guess who's coming to dinner...
Feb. 16th, 2007 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonBlatantly stealing (and then modifying) this Question of the Day from Shakespeare's Sister, just because the comments were amusing:
What 5 television characters (not the actors, but the characters) would you want to have over for a dinner?
Bonus: What would you serve?
See, I think this is actually a trick question, because lots of the tv characters that amuse me on screen are not the sorts of people I want in my house. Think about it - would you want Dave Lister chewing his toenails at your table? doG forbid, I don't even wanna think about what Bernard Black would do. Even the reasonably sober and otherwise affable Malcolm Reynolds is known to get in fights at parties.
The latter is going to be a problem with almost any character from the shows I happen to watch because most of them are action oriented: can I institute a "no weapons at the table" rule (including sonic screwdrivers)?
In the interest of throwing a party where the guests might actually have something to talk about, the 5 I'd invite are: Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes ("Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", Granada TV) and House ("House M.D.") could get on each other's nerves while solving medical forensic cases, while Veronica Mars ("Veronica Mars") and Chloe Sullivan ("Smallville"), if they could snark the guys into acting nice, could team up with them to bring down more bad guys than Luthorcorp, the Neptune police department, and Moriarty combined.
They would of course be served their tea and cakes by Stephen Fry's Jeeves ("Jeeves and Wooster"), who, while he only appears to be a butler, is really in charge of the whole party, making suggestions and disapproving "Very good, sir/ma'am"s whenever the conversation gets particuarly heated.
Your turn. I'll allow book characters as well 'cos y'all are such a literate lot.
What 5 television characters (not the actors, but the characters) would you want to have over for a dinner?
Bonus: What would you serve?
See, I think this is actually a trick question, because lots of the tv characters that amuse me on screen are not the sorts of people I want in my house. Think about it - would you want Dave Lister chewing his toenails at your table? doG forbid, I don't even wanna think about what Bernard Black would do. Even the reasonably sober and otherwise affable Malcolm Reynolds is known to get in fights at parties.
The latter is going to be a problem with almost any character from the shows I happen to watch because most of them are action oriented: can I institute a "no weapons at the table" rule (including sonic screwdrivers)?
In the interest of throwing a party where the guests might actually have something to talk about, the 5 I'd invite are: Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes ("Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", Granada TV) and House ("House M.D.") could get on each other's nerves while solving medical forensic cases, while Veronica Mars ("Veronica Mars") and Chloe Sullivan ("Smallville"), if they could snark the guys into acting nice, could team up with them to bring down more bad guys than Luthorcorp, the Neptune police department, and Moriarty combined.
They would of course be served their tea and cakes by Stephen Fry's Jeeves ("Jeeves and Wooster"), who, while he only appears to be a butler, is really in charge of the whole party, making suggestions and disapproving "Very good, sir/ma'am"s whenever the conversation gets particuarly heated.
Your turn. I'll allow book characters as well 'cos y'all are such a literate lot.
