If I missed your favorite, feel free to add him or her. Here's a list of the choices that I could think of.

Peter Tork (The Monkees)
Coach Ernie Pantusso (Cheers)
Woody Boyd (Cheers)
Lowell Mather (Wings)
Matthew Brock (NewsRadio)
Tony Banta (Taxi)
Chrissy Snow (Three's Company)
Joey (Friends)
Waldo Faldo (Family Matters)
Cody Lambert (Step by Step)

I'm sure there are more. These are all my mind could come up with currently.

Originally posted by TVAdam

Coach Ernie Pantusso (Cheers)
Woody Boyd (Cheers)
Lowell Mather (Wings)
Matthew Brock (NewsRadio)
Tony Banta (Taxi)
Waldo Faldo (Family Matters)
Cody Lambert (Step by Step)


I agree with those, and I add Homer Simpson and Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons and Reverend Jim from Taxi to the list.

My favorite would be Coach Pantusso on Cheers. He was just so loyal and lovable. He and Sam had a nice relationship.

I also like Dauber on Coach. He's got that dummy with a heart thing going on. He has some hilarious one-liners.

Also on Coach, I don't know if Luther Van Dam qualifies as a dummy, but he is laugh out loud funny sometimes.

Potsie from Happy Days

Originally posted by Chad Doody
Potsie from Happy Days

I will also say Potsie from Happy Days :lol:

Peter Tork from the Monkees.

Lamont from Sanford and Son,of course. Fred always called him Dummy.

How about these guys? They practically invented the concept!


Gomer Pyle
Gilligan
Hank Kimball ("Green Acres")
Jethro Bodine ("Beverly Hillbillies")
Barney Fife ("Andy Griffith")
Ed Norton ("Honeymooners")
Lumpy Rutherford ("Leave It To Beaver")
Maynard G Krebs ("Dobie Gillis")
Barney Rubble ("Flintstones")
Maxwell Smart ("Get Smart")


All these guys are great at it, yet without a doubt, the dumbest TV character of all time has to be Big Bird from "Sesame Street". He's been on that show since the beginning, almost 35 years, and he STILL doesn't know the alphabet! How much dumber can you get?

Originally posted by Chad Doody
Potsie from Happy Days

ill have to agree with that one

Originally posted by BravesFan712002
Lamont from Sanford and Son,of course. Fred always called him Dummy.

Agreed!
Also...Ed Norton, Hilary Banks, Tony Banta, Chrissy Snow.

Originally posted by Sal
How about these guys? They practically invented the concept!


Gomer Pyle
Gilligan
Hank Kimball ("Green Acres")
Jethro Bodine ("Beverly Hillbillies")
Barney Fife ("Andy Griffith")
Ed Norton ("Honeymooners")
Lumpy Rutherford ("Leave It To Beaver")
Maynard G Krebs ("Dobie Gillis")
Barney Rubble ("Flintstones")
Maxwell Smart ("Get Smart")



You're right. I forgot about them, I was just in a hurry to start a new thread, I really just listed off the first few in my head.

Waldo ( Family Matters)
Grady (sanford and son )
Bull ( Nightcourt )
Skippy (Family Ties)

I think you should add these characters to your list:

Ted Baxter (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Nick Moore (Family Ties)
Arnold Horshack (Welcome Back, Kotter)

Chrissy Snow from Three's Company is my favorite dummy as well as Lamont from Sanford and Son. lol :lol:

Fred Sanford to Lamont: You Big Dummy!

Definately Chrissy Snow from Three's Company.

Maxwell Smart and Larrabee (Get Smart)

Mine are the following:

Karen Arnold - The Wonder Years
Wayne Arnold - The Wonder Years
Bobby Brady - The Brady Bunch
Michael "Dauber" Dybinski - Coach
Waldo Geraldo Faldo - Family Matters
Bernard P. "Barney" Fife - The Andy Griffith Show
Mark Taylor - Home Improvement
Tim "The Toolman" Taylor - Home Improvement
Jim-Bob Walton - The Waltons
Warren "Potsie" Weber - Happy Days

Favorite Dummy:
Ed Norton - The Honeymooners
Mallory Keaton - Family
Gloria Bunker-Stivic - All In the Family
Arthur Harmon - Maude
Ralph Furley - Three's Company The clothes told it all
Dwayne Schneider - One Day at a Time

Correction on Lamont Sanford. He was not a dummy. Fred called him one. Look at that relatoniship in its proper prospective there was a major co-dependency they had on each other. Lamont was very smart but he had the umbilical cord tied to his father that prevented him from venturing out. Very dysfunctinal father-son relationship but they truly loved each other.

Morty from "The Pitts" of course well he's actually a dummy :p :lol:

Steve Urkel--Family Matters
Jethro Bodine--Beverly Hillbillies
Mike Stivic--All In The Family
Roseanne and her TV Family--Roseanne

Here are my favorites:

LENNY AND SQUIGGY - Laverne and Shirley

TED BAXTER - Mary Tyler Moore Show

GRADY - Sanford and Son

DWAYNE - What's Happening

VINNY BARBARINO - Welcome Back Kotter

MONROE - Too Close for Comfort

COACH - Cheers

WAYNE - Wonder Years

KELLY BUNDY - Married with Children

CHRIS PETERSON - Get a Life

BOB - Becker

JOEY - Friends

KELSO - That '70s Show

I don't think anybody mentioned this character, this is by far one of my favorite scatterbrains:

Rose Nylund - The Golden Girls

Rose-Golden Girls
Jack-Will & Grace
Joey-Friends
Jazz-Fresh Prince
Francis-Malcolm in the Middle

Luther- Coach
Barbarino- Welcome Back Kotter
T Boy and Duane- Mama's Family
Vint- Mama's Family
Lenny and Squiggy- LaVerne and Shirley

Maxwell Smart Agent 86 of Control - Get Smart - loved so much I named my cat after him

Larbee - Get Smart - he was the only man dumber that Maxwell Smart

Jeannie - I dream of Jeannie - she was an air head but in a cute way

Paul - Spin City - he was funny and cheap!

Kramer - Seinfeld - he is as good as it gets

I agree with the previous poster about Kramer on "Seinfeld." What I like about him is that he has a lot of ideas, and theories, and schemes, and if you're not paying much attention, he sounds really smart. However, if you do pay any attention to what he's saying, he's a complete idiot. Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners" is pretty good too, as is Gunther Toody on "Car 54 Where are You?"

Originally posted by BrandonS
I agree with the previous poster about Kramer on "Seinfeld." What I like about him is that he has a lot of ideas, and theories, and schemes, and if you're not paying much attention, he sounds really smart. However, if you do pay any attention to what he's saying, he's a complete idiot.

I agree 100%. Like I said he is as good as it gets!

You guys already named some of my favorites but I'll name some more.

Hillary - Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Screech - Saved By The Bell
Boner - Growing Pains