a "power couple" by Entertainment Weekly. In 2009, TV Guide dubbed their interactions "TV's hottest love-hate relationship" and in 2012, they were listed in Entertainment Weekly "30 Best 'Will They/Won't They?' TV Couples". EW.com also included them in its list of 10 "TV pairs who have us hooked as they dance around their attraction". During the first season of NCIS in 2004, Ross Warneke of The Age described the character as "fearless but a bit wet behind the ears". A year later, Bill Keveny from USA Today commented that DiNozzo was "competent but immature". At the beginning of the third season, Noel Holston from Sun Sentinel described him as "a self-styled ladies' man, handsome yet hapless". In 2011, one critic from Slate called him a "womanizing doofus given to spouting movie trivia" but added that all the characters on the MCRT team (Tony, Gibbs, Ziva, and McGee) "are men and women of honor, heroes who have all made significant sacrifices for their country". In 2012, Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly wrote, "I have a deep appreciation for everything about Tony DiNozzo. I love his goofball ways, his pop culture references, and his endless supply of ways to get under McGee's skin. But like any perpetually lovable character on a TV drama, he also has a host of dark secrets, and when said secrets have a chance to come to the surface as part of a meaty and revealing storyline, it's a treat for us all." He was referred to as a "charming goofball/special agent" by AOL TV's Michael Maloney in 2010. Catherine Lawson from The Huffington Post reported in August 2011 that Michael Weatherly was voted as number seven in the list of the top 10 most popular primetime TV stars. Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto) and Cote de Pablo (Ziva David) placed first and second, respectively. Additionally, Mark Harmon (Jethro Gibbs) and David McCallum (Ducky Mallard) were voted as numbers five and six. References Fictional Baltimore Police Department detectives Fictional Philadelphia Police Department detectives Television characters introduced in 2003 Fictional Naval Criminal Investigative Service personnel NCIS (TV series) characters Fictional Italian American people Crossover characters in television Male characters in television