# Who is the most lovable idiot in sitcom history?

> They break things, misread rooms and mean no harm at all. Somehow the whole show softens around them.

*By YPB Team · Published August 25, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-most-lovable-idiot-in-sitcom-history*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Andy Dwyer** — score 1000/1000
   Pawnee's shoeshine man turned children's entertainer, played by Chris Pratt.
2. **Patrick Star** — score 974/1000
   SpongeBob's starfish neighbour, who lives under a rock.
3. **Woody Boyd** — score 974/1000
   Cheers' Indiana-born bartender, played by Woody Harrelson.
4. **Homer Simpson** — score 889/1000
   Springfield's nuclear safety inspector, and the reason the plant keeps failing inspection.
5. **Winston Bishop** — score 857/1000
   New Girl's cat-owning, prank-failing former basketball player, played by Lamorne Morris.
6. **Joey Tribbiani** — score 769/1000
   The struggling actor of Friends, played by Matt LeBlanc.
7. **Kevin Malone** — score 769/1000
   Dunder Mifflin's accountant, best known for dropping a pot of chili, played by Brian Baumgartner.
8. **Michael Kelso** — score 666/1000
   That '70s Show's beautiful disaster, played by Ashton Kutcher.
9. **Karen Walker** — score 545/1000
   Will and Grace's wealthy, blissfully oblivious socialite, played by Megan Mullally.
10. **Ralph Wiggum** — score 545/1000
   The Simpsons' guileless second-grader, son of Springfield's police chief.
11. **Erin Hannon** — score 400/1000
   Dunder Mifflin's cheerful and deeply literal receptionist, played by Ellie Kemper.
12. **Rose Nylund** — score 222/1000
   The Golden Girls' St. Olaf storyteller, played by Betty White.
13. **Charlie Kelly** — score 222/1000
   It's Always Sunny's illiterate rat-catcher, played by Charlie Day.
14. **Buster Bluth** — score 222/1000
   Arrested Development's perpetually panicked youngest son, played by Tony Hale.
15. **Baldrick** — score 222/1000
   Blackadder's turnip-loving servant, played by Tony Robinson.

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