# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/81 "2015-09-11T02:08:49Z")
> [@groovie](#): > > Falconetti off Rich Man, Poor Man. A nasty piece of work. That goes back a ways! Falconetti was one evil guy, almost to the point that I sometimes had to talk myself into not shutting the tv off. He gave me nightmares as a kid. And Cliff Barnes is a good choice. He wasn’t so much evil as he was downright slimey. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/82 "2015-09-11T03:35:47Z")
Frank Burns ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/83 "2015-09-11T03:48:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Nancy Grace. +1000 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/84 "2015-09-11T03:52:59Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Livia Soprano was a good call too and I’d add the Aprile (can’t remember the first name) that Tony’s sister shot. Richie Aprile. But I think Ralph Cifaretto was worse. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/85 "2015-09-11T04:22:06Z")
> [@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. Scott Tenorman wasn’t a bully. He just scammed Cartman out of $10. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/86 "2015-09-11T04:49:34Z")
> [@campp](#): > > At least Smith was just a greedy psychopath. I understand that. Sociopath, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/87 "2015-09-11T04:53:26Z")
Think about how harmless these characters all are really. I’m giving up on fiction. I’m going with Greg Gutfeld, but it’s some stiff competition. These guys really scare me in the real world. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/88 "2015-09-11T04:54:55Z")
Connie D’Amico on\*\*\* Family Guy\*\*\*. I loved it when Meg finally beat the crap out of her and her friends in the cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/89 "2015-09-11T06:03:23Z")
Alice on Brady Bunch. > [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Not sure if Netflix counts as television… It does. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/90 "2015-09-11T06:11:41Z")
Green Acres had some pretty annoying characters… ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/91 "2015-09-11T06:20:13Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > 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. > [@Colibri](#): > > Richie Aprile. But I think Ralph Cifaretto was worse. I always thought Ralphie mentally ill in some way while Richie was plain sadistic. What he did to the guy who owned the pizza shop (the coffee pot and then the SUV) was way over the top. It was a great performance. Livia is the most evil of all. She is the puppetmaster. She gets people to do her bidding all the while having complete deniability. Who plots to have their own child killed? The Sopranos would have been much better if Nancy Marchand hadnt been sick and passed. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/92 "2015-09-11T07:47:02Z")
I’d like to make an unusual suggestion. Unusual because this character was never once seen on air. But it was a relative of Jamie and Tyrion Lanister in Game of Thrones. It was their cousin who used to kill beetles and made a strange noise every time he killed a beetle. If I recall, he would take a rock and thump a beetle and make the noise, “Koo! Koo! Koo!”. Apparently, Jamie and Tyrion got a real kick out of this character. I’m not sure why. It seemed quite gross to me. However, … **"KOO! KOO! KOO!"** ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/93 "2015-09-11T07:52:47Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Livia Soprano was a good call too Never trust a Livia. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/94 "2015-09-11T08:53:04Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Never trust a Livia. Cant Livia wit em, cant Livia witout em ---
**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:** [September 11, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/95 "2015-09-11T09:18:37Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > No, Endora’s behavior was perfectly justified. Durwood’s attitude toward his wife and her talents was despicable. > [@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. Yeah, it’s one thing to disagree with your son-in-law, and it’s another thing to hate him (justified or not), but turning him into an artichoke is over the line. Darrin was a blustering buffoon, and Samantha was the voice of reason, but it would be interesting to go through the early episodes and see how the whole “no witchcraft” thing developed. I’m not sure it’s entirely on Darrin being autocratic. I seem to recall that Samantha was already trying to live as a mortal when they met, and if she promised him to forego the use of her powers it’s not entirely unreasonable for him to hold her to that promise. And, according to Wikipedia, Samantha doesn’t even tell Darrin she’s a witch until their honeymoon. Concealing something like that until after you’re married isn’t much of a way to begin a trusting relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/96 "2015-09-11T13:36:15Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Hannibal Lecter? Hannibal is a good nomination, because he has done terrible, evil, disgusting things. But from the show Hannibal, I’d nominate Mason Verger as the most despicable. Hannibal seems to have some type of code, and mostly goes after “the rude.” He also is very charming, so you can’t help but like him despite knowing how terrible he is. But Mason Verger abuses his sister, molests children, tortures animals, and takes sadistic pleasure in it all. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/97 "2015-09-11T14:17:59Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > 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 Don’t know that he exactly walked away scott free. He lost his (stolen) money, his friends, his family. He ends up: Doing a desk job (which is hardly his style) amid people who know he is dirty and loath him for what he is and as I recall the final scene is him eyeing his gun in a drawer suggesting he is considering suicide. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/98 "2015-09-11T14:49:25Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Agent June Stahl, Sons Of Anarchy. What a well deserved end she came to. Good one, although I’m going with Gemma Teller. I know early on, she had moments of quasi-livability, but I can’t stand parents who do self-serving bullshit in the name of helping their kids. And hers was so, so much worse than that. The woman was straight out a psycho and in the end, was completely irredeemable. I was relieved for her to die and initially, I’d been a big fan. Katey Sagal is an thespian badass. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/99 "2015-09-11T15:35:25Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Me? I can’t stand Jimmy McNulty from ‘The Wire.’ The character sickens me. I know I’m probably in the minority on this. [spoiler]My favorite season was 4, simply because he wasn’t around, and when he was, he was just…there. > > Forget the street thugs and dealers on that show-- McNulty to me was pure vileness. Omar Little had more honor in his pinky than that dirtbag had in his whole worthless syphilitic body. IMHO, of course. > > From the moment I saw him, while working undercover, finishing himself off with a couple whores while his fellow cops stood there in the hotel room, to the constant disrespect and disinterest he showed to his own kids…he’s just a rotten puke. Disgusting. Completely self-serving with no moral compass.[/spoiler] > > So who do you hate? I disagree about McNulty, i don’t think he was even the worse of the cops, but that scene WAS pretty disturbing. It was played for laughs while ignoring the fact that the girls were actually sex trafficked slaves. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/100 "2015-09-11T15:45:46Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Well, he lured them to their death. He didn’t actually kill them. He destroyed much of the world with his underling Cthulhu. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498.md?page=6)