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People who are old enough to remember the Three Stooges know that the lineup has changed a few times over the years: they’re probably most familiar with Larry, Curly, and Moe as the definitive trio, and they know that Curly was replaced by Shemp at some point, and then other stand-in stooges in later years. There was, however, one time and one time only that all four original Stooges appeared on screen together.

It’s amazing how the ending of Rise of Skywalker went over so many peoples’ heads. Okay, so Ben Solo became Kylo Ren and did the things he did because he was driven to live up to the legacy of his grandfather Darth Vader, whom he worshipped to such an extreme degree that he kept his burnt skull, talked to it, and promised to finish what Vader began. This need (and fear of failing) was referenced constantly, but Kylo Ren ruling the galaxy with an iron fist was NOT where that storyline ended up leading.

Part of the magic of television is that the characters are forever young. No matter how many times you watch ’em, or how long it’s been since the episodes originally ran, the characters on your favorite shows are eternally locked in time. But what if they aged the same as the rest of us? How old would these characters be in real world terms?

With that question in mind, I assembled a list of all-time favorite TV characters and, using a combination of the years the shows ran and their stated ages in the show to work out how old each of them would be today.