# Most cumulatively unattractive TV show cast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610 "2009-06-03T18:39:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/21 "2009-06-03T19:23:15Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > Over on Howard TV, the cast of the Howard Stern Show are bunch of near-trolls. Never saw it, but I’ve seem ads where he appears to have a lot of hottie guests. Correct? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/22 "2009-06-03T19:23:19Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Sanford and Son didn’t have any lookers. Grady? :shudder: Sanford was ugly, sure, but what was wrong with [Son](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1437/1009543806_e1dd28ce78.jpg?v=0)? Aunt Esther, of course, was so ugly you could press her face in some dough and make gorilla cookies. ---
**Author:** ![beatlejuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@beatlejuice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beatlejuice)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/23 "2009-06-03T19:25:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Honk! Try again. 😛 There were always plenty of good looking strippers, whores, girlfriends and mistresses hanging around, often topless. Okay, but name one, just one good looking guy. Gandolfini, Van Zandt, Uncle Junior! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![beatlejuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@beatlejuice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beatlejuice)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/24 "2009-06-03T19:26:51Z")
> [@beatlejuice](#): > > Okay, but name one, just one good looking guy. Gandolfini, Van Zandt, Uncle Junior! :dubious: WAIT, you did say totally lacking eye candy. I stand corrected although repulsed. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/25 "2009-06-03T19:27:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Not that I’m a qualified judge of male hotness, but it seems there were some attractive guys on that show. Yeah, I always thought Ron Glass had that Billy Dee Williams thing happenin’ for him. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/26 "2009-06-03T19:29:29Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Sanford was ugly, sure, but what was wrong with [Son](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1437/1009543806_e1dd28ce78.jpg?v=0)? > > Aunt Esther, of course, was so ugly you could press her face in some dough and make gorilla cookies. Son wasn’t repulsive, but I don’t think you could call him eye candy. I would have to agree that _Sanford and Son_ has taken the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/27 "2009-06-03T19:30:01Z")
Oh look at Mel! He’s cute! A lot cuter than I remember him from the '70s. I’ve noticed (and I think it’s been discussed here a few times) how many more beautiful people there are on nighttime TV. Of course the acting profession has a lot of good-looking people, but I was particularly struck by an old Miami Vice rerun I saw a couple years ago, of all things. It was held up as an MTV-era inspired show at the time, all flash and glamour and no substance. But the episode I watched featured prominently a guest actresses who was more or less an average-looking middle aged woman. Yes, she dressed nice but really, despite the overall glamoury tone of the show, none of the people were as glamourous, physically, as your average CSI on today’s television. Remember the movie Soapdish with Sally Field and Robert Downey Jr.? There was a brain surgeon on the soap played by an extremely young nubile actress. Nobody missed the point how ridiculous this was; now it’s the norm. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/28 "2009-06-03T19:30:10Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Never saw it, but I’ve seem ads where he appears to have a lot of hottie guests. Correct? Correct. But the guests are not part of the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/29 "2009-06-03T19:31:05Z")
> [@DudleyGarrett](#): > > Yeah, I always thought Ron Glass had that Billy Dee Williams thing happenin’ for him. And there was Barney himself, for the middle-aged women. And whathisname, the Polish guy, for women who liked their guys a little more bulked up and stupid. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/30 "2009-06-03T19:33:34Z")
The Drew Carey Show? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/31 "2009-06-03T19:36:12Z")
The men on _Hee Haw_. The women made up for it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/32 "2009-06-03T19:39:59Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Remember the movie Soapdish with Sally Field and Robert Downey Jr.? There was a brain surgeon on the soap played by an extremely young nubile actress. Nobody missed the point how ridiculous this was; now it’s the norm. Looking at the credits, I think that may have been Teri “they’re real and they’re spectactular” Hatcher. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/33 "2009-06-03T19:41:20Z")
McHale’s Navy. [Ernest Borgnine](http://loveitorhateit.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/borgnine.jpg)? [Carl Ballantine](http://www.magicwebchannel.com/images/new/Ballantine.jpg)? Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, and Gavin McLeod weren’t the ugliest guys in history, but neither were they George Clooney. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/34 "2009-06-03T19:44:07Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > The Drew Carey Show? A good choice when it comes to the male members! of the cast, but I thought that Christa Miller was one of the hottest women on TV for a few years… ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/35 "2009-06-03T19:49:56Z")
Would it be cheating to mention the Golden Girls? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/36 "2009-06-03T19:54:55Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > A good choice when it comes to the male members! of the cast, but I thought that Christa Miller was one of the hottest women on TV for a few years… Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/37 "2009-06-03T20:05:37Z")
Interesting how we get so many sitcoms with characters who are not the prettiest bulbs in the room. Ladies and gentlemen, I think this thread just proves that ugly = funny. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/38 "2009-06-03T20:16:12Z")
Would anyone admit to lusting after any of the men on **Everybody Loves Raymond**? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/39 "2009-06-03T20:16:22Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > The Drew Carey Show? The high ration of unattractive people on that show is completely negated by the hotness that is [Craig Ferguson.](http://www.tvgasm.com/newsgasm/craig%20ferguson.jpg) Other than him, you’ve got a point. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610/40 "2009-06-03T20:23:03Z")
When Warren Beatty left the cast of Dobie Gillis after one season, that reduced the total hotness of the cast by 50%. When Tuesday Weld left a couple years later, that eliminated the other 50%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-cumulatively-unattractive-tv-show-cast/498610.md?page=3)