Naked Neighbors of Swearing Moms: The Best TV Characters You’ve Never Seen on Screen | television

WWhen you think of TV characters, you probably think of characters you can actually see. But this is a grossly unfair insult to a small but powerful minority: the characters who remain solidly off-screen. Over the course of decades – mostly in comedies, with a few dramatic exceptions – this invisible workforce has earned more than just its status, and it deserves your support. Here are the top 10 characters whose faces you have never laid eyes on before.

10. The ugly naked man, friends

Ugly Naked Guy (formerly Cute Naked Guy) was a nudist who lived across the street from Monica and Rachel. He never closes his curtains, and sleeps in the hammock by the window. At one point, the gang thought the ugly naked man was dead, and tried to poke him with a long-range device made of chopsticks. Ugly Naked Guy ranks pretty low here because he’s actually been seen on camera three times throughout the duration of Friends, but only from behind. Fans have speculated for years about the identity of the man who played him. An online investigator eventually determined that it was an actor named John Haugen.

9. Erica, BoJack Horseman

No one knows what Erica looks like, how she dresses, or even what gender she is. However, throughout the six seasons of BoJack Horseman’s run, it has been referenced endlessly, largely by Mr. Peanutbutter. Everything we know about her can be pieced together from his exclamations, which included: “Erica! How do you look so beautiful? I’m angry!”, “Erica! Is that you? Who took you out of the burn ward?” “Erica! What are you doing here with a child-sized coffin?”

8. Prime Ministers, thick of it

In fact, we never meet any of the men running the country in The Thick of It – those looming threats dictating much of the chaos that unfolds. But we know enough about them to guess their personalities. The first is the legacy-obsessed Tony Blair, the second is Gordon Brown whose cronies are referred to as “the lunatics,” and the third is the leader of a grandiose Conservative coalition that still exists when the series ends, four years before Brexit is invented.

7. Vera Peterson, Cheers

Almost everything we know about Norm’s wife comes from his (often insulting) descriptions of her. However, one of the things that made Cheers special was that it never devolved into outright hostility; When the time came, Norm explained that he and Vera were in love. Fun fact: Vera appeared on screen once, but her face was obscured by the pie that was thrown at her. Another fun fact: the few times we heard Vera’s voice, she was voiced by Bernadette Birkett, George Wendt’s real-life wife.

6. Carol, I’m Alan Partridge

By contrast, there was no love lost between Alan Partridge and his ex-wife, a woman he met in a Norfolk café in the 1970s and who eventually left him to work as a fitness trainer. However, she remains on his mind, especially in I, Alan Partridge, where he drunkenly calls her to mock the slow acceleration of her new lover’s Renault Megane.

5. Bob Sacamano, Seinfeld

Kramer’s invisible neighbor who talks about him endlessly. He made his fortune by coming up with the idea of ​​attaching balls to tennis rackets with rubber bands, but now works in a condom factory. His synapses are so large that he is immune to electroshock therapy. He has an unusually loud voice after a failed hernia operation. He has rabies. You get the picture.

4. Sheridan Puckett, Keeping Up Appearances

The love of Hyacinth’s life, her son Sheridan is the only member of the Bucket family who lives up to her lofty social ideals. He went to university (“Polly”), although it turned out that he had dropped out of mathematics to study advanced textile design and embroidery. He has good taste, goes on extravagant vacations and wears silk pajamas. He lives with his best friend Tarquin. He is the apple of Sfeir’s eye, even though he only calls her when he needs money.

3. Mrs. Columbo, Columbo

For most of her time, Mrs. Columbo lives only by his descriptions of her (“She has a proverb in every situation”; “Well, my wife, she says I’m second-ranked, but she claims there are eighty men connected to first-ranked”; “She’s angry with everyone”), which makes her as lovable as her husband. However, it can only make this list if we promise to ignore Mrs. Columbo, the short-lived NBC series in which Kate Mulgrew played the character as an intrepid crime-fighting news reporter from 1979 to 1980. We might as well do that.

2. Sue McCullough, This Country

This country’s greatest personality has been heard – loudly – but never seen. Voiced by Daisy Mae Cooper, Sue only makes herself known through the angry nonsense she shouts at her daughter from her upstairs bedroom. “You know what a random act of kindness is? You wipe your ass properly so I don’t have to scoop the crap out of your underwear every time I do a bloody wash!” She screamed at her daughter in one episode.

1. Maris Crane, Fraser

The absolute gold standard for unseen TV characters, Maris is described so accurately (often by her hapless husband, Niles) that you often feel like you know her. She is supposed to be 4 feet 10 inches tall, has an aversion to food, and lacks any pigmentation in her skin. She comes from a wealthy family, but she is weak and gets tired easily. She has many allergies and cannot produce her own saliva. The last anyone heard from her, she was hiding out on a private island after killing her boyfriend in self-defense. What a woman.