Character Cliches

These same characters keep showing up in sitcoms year after year. Pick one from each category and some story lines from the plot cliche page and you can create your own sitcom.

	Not the sharpest pencils in the box		Those Crazy Foriegners
	Woody Boyd (Cheers) Bull Shannon (Night Court) Jethro Bodine (Beverly Hillbillies) Lowell Mather (Wings)		Latka Gravas (Taxi) Bentley (The Jeffersons) Balki (Perfect Strangers)
	Invisible Characters		Annoying Losers
	Maris Crane (Frasier) Carlton the doorman (Rhoda) Vera Peterson (Cheers) Hon. mention - Wilson (Home Improvement)		George Costanza (Seinfeld) Cliff Clavin (Cheers) Bud Bundy (Married with Children) Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
	This is why your parents said "Just Say No"		Party Girls
	Arnold Horshak (Welcome Back, Kotter) Reverend Jim Ignatowski (Taxi) Larry Finkelstein (Dharma and Greg)		Alicia (Flying Blind) Annie Spadaro (Caroline in the City) Nina Van Horne (Just Shoot Me)
	People with special powers		Free spirits
	Samantha Stevens (Bewitched) Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie) Sister Bertrille (The Flying Nun) Sabrina (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)		Karen Arnold (The Wonder Years) Dharma Finkelstein (Dharma and Greg) Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
	Aliens		Entrepeneurs
	Alf (Alf) Mork (Mork and Mindy) Uncle Martin (My Favorite Martian) The cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun		Mr. Haney (Green Acres) Sgt. O'Rourke (F Troop) Sgt. Rizzo (M*A*S*H)
	The Wisecrackers		Dingbats
	Carla Tortelli (Cheers) Darlene Connor (Roseanne) Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls) Sub-category: domestic help Florence (The Jeffersons) Geoffrey (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) Benson (Soap) Sub-category: Night Court bailiffs Selma Flo Roz		Edith Bunker (All in the Family) Vera (Alice) Rose Nylund(Golden Girls) Sub-category: blondes Kelly Bundy (Married with Children) Chrissy Snow(Three's Company)
	Fathers know best		...or do they?
	Jim Anderson (Father Knows Best) Ozzie Nelson (Ozzie and Harriet) Mike Brady (The Brady Bunch) Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show)		Tim Taylor (Home Improvement) Al Bundy (Married With Children) Homer Simpson (THe Simpsons)
	Men who need women		Women who need men
	Dan Fielding (Night Court) Sam Malone (Cheers) Bulldog Briscoe (Frasier)		Blanche Deveroux(Golden Girls) Mona Robinson (Who's the Boss) Roz Doyle (Frasier)
	Yes Men		Teenage girl twins
	Mr. Drysdale (The Beverly Hillbillies) Larry Tate (Bewitched) Herb Tarlek (WKRP in Cincinnati)		Patty and Kathy (The Patty Duke SHow) Kate and Allison (Double Trouble) Tia and Tamera (Sister Sister)

Let me know of any more and I'll add them.

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