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Synclaire James (https://living-single.fandom.com/wiki/Synclaire_James-Jones) from Living Single

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Rose Nylund (https://goldengirls.fandom.com/wiki/Rose_Nylund) from The Golden Girls

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Chelsea Daniels (https://thatssoraven.fandom.com/wiki/Chelsea) from That's So Raven

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Phoebe Buffay (https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay) from Friends

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Chrissy Snow (https://threescompany.fandom.com/wiki/Chrissy_Snow) from Three's Company

Who was the most convincing (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DumbIsGood) in the role (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDitz)?

When someone plays a “sweet, but somewhat dumb character”, you’re not usually convincing because of either the acting or the level of dumbness of the character that to a point becomes totally unbelievable. But if I had to pick, out of the five of them, I’ll have to go with Synclaire from Living Single.

Phoebe was the funniest. Rose was a close second.

Rose Nylund

Phoebe Snow

Oh, c'mon guys! How could you forget the one who started it all (Gracie Allen):

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Or Vera, from Alice?

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And let's not forget the men!

Jerry Van Dyke from Coach:

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I'm pretty sure there were other male characters who fit this category that I'm just forgetting. Can't think of any more right now.

Those are all great examples! :D

Another stupid but lovable character would have to be Waldo Geraldo Faldo from Family Matters.
Also Leonard Kosnoski "Lenny" and Andrew Squiggman "Squiggy" from Laverne and Shirley.
Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World is another great example.

the middle..
Sue Heck
Darren

Modern Family
Luke Dumphy

Dennis the Menace
George & Martha Wilson


I don’t even know if these people are considered dumb or gulliable.

Iola Boylen (Beverly Archer), Mama's Family

(And speaking of Jerry Van Dyke, from above) Stacy Petrie, The Dick Van Dyke Show

Howard Borden (Bill Daily), The Bob Newhart Show

(And possibly) George Utley (Tom Poston), Newhart

Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne), Bewitched

Iola Boylen (Beverly Archer),


She belongs more in a naive character category.

Bobbie Jo Bradley (Lori Saunders) Petticoat Junction

Men:
Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) The Beverly Hillbillies

Lowell Mathers (Thomas Haden Church) Wings

Goldie Hawn was the most awesome "dumb blonde" act of all time. Too bad she didn't have her own show as the Laugh-in character.

Grace Allen - first and best.

Marion Lorne as Aunt Clara - adorable.

Lori Saunders as Bobbie Jo - I wish she had moved on to Green Acres and dated Eb.

Jackie Joseph as Melody (voice) on Josie and the Pussycats.

Barbara Eden as Jeannie.

Woody and Coach on Cheers.

Oh, c'mon guys! How could you forget the one who started it all (Gracie Allen):

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/gracie-allen-3.jpg

Or Vera, from Alice?

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Yeah Beth Howland as Vera gets my vote. Dumb but very likable.

Ed.

Georgia Engel who played Georgette

My choices:

The Women

Gracie Allen - The all-time champion

Lucy Ricardo
Lisa Douglas
Elly May Clampett
Ann Marie ("That Girl")
Chrissy and Cindy Snow
Phoebe and Ursula Buffay
Mallory Keaton
Kelly Bundy
Rebecca Howe
Carol Burnett
Goldie Hawn on "Laugh-In"
Carol Wayne and Teresa Ganzel on "The Tonight Show"
Penny and Bernadette on "The Big Bang Theory"
Stephanie on "Newhart"



The Men

Barney Fife
Gomer Pyle
Gilligan
Lumpy Rutherford
Herman Munster
Maynard G Krebs
Buddy Sorrell
Ed Norton
Jethro Bodine
Eb Dawson
Hank Kimball
Maxwell Smart
Ensign Charles Parker (Tim Conway in "McHale's Navy")
Woody Boyd
Bull Shannon ("Night Court")
Skippy ("Family Ties")
Ralph & Potsie
Lenny & Squiggy
Toody & Muldoon
Luther Van Dam ("Coach")
Lowell Mather ("Wings")
Rev. Jim ("Taxi")
Max Klinger
Mork from Ork
Exidor ("Mork & Mindy")
Larry, Darryl. and Darryl
The Sweathogs

Some of my favorites:

MEN

Gilligan (Bob Denver)- Gilligan's Island

Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson)- Cheers

Cole Brown (Carl Anthony Payne II)- Martin

Ralph Furley (Don Knotts)- Three's Company

Harry Bentley (Paul Benedict)- The Jeffersons

Morris L 'Mo' Tibbs (Omar Gooding)- Smart Guy

Chrisopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim Ignatowski)- Taxi

Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta)- Welcome Back Kotter

Waldo Geraldo Faldo (Shawn Harrison)- Family Matters

Dewayne Nelson (Haywood Nelson)- What's Happening

Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon (Richard Moll)- Night Court

Richard 'Boner' Stabone (Andrew Koenig)- Growing Pains

Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford (Frank Bank)- Leave It To Beaver

WOMEN

Vera Gorman (Elizabeth Howland)- Alice

Synclaire James (Kim Coles)- Living Single

Thelma Frye (Anna Maria Horsford)- Amen

Becky Conner (Alicia Goranson)- Roseanne

Angie (Alvernette Jimenez)- Gimme A Break

Rose Nylund (Betty White)- The Golden Girls

Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet)- The Cosby Show

Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton)- All In The Family

Freddie Brooks (Cree Summer)- A Different World

Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers)- Three's Company

Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall)- Laverne & Shirley

Kim Parker (Countess Vaughn)- Moesha/The Parkers

Naomi Oates Harper (Dorothy Lyman)- Mama's Family

Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate)- Married With Children