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Joss Whedon, one of those tv producers who doesn't hate his own fans, recently posted his 25 favorite tv characters on a thread at Whedonesque -- a characteristically quirky combo of long-forgotten bit players (that girl who replaced Linda Hamilton on Beauty & the Beast for a month before it was cancelled), old-school classics (dude from The Prisoner), and big-name fan darlings (Josh Lyman, Logan Echolls).
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However, I'm not a Whedonesque member, so I couldn't call him out on this:
4) Belzer from Hill Street Blues. Guy could not partner with anyone who didn't die. The actor, the wannabe hero, the 'tard, the nice lady -- they were all meat for the Belzergrinder.
By which I believe he meant *Belker* from Hill Street Blues. (Not to be confused with a certain wiseass cop played by a man named Belzer on Homicide:LOTS, who also had a tendency to bid his partners farewell. Although some of them just moved to France, or Missing Persons.)
Hey, it's a nitpick. But for one shining moment in my life, this is me, schooling Joss Whedon on the subject of television.
It's allllll downhill from this moment, y'all.
(Also, dig my icon, which was made by the friendly and talented![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beautiful_rain_ and inspired by my very own "Daughters of Jerusalem." Yes, it's Inara's line in the story, and yes, she knew that and also made an Inara icon with the same quote, but I like River, and I picked this one instead.)
[Be a meme sheep! 25 best characters you ever watched on tv -- go!]
However, I'm not a Whedonesque member, so I couldn't call him out on this:
4) Belzer from Hill Street Blues. Guy could not partner with anyone who didn't die. The actor, the wannabe hero, the 'tard, the nice lady -- they were all meat for the Belzergrinder.
By which I believe he meant *Belker* from Hill Street Blues. (Not to be confused with a certain wiseass cop played by a man named Belzer on Homicide:LOTS, who also had a tendency to bid his partners farewell. Although some of them just moved to France, or Missing Persons.)
Hey, it's a nitpick. But for one shining moment in my life, this is me, schooling Joss Whedon on the subject of television.
It's allllll downhill from this moment, y'all.
(Also, dig my icon, which was made by the friendly and talented
beautiful_rain_ and inspired by my very own "Daughters of Jerusalem." Yes, it's Inara's line in the story, and yes, she knew that and also made an Inara icon with the same quote, but I like River, and I picked this one instead.)
