Barbara Jean on Reba is a fine example of an excellent actor playing someone meant to be irritating.
That Goth girl on NCIS tears hell out of my nerves. I know she’s just there for eye candy but all that airheaded chattiness makes me violent.
In fact, I just hate the whole show. Watch something else, husband!
To me, it’s clear that the most annoying characters (apart from one-offs like Mrs. Richards in episode 7) are Basil and Sybil. The rest of the regulars just have varying levels of incompetence, but aren’t all that annoying. Of course, part of the humour is that Basil and Sybil are married to each other, and each finds the other far more irritating than anyone else does. But if I had to choose the worst to be married to, it would be Sybil. If I were married to Basil, I’d divorce him, but if I were married to Sybil I’d probably murder her.
Mr. Sali can’t stand the character of Cuddy on ‘House’. Apparently he hears his mommy’s voice when she chews out House, tells him to shape up, etc.
I loathe Kramer on Seinfeld. He looks like he stinks. B.O. and unwashed baggy old-man pants.
Teri Hatcher on Desperate Housewives. She is too old to play ditz any more, maybe they’ll let her grow up some and stop making a TOTAL fool of herself.
In a minor way, ‘Kate’ on Lost. She’s alway in the midst of things, always saying “I’m coming with you”, has the men falling all over her. Feisty Kate. I’m torn, because she isn’t playing Helpless Crying Woman who needs protection, and I admire that. (I’m one of the very few who liked Ana Lucia’s character.) But something about her leaves me cold - she’s just so…so…always THERE, hogging so much of the show with her Feisty-ness.
Both Ross and Rachel on Friends. Neither of these two specimens were particulary good friends – there are numerous examples of them stabbing each other and their other so-called friends in the back for their own immediate convenience.
The only good thing about the two of them getting together was that it saved two innocent people from ending up with either one of them.
Joey and Phoebe – true and loyal friends
Monica and Chandler – generally good friends, but be wary
Ross and Rachel – despicable, selfish and untrustworthy
(Not that I’ve given it much thought or anything …
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The stereotypical “evil parents” characters generally drive me into a murderous rage.
George’s parents in Seinfeld
Carrie’s dad in King of Queens
Everyone that Loves Raymond
Fry’s parents in Futurama
Mommy dearest in Two and a Half Men
etc
There’s not a single person on that show I wouldn’t want to slap half the time. They’re ALL annoying.
Frank, granted, is at the top of the heap, but Marie’s not far behind.
Then Ray and Debra’s kids, then Ray and Debra themselves.
Then Robert. Who mostly gets a pass, because I can see something of myself in him (my more annoying qualities, of course).
I go through phases with Kramer, if I watch reruns of “Seinfeld” too much I just get annoyed with the character to the point where I switch it off. Then after not watching it for a long while he’s funny again.
I hated the character Antonio on “Wings” so much that when he became a regular I stopped watching.
My absolute B these days is Judd Hirsch as the father on Numb3rs. The FBI is smack in the middle of trying to solve some important crime like murder or kidnapping, and without fail, he pops up flapping his jaw with some drecky “when you were kids …” story or other useless folksy dad ramblings. This makes me nearly apoplectic … although my husband now encourages it to the point where, when Hirsch delivers a particularly idiotic hyuk hyuk hyuk line of dialogue that adds nothing to the story, we’ll repeat it over and over until it starts sounding funny.
I found that to be true as “Everybody Love Raymond,” progressed. In the beginning before they made Debra into a shrew it was a lot funny.
Tracey Jordan. Mostly because Tracey Morgan is annoying, and Tracey Jordan essentially is Tracey Morgan.
Dr. Peter Benton on the first few seasons of *ER *does it for me.
I could not stand that character. Always wasting his slot when he’s supposed to be focused on becoming a doctor. You got problems at home? KEEP 'EM AT HOME, or drop out for a year or ten, but quit bringing your soap opera baggage to work!
Don’t get me wrong, I liked the actor, Eriq LaSalle just fine.
McManis on OZ drove me crazy… at least addibisi and schillinger and the rest were honest about the psychopaths they were… but his self righteous crap was annoying but really balanced the show…
Good one! I had forgotten him.
Diane Chambers on Cheers. Week after week I couldn’t believe that someone didn’t just slap that bitch. I was hoping at the end that Cliff would go on a murderous postal rage with one victim.
That wouldn’t have been possible because Cliff seemed to have a crush on Diane that he mostly kept secret (except for that one time after they had gone to some gathering when he embarrassed himself by singing in her ear).
Incidentally, if you want to talk annoying, Cliff was 100 times worse than Diane. At least Diane had her education to back her up (and her massive insecurity to keep her from getting too out of control). Cliff just blurted bullshit out loud with the self-assuredness of a Nobel Prize winner (which is what made it funny).
When I say that if I found out Jerry Stiller was beaten to death with a tire iron that I would then go out and buy the finest bottle of single malt Scotch available to celebrate, I am actually only kidding…
(I dont drink Scotch)
“The Nanny”
Pretty much everyone who has ever been on a “reality” show.
Heh. Appreciate your sense of humor even though I really like Jerry Stiller.
I’d chip in if someone wanted to push all the Friends out to sea Eskimo style, though.
I came in to say Wesley Crusher, but yeah, Q too.