Top Ten TV Names

Posted by J.C. on April 28, 2007 under TV | 3 Comments to Read

• Bullwinkle – Perhaps the most perfectly absurd but utterly plausible name in history.
• Potsie – Happy Days was filled with great names like Pinkey and The Fonz, but a name like Potsie is just perfect because it means nothing but implies so much.
• Boner – Sidekicks always get the best names, but holy crap! Boner!!! They called him Boner! And it was a family show. Priceless.
• Morticia – The Addams Family was a show that was filled with great names like Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley and Uncle Fester. All could be winners, but how can you not love that they not only named her after a mortician, they somehow made it sound sexy.
• Beaver – This name lead to the best line in the history of television, “Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.”
• Gilligan – No name screams “well meaning idiot who will probably doom us all” like Gilligan. It is the perfect name for the perfect fool.
• Xena – It’s hard to believe that Xena was not an actual figure in Greek mythology, but with a name like that she fit right in and you knew from the get-go that she would kick your ass.
• Fez – We never knew Fez’s real name. Instead, they turned the phrase Foreign Exchange Student into Fez, which managed to sound Foreign anyway.
• Frasier – First off, Frasier is the perfect name for the stuffy but lovable psychiatrist turned drunk turned radio host, but what really gets it on the list is this admission on Cheers shortly after our man Frasier was dumped by Diane just before their Italian wedding, “When playing soccer, if someone completely misses the ball and falls down it is called a Frasier. If he is knocked out cold it is called a Frasier Crane.”
• It’s a nine-way tie between Urkel, Mork, Spock, Quark, Horshack, Hawkeye, Alf, Gomer and Dilbert.