Avatar contest for the week of November 9th [Archive]

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 08:11 AM

So after very little deliberation on the matter this weeks avatar contest will be based on the extremely dodgy theme of:

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FROM FILM AND TELEVISION WHO WHINE TOO MUCH.

The only thing is that I need someone to make this into a smaller avatar for me so that I can compete. :o

http://www.jaimebees.com/jd_corners_ani_icon_crh_100x100.gif

Thanks.

:D

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 08:15 AM

Dibs on Norman Bates

SteelTownr

11-09-2005, 08:18 AM

Dibs on Jesus.

Mark B.

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 08:19 AM

Dibs on Jesus.

Mark B.

Not this again, it wasn't funny last week either.

Dreadstar

11-09-2005, 08:20 AM

Oh god, this is a no-brainer.

The whine who would be Vader.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 08:20 AM

Crap!! I meant fictional characters. So maybe Jesus counts? I don't know. Now I gotta fix the first post. Sorry.

Joe Rice

11-09-2005, 08:20 AM

Not this again, it wasn't funny last week either.

As a church-going Christian, I actually have to say, "Yeah, it was. And is."

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 08:22 AM

As a church-going Christian, I actually have to say, "Yeah, it was. And is."

Meh, not really.

SteelTownr

11-09-2005, 08:23 AM

I wasn't serious about it, me and Jesus are cool.

Mark B.

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 08:24 AM

Crap!! I meant fictional characters. So maybe Jesus counts? I don't know. Now I gotta fix the first post. Sorry.

Arrrrrrgghhh, there goes my second choice of Terrell Owens.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 08:26 AM

Arrrrrrgghhh, there goes my second choice of Terrell Owens.

Sorry. I suck for that.

Winslow

11-09-2005, 08:29 AM

George Constanza

a few quotes:

"I am so psychosomatic it makes me sick just thinking about it!"

"Pity's very underrated. I like pity. It's good."

"I always get the feeling that when lesbians look at me, they're thinking, '*That's* why I'm not a heterosexual.'"

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no reponsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating... then you finish of as an organism !!!
Amen"

"If you can't say something bad about a relationship you shouldn't say anything at all."

"I think she finds my stupidity charming."

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 08:30 AM

George Constanza

Nice one Winslow. I'm kinda pissed that I didn't bags this one for myself.

JerrBear81

11-09-2005, 08:32 AM

Fear Emo Ikari!!

JerrBear81

11-09-2005, 08:35 AM

Oh god, this is a no-brainer.

The whine who would be Vader.

Hehe I had that idea when I first read the post until I got to your contest entry post. Too bad we can't just count Episode 2 and 3 Anakin as separate.

K'Nort

11-09-2005, 08:44 AM

Not this again, it wasn't funny last week either.

But that's why he said it this time. And it made me spit coffee.

StoneGold

11-09-2005, 08:44 AM

Does iWarrior count as a fictional character? Because he got the whining to much thing down in spades.

Spackling Compound

11-09-2005, 08:46 AM

Does iWarrior count as a fictional character? Because he got the whining to much thing down in spades.
Mythic character, perhaps.

Winslow

11-09-2005, 08:47 AM

Does iWarrior count as a fictional character? Because he got the whining to much thing down in spades.

*hysterical giggling*

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 08:47 AM

But that's why he said it this time. And it made me spit coffee.

Humor is subjective, and I wish I could find the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon that fits best here.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 08:47 AM

Does iWarrior count as a fictional character? Because he got the whining to much thing down in spades.

Yeah. He whined so much I'm surprised he wasn't an extra on Dawson's Creek.

I guess he's now a fictional character in the CBR-verse. I'll take votes from the entrants so far on whether or not the Iwarrior avatar counts.

So what do you say?

Dreadstar

11-09-2005, 08:51 AM

Dreadstar wept.

borateen

11-09-2005, 08:51 AM

Looks like I'm starting a little theme for myself. Let's see how many contests I can use a Buffy-related avatar for.

This week's entry is William the Bloody, or Spike to his friend.

"Oh, boo hoo, I'm an awful, love-sick poet."
"Oh, boo hoo, I'm a vampire."
"Oh, boo hoo, my vampire mother doesn't love me anymore."
"Oh, boo hoo, my girlfriend is a mental case."
"Oh, boo hoo, I can't walk."
"Oh, boo hoo, my girlfriend's sire is trying steal her away from me."
"Oh, boo hoo, I've been captured by some covert military group and was implanted with a chip, so now I can't hurt anybody."
"Oh, boo hoo, the person I most want to kill doesn't love me."
"Oh, boo hoo, I'm dead."
"Oh, boo hoo, I'm a ghost."
"Oh, boo hoo, my show's cancelled."
"Oh, boo hoo, I'm some sort of liquid-metal alien robot thingy...whoops, wrong show."

Winslow

11-09-2005, 08:55 AM

Dreadstar wept.

Now THAT was funny.

JerrBear81

11-09-2005, 08:55 AM

Dreadstar wept.

You should do animated gif tears rolling down Anakin's cheek :D

K'Nort

11-09-2005, 08:58 AM

I don't know who did the Tim Burton version and I don't care, but as a kid, I was so happy to see this chick bite it.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/willywonka/img/gallery/wonkpic8.jpg

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 09:02 AM

Forget the dibs on Norman Bates, I can't find a picture of him that I like well enough.

GremlinClr

11-09-2005, 09:04 AM

Well I used him in the Bastard contest...and got no love.

Luckily for me Dr. Smith from Lost in Space was a whiney bastard!

Lone Ranger

11-09-2005, 09:14 AM

I'm in.

Only Miles from Sideways can nasally whine about the nose of a wine.

http://www.justinalt.com/hello/1846161/320/paul-2005.06.15-13.19.00.jpg

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 09:18 AM

I'm in.

Only Miles from Sideways can nasally whine about the nose of a wine.

http://www.justinalt.com/hello/1846161/320/paul-2005.06.15-13.19.00.jpg

He is NOT drinking any FNing Merlot.

PatrickG

11-09-2005, 09:31 AM

Well I used him in the Bastard contest...and got no love.

Luckily for me Dr. Smith from Lost in Space was a whiney bastard!

You might have won my vote.

Now... The question is... Buffy herself or Rodimus Prime or Hamlet?

Oh. Geez.

I just realized that the avatars this week will wind up being literally all my favorite characters.

If they don't whine, I don't like 'em.

Eh.... Hamlet doesn't have a visual consistancy for an avatar.

Rodimus or Buffy. Rodimus or Buffy.

Okay.

Buffy.

Dibs on Buffy.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr

11-09-2005, 09:34 AM

George Constanza

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no reponsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating... then you finish of as an organism !!!
Amen"

That is genius.

PatrickG

11-09-2005, 09:37 AM

Okay. Un-dibs on Buffy. Dibs on Brainiac 5.

I like keeping the comic book theme going.

HomerJay

11-09-2005, 09:44 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/terminus-clerks.jpg

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

borateen

11-09-2005, 10:10 AM

You might have won my vote.

Now... The question is... Buffy herself or Rodimus Prime or Hamlet?

Oh. Geez.

I just realized that the avatars this week will wind up being literally all my favorite characters.

If they don't whine, I don't like 'em.

Eh.... Hamlet doesn't have a visual consistancy for an avatar.

Rodimus or Buffy. Rodimus or Buffy.

Okay.

Buffy.

Dibs on Buffy.

Now we must battle...or have crazy, painful sex that causes an old house to collapse...OR BOTH!

borateen

11-09-2005, 10:11 AM

Okay. Un-dibs on Buffy. Dibs on Brainiac 5.

I like keeping the comic book theme going.

Scared? Sure you are.

Flawless P

11-09-2005, 10:16 AM

I am in.

I am keeping my current avatar since it works.

Mike Smash!

11-09-2005, 11:06 AM

So whiny that a drinking game has been based around his whininess!

Luke Skywalker!

http://www.liderdigital.com/imagenes/noticias/foto1/leia_y_luke_skywalker.jpg

"You said I could go to Hitachi station to pick up some power converters!"

"That's a whole 'nother year!!"

"We could almost buy our own ship with that!"

(could someone crop me that whiny Luke pick?)

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 11:11 AM

Since I've "undibbed" on Norman Bates, dibs on Dr. Niles Crane

Mike Smash!

11-09-2005, 11:12 AM

I don't know who did the Tim Burton version and I don't care, but as a kid, I was so happy to see this chick bite it.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/willywonka/img/gallery/wonkpic8.jpgYou so have my vote already.

StoneGold

11-09-2005, 11:16 AM

Wait, we're talking about whining, and not mentioning the man who completly reinvented it for the 1960s? A man who could whine about his troubles while banging his 18-year-old adopted daughter?

http://www.movies-posters.co.uk/acatalog/woody_allen_photos.jpg

Look at him! He's whining in the picture!!!

So as soon as I get a chance to turn this into an avatar, I'm picking the nervous whiny little stereotypical Jewish guy that Woody Allen always seems to cast in his movies.

Beatnikman

11-09-2005, 11:21 AM

Great choice, Mike!

Here you go ...

Dennis K

11-09-2005, 11:23 AM

None of the politicos going to go with?

http://tennessean.com/education/ssiboxes/05/WEB_0322-B-COULTER.jpg

or

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/18/farley.obit.3/franken.large.jpg

(and yeah, I consider both of them to be "cartoonish")

Michael P

11-09-2005, 11:34 AM

Can I get a judgment from the thread starter on video game characters? Because this thread is just begging for Squall Leonhart.

Spackling Compound

11-09-2005, 12:04 PM

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 01:25 PM

Okay. Un-dibs on Buffy. Dibs on Brainiac 5.

I like keeping the comic book theme going.

Has to be a fictional character from T.V or film though. Is Brainiac 5 on T.V?

I'm not trying to be a killjoy or anything I'm just not sure if he has been yet.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 01:27 PM

Can I get a judgment from the thread starter on video game characters? Because this thread is just begging for Squall Leonhart.

As long as they've been on T.V or in a movie then you're golden Pullmann.

StoneGold

11-09-2005, 01:28 PM

As long as they've been on T.V or in a movie then you're golden Pullmann.
Damn, we need to make that into an award somehow, the Golden Pullman.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 01:28 PM

Damn, we need to make that into an award somehow, the Golden Pullman.

Yeah. That's an awesome idea.

Michael P

11-09-2005, 01:36 PM

As long as they've been on T.V or in a movie then you're golden Pullmann.
Eh, unless the TV commercials for FF VIII count, I'll have to go with something else.

StoneGold

11-09-2005, 01:38 PM

Eh, unless the TV commercials for FF VIII count, I'll have to go with something else.
More to the point, he didn't really whine in the commercials.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 01:41 PM

Eh, unless the TV commercials for FF VIII count, I'll have to go with something else.

I guess it could technically count. I mean it was on the T.V.

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 01:41 PM

More to the point, he didn't really whine in the commercials.

Stonegold does bring up a solid point Pullmann. Sorry.

Beatnikman

11-09-2005, 02:00 PM

Whine and complain. That's almost all we ever heard Jonathan Quail Higgins do.

Man this guy annoyed me when I watched this show as a kid.

http://www.fraenkischer-tag.de/image/teleschau/200517/5/200517_149431_3_006.jpg

Grant

11-09-2005, 02:00 PM

Not this again, it wasn't funny last week either.

Dibs on Dennis K.

JerrBear81

11-09-2005, 02:36 PM

Dr. Hfuhruhurr

11-09-2005, 02:37 PM

Spaulding from Caddyshack.

"I'm not going to play golf today, Grandpa, I'm going to play tennis."

"You're playing golf!"

"What about my asthma?"

"I'll give you asthma!"

http://www.dcasali.com/images/filmntv/caddyshack_poolturd.jpg

SteelTownr

11-09-2005, 03:05 PM

I'm in with Doug and Wendy Whiner.

Dennis, you can have Jesus if you want.

Mark B.

Beatnikman

11-09-2005, 03:07 PM

Very nice work, Mark.

But it's also serves as a reminder that ... you are old.

Slam_Bradley

11-09-2005, 03:08 PM

I'm in with Doug and Wendy Whiner.

Dennis, you can have Jesus if you want.

Mark B.

I spent forever looking for pics of them and then ended up going to court before I made an avatar.

You're an evil man, Townr.

SteelTownr

11-09-2005, 03:10 PM

Very nice work, Mark.

But it's also serves as a reminder that ... you are old.

I do my best.

:)

Mark B.

Special K

11-09-2005, 03:36 PM

Dibs on Smallville's Lana Lang!!

Grant

11-09-2005, 03:40 PM

I'm want to go back to Charlie Brown. He's always bitching about how much his life sucks and how that little red headed girl won't give him the time of day.

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/images/meet_charlie_brown_big.gif

Anyone want to help a brother out with an Avatar.

phoenixrising

11-09-2005, 03:48 PM

Meg Griffin is so whiny, her family can't even love her

Arrjay

11-09-2005, 03:52 PM

Dibs on Smallville's Lana Lang!!

Nice one!! :cool:

Beatnikman

11-09-2005, 04:04 PM

I'm want to go back to Charlie Brown.
... and all is right with the world.

JerrBear81

11-09-2005, 04:16 PM

I'll give a freebie out to people:

Brad & Janet from Rocky Horror were quite the whiners :D

http://members.fortunecity.com/burzghash/rhps/media/timewarp003.jpg

Slam_Bradley

11-09-2005, 04:17 PM

If she isn't whining about animal rights or Laramie cigarettes, she's trying to destroy Malibu Stacy. The whiniest person in Springfield...Lisa Simpson.

Greg Hatcher

11-09-2005, 05:35 PM

Before there was Dawson's Creek or Ally McBeal or Once and Again, there was this, the whiniest ensemble created for television.

They look uncharacteristically up in this shot, to be honest.

http://epguides.com/thirtysomething/cast.jpg

Grant

11-09-2005, 06:00 PM

... and all is right with the world.

Thanks a whole bunch.

Sanagi

11-09-2005, 06:15 PM

"You said I could go to Hitachi station to pick up some power converters!"
It's "Tachi station." Hitachi makes TVs.

Can I get a judgment from the thread starter on video game characters? Because this thread is just begging for Squall Leonhart.
Almost as much as Fei from Xenogears.

dougputhoff

11-09-2005, 06:27 PM

I'm in.

Only Miles from Sideways can nasally whine about the nose of a wine.

http://www.justinalt.com/hello/1846161/320/paul-2005.06.15-13.19.00.jpg

Not to mention Paul Giamatti, the actor who played him, also played real-life uberwhiner Harvey Pekar in the American Splendor movie.

dougputhoff

11-09-2005, 06:41 PM

Since Harvey Pekar is not available, I'm going with Major Charles Emerson Winchester III of M*A*S*H., since I've always wante to use David Ogden Stiers as an av.

Shrink Please?

http://davidogdenstiers.com/cewiii/cew3pic.gif

Lex

11-09-2005, 07:03 PM

I'm going with Fry from Futurama.

He's always whining about something. He doesn't want to go on a delivery. His one-eyed, mutant co-worker won't go out with him. His brother stole his lucky clover 1000 years ago. Dr. Zoidberg cut off his arm. Santa Claus tried to kill him a few times. An alien warlord tried to cut off his "lower horn."

Geez, what a whiner.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/haggard/fry.jpg

"People said I was dumb, but I proved them."

"My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope?"

"Why am I all sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?"

Callie

11-09-2005, 07:28 PM

I'll go with some old school whining.

dougputhoff

11-09-2005, 08:37 PM

I'll go with some old school whining.

Your av needs a peeseekeyuhtrist.

Grant

11-09-2005, 08:37 PM

Beatnikman

11-09-2005, 08:59 PM

Since Harvey Pekar is not available, I'm going with Major Charles Emerson Winchester III of M*A*S*H., since I've always wante to use David Ogden Stiers as an av.

Shrink Please?
Do these look okay? Sometimes my eyes get a little screwy and I can't tell.

If they're funky, I'll try again.

Edit: Okay, so the one that I tried to give it a red hue has some kind of technical problem, so you're just getting the one option. Sorry.

Paradox

11-09-2005, 11:27 PM

Dreadstar goes undercover:

Oh god, this is a no-brainer.

The whine who would be Vader.

Bastard. Just as Stonegold stops making me startled every time with his avatar, I have to spend a week telling myself "That's Dread, not DonC". :)

dougputhoff

11-09-2005, 11:32 PM

Do these look okay? Sometimes my eyes get a little screwy and I can't tell.

If they're funky, I'll try again.

Edit: Okay, so the one that I tried to give it a red hue has some kind of technical problem, so you're just getting the one option. Sorry.

Works for me, thanks.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the biggest whiner of the Korean War:

Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III.

(and hopefully last)

boolean

11-10-2005, 12:46 AM

Are there any bigger whiners than comic-book/sci-fi fans?

Paradox

11-10-2005, 12:49 AM

She may be hot (especially that bod), but that voice could peel the paint from walls.

That's how she became...

THE NANNY!

AKA Fran Fine AKA Fran Drescher.

One of her books is even called Enter Whining.

Dennis K

11-10-2005, 04:41 AM

Well, the Dr. Niles Crane thing didn't work out, so I'm in with the other Lucy, Lucy Van Pelt.

Spackling Compound

11-10-2005, 05:56 AM

I'm going with Jan Brady. Even before she was satirized in the '90's, I was annoyed.
http://www.gzimman.com/actpics/ep1/epgz024b.jpg

K'Nort

11-10-2005, 08:24 AM

Before there was Dawson's Creek or Ally McBeal or Once and Again, there was this, the whiniest ensemble created for television.

First, I see the wife, and she's whining, 'What about my needs?' Then they cut to the husband, and he's whining, 'What about my needs?' And I'm sitting here saying, 'What about my needs? I want to be entertained. Can't you blow up a car or something?
..........
No idea why that has stayed in my head for 20-odd years.

HomerJay

11-10-2005, 08:34 AM

She may be hot (especially that bod), but that voice could peel the paint from walls.

Even now, when I see her I think, "Dang, she's pretty hot". Then she opens her mouth. She STILL looks dynamite and she's gotta be pushing 50.

Michael P

11-10-2005, 08:36 AM

Sentry

11-10-2005, 09:08 AM

im going for ray....

he even has that cute wife and whines all the time.

but surely its the voice that has it!

Arrjay

11-10-2005, 10:21 AM

As much of a tool Link was in the Zelda cartoon, the Princess was just as bad. Frigid emasculating bitch would not get off his case. If I'd lived in Hyrule, I would have worked for Ganon out of pure spite.

Nice one Pullmann. I'm impressed that despite not being able to go with your first choice you still managed to keep it in the video game realm. Good stuff.

Night

11-10-2005, 10:51 AM

In Honor of Anne Rice's swich to write for Christians... I give you Louis from Interview with the Vampire.

Oh no... I'm rich.
Oh no... I'm immortal.
Oh no... everyone seems to love me.

I must be cursed

Bouncing Boy

11-10-2005, 10:53 AM

Has to be a fictional character from T.V or film though. Is Brainiac 5 on T.V?

I'm not trying to be a killjoy or anything I'm just not sure if he has been yet.

Well Brainiac 5 did make a cameo appearance on Superman the Animated Series as seen here

http://heroicimages.net/toons/Resources/Images/Superman_STAS/stas_legion.jpg

Dreadstar

11-10-2005, 10:58 AM

Well Brainiac 5 did make a cameo appearance on Superman the Animated Series as seen here

http://heroicimages.net/toons/Resources/Images/Superman_STAS/stas_legion.jpg

[ fanboy whine ]Bu-- bu---but he's not GREEN! [ /fanboy ]

Arrjay

11-10-2005, 11:14 AM

Well Brainiac 5 did make a cameo appearance on Superman the Animated Series

Well, in that case he counts. As long as you use the version of him from the cartoon. I think that's fair enough.

Bouncing Boy

11-10-2005, 11:22 AM

I give you Don Music from Seseme Street. You may remember him, he was the guy who would always try to play songs and then whine about how the songs weren't quite right and then he'd bang his head on the piano. One of my favorites was when he was trying to play Yankie Doodle..(mind you this is from memory so it may not be completely accurate)

Don Music: HOW CAN HE PUT A FEATHER IN HIS CAP AND CALL IT MACARONI???

Kermit: What if he put fat speghetti in his hat? Macaroni is kinda like fat speghetti.

Don Music: BUT WHY WOULD HE PUT MACARONI IN HIS HAT???

Kermit: Um, he didn't, he put it in a pot, because you can cook macaroni in a pot.

Don Music: BUT HOW CAN HE COOK AND RIDE A PONY AT THE SAME TIME????

Bouncing Boy

11-10-2005, 11:24 AM

[ fanboy whine ]Bu-- bu---but he's not GREEN! [ /fanboy ]

Well to be fair, he was the same color as the villian Brainiac from the Animated Series.

HomerJay

11-10-2005, 11:30 AM

I give you Don Music from Seseme Street. You may remember him, he was the guy who would always try to play songs and then whine about how the songs weren't quite right and then he'd bang his head on the piano.
Dude, you already have my vote.
This is one of those rare times where you remember about something which you forgot you even knew. It's like suddenly stumbling across a file buried deep in your brain's hard drive that you forgot was even there.

Callie

11-10-2005, 11:42 AM

It's just an awesome avatar overall. :) How can you not appreciate muppets?

Arrjay

11-10-2005, 11:43 AM

It's just an awesome avatar overall. :) How can you not appreciate muppets?

Damn straight!!

Celisasu

11-10-2005, 01:37 PM

Serena from Sailor Moon spends way too much time whining, often over some impressively stupid things or even in the middle of a battle. So she'll be my choice of a whiner for this week.

Spackling Compound

11-10-2005, 03:39 PM

Serena from Sailor Moon spends way too much time whining, often over some impressively stupid things or even in the middle of a battle. So she'll be my choice of a whiner for this week.
http://titanstower.com/assets/animated/episodes/howlong/howlong45.jpg
I was thinking of Starfire from Teen Titans but yours is more the original whiner anime girl.

Celisasu

11-10-2005, 04:21 PM

http://titanstower.com/assets/animated/episodes/howlong/howlong45.jpg
I was thinking of Starfire from Teen Titans but yours is more the original whiner anime girl.

*Whines about being the original whiner anime girl*

Paradox

11-11-2005, 07:47 AM

HomerJay appreciates the curves:

Even now, when I see her I think, "Dang, she's pretty hot". Then she opens her mouth. She STILL looks dynamite and she's gotta be pushing 50.

48 according to IMDB. Still smokin' according to you and me.

I almost went with Janice/Maggie Wheeler from "Friends" ("OH...MY...GOD!) but I figured Fran was more the "original" of that model.

And hotter.

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 07:50 AM

48 according to IMDB. Still smokin' according to you and me.

I almost went with Janice/Maggie Wheeler from "Friends" ("OH...MY...GOD!) but I figured Fran was more the "original" of that model.

And hotter.
A great beauty..and oddly enough, the show was pretty freakin' funny too. It was a mainstream comedy but had these "hip" guests which made it all the more an enigma (Ray Charles? Spaulding Gray?).

I remember sitting through an awful Robin Williams movie "Cadillac Man", just for her appearance.

I almost wept when I heard she is being cast in roles as "mother" to 20-somethings. But when the show came out, she was the mother of a dumpy, frumpy 20-something. I can live with that.

K'Nort

11-11-2005, 08:53 AM

I almost went with Janice/Maggie Wheeler from "Friends" ("OH...MY...GOD!) but I figured Fran was more the "original" of that model.

And she has the book title.

Dennis K

11-11-2005, 08:58 AM

And here I thought last week's competition was going to be tough to pick a winner. So many good choices this week.

Typo Lad

11-11-2005, 09:24 AM

A great beauty..and oddly enough, the show was pretty freakin' funny too.

For a Minstril Show I guess.

And I'm just whining because I was gonna pick her...

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 09:27 AM

For a Minstril Show I guess.

And I'm just whining because I was gonna pick her...

Minstril?
How was it a "minstrel" show?

Typo Lad

11-11-2005, 09:28 AM

Minstril?
How was it a "minstrel" show?

The portrayal of Jews was more offensive than "When You Wish upon a Weinstein"'s original verison could ever hope to be.

StoneGold

11-11-2005, 09:29 AM

Minstril?
How was it a "minstrel" show?
I'm assuming Morts is saying she's the Jewish version of Stepin Fechit. Playing into stereotypes.

Typo Lad

11-11-2005, 09:34 AM

Okay, I'm in. Wish I could do the comic version but...

"Oh no! I've got super-powers, am a genius, and have a redhead who wants to make sweet, sweet love with me... oh fate why are you so cruel!"

The 90's comics versionw as even better. He was a bestselling author with a supermodel wife by day and a POPULAR hero by night. I was like, what a whiny BASTARD.

Celisasu

11-11-2005, 10:02 AM

Arrjay

11-11-2005, 12:32 PM

Okay, I'm in. Wish I could do the comic version but...

"Oh no! I've got super-powers, am a genius, and have a redhead who wants to make sweet, sweet love with me... oh fate why are you so cruel!"

Nice One!

There are some seriously good picks this week folks. It'll be a tough vote.

So far, for my vote, I'm considering the following, in no particular order:

Typo Lad's Spiderman.

Winslow's Castanza.

Special K's Lana Lang.

Sentry's Ray Romano.

That chick from Peanuts that Dennis K chose.

And whoever it was that chose Brainiac 5.

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 12:41 PM

Nice One!

There are some seriously good picks this week folks. It'll be a tough vote.

So far, for my vote, I'm considering the following, in no particular order:

Typo Lad's Spiderman.

Winslow's Castanza.

Special K's Lana Lang.

Sentry's Ray Romano.

That chick from Peanuts that Dennis K chose.

And whoever it was that chose Brainiac 5.
Jarr Dog...;)

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 12:44 PM

The portrayal of Jews was more offensive than "When You Wish upon a Weinstein"'s original verison could ever hope to be.
Offensive?
I'd think that offensive stereotypes would perpetuate among Gentiles a greater sense of prejudice against Jews. I don't remember anyone thinking, "This show is perfect. Damn Jews are just like that" as opposed to what some of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" can pull from time to time.
If anything, concerning THE NANNY, I thought it was more a poke at Jersey.

JerrBear81

11-11-2005, 12:47 PM

Offensive?
I'd think that offensive stereotypes would perpetuate among Gentiles a greater sense of prejudice against Jews. I don't remember anyone thinking, "This show is perfect. Damn Jews are just like that" as opposed to what some of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" can pull from time to time.
If anything, concerning THE NANNY, I thought it was more a poke at Jersey.

You should go with movie afro-wig Jan. She rocked the casbah when it came to whinyness :D

Arrjay

11-11-2005, 12:49 PM

Jarr Dog...;)

C'mon. Now it's uncool to post who I'm thinking of voting for? Why? :confused:

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 12:51 PM

You should go with movie afro-wig Jan. She rocked the casbah when it came to whinyness :D
The movie Jan was a spoof and was sort of cute. She didn't have the perpetual look of disappointment and shame the Eve Plumb version did.
But there is a tv afro wig Jan...but she's too happy looking:
http://www.gzimman.com/actpics/ep1/epgz083b.jpg

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 12:52 PM

C'mon. Now it's uncool to post who I'm thinking of voting for? Why? :confused:
Just funnin' ya...but it is sort of J Doggyish.

K'Nort

11-11-2005, 12:52 PM

C'mon. Now it's uncOol to post who I'm thinking of voting for? Why? :confused:

He's just poking you. J-Dog would have 20-odd posts a day starting on the second day of the avatar contest of who to vote for. It was like Are we there yet? Are we there yet? So it's an association. Esp since no one really talked in advance about choices before that.

Dennis K

11-11-2005, 12:58 PM

He's just poking you. J-Dog would have 20-odd posts a day starting on the second day of the avatar contest of who to vote for. It was like Are we there yet? Are we there yet? So it's an association. Esp since no one really talked in advance about choices before that.

*raises hand*

I did, kind of anyway. I said there were a lot of good ones to choose from this week without actually naming names.

K'Nort

11-11-2005, 01:11 PM

*raises hand*

I did, kind of anyway. I said there were a lot of good ones to choose from this week without actually naming names.

I thought about that when I was typing. But that's really common. The "so many good choices" thing. It's just not the same as a discussion on specifics, apparently.

JerrBear81

11-11-2005, 01:13 PM

The movie Jan was a spoof and was sort of cute. She didn't have the perpetual look of disappointment and shame the Eve Plumb version did.
But there is a tv afro wig Jan...but she's too happy looking:
http://www.gzimman.com/actpics/ep1/epgz083b.jpg

You're right, it looks like she just did some pot there. We all know Jan was doing pot because she was so unhappy that Marcia was so popular...

At the Truck Stop. It's probably good Jan never found out why.

Spackling Compound

11-11-2005, 01:24 PM

I thought about that when I was typing. But that's really common. The "so many good choices" thing. It's just not the same as a discussion on specifics, apparently.
Don't know what happened to ol' J Dog anyway.

It was like this manic drive to vote for avatars and then ask when the contest was over and then say what avatar he was choosing but he'd never choose it or post it and then he'd withdraw and then vote again and then ask when it was time to vote...

Like a crack monkey...but with avatars.

Arrjay

11-11-2005, 01:25 PM

Like a crack monkey...but with avatars.

Best. Comparison. Ever.

HomerJay

11-14-2005, 07:02 PM

I've withdrawn from the contest and gone back to the cowbell because it's actually been nominated for a Corrie.

phoenixrising

11-14-2005, 10:56 PM

I've withdrawn from the contest and gone back to the cowbell because it's actually been nominated for a Corrie.

Braggart.

Quitters never win :)

dougputhoff

11-15-2005, 12:16 AM

Time to start voting.

I'm going with Lone Ranger and Miles, due to reason I've already revealed in this thread.

Celisasu

11-15-2005, 12:58 AM

Time to start voting.

I'm going with Lone Ranger and Miles, due to reason I've already revealed in this thread.

K'Nort gets my vote for having the vile whiney girl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Sentry

11-15-2005, 01:12 AM

my vote goes to winslow for George Constanza.

those quotes sold it for me.

Bouncing Boy

11-15-2005, 01:52 AM

I'm voting for K'Nort for her Veruca Salt avatar.

Paradox

11-15-2005, 03:25 AM

Also going with K'Nort and her Veruca Salt.

I WANT IT NOW!

Dennis K

11-15-2005, 04:30 AM

I'm a man of my word, and besides, he was in the pool. I'm going with Winslow and his George Costanza avatar.

Michael P

11-15-2005, 05:11 AM

I'm gonna vote for Paradox, because Fran Drescher gives me funny feelings. Until she talks.

Wesley Dodds

11-15-2005, 05:15 AM

I'm going to vote for Michael Pullmann! It's a bit out of left-field, but somehow Zelda dripping with disdain feels like a winner!

Lone Ranger

11-15-2005, 05:16 AM

My vote is for Bouncing Boy.

Winslow

11-15-2005, 05:18 AM

K'Nort

That character has to be the ultimate whiner.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr

11-15-2005, 05:18 AM

Winslow for George Costanza.

Sentry

11-15-2005, 05:23 AM

I've withdrawn from the contest and gone back to the cowbell because it's actually been nominated for a Corrie.

ha, thinking of bigger glories.

You may regret it. :)

Dizzy D

11-15-2005, 05:39 AM

Add another to Paradox. Fran Drescher=nails on a chalkboard to me.

GremlinClr

11-15-2005, 05:58 AM

I gotta go wtih K'Nort and Veruca Salt.

Dennis K

11-15-2005, 06:03 AM

Add another to Paradox. Fran Drescher=nails on a chalkboard to me.

If she'd only have kept the skirts short and her mouth shut.

Spackling Compound

11-15-2005, 06:20 AM

Paradox has mine for Fine and her whine...

Night

11-15-2005, 07:26 AM

Voting for K'Nort..

Considered voting for Michael Pullmann but anyone who has played "Occrina in Time" knows Zelda isn't the whiniest in the series... Navi is always popping up and messing with your consentration when you're trying to do something important... and to say the same thing over and over.... I know the mountain's on fire I'll get to it.

oh and navi chickens out right when you come up to fight Gannon (he doe's come back mid fight but only after the hard part's done)

Dreadstar

11-15-2005, 08:08 AM

Paradox.

.

SteelTownr

11-15-2005, 08:12 AM

I spent forever looking for pics of them and then ended up going to court before I made an avatar.

You're an evil man, Townr.

I just saw this post.

I found a site on google that had pictures of just about every SNL character that you could imagine.

I couldn't find a real good one of them together so I had to do some cutiing and pasting.

Don't be too mad at me, our minds work alike. A lot of times you beat me to the punch. I think that I have voted for your avatars more than anyone else.

That being said, I am voting for Winslow because George Costanza was my original thought.

Mark B.

Valmore

11-15-2005, 08:14 AM

Did anyone post a picture of Michael Jordan? Because as great as he was, he was a notorious foul whiner.

HomerJay

11-15-2005, 08:17 AM

ha, thinking of bigger glories.

You may regret it. :)
Because I won't win the weekly contest that I've never won anyway? Not bloody likely.

If I want someone to vote for me in The Corries they should at least see the avatar I'm nominated for.

Anyway, my vote goes to Dr. Hfuhruhurr's Spalding Smails.

Jeremy A. Patterson

11-15-2005, 08:26 AM

I am voting for the LUCY RICARDO avatar!

J.A.P.

JerrBear81

11-15-2005, 09:24 AM

Spackling Compound, Jan was teh whiner.

Arrjay

11-15-2005, 09:46 AM

I'm voting for Special K. Lana Lang is a whining pest that should be entirely eliminated from all forms of Superman continuity. Especially Smallville.

Dreadstar

11-15-2005, 10:02 AM

Did anyone post a picture of Michael Jordan? Because as great as he was, he was a notorious foul whiner.

If I was going pro-basketball, I would have gone with an av of Bill Laimbeer.

MacQuarrie

11-15-2005, 10:20 AM

Mike Smash.

I saw Star Wars for the first time in about 10 years a while back, and was shocked at just how much of a whiny little jerk Luke was.

wah wah wah!

Dennis K

11-15-2005, 10:32 AM

If I was going pro-basketball, I would have gone with an av of Bill Laimbeer.

Right team, wrong guy, Isiah Thomas has got him beat hands down.

K'Nort

11-15-2005, 10:37 AM

Mike Smash.

I saw Star Wars for the first time in about 10 years a while back, and was shocked at just how much of a whiny little jerk Luke was.

wah wah wah!

I saw Star Wars in the theatre when they did that big anniversary re-release about 8 years ago and when Luke started whining in his opening scene about not getting to go into town, the whole place cracked up. And there was a lot of "Since when was he such a whiny wuss????" muttering along with it.

Dreadstar

11-15-2005, 10:44 AM

Right team, wrong guy, Isiah Thomas has got him beat hands down.

Man, do I disagree with that statement. Bill Laimbeer cried to the refs so much, he played in Pampers.

StoneGold

11-15-2005, 10:45 AM

Man, do I disagree with that statement. Bill Laimbeer cried to the refs so much, he played in Pampers.
But then he'd beat the shit out of someone, so it all kind of evened out.

Dreadstar

11-15-2005, 10:49 AM

But then he'd beat the shit out of someone, so it all kind of evened out.

Oh, he could be intimidating when he wanted to. Between tantrums.

Dennis K

11-15-2005, 10:52 AM

But then he'd beat the shit out of someone, so it all kind of evened out.

I remember him getting pounded by Charles Barkley, so I'm not too sure how intimidating he actually was. There's a difference between intimidating and cheap shot artist.

Beatnikman

11-15-2005, 11:43 AM

SteelTownr's Doug and Wendy get my vote.

Great choice, nice av.

Valmore

11-15-2005, 12:49 PM

Man, do I disagree with that statement. Bill Laimbeer cried to the refs so much, he played in Pampers.

I'm not sure if Thomas had him beat hands down, but Thomas was a pretty bad foul whiner, too.

StoneGold

11-15-2005, 12:50 PM

I do know that Lambier beat Thomas down with his hands...

Paradox

11-15-2005, 08:40 PM

Oh, c'mon, guys...Bill was the KING!

**pummels opponents about the head and shoulders, blood flying, bodies dropping...looks at the ref blowing the whistle**

WHAT?

:p

Slam_Bradley

11-15-2005, 08:51 PM

Steeltwnr even though he stole my idea.

Dennis K

11-15-2005, 09:05 PM

Looks like K'Nort is going to be the winner with Veruca Salt.

Lex

11-15-2005, 10:01 PM

I vote for rabidfangirl's Lucy.

SteelTownr

11-16-2005, 12:30 AM

Steeltwnr even though he stole my idea.

If you were ever on TV, I'd change my avatar to you.

http://www.steelreign.org/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif

Mark B.

Paradox

11-16-2005, 01:27 AM

And the final tally is...

One vote: Bouncing Boy, Dr. Hfuhruhurr, Lone Ranger, Michael Pullman, Mike Smash!, Spackling Compound, and Special K.

Two votes: rabidfangirl, and Steeltownr.

Tied for second with four votes: Paradox and Winslow.

And taking it all for her charming and patient Veruca Salt, with six votes...

K'NORT!

Feed our hunger for a new contest...

Wesley Dodds

11-16-2005, 01:41 AM

Michael Pullmann was robbed! Robbed, I say! You're all nothing but latter-day John Kerrs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr)! Junkers! Curs!

Sentry

11-16-2005, 04:41 AM

well done k,nort,

she was as spoit brat and got what was coming to her.

Winslow

11-16-2005, 06:04 AM

Tied for second with four votes: Paradox and Winslow.

[whiney Constanza voice]

See! Why do I bother! I have loser written all over my face! I never had a chance! People never give me the benefit of the doubt . . .

[/whiney Constanza voice]

K'Nort

11-16-2005, 07:55 AM

Eek!

I mean, thanks!!!

But I really wasn't expecting it this time so I'll have to go think.....

Dreadstar

11-16-2005, 08:07 AM

But I really wasn't expecting it this time so I'll have to go think.....

NOBODY expects the Spa---

Oh, right, nevermind. Carry on, then.

founder81

11-16-2005, 08:26 AM

I am honestly shocked no one mentined Frodo Baggins.

K'nort has my vote.

And when we first seen star wars and Aunt Beru said "he has too much of his farther in him" little did we know his farther was a whiney bastard at that age.

Sentry

11-16-2005, 08:31 AM

I am honestly shocked no one mentined Frodo Baggins.

yeah, when i watched two towers the other night i thought of this thread, althrough i think frodo would be a great choice for a 'narnian' avatar, someone who is so far in the closet even he does not know.