Popular TV Characters That You Couldn’t Stand

Grace Adler

Will Truman

Miss Bunting and Daisy were far more irritating than Matthew Crawley. The hottest guys on the show were the villainous footman and Charles Blake or was it Blakely?

Joey and Chandler on Friends.

I am a big I Love Lucy fan, but essentially, Lucy Ricardo is a very unlikable person.

Archie Bunker………..

Matthew had his flaws but he was tolerable. Mr. Bates was smug and wholly unlikable. I hated his character and I hated his story lines.

I just marathoned DA again out of sheer boredom and it reinforced my initial boredom with the Bates sagas and that Marigold really was mentally disabled. Also, realized that the town doctor was damn good looking for an older gent.

Mike Stivic. Not because of his politics, but because of his general demeanor. Lionel Jefferson would've been a better match for Gloria.

Rachel Green.

I’ve never met a living soul that’s actually like Mr. Bares so the distance for him and his story line is just about universal.

Bates*

Speaking of DA, I couldn't stand Lady Mary. So mean to poor Edith.

Chrissy Snow

Maude.

Ann Romano

Carla on Cheers.

Speaking of Cheers, Ted Danson. I've never like him in anything and still don't.

JIm Parsons on TBBT

Everybody on Scrubs

Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts. I instantly look away. Their entire filmography and existence could disappear and I’ll bet I’d never even notice.

Any Kardashian. At least give us a REASON to hate you all. It’s just bland on top of bland on top of bland. I just end up wanting to burst into tears.

Also, Andrew Rannells. I don’t know why, but his entire screen persona is like nails on chalkboard to me. I’d rather face torture!

The whole Schitt's Creek family, but especially the son and daughter. My family loves that show and I just find it annoying.

Dwight from The Office. His antics could be funny but the character himself reminds me of the rageful nerd type, who unironically love Dwight in real life.

I love the show, but it's true. Lucy Ricardo would be in a straight jacket if she existed in the real world. I'm surprised it hasn't been cancelled yet for making fun of the mentally ill.

R6- I LOATHED his CHUBBINESS combined with his SMUGNESS

I couldn't stand Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He was annoying and boring. I couldn't wait for him to say his lines and get out of the scene.

I couldn't stand How I Met Your Mother but Barney had to be the worst. NPH as a ladies man and someone a hot woman would ruin her life for?

Also, Jason Segel's character was a wet blanket and Ted Mosby was a drip. Lily was tiresome too. The only character I liked was Robin, she should have gotten the hell out of that friend circle.

The whole show was awful.

ALL Jason Bateman characters, no matter the show.

Can't stand.

The Fonz

Jim and Pam on The Office. Both were insufferable and the Pam character was bland as a fuck. I know Ellie Kemper gets a lot of hate for different reasons, but i liked her character on The Office more than bland Pam.

Branson was hot even when he porked out a bit. I wanted to bury my face in his thick ass before I slammed it.

Matthew just looked pasty and dull, thin or fat.

Andy in parks and rec. I never find the dumb character funny, a show almost always ends up being lazy with that character and I felt that because Pratt probably represented the cool, jock guy all the nerdy writers wanted to hangout with, they played up the importance of the character and pratt's "skills".

Jack on Will & Grace. Annoying, rude, and unfunny.

Claire Huxtable - she was always setting someone straight about something. Too heavy!

Mork - man, just STFU, please!

Denise Huxtable. Too whiney and immature.

I really liked Vanessa though.

Claire Huxtable was frigging smug.

Whichever Huxtable daughter wandered in and out stoned out of her gourd all the time. She was too stoned to act.

r22, The Office is a good one. I couldn't stand Pam and Jim.

R36 That was Rudy.

Sophia Petrillo. Whatta cunt.

Sophia drove me crazy with her imitation of an old Jewish woman. She was supposed to be an Italian granny.

What about Detective Olivia Benson?

Maybe too obscure, but Ellen's friend Audrey on ELLEN. I could not watch her at all. Such an annoying person with an annoying voice.

I couldn’t stand Edward James Olmos as Adama on Battlestar Galactica. He always looked like a sad, aging, overweight bellboy.

Audrey was supposed to be annoying, R42.

You just don't get it.

Lucy Ricardo was the ultimate 1950s idea of a woman so stupid and feckless that she wouldn't survive two minutes without her long-suffering husband.

[quote] Audrey was supposed to be annoying, [R42]. You just don't get it.

There's a difference between "amusingly" annoying and "can't change the channel fast enough" annoying.

R41 My boyfriend hates the character. Calls her "mud fence." I've never watched the show, but am amused, while channel surfing and happen to come across her, just to get get his reaction.

Jack Tripper. Those goofy mannerisms and clumsiness were exhausting to watch.

Throw in the rest of Three's Company as mostly annoying except for the Ropers.

Don Knotts as Mr. Furley was OK at times, but no Barney.

I agree, R26. Barney was a manipulative asswipe. He was egotistical and charmless. Perhaps Barney would've been convincing as a successful womanizer if they had cast a better-looking actor.

Happy Endings was a show that also had snarky, over-the-top behavior, but those characters were often funny. It was short-lived. How I Met Your Mother sucked balls, yet it lasted 9 seasons. Go figure.

R30 - who is Branson?

Mike Branson, Esq.

Pretty much all of the characters from Modern family. Horrid suburban breeder nitwits. I hated Ed O Neills character the most, but I absolutely loathe the actor so this probably played a part.

R29 Yes , I found them obnoxious. They were always rolling their eyes smugly at the camera and I'm thinking these bitches have been working at this place for a decade. They can't be THAT much better than their kooky co workers.

Sometimes Jim and Pam came off as more clique-ish than clever with their humor. Also I feel the writers pushed them as the it couple too much. Like they were fine, but there's no way their jaded coworkers would be that invested in their dating life and baby pictures.

R54 Yeah, it was funnier in the early seasons when they captured the truth about office life : none of these people would want anything to do with each other if they didn't have to. I can see Jim and Pam hooking up but I didn't buy their co workers being invested in them or all of these people wanting to socialize with each other outside work. The part where Phyllis says something to them like " don't give clients based on who you're fucking this week" was one of the few reactions that rang true to me.

Grissom and Sara on CSI. Their "romance" was not convincing at all, they both came across as super gay

Any of the characters on Seinfeld

The Kirstie Alley character on Cheers. I stopped watching after the first episode because I couldn't stand her.

Leonard, the gay minister, on Grantchester.

Mary on Downton Abby. She should've been the one to die instead of Sybil.

Jack on Will & Grace

Miss Depesto and her ugly sidekick - Mr. Viola I think it was - on Moonlighting

Any character played by Fran Dresher

The women of Designing Women

And here's one from my childhood: Mr. Greenjeans on Captain Kangaroo

Chang on “Community”

I’m always shocked at the affection people seem to have for the Nanny, the actress who played her and the whole show. Obviously, the first thing is the voice, which was atrocious, like nails on a blackboard, one minute of it is too much. Then the extensive and offensive Jewish stereotyping, it was like equivalent of Uncle Tomming. The acting was on the level of bad high school drama productions and the sets looked cheap and flimsy and the costumes, especially what they made that grandmother wear were creepy and disquieting.

I love Christopher Meloni but I loathed Detective Stabler. He was the typical bully cop who didn't give a fuck about violating civil rights. He was always getting up in a suspect's face and threatening to have them gang-raped in Sing Sing. I also remember this episode where he made up a story about wanting to fuck his teenage daughter in order to elicit a confession. Afterwards he implied that the story had some truth to it. Just an ugly character in my opinion.

I'll thank you now to not ever associate ME with television ever again R20.

The cast of Seinfeld were so hateful I could never get past my loathing of them to watch an entire episode. Unfunny, unattractive, self-obsessed and uninteresting twats.

I have a similar response to Larry David. He makes my flesh crawl. A kind of smug nihilism oozes from his every utterance.

For those who say "that's the point" - it's a really shitty point.

The Schitt Family was almost as abrasive. Couldn't get past the second episode.

I feel guilty about it, because he seems to have been a very nice man in real life and I appreciate how much thought went into the program but even as a very small child I couldn't stand Mr. Rogers or anyone from the Neighborhood of Make Believe. The puppets were ugly and they all were obnoxious with the exception of Tiny the Tiger or whatever his fool name was. I thought the trolley was cool and some of the documentary-like episodes, like the one with Margaret Hamilton, were great.

Most kid's shows left me cold: the Electric Company was a bunch of screaming morons and Zoom was a pack of annoying contortionists. Those...things in the Gigglesnort Hotel were like Francis Bacon paintings come to life. Pinwheel was fake Muppets. The Muppets of Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock were awesome and the people hosting 3-2-1 Contact were nice but the rest of it...eeeeeeeeeek.

R51 - who is Mike Branson, Esq.? Google is not helping.

Another vote for Jack on WILL & GRACE. The "village idiot" charm wore thin pretty early on with that one.

63 posts and not one mention of Carrie Bradshaw? Did I miss one? Or are we just completely over SATC?

Steve Carrell on The Office. He was an odious human and unqualified boss. Having worked with a few, I find nothing funny about him.

Everyone on HIMYM.

Dr. Meredith Grey and her baby voice.

Dr House. Great idea for the first season, while the writers were up to it. After that his rudeness, which is acceptable in a medical specialist in reality, was magnified into the actions of a dangerous maniac. Hugh Laurie was wonderful throughout, but the showrunner could not maintain that character for the life of him.

I couldn't stand David Rose on Schitt's Creek. The rest of the Rose family and the town residents could be annoying at times, but I thought the David was the worst one. I even like Roland better than him.

Don Draper. He was loathsome and I never rooted for him.

I didn't like any of the main human characters in The Good Place. Kristen Bell doesn't have any comedic chops. I didn't buy her whole "desert trash" persona since really trashy people don't self-identify as trashy. Chidi was a humorless straight man there to react to all the craaazy dialogue. Jason was cute but his supposedly hilarious personality was based on tired Florida jokes. Jamil was the best actor of the four but still unfunny. I really liked the premise of this show but the execution was fucking awful.

R68 House was part of the whole " rancid asshole who treats people like dirt but it's okay because he's brilliant" genre that audiences are thankfully tired of. It was a big thing in the mid to late 2010s. Aaron Sorkin tried his hand at it with Jeff Daniels character in The Newsroom and the show flamed out quickly.

Julia Roberts in anything

Jim Parsons in BBT

Not always, but sometimes Mary Tyler Moore; Valerie Harper was so much funnier

I hated the way they made all the female characters the butt of jokes in Frasier ; I wonder if people would object today

The child Manny on Modern Family

Darrin Stevens - so controlling

STEVE URKEL

I second Sheldon Cooper. Even as a kid he's exasperatingly annoying. I would never understand why people would tolerate someone like him.

Grace Adler

All the Friends characters

All the Seinfeld characters

Barney Stinson

Jim, Pam, and Dwight from The Office

Andy (and sometimes Tom) from Parks and Recreation

Mr. Mooney from The Lucy Show (but I liked Uncle Harry from Here's Lucy)

J B Smoove on Curb

Wanda Sykes on Curb

Hurley and Charlie on Lost, a fat guy who wasn't funny and was one of the weakest actors on the show, given the spotlight because he was popular on set and the other was a druggy who bitched and moaned because the girl he liked wouldn't open her legs for him, all because he tried to drown her kid and yet the audience is meant to feel sad when he dies? Fuck that. I was so glad when they killed him off.

R59- I'm Jewish and I didn't find her portrayal of a Jewish hairdresser from Queens offensive, annoying DEFINITELY but not offensive. The kids of her employer did NOT seem like WASP New Yorkers. They seemed like out of towners who were VISITING NYC from Ohio. The did not come across as sophisticated Park Ave kids

Great point r78. I will never understand shows that are supposed to portray NYC kids or young adults, yet you can tell that the characters are so sheltered that they've likely never even seen a NY hobo. You just know it's not real.

r20 has reading comprehension issues.

[quote]He was so middle class with his smug attitude towards the staff and self-righteousness with his dead fiancé’s money.

OMG--Matthew was gay?

R26 I never understood why Robin was even part of that circle. She had nothing in common with any of those people and as a person with a successful job in media in NYC there must've been tons of people in the city vying for her friendship.

R70- I didn't root for him either but I did root for AMC to show us his COCK AND BALLS.

Luke Spencer on General Hospital. He was a ugly manchild who raped a teen - then married her!

R56 Grisson always came across as asexual to me. Though at least they didn't pair him with Catherine Willows.

I could never get through an episode of 227 due to my hatred of Jackee. Marla Gibbs was great though and I even thought Regina King was good as an an annoying kid.

Carrie Bradshaw

Meredith Grey

Marissa Cooper

Brandon Walsh

Alex Keaton

Cliff Huxtable

Urkel owns this thread.

R85 Catherine was a fan favorite but her perpetual smirking gave me the creeps.

Linda Lavin’s Alice for reasons she’s very aware of.

"The cast of Seinfeld were so hateful I could never get past my loathing of them to watch an entire episode. Unfunny, unattractive, self-obsessed and uninteresting twats.

...even as a very small child I couldn't stand Mr. Rogers or anyone from the Neighborhood of Make Believe. The puppets were ugly and they all were obnoxious...

Most kid's shows left me cold: the Electric Company was a bunch of screaming morons and Zoom was a pack of annoying contortionists. Those...things in the Gigglesnort Hotel were like Francis Bacon paintings come to life."

Thanks, R62, you successfully managed to stab a dagger into my heart with just about every sentence of your post.

The shows you mentioned are among my top ten favorite shows of my childhood (BJ & Dirty Dragon/Gigglesnort Hotel/Mr. Roger's Neighborhood/Electric Company/Zoom) and my adulthood (Seinfeld).

You might as well throw in HR Pufnstuf, Lidsville, and Frasier while you're at it.

Definitely Carrie Bradshaw.

R91- Have you taken your meds today?

Phil on Modern Family.

R44 I agree, Audrey was intended to be the annoying perky character that just irks the other characters at times. I

House is a BDSM fantasy. All the patient rooms in the hospital are glass so there's no privacy and the staff are always doing extremely painful things to them with no anaesthetic so they're always screaming like crazy. And everybody kisses House's ass even though he's a TERRIBLE doctor who should have had his license revoked. He never gets the diagnosis right the first time.

Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show, Rebecca and Carla on Cheers, Will on Will & Grace, Anthony on Designing Women, Steven #2 on Dynasty, Cybill on Cybill

I didn't like Debra Morgan in Dexter from the first time she opened her filthy mouth. If he'd killed her sooner, the entire series would have been far more pleasant.

Any character played by Miss Pamelyn Ferdin.

Marissa Cooper from The O.C. was the worst. I was so shocked when the audience turned on the show when they killed her off. To me, the show only got better in season 4 without her whiny bullshit dragging everything down.

Susan on Desperate Housewives began to grate the nerves after a few seasons. At first, her quirky klutzy thing was amusing, but after awhile you started to fear that this woman had some form of mental illness.

Gilligan.

All of them.

There is no way anyone in real life could deal with Sheldon Cooper. I have to give Jim Parsons high marks for wanting to pull the plug on the show because he knew that Sheldon's story arc was wrong for the character. At least that's the impression that Mayim Bialik gave when she was asked about it.

Kirk Cameron/Mike Seaver. Insufferable.

r100 the show had a laughably small cast of teenager to carry a teenage show. Unlike BH 90210, The OC relied on just 4 teenagers. No one cared about the parent's drama, besides sensual Julie Cooper's money grabbing plans.

They killed of Marissa without building a base of new characters for the fans to fall back on. The season they were going to kill her off should have been the one where they introduced new core teenage characters for the fans to build a bond with. They kill off the girl a lot of fans liked then spent like 4 episodes into the new season with the stench of death, showing all the characters grieving. It took all the fun out of the show. The people they brought in were dull.

Orange Country isn't NYC (hello Gossip Girl) so there was no reason for these smart college bound teenager graduates to hangout in a Ca suburb when they should be off in college. Writers could just barely justify why the characters from Gossip Girl all remained in NYC, there was no excuse for The OC. They should have just let the show remain a high school show and move on from Ryan, Seth, Summer, and Marissa's corps.

I'm sorry for all of the typos in my comment.

^That apology and three bucks will buy my eyes a cup of coffee.

KRAMER on Seinfeld- he was NEVER funny.

Bite your tongue, OP. I cried when Matthew Crawley was killed. He was so cute with his floppy hair and big blue eyes. His mother on the other hand, I could do without.

The cast of Friends. I hated this show! It was so basic and boring. Now the entire cast looks pumped with billers and botox to an inch of their life. Even my beloved Lisa Kudrow was annoying in this. The only one who is fuckable is David Schwimmer.

Matt LeBlanc is fat and grey, but still as fuckable as ever, IMHO.

Matt Leblanc was the only one of the guys I would have had any time for.

Kramer on Seinfeld. I just didn't think the physical humor was very funny, but it seemed everyone laughed and cheered when he came into a scene.

I also hated Mr. Furley on Three's Company - another man who made funny faces and up-pitched his voice.

I'm not a fan of physical humor obviously. Jerry Lewis is lost on me.

[quote] the villainous footman

Robin Williams as Mork.

Has anyone mentioned me yet?

DL saint Lisa Kudrow, as Phoebe on Friends. And as Ursula her twin on Friends and Mad About You. Unwatchable. Sorry. Can’t stand her.

Ed Helms as Andy Bernard on the Office. He ruined the show.

Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes on Dallas. Was his character supposed to be loathsome? Absolutely. But the actor (and the character) were just “off”. Maybe because Ken was just really unattractive and such a bad actor - that ruined the character for me. It’s like Ray Krebbs (also on Dallas), played by Steve Kanaly. Holy shit was he a terrible actor! But he was attractive, at least and his character was well written.

Both the Sopranos kids. Maybe they were miscast, or maybe just written poorly, or maybe the actors just suck. Or all of the above. But their scenes are almost unwatchable.

Rose Tyler. I preferred almost all of the companions that followed.

R105 Julie Cooper should be a DL icon. And i liked Taylor Townsend but didn't really care about Caitlin. They should have brought Anna or Luke back.

DiNozzo on NCIS

JJ Evans.

Does anybody not love DL icon, Valerie Cherish? She has some unlikeable qualities but if your heart didn't melt at the end of season two you are a MONSTER!!!!

Lennie and Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley

They were TWO annoying characters.

Friends - everybody

Julie McCoy was like a ray of light through the turbulent 70’s, then all the coke and sleeping around left her an empty unsympathetic husk who could not be tolerated.

Mary Crawley. Least deserving heroine on TV. Best moments was when Edith told them she would be a Duchess.

Though I have seen the actress in other things and she was really good.

Yes, it was amusing when Mary got taken down a peg. Lady Violet's "a lack of compassion is just as vulgar as an excess of tears" line and Mary's expression was great.

Totally agreed about Jim and Pam. They were also self indulgent tools to the Rashida Jones character, who I liked better as a romance than childish Pam. She was nothing but loving and mature with Jim and got fucked over. I enjoyed that ep where Jim embarrasses himself in front of her and she wound up having a better job, man, etc.

Agree with Don Draper

Don Draper is for guys who secretly want to go back to the 50s. Where they can treat women, gays, minorities like shit and everything's fine.

Don Draper struck me as Bojack Horseman with zero self-awareness. Not that Bojack was exactly stuck all over with it himself, but still.

Rose Nylund

It's called "an ensemble", bitch- the show does not revolve around you.

R18. Agree with you. Parson's character "Sheldon" was a repugnant person, who tried to get away with his asshole behavior because he fancied himself so special.

They should have built a giant scaffold on Lake Street and strung him up. (Yes I grew up in Pasadena).

Aubrey Plaza on Parks and Rec. I can’t even remember her character’s name.

Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.

Susan, Steve, Jane, Jeff and Oliver on Coupling UK. I only liked Sally and Patrick.

Daphne Moon on Frasier. She should have moved on after the first season. I only liked her scenes with Martin.

Horatio Caine: CSI Miami

Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210. Her character only spat out a variation of 2 lines:

"You don't KNOW her, Brandon!"

"How could she DO that!"

Winnie on Wonder Years. She was unlikable and cold. How they handled her passing was remarkably touching, however.

^ yep!!!

You’re all a bunch of bitches.

Wow, I knew of the show but never watched it and I certainly didn't know they killed off a character that way and a child too.

[quote]They should have built a giant scaffold on Lake Street and strung him up. (Yes I grew up in Pasadena).

If you had really grown up there, you'd know it is Lake AVENUE. Of course, this street might be more appropriate for your needs.

r99=Doney Oatman, the true Edna Unger

[quote] Ed Helms as Andy Bernard on the Office. He ruined the show.

Came here just to say this. I don’t think he ruined the show, but I loathed both character and actor.

R126 Edith became a marchioness, the wife of a marquis. One step below duke/duchess. But still higher than earl/lady.

Jimmy Walker AKA " KID DY- NO - MITE "

The characters played by Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones on Two and A Half Men. I find the trope of the man-whore really unfunny and tired. Also applicable: Joey from Friends, Barney from How I Met Your Mother, etc.

April from Parks & Rec - haaaaaaate her!

Jack from Will and Grace. He was just everything that was lame about the gay community. He is a eunuch.

I second Mike Seaver and add every character on [italic]Who's the Boss[/italic] from the repulsive Mona to the frigid ice queen Angela to the stereotypical stupid white male Tony to the proto-Karen Samantha to (and especially) the obnoxious and dweebish Jonathan. Jonathan in particular was so poorly written and even more poorly acted that I seriously would rather take my chances with the Sam and Maggie years of [italic]Diff'rent Strokes[/italic].

[quote] He is a eunuch.

I wouldn’t say he’s one of a kind.

Add Ed Helms to the list of "push actors." Outside of [italic]The Office[/italic], there's no there there. At least that show's writers were smart enough to realize Andy is a jerk and a loser living in the past.

Every character on Everybody Loves Raymond. That was a godawful show.

Tim Allen on Home Improvement. Maybe I was projecting, but he seemed like the very "homophobic suburban dad" when I was a kid and the type who would beat his boys for being gay.

The young son with glasses on The Goldbergs. He has a nasal, asthmatic voice that drives me up the wall. Is he one of those Emmanuael Lewis types that never grows?

Urkle - Family Matters

R153, he is a Republican today so your hunch isn't off. He probably is pretty homophobic.

R152, gotta totally disagree. ELR was perfectly cast, down to the recurring roles (Deborah's parents, Amy's parents, Ray's friends). Kudos to whoever did the casting on that show.

Everything with Home Improvement was about being a man, being manly, GRRRR - gorilla man sounds. No thanks.

A lot of pain on this thread.

You have hurt a lot of people, Television. A lot.

Abby on ER. I like Maura Tierney but she was saddled with a real Debbie Downer character who all the male characters fell in love with.

[quote]Jimmy Walker AKA " KID DY- NO - MITE "

I assume you meant J.J. Evans.

Jimmie Walker, who portrayed him, is now being even more annoying shilling for scammy Medicare programs.

Caitlyn and Bruce Jenner. It's the worst when Republican characters come to life.

what, nobody mentions “Cousin Oliver”?

No, Alice, the OP said “popular.”

R136 how popular was Brenda though? Wasn't there a newsletter dedicated to fans hatred of her?

[quote] Both the Sopranos kids. Maybe they were miscast, or maybe just written poorly, or maybe the actors just suck. Or all of the above. But their scenes are almost unwatchable.

The actors weren't all that great and the spoiled mafia brat thing got old quickly.

Allison on Melrose Place. She thought she had game but she had none.

Every single character on Friends. Every character was so hammy and over the top.

Carrie Bradshaw for being a twee asshole when I was hoping the show could be smart and fun. Also Carrie Bradshaw for milking it for over 20yrs when it was nothing to begin with. How could anyone like SJP after she’s done such an unintelligent, meaningless show?

Donald Trump

R170, this is the best scene in the entire show.

r59 - she is Jewish in reality, and was immersed in that culture when she grew up. So she can make fun of it all she wants, as far as I am concerned. Stereotypes exist for a reason - and she was never mean-spirited about it.

Alex Keaton

Claire Huxtable

Reva from Guiding Light

Jenna Wade (Priscilla Presley) Dallas

R174 Agree with all of those.

[quote] Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.

Her character was annoying as hell. But, Julie Taylor wasn't a popular character when it came to FNL.

Love Boat's Vicki Happy Days Lori Beth Dynasty's Kirby Colby

Alex Keaton - pompous and superior

Clair Huxtable - imperious

Carrie Bradshaw - queen of shallow pretension

Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy) - frozen vanilla pudding

Julia Sugarbaker - no time for long-winded sermons

Jerry Seinfeld - the most arrogant man ever on TV

Kanye West - the mental illness shtick is all a ruse

Mariah Carey - she gives 'diva' a bad name

Beyonce - I cannot stand this women's self-created aura of being separate from the rest of us

Wendy Williams - choose any 30 second clip of her show to watch and it's just PAINFULLY awkward

David Rose - Schitt's Creek

r178 Many of those people are not TV characters.

Both Gilmore Girls. Ugh. I can't even look at them without feeling homicidal.

Dawson (from Dawson's Creek NOT the 50 load one)

R180 - forgive me father, for I have sinned.

But in fairness - they have all graced my TV screen just long enough for me to dive for the remote. And in one way or another, they are playing a character at all times.

Any character played by Tracy Morgan -- SNL, 30 Rock, whatever his other show is called, Gangster something? I listened to him on Howard Stern a number of times, even before his accident, and his bizarre thought process is scary to listen to. He blurts out random things that hang in the air and you're not sure if you're supposed to laugh - like his Brian Fellows character.

Martin Lawrence!!!!! I hate that guy in anything - an adult man who acts juvenile and sounds like he just got off Pitkin Avenue. He plays a cop in those Bad Boy movies but speaks like he barely got out of the projects, bad grammar and Ebonics. (Pitkin Ave. Bklyn - not a cultured area)

Old Christine.

Georgette on MTM and that dumb blonde crime investigator on CSI: Miami. I detest kewpie doll voices.

I really could not abide that character Jonah Ryan from "Veep" - he was mega smarmy and obnoxious and every word out of his mouth was made to make you cringe and he got worse every season. I started to mute the TV when he was onscreen.

Don Draper. I wanted somebody to stab him in the back. And throw him off a cliff.

R184 I agree with you for the most on Tracy Morgan and the character he has played on TV shows. But, I admit I loved his impersonation of Star Jones on SNL.

"Georgette on MTM and that dumb blonde crime investigator on CSI: Miami."

Speaking of CSI: Miami....

Fat Tony on NCIS

Mary Sue!

[quote] Both Gilmore Girls.

I used to make fun of the mom and the daughter all the time. I used to troll my friend's facebook profile and post comments all the time saying "Wow, I cannot believe the mom and the daughter finally kissed and had sex last night! Finally!!!". She would get so pissed off lol.

The entire population of Stars Hollow, but for me in particular it was Kirk I loathed. He was supposed to be the comic relief but I never laughed at any of his scenes.

Fan favorite Darryl on The Walking Dead. He looks dirty all the time, and Norman Reedus lost me after the scene of his character mourning his brother’s death. He can’t act for shit.

I'm officially over Elizabeth Moss and June from Handmaids Tale. Either die or leave Gilead, bitch. You have had enough chances now fuck off.

I never cared for Roger or Joan on Mad Men.

Joey Potter (Dawsons Creek)

Neegan (The Walking Dead)

Skyler White

Reba

Rebecca Howe

and/or

Diane Chambers

Frazier Crane

David Silver and his crappy music.

R196 You’ll be very happy to know then that June has escaped Gilead and is ensconced in Canada creating mayhem like you would not believe.

Jeff Daniels character in The Newsroom. He was supposed to be a brilliant truth teller but represented everything horrid about the DC and NYC media. The sneering condescension at anyone who isn't an ivy league educated heterosexual white male all while pretending to be an open minded liberal. And Emily Mortimers character was obnoxious as well.

The Bundys in married with children. I get that they were never supposed to be likeable but watching the characters particularly Al, made me physically nauseated. I hate to get on a soapbox but he was everything wrong with certain Americans : cruel, hateful, ugly and entitled. And always simmering with rage. He reminds me of the type of person who would physically assault a store clerk for asking them to wear a mask.

Rachel Zane - Suits

R203 David's music career was a joke. But i feel like he was the least insufferable out of the 90210 crew.

Dr. Quinn

Caroline Ingalls

Kay Chancellor, Y&R - the actress was a huge ham

Laura Ingalls Wilder. What a sanctimonious hypocrite, and nothing but a country girl. Nellie called it right!

Has anyone from Glee been mentioned yet?

While we are picking away at the Ingalls clan, what about retarded daughter Carrie? They'd dub in the child's voice and deliberately show her from behind because she was so embarrassing. Why not replace the actress with someone who could talk?

Stiles from Teen Wolf

It's not that I couldn't stand them, but when you really love a show (and get used to watching it in reruns), there are some characters who arrive later in the run that represent the show's shark-jumping decline in quality ... and for that reason, they suck.

On Frasier: Station manager Kenny Daly, Daphne's suitor Donny, Daphne's mother, Daphne's brother Simon and then all the rest of her brothers. On Cheers: Rebecca Howe, Kelly Gaines. On MTM: Georgette On Taxi: Simka On Will & Grace: Leo Bewitched: Esmerelda Roseanne: Jackie's baby-daddy Fred

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Darlene on ROSEANNE. Moody, monotone, sarcastic, and a total bitch to her supposed boyfriend. In fact, ROSEANNE became quite misandrist in the latter seasons. The first five are the best!

The older I get, the less I enjoy the shows where people who are right are made out to be jerks.

Alexandra on Josie and the Pussycats used to be a personal hero of mine, but nowadays I think I would find her shenanigans not as entertaining.

Dr. Doug Ross on E.R. I never found him charming, just smarmy and self-satisfied. I don't know why Nurse Hathaway creamed her panties over him when she had a fucking hot boyfriend Tag.

Marcel from “Friends.”

[quote] Has anyone from Glee been mentioned yet?

I hate Kurt and his father Burt who were both very popular characters. Burt was so sanctimonious after the first season.

Ted Baxter on MTM. He always seemed to have wandered in from a different sitcom, a vastly inferior one.

[quote]KRAMER on Seinfeld- he was NEVER funny.

I couldn't agree more. And I hated the way the audience cheered his every entrance.

[quote]Jim and Pam on The Office. Both were insufferable and the Pam character was bland as a fuck.

This! I LOATHED Jim and Pam. The smugness, especially Jim's, was so off-putting. I would have avoided them like the plague if I worked in the same office and shown them every contempt if they tried to shove their baby pictures at me. But their arc kept the fraus interested and ratings were high because they were invested in them, eveb though they just happened to be the least interesting characters on the show.

Ally McBeal

HATED her. Ugly and obnoxious.

Any role Ken Olin's wife played, because she was Ken Olin's wife.

R225 She always looked like she was in pain, constipated or both.

The entire cast of Friends. Except Marcel. His acting talents soar above the rest.

r226 She stole that look from me.

Barney Fife on the "Andy Griffith Show." Ever. Neverr..

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The supporting characters were more interesting

Tim Conway on McHale's Navy. Even worse was Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show.

R230 I like that you included the whole title instead of saying Buffy Summers.

Incidentally, why was the title changed to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE KILLER in the UK? Is 'slayer' a bad word over there? I remember the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES were changed to TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES because the term 'ninja' was banned in the UK or something.

Because the UK forgot to expel all its puritans.

I quit watching ARROW because of that annoying Felicity person.

R233 I had no idea that was a thing lol. Killer just doesn't have the same ring to it.

R235 lots of Arrow fans hate Felicity.

R235 Was it because she cut her hair too?

I, along with John Early, have problems with the “sweater actresses,” so Amy Jo Johnson in “Felicity” and everyone Neve Campbell has played on screen.

Karen Cooper Fairgate McKenzie and Valene Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on Knots Landing. I loved the show, but both of those bitches were super annoying. Karen was the ultimate know-it-all yenta and Val was a simpering idiot. Abby and Laura were both way more interesting, as well as others like Greg and even Anne at times.

R239 Was she the original “Karen?”

R239

Funny you should mention that. I've often wondered where "Karen" came from and thought she fit the mold but I just can't see the younger generation (where it became a very popular term) would have even known about that show. The only other Karen who on TV who might fit was the drunk on Will & Grace, but again that was 90s and I don't think today's youth were watching that on reruns.

Maybe Henry Hill’s wife in Goodfellas?

The characters played by Sada Thompson, James Broderick, John Rubinstein, and Meredith Baxter, on Family -- or maybe it was the actors. Kellie Martin as Becca on Life Goes On. Kathleen Robertson as Claire on BH 90210.

Most of the cast/characters on Party of Five except for Scott Wolf/Bailey were unsufferable.

R224 I resemble that!

R245 I was thinking of including him but his character was sort of annoying even though he was hot.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, r244. I've been trying for months to remember who Elizabeth Leiner, the actress playing Tara on The Young and the Restless, reminds me of, and now I realize it's Paula Devicq, who played Kirsten, Charlie's girlfriend / fiancee / wife.

They could be sisters (or perhaps, by this point, mother and daughter).

r245 Jeremy, you were exceptionally sufferable as Nathan on I'll Fly Away. What happened?

I think we all agree that Jennifer Love Hewitt deserves a lifetime award in this category.

I never watched Downton Abbey beyond one episode (I didn't care for it) but when I think of the show the one face that comees into my mind is Matthew Crawley's, so I guess he had something memorable about him.

R245 Jeremy, you'll always have Mallrats and 7th Heaven.

How’s come Jeremy’s kidnapping never got the movie of the week treatment? Jason could have played him in it.

R247 Yes, she played Charlie's (Matthew Fox) girlfriend but went out with Scott Wolf irl.

I second Chris Pratt/Andy on Parks and Recs. He was ok when he was recurring on the first season and viewed as an idiot by everyone. Once they promoted him and we were supposed to view him as lovable and go "aw" over his antics he became tiresome. I also have a hard time believing April would have fallen for him and not mocked him. Probably everyone on Parks and Rec after the fourth or fifth season. It was OK season 1, hit its stride the next few seasons, started to slide once Leslie was elected to city counsel, and really slid after she was kicked off.

In the vein of Andy - almost any character who is an idiot and messes things up but we are supposed to see as lovable and perhaps having some inner wisdom that people with a regular IQ do not have. Luthor from Coach (or really any Jerry Van Dyke character); Ted and Georgette in any episode focused on them that was supposed to show some growth for Ted (they could be good in small doses); Cliff evolved into this on Cheers - funny at first but got tiresome, also Coach who I originally loved seems a lot more one note watching years later, and Carla, while not dumb just seems toxic and not funny now. She worked as a foil for Diane, but in the later years she was hateful to everyone.

This one is probably going to be unpopular, but Serena on Bewitched. Loved Sam and Elizabeth Montgomery, but she was really better as the straight man and Serena just came off as shrill and as a grating cartoon. Probably did not help that she was featured more regularly after the writing went down hill. Montgomery did a good job playing Endora disguised as Samantha in the first season and Serena's first appearance at Tabitha's birth was fine.

I hate to admit the last one, because it means I have recently watched a Charmed repeat, but Piper is really whiney and bossy. I must have still had some good will for the actress due to Picket Fences when the show first aired. Not that other characters are not annoying on the show, but they annoyed me when it was originally broadcast.

Dick Van Dyke in any of his characters. He is hammy and painfully one-note.

John Ritter on Three's Company, but then everyone on Three's Company. Also the Bundys and all their friends and neighbors.

Carolyn Stoddard, Sam Evans and Maggie Evans on Dark Shadows. Go Barnabas, GO -- kill them all.

Also the little girl who played Sarah Collins. She was cute but God Damn her acting was horrible, even by that show's low standards.

John Nettles on Midsomer Murders (British series)......I loathed him and was very glad when they phased him out of the program and replaced him with Neil Dudgeon

[quote]Jack from Will and Grace. He was just everything that was lame about the gay community. He is a eunuch.

I agree with this but I think Will was just as damaging in his own way. His whiny self-pity got really old really fast. Like faster than that tuneless non-theme non-song.

And both the women on that show were toxic, too. I once joked that Grace and Karen don't actually exist and are just the women Will and Jack wish they were. Either way, there is nothing to recommend about it. It did more damage than gays than either [italic]Amos 'n' Andy[/italic] or [italic]Good Times[/italic] did to Black people. I don't see people of color wishing to be white after watching those shows.

[quote] Rose Nylund

Rose was fine. It was Freida Claxton who was insufferable.

On Keeping Up Appearances, the vicar's wife. She added nothing to the show. Her catch phrase should have been "won't somebody please think of the children."

[quote]Rose was fine. It was Freida Claxton who was insufferable.

Then you should be glad she killed her.

R254 wrote a thesis.

I was procrastinating from doing something else in the form of writing about largely forgotten TV characters...

Also, Howard Borden, Bob Newhart Show...

The vicar's wife was indeed the worst character on Keeping Up Appearances. Elizabeth could be annoying, like, tell Hyacinth to fuck off. The worrying about breaking a teacup or beaker was carried to ridiculous extremes. No one would behave like that.

[quote]I never watched Downton Abbey beyond one episode (I didn't care for it) but when I think of the show the one face that comees into my mind is Matthew Crawley's, so I guess he had something memorable about him.

So many memories you must have of a series you watched one entire episode of.

R265 His face comes to mind because of pictures and advertisements, not because of the episode I watched that I don't even remember. When someone mentioned the actor, I didn't even connect the name with the face, but I thought it must be the one face I associate with the show, and whe I looked him up, it was. Thought he had an attractive face.

r258 Awww...., c'mon, I like JN, but will admit it took me a few episodes to warm up to him. He'd be perfect to play Louise Penny's detective, Armand Gamache.

Neil Dudgeon is to John Nettles as any of the later actresses who played Miss Marple are to Joan Hickson, i.e. annoying, over-petulant and ultimately insufferable.

Any of the characters on the series "Full House." I'd have been plotting someone's death, more than likely my own, if I had to live there.

Any charcter played by Jennifer Love Hewitt sucks.

[quote] Any of the characters on the series "Full House." I'd have been plotting someone's death, more than likely my own, if I had to live there.

Cut the brakes on their car so the next time they go on a picnic, they careen off the Golden Gate Bridge so that the Pacific Ocean becomes their watery grave.

Wasn't Careen Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister?

It is also a verb:

It was also a joke.

That and [italic]Full House[/italic] are antonyms.

Maude Findley! A bossy, sanctimonious and didactic character who couldn't go ten minutes without screaming at someone. I'm at a loss to understand the entire program. The only character I liked was Florida Evans and she came and left the show very quickly.

[quote]A bossy, sanctimonious and didactic character who couldn't go ten minutes without screaming at someone.

That describes a huge chunk of DL.

[quote]Maude Findley! A bossy, sanctimonious and didactic character

Like Archie Bunker, she was supposed to be a satire of of a certain type of bossy (etc.) liberal character from the suburbs that many people recognized. But those Norman Lear shows always mixed satire with reality and pathos so you were supposed to like the character while being appalled at their behavior.

*Like Archie in that it was satirical sed up of a certain recognizable type.

*send up. Ugh - let us edit.

She put up with Dr. Arthur Harmon who was just as conservative but not nearly as stupid, only because he was married to her best friend.

[quote] Elizabeth could be annoying, like, tell Hyacinth to fuck off. The worrying about breaking a teacup or beaker was carried to ridiculous extremes.

I don't mind the teacup/beaker shtick, but it could have been played for 10 secs and no longer. And for some reason, I found the postman hot and like his occasional appearance.

R280 I think the problem was that Elizabeth was never really defined. She was supposed to react to Hyacinth, yet she was somewhat like Hyacinth on the surface. Flowered dresses, immaculate suburban home, no job, fairly sexless, and kind of prudish. If she was a regular suburban woman who wore slacks and jeans, maybe worked somewhere, seemed a little less prissy, it might have been more likeable and more of a foil for Hyacinth's extreme "perfect lady" behavior. And what was Emmett all about?

Janice from The Sopranos. Such a grifter. And I didn't care for Michael Imperioli's character or his unibrow.

[quote] Flowered dresses, immaculate suburban home, no job, fairly sexless, and kind of prudish.

Elizabeth was quite the vixen in the episode where she was going to meet the new vicar while wearing a dress that didn't cover her elbows. Hyacinth slut shamed her.

[quote] [R235] lots of Arrow fans hate Felicity.

How do Flash fans feel about Cisco? I find him the equivalent of Felicity.

Cisco was wonderful!!

So smart and funny, too.

Cisco'll do you proud every time!

Don Knotts…from Andy Griffith to Three’s Company.

So damn annoying and unfunny.

R267

I enjoy all the early seasons of Midsomer Murders with JN as DCI Barnaby in particular the ones with Gavin......however those last seasons JN just seemed ...tired ? maybe bored? ..I don't know ..but I was glad he moved over and let Dudgeon take the role....I admit that it took a few episodes to get use to Dudgeon...but after he got his bearings..he's funny in a sedate way... I still watch it ......and I liked Geraldine McEwan as Ms. Marple............Cheers

Screech was pretty annoying.

I didn't like William Daniels' character on St. Elsewhere but I guess he wasn't supposed to be likeable. I also didn't like Anthony Edwards on ER very much.

R289: Every character on that show was poorly written and acted and the way they treated his character made it worse. No wonder the rest of Dustin Diamond's sad, miserable life was a long, downhill slide.

And how the HELL did that show get E/I status from the FCC?

I thought Iris and Joe are the characters "Flash" fans hate.

Every character on Taxi and Latka in particular.

[quote] Maude Findley! A bossy, sanctimonious and didactic character who couldn't go ten minutes without screaming at someone. I'm at a loss to understand the entire program. The only character I liked was Florida Evans and she came and left the show very quickly.

Maude was a parody of the suburban liberal while All in the Family was a parody of staunch Nixon-voting conservatives. They were essentially anti-heroes, not intended to be liked but ultimately lovable in spite of their foibles.

I recently watched the entire run of Maude and was surprised how the earlier season remained relevant, but also at how quickly the series lost its direction and eventually became a standard-issue sitcom with silly characters doing silly things. Bea Arthur was right (if not late) to call it quits when they reworked the series to make her a congresswoman -- that backdoor pilot (last episode of Maude) was God awful.

Ed Helms in The Office and the redhaired woman who kept trying to take over

Are we going to let the fact that R20 doesn't know the difference between a TV character and actual human beings slide? Oh we are?

Sabrina Duncan. She knows why.

I could not stand Blossom. She was an unattractive, condescending, snooty, know-it-all, who always had to be right about everything. She always talked down to everybody. It was so grating. She always had cute boyfriends, even though she was hideous and had a godawful personality, yet Joey and Six could not manage to find anybody. Give me a break. She was so utterly unlikable.

Nikki and Victor and all their horrible children on Y&R.

The guy on JAG, not the leads, the overweight one with a crew cut and a dumb look on his face who still manages to have a hot blonde wife.

I really couldn't take Mr. Belvedere. Especially compared the original, Clifton Webb.

R296 YES! She was AWFUL. I can’t believe the actress won awards for that performance. I just wanted to smack her. She wasn’t endearing or cute. She was annoying AF.

[quote] I could not stand Blossom. She was an unattractive, condescending, snooty, know-it-all, who always had to be right about everything. She always talked down to everybody. It was so grating. She always had cute boyfriends, even though she was hideous and had a godawful personality, yet Joey and Six could not manage to find anybody. Give me a break. She was so utterly unlikable.

Clarissa of [italic]Clarissa Explains it All[/italic] was worse. [italic]Daria[/italic] had better writing than either of them.

Why was the friend on Blossom called Six? That was weird.

Because Seven was copyrighted.

R291 what is E/I status?

It stands for Educational/Informational programming. That show is neither. It's a stupid sitcom that wasn't even good enough for prime-time TV.

R284 Cisco is liked. But Wells stuck around for far too long.

[quote] I could not stand Blossom. She was an unattractive, condescending, snooty, know-it-all, who always had to be right about everything. She always talked down to everybody. It was so grating.

I call bullshit. "Blossom" was never popular...

I know this will be sacrilege... but, Jodie Dallas on Soap.

He was tolerable for the first season even if his portrayal today would be seen as problematic. But then as the series progressed he became this annoying, moralizing, smart-aleck twerp as well as, insultingly, a gay man forever having love affairs with women. And I won't even go into his "trapped in the body of an old Jewish man" shtick that took up the entire last season of the show.

Probably doesn't help that I was never that big a fan of Billy Crystal either.

[quote]Because Seven was copyrighted.

Yes, but not by you, George.

Paul Reiser in every role.

Paul Reiser is not a TV character. Please seek help in understanding the concept between fiction and reality. Perhaps you and R20 can get a group discount.

Speaking of numbers, I never got the head of heels love for Millie Bobbie Brown’s character in Stranger Things, I can’t remember if it’s Eleven or Twelve. The first season she seemed fresh, but the actress’ skills and range have not progressed and she seems arrested down to a handful of acting tics, which she deploys in an almost sequential routine for each scene.

Hideous gay-stereotype Sean on Coronation Street. Awful actor

Arnold Horshack and Juan Epstein from Welcome Back, Kotter. Physically repulsive, cartoonish, and they looked older than Mr. Kotter. Epstein was the hairiest teenager in the world.

Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wesley too, but that's stating the obvious.

Luke Spencer owns this thread. How an average-looking, orange-afroed, 30-something unknown actor became a worldwide famous heartthrob by playing a mobster rapist who pimped out his own teenaged sister in their aunt's bordello is beyond me. Smug, unscrupulous, snarky and always smoking stinky cigars, he pushed General Hospital into the international spotlight. Never really understood the appeal of Laura either... a dithering nitwit spoiled brat with a drama queen streak, and several kills under her own belt, Bleech.

To me that classic era of GH was more about the Quartermaines, Scotty Baldwin, Heather Webber, and the other second-tier characters. Hell, even resident gossip Amy Vining was more interesting and likable.

[quote]Paul Reiser in every role.

[quote]Paul Reiser is not a TV character.

And yet "every role" refers to TV characters Paul Reiser played which the poster could not stand.

[quote]Arnold Horshack and Juan Epstein from Welcome Back, Kotter. Physically repulsive, cartoonish, and they looked older than Mr. Kotter.

Ron Palillo and Robert Hegyes are both dead. Are you happy now?

R310 she was popular enough for her show to last 5 seasons. Hard to believe.

Ralph Kramden...mean and abuse to poor Alice. I found the whole show very depressing (The Honeymooners for the youngsters here)

ITA about THE HONEYMOONERS. Ralph was a fat, abusive loser with anger issues. He didn't deserve Alice or BFF Ed Norton. Everyone lived in hideous, depressing squalor (were busdrivers that badly paid in the 50s?) I hated this show in syndication as a child and I hate it now.

"The Honeymooners" is a classic sitcom, right up there with "I Love Lucy." Ralph is a loudmouth who loves Alice deeply, as was clear at the end of every episode. How shocking that a TV comedy from the early to mid-1950s doesn't have today's woke sensibilities.

R324 Nope, my grandfather was a NYC bus driver at that time and made a decent living for his family.

Ralph was also cheap as fuck making Alice live in that shithole apartment. I think Norton, the sewer guy lived in a much nicer place. I remember when Ralph made Alice return the dog she adopted..painful..

So r325 Alice had to put up with 1/2 hour of abuse every week to so Ralph could tell her he loved her at the end? I cant see how anyone found that show entertaining

He must have spent all their money on food.

[quote] Epstein was the hairiest teenager in the world.

And pre-teen me had the BIGGEST crush on him!

[quote] Luke Spencer owns this thread. How an average-looking, orange-afroed, 30-something unknown actor became a worldwide famous heartthrob by playing a mobster rapist who pimped out his own teenaged sister in their aunt's bordello is beyond me. Smug, unscrupulous, snarky and always smoking stinky cigars, he pushed General Hospital into the international spotlight.

Anthony Geary's best work was as Philo in [italic]UHF[/italic].

[quote]Ralph was also cheap as fuck making Alice live in that shithole apartment. I think Norton, the sewer guy lived in a much nicer place.

Yes imagine how funny the show would have been if Ralph had no temper and they lived in a perfect little apartment. It would have been great if the Bunkers got better furniture and Archie got along with the Jeffersons, treated Edith like the wonderful person she was, and was nice to his son in law.

Do you people even understand comedy?!! And by the way, Alice gave it right back to Ralph with both barrels and she alwas bested him. That was also comedy.

*always

No conflict = no drama. That has been true since ancient times.

r62 Schitt's Creek has a massive tone shift towards the end of S1 that ends up being the things that pulls in so many towards the show. I agree, the family and town where unlikable the first few episodes. I don't know if it's because the family starts to accept their fate or I just started buy into the town but by the end of S1 I really liked he show. In S2 it hits it's stride.

Most people I spoke to hate the early episodes. If you try it again, took me 2 attempts, you may find that the characters are actually very lovable and not as cruel as they are when they arrive which again they were just rich assholes before.

r134 my gosh, I think I intentionally forgot that Julie Taylor existed. Hated her whiny ass. She had amazing parents yet she made everything difficult. I swear her parents had another baby just to make up for that mistake known as Julie Taylor. She also had the best boyfriend in the world and still went out of her way to make everyone miserable. I swear if he wasn't poor Matt would have left her ass but she was sadly the brightest part of his life.

Loved Friday Night Lights, but wanted Tami (her mother) to smack the shit out of her so many times.

Zack Gilford played the hell out of his role. Grade-A TV acting. Just wanted to run and hung him, the character was so cute and vulnerable.

Agreed r334. I watched the entire series for the first time during lockdown. Gilford was my favorite. Really great young actor. Shame he hasn’t had a better career post-FNL.

Fucking Ryan Lavery on All My Children, played by generic slab of wood, Cameron Mathison. He was a total asshole, had an annoying “whisper yell”, but every woman in town wanted him, even Erica Kane! I never got his appeal.

And don’t get me started on those show-killing Carey women, Krystal and Babe!

[quote]Ralph Kramden...mean and abuse to poor Alice. I found the whole show very depressing (The Honeymooners for the youngsters here)

They showed the very first Honeymooners sketch (when it was still a bit on DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars) a while back on Decades. Pert Kelton (Mrs. Paroo from "The Music Man") played Alice, and Art Carney played a cop. Then they showed the second sketch--still with Kelton, but now with Carney and Joyce Randolph as their eventual Nortons characters.

Juliette Barnes on "Nashville." She reminded me of a latter-day Lucy Ewing -- another character I detested.

[quote]Then they showed the second sketch--still with Kelton, but now with Carney and Joyce Randolph as their eventual Nortons characters.

Joyce Randolph replaced Elaine Stritch as Trixie. Stritch got fired after appearing in the episode that introduced Trixie Norton.

Mia on the limited series adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere.

I can truthfully state I never watched the American version of "The Office" because I was spoiled, watching the original British version. I never watched a single episode of "Friends" after reading the names of the cast members, I realized I would not endure watching them. "I Love Lucy" I tolerated up to a certain point, that "ohhhh Ricky" nonsense and reading that Ball was a truly horrible person.

Jackie Gleason. When I was a kid he scared the shit out of me.

Smug, bossy know-it-all John Boy Walton. If I was momma I would have made him sleep in the barn

R343 - "Hey John Boy, come here - you've got something on your face."

"What is it?"

Takes a rag, spits on it and washes it off - "It appears to be bullshit"

[quote] Joyce Randolph replaced Elaine Stritch as Trixie. Stritch got fired after appearing in the episode that introduced Trixie Norton.

Using the word "fuck" every 2 minutes on live 1950s television probably didn't do her any favors.

[quote]I never watched a single episode of "Friends" after reading the names of the cast members, I realized I would not endure watching them.

What's their names got to do with it?

R341 you sound like a contrarian.

R310 BLOSSOM was indeed popular among middle schoolers, especially teen girls and gaylings like me. Blosom's sunflower hat spawned a fashion trend in the early '90s. Furthermore, Joey Lawrence was a heartthrob and had a popular (albeit short-lived) singing career around the same time.

FFS, the Blossom post was a joke. Sheesh. I never knew the Mayim Bialik posse posted here.

Red Forman, Steven Hyde, and Donna Pinciotti on That 70s Show.

Cosmo Kramer. If he was my neighbor I would move. They went to prison because he wouldn't sit his ass down on the plane.

[quote]Jackie Gleason. When I was a kid he scared the shit out of me.

Once again, not a TV character.

R346 I don't knpw who you're quoting, but obviously the poster doesn't like any of the actors. It's not that hard to discern.

[quote]Stritchie as Trixie

Unlike Stritchie, Joyce Randolph is still with us. She's 96.

All of the characters on Barney Miller.

Julia Sugarbaker

[quote]And don’t get me started on those show-killing Carey women, Krystal and Babe!

The Carey women and Tad burying someone alive resulting in his death and facing no consequences was the final nail in the coffin for me (although it had already been in decline for a good five years by then and was watching less and less). The thing about the Carey women, is that they were not bad actresses and when they if they would have kept them as they were originally conceived - trouble makers - a grifter daughter and flawed mother who wants her daughter to marry for money and did not pay that much attention to her- they could have helped stirred the pot. Instead they quickly changed it so that that Babe = love and Krystal was the ever loving Mama who will do anything to protect her young. It did not help that they did not change their plot lines to match the character change and we were supposed to sympathize with Babe as she kidnapped babies.

Back on topic - Stuart Chandler -- everyone was supposed to love him, but he largely annoyed me and while I thought Canary was good as Adam, never thought his Stuart came off as a real person, just how some high school student would play someone mentally challenged.

Gibbs and DiNozzo on NCIS. What they got away with in 2004 was really shocking. Gibbs constantly hitting DiNozzo on the head and DiNozzo's totally inappropriate comments to female characters was so rude and jerky, Couldn't stand either of them and finally stopped watching. Saw a couple old reruns today and realized why I stopped.

[Quote] and DiNozzo's totally inappropriate comments to female characters was so rude and jerky

I doubt Michael was doing much acting in that role.

[quote] Both the Sopranos kids. Maybe they were miscast, or maybe just written poorly, or maybe the actors just suck. Or all of the above. But their scenes are almost unwatchable.

I totally agree. I think the characters were poorly-written and the actors did suck.

I rewatched "Pine Barrens," thinking it was my favorite episode. I had forgotten there was a B-plot involving Meadow being sick and whiny. I ended up fast-forwarding through the B-plot scenes.

Another vote for Rose Nylund, Golden Girls. I did not find that character cute or funny at all. Her stories about St. Olaf were interminable.

[quote] Winnie on Wonder Years.

I forgot all about her. Super boring and limp as a character. I don't know why Kevin didn't just go for Becky, who had some spark and actually liked him.

Georgette on Mary Tyler Moore. Couldn't stand the baby voice, boring character as well.

Roseanne's (original) mother, played by Estelle Parsons. Talk about an irritating voice. There was a cliffhanger where one of the characters would be revealed as gay. The gay character urns out to be Estelle Parsons, when it should have been Darlene or Jackie. It was like Roseanne was punishing the character (Parsons' character was a bad guy).

Mrs. Marie Slaughter on MTM show. Irritating voice but believable as a woman who would marry a gay man (Mr. Murray Slaughter, Gavin McCleod). I know there's a huge fan of Joyce Bulifant posting on DL and I hope to not awaken this fan.

Kris fake-ass-smile Munroe

The cast from Friends and Seinfeld...except for Julia Louis Dreyfus. I love her.

Mike Stivic - Shut the fuck up!

[quote]I don't knpw who you're quoting, but obviously the poster doesn't like any of the actors. It's not that hard to discern.

R352It's not that hard to discern who the poster is quoting - just read back 10 posts.

That Mr. Green Jeans really creeps me out, and did so even as a kid.

R367-Nowadays I identify with Archie Bunker MUCH more than the MEATHEAD.

(R346) Names attached to people I could not stand to watch.

[quote] Unlike Stritchie, Joyce Randolph is still with us.

Well let the bitch go! Why you keeping her with you?

Everybody on MASH.

GOOD TIMES- Florida Evans. So self righteous and seemed almost happy to live in poverty. Most women in that situation wouldn’t have been too proud eschew the easy money the family was sometimes offered. I really hated her when she had a negative reaction to JJ’s Black Jesus painting.

JJ Evans…his presence ruined the show. All of that cooning was so tiresome. Plus, Jimmie Walker is so mind numbingly ugly whenever they did closeups on him, I had to urp. Once the viewers latched onto him, any good intentions the show had were quickly tossed out of the window.

I loved HBO’s Oz - except for the fucking narration!

Hill Street Blues and LA Law - pretentious and self congratulatory.

Peggy Hill. I hate that bitch. I love the episodes where she is humiliated, and her enormous ego is deflated. Like when she gets arrested in Mexico, or when she enrolls in a beauty pageant. Or when Laurie Metcalf's one episode character tells her, "Why, you're at the very beginning of a rags to riches story," and then laughs at her

Jo Polniaczek in THE FACTS OF LIFE. Huge chip on her shoulder. Always surly and pugnacious. Even her face was often in a perpetual scowl. I was a small child when the show ended and never watched it in reruns, but recently, I started bingeing the series. Anyway, you would think that the rich and spoiled Blair would be the insufferable one, but, no, the blue-collar Jo is the bitch of the show. By contrast, Blair is actually quite endearing.

I agree, R378. Jo was fucking unbearable.for.several.seasons. Lets not forget she actuall y physically assaulted Blair.

[quote] JJ Evans…his presence ruined the show. All of that cooning was so tiresome. Plus, Jimmie Walker is so mind numbingly ugly whenever they did closeups on him, I had to urp. Once the viewers latched onto him, any good intentions the show had were quickly tossed out of the window.

Is that you, John Amos?

[quote] Lets not forget she actually physically assaulted Blair.

Was this a "Very Special" lesbian rape episode?

[quote] I loved HBO’s Oz - except for the fucking narration!

Couldn't agree more. Ugh he was the worst. And didn't he speak in this ridiculously pretentious and God-awful rhyme too? Good Lord.

The mom on Six Feet Under. We were supposed to accept her as demure and repressed when she suddenly exploded in screaming rages at least once per episode. Not to mention that men all but lined up to fuck her. Whatever they were seeing sailed past me completely.

The entire cast of The Big Bang Theory. It was alright until Blossom showed up, but then it turned into "Friends" and by the 38th season everyone on the cast was so old and fat it's a small wonder it wasn't called "The Shady Pines Theory". Talk about a bunch of people staying way beyond their expiration date.

Florida Evans. Uptight, self-righteous, no-neck prude. If she had let James do one, just one shady opportunity, they could have gotten out of the ghetto. But no, she was always praying to that stupid white Jesus and always giving those, "we poor, but at least we have our DIGNITY!". Bitch please!! Dignity is why they ate cabbage and cornbread all the time.

Every single actor in Good Omens. Hated the book. Tried to watch the series because I do like David Tennant, but haaaated him in that show and hated the series adaptation too. I couldn't even hate watch it to the end, gave up halfway into the second episode.

[quote] Peggy Hill. I hate that bitch. I love the episodes where she is humiliated, and her enormous ego is deflated. Like when she gets arrested in Mexico, or when she enrolls in a beauty pageant. Or when Laurie Metcalf's one episode character tells her, "Why, you're at the very beginning of a rags to riches story," ...

You forgot about when Peggy speaks in Español. Anyway, I actually liked the character. She was supposed to be insufferable in her sleeveless top and belted shorts ensemble.

The female characters on The Simpsons (nuclear family) are BORING. Marge and Lisa -- boring and one-dimensional.

Marge was good in that one episode where she got a Chanel suit and started acting pretentious.

Lisa was good in that episode "Tell-Tale Heart" where she got really jealous of a classmate.

Some of you have the same baby tastes in TV characters as you do with food

Almost all of the secondary characters on Nip/Tuck.

R390 I hated milquetoast Julia McNamara and fuck up Matt. Who did you hate?

Alex Keaton Reva Shayne Any George Clooney tv role

Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson on the inexplicably popular “Law & Order: SVU”.

A character whose only apparent trait is to reiterate again and again how disgusted and contemptuous she is of all the suspects she encounters, Officer Frowny-Face ironically elicits that very same reaction in me whenever I have the bad fortune to see her stupid performance on my TV screen.

R387, I loved Peggy for the reasons that poster hates her. She is SUPPOSED to be insufferable and innatentive to her ego failings. And that's why I like watching her. King of the Hill has far more nuanced characters than The Simpsons.

r377 = Cissy Cobb

[quote] "I am a big I Love Lucy fan, but essentially, Lucy Ricardo is a very unlikable person."

You're right, R4. If she were real, I wouldn't want to know her. It's the same with the characters of "Seinfeld" (which I love). They're even worse than Lucy. They're terrible, selfish, horrible, hateful people.

[quote] "The entire cast of The Big Bang Theory."

I FUCKING DETEST this show, R384. Particularly the Parsons character. Even playing him must've been absolutely exhausting. I wish it had never happened.

Carla from Cheers for reasons mentioned in earlier replies

Samantha from Who's the Boss for being a total bitch (I was hoping someone would cuss her out on the show, but alas, it never happened.)

J.J. Evans for being loud and obnoxious and for injuring Keith

Keith for being corny and for slapping Thelma

J.J. Evans [italic]again[/italic] for standing there when Keith slapped Thelma

You're supposed to like *not* liking them, r396.

I enjoyed "Seinfeld" when it first ran. I don't think I'd want to watch it again, though. The Jerry and George characters, ugh. Jerry Seinfeld seems like an awful person in real life, too. The Elaine and Kramer characters were OK.

Let's be honest here. Angela Lansbury is a ham not an actress

And R401 is an idiot, not a judge of talent.

Just cruising through this thread got me realizing I hate everybody. That must mean a better question might be, 'Who CAN I stand?".

Jessica Fletcher was a nosy 🧐 old bag. Just once I wish that one of the characters she busted for murder would have slapped her face.

Monica..."Friends" Bleech and CC was just an awful actress

John Black and Marlena evans. Who were these people to be looking down their noses at anyone?

TL:DR

That bitch that Helen Hunt played in the show about a married couple. With Paul Reiser. She was awful.

I couldn't stand Brenda Chenowith in Six feet Under played by Rachel Griffiths. Though I normally like Griffiths. Guess she did her job well.

(400) Watch the wonderful Jimmy Glick character attempt to interview Seinfeld., the younger Seinfeld interview, Jerry will have none of it, he has to have the last word. Another much later older Seinfeld interview, the opposite he cracks up repeatedly at Jimmy's comments. I doubt the present Jerry could fit into those tight jeans.

[quote] He was so middle class with his smug attitude towards the staff and self-righteousness with his dead fiancé’s money.

Being middle class is a bad thing??

Most Dataloungers are middle class. The rest are poor.

OP, your opinions about Matthew are ridiculous, and the subject of the thread is an incomprehensible waste of time.

[quote] Watch the wonderful Jimmy Glick character attempt to interview Seinfeld., the younger Seinfeld interview, Jerry will have none of it, he has to have the last word. Another much later older Seinfeld interview, the opposite he cracks up repeatedly at Jimmy's comments.

I honestly don;t think that was because Seinfeld was being arrogant--i think the first time he didn;t get a handle on what he was suppsoed to do. He is bristly with Gilck (Martin Short) in the first interview, but he's also being in character (which you know because he treats Glick like a real person) and clearly thought that was what he was supposed to do. but the funniest Jiminy Glick interviews are when the interview subject relaxes and just lets Short do his thing and cracks up, and I think Seinfeld realized this between the two interviews.

The funniest Glick interviews--Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nathan Lane, Steve Martin--just let Short crack them up, and the pleasure is seeing them lose it.

Short is too beloved among comics for anyone to be genuinely competing with him or angry with him.

(411) As the poster of (408) you make a very valid observation about the Seinfeld interviews. Besides the one's you listed, I enjoy the Jimmy Fallon, Mickey Rooney and Dennis Miller where Jimmy wisely states there should be a scroll at the bottom of the screen to explain what he (Dennis) is talking about.

I hated Kramer on SEINFELD. HE was the most unpleasant of all the characters on that show. George’s parents a close second.

'Patty Lane' on THE PATTY DUKE SHOW. She was always scheming, conniving, and using people. And she often treated her on-again/off-again boyfriend Richard like shit, taking him for granted and dropping him when he was of no use to her. There was an episode where he asked her to some school dance and she strung him along and didn't give him a definite answer, hoping for someone 'more gorgeous' to ask her out instead. Another time she dumped Richard as soon as she heard that the football captain liked her. Granted, Richard could be a bit of a doofus, but he was also endearing, which made Patty's mistreatment of him vile, especially since he was loyal to her.

r414 adores a minuet, the Ballet Russe, a crèpe Suzette...

[quote]'Patty Lane' on THE PATTY DUKE SHOW. She was always scheming, conniving, and using people.

Patty seemed emotionally unstable. A hot dog made her lose control!

OK. I hated Captain Kangaroo, he seemed like a pervert. I hated Seinfeld and everyone on that show except for Julia Louis Dreyfus. I have watched maybe 4 episodes of Friends and couldn't stand those people.

O M G I thought Cap Kanga was a total perv too!

Most of the characters on EIGHT IS ENOUGH. Except for Joan Prather’s character.

Buffy Davis on FAMILY AFFAIR. I wanted to take that goddam Mrs. Beasley doll and beat her to death with it.

[quote]Buffy Davis on FAMILY AFFAIR. I wanted to take that goddam Mrs. Beasley doll and beat her to death with it.

Buffy helpfully offed herself on your behalf after the show went off the air.

Sheldon on both TBBT and Young Sheldon.

[quote] O M G I thought Cap Kanga was a total perv too!

A close friend in college was bffs with his daughter growing up on Long Island - Babylon IIRC. Even though I never watched the show I was excited by the close brush with a legend. So easily impressed back in the day. Never heard any perv stories but I never asked.

The entire cast of Taxi.

The entire cast of Seinfeld

The entire cast of The Cosby Show

The entire cast of Family Ties

The entire cast of Beverly Hillbillies

The entire cast of Magnum P.I.

R423 the entire cast of Family Ties was popular? Even Jennifer?

Cindy Brady

The Schitt's Creek family. Send faggy David and his eyebrows straight to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison and see how he "deals." Send the idiot sister and the vapid mother to the OITNB cell block, and see how quickly the bitches end up bald and sobbing in the shower.

Also the dead-eyed chick from Bones, the entire cast of Two and a Half Men, the sunglasses dude from CSI: Miami, the fake-goth chick from NCIS (created so grandpas at home could understand their grandkids), everyone on Will & Grace except Karen, Cosmo Kramer, Josh Lyman on The West Wing, and Andy Cohen on everything.

R421 I hated that Beasley doll too.

I was over at Anissa Jones place in Playa del Rey shortly before she died. The old house was a dingy mess. It was also odd because the couch was literally eaten in half by her dog. AJ had one of those massive mastiff dogs. It blew me away when she died shortly thereafter. I think she was only about 17.

Anissa Jones was 18 when she died.

OP Matthew Crawley was cute. I couldn't take my eyes off him. The Irish but and Blake were hot too and I had an odd attraction to Bates.

TMI R430

Fraiser. I like the other characters, but, like Leon on Mr. Robot, I didn't understand why so many attractive woman (and in one episode the gorgeous James Patrick Stuart) wanted to bang him.

[quote] Besides the one's you listed,

Oh, dear!

[quote] so many attractive woman

Just the one, dear?