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Where's Rose Nylund? And no having Betty White in the same picture with Ted Baxter doesn't count!

Phoebe Bouffet (sp?) wasn't the brightest bulb in the "Friends" marquee either.

Betty White's Rose on "Golden Girls" has one of my favorite lines ever: Dorothy proclaims that when her husband displeased her, "I cut off his sex completely," and Rose, with a wonderful look of absolute astonishment, says, "You mean they grow back?"

Also Randy on "My Name Is Earl."

And why have Gilligan's face up there if he's not on the list?

Gilligan.

George doesn't belong on this list. He wasn't actually stupid, intelligence-wise. He was just insanely neurotic and self-loathing.

I agree with Bull on Night Court... and really, just about anyone except Darnel from My Name Is Earl.

Was George Costanza really an idiot? Willfully ignorant, certainly, selfish, lazy and possessing pretty much every character defect you can think of, but an idiot? I'm not so sure.

Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Brittany on Glee and Burt from Raising Hope.

Also, in the older vein, Maxwell Smart from the original Get Smart TV show.

And I agree with those who think Betty White's Rose absolutely belongs on this list.

Nowadays, Troy on Community and Andy on Parks and Rec, definitely. Also, Brittany on Glee. I kind of miss the ridiculous she would say, but we had to break up. It's not you, Brit, it's Glee.

Jeff Zucker?

Was George Costanza really an idiot? Willfully ignorant, certainly, selfish, lazy and possessing pretty much every character defect you can think of, but an idiot? I'm not so sure.
Posted by: Ballymena Bob at May 9, 2011 11:39 AM

Agreed, asshole does not equal idiot. Now, Kramer was kind of an idiot

"I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots"

Joey was the last funny character on Friends. Kevin on The Office is now the same. Dumb guys are the easiest for coasting shows to write.

Lowell! I love Lowell!

Do you think poor Thomas Hayden Church dies a little inside every time people see him and say "It's Lowell!"? Because you know they do.

We can let go of the literalism and pretend that Sue Ann is Rose for a few seconds, no?

Kramer wasn't an idiot. Kramer was a pot-head.

Building levels in his apartement? Stoner idea.

Zapp Branigan!

Johnny Burns from 'Deadwood'

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What about Rita from "Wee Britain"?

Nearly all of the characters on A.D. could qualify as idiots. From the main cast, I'd say Buster is a bigger idiot than GOB, who was merely a amoral narcissistic cretin.

I'll see your Zapp and raise you a Fry:

"And Fry has that brain thing."
"No I'm...doesn't..."

Good God, all these and none of the Bluths? You've made a huge mistake.

Tom Smothers?

How is it even possible that Chris Elliot, from his masterpiece "Get a Life", not included? Hell...his stupidity got him killed on a regular basis on the show.

Or for that matter...his current show?!?

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag

Vinnie Barbarino.

Who? What? Where?

Here's a vote Gob Bluth.

"Going to live it up down ol' South America way, huh, Mikey?"

Father Dougal McGuire from Father Ted has got to be one of the daftest characters on television. The following had to be explained to him: "These are small, and those are far away."

Since someone above mentioned Jethro Bodine, just for fun, I'll throw in Mr. Drysdale and Mr. Douglas from "Beverly Hillbillies" and "Green Acres," two country comedies where the supposed rubes often proved to be smarter and more common-sensical than the city slickers they dealt with.