Top 5 Supporting Characters Who Were Better Than The Main Characters

Raptor here. Have you ever watched a show and thought, "Man, why'd they base this show around that guy?" Than his wisecracking best friend pops up intermittently and you're like, "This guy is awesome, he needs his own show."

No? You turn the channel? You don't subject yourself to such masochistic pain?

Well fine you jerks.

5. Roger from American Dad-

This is another show I think could use some tuning up. The main character Stan is kind of a one joke wonder. Roger, however, always seems to bring a smile to my face. He’s definitely more well rounded than any of the other characters.

He consistently seems to have the best sub plot of the show. Using foster kids as slave labor? Awesome. Peddling Steve to a bunch of Drug Dealers while convincing him that he’s actually been accepted to Hogwarts Brilliant.

4. Quagmire from Family Guy

By far and away the most one dimensional of all the characters I’m picking, he still get’s a better rise outta me (giggity giggity) than Peter Griffin. Sure he’s a one joke wonder, but man is he devoted to it. Plus don’t we all have at least one member of our entourages out there who’s somewhat the wanna be man whore that is Quagmire?

3. Carl Brutananadilewski from Aquateen

Carl is what Makes Aquateen Hunger Force work. Let’s face it, if you were neighbors with a bunch of anthropomorphic food items who constantly destroyed your stuff, you’d be surly and pissed all the time.

Out of all the characters on this list he is the one who is most like me. He’s got an amazing porn collection, few goals in life, and digs Foreigner. And who doesn’t love sweatpants?

2. Mr. Burns fromb The Simpsons

23 Skidoo! Not only is Mr. Burns evil, he’s so evil he thinks evil is good. And really what’s more evil than that. Beyond that, he’s a delightful anachronism. He’s always spouting off 1920’s street lingo, despite being young enough to fight in World War II. Then again he was also depicted in a 16^th century woodcarving scaring children.

I have a theory that he’s actually an evil Dr. Who, but he’s stuck with this form so long he’s gotten Alzheimer’s and forgotten to change bodies.

1. Roger from That 80’s Show

Back in the simpler days of college when I wasn’t blasting braincells with booze or Perfect Dark, my mind was always under the perilous assault of bad TV shows. I mean bad. I would intentionally find them out, then try and find out what made them tick. That 80’s Show was amongst the worst. Yet, I was strangely drawn to it. Every week McBane and I would both sit and watch this trainwreck. For 13+ weeks. The two main characters were godawfully sad and pathetic. I only remember the girls name because the guy made up some horrible song about her called “Tuesday day after Monday.” Which was funny in the trying to be bad so it’s funny kinda way, but the whole show was really bad and funny in the unintentionally funny kind of way. Except for Roger and the dad.

None of the other actors seemed to believe what they were saying. Roger the Asian best friend whose renting the room above the garage (wow how many sitcom cliché’s can you fit into one character) seemed to actually put himself into character. He also realized that the key to comedy was being funny.

In one of the few times McBane and I have ever agreed, we decided if they had made the show about Roger the show would have been 1000% better. I started wishing that some horrible accident would occur killing off Tuesday and her boyfriend, leaving us with just Roger and the father (played by the usually awesome Geoff Pierson of the show Unhappily Ever after). Sure it would have been like basing an entire show on an Asian Kelso and materialistic Red Foreman, but that could work. It really could.