Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) and Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
This one isn’t so obvious, but think about it — Agent Cooper and Chris Traeger are both outsiders who come to assume positions of authority in a new town, and they have pretty much exactly the same temperament. Cooper and Chris are smart, unnervingly upbeat guys who are so apparently squeaky-clean that they almost come off as asexual (never mind Chris’s fairly chaste-seeming thing with Ann Perkins). They might quarrel over Cooper’s love of pie, but we’re sure Chris would be game to try his FBI buddy’s hanging-upside-down workout regimen.
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The George Costanza one isn’t coincidence. The character was written by Larry David about himself.
@Cas
That was actually the joke…
I always got the feeling that these two never really considered themselves nerds, or were hoping that they’d eventually be accepted by mainstream society. Thus, I think they’d have a long term problem, because each of them would dump the other for an ounce of popularity.
A bit of an obscure reference but perfect IMHO:
Detective Nicholas Knight (Forever Knight)
800-year-old vampire Nick Knight quests for redemption as a cop in Toronto, trying to hide his vampiric nature from the rest of the world. – IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103417
Forensics blood-spatter expert Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
A likable Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals whom he believes have escaped justice. – IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262
They would be safe with each other’s secrets …
i think Ron would be good friends with Red from That 70s show…
@Susie
YES
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sorry, i don’t read articles with 1 paragraph per page
give me a link to “view all” (e.g. wired.com slideshow articles) and i’ll come back
@susie: that is an awesome idea
if larry and george managed to both exist on the same earthly plane, the universe would surely implode. one atmosphere could never handle so much bitter banter.
dale cooper and chris- brilliant!
Going to sound really nerdy saying this, but in the season 8 Buffy comic, they actually make a 2 references to Veronica Mars. In one, Xander and Buffy are talking about Veronica Mars and she tells him not to tell her anything because she hasn’t finished watching it. And in another, Buffy is talking to Dawn and Dawn mentions that she might have scratched her Veronica Mars DVDs and Buffy might have to kill her for it (jokingly of course).
Why are you assuming people who are the same will be friends? While it’s certainly true that friends share the same interests, it doesn’t automatically follow that the more alike people are the more they will be friends.
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Phylis Linstrom (“Mary Tyler Moore”) and Dr. Frasier Crane (“Fraiser”). She would eat up every pretenious word from his mouth and he would enjoy the attention.
Ralph Kramden and Fred Flintstone!… oh wait. They ARE the same character. And I dislike both intensely.
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