All time best second bananas?

[ohiosmith]

[MrCoffee]

1. Edith Bunker by a mile...no contest

[ohiosmith]

2. Good call Mr. C.

:toast:

[Dr. Strange]

3. Good call, Dingbat.

[hifiguy]

4. Ed McMahon

The perfect foil to the (and I mean this literally) peerless Johnny Carson.

[ohiosmith]

6. HIYO!

:hi:

[charlie and algernon]

5. Luigi

[Auggie]

7. Spock

[MrScorpio]

8. Ilya Kuryakin

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. Ethel Mertz

[struggle4progress]

10. Barack

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[Tabasco_Dave]

11. Barney Fife

He was the show!

[LibDemAlways]

13. Agree. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

17. None Better. None Better

I have been watching uncut reruns of The Andy Griffith show on Netflix. Amazing how much of the little bits between Andy and Barney were cut for syndication to make room for more commercials.

Don Knotts creation of Barney Fife is truly as good as it gets.

[deutsey]

18. The show really faltered after he left

It was amazing how Don Knotts could make you laugh at Barney's pomposity one second and tear up over his pathos the next. He was a clown with a deep soul. One of the truly great TV characters.

That guy who replaced him was just plain annoying (the straight-laced deputy who would do that "huh?" "yeah" "huh?" "yeah" bit).

[BillStein]

20. The amazing thing about that town

was how white it was! Do you think they had a sign at the city limits saying "No Coloreds Allowed"?

[deutsey]

22. LOL. Actually, there were black folks in the background sometimes

Reflecting and reinforcing, I guess, the pre-dominent worldview of most whites at time.

I remember reading once that shows like Andy Griffith and Gomer Pyle, USMC were ways to whitewash the ugly realities of racist cops in the South and what was happening in Vietnam. Might be grasping a bit there, but who knows?

[Lars39]

12. Gracie Allen

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. My first choice n/t

[era veteran]

32. I was going to say George

Gracie was so damn good.

[woo me with science]

14. Niles Crane.

Not sure if he's a "second banana" or not.

[bluesbassman]

15. Oh that Barney Rubble, what an actor! Good night Mr. Lumley.

Bonus points for the source of that line. :)

[Graybeard]

16. Yes. Art Carney as Ed Norton is Numero Uno..

Will The Honeymooners be in re-runs forever?

I hope so.

[Ptah]

19. Spiro T. Agnew

""In the United States today, we have more than our share
of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their
own 4-H Club -- the "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."

[applegrove]

29. My parents had a book at the cottage called "The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew". Of course when

you opened the book it was all blank. LOL!

[Rosie1223]

21. Donkey from the Shrek series.

:hi:

[RedCloud]

23. Sandwich!

Early polling suggests that soup may be second fiddle some day soon!

[ohiosmith]

28. Brilliant!

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

24. Spock

Kato (from Green Hornet)

Chewbacca

Inigo Montoya

just a few of my favorites.

[murielm99]

25. Mr. Green Jeans. eom

[sarge43]

26. Cliff Clavin

[nolabear]

27. Sancho Panza.

I mean, c'mon.

[csziggy]

31. Lenny & Squiggy

One of the best bits I ever saw from Laverne & Shirley was all the clips of the lines immediately preceding their entrances followed by them entering. It was hysterical.