Sidekick Morris ("Saved by the Bell"), Major Roger Healey to Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson ("I Dream of Jeannie"), or even a group of people such as the Sweathogs to Mr. Kotter ("Welcome Back, Kotter"). Duos of equal importance on TV such as Kate McArdle and Allie Lowell ("Kate & Allie"), Oscar Madison and Felix Unger ("The Odd Couple"), Bret Maverick and Bart Maverick ("Maverick"), or Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney ("Laverne & Shirley"), are sometimes both called sidekicks to each other, although the usual sense of the term denotes inequality. Many television talk shows make use of a sidekick as
Douglas Unger Douglas Unger Douglas Arthur Unger (born June 27, 1952) is an American novelist. Unger was born in Moscow, Idaho. He received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1973 and a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. Unger has written four novels, including his 1984 debut, "Leaving the Land", which was a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Special Citation. His short stories are collected in "Looking for War"