The Top 25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Now I know there's thousands of these kind of lists floating around out there, but I thought I'd create my own version.  Of course, the list is not objective at all.  It's filled with TV shows like.  With that, let the list begin!

25.
Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) - 30 Rock

Best Quote: "I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant."

24.

Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day) - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 

Best Quote: “Yes, my good man, I’ll have the milk steak, boiled over hard, and your finest jelly beans ...raw.”

23.

Tobias Fünke (David Cross) - Arrested Development

Best Quote: "I'm afraid that I just blue myself."

22.

Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) - Monk

Best Quote: [about to shake hands with five people] "It's a stampede. Get a wipe ready."

21.

Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) - Peep Show

Best Quote: "Good old, unfriendly Mr Patel. Never says a word, whether you're buying cornflakes, fabric softener, or gay porn."

20. 

Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Best Quote: [singing] "You got to pay the troll toll if you want to get into this boy's-soul!"

19.

Dexter Mogan (Michael C. Hall) - Dexter

Best Quote: "Do I see sheets of plastic in your future?"

18.

Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) - Malcolm in the Middle

Best Quote: "You want to know the best part about childhood? At some point, it stops."

17.

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) - The Office

Best Quote: "Security in this office park is a joke. Last year I came to work with my spud-gun in a duffel bag. I sat at my desk all day with a rifle that shoots potatoes at 60 pounds per square inch. Can you imagine if I was deranged?"

16. 

Walter White - (Bryan Cranston) - Breaking Bad

Best Quote: "Smoking marijuana, eating Cheese Doodles, and masturbating do not constitute as 'plans' in my book!"

15.

Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) - Entourage

Best Quote: "Fuck the phones, Lloyd! Unless Carmen Electra calls for an emergency titty fuck, don't answer!"

14. 

Michael Scott (Steve Carell) - The Office

Best Quote: “If I had a gun, with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.”

13. 

Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) - Da Ali G Show

Best Quote: "I don't know if you know this, but dolphins ain't fish. They is like us, they is mammaries."

12.

Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) - House

Best Quote: 

Patient’s Mother: "How can you just sit there?"

Dr. House: "If I eat standing up, I spill."

11.

Larry David (Larry David) - Curb Your Enthusiasm

 

Best Quote:  [Larry has a flat tire in the city, and doesn't know how to fix it] 
[to various passerbys] You know anything about changing a tire? Wanna help me change a tire here? No? I could use a little help. I need a little assistance. I never took a shop class, and I need a little help. Ok, I'm just coming flat out and saying 'help me'. Anybody want to help a semi-retarded individual change a tire? 25, 30 dollars. 30 dollars to change this tire. 35 dollars to change this tire right now. 
[People are ignoring him] 
I'll give you 10 dollars for a verbal response. 10 dollars. Anybody want to make 10 dollars and respond verbally? No?  

10.

Fred Flintstone (Alan Reed) - The Flintstones

Best Quote: "Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of women?"

9.

Stephen Colbert (Stephen Colbert) - The Colbert Report

Best Quote: "Move over Oprah you fat bitch, tonight every member of my audience receives a priceless gift... the Truth."

8.

Miss Piggy (Frank Oz) - The Muppet Show

Best Quote: "Moi's hair has natural curls. So does my tail."

7.

Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane) - Family Guy

Best Quote: "I had such a crush on her. Until I met you Lois. You're my silver medal."

6.

George Costanza (Jason Alexander) - Seinfeld

Best Quote: "Only I could fail at failing."

5. 

Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright) - The Simpsons

Best Quote: “I never thought it was humanly possible, but this both sucks and blows.”

4.

Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) - The Muppet Show

Best Quote: "Time's fun when you're having flies."

3.

Stewie Griffin (Seth MacFarlane) - Family Guy

Best Quote: "Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until ooh, big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside."

2. 

Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) - Seinfeld

Best Quote: [While drinking water] "I'm going through this stuff like water."

1.

Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) - The Simpsons

Best Quote: "Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!"

Top 20 Directors of All Time

This isn't my favorite 20 directors, but rather a more un-biased top 20 list. I took data from the IMDB Top 250 list to see which directors had the most movies on the list. These are the top 20.

20. Roman Polanski

Movies: The Pianist; Chinatown; Rosemary's Baby

19. Ridley Scott

Movies: Alien; Gladiator; Blade Runner

18. David Lean

Movies: Lawrence of Arabia; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Brief Encounter

17. Frank Capra

Movies: It's a Wonderful Life; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; It Happened One Night

16. David Fincher

Movies: Fight Club; Se7en; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

15. Sidney Lumet

Movies: 12 Angry Men; Dog Day Afternoon; Network

14. James Cameron

Movies: Terminator 2: Judgement Day; Aliens; Avatar; The Terminator

13. Christopher Nolan

Movies: The Dark Knight; Memento; Inception; Batman Begins

12. Lee Unkrich

Movies: Toy Story 3; Finding Nemo; Toy Story 2; Monster's Inc.

11. Sergio Leone

Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Once Upon a Time in America; For a Few Dollars More

10. Francis Ford Coppola

Movies: The Godfather; The Godfather: Part II; Apocalypse Now; The Conversation

9. Charlie Chaplin

Movies: City Lights; Modern Times; The Great Dictator; The Gold Rush; The Kid

8. Martin Scorcese

Movies: Goodfellas; Taxi Driver; The Departed; Raging Bull; Casino

7. Akira Kurosawa

Movies: Seven Samurai; Rashomon; Yojimbo; Ran; Ikiru

6. Steven Spielberg

Movies: Schindler's List; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Saving Private Ryan; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Jaws

5. Quentin Tarantino

Movies: Pulp Fiction; Resevoir Dogs; Inglourious Basterds; Sin City (guest director); Kill Bill: Vol. 1; Kill Bill: Vol. 2

4. Clint Eastwood

Movies: Gran Torino; Unforgiven; Million Dollar Baby; Letters from Iwo Jima; Mystic River; Changeling

3. Billy Wilder

Movies: Sunset Blvd.; Double Indemnity; Some Like It Hot; The Apartment; Witness for the Prosecution; Stalag 17

2. Stanley Kubrick

Movies: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; The Shining; A Clockwork Orange; Paths of Glory; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Full Metal Jacket; The Killing; Barry Lyndon; Spartacus

1. Alfred Hitchcock

Movies: Rear Window; Psycho; North by Northwest; Vertigo; Rebecca; Strangers on a Train; Notorious; Dial M for Murder; Shadow of a Doubt; Rope

Day 1

I've decided to start with IMDB Top 250 list (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top). I'll start with #250 and work my way up to #1.

First Post!

Hi, my name is Tim. I am a college student majoring in business. I have always loved movies, and recently I got the idea to watch every movie ever made. I'm not really sure if it's possible, but I'm sure as hell gonna try. With the help of Netflix, local video stores, movie theaters, and friend/family movie collections, I will go about watching as many movies as possible. Hopefully I can gain some sort of enlightenment or superior knowledge because of this experience.

Now, this will be somewhat difficult. First of all, my biggest obstacle will be time. I will have to work around my job, school, social life, etc. Second, I will have to watch a lot of boring, terrible movies. I don't know how I will be able to sit through some of these films, but I will have to figure out some way. Lastly, I am sure many films are not available on DVD or VHS, either because they are too old or too obscure. So, these are my main obstacles, but I will do my best to overcome them.

I've decided to start compiling all the movies I watch, and writing about my experience in this blog.