and made it the memorable decade it was. This list has the best television characters from all those classic 1990s TV shows.

It was the decade we met Bart Simpson, Cosmo Kramer, and Frasier Crane. The top TV show characters of the 90&#39;s included family-focused favorites like Tim &ldquo;The Tool Man&rdquo; Taylor, the obnoxious but lovable Steve Urkel, and Fresh Prince Will Smith. Nineties TV introduced many children&#39;s characters as well: Tommy Pickles, Batman, Doug.

This decade had an air of innocence and lightheartedness. The top characters of the &#39;90s were, for the most part family-friendly, uplifting, and hilarious. Who will ever forget the girl-next-door <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-happened-to-danielle-fishel/crystal-brackett" target="_blank">Topanga Lawrence</a>, and the importance of having an older, wiser soul rooting for you, like Mr. Feeney? The innocence of Clarissa Explains It All, Family Ties, and Blossom, reinforced family values, and other top &#39;90s shows like Friends, Roseanne, and The Cosby Show, left us feeling like we were never alone in the world.

Vote up your favorite 1990s TV characters below and think back to when these guys came into your living room once a week. Then go find yourself a Seinfeld rerun. You know there&#39;s got to be one on.

Peggy Bundy

The Best TV Characters of the 1990s

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List of the funniest kid characters in TV history. This page lists the greatest child characters on the greatest TV shows ever. These kids, ranked here, kept us laughing for entire episodes and entire seasons. Some on the list had their own television series entirely devoted to them. Example? A young doctor by the name of Doogie Howser. Or Mister Beaver Cleaver, who brought colorful comedy to the black-and-white era. So who are the best child characters on TV? Try Stewie Griffin from &quot;Family Guy&quot; even though he is not a live action human being -- and has a head shaped like Arnold's from &quot;Hey Arnold!&quot; In fact, Helga Pataki made our list -- and feel free to add any other characters from that hilarious child ensemble. Sometimes these characters annoy us to death, but, like Louis Stevens from &quot;Even Stevens,&quot; they are most comedic when they are annoying their own TV families to death.

Rudy Huxtable

The Funniest Kid Characters in TV History

Funniest Kid TV Characters | List of Funny Children on Television

Lists about unforgettable child actors who nabbed the spotlight and how they have navigated life after fame at such vulnerable stages in their development.

Bright Young Stars

List of the greatest characters we watched grow up on TV. This list ranks the best TV characters who grew up before the audience's very eyes week to week, or more aptly, year to year. Going through puberty is not exactly easy. But going through puberty in front of an international audience is something on a whole other level. If one wishes to know what that is like, he or she may ask the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-film-actors-and-actresses-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">actors and actresses</a> behind the TV characters on this list. Some of the best characters who grew up from season to season belong in families like the Tanners in San Francisco, as we watched D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle literally go from children to human beings over the course of &quot;Full House.&quot; Remember when Corey and Topanga were bickering classmates in &quot;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/boy-meets-world-trivia/amylindorff?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Boy Meets World</a>?&quot; If so, you also probably remember when they started dating and when they got married.

Shawn Hunter

The Greatest Characters We Watched Grow Up on TV

Best Characters Who Grew Up on TV

Lists that rank the top movies, TV series, and other media about and featuring Black characters and culture.

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List of the funniest Black TV characters. The most hilarious African-American television characters are ranked here in order of LOL-ability and sheer greatness. We&#39;re all familiar with the &quot;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-token-minority-characters-in-sitcoms/ranker-characters?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">token Black guy</a>&quot; trope, so it&#39;s even more important to note the times that Hollywood gave Blacks a chance to shine in their roles. Because when Hollywood did so, the result was unforgettable characters. 

Look no further than every member of the Cosby &quot;family&quot; -- but if you do look further, look at every member of &quot;The Proud Family&quot; as well. That&#39;s right; we don&#39;t discriminate animated characters either, as Cleveland from &quot;Family Guy&quot; and Fat Albert Jackson will find themselves on this master list as well. A few sitcoms were even so golden and rich with great characters that they needed more than one representative in our rankings. Examples of this are both Steve Urkel and Carl Winslow from &quot;Family Matters&quot; fame as well as Carlton Banks and Will Smith for &quot;The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.&quot;

The Funniest Black TV Characters of All Time, Ranked

The Funniest Black TV Characters

What do we talk about when we talk about love? Perfect, sickeningly sweet, often unhealthy couples in film, TV, and other media who set up impossible standards to which our real-world flesh & blood relationships will never live up. Let's dissect 'em.

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Romance

List of the best perpetual bachelor TV characters, as ranked by television critics and fans. The bachelor character seems to pop up on nearly every television show, especially in sitcoms. These types of male characters are constantly dating, flitting from one fling to the next. Sometimes, like in the case of Joey from Friends, the character isn’t looking for anything too serious, just dates around a lot for the fun of it. Other times,the character is hopelessly romantic but unlucky in love, like How I Met Your Mother’s Ted Mosby and Scrubs’s J.D. Many of these characters are quite the catch, with great jobs, good looks, and charming personalities. While bachelor characters like Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights and The Good Wife’s Will Gardner often get into relationships, they often last only a few episodes due to their permanently single personalities. Not all of the everlasting bachelors on this list are straight, with gay characters like Max Blum and Jack McFarland dating just as much as the rest.Who are the finest eternal bachelors on TV? This list includes characters who can’t seem to catch a break in the dating department or aren’t interested in settling down any time soon.

J.D.

The Greatest Perpetual Bachelors in TV History

Bachelor TV Characters | List of Fictional Womanizers and Male Serial Daters

The biggest pimps in television history are those lucky fictional characters who are notoriously promiscuous, making viewers around the world incredibly jealous. They manage to get all the babes, almost as if they were God's gift to women (or in some cases, men). They might be hated by some for their tramp-tastic ways, but surely, they are also secretly worshipped by aspiring pimps as well.We've all watched many of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-tv-characters-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest television characters ever</a> go from monogamy to pimp in one shocking episode, or all of them. Characters like Barney Stinson on &quot;How I Met Your Mother,&quot; Charlie Harper on &quot;Two and a Half Men,&quot; and even that sexy robot Bender on &quot;Futurama&quot; never have a shortage of women in their bed. Joey Tribbiani from &quot;Friends,&quot; Hank Moody from &quot;Californication,&quot; and Jack Donaghy from &quot;30 Rock&quot; are no different, befriending and bedding numerous ladies on the regular.Many would even go into the serial adulterers column, especially the likes of Don Draper and Roger Sterling from &quot;Mad Men,&quot; whose womanizing ways were introduced in the premiere episode of the award-winning series. Even Zach Morris from &quot;Saved by the Bell&quot; gets some love as a serial-dater having romanced almost every <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-female-characters-in-literature?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">main female character</a> on the long-running show. Even others might also fall into the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepiest-characters-on-television/tvs-frank" target="_blank">creepiest characters of all time</a> too.From Fonzie on &quot;Happy Days&quot; all the way though James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from &quot;Star Trek&quot; and Glenn Quagmire on &quot;Family Guy,&quot; these television pimps have making lonely men feel even lonelier for decades. Do you love or loathe one of these television scoundrels? Vote for the pimpest characters, add any not listed or re-rank this list your way, all below.

Thomas Magnum

The Biggest Pimps In Television History

Being a teenager is hard. No one knows that better than the greatest misunderstood teenagers in TV history. These teens have suffered unnatural – or sometimes supernatural – trials and tribulations, all in the name of prime-time entertainment. From the angsty Angela Chase (My So-Called Life) to the zany Zack Morris (<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/saved-by-the-bell-behind-the-scenes/anncasano?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Saved By the Bell</a>), those on the list of the best misunderstood TV teens are left to wonder why grown-ups just don’t get it. &nbsp;Sibling rivalry plays a large part in the lives of the greatest misunderstood teens on TV. While Jan Brady (<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/behind-the-scenes-brady-bunch-stories/mariel-loveland?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">The Brady Bunch</a>) and Vanessa Huxtable (<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-cosby-show-episodes/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">The Cosby Show</a>) often lament the parental favor their older siblings receive, Anthony Soprano, Jr. (The Sopranos) and Silas Botwin (Weeds) turn to substance abuse to ease their feelings of inferiority.&nbsp; &nbsp;Being one of the best misunderstood TV teens is a fraught enough experience as a human character, but extraterrestrial teens face a whole different set of problems. Space-travelers like Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock From the Sun) and Clark Kent (Smallville) must navigate the treacherous waters of high school while minding the complex missions for which they were sent to Earth. &nbsp;Finally, some of the greatest misunderstood teens in TV history have to contend with an altogether different dimension. The undead plague our heroine Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); White Walkers lurk in the North kingdom, where Sansa Stark just wants some peace to train her direwolf (Game of Thrones); even the Big Guy upstairs bugs a savvy teen once in awhile (Joan Girardi, Joan of Arcadia).Who else bravely bears the indignities of being the most misunderstood TV teens?

Meg Griffin

The Greatest Misunderstood Teens in TV History

Best TV Teenagers | List of Angsty Teens on Television

The best, worst, most interesting, questionable, and unforgettable clothes in pop culture history.

Fictional Fashion

90s TV

Haircuts and fashion styles come and go, but for those fortunate enough to be immortalized on screen by a long-running TV character, they can live on in perpetuity. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-90s-sitcoms/ranker-tv" target="_blank">Sitcoms in the 1990s</a> were a smorgasbord of influences, trends, and experiments in fashion - some memorable, others regrettable. Certain looks helped permanently define characters, further cementing the pop-culture legacy of some of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest TV shows of all time</a>.

No doubt these stars and their signature looks inspired countless imitators - but how many of those styles&nbsp;could you still get away with today? Take a glance at these fashion blasts from the past and decide whose look you might still want to wear.

Which '90s Sitcom Character Has The Best Signature Look?

Samantha Dillinger

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Lists about the most memorable fictional characters in film, TV, and literature that will stick in our minds forever.

Characters We'll Never Forget

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Thanks to Hollywood, there are tons of fictional characters from Los Angeles, CA, and many of them are crazy cool. But what does it mean to be cool? If we asked a 100 people that question, we would probably get a 100 different answers. For the purposes of this specific Ranker list, coolness in a person encompasses many different qualities. To us, cool means being kind-hearted, brave, sexy, confident, rebellious, and original. The people on this list represent the kind of folks that we would love to <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-men-youd-want-to-have-a-beer-with/ariel-kana?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">grab a beer</a> with in the evening. They make us want to be more like them, in a positive way.This is a list of the coolest fictional characters from the great city of Los Angeles, California. LA may actually be the coolest and hippest city in the world. It’s got Hollywood, Ventura Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, The Valley, Malibu, and Venice Beach. LA is chic and stylish with its movie stars and glitz. It’s a place of celluloid dreams and the legendary Walk of Fame. This was not the easiest list to put together, since there are so many television shows, films, and novels that take place in Los Angeles. However, hopefully this list represents a plethora of character types that truly define what it means to be California cool. You will no doubt recognize some of your favorite television and film characters on this list. Who was cooler than Dylan McKay from the 90210 area code? And really, is any character on this planet hipper than the Dude?Let us know if we missed any of your beloved cool Los Angeles characters and be sure to add them below for others to vote on! Also, be sure to make your voice heard by upvoting the coolest cats already listed.

Jim Stark

The Coolest Fictional Characters from Los Angeles

Fictional Characters from Los Angeles

With Halloween closing in fast, it&#39;s time to turn to your closet and see if you have anything that you can make a last-minute costume around. Once you have that key piece, the rest of your Halloween costume is easy. If you have overalls - whether they be shorts, skirts, or full pants - then start your DIY with this list of easy costumes with overalls.

Most of these brown jacket costume ideas only need a specific color of shirt or pants and a simple accessory to finish off the look, like Donna from Mamma Mia! or Chucky. Some of the other costume ideas take some more accessorizing, but are worth it, especially if you want to spend Halloween as Mario, a Minion, or Leslie Knope.

If you have overalls, which of these last-minute costume ideas is the easiest and most creative use of your closet? If we&#39;ve forgotten any great DIY costumes with overalls, be sure to share!

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Will Smith's greatest TV shows, movies, albums, songs, and more! 

The Best of Will Smith

The greatest actors disappear into roles, leaving behind only unforgettable characters. Let's rank 'em.

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Will Smith characters list, ranked from best to worst with clips from the movie when available. These Will Smith roles include both movie and television appearances when available. Use every item on this list for yours, from Will Smith to Detective Mike Lowrey. The ability to play any kind of role is what makes an actor or actress great, and the diversity of the characters listed below is a testament to that.

If you&#39;re asking yourself, &quot;Who is the best Will Smith character?&quot; or &quot;What are the top Will Smith performances of all time?&quot; then this list will help you out.

Do you think the best performance isn&#39;t as high as it should be? Then vote it up so that it can be number one. You can also make your own version of this greatest Will Smith performances list by re-ranking it and putting it in your own order. When you&#39;re done, be sure to check out our <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/will-smith-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference" target="_blank">best Will Smith movies list</a>.

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