# Loved the show, hated the character, so I stopped watching... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426 "2010-07-12T18:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/41 "2010-07-13T14:36:28Z")
**House** was my favorite show until season 4, with the introduction of **Thirteen** and **Amber** , both of whom are (were) unwatchable. The writing for those characters was terrible too. I have seasons one through three on DVD. I’ll start watching again when they kill off Thirteen. I’ve been watching through **Peep Show** on BBCA. Very funny, but now that I’m at the end of season 4 it is getting to be a bit much. **Mark and Jeremy** are really terrible people. Almost evil in fact. It is still funny but it is becoming difficult to watch a show with no sympathetic characters at all. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/42 "2010-07-13T14:37:48Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Buffy’s mom. Really? She’s not exactly a major character for the most part. What made you hate her enough to quit watching the show? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/43 "2010-07-13T14:45:20Z")
One immediatly sprung to mind…and another was reminded to me. _Saved by the Bell_: I used to love this show when I was younger, but watching it again I cannot stand Screech. His overall character is nothing but stupid non funny one liners that just infuriate me to the point where I never watch it again. _Seinfeld_: Pretty much all of them since I hate the show…but mostly Kramer. He is unfunny, unwitty, and overall has no point. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/44 "2010-07-13T15:01:22Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > I liked Data just fine. But I can’t stand to watch Brent Spiner play any other character, and I particularly disliked it when he took Data out of character, due to possession or a glitchy emotion chip or whatever. > > I nearly stopped watching _Six Feet Under_ because I was creeped out by Arthur, the mortuary intern who was snuggling with Ruth. That didn’t actually last more than a couple episodes. You can turn it back on, if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/45 "2010-07-13T15:45:11Z")
Ally McBeal. I hated her with a passion, but I loved the rest of the cast so much that I put up with it. After the frog being flushed down the toilet scene, I made the comment that they should have flushed Ally down the toilet and renamed the show “Cage & Fish”. Then it would have been awesome. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/46 "2010-07-13T16:01:12Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Deadwood. I love all the characters except the main protagonist. He’s flat and uninteresting to me. I can’t understand his popularity. Ian McShane? Flat and uninteresting? Or do you mean Tim Olyphant? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/47 "2010-07-13T16:04:26Z")
He must mean Olyphant. Yeah, he’s boring and dumb. But you’re not watching for him. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/48 "2010-07-13T16:05:41Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Really? She’s not exactly a major character for the most part. What made you hate her enough to quit watching the show? Yeah, that was a bit of an overstatement. Can’t pin down exactly why she irritates me so much, but the woman makes my teeth hurt. I only recently started watching the series, inspired by **olive’s** [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562837), but I gather Buffy does eventually go off to college, yes? I’ll probably keep watching. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/49 "2010-07-13T16:24:46Z")
My ex and I made it through one season of _The Sopranos_ before I started to find Tony Soprano so horrible I had to stop watching. I just could not take one. more. minute. of his garbage. I understand that the character was supposed to be fatally flawed, but it got to the point for me where it was painful to watch him abuse and misuse everyone close to him. I was so rooting for him to get shot at the end. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/50 "2010-07-13T16:27:01Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > George in **Seinfeld**. Or anything else Jason Alexander did. Ditto this. I loved **The Cosby Show** , but I couldn’t watch after they introduced Denise’s stepdaughter Olivia. So over-the-top cutesy and annoying. Every line out of her mouth was designed to get an “awwwww” from the audience. She was like every character on _Full House_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/51 "2010-07-13T16:33:55Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > Ditto this. > > I loved **The Cosby Show** , but I couldn’t watch after they introduced Denise’s stepdaughter Olivia. So over-the-top cutesy and annoying. Every line out of her mouth was designed to get an “awwwww” from the audience. She was like every character on _Full House_. Raven-Symone. The actress is _still_ an annoyance. She’s had a kid-com on Disney Channel (I think) for years, _That’s So Raven_. Even the title is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/52 "2010-07-13T16:37:32Z")
Third Watch went from being an ensemble cast representing police, firefighters and paramedics to being Yet Another Cop Show. The great thing about the ensemble is that if you didn’t like a character or two it wasn’t a problem because they didn’t get a lot of screen time. When it went to YACS they focused on a new character, a bad ass Hispanic cop chick that was loathsome. I admit I still sort of watched it but I always found something else to do when she was on which was most of the show. They tried to make her sympathetic by having her raped, it didn’t work. Then they had her get cancer, it didn’t work. I did make a point to watch when she blew herself up to take out a criminal, I kinda liked her a little then but it was too late to save the show. I know it’s not the actress’s fault but if I see her on any other show now, I change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/53 "2010-07-13T16:47:56Z")
I’ll third Peggy Hill on King of the Hill. Scrappy Doo on Scooby Doo. What were they thinking? Seven on Married with Children. Who’s bright idea was that? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/54 "2010-07-13T17:24:08Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Weatherly is obviously quite good at this acting thing. He probably should do it for a living. He kind of has to. He comes from a wealthy family, who cut him off when he decided to become an actor instead of a [whatever]. Interestingly, because of this, the writers gave the DiNozzo character the same history. > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Yeah, that was a bit of an overstatement. Can’t pin down exactly why she irritates me so much, but the woman makes my teeth hurt. I only recently started watching the series, inspired by **olive’s** [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562837), but I gather Buffy does eventually go off to college, yes? I’ll probably keep watching. 🙂 Let’s just say you won’t be seeing much more of her… ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/55 "2010-07-13T18:30:26Z")
Don, the FBI brother, on _Numb3ers_. The show is fun and well cast, excpet for this guy’s character, who constantly plays a swaggering superior jackass who feels the world should revolve around them. He is a junior high jock bully who never grew up. Tim Roth’s character on _Lie to Me_. Roth is usually a great actor that I love, but his “acting” quirks for the character look like a first year theater student trying to be edgy. If I walk around with my head tilted and whisper, that’s drama, baby! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/56 "2010-07-14T00:14:50Z")
Sorry about that, **Ellen**. Anyway, in a recent thread I noted that can’t watch Bewitched because i detest the character of Darrin so vehemently. Endora was absolutely right. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/57 "2010-07-14T00:30:46Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I can’t stand Vincent D’Onofrio’s character in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” so much so that I can’t watch the show. I otherwise liked the show when it first came on, but cringed the whole time that his character was on screen that I gave it up. “Annoying as hell” is the phrase that comes to mind. His character has been written off, if you want to give it another chance. The Closer. I could never get used to the main character, or the actress’s accent. I never loved Will and Grace, but would have watched more episodes if it weren’t for Karen and Jack. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/58 "2010-07-14T04:16:27Z")
If I hadn’t been caught up so much in the plot, I’d have quit watching MAD MEN from the second we were introduced to Betty Draper. What. A. Flaming. Bitch. I did quit watching CSI:Miami because I can’t stand David Caruso’s character. Creeeepy dude. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/59 "2010-07-14T04:42:12Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > If I hadn’t been caught up so much in the plot, I’d have quit watching MAD MEN from the second we were introduced to Betty Draper. What. A. Flaming. Bitch. That was my wife and I’s thoughts on Betty Draper as well. And not only is she a bitch, she’s an ice-queen and if she’s like that all the time, you can sort of see why Don is the way he is. My wife and I have also been watching the first series of _Breaking Bad_ and Walter’s entire family (with the exception of his DEA-officer brother in law) are annoying, superfluous, and greatly detract from what should be a really interesting show about a “square” getting mixed up in something he’s got no business being mixed up in, and how he and his “business partner” deal with the ins and outs of the highly illegal and dangerous thing they’re involved in. Instead, we get the protagonist’s wife and son whingeing at him for most of the series about how he won’t “open up” and “share” what’s on his mind, his wife being a nosy bitch who won’t mind her own business, his wife and sister having their own petty little squabbles, and that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/60 "2010-07-14T04:47:08Z")
Noooooooooooooo! I ended up loving Billy from _Six Feet Under_! I’ll admit that at first he was very trying, but I ended up so fond of him. I started watching that _Bones_ show but could.not.stomach that lead woman. OMG hate. that’s the only one I can think of [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426.md?page=4)