Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:25     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ben and Chris on Parks on Rec


I keep trying to watch that show from the beginning, and the first season is painful. Mostly because the love interest is freaking awful

I do like the episodes I have seen on Comedy Central of later seasons.


Yeah I think the addition of Ben and Chris combined with getting rid of whatshisface (mark?) is what really made the show work


100% Mark was awful.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:23     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Saul Goodman


This is the answer!!


Good one! He was definitely a break out star of that series. I would love to see a spin off of the early days of Gus though but I think the actor is done with that part.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:14     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:Saul Goodman


This is the answer!!
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:13     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Patrick on Schitt's Creek.


Yes!!!

I'll contribute "Sean" from The Good Place


Love Sean. Also loved the Judge.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:13     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ben and Chris on Parks on Rec


I keep trying to watch that show from the beginning, and the first season is painful. Mostly because the love interest is freaking awful

I do like the episodes I have seen on Comedy Central of later seasons.


Yeah I think the addition of Ben and Chris combined with getting rid of whatshisface (mark?) is what really made the show work


The tone really changed when Ben and Chris came on. It was much meaner the first season - it got so sweet and wholesome once Ben and Chris arrived. I think you see it especially in regards to Leslie. She was the butt of the joke a lot of the time the first season. She was ridiculous in a bad way. But starting season 2, she's lovably ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:12     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:Ben and Chris on Parks on Rec


YES!
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:11     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Woody Strode, the coroner, on "Psych." The show was and would still have been great without Woody's addition, but he was such a breath of weird fresh air whenever he appeared with his freaky quirks. And "Psych" very wisely did not overuse him; it gave us enough Woody to love him but never let him overstay his welcome. The show was good at that -- using extremely quirky characters just enough to leave us wanting more, but not overdoing them.

Hope we'll see Woody again in the fourth Psych movie that's supposed to happen (fingers crossed).

He's played by the terrific, prolific character actor Kurt Fuller, whom everyone has seen in something over the years.


My fellow Psych-o!! I do love Woody, too. And forgot he didn't come on until the show had been on for a while.

I'll add Pierre Despereaux, too. I loved every episode he was in.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 13:10     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Patrick on Schitt's Creek.


Yes!!!

I'll contribute "Sean" from The Good Place


This is OP - and those are two SOLID choices
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:41     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Jo on Facts of Life
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:38     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Saul Goodman
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:37     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Jean-Ralphio and Mona Lisa Saperstein
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:36     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Not a new character in the Universe, but when they brought Spike back on Angel for the final season - that definitely made the show better
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:33     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
Colonel Potter (RIP Henry)
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:23     Subject: Re:new characters that made a TV show better
Anonymous wrote:Amanda on Melrose Place
Jimmy Smits on SOA mainly b/c I just love Jim Smits and he is eye candy to me


Total eye candy.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 12:22     Subject: new characters that made a TV show better
I agree with Paul Rudd on Friends

Paul Rudd just makes the world a better place