[Charles Henrickson]

I would put Barney Fife #1 and Ed Norton #2 as the greatest supporting characters of all time.

[Dr. Sivana]

I would put Barney Fife #1 and Ed Norton #2 as the greatest supporting characters of all time.

Yes on Fife. We have the advantage of seeing what happened to the show after he left. Howard and Goober and teh rest together do not equal one Barney Fife.

Ed Norton was needed to make Ralph Kramden bearable. An uber choleric married to a choleric woman is just too much without having a character as sanguine as Kramden was choleric as an offset.

[Mariner]

"the greatest supporting characters of all time"

Uh, Kosmo Kramer.