# Characters that you would smother with a pillow for the good of humanity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783 "2016-09-12T20:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/61 "2016-09-18T01:14:36Z")
Cersei Lannister & Petyr Baelish. Pretty much 90% of Westeros’s tragedies has one or the other to blame. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/62 "2016-09-18T05:14:01Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > Jenna Maroney, _30 Rock_. I have not like Jane Krakowski in any role I’ve ever seen her in. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/63 "2016-09-18T19:32:07Z")
Lumpy Rutherford. Lucy Ricardo. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/64 "2016-09-19T20:43:47Z")
Everybody’s mother in sitcoms – Seinfeld, Rosanne, all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/65 "2016-09-19T22:02:53Z")
Hey if we’re going with McMurphy why stop there. Nurse Ratched should have been on Bromden’s list of people to smother. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/66 "2016-09-24T00:32:24Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Can I nominate EVERY TV sitcom kid under 15 or so? Just on general principle. Hear hear! And if the OP isn’t limiting us to TV, for those who read Luann (comic) I’d nominate Shannon, the brat. And from Big Bang Theory - Priya ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/67 "2016-09-24T00:39:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Can I nominate EVERY TV sitcom kid under 15 or so? Just on general principle. Except for the Bundy kids. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/68 "2016-09-24T03:19:43Z")
Maggie Dubois in _The Great Race_. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/69 "2016-09-24T04:26:14Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Maggie Dubois in _The Great Race_. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/70 "2016-09-24T05:03:17Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Can I nominate EVERY TV sitcom kid under 15 or so? Just on general principle. Tabitha Stevens (after she turned about two years old) Nellie Olsen’s brother Willie (not Nellie herself though) Wesley from Mr. Belvedere Doogie Howser’s best friend (can’t remember the character’s name but his real name was Max Casilla or something like that I think) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/71 "2016-09-24T05:12:03Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Can’t argue with that. What a dick. > > The fact that ACoD is taught and held in high esteem is one of the things that convinces me we should return to apprenticeships instead of higher ed. Upon reading the book, did you exclaim, “Who is responsible for this abortion?” Ignatius is a horrible person. But I thought that book was fucking hilarious. I don’t think it’s great literature, and I’m not sure it should be taught in schools necessarily. But for whatever reason, it made me laugh till my sides hurt. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/72 "2016-09-25T02:19:09Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Except for the Bundy kids. Seven deserves at least 7 pillows. Rebecca Howe - Cheers Pamela Ewing - Dallas Dana Scully - X-Files Bobby Brady - Brady Bunch Corabeth Godsey - The Waltons ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/73 "2016-09-25T05:08:29Z")
The TV Dennis the Menace Ross Lane from “Patty Duke” The second Gladys Kravitz (the first one seemed more confused than mean spirited). And from the international section: Margo Leadbetter from “The Good Life” and Hyacinth Bucket from “Keeping Up Appearances”–though I don’t think anything short of a bazooka would finish her off. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/74 "2016-09-25T12:09:46Z")
Hmm. I guess I am the first to offer **Holden Caulfield from Cather in the Rye**. There’s a fine line between an empathetic portrayal of a young person struggling with their place in the world, and really being a whiny twit. I struggle with **Kurt Cobain’s** persona as simplified in the media in the same way. We get it, you suffered and felt so powerless that your word-salad lyrics captured your pain in ways we could all understand. Now what? ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/75 "2016-09-25T12:19:11Z")
Arnold Rimmer, total smeghead. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/76 "2016-09-25T14:23:33Z")
Pretty much any Danny DeVito character. And you wouldn’t even need a large pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/77 "2016-09-25T18:22:44Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > And from the international section: Margo Leadbetter from “The Good Life” and Hyacinth Bucket from “Keeping Up Appearances”–though I don’t think anything short of a bazooka would finish her off. I’ll give you Hyacinth, definitely, but I’m not sure about Margo. She was a social climber and had a bit of a stick up her arse, but when the chips were down she did care about Jerry and the Goods and came through when needed. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/78 "2016-09-25T20:48:33Z")
Adric from _Doctor Who_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/79 "2016-09-25T20:55:02Z")
Maiev Shadowsong from the (World of) Warcraft franchise. She’s not ENTIRELY wrong, but she’s so fanatical, bitchy and imperious about being right that she just makes me want to strangle her. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783/80 "2016-09-25T21:14:32Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Adric from _Doctor Who_. And Clara, the most Mary Sue-est of Mary Sues. Robin from How I Met Your Mother. With her dead, maybe the mother would live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-that-you-would-smother-with-a-pillow-for-the-good-of-humanity/765783.md?page=5)