From Phoebe Buffay on "Friends" to Olivia Pope on "Scandal," these are the standout characters from popular TV shows.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which TV characters were the reason people kept watching a show. Here are some of the ...

Anxiety has always existed on television. It just didn’t always go by that name. In the early days of TV, anxious characters were often exaggerated for laughs: the nosy neighbor, the twitchy sidekick, ...

Remus is a writer, editor, journalist, and author with an eye for detail and an extremely active imagination. He is an enthusiast of everything to do with the graphic medium, whether it's Western ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

Few things sting more than when a beloved TV character doesn’t get the proper send-off they deserve. Audiences invest years of their lives into their favorite television characters’ stories, often ...

Behind every victory and every step toward making the world a better place, there has been powerful representation in everyday media showing people how to challenge the status quo. Mainstream media ...

There's nothing quite like the anticipation of a beloved TV character's final moments. We invest years of our lives watching these fictional people grow, struggle, and evolve, forming genuine ...

Television gives us a chance to get to know characters over several years and hundreds of episodes... but some characters only need a few episodes to make a big impression. We're calling them "express ...

The 1990s produced a huge number of iconic series, from hilarious sitcoms to intense crime dramas, that laid the foundations for contemporary pop culture. In the process, they also introduced some ...