Eric Balfour’s character of Gabriel in Six Feet Under pissed me off so much, I wanted to walk into the TV and beat the suburban gangsta-thug wannabe mustache off his damn fool face.
All the women on Sex In the City (not that I watch it) and Sherrie Palmer from 24 make me incredibly angry in similar ways. I wouldn’t want to beat them up, but they are all vile, noxious, shallow, evil bitches. I don’t find anything redeeming about any of them.
It depends if you mean truly repulsive, or just obnoxious. Jason Alexander is extremely obnoxious and completely wrecks anything he has anything to do with, but I wouldn’t call him repulsive.
I can’t stand Peggy Hill on King of the Hill. While most of the other characters are sympathetic to some degree, she is the only one that is completely unlikeable. I keep hoping that she’ll die horribly (the parachuting episode briefly gave me hope) so I can enjoy the show without worrying that she’ll appear in the next scene.
Jack on “Will & Grace.” It’s not surprising that the religious right have never expressed much bile over the gay characters on this show: one gay character, Will, is effectively a eunoch; and the other, Jack, is a shallow, mincing, egotistical, arrested-adolescent dipshit who mooches off a rich bitch who refers to him as her poodle, and chases every guy who wanders onscreen. Will and Jack are to gay people what Amos & Andy were to black people.
The evil sex-pit Nazi boys from Pulp Fiction were pretty fucking repulsive. And way scary. Guys like that freak me out.
I know it’s a comedy, but the Brent & Finchy double-act in the pub quiz episode of The Office just made me cringe.
Lisa Simpson.
'Nuff said.
“Squeal like a pig.” That whole scene gave me nightmares. I still can’t watch the movie.
I second the “Sex in The City” women. Can’t watch it.
Ray Romano.
The inexplicably popular guy who plays “Ed”.
Adam Sandler (although “Punchdrunk Love” was interesting).
Mike Meyers
David Spade
I find Juliette Lewis’s character in the 1991 version of Cape Fear particularly cloying. And for pure creepiness, Willem Defoe’s character in Wild at Heart is tough to beat.
The Vietnamese betting on the outcome of ‘the game’ between the POW’s in the Deer Hunter were kinda repuslive.
I’m glad I saw that movie and I’ll never watch it again. I think my husband needs to see it to cure his cultural defecit, but I don’t want to watch it with him or even be in the house while it’s on.
And ever since I was a kid, I can’t bear to look at thet Abominable Snowman from Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer. I don’t care if Bumbles bounce, Yukon Corneilius, that thing is evil walking and can’t ever be trusted, not even with his teeth pulled by an elf!
I can’t imagine that it would have been any kind of movie without them.
I just had to butt in here to say that is probably one of the top five funniest paragraphs I have ever read on these boards. And true too! (Although I adore Bumbles, and have a stuffed one that I put out at Christmas…)
I guess so as not to hijack completely, I’d say the most repulsive characters I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch were Ren and Stimpy. I freakin’ HATED that cartoon…it physically made me sick to watch, which I only did maybe twice, and then only for about three seconds each time. (My oldest son loved that show…and I would change the channel if I was going to stay in the room.)
God, just thinking about those horrors makes my teeth clench. I was absolutely happy-dancing when they finally quit airing it.
OK, Ralphie and Janice, I really did hate those two. Let me just say that what happens to him is just so sickly satisfying. There is justice in the world.
I agree with Sylkyn Sylkyn, Ren and Stimpy are indeed two of the grossest characters ever created, with the exception of Beavis and Butthead.
But if we are talking about loathing characters, you really have to watch the FX series Nip/Tuck. I have never been so conflicted over television characters before. One episode you just wanted to scream at them, “No! What are you friggin idiots doing!” The next episode, you feel so bad for them, you just want to hug them. So…torn…agh!
Brad Pitt’s character in Seven Years in Tibet had me itching for some kind of funky Tibetan Torture as a finale to the movie. Sadly it wasn’t to be…
Howerd Stern. I refuse to allow my TV to be a conduit for the diseased barfings of this slimy grotesque little troll and his entourage of semi-sentient goons and hangers-on from the fetid underbelly of polite society.
Yes!!!
I tried watching this “well written show that everyone loves” but couldn’t get past Jack. And while I don’t hate Karen, her voice has a negative impact on my nerves.
ddgryphon said, “And while I don’t hate Karen, her voice has a negative impact on my nerves.”
Shit. I want to die and come back sounding like Karen. She’s hilarious!
“Mr. Yellow” from Reservoir Dogs.
Shelob from Lord of the Rings.
Fat Bastard from Austin Powers.
My fiance had exactly the same reaction. Everytime Gabe was on screen he’d mutter, “I hate that guy.” Even in the heaven episode.