# 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:  [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/81 "2013-02-14T19:35:10Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Every character on that show except Robin Shobotski. And especially Barney Stimson. Is NPH that repulsive in real life?
You mean a pig who relentless hits on women and goes through them like Kleenex?
Yup, that’s pretty much him in real life.
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/82 "2013-02-14T19:41:04Z")
> [@Sanity\_Challenged](#):
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> Tuh-tuh-tuh-TUH-tuh-TUUUH PUPPYYYYYYY POWERRRRRRR!
Scooby Doo really jumped the shark when Hanna Barbera introduced that annoying little fuck.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/83 "2013-02-14T19:49:35Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> Fay Furillo on “Hill Street Blues.” I halfway wonder if Bochco gaver her that role because that’s the way she was in real life, and this way she’d be whining constantly to someone else.
Oh, blast from the past. Yeah, she was a bitch.
I like parts of **Two and a Half Men** (Berta and Rose and Evelyn and Candy) but hated Chelsea. I hated Judith for awhile, but then I realized that I’d probably treat Alan the same way. He just begs to be kicked.
On **Friday Night Lights** , I hated Lyla’s character. The actress who played her was pretty bad, and I don’t think she’s had much work since.
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### Author:  [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/84 "2013-02-14T20:00:03Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Fifty-two posts so far, and NO ONE has mentioned Wesley Crusher?!? :eek:
That’s “The Insufferable Wesley Crusher” (as referred to by the Spousoid Unit).
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### Author:  [@chicagowhitesox1173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicagowhitesox1173)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/85 "2013-02-14T20:01:47Z")
Andrea from The Walking Dead, She’s almost as bad as Lori was. It’s strange but AMC has some of the most annoying women on all their shows.
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/86 "2013-02-14T21:41:36Z")
The mother-in-law on The Good Wife is even more annoying than the two teenagers.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/87 "2013-02-14T21:51:24Z")
Definitely Kripke from Big Bang Theory.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/88 "2013-02-14T22:13:12Z")
Kai Winn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Yeah, she was an antagonist, and eventually an outright villain. But I couldn’t hate her as a villain. She wasn’t an interesting villain. She was just a slimy, repugnant, yet thoroughly _boring_ person who I wanted off the screen.
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### Author:  [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/89 "2013-02-14T22:37:24Z")
Mimi from the Drew Cary Show.
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/90 "2013-02-14T23:21:49Z")
Frank and Ziggy Sabodka from season two of _The Wire_. I think they were both supposed to be sympathetic. I found both repellent and deserving of their troubles, until their final, extremely harsh, end situations. Frank at least had good intentions, if no awareness of appropriate ways to make them work. Ziggy I just hated.
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### Author:  [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/91 "2013-02-15T04:30:00Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Every character on that show except Robin Shobotski. And especially Barney Stimson. Is NPH that repulsive in real life?
You know he’s gay, right?
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/92 "2013-02-15T04:33:35Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Every character on that show except Robin Shobotski. And especially Barney Stimson. Is NPH that repulsive in real life?
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> You mean a pig who relentless hits on women and goes through them like Kleenex?
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> Yup, that’s pretty much him in real life.
I doubt NPH hits on women, since he’s a homosexual.
Ninja’d, damnit, while checking up on how many kids he has!
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/93 "2013-02-15T21:27:09Z")
How in the hell did we get 92 posts in without a mention of Tara from _True Blood?_
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### Author:  [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/94 "2013-02-18T14:01:31Z")
Skyler on Breaking Bad. Of course, we’re not really supposed to like her, I think. She’s supposed to be emasculating so that Walt looks even more pathetic from the beginning of the series.
Some of my dislike may be a gender issue. When Skyler appeared to be using her old boss’s obvious attraction to her in order to get the bookkeeping job back, my wife said, “Well of course she’s going to do whatever she has to for her family. Her husband is going to die soon.”
I’m up to the beginning of the fourth season. I’m totally surprised that Walt hasn’t killed the bitch yet. Of course, what makes Walt an interesting character is that he’s a realistic one. He makes bad choices, has irrational affections and attachments (see: Jesse), and constantly undermines his potential.
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### Author:  [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/95 "2013-02-18T17:49:39Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> Fay Furillo on “Hill Street Blues.” I halfway wonder if Bochco gaver her that role because that’s the way she was in real life, and this way she’d be whining constantly to someone else.
Well, he put up with her for ten years after the show ended but she sure was annoying to watch (although no more so than Veronica Hammel.)
I came on to vote for Will on The Good Wife and then I realized I hate Diane, Jackie, Peter, Kalinda and the kids almost as much. If they get rid of Alicia I am going to stop watching.
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### Author:  [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/96 "2013-02-19T03:40:46Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#):
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> See, I would have MUCH rather seen Andrea get eaten than Lori. Not saying I liked Lori, but to me she was much less of an annoying character than Andrea.
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#):
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> Andrea from The Walking Dead, She’s almost as bad as Lori was. It’s strange but AMC has some of the most annoying women on all their shows.
I can’t stand Andrea, either and not just recently since she’s been shagging the Governor
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### Author:  [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/97 "2013-02-19T05:46:50Z")
I enjoy “Barney Miller” but Detective Dorsey was not a funny or enjoyable character to watch. I usually liked “Married With Children” but the character of Seven was just plain offensive, in the same vein as Cousin Oliver from “The Brady Bunch.”
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/98 "2013-02-19T07:49:03Z")
> [@denquixote](#):
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> I came on to vote for Will on The Good Wife and then I realized I hate Diane, Jackie, Peter, Kalinda and the kids almost as much. If they get rid of Alicia I am going to stop watching.
This made me laugh.
So, you don’t hate Eli then?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/99 "2013-02-19T11:54:47Z")
The lone survivor of the trio from season 6 of Buffy. I can’t even remember his name I hate him so much.
Couldn’t stand 7 on Married With Children. Any episode he was on is ruined for me.
Frank on Mash. I usually skip the episodes that focus on him.
Any of Houses assistants once Chase, Cameron, and the Emarr Epps character quit, with the exceptions of CTB and 13. I loved them and hated it when their characters got pulled.
John Winchester on Supernatural. I cheered when he died.
Pru on Charmed. Couldn’t stand her, and kept hoping her character would get dragged off to hell.
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### Author:  [@Nerdessence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nerdessence)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-you-hate-on-shows-you-like/650203/100 "2013-02-19T12:33:14Z")
> [@Infovore](#):
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> Hated Thirteen on _House_. Hated the fact that so many storylines centered around her and her stupid disease. I was hoping they’d kill her off.
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> I liked Taub okay until he got babies. Then he got boring. Ditto Cuddy (who I loved as a character until she became Mommy and hooked up with House. They never should have done either of those things, IMO).
Amen.
I know this might sound weird, since she’s crucial to the plot, but I hate Chuck on _Pushing Daisies_. I don’t understand why anyone would like her. She’s pushy, she does obnoxious things, and I hate faux quirky girls. The show would be miserably saccharine without Emerson Cod.
I also felt\* Boston Legal\* could have done without all the supermodel lawyers. They added nothing to the show. None of them lasted long, which tells you how unimportant they were. Yeah, we got it, the guys are pervs. We don’t need to see evidence every week.
I agree with whoever said they disliked Josh on _The West Wing_. Additionally, I hated his girlfriend, the whiny feminist Amy.
On that point, I hate “lipstick feminist” characters.
You know, “She’s hot! She’s hyper-smart! She’s tough! She puts out like a MAN! LOOK AT HER DRINK LIKE A GUY! And her mouth is sharp and acerbic.”
And then, inevitably, she wants babies.
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