If there was a hall of fame created solely for sitcom characters, who would you choose? I'm not talking about the actors that portrayed the characters, just the characters themselves. Characters that perhaps overshadowed the rest of the cast or maybe saved a show from cancellation or became a big part of pop culture.

My inductees would be:

1. The Fonze- Happy Days
2. Latka Gravas- Taxi
3. Balki- Perfect Strangers
4. Norm Peterson- Cheers
5. Frasier Crane- Frasier and Cheers

* Alex P. Keaton - Family Ties
* Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy
* Kramer - Seinfeld
* Archie Bunker - All in the Family
* Mork - Mork and Mindy
* Vinnie Barbarino - Welcome Back Kotter
* Gilligan - Gilligan's Island
* Sam Malone - Cheers

Top 5 Characters:
1. Lucy Ricardo (from I Love Lucy)
2. Jack Tripper (from Three's Company)
3. Arthur Fonzerelli (from Happy Days)
4. Rose of St. Olaf (from The Golden Girls)
5. Shirley Feeney (from Laverne & Shirley)

There are so many TV characters that I love. I'll try to keep it to one character per tV show I watch.

Comedy:

Antonio (Wings)
Louie DePalma (Taxi)
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
Bill (NewsRadio)
Norm (Cheers)
Cartman (South Park)
Robert (Everybody Loves Raymond)
John Becker (Becker)

Dramedy:

Dr. Cox (Scrubs)
Mike (Ed)

Drama:

Carter (ER)

*01. Phoebe Buffay- Friends
*02. Veronica Chase- Veronica's Closet
*03. Olive Massery- Veronica's Closet
*04. Monica G. Bing- Friends
*05. Drew Carey- The Drew Carey Show
*06. Oswald Harvey- The Drew Carey Show
*07. Sophia Petrillo- The Golden Girls
*08. Vicki Groener- Suddenly Susan
*09. Chrissy Snow- Three's Company
*10. Natalie Green- The Facts Of Life
*11. Karen Walker- Will & Grace
*12. Carrie Heffernan- The King Of Queens
*13. Ray Barone- Everybody Loves Raymond
*14. Baby Bob- Baby Bob
*15. Sabrina Spellman- Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
*16. Reba Hart- Reba
*17. Lucy Ricardo- I Love Lucy
*18. Laverne DeFazio- Laverne & Shirley
*19. Gilligan- Gilligan's Island
*20. Josh Blair- Veronica's Closet

Some oldies:
Ralph Kramden
Barney Fife
Lucy Ricardo

More recent ones:
Cosmo Kramer
Frasier Crane
Baby Bob

(Just seeing if you're paying attention.) ;)

Fresh Prince - Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
Fonzie - Arthur Fonzarelli (Happy Days)
Steve Urkel (Family Matters)
Alex P. Keaton (Family Ties)
Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show)
George Costanza (Seinfeld)
Alf (Alf)
John Lacey (Dear John)
Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
Sam Malone (Cheers)
Jim Ignatowski (Taxi) <- This guy was crazy :D

I could go on ;)

Julia Sugarbaker Designing Women

Maggie McKinney Diff'rent Strokes

Randi King Family Law

Mary Ann Summers Giligan's Island

Going strictly with "supporting" characters, rather than the "starring" character, my nominees would include the following:

Ed Norton (The Honeymooners)
Buddy Sorrell (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
Uncle Fester (The Addams Family)
Arnold the Pig (Green Acres)
Lenny & Squiggy (Laverne and Shirley)
Ted Baxter (Mary Tyler Moore)
Elliott Carlin (The Bob Newhart Show)
Les Nesman (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Larry, Daryl, and Daryl (Newhart)
Reverend Jim Ignatowski (Taxi)
Coach Ernie Pantusso (Cheers)
Al Borland (Home Improvement)
Dennis Finch (Just Shoot Me)

Alex P. Keaton - FT
Elyse Keaton - FT
Sophia Petrillo - GG
Rose Nylund - GG
Dr. Frasier Crane - Cheers
George Jefferson - The Jeffersons
Carol Brady - The Brady Bunch
Lucy - I Love Lucy
Jack - Three's Company
Chrissy - Three's Company
Denise - TCS
Cliff - TCS
Claire - TCS

I'm missing so many!

My hall of fame would be:

1) Fonzie (Happy Days)
2) Alex P.Keaton (Family Ties)
3) Sam Malone (Cheers)
4) Fraiser Crane (Cheers and Fraisers)
5) Fresh Prince Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel Air
6) Jeannie (I Dream Of Jeannie)
7) Arnold Jackson (Diff'rent Strokes)
8) Blair (Facts of Life)
9) Carlton Banks (Fres Prince of Bel Air)

I know there's more characters I love, but I can't think of them right now. Those are the main ones, though.