Nobody’s yet mentioned “Hawkeye” from MASH?
“Hey yes, I’ll direct the show, and make sure my ugly mug gets all the attention, hoping that nobody realises I’m just blatantly ripping off Groucho Marx in the process!”
To this day, I can’t stand Alan Alda.
JD from Scrubs. What a whiny, neurotic, self-obsessed little twat.
As a matter of fact I think the only major Scrubs characters I could get on with would be Turk, Perry Cox and Jordan. And those last 2 would get pretty tiresome after awhile.
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Fortunately I’ve seen them before so I can fill in the plot elements in my head without subjecting myself to the irritation again.
That was hilarious. Seriously, though, in my personal experience, most people that I know personally who liked Reagan when he was in office had realized how damaging he really was by now. Scary to think there are still a lot of people who idolize him. :X
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Yeah, you read that right.
There’s an episode where he takes command of the enterprise. Goes from station to station treating everyone like shit. That ain’t Command, it’s asshattery.
Then there’s the “In…precisely…5.3 seconds”. Yeah? From “precisely” when, you micromanaging twit? It took you that long just to SAY that!
And there’s always the stern Vulcan denial of their emotions. Yeah, somehow I don’t find that something to be admired. Somewhere inside him there’s a little Vulcan Micheal Palin screaming “Help Help! I’m being repressed!”
I’ve got to back up the others here, Opal. I don’t know to whom you’re referring but, in general, Ronald Reagan is the most worshipped man in the Republican Party in the last 100 years. Possibly longer.
Totally agreed! And any other character that Don Knotts played.
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned that pustule on the ass of humanity, Mother Theresa? What’s even more disgusting is the rush to canonize her.
Not that that hasn’t stopped Disney from making wholesale changes in the past. If the little mermaid can marry her prince, Cinderella could have a spine.
(Though to give Disney a little credit, Cinderella is a 1950s princess - I think women evolved spines in approximately 1963. Well, there were women who had spines earlier - mutants who got us sufferage and flew airplanes in the 1920s and built ships during WWII.)
Oprah. Sure, I admire her for overcoming her difficult beginnings against all odds, considering all the strikes she had against her.
But more and more she’s been getting into this religion/spirituality/mysticism thing. She may substitute the word “Universe” for “God,” but it means the same thing. On a recent show, she said something like “The Universe has plans for all our lives. You all know that, right?” and everyone in the audience said “Yeah” and nodded their heads. I really wanted to puke.
And her book club? Who the hell recommends “The Bridges of Madison County” as the epitome of fine literature? The book was awful and the movie was even worse.
Well I know very few hardcore republicans. Most of the people I knew who liked him at the time were fairly moderate.
Hon, do you not own a TV? Can you not read? How did you miss his state funeral? It was a massive, all-media outlet world-wide weeper, just in 2004, not even remotely a “hardcore republicans” event, or remote in any sense even, oh. my. god. To make a claim that when he left office “pretty quickly afterward people realized what a piece of shit he was as a president” as you did earlier, and try and stick with it is mystifying, baffling, and frankly, disappointing. We are doomed with the likes of ye.
Pinocchio. What a feckless, callous little shit of a user he was:
“Here are my life savings, Pinocchio. Use them to buy books so that you can go to school - and don’t betray my trust in you; I scrimped and saved for years so that you could have the best.”
“I promise, Gepetto - ooh, gambling! Shiny!”
{Several misadventures later}
“Well, I hope you’ve learned your lesson, Pinocchio: you nearly broke your father’s heart, and he’s been wandering the world in rags looking for you. Now here is the money he got from selling his corneas: buy some more school books - and no straying this time.”
“I promise, Blue Fairy. I’m going to make him proud of me this time - ooh, drinking! Groovy!”
{Lather, rinse, repeat}
The Disney movie nerfed him somewhat, but in the original book he was just hateful. Gepetto spent his entire life busting his hump to try and give him the best, and the little shit would just blow the money on high living the first chance he got, then come back a few months later tearfully repentant, dip into the life savings again, and repeat the process. He never ever got called on it, bar a light scolding which he’d deflect by turning on the waterworks: Gepetto and the Blue Fairy were just enablers.
And Snow White {the original, not the Disney version} was too fucking stupid to live:
“We’re going to work, Snow White. Now remember your evil stepmother has sworn to kill you, so don’t open the door to anyone until we get back.”
“Oh, I won’t, Seven Dwarves.”
“Hey lady, wanna buy a comb?”
“Oooh, shiny!”
{Lather, rinse, repeat}
I loathed the coyote. Moron could’ve bought a restaurant plus his own chef and eaten in luxury till the end of his days with the money he spent trying to kill the Roadrunner, who was all about enjoying life. The coyote was idiotic and vengeful and the lesson taught was that karma will bite your stupid hairy butt if you behave like a sonumabeetch. Go karma!
I recall disliking Captain Kangaroo when I was a kid because he seemed to me a “born loser” type and I don’t think that sort of character is funny at all. (However, I never had a problem with Charlie Brown.)
I didn’t like Erma Bombeck either. I guess she was okay when she stuck to describing her exciting adventures shampooing the rug but when she tried to make some sort of philosophical commentary on the human condition she sank into Glurgeland. Also, someone should have told her that griping about kids today and their horrible rock and roll music got old back in 1966.
And I’ll second or third Ghandi, though it’s not him so much as the way people deify him that bothers me. He was a human and like the rest of us he had flaws but his fans forget that.
Why would I watch coverage of his funeral? Why would I care? I’m talking about like in the mid-90s, what everyone who I personally knew said at the time. You know, as they realized the effects of his craptacular financial policies were turning out to be, and all that. Again, why do you feel the need to insult? I haven’t insulted you. Nothing I said was untrue: I was speaking in my experience, among people I knew. Unless you know the same group of people that I do and know for a fact that they thought differently, then shut yer yap.
He is by me. I don’t particularly give a fuck what liberals think of him.
I am going to jump in and defend my homegirl Oprah, here. I never understood why people don’t like her. I get the feeling she is misunderstood. The ‘mysticism’ a lot of people refer to…I never noticed that. I did notice that her language can get a bit new-agey, but when you break it down, she really is just teaching people how to pull on their own inner strength. She is basically telling people that the ‘God’ they may be looking for to save them, is really their own spirits. People have to save themselves.
Now, with that being said, if she did indeed say exactly what you quoted above, about the universe having plans for us all…well that sounds borderline coo-coo. Still, even* that* quote could be interpreted logically.
Now, if she did say that The Bridges of Madison County was the epitome of fine literature, well… I sure as hell can’t defend that. I will admit that I kind of liked it though. But then, I liked the DaVinci Code; so I aint getting invited to any elite literary clubs anyhow.
The people of Eastern Europe, who actually knew what Communism was like, would disagree.
Ok, fine, but who cares? This isn’t the point of the thread. When I started it, I wasn’t even thinking about real people, which is why I said “characters”. Someone mentioned Reagan, which just surprised me, and I said so. Can we move on already? Christ. :rolleyes: