Characters Welcome!

Sorry USA for stealing your tag line, but it's fits so perfectly with my post. Anyway, I was randomly thinking about the best characters on TV right. Then, I thought, "why not make this into a post!" Plus, the only reason I ever listened to the Play Ball with Amanda and Melissa podcast (besides the fact I listened to every other Pod Vader podcast) was their NCAA style bracket based off of fiction in movies/TV. They first had a bracket of the best TV shows out there, and then they did something sort of similar by matching up fictional players/teams against each other (i.e. who would win if the team in A League Of Their Own faced the team in Bull Durham). So here's my version of that, the 64 best characters currently on TV. First, I categorized every character I could think of, and placed them into seeds. Then, based off of those seeds, I put them into brackets.

In order for a character to qualify: 1) Their show must currently be on television, 2) The character must be a regular an not just a frequent cameo and 3) The show the character is on must qualify for the Primetime Emmys.

Now this bracket is broken up exactly like the real NCAA bracket with four parts. I tried my best to categorize each character so that each bracket has a theme. Now obviously some characters aren't going to fit so they may seem out of place, but generally speaking, the themes work. The four brackets are: The Entourage Bracket (mainly consist of Entourage characters or characters with a slight edge to them), The Funny Bracket (mainly consisting of funny character or characters from comedy shows), The Effeminate Bracket (mainly consisting of females of effeminate dudes), and The Bad Ass Bracket (well you get the idea).

So without further adieu, here you go:

The Entourage Bracket
(1) Ari Gold (Entourage) vs. (16) Creed Bratton (The Office)
(2) Jack Bauer (24) vs. (15) Roger Sterling (Mad Men)
(3) Peter Griffin (Family Guy) vs. (14) E (Entourage)
(4) Walter White (Breaking Bad) vs. (13) Christine Campbell (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
(5) Johnny Drama (Entourage) vs. (12) Vinny Chase (Entourage)
(6) Hank Hill (King of the Hill) vs. (11) Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
(7) Horatio Caine (CSI: Miami) vs. (10) Turtle (Entourage)
(8) Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) vs. (9) Dexter Morgan (Dexter)

The Funny Bracket
(1) Jack Donaghy (30 Rock) vs. (16) Leonard (TBB Theory)
(2) Adrian Monk (Monk) vs. (15) Alan Shore (Boston Legal)
(3) Barney Stinson (HIMYM) vs. (14) Dr. Cal Lightman (Lie To Me)
(4) Dwight Shrute (The Office) vs. (13) Barack Obama (SNL)
(5) Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock) vs. (12) Jermaine (Flight/Conchords)
(6) McDreamy (Grey's Anatomy) vs. (11) Randy Marsh (South Park)
(7) Tracy Jordan (30 Rock) vs. (10) Sheldon Cooper (TBB Theory)
(8) Hiro Nakmura (Heroes) vs. (9) Noah Bennet/HRG (Heroes)

The Effeminate Bracket
(1) Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) vs. (16) Claire Bennett (Heroes)
(2) Michael Scott (The Office) vs. (15) Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
(3) Liz Lemon (30 Rock) vs. (14) Dr.Grey (Grey's Anatomy)
(4) Charlie Harper (2.5 Men) vs. (13) 13 (House)
(5) Deputy Johnson (The Closer) vs. (12) Lt. Jim Dangle (Reno 911)
(6) Jack Shepard (Lost) vs. (11) Pam Beasley (The Office)
(7) Jim Halpert (The Office) vs. (10) Allen Harper (2.5 Men)
(8) Jack McCoy (Law and Order) vs. (9) Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)

The Bad Ass Bracket
(1) Dr. Gregory House (House) vs. (16) Play-In Game
(2) Don Draper (Mad Men) vs. (15) Dr. Sean McNamara (Nip/Tuck)
(3) Eric Cartman (South Park) vs. (14) Betty Draper (Mad Men)
(4) Sylar/Gabriel Grey (Heroes) vs. (13) Ben Linus (Lost)
(5) Kenny Powers (E&D) vs. (12) Shawn Spencer (Psych)
(6) Elliot Stabler (L&O: SVU) vs. (11) Grace H. (Saving Grace)
(7) Michael Westin (Burn Notice) vs. (10) Pete Campbell (Mad Men)
(8) Dr. Christian Troy (Nip/Tuck) vs. (9) Olivia Benson (L&O: SVU)

Play-In Game
(64) Tarvold (Viking Quest) vs. (65) Older Brother (Five Towns)

So there you go. Here's your list. Feel free to vote on who you think should move on and who should be higher or lower! Soon I will post the winners of each round until we determine who the best character currently on TV is.

# of characters TV shows received
(7) Entourage
(5) The Office, 30 Rock
(4) Heroes, Mad Men
(3) The Simpsons
(2) South Park, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, The Big Bang Theory, Nip/Tuck, House, Lost, Two and a Half Men
(1) 24, Family Guy, Breaking Bad, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Closer, Reno 911, How I Met Your Mother, SNL, Flight Of The Conchords, Lie To Me, King of the Hill, Boston Legal, Dexter, Psych, Saving Grace, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Law and Order, Monk, CSI: Miami, Eastbound and Down

NOTES:
1)I almost forgot Kenny Powers so that's why he's a five seed
2) I had this bracket all nicely laid out when writing this post but fucking Blogger took out all my nice semmetric spacing
3) I also had the actor's name as well but because Blogger is dumb, the spacing made it look messed up so I had to take it out