Most cumulatively unattractive TV show cast?

[Boyo_Jim]

@Justin_Bailey

Sara Gilbert has legions of geek fanboys. Cross it off the list. I demand it.

Ok, I exist to serve. Roseanne is off.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Walloon

Adding another vote for Maude. Badly dressed too.

Nope, Maude had Adrienne Barbeau, certainly a hottie by contemporaneous community standards.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Sigmagirl

McHale’s Navy. Ernest Borgnine? Carl Ballantine? Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, and Gavin McLeod weren’t the ugliest guys in history, but neither were they George Clooney.

Oh yeah, a definite for the list.

[Idlewild]

@Justin_Bailey

Sara Gilbert has legions of geek fanboys. Cross it off the list. I demand it.

And fangirls. Mmm.

[Apollyon]

@Boyo_Jim

Seinfeld is out. Elaine was absolutely eye candy.

If I might respectfully disagree… and all of course IMHO:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is eye-candy (and may be a wonderful and appealing person, I have no idea).

Elaine Benes is unattractive. A deeply, deeply unattractive human being, in a “would I let my friend date her” sort of way. (Actually in a “would I wish her on my worst enemy” sort of way…)

[The_Tooth]

@Boyo_Jim

Not that I’m a qualified judge of male hotness, but it seems there were some attractive guys on that show.

I remember everyone looking rumpled and tired all the time.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Apollyon

…Elaine Benes is unattractive. A deeply, deeply unattractive human being, in a “would I let my friend date her” sort of way. (Actually in a “would I wish her on my worst enemy” sort of way…)

She had a last name?

[Apollyon]

@Boyo_Jim

She had a last name?

So sayeth Wiki and IMDb.

ETA: I’ll admit I may be biased against the show. I have a really adverse reaction to “NY neurotic”.

[Bridget_Burke]

I’d like to mention Homicide: Life on the Streets. The beauty of young Kyle Secor & the hotness of Andre Braugher ruined the curve & kicked up the average hotness level. But, at the beginning, the rest of the cast was hardly pinup material. Richard Belzer? Ned Beatty? Yaphet Kotto?* Melissa Leo had a natural beauty but certainly didn’t flaunt it.

However, as the years went by & the old faces were replaced by young cuties, I think the overall quality of the show suffered.

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• Wikipedia explains why Kotto could play a half-Sicilian with conviction:

Kotto was born in New York City, the son of Gladys Marie, a nurse and army officer, and Avraham Kotto (originally named Njoki Manga Bell), a businessman and the Crown Prince of Cameroon. Kotto’s father, who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s, was an observant Jew who spoke Hebrew, and Kotto’s mother converted to Judaism before marrying his father. Kotto’s great-grandfather King Alexander Bell ruled the Douala region of Cameroon in the late 19th century and was also a practicing Jew. Kotto has said that his paternal family originated from Israel and migrated to Egypt and then Cameroon, and have been African Jews for many generations.

Being Black and Jewish gave other children even more reason, he has said, to pick on him growing up in New York City. “It was rough coming up,” Kotto said. “And then going to shul, putting a yarmulke on, having to face people who were primarily Baptists in the Bronx meant that on Fridays, I was in some heavy fistfights”.

[Covered_In_Bees]

@Boyo_Jim

She had a last name?

Indeed she does. It’s mentioned several times throughout the series. Nothing of a secret, like Kramer’s first name.

[Hockey_Monkey]

@maplekiwi

I’m going to add Three & a Half Men now that Rose has gone. (from the series showing in NZ anyway).

I’ve always thought the only thing that women would find attractive about Charlie was his wallet!

No way Two and a Half Men can go on the list. Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer are both serious eye candy.

[Covered_In_Bees]

They’re not that eye candy-ish are they? They both look like fairly normal people to me. But then again, I’m a straight male, so what do I know.

[Hockey_Monkey]

I would also like to submit The Three Stooges.

[notfrommensa]

I think this group is pretty fat and ugly. Definitely fat.

[zamboniracer]

Gunsmoke for long-running lack of hotness, other than the prairie itself. Link

The original cast of Cheers wasn’t all that pretty, Sam & Diane’s opinions of themselves notwithstanding.

[choie]

@Boyo_Jim

I never claimed that George Clooney wasn’t hot on the show. I didn’t know that he was on the show at all, nor did I have any idea he was on Facts of Life.

Oops you’re right, I’m sorry! I should’ve remembered Troy McClure SF from such threads as … well, this one.

At least Clooney didn’t have a full-on mullet on Roseanne, as I believe he did on Facts of Life. Clooney just had kind of a puffy front thing happening. Dead sexy to moi. And I’m not even a huge fan.

[Hockey_Monkey]

@Covered_In_Bees

They’re not that eye candy-ish are they? They both look like fairly normal people to me. But then again, I’m a straight male, so what do I know.

They have both been on “My List”* for years. To be able to watch them togther every week is pure nirvana.

*You know,your “celebrities you can do with impunity if the chance ever presents itself” list.

[Covered_In_Bees]

I’ll admit that Sheen does have a certain something about him, but his face is still pretty damn normal to me.

But then again I’m a fan of Kate Hudson and other such celebrites that people call Cookie Cutter Celebs.

[caligulathegod]

I’ve been watching this Australian soap opera from the 70s-80s about a woman’s prison called Prisoner:Cell Block H. I love the show but it has completely destroyed any fantasy I ever had about a women’s prison.

[DWMarch]

How about The Shield? Not the prettiest main cast ever seen and definitely the ugliest guest stars I’ve ever seen.

Vic Mackey: Bald and has a beer gut
Shane Vendrell: Ugly, buck toothed and racist to boot
Curtis Lemansky: Ok, Lem isn’t so bad
Ronnie Gardocki: Would be handsome if not for the imprint of a stove burner on his face
David Aceveda: Otherwise handsome man except he looks like he shaves with buckshot
Claudette Wyms: Sacrificed looks for coolness. I love Claudette but she’s ugly as hell
Danny Sofer: not bad but definitely not a Hollywood beauty
Julien Lowe: handsome
Dutch Wagenbach: nerdy appeal I suppose. But not leading man looks, that’s for sure
Corrine Mackey: cast in an act of nepotism, not for looks
Tina Hanlon: added in the fifth season to be eye candy. Insanely hot but only seen in civilian clothes about twice during the three seasons she was on