# Most annoying TV and movie characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254 "2008-05-31T12:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 2, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/41 "2008-06-02T19:12:07Z")
Nellie from _Little House on the Prarie_ and Dr. Smith on _Lost in Space_. Both of them should have been killed. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/42 "2008-06-02T19:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] Nellie from _Little House on the Prarie_ and Dr. Smith on _Lost in Space_. Both of them should have been killed. [/QUOTE] Alison Arngrim, the actress who played Nellie, does (or did) a stand-up routine based on the premise of being an ex-C list actress. She would talk about playing Nellie and how it affected her. Her answer: “Somebody has called me a bitch to my face every single day of my life since I was 12 years old.” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/43 "2008-06-02T19:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] Alison Arngrim, the actress who played Nellie, does (or did) a stand-up routine based on the premise of being an ex-C list actress. She would talk about playing Nellie and how it affected her. Her answer: “Somebody has called me a bitch to my face every single day of my life since I was 12 years old.” [/QUOTE] That’s too bad, of course people need to separate the character from the actual person. If she’s halfway “normal” after that experience, she’s doing good. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/44 "2008-06-02T21:26:38Z")
Post #44 and only now someone is bringing up Heather from _Blair Witch Project_? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/45 "2008-06-02T21:46:43Z")
Patrick, from Spongebob Squarepants. Spongebob is pretty annoying as well, but at least he’s well-meaning, loyal, hard working, and frequently smart. Patrick is stupid, selfish, lazy and ill-tempered, and for the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to maintain a friendship with him (not that I am attempting to genuinely analyze a children’s show). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/46 "2008-06-02T22:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] The character of Diane from _Cheers_. Of course, her successor, Rebecca, was annoying as shit, too. I realize they were supposed to be that way, so we would laugh when they got their comeuppances, but they still irritated the hell out of me. [/QUOTE] i looked at Rebbecca and thought: she gave up being Saavik for _this?!?_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/47 "2008-06-02T22:55:50Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] The character of Diane from _Cheers_. Of course, her successor, Rebecca, was annoying as shit, too. I realize they were supposed to be that way, so we would laugh when they got their comeuppances, but they still irritated the hell out of me. [/QUOTE] i looked at Rebbecca and thought: she gave up being Saavik for _this?!?_ ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/48 "2008-06-02T23:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Patrick, from Spongebob Squarepants. [/QUOTE] I think Patrick is the best part of the show. Now as for who bugs the hell outta me…Percy Whetmore from The Green Mile. HATED!!!..HATED!! that character in the movie… But..I loved the acting,any actor that can make me hate him so much deserves another look.He was in The Chocalate War and I am Sam,likeable roles in both. If you hate the role,it might be cause the actor kicks ass. Peggy Hill sux. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/49 "2008-06-02T23:19:37Z")
What, no _Burke_ from Aliens? I could never understand why _Dr. Smith_ wasn’t tossed out the nearest airlock. How about _Nedry_ from Jurassic Park? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/50 "2008-06-02T23:41:32Z")
If you want annoying from Spongebob, try Pearl (Mr. Crab’s daughter.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/51 "2008-06-03T00:06:54Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] FWIW I like Peggy Hill, I think she’s a genuinely nice person who just wants to see right for her family. [/QUOTE] Agreed. OTOH, **Hank** Hill must die, preferably by some means lingering and humorous involving propane and propane accessories. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/52 "2008-06-03T00:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Now, Adric from Doctor Who is unredeemable. As a person, he’s a whiney brat. As a character, he mostly just caused problems for The Doctor and other characters. [/QUOTE] As an actor, I’ve heard (no cite) he only got the part by being the director’s bum-boy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/53 "2008-06-03T00:11:17Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] And, on exactly the same (painful) note, any character played by Fran Drescher. [/QUOTE] Which reminds me of [Janice (Chandler’s sometime GF) from _Friends._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_in_Friends#Janice_Litman_Goralnik) Have they got some kind of Annoying Girls’ Finishing School in Queens, or what?! ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/54 "2008-06-03T00:13:30Z")
Both the husband and wife on King of Queens are on my all time hate list. I only watched a few episodes, but those two were always scheming something, each trying to take advantage of the other. Jerry Stiller I just can’t stand as an actor, either, in anything I’ve ever seen him in. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/55 "2008-06-03T00:14:19Z")
[QUOTE=Atomicktom] Raymond Barone. This guy is so gutless and emasculated, and seems to live in constant fear of his mother and his wife. The idea that a man should basically have to beg his spouse for love and affection is a comedy meme I’ve never understood. I’d shoot myself if I lived like that. [/QUOTE] Well, it’s **not** you. That’s why it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/56 "2008-06-03T00:18:41Z")
[QUOTE=The Tof] [QUOTE=RealityChuck] In the spirit of the OP.. the character from the Soprano’s who always bugged the crap out of me was AJ. I just wanted to strangle the kid. [/QUOTE] Meh. He’s no more loathesome than any spoiled upper-middle-class teenage male. Lazy, impulsive, an arrogant know-it-all when he thinks at all (but he is sometimes interested in thinking for its own sake, which puts him one up on his Dad, anyway), too easily knocked about by life – all rather to be expected. The important thing about him is that, unlike all of Tony’s business associates and even Tony himself, there’s nothing in AJ that’s **mean.** ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/57 "2008-06-03T00:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] I could never understand why _Dr. Smith_ wasn’t tossed out the nearest airlock. [/QUOTE] Easy. Because Will and the Robot were interesting characters only as foils for Smith, and the rest of the cast were as interesting as an untoasted slice of Wonder Bread with cold butter. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/58 "2008-06-03T00:42:15Z")
Any character played by (in no particular order): [ul] [li]Adam Sandler[/li][li]Rob Schneider[/li][li]Ben Stiller[/li][/ul] Ben Stiller almost gets a pass for “Mystery Men” since Mr. Furious is meant to be a deeply annoying and unlikeable character – excellent casting I feel. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254/59 "2008-06-03T02:28:43Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] I just started watching The Sopranos about nine years behind everyone else. Netflix rules. Anyway, it’s a great show, but Jesus _Christ_! I want to strangle Tony Soprano’s mom! [/QUOTE] Okay, I’m nearing the end of the first season now and I’ve gotta take this back. She’s obviously a lot more than the perpetually grumpy old nag she was made out to be in the first few episodes. God _damn_ this show is good! I should have gotten to it sooner. Wait, no. Then I wouldn’t have anything good to watch now. ---
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[QUOTE=beowulff] What, no _Burke_ from Aliens? I could never understand why _Dr. Smith_ wasn’t tossed out the nearest airlock. How about _Nedry_ from Jurassic Park? [/QUOTE] Well, Nedry’s a villain who gets his just comeuppance. Yes, his uppance did come. ance up he came. Etc. My point,and I do have one, is that with Nedry you got a resolution to your feelings of hatred. “Oh,” you thought upon seeing his firist scene, “I do hope that guy gets eaten by a T-rex.” Then, during his death scene, it’s “Oh! he’s being eaten to death by dozens of tiny dinosaurs, so it lasts longer. Cool!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-and-movie-characters/451254.md?page=4)