The 1990's were filled with great sitcoms and behind every great sitcom leading character, was a supporting character that was just as entertaining. Here's a list of the Top Ten 1990's Sitcom Sidekicks that we'd love to see bring their characters back to life for a brand new TV series of their own:
10. Carlton Banks (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)Sure, Will Smith has gone on to be one of the world’s biggest movie stars but can’t we at least get Alfonso Ribiero a new sitcom? We could see the series featuring Carlton Banks as a rich investment banker who loses it all thanks to the recent economic downturn and is forced to move from Bel Air to Compton where he takes a job at a McDonalds and tries to get back on his feet.
9. Darlene Connor (Roseanne)If Showtime is looking for a companion piece to The L Word, how about building a sitcom around Roseanne’s most offbeat character. It wouldn’t shock any of us to see that Darlene had grown up to be a hipster lesbian writing comic books in Grenwich Village.
8. Lowell Mather (Wings)Sure, it might be tough to get Thomas Haden Church to give up his movie career, but it would be totally worth it to see him bring Lowell back to life. This time around, Lowell’s probably still fixing planes but doing so for a large corporate airline and he may or may not have been involved in that recent Denver runway accident.
7. Max Louis (News Radio)We’re not sure that Jon Lovitz character in NewsRadio was that amazing, but we just want to see more of Lovitz on TV and this seems as good a way as any to make that happen. Plus, we can’t bring Phil Hartman back from the dead so we’ll have to settle for this.
6. Bud Bundy (Married With Children)Let’s be honest – Bud Bundy was destined for a life of misery just like his father’s. And that’s exactly why we’d like to see a new show built around him because we miss the greatness that was Married With Children. Plus, we’re pretty sure David Faustino can be had cheap these days so it won’t cost much to make.
5. Roz Doyle (Frasier)If you were ever going to put a Cougar sitcom on the air, we’re pretty sure that Roz Doyle would be the perfect character to build it around.
4. Comic Book Guy (The Simpsons)There’s probably 20 minor characters in The Simpsons that we’d like to see get their own show, but we’ll take the Comic Book Guy as our first choice. This seems like a no-brainer for the G4 network, which could build a show around Comic Book Guy and the nerds who regularly visit his shop.
3. Dwayne Wayne (A Different World)As if just seeing the return of his trademark glasses isn’t enough reason to put Kadeem Hardison back on TV, we can picture our favorite character from A Different World in a new sitcom where he tries to raise a family on his own after his wife leaves him for a “cooler” guy.
2. Winnie Cooper (The Wonder Years)Winnie may have been the “good girl” that Kevin Arnold was always after in the 1960’s-set Wonder Years, but we’d love to see what happened a decade later when life (and Winnie) got a little less innocent. We picture a 1970s-set sitcom revolving around Winnie Cooper and her new swinging lifestyle.
1. Kramer (Seinfeld)We know that Michael Richards was given a shot at carrying his own series and it tanked and his career was killed by his N-word filled standup act, but who wouldn’t want to see him bring Seinfeld’s best character back to life in a series about Kramer living in Harlem?
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