# Most despicable television character in history, in your humble opinion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498 "2015-09-10T04:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/61 "2015-09-10T18:28:45Z")
Okay, not the worst compared to some of the others mentioned here, but Eddie Haskell always came across to me as a budding sociopath. I fully expected to see him raping nuns and making lampshades from their skin about fifteen years after the show ended. And I agree about Endora. Derwood was a dick (well, two, actually :D) and treated Samantha terribly. Endora had every right to treat him like crap. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/62 "2015-09-10T18:30:09Z")
I always found Brenda Leigh Johnson of _The Closer_ pretty despicable – and even worse because she’s playing a “good guy” role. Her passion for punishing the wicked (generally not an admirable thing in itself anyway) crosses well over the line into sadism. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/63 "2015-09-10T18:34:41Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > Eric Cartman is quite despicable, but he’s also a great character. > > Yes, I hate him and always want to see him get his come-uppance, but the show wouldn’t be what it is without him. > > [In a similar thread i noted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=732893): > He has (among many other things) > Kidnapped Butters as a prank, but let Butters’ parents grieve as though their son was dead > Traded the market in dead fetuses > Developed a “crack baby” athletic association > Intentionally infected his \*friend \*with HIV. Don’t forget the time when he killed his bully’s parents, made them into chili and got the bully to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/64 "2015-09-10T18:36:23Z")
Cliff Barnes from Dallas. What a whiny little bitch. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/65 "2015-09-10T18:54:08Z")
Louie dePalma from Taxi. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/66 "2015-09-10T18:59:07Z")
Geez, I know people worse than some of these in real life. But you go around calling them despicable people and someone always jumps up to defend them. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/67 "2015-09-10T19:33:41Z")
Vic Mackey in The Sheild - not only was he a dirty cop, he committed numerous crimes, got all of his team in a lot of deep shit, and in the end Walks away nearly scott free while ruining all those around him who supported him ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/68 "2015-09-10T19:41:30Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Don’t forget the time when he killed his bully’s parents, made them into chili and got the bully to eat it. Well, he lured them to their death. He didn’t actually kill them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/69 "2015-09-10T19:53:27Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Louie dePalma from Taxi. Well, see post #55 (re Smith, not Profit). ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/70 "2015-09-10T19:54:53Z")
Not sure if Netflix counts as television, but that’s what I watch it on. Frank Underwood from _House of Cards_. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/71 "2015-09-10T19:56:40Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Francis Urquhart in the original UK House of Cards was a thoroughly despicable human being…far moreso than his American counterpart Frank Underwood. Haven’t seen the American version, but, yeah. The only character to out-evil him is his wife, in the end. It’s like Lady Macbeth, so far from cracking and going mad with guilt, arranged her husband’s death for her own purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/72 "2015-09-10T20:35:07Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > No, Endora’s behavior was perfectly justified. Durwood’s attitude toward his wife and her talents was despicable. Agreed…but her response was not appropriate. She terrorized him, rather than simply reasoning with him and/or Samantha. She made herself an enemy – and a really nasty one – rather than striving for his enlightenment. A valid moral stance is not sufficient justification for terrorism. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/73 "2015-09-10T20:47:18Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Agreed…but her response was not appropriate. She terrorized him, rather than simply reasoning with him and/or Samantha. She made herself an enemy – and a really nasty one – rather than striving for his enlightenment. > > A valid moral stance is not sufficient justification for terrorism. True, but occasionally she even stuck up for him and helped him–like in the very funny episode where he thought Uncle Arthur was teaching him to “cast spells.” “Yagga-zoozy!” If think if Darrin had been less of a hardass about letting Samantha be herself, Endora probably would have left him alone. She might not have gone as far as to _like_ him (he is a mortal, after all) but I bet she’d have left him alone. Witches are nearly immortal–by her standards he’d be dead soon anyway. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/74 "2015-09-10T21:32:06Z")
Anthony Freemont from the Twilight Zone episode [It’s Still a Good Life.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkJcFGvNgcY) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/75 "2015-09-10T21:38:45Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Dr. Smith from Lost in Space. > > Or… Gilligan 😃 Hated Gilligan more. He’s just stoopid stupid. At least Smith was just a greedy psychopath. I understand that. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/76 "2015-09-10T23:53:49Z")
Ray’s mother on 'Everyone love Raymond ’ . I couldn’t stand her ! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/77 "2015-09-11T00:08:34Z")
Agent June Stahl, Sons Of Anarchy. What a well deserved end she came to. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/78 "2015-09-11T00:13:17Z")
Livia Soprano was a good call too and I’d add the Aprile (can’t remember the first name) that Tony’s sister shot. Really, most of the characters on the Sopranos were despicable at one point or another. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/79 "2015-09-11T00:18:00Z")
I was going to say Vic Mackie or Ben Linus but since both were taken, I’m gonna go with Gul Dukat. ---
**Author:** ![Rather\_a\_Vicious\_Gentleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@Rather\_a\_Vicious\_Gentleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rather_a_Vicious_Gentleman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/80 "2015-09-11T01:18:44Z")
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