most annoying tv character in history

[Ptrope]

Well sorrrrrrryyyyy! Speaking as the person with the single most misspelled username in Internet history, I don't feel too bad.

Actually, that would be me - there's only ONE syllable, and the "P" is psilent, but I usually get "P-Trope" (why they put in a hyphen where none exists, I'll never know ...)

As for annoying: Old Christine. Yeesh!!! I didn't know Julia Louis-Dreyfus could get more grating, but she achieved it in spades.

In sci-fi, Jar-Jar and the entire cast of Lynch's Dune.

 

[Mutara Nebula 1967]

SCREECH in Saved By the Bell: THE NEW CLASS

On the orginal show he was a dorky guy but on the NC he acted like he had a lobotomy and was presented as a cartoon characters ala Dietrick Bader in Third Rock from the Sun.

 

[payndz201]

Billie from Charmed. Quite a feat, considering what the show's heroines had degenerated to by the start of season 8 when she was introduced. Piper (as much as I love the character) was a shrill, sarcastic, passive-aggressive shrew; Phoebe was a man-obsessed, narcissistic moron whose only concern in life was finding the right sperm donor to knock her up; Paige was a spazzy halfwit who reflected Rose McGowan's utter hatred of still being on the show with every pout, arm flap and muggy facial expression.

But then Billie came along and made them all look like goddamn saints. She was the show's fucking Poochie, spawn of focus groups and demographic placements and thankfully stillborn ideas for spin-offs. Yeah, let's bring in a Mary Sue who's more powerful than the main characters and better at everything than they are and younger and blonder and not in the least bit whiny, sidegobbed, frazzle-haired and functionally retarded, at the expense of the sisters' screentime! The fans'll love her, right?

 

[mostly_nameless]

Billie from Charmed. Quite a feat, considering what the show's heroines had degenerated to by the start of season 8 when she was introduced. Piper (as much as I love the character) was a shrill, sarcastic, passive-aggressive shrew; Phoebe was a man-obsessed, narcissistic moron whose only concern in life was finding the right sperm donor to knock her up; Paige was a spazzy halfwit who reflected Rose McGowan's utter hatred of still being on the show with every pout, arm flap and muggy facial expression.

But then Billie came along and made them all look like goddamn saints. She was the show's fucking Poochie, spawn of focus groups and demographic placements and thankfully stillborn ideas for spin-offs. Yeah, let's bring in a Mary Sue who's more powerful than the main characters and better at everything than they are and younger and blonder and not in the least bit whiny, sidegobbed, frazzle-haired and functionally retarded, at the expense of the sisters' screentime! The fans'll love her, right?

I still think Scrappy Doo is the ultimate winner, but I can definitely see her place in the top 2 or 3. She can fight to the death for second place with the Brady's cousin Oliver.

 

[Trekker4747]

SCREECH in Saved By the Bell: THE NEW CLASS

On the orginal show he was a dorky guy but on the NC he acted like he had a lobotomy and was presented as a cartoon characters ala Dietrick Bader in Third Rock from the Sun.

I dunno. In the original show he was a bit more than the "dorky guy."

 

[Gil T.Azell]

"No thank you, Mrs. Cleaver. I really must be getting home. We're having squab this evening." - Eddie Haskell

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

-Chakotay (I used to laugh so hard everytime would recite his 'akoocheemoya' thing. Yeah, the spelling is probably wrong.)

OT but there probably is no incorrect way to spell it considering it's a word transliterated from a foreign language that doesn't even use the Roman alphabet.

What is this? I sat down, read all 166 posts, and I'm seriously the first one to mention Dr Lee from Stargate?

Forgot about him, wow! You think the writers would have killed him off

guess not


but I found the other two middle aged geeks to be very funny, one of them was played by John Billingsley

I liked Dr. Coombs (John Billingsley's Star Trek obsessed scientist in "The Other Guys"). But I couldn't stand Dr. Felger (the one played by the guy from The Red Green Show). He's worse than Dr. Lee. He's the reason why "Avenger 2.0" is one of the few Stargate SG-1 episodes that I deem completely unwatchable and without any redeeming features whatsoever.

But what's really scary is that, in Season 4 of Atlantis, you had both Carter & McKay in the Pegasus Galaxy. So, if there was another crisis on Earth, we were left with Dr. Lee to save the day. Might as well just jump off a skyscraper now.

Mrs. Oleson from Little House On The Prairie. Why her husband or the town didn't arrange an accident for this creature astounds me.

I think it's a little different when the character is supposed to be insufferable and annoying. Mr. Olsen was a pussy for putting up with her as much as he did but at least no one on the show pretended that she was supposed to be likable. The most annoying characters are the ones that are annoying but everyone on the show loves them for some unfathomable reason. (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica and Lana Lang on Smallville spring immediately to mind.)

He's only mildly annoying compared with the Olympians of Annoyance that Stargate has thrown at us, starting with [...] that guy Richard Kind played

I don't think I found him quite as annoying as everyone else here does but I am appalled that they chose one of his episodes in which to kill off Kolya (perhaps the coolest villain in the entire Stargate universe). It's insulting.

Don't forget this guy

He's annoying in his naivete. Yes, you're married to a Cylon. Yes, she's a good person. That doesn't mean that the rest of the Cylons aren't still your enemy. It doesn't change the fact that the Cylons killed 50 billion people during the initial attack. It doesn't mean that many of them wouldn't hesitate to kill you where you stand if they had the chance.

The only thing that immediately prevents me from listing Helo is only that that show has provided us with so many characters that are even more annoying than him (i.e. Starbuck, Apollo, Tori, President Roslin, Dee after she dumped Billy, etc.).

 

[Count Zero]

Several companions of the Doctor have already been mentioned and I must admit I'm not far enough in my watching Classic Who to comment on them but I have to mention the Doctor's first companion here, his granddaughter Susan. When she's not screaming she's either crying, arguing with the Doctor for no good reason or being just plain hysterical and holding everyone else up. It's really annoying. No wonder the Doctor drops her in devastated 22nd century London. I guess, she's also the real reason why he "doesn't do domestic"...

 

[Gojirob]

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I think it's a little different when the character is supposed to be insufferable and annoying. Mr. Olsen was a pussy for putting up with her as much as he did but at least no one on the show pretended that she was supposed to be likable. The most annoying characters are the ones that are annoying but everyone on the show loves them for some unfathomable reason. (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica and Lana Lang on Smallville spring immediately to mind.)

I concede your point...up to a point. For the reasons you gave, I would never list the 70's other two once-human/then-caricature great characters, Frank Burns and Ted Baxter (who I think actually had a Muppet modeled after him). But Harriet went above and beyond. She had settled into a 'tolerable' insufferability, with things like using her new phone company to lift gossip in-town and almost ruin a marriage. But as the show went on, she got worse even within those standards. Best case in point : A young girl Albert was dating had been sexually assaulted and became pregnant. Mrs. Olsen insistedly stated that Albert was the father, and the gossip grew til Albert gave in and said he was, just because no one would believe otherwise. The girl's father forbid them to see each other, and the girl grew so isolated that the rapist was able to attack her a second time, this time causing her death. Later still, Harriet adopted Nellie-clone Nancy, a purer monster than Nellie at her very worst.

So it is that even a character who is supposed to be tolerably annoying as part of the overall plot can become just plain flabergastingly annoying.

 

[drasche]

Reginald Barclay in TNG. I watched Hollow pursuits yesterday and the way he talks, and being always late, it's a wonder how a man like this came on board the Enterprise.

 

[Orac Zen]

Reginald Barclay in TNG.

Oh, good - it sometimes seems I'm about the only person who finds Barclay irritating beyond belief. I get the "point" of the character; I just don't find the character even slightly credible or likeable. To each their own.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

There was a lot they could have done with Kolya, and it's not like SG:A has a whole lot of fascinating villains and when they do get one, they quickly make him un-fascinating thru cliched writing (eg, poor Michael).

And I can't believe I forgot Helo! But in a way, he's not annoying - he's simply more loyal to his Cylon wife than to his fellow humans - and in a sense, since he can have children with a Cylon, by definition she is a member of his own species, so why not be loyal to her?

It's more Adama and Roslin who I found annoying in that scenario.

The most annoying characters are the ones that are annoying but everyone on the show loves them for some unfathomable reason. (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica and Lana Lang on Smallville spring immediately to mind.)

Starbuck's grating-ness is explained by her character history and has a valuable role in the story. But there's no excuse for Lana Lang.

 

[kitkat]

^

I agree. I know people can't stand her but to me, that's the character. You're not supposed to like her. She's very broken and while lots of things aren't her fault, she doesn't do anything to make things better for herself. In reality, she's true to character every single episode.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Several companions of the Doctor have already been mentioned and I must admit I'm not far enough in my watching Classic Who to comment on them but I have to mention the Doctor's first companion here, his granddaughter Susan. When she's not screaming she's either crying, arguing with the Doctor for no good reason or being just plain hysterical and holding everyone else up. It's really annoying. No wonder the Doctor drops her in devastated 22nd century London. I guess, she's also the real reason why he "doesn't do domestic"...

I find the First Doctor more annoying than Susan.

The only time he didn't annoy me was in The Five Doctors. I wish Richard Hurndall had always played the part.

 

[kitkat]

Speaking of the Doctor, I finally got to where I could at least somewhat stomach David Tennant (I use that term very loosely and I still wasn't watching like I did when Eccleston was on) and then that ANNOYING Donna (I think that's her name) is the companion this season. She is possibly the most annoying person I've ever seen on TV. My husband and I both said, ENOUGH!

 

[Atavachron]

Fran Drescher

Joan Rivers.

Atavachron

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Having just watched the latest episode of Charlie Jade, I must repeat:

01 Boxer.

we need a poll

 

[Captain Shaw]

Lucius from SGA and Jacks daughter from 24 and i hated captain Archer in the first few seasons of enterprise.

 

[Super Grover]

Any character played by Chris Elliot.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Jar Jar and Ryan Seacrest for the tie.