Which is why I would pit Michael O’Donoghue, if he were beloved by anyone but his mom, and the thread rules allowed.
I love the Muppets, and dislike writers who are too “important” to deign to write funny and touching stuff for felt because he had to write groundbreaking and socially relevant stuff like Chevy Chase pratfalls and John Belushi in a bee costume.
Go Muppets.
:mad: Hey, I resemb… er…
Agnes really struck a chord with me because I’ve been where she is (well, not literally standing in front of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, but you get the idea) and I felt that Pratchett nailed her characterization perfectly. I have to agree that Tiffany’s slightly more interesting, though.
Apparently, the cast wasn’t too fond of the Muppets either. I believe it was John Belushi who so wonderfully referred to them as “the mucking Fuppets.”
Squall Leonhart and most of the other Final Fantasy heroes. He’s just the most noxously self-pitying screw-up of the bunch. BTW, I love FF, but its the supporting characters that keep me involved.
Veronica Mars is a manipulative, psychotic criminal who is clearly a complete sociopath. I despise her, and yet I love the show. Go figure.
And Scarlett…well, she was all those things, but I still love her. She was the black sheep who survived the war and thrived because she was a black sheep (in fact, Margaret Mitchell even considered the title “Baa Baa Black Sheep” for the book). She is like a phoenix rising from the ashes; it has nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with survival. That’s why I love the end of the book…she resolves to go on, and there is nothing that can stop her. I admire her strength of character.
No pitting here, it actually came across as mean-spirited to me for Andy to keep Barney around as a deputy, he was really criminally incompetent. Yeah it was supposed to be funny, but I cringed every time Barney screwed up.
Thank you! The few times I’ve actually been in the room when this show was on, I had to wonder if viewers were actually supposed to like this obnoxious, snarky brat.
Yeah, it does, though I was such a Star Wars geek that I overlooked his Muppetness. I preferred him in the prequels when he was CGI.
That’s hilarious! I always liked Michael O’Donoghue.
My favorite O’Donoghue line was when, after being fired by Dick Ebersole, he posted this note:
I am leaving Saturday Night Live because I was fired by Dick Ebersole. If he says it happened any other way he is, to borrow a phrase from Louisa May Alcott, a lying cunt.
HERETIC! THE STREETS WILL FLOW WITH THE BLOOD OF THE NON-BELIEVERS!
Put me down for Lucile Ball…that whiney voice <shudder>
I’m also cheering for Commodore Norrington and if Paris had skewered Romeo (that whiny, immature twit), I’d’ve cheered.
I’ve paged through the previous posts, and if I’ve missed it I apologize.
But, my nominee is Tinker Bell.
For all her attempts to endear herself to American audiences through her frolicking at the begining of the “Wondefrul World Of Disney”, she seemed to me to be a vindictive “silly ass.”
Along the lines of Lucy, I could never stand Stan Laurel in his character roles. He was just a whiney , grating tosser who deserved what befell him.
Spongebob Squarepants.
Loved by mostly children, surely. But I cannot stand this annoying insipid character.
And I don’t think we’re really meant to like either Rhett or Scarlett. Both are equally miserable characters, and romantically twisted. A book that was written at the time had all the elements for a nice trashy novel of today’s standards that we wouldn’t give a second glance to if it hadn’t been so long and detailed. I could see a Fabio look alike on the cover of this book.
I don’t think I’ve seen this one mentioned yet, but I never could stand Vincent D’Onofrio’s character from Law & Order: CI. A few years ago, both him and the show seemed to be getting heaps of praise (this was before the CSI explosion), but the couple times I watched it, I always thought that character was really creepy and irritating. Sort of like a disturbed, evil-genius guy in a James Bond movie.
I also couldn’t stand anyone on Friends, save maybe Phoebe on occasion, if for nothing else because she had the best line ever on that show:
someone: "What are you watching?:
someone else: “Three’s Company.”
Phoebe: “Is that the episode where someone overhears something, and they all get mad at each other, but it was just a misunderstanding? I think I’ve seen than one.”
Talk to the Hand.
Does someone like him? I hate that smug bastard!
Agreed!! Telling people sorely deprived of nearly every worldly good by rampant overpopulation that the Ultimate Sin was to accept any and all forms of fertility suppression was itself an ultimate sin. It smacked of job protection for Catholic Charities, ie., if the people could eventually reduce their population to the point where they could sustain themselves they eventually wouldn’t need Catholic Charities.
Agreed. And that reminds me.
Paris.
The one from the Iliad.
YOU STUPID TWERP.
Yeah, yeah, a goddess said you could have her. That’s why Aphrodite won that stupid contest – because you think with your dick. So you grab her and go running off without apparently considering the consequences of oh, say, irritating the king of a powerful city-state?
Romantic hero my aunt Fanny.
Is it covered with well-crafted felt?
-Joe