The Top 10 TV Characters Men Want To Be Like And Women Want To Be With
Posted by Seth at 8:14 AM on August 1, 2008
In browsing What Would Don Draper Do? yesterday —your one-stop Tumblr shop for tips, advice, and musings from everyone's favourite Sterling Cooper jr. partner/secret whore-child—it suddenly occurred to us that there are few people, fictional or real, whose loafers we'd more rather slip into. You know—just to see how it felt to be Donald Draper, shtupping his Jewess department-store-heiress mistress on the side. Which got us further thinking—what other iconic TV characters would we like to be, or do, or maybe both be and do? We left it to the capable hands of Defamer videosmith Molly McAleer to compile this ultimate Top Ten Countdown of TVs Coolest Cats. We're sure you'll agree that each in his own way demonstrated consistent grace under fire, panty-moistening sex appeal, and more cool that a seal hunt in December. And yes, we're well-aware that we left off many of your favorites; that was intentional, as this is the definitive Cool Cat list. Feel free to contribute your own nominees and clips in the comments. In the meantime, take it away, Parker Lewis!

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Wrapitup
Posted 9:09 AM 1/8/08
This list is bullshit without Kima Greggs.
Wrapitup
Alex9
Posted 9:02 AM 1/8/08
Hey, no love for MacGyver, the liberal Jack Bauer?
Alex9
trucha
Posted 9:01 AM 1/8/08
Parker Lewis!?
No Thomas Magnum? Dude was paid to lounge around at some rich dude's pad in Hawaii and was given a Ferrari to drive. Plus he had plenty of side work that would continue to keep him busy in case he lost his current gig. Sure, Higgins was quite the bothersome chap, but a few words would send him away. Wasn't Selleck the George Clooney of the 80's with the ladies?
Ray from Stingray. Tough guy who did charitable work.
trucha
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 9:01 AM 1/8/08
@karion: i'm more of a stringer/omar person. mcnulty is just a fucking mess.
not that i wouldn't schtup him
bess marvin, girl detective
DrPiglet
Posted 8:59 AM 1/8/08
Nate Fisher, anyone? Well, through the first half of the series anyway, not so much the cheating on his wife with his step sister era.
DrPiglet
naugahydeinplainsight
Posted 8:55 AM 1/8/08
Love the hat
+ Watch video
naugahydeinplainsight
eXXX
Posted 8:55 AM 1/8/08
Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks should so be on this list.
eXXX
sabbaticalplease
Posted 8:54 AM 1/8/08
I think Jim from the office is adored by women and men alike.
sabbaticalplease
TillieHarper
Posted 8:50 AM 1/8/08
@remedios: Ditto. I wouldn't even take Depp as Tom Hanson. Depp as Scissorhands (with all the sweetness, minus the deformities) can bed me.
TillieHarper
RonMwangaguhunga
Posted 8:50 AM 1/8/08
Hanibal? You like ther silver-maned, cigar chomping criminal mastermnind thing?
RonMwangaguhunga
sonjahenie
Posted 8:47 AM 1/8/08
Thanks for making ex-Silver Laker Kiefer Number One...so good to see him again.
sonjahenie
remedios
Posted 8:42 AM 1/8/08
Hmm.. maybe the first part of the headline is right, but I'm not sold on the second half. Very few of those men would even remotely interest me. I'll give you a few of them (particularly Officer Tom Hanson, but really just because it's Johnny Depp), but the Walker guy? The A-Team guy? Seriously, does any woman want to be with those guys?
remedios
tobaccoflower
Posted 8:38 AM 1/8/08
john drake (or #6 if you please)
tobaccoflower
NoWireHangers
Posted 8:31 AM 1/8/08
I was certain Columbo would be on that list somewhere.
NoWireHangers
karion
Posted 8:29 AM 1/8/08
This list is useless without Detective Jimmy McNulty. Hell, you can go ahead and add Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale while you're at it.
karion
sabbaticalplease
Posted 8:27 AM 1/8/08
Where's Ricky Stratton/ Schroder? Because I have been waiting to take a ride on his train since the first grade.
sabbaticalplease
Pterodactyl
Posted 9:43 AM 1/8/08
@sabbaticalplease: Seconded.
Where's the Mulder love?
I'll take Detective Elliot Stabler if no one else wants him.
Pterodactyl
callmefilmgeek
Posted 9:41 AM 1/8/08
Dexter Morgan, all the way.
callmefilmgeek
NoGrumpys
Posted 9:37 AM 1/8/08
What no Gomez Addams?
He could have satisfied all the Desparate Housewives, their friends AND the wonen on Gray's Anatomy
NoGrumpys
el smrtmnky
Posted 9:28 AM 1/8/08
#9's Conrad made a couple of lezzies in my building as moist as a snack cake.
el smrtmnky
crookedlawyer
Posted 9:26 AM 1/8/08
Your ignorance of Dwayne Wayne is criminal.
crookedlawyer
valarmorghulis
Posted 9:25 AM 1/8/08
LIES
Banacek was way more of a pimp than Hannibal
valarmorghulis
kookla
Posted 9:23 AM 1/8/08
If you don't have either Starsky or Hutch, then your list is bogus.
kookla
sandie75
Posted 10:09 AM 1/8/08
what a ridiculous list! other than jack bauer and dr. ross, i just don't get it. i vote for replacing them all with the cast of LOST, or at least Jack, Sawyer, Sayid and Locke. Now those are some men that just about any women would love to take a ride on and almost any man would kill to trade places with for a day.
@DrPiglet: i'd agree on nate fisher if he wasn't so pussy-whipped for the entire show. ladies might want to bed him, but no man in their right mind would want to trade places with him.
sandie75
Mr-Busy
Posted 10:08 AM 1/8/08
No Schneider the handyman for women? No Mr. Kinkaid? And for the men - no Hazel the maid in her uniform, no FLORIDA EVANS - this thing is RIGGED!**
** please excuse my time warp.
Mr-Busy
Jerilyn
Posted 10:02 AM 1/8/08
I always loved Hannibal...my fave was Detective Frank Pembelton of Homicide but since no one else ever watched the show, he was all mine.
Jerilyn
Pterodactyl
Posted 9:59 AM 1/8/08
You want the truth? FINE.
Gomer Pyle's singing voice gave me titty hard-on.
Pterodactyl
ffmusicdj
Posted 10:53 AM 1/8/08
Men want to be like Will Smith? ... HAHAHAHahahahhaah
Ooh man, that will be the day. This is a good joke yo. Good joke!
ffmusicdj
louveciennes
Posted 10:43 AM 1/8/08
Parker Lewis!! I don't know if he was really fuck-worthy, he didn't have all that much sex appeal. But he sure was fun.
louveciennes
RiotGrrrl
Posted 10:40 AM 1/8/08
I'm seconding the motions to include Mulder and Dexter Morgan. I spent the 90s pining over Mulder, and now I have it in for Dexter.
Seriously, I don't find the majority of that list fuck-worthy. I liked the A-team and all, but I NEVER even thought Hannibal was attractive. Cool in the sense I wanted to be him, not be *with* him.
RiotGrrrl
NoteToElse
Posted 10:33 AM 1/8/08
not on the list? lenny and squiggy.
NoteToElse
OldTowneTavern
Posted 10:28 AM 1/8/08
Oh, I agree that Magnum was a huge omission. No Sam Malone? Played in the big leagues, owns a bar, beds babes, drives a 'vette. No?
I'm convinced Don Draper is one big ad. Some attractive empty shell we're supposed to project whatever personality we want into.
OldTowneTavern
Laines
Posted 11:43 AM 1/8/08
When Walker showed up at #3 I was convinced Magnum would be #1. He was robbed.
I asked my mister for his #1 and he chose John Steed. I love my nerd husband.
Laines
Wrapitup
Posted 11:42 AM 1/8/08
@DaeSu: Fuck yeah!
BTW I'm surprised Kima doesn't get more love from the Jezzies, what with their obsession with How Women Are Depicted in Mass Media. I'm guessing they ignore her because instead of sitting on her ass and weeping and wailing and gnashing her teeth, she actually, you know, does stuff.
@OldTowneTavern: Sorry dude, but wasn't he a failed athlete, drunk, creepy sexual harasser of his co-workers and shopaholic? Plus I don't know any man who would willingly spend time with Kelsey Grammer and Shelley Long.
Wrapitup
Pope John Peeps II
Posted 11:28 AM 1/8/08
@valarmorghulis: BANACEK WAS THE SHIT.
Pope John Peeps II
burbankbabe
Posted 11:28 AM 1/8/08
You got it EXACTLY right with Jack Bauer at #1!!!!!!!!!!
burbankbabe
stoprobbers
Posted 11:17 AM 1/8/08
@RiotGrrrl: I'm not big on the Dexter but boy howdy do I carry a flame for Agent Mulder.
stoprobbers
stoprobbers
Posted 11:16 AM 1/8/08
WALKER!!!
First Clooney shorted out my brain. Then Depp stopped my heart. Then Walker kicked me back into gear.
Oh yeah, and I stopped to dance with the Fresh Prince.
Ace list.
stoprobbers
DaeSu
Posted 11:06 AM 1/8/08
@Wrapitup: The nipple scene in Season 3. 'Nuff said.
DaeSu
JudyPaceFace
Posted 1:32 PM 1/8/08
were Jonny Quest and Hadji on there?
JudyPaceFace
jadedperson
Posted 1:05 PM 1/8/08
Hawkeye Pierce! (hey, it didn't stipulate in this century...)
jadedperson
DoctorTormento
Posted 12:53 PM 1/8/08
THIRDING that Mulder love.
Also, Alan Shore. But not right after he's had a sleepover with Denny Crane. He's probably smell all...er, musky.
Oh, and just where in the Hell is Captain Kirk on that list, while we're somewhat on the subject?
DoctorTormento
EdenMoore
Posted 12:43 PM 1/8/08
I won't acknowledge any list that doesn't include Mal Reynolds.
EdenMoore
fromby
Posted 12:43 PM 1/8/08
Cord Walker? Cordell is much more sophisticated.
fromby
ljnd2
Posted 12:37 PM 1/8/08
@Jerilyn: No WAY - he used to live in my neighborhood - I would see him sitting on the stoop outside Back to the Land - and were it not for the handles of my 13-month-old daughter's stroller, I would have FAINTED ON THE SPOT routinely and everyday. It was a mercy for my health that he moved. I love that man. LOVE. HIM.
ljnd2
Calraigh
Posted 2:24 PM 1/8/08
@wackiland: I concur. Also that I'm missing some because I totally forgot to mention him. My nights were filled with Moonlighting fantasies once upon a time! HAVE I SAID TOO MUCH.
Calraigh
Calraigh
Posted 2:22 PM 1/8/08
@stoprobbers: Mother of GODDDDD Mulder, yes oh yes. What the hell folks? The phrase '' panty-moistening '' has never been more relevant that in his case. Rawrrrrr.
Calraigh
wackiland
Posted 2:18 PM 1/8/08
Hello? David Addison? Are you people missing grey matter?
wackiland
callmefilmgeek
Posted 3:47 PM 1/8/08
@wackiland: David Addison. God yes! That smirk. That receding hairline. . Not such a fan of Bruce now, though.
And whoever said Sawyer from LOST, I am so there with you. That scene in the season finale when he walked out of the surf...holy fuck.
callmefilmgeek
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
Posted 4:54 PM 1/8/08
Cool Cats who should be on the list:
David Addison, Thomas Magnum, James T. Kirk, Dr. Hawkeye Pierce, Dr. Perry Cox (Scrubs), Remington Steele, Jean Luc Picard.
Hannibal and Walker?!? Mmmmm, not so much.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
ouiserboudreaux
Posted 4:53 PM 1/8/08
@jadedperson: Second on that one but it would need to be in a tent during the war. I have a feeling he didn't fare as well after the war as Trapper John.
Jim Rockford - he was a PI who lived on the beach in malibu. yes, it was a trailer but it was the 70s and it matched his super cool car. Every third episode seemed to be a very gorgeous ex-girlfriend. Kooky dad just wants to go fishing, best friend Angel who clearly had drug connections and a job he could do when he felt like working. Great theme song and the phone messages were a hoot too. I don't care how old you are now, Jim Garner was a fine looking man.
ouiserboudreaux
MissyMiss
Posted 5:25 PM 1/8/08
How about the Doctor? One guy, with a wide variety of personas. Something for everybody!
MissyMiss
DontFearTheReefer
Posted 5:21 PM 1/8/08
@Wrapitup: fuck you, asshole.
DontFearTheReefer
JimRockford
Posted 6:09 PM 1/8/08
@ouiserboudreaux: Yeah, that Rockford guy's a good choice.
JimRockford
aliceathome
Posted 6:18 PM 1/8/08
McNulty, not so much. I've got a feeling he'd do his stuff then fall asleep. But Daniels - there's the body of a Greek god under that suit. Dayum.
aliceathome
whoneedslight
Posted 10:13 PM 1/8/08
Whoever said Dale Cooper, yes!
Also, John Corbett from his Northern Exposure days.
whoneedslight
GeneralMeade
Posted 9:46 PM 1/8/08
Sgt. Dennis Foley on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
GeneralMeade
quickstrike
Posted 10:31 PM 1/8/08
KURT RUSSLE ALL THE WAY...
If i had hair like he did back in the Snake Pliskan movies, I would need BURN the women off.
Get it BURN...BACKDRAFT...AHAHA I crack myself up
quickstrike
Oxycontinmoron
Posted 1:28 AM 2/8/08
[www.imdb.com]
Chuck Connors as: The Rifleman = Bad Ass 50's - 60's - style!
Oxycontinmoron
itmustbeken
Posted 2:27 AM 2/8/08
Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes was snubbed...AGAIN!?!
He's cool AND he makes cake.
itmustbeken
DoctorTormento
Posted 3:44 AM 2/8/08
The Holiday special sort of makes Han a TV character, though, yes? So he counts!
DoctorTormento
Luana Arrrr
Posted 3:39 AM 2/8/08
I'm such a geek, but I'm infinity-ing the Mulder love, and raising your Captain Kirks with Commander Riker, Captain Sisko, Han Solo, and the Doctor.
I mean, sure, Han Solo's not a TV character, per se, but his badassery cannot be held back, even by the awfulness that was the Holiday Special.
Luana Arrrr
abillionalphacentaurians
Posted 3:38 AM 2/8/08
Zack Morris, Saved by the Bell
Jack Tripper, Threes Company
Sam Malone, Cheers
abillionalphacentaurians
Molly McAleer
Posted 3:38 AM 2/8/08
@itmustbeken: If reality stars "counted" on this list, he'd be up there... Duff is my secret husband.
Molly McAleer
mollyart
Posted 5:01 AM 2/8/08
My mom totally wanted to bone the fonz back in dah day.
Must have been somethin' to do with the thumbs....
EEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY
mollyart
hydeordie
Posted 5:44 AM 2/8/08
@sandie75: how do you REALLY feel about Lost?
hydeordie
Imnotatnbc
Posted 9:00 AM 2/8/08
This list is ri-DICK-ulous. Where the frig are Mannix, Batman (Adam West, helloooo?) and Alex P. Keaton??? Cockroach is a better choice than Parker Lewis. That shit was on as long as Emeril on NBC.
Imnotatnbc
ouiserboudreaux
Posted 3:59 PM 2/8/08
@JimRockford: I love you. Give me your phone number so I can leave cryptic messages for you on your recordin' thing.
@Imnotatnbc: My seventeen year old self still pines for Alex P. Keaton.
ouiserboudreaux
JohnQPublic
Posted 1:23 PM 3/8/08
Forgive me. I just climbed off Hugh Laurie to chime in here and nominate him for his utterly fuckable performance on House MD. Now where was I?
JohnQPublic