Joke? I’m not going to say if it is or isn’t. (That’s a topic for another thread, anyway.) 
Well, he did always smugly snicker at you whenever you missed a duck. However, at least you could get back at him during the “bonus points” round by “accidentally” blasting him (but that might’ve been only in the arcade version).
I never had a problem with Sinclair/Michael O’Hare when I was viewing my way through the series. Of course, I had no eye for good or bad acting at the time. Last year, I grabbed a cheap copy of B5: The Gathering and was astonished at just how terrible an actor Michael O’Hare is/was. Every line of his was like a really bad John Wayne impersonation. It’s funny to me how clearly Jerry Doyle’s (Garibaldi’s) lack of respect for O’Hare shows up on screen. I don’t think it’s fair to loathe the character, though; it’s the fault of O’Hare and whoever cast him.
Oh, and I loathe that one potential Slayer from season seven of Buffy who did nothing but repeatedly say they were all going to die. Grrr…
Shouldn’t you meet at the arena for Claw-plach?
The Couch Potatoes Guide put forth the theory that Gilligan’s Island is a metaphor for Freudian psychology, and made a dammned convincing arguement.
What the hell?
Anne from the Famous Five books. Always whinging about how they could never go on holiday without becoming wrapped up in some exciting mystery. Meanwhile, I wasn’t even allowed to go anywhere without a parent. Ungrateful bitch.
I’m glad to see all this animosity towards Emma Bovary.
The ‘New’ Homer Simpson… Somewhere along the line he went from being an idiot to a complete asshole.
Chandler from Friends, mainly because of his flapping arm motions.
Pacman
Hermes is a good call, and I’ll add Amy… But how is Zoidberg a one note character? There’s the lonely middle-aged man, the cultural confusion, the gluttony and of course, the squid stuff.
Nah, I’d rather just shoot and be done with it.
So, do you want that with salt on the rim? 
[nudge-nudge]
No, I don’t know what it means either.
Um, those characters are not from Jordan’s Wheel of Time.
You are thinking of the other never-ending epic fantasy series, Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire. (Which I happen to like since Martin lets things happen. There is no magic authorial immunity for a character; people die or survive as randomly and stupidly as in any real war.)
Ah, but it wasn’t so much Samantha’s reluctance to use her powers, it was Darren’s resentment of her powers. It was more of a speculative Nietzschean parable, a cautionary tale about the sham of egalitarianism. Samantha’s powers were a bitter reminder to Darren that she wasn’t just different, she was better—she was, by her birth, a witch, a Homo Magus, a true “Overman.” With even a twitch, she could re-forge the fabric of reality, while he was just a mortal man. Even the bond of true love wasn’t able to drag Darren away from the shackles of the slave morality that formed the foundation for his ego.
Obviously, the psychosexual aspect played into his attitude as well: the obvious fact of Samantha’s superiority undermining his flawed notions of his worth as a human being, but obviously undercut his basic sense of adequacy as a man—This was, after all, early 1960s America, and the importance of a man’s “wearing the pants” in the relationship would have been long hammered into Darren’s psyche. And being the lover of a woman who was as metaphysically advanced above you as you were above a Neanderthal would, subconsciously at least, have been utterly emasculating.
In short, it was a bittersweet tale about humanity’s quest to achieve divinity, and how it is betrayed by failing of the flesh and the spirit that prove stronger even than love.
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Oh, and, er, you know Captain Janeway? Yeah, she was a prick, too.
No one has mentioned Barney the Dinosaur?!
Yeah, I’ve had dates like that…
EVERY goddamn character in Lost in Translation. Whiny rich bastards who don’t know how good they’ve got it, every single one.
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Aaaaaaaaaaagh! I loathe that vile creature! My best friend and I made up a song about the Horrid Purple Beast: (sung to the tune of the Barney song 'natch)
I hate you
You hate me
You’re as dumb as you can be.
With a big purple butt
And an ugly purple face
Disgusting to the human race!
Well, now you’re getting ridiculous.
Debra from Everybody Loves Raymond. Just get a divorce already you lazy, whiny, boring shrew.
Amy from Little Women. She didn’t deserve Laurie.
Grace, Jack and Karen from Will & Grace. Grace is stupid. Jack’s a thirty year old twelve year old and Karen was just not funny.
Darlene from Roseanne. A whiny, snotty know it all who talked in some Godawful nasal voice because that was considered “kewl.” Her character was one of the main reasons I never had kids.
Lilith on ** Cheers>** A bizarre and frightening combination of a cold analytical personality mixed with naive hippie idealism. I had nightmares about her.
Dolores Price from the book She’s Come Undone. Selfish, manipulative, deceitful and shallow. Hell, even Emma Bovary comes across as sympathetic compared to her, and I find it hard to say many good things about Emma Bovary.
Considering her namesake, that’s not surprising.
What, you don’t think Captain Janeway was a jerk?