# Characters you hate on shows you like
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 13, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203 "2013-02-13T18:36:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/21 "2013-02-13T21:34:29Z")
Deb on Dexter
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/22 "2013-02-13T21:59:52Z")
Daenarys on “Game of Thrones”. Whenever the story switches to her, my interest comes to a screeching halt.
Of course, that’s really George R.R. Martin’s fault, not anyone on the TV production staff.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/23 "2013-02-13T22:03:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> I couldn’t stand Billy on _Six Feet Under_. Hated him so badly that I stopped watching the show.
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> Later picked it up again and made it through the Billy parts. Glad I did as it was excellent (if more than a bit angsty.)
You gotta love the finale where:
Brenda dies while listening to Billy rattle on and on with his mad ranting.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/24 "2013-02-13T22:07:08Z")
Putty on Seinfeld used to really annoy me, not sure why. I generally like that guy on other shows though.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/25 "2013-02-13T22:11:41Z")
Yes, first thing I thought of, as mentioned above, Taub and Thirteen on House. I didn’t hate her, but it seems like they made her a bisexual just to draw eyeballs. Pant pant pant. I’m kind of disappointed we never got to see House euthanize her…Now Taub, I was seriously annoyed by the endless focus on his busy love life. And he looked like a Dooley mug (for those of you who remember Schultz and Dooley commercials for Utica Club Beer.)
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/26 "2013-02-13T22:12:53Z")
I too hate Lucky on King of the Hill
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/27 "2013-02-13T22:12:58Z")
> [@Ponch8](#):
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> I liked _King of the Hill_ and I like Tom Petty, but I hated the Lucky character that he voiced.
For me it was Hank’s father Cotton. Couldn’t stand the character and I was thrilled when they killed him off. Spoiler alert.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/28 "2013-02-13T22:43:47Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> You gotta love the finale where:
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> Brenda dies while listening to Billy rattle on and on with his mad ranting.
Not only that, but…
He’s ranting about Claire breaking up with him… 40+ years prior!
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/29 "2013-02-13T22:45:28Z")
Merle on Walking Dead. The character’s a bastard shithead, makes the show better, but I am REALLY looking forward to when he dies
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### Author:  [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/30 "2013-02-13T22:53:10Z")
Lila on _Dexter_. She made me so freaking mad with her prominent lip and stuck-up accent - not to mention all the shit she pulled. Makes Season 2 rather painful to watch.
I also want to second Skyler from _Breaking Bad_, although she does have her moments of pure awesome (bimbo accountant act to save Ted - “I just put the numbers into the Quicken”), or understandable fear (“I am the one who knocks!”).
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/31 "2013-02-13T22:58:39Z")
I hated Emily on _Friends_. Don’t even watch the episodes with her in it anymore.
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### Author:  [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/32 "2013-02-13T23:09:26Z")
On _King of the Hill_ the one I can’t stand is Bill. I love the show, but there are a couple Bill-centric episodes I haven’t even been able to bring myself to watch.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/33 "2013-02-13T23:23:41Z")
I can’t stand Tony DiNozzo on NCIS. Every joke he makes grates on me; every humiliation he suffers makes me glad. In a good and just world Ziva would have beaten him to death early in season 3 and been acquitted simply by playing a videotape of his antics at trial.
Wait, that’s not completely true. Tony was the moving force behind Ziva’s rescue from the terrorists so he’s not entirely useless. He can die NOW, though.
> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> I hated Emily on _Friends_. Don’t even watch the episodes with her in it anymore.
Ross’s second wife, yes? The British girl? I think we were supposed to hate her.
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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/34 "2013-02-13T23:29:07Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> Ross’s second wife, yes? The British girl? I think we were supposed to hate her.
Yeah,wasn’t sure if she fit the OP.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/35 "2013-02-13T23:38:27Z")
What about TV shows no longer on?
I hated Bester(Walter Koenig) from _Babylon 5_. Thank heavens he was only a recurring character, and not on every week. And he was supposed to be hateful of course. But I wouldn’t have minded shoving him out an airlock.
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/36 "2013-02-13T23:52:38Z")
Hate is probably too strong a word, but I’m fucking sick of Lily on _How I Met Your Mother_. I’m pretty sure she wasn’t that terrible earlier in the show’s run.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/37 "2013-02-13T23:54:54Z")
I actually thought Taub was almost as hot as House himself, and that’s a lot. I do realize that not everyone agrees with my taste in men.
But the characters I truly hate are all the kids on _Modern Family._ Every single one of them. I’m sure that in time I’ll even start hating the baby. Look how Lily turned out.
And then there’s ST:VOY’s Harry Kim. I guess they needed to have an Asian in the cast.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/38 "2013-02-13T23:59:54Z")
> [@Misnomer](#):
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> Love _NCIS_, hate Abby Sciuto.
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> Love _Torchwood_, hate Gwen Cooper.
Wow. I Like NCIS, but really Like Abby. I like Tochwood, and like Gewn (at least in the early seasons - I haven’t seen the later ones)
Brian
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### Author:  [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/39 "2013-02-14T00:10:50Z")
One reason why I do not watch The Young & The Restless anymore is because of the character on there that I can’t stand: Kevin Fisher.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/40 "2013-02-14T00:13:13Z")
how could anyone hate Cotton??
he killed fiddy men for your freedoms
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