The Founder draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little Dominion community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off. Do I make myself clear?

Stay out of the Gamma Quadrant, Lebowski! Stay out of the Gamma Quadrant, deadbeat! Keep your ugly fuckin' goldbrickin' ass out of my Dominion community.

At least, once they let him shave his head end of season 3.

That was the plan all along

certain 2-parters are counted as 1

this explains the total of 170

a handful are credit only

as a main cast member he is in the opening credit sequence of every episode, which explains IMDB saying he's in every one.

but how/where did you arrive at the number 163? i only arrived there by seeing that Memory Alpha lists 160 character appearances (which I see now does single-count Emissary and presumably two other two-part episodes) and then checking the mirror universe episodes to see if there were any without the Chief in them (and finding two) and then remembering Far Beyond the Stars.

anyway i guess either of the numbers in the meme could be correct, but not both at once: 163 is correct if you double-count three two-part episodes, and 170 is correct if you single-count them. 🤓

(and the numbers in my first comment are inconsistent in the same way.)

AKA: The coolest motherfucker on television.