Who are the best townies to play?

I always liked Benjamin Long. I usually had him marry Brandi Broke.

I like Marsha Bruenig (I made her playable for my homeless challenge), Tosha Go (dramatic foil for my second gens' love story), Tessa Ramirez (first townie to whoohoo with my legacy sim), and Brittany Parker (one of my faves as her autonomous actions created a story which surprised and fascinated me). They all became playables after they grew up with my second gens and went to uni with them. When they graduated, they helped populate my hood with my legacy third gens.

Allyn Thomason. One of the nicest (if not the nicest) townies in the game and A-1 wife bait.

I quiet like playing Marie Rauscher. She has the fortune trait so I usually let her marry for money, Malcolm Landgraab is a good match for her.

My favorites are the teens in Downtown who are related to Jon Smith Tricou. Their names are always different, but there's a wiki on what they look like-

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Jon_Smith_Tricou%27s_Descendants

I like sending them to Uni, and then one of them will resurrect Jon Smith Tricou after they graduate. They're fun to play too.

For the Pleasantview townies, I always liked Ivy Copur (the adult, not the teen townie), Meadow Thayer & Dagmar Bertino.

I always loved Meadow Thayer too for some reason!
For those curious, she's called Mélanie Lenoir in the French version :D
Now I'm curious if there's a TS4 version of her in the gallery, I'll go and check that out!

I like Mr.Big... from Downtown. My favorite BG townie is Komei Tellerman. He's a sweetie. XD

Oh, yes- George is great, too. :)

There's some blonde downtownie with those fugly green glasses that I always enjoy seeing, but I'm such a CC addict that I tend not to mix townies, or even premades, in with my own sims even though I've got default replacement skin and eyes anyways :p

I always loved Goopy Gilscarbo :D He always seemed to get hired by my sims when they had businesses.