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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.
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Well, I guess that answers the OP. I know he’s beloved by some, but I thought he was jerk and a national grandpa figure.
[QUOTE=kung fu lola]
Meredith Grey. When they almost killed her during Sweeps I was like; “Yes, please do die.”
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Amen. Most of the interns are useless & annoying, but she’s the worst. And have you noticed that she virtually never does any actual medical practice? She’s probably incompetent, too.
[QUOTE=jsc1953]
Amen. Most of the interns are useless & annoying, but she’s the worst. And have you noticed that she virtually never does any actual medical practice? She’s probably incompetent, too.
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She always looks like she’s one vicodin short of an addiction, too. I want a little SNAP! in my surgeon, thank you.
Holden Caufield. I shocked my 11th-grade teacher when I opined that Holden was the “phony”, that his problem was his self-serving, narcissitic, “look-at-me-I’m-so-depressed-I’m-cooler-than-everyone-else” attitude.
Actually, what I think shocked her was when I said “what Holden needs is a good ass-kicking and a set of balls larger than pebbles.”
How could we leave out . . .
**THE POPE!!!
**Who is more “beloved” by more people, worldwide? And who is more invested in preserving the traditional status-quo, no matter how many millions of lives suffer from it?
Bobby Ewing! If only he had kept his nose out of JR’s business. And he had to go and marry that Barnes girl.
Every Shirley Temple character ever.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
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!
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Hey, ease up. Wile E. demonstrated some pretty obvious symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Acme Corporation is notorious for quality control problems with its line of psych meds.
[QUOTE=kung fu lola]
Meredith Grey. When they almost killed her during Sweeps I was like; “Yes, please do die.”
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I only see that show when the girlfriend is watching it and I have nothing better to do…and you’re so right.
Then again, I’ve pretty much reached that point with John Dorian, myself.
-Joe
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
Rincewind. Why the hell does everybody like Rincewind? He’s annoying and boring at the same time!
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He’s supposed to be. He only does the right thing by accident or because he can’t run fast enough.
I don’t think that anyone really likes Rincewind.
Si
[QUOTE=zhongguorenmin]
JD from Scrubs. What a whiny, neurotic, self-obsessed little twat.
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Yes! Zach Braff is completely insufferable, and his puppy-dog-eyes/wacky-ass shtick got old seasons ago. The fact that they’re positioning a possible reunion with him and Elliott is infuriating because she deserves so much better than this irritating, petulant, immature jerk. Ugh.
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Yes! Zach Braff is completely insufferable, and his puppy-dog-eyes/wacky-ass shtick got old seasons ago. The fact that they’re positioning a possible reunion with him and Elliott is infuriating because she deserves so much better than this irritating, petulant, immature jerk. Ugh.
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insufferable Elliott infuriating irritating, petulant, immature jerk. Ugh.
I don’t know if Little Bear (as seen on Noggin) is beloved or not, but as my daughter was watching it yesterday, I said to my husband, “I really want to punch him in the face.”
Oh, and Elmo, the Doodlebops and the Wiggles, too.
Scooby-Doo.
I never got into that show the way a lot of my Gen-X contemporaries did just because it drove me crazy to see Scooby get credit for solving mysteries when all he did was run around in sheer terror.
Shaggy, on the other hand, worked for me because nobody gave him credit for anything – which seemed fitting.
(In contrast, I always hated that Skipper hit Gilligan on the head all the time. Gilligan was not the only fuckup on that island.)
[QUOTE=pherorama]
Will Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean.
I kept hoping he’d die throughout the first movie, and was disappointed when he didn’t. Maybe he’s improved in the second and third ones, but I doubt it.
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I hate Miss Swann so much more. Not that I can’t understand that she doesn’t want to marry someone she has no feelings for, but –
A) It was very much expected in her era, especially of a governor’s daughter, to marry someone chosen for her. It sucks, but there you go. She would have grown up knowing that was the case; it could hardly have come as a surprise. Of course, being a romantic and wanting to marry someone you loved is not exactly a shocker, but that brings me to –
B) Will is the cleanest damn blacksmith I’ve ever seen. I know, Disney, minor quibble.
C) Norrington is made out to be this Big Ol’ Dickhead, but his big thing? Hunting pirates. Oooh, big meanie. You know what pirates do? They steal and burn his ships and the merchant vessels that bring Little Miss Overpriveleged her silk dresses and morning tea. They murder, rape, pillage. Apparently they also piss off dark evil gods. He’s a meanieface because he’s not happy with the guy who helped a notorious liar and thief escape from prison, steal the prize ship of his fleet, and run off to rescue a girl on the word of, I’ll say it again, a notorious liar and thief who’s probably working toward his own ends? Who is PROVEN to be working toward his own ends and really has minimal interest in getting Miss Swann home?
His dislike of Will is probably at least partially due to his infatuation with Elizabeth, but he has plenty of actual reason to let the boy rot. But he doesn’t, and that’s at least partially – again – due to his infatuation with Elizabeth. In fact, there’s a deleted scene that occurs straightaway after Elizabeth promises to marry him if he’ll just rescue the boy. Essentially, he takes her aside and says “Look. It’s my duty to bring him back, at least. I’m willing to let the matter slide. But I don’t want our marriage predicated on this favor. I don’t want you to marry me just to keep him alive.” To which she replies “Oh no, sweetie! You’re totally awesome. Wedding for the win.” Which makes him all happy and cheerful about the future.
AND AS IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH. Their meeting in the second movie –
where she sighs sadly at the sight of scraggly, drunken Norrington and says “What has the world done to you?” nearly made me jump out of my seat. It’s not the world, honey. It’s you. You took a decent, proud man and dragged him down to the level of that which he hates.
And that petulant little girl swoon was just the last nail in your coffin. Die, Miss Swann.
Yeah, if you can’t guess, I watch the movies to root for Commodore Norrington and laugh my butt off at Jack Sparrow.
[QUOTE=kung fu lola]
Meredith Grey. When they almost killed her during Sweeps I was like; “Yes, please do die.”
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Seconded. How self-involved can you get?
Pretty much every recurring sketch character on MADtv (“beloved” is probably stretching things a bit, but at least their studio audience enthusiastically cheers the appearances and the catchphrases).
Particularly some of those played by Michael McDonald, e.g. “Stuart,” whom I find so excruciatingly unfunny that I honestly begin to feel rage develop if I don’t immediately change the channel.
Goldilocks
How dare that impudent little girl just stroll into some strange house and start sampling food, flopping around on the furniture, and taking a snooze in someone else’s bed? And she was harshly critical of the bears’ possessions (“This one is too hot! This one is too cold! This one is too large! This one is too…, etc.”), even though she had no business being there. I always loved the “Simpsons” parody in which she gets savagely mauled (offscreen).
Foghorn Leghorn
I say, that there rooster is the suckiest Warner Brothers character, I say!
Jack & Karen (“Will & Grace”)
Shrill, one-note characters that became tiresome about five episodes into the first season of the show. The fact that they were more interesting than the title characters speaks less about how great they were, and more about how utterly banal this supposedly edgy, ground-breaking show was.
[QUOTE=jsc1953]
Amen. Most of the interns are useless & annoying, but she’s the worst. And have you noticed that she virtually never does any actual medical practice? She’s probably incompetent, too.
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I just realized (in support of my own point)…the only time this season that I can recall Meredith Grey dealing with a patient, happened in the last episode I saw (I’m a few weeks behind in my Tivo queue), and I remember thinking how unusual it seemed at the time.
But the patient was her step-mother. Who promptly died.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
Particularly some of those played by Michael McDonald, e.g. “Stuart,” whom I find so excruciatingly unfunny that I honestly begin to feel rage develop if I don’t immediately change the channel.
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Fucking A, hell yes, definitely.
McDonald and Collins and their recurring “popular” characters made me stop watching the show, eventually.
-Joe
[QUOTE=Scissorjack]
“Infidelity does not consist of believing, or disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” Tom Paine, The Age Of Reason
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Well said. Good point. I still believe Oprah is misunderstood though. And I do like her.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
I knew someone would say this. But the same reaction can be said of all the characters nominated here: “Of course they’re like this, that’s how they were deliberately written!” But that doesn’t make my dislike of the character any less legitimate.
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He’s a dick, an addict, a manipulator, and is very ethically challenged. And yet, he is usually the only one willing and able to do anything necessary to keep his patient alive. I couldn’t stand to be House’s friend, but damned if I don’t watch the show because of him.