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I'm going to fumble a bunch of these because the name sounds familiar but I just can't place it.

1. Dunno.
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3. Dunno.
4. Back to the Future
5. Knight Rider
6. Should know; can't dredge it up from memory.
7. Sounds familiar.
8. Aaaagh!
9. Blade Runner
10. I think that's Bill Cambell's character in The 4400.
11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
12. Not a clue.
13. ???
14. Batman

6 (maybe 7) out of 14. Superfail!

Here's a counter-quiz. Same topic, some more obscure than others (not all from movies and television):

1. Ernesto Escobedo
2. E. B. Farnum
3. Justin Crowe
4. Herbert West
5. Frank Bumstead
6. Tawnia Baker
7. Bonnie Barstow
8. Marella
9. Holly Gennero
10. Helen Tasker
11. Cain Marko
12. Susan Delgado
13. Jonathan Thomas Meriweather
14. Elizabeth Braddock

Okay, so I Googled the ones I missed. My comments:

1. I'm not surprised I didn't remember this one.
3. Don't watch the show, so no surprise that I missed this.
6. Yep. Should have gotten this. In fact, it's the first thing that came to mind, but I wasn't sure of the whole nickname thing.
7. Ugh. Hate that movie.
8. D'oh! Time for a re-watch.
10. Nailed it! A 4400 reference from Greg? Shocking? Where's the Beyond Good & Evil character?
12. Wow. That's a good one. I don't even recall the character.
13. Another movie I hated.

I guess I do lay it on thick here with the 4400 and Beyond Good and Evil stuff. Shucks.

Jim Rage was from season 3, episode 1 of The Tick. It's crazy that I still remember that off the top of my head. I loved that show.

You hated Contact??!? I don't know if I can continue this conversation. I'm verklempt.

Two out of fourteen, and I should be getting at least four of these.

1. No idea
2. Sounds like P.T. Barnum. No idea.
3. Any relation to Leo Crow? No idea.
4. Any relation to Adam West? No idea.
5. Any relation to Dagwood? No idea.
6. No idea.
7. Knight Rider?
8. No idea.
9. Bruce Willis's wife in Die Hard.
10. Arnold's wife in True Lies.
11. No idea.
12. Aargh! Sounds so familiar!
13. Again! Aargh!
14. No idea.

Okay. I no longer feel so bad. Most of the ones I missed I had no chance at due to either obscurity or not having seen/read the media. Thirteen was very good though.

1. Too obscure. Didn't remember.
2. I don't watch the show.
3. Never saw it
4. I saw it once, a long time ago.
5. Hated that movie.
6. Holy obscure character!
8. The Googles! They know nothing! I'm stumped.
11. I wish I read more comics.
12. Never read the books.
13. Wow! Good one! Obscure!! I read these books when I was probably eleven years old! I might still have them in a box!
14. Again - comics.

8. 12 Monkeys

and the second quiz, #12 is from Stephen King's Dark Tower.

I had a couple of interweaving themes in my list. The first: play off a couple of characters from Greg's list.

First: William Sanderson played both J. F. Sebastian and E. B. Farnum; the two initials followed by a last name was too good to pass up.

Second: Jordan Collier and Justin Crowe. Both characters are messiah figures and share initials with another, somewhat less obscure messiah.

My other theme: Ladies from the Eighties. 6, 7, and 8 on my list were female characters in male-dominated shows from the 1980s. Marella, the one for which Google failed Greg, is Archangel's assistant on AIRWOLF.

Greg, I feel the same way about you hating DARK CITY as I do about hating CONTACT; I don't think I can relate to you anymore.

As an aside, I just picked up the first of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger novels for my Kindle a couple of weeks ago, so I"ll be revisiting Jon-Tom soonish. We'll see whether the story stands the test of time.

"I'm here to see Ernesto Escobedo. I don't have an appointment." is one of my favorite movie quotes from all time. I don't really know why. Aside: I like the sniper test scene from that film, and the sniper is now one of the main characters on my wife's favorite shows, "The Closer."