# Most annoying TV cops? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339 "2015-11-12T00:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/81 "2015-11-14T15:02:15Z")
Any cop on _Reno 911!_. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/82 "2015-11-14T15:13:29Z")
T.J. Hooker. ---
**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/83 "2015-11-14T16:00:14Z")
John Bunnell, pretentious, annoying, and arrogant. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/84 "2015-11-14T16:16:44Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > And it’s cool seeing Boston in the '70s. Well…remember this was a Universal show. A surprisingly large amount of the show was filmed in SoCal, or even the backlot. I’m not convinced Peppard was ever in Boston! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/85 "2015-11-14T16:59:43Z")
Don Orville on 3rd Rock from the Sun. Totally incompetent, short, fat & glasses. How did he get Sally? ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/86 "2015-11-14T17:10:26Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > It is impossible for me to choose between Olivia Benson on ‘Law & Order: SVU’ and Horatio Caine on ‘CSI: Miami’. > > OB was not so bad in the early years; but HC was an arrogant AH each and every ep. The OB character became worse and worse after Stabler (and the sexual tension between them) left the show. I caught a post-Stabler episode the other day, and OB just came across as an angry spinster with some heavy-duty hangups of her own. And I’m a spinster myself, so, you know. I still like Finn and Munch, but they aren’t enough to offset all of that righteous anger and guy-hatred. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/87 "2015-11-14T17:15:12Z")
Deb, the sister cop, from _Dexter_. I spent most episodes wishing someone would kill her already. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/88 "2015-11-14T18:26:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Well…remember this was a Universal show. A surprisingly large amount of the show was filmed in SoCal, or even the backlot. I’m not convinced Peppard was ever in Boston! Oh, they definitely came to Boston; I think it was probably just once each season to shoot the exterior shots they needed, then back to L.A. to do the interiors on a sound stage. Just in the opening credits you can see Peppard going in to Durgin Park, walking across City Hall Plaza, driving across the Longfellow, etc. And one episode, I think, has him going in to the Hines Convention Center. Maybe even stranger, I remembered the ending to one episode that I must have seen when I was about 8 years old. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/89 "2015-11-14T19:07:29Z")
How about Roscoe P Coltrane? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/90 "2015-11-14T21:14:43Z")
The cop from **Car 54 Where are You** who said “ooh, ooh, Francis”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/91 "2015-11-15T05:18:08Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > The cop from **Car 54 Where are You** who said “ooh, ooh, Francis”. I mentioned him. Gunther Toody. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/92 "2015-11-15T13:53:55Z")
I think the OP needs to clarify. Annoying to his/her fellow fictional characters, or annoying to the viewer? Barney Fife, Frank Luger, Carl Levitt, Howard Hunter, Frank Gannon, etc…I wouldn’t want to work with any of them, but I enjoy the characters. mmm ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/93 "2015-11-15T15:58:29Z")
Don Lamb from “Veronica Mars”. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339/94 "2015-11-15T16:46:28Z")
Olivia on SVU. I swear, Mariska Hargatay has one expression, and it’s achieved by sucking a lemon. I got tired of the story lines of that series pretty quick, but she was the primary reason I quit watching that show. And I’ll go with Brenda on The Closer - I never understood why Fritz didn’t just bitch slap her and head out the door. I liked the show, but I couldn’t stand her character at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-tv-cops/737339.md?page=4)