TV Guide Magazine's Top 60 Child/Teen TV stars

[savage29]

TV Guide has been doing top 60 lists as part of its 60th Anniversary(top 60 game shows, top 60 soap opera moments, sci-fi shows, etc.), here's the latest list they did of the top 60 child/teenage TV characters:

Top 10
1) Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years
2) Alex P. Keaton, Family Ties
3) Angela Chase, My So-Called Life
4) Bart Simpson, The Simpsons
5) Buffy Summers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
6) Arnold Jackson, Diff'rent Strokes
7) Darlene Conner, Roseanne
8) Eric Cartman, South Park
9) Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, Leave It To Beaver
10) Sam Weir, Freaks And Geeks

The rest in alphabetical order:
Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
Kathy Anderson, Father Knows Best
Vinnie Barbarino, Welcome Back, Kotter
George Michael Bluth, Arrested Development
Marcia Brady, The Brady Bunch
Punky Brewster, Punky Brewster
Kelly Bundy, Married With Children
Chris, Everybody Hates Chris
Barbara Cooper, One Day At A Time
Eddie Corbett, The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Wesley Crusher, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sally Draper, Mad Men
Luke Dunphy, Modern family
Patty Greene, Square Pegs
Stewie Griffin, Family Guy
Carl Grimes, The Walking Dead
Eddie Haskell, Leave It To Beaver
Sue Heck, The Middle
David Hogan, Valerie/The Hogan Family
Doogie Howser, Doogie Howser, M.D.
Rudy Huxtable, The Cosby Show
Steven Hyde, That 70's Show
Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie
Patty Lane, The Patty Duke Show
Buddy Lawrence, Family
Parker Lewis, Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Webster Long, Webster
Malcolm, Malcolm in the Middle
Veronica Mars, Veronica Mars
Mark McCain, The Rifleman
Samantha Micelli, Who's The Boss?
Dennis Mitchell, Dennis The Menace
Zack Morris, Saved By The Bell
Eddie Munster, The Munsters
Ricky Nelson, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Buffy Patterson-Davis, Family Affair
Jo Poiniaczek, The Facts of Life
Blossom Russo, Blossom
Matt Saracen, Friday Night Lights
Mike Seaver, Growing Pains
Will Smith, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Meadow Soprano, The Sopranos
Arya Stark, Game of Thrones
Justin Suarez, Ugly Betty
Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show
Corky Thacher, Life Goes On
Dee Thomas, What's Happening!!
Steve Urkel, Family Matters
Wallace, The Wire
Brenda Walsh, Beverly Hills, 90210

No Carlton Banks or Cory Matthews? List = Invalid.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

Pretty interesting list. I agree with many of the top 10 picks but not all of them. I certainly don't agree with Sam Weir from Freaks & Geeks being in the top 10. While I know a cult following flat out WORSHIPPED the show, they only made 18 episodes of the show. As a result, I don't see how the character could rank higher than characters that people have watched for years, even decades, that have become pop culture icons like Laura Ingalls, Marcia Brady, Stewie Griffin or any number of others that made the top 60.

I believe the same thing as it pertains to Angela Chase from My So-Called Life. She's ranked #3 on the list even though the show lasted 19 episodes back in the mid 90s but she's ranked higher than the likes of Bart Simpson and Arnold Jackson? Well hey, I guess TV Guide is entitled to it's opinion but I think that's just flat out wrong. Now I know that the fact that Freaks & Geeks and My So-Called Life had very short runs isn't the end all, be all but I don't see how it doesn't warrant much more merit than what TV Guide used in determining the list.