Monk
Ok - so he's meant to have OCD, but plenty of people think Adrian Monk meets the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's.
I have to agree.
My Dad nicknamed me PatchMonk because I'm obsessed with Patch Adams (and his way of practising medicine) and am also very much like Adrian Monk. Dad calls me just "Monk" when I get obsessed with straightening things out, organising them and colour coding etc. I've been doing these things since I was about 2 years old.
When I lived in college, first year of uni, the boys would all come in a push everything out of straight lines and them time how long before I straightened them all up again.
I LOVE watching Monk. I can relate soooooo much to so many things he does.
My NT friends say they find watching it almost painful because he does so many things I do around them.
Monk doesn't have Asperger's. Monk is on that level of strange no one wants to admit to. I mean, I wouldn't want to be in the same room as Monk. He gives you that vibe that says, "Whoa, things just got ten times creepy now." O_o;
Sorry if I offended anybody, but that is the truth. I rather be in a room with Dale Gribble. 
Monk's not creepy! LOL - he's adorable! :)
I think he is on the spectrum. Reasons:
- Very narrow and intense interests
- Some clear sensory sensitivities
- Much insistance on sameness (same clothes, same water etc)
- Difficulty taking other people's perspective and putting himself in someone else's shoes
- Unusual mannerisms and behaviours
- Decreased use of non-verbal body language
- Takes a lot of things very literally and doesn't understand a lot of sacasm
- Has a lot of difficulty expressing how he feels to those aorund him frequently
- Great eye for detail while quite often missing the bigger picture
- Difficulty with executive functioning (hence Natalie and Sharona helping - not just for his OCD oddities).
So I'd have to say I strongly disagree he's not on the spectrum. But regardless I think he's quite lovable and not too creepy. I would trust Monk...
Not sure who the other person you said you'd rather be with is...
I always liked the series Monk. I was sad when the show came to an end! I always thought he seemed a bit spectrumy as well.