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Part-Time TV Characters Who Have Our Full-Time Love

By Lynette Rice
Updated November 18, 2015 at 07:09 PM EST
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The Best Part-Time Characters

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Who says the stars have all the fun? Here are 16 supporting players who keep us coming back to TV's best comedies and dramas week after week.

 

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Jason Mantzoukas as Rafi, 'The League'

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David Hornsby as Rickety Cricket, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold, The Flash

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Volleyball as Gary, Last Man on Earth

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1 of 17 The Best Part-Time Characters
2 of 17 Jason Mantzoukas as Rafi, 'The League'
3 of 17 David Hornsby as Rickety Cricket, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
4 of 17 Patton Oswalt as Billy Koenig, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
5 of 17 Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers, Castle
6 of 17 Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold, The Flash
7 of 17 Mark Duplass as Brendan Deslaurier, The Mindy Project
8 of 17 Volleyball as Gary, Last Man on Earth
9 of 17 Elizabeth Banks as Sal, Modern Family
10 of 17 Patricia Belcher as Caroline Julian, Bones
11 of 17 Marc Evan Jackson as Kevin Cozner, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
12 of 17 Michelle Gomez as Missy, Doctor Who
13 of 17 Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons
14 of 17 Mary Beth Peil as Jackie Florrick, The Good Wife
15 of 17 Ta'Rhonda Jones as Porsha, Empire
16 of 17 Kate Burton as Sally Langston, Scandal
17 of 17 John Ross Bowie as Barry Kripke on 'The Big Bang Theory'

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