# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/161 "2015-09-14T13:25:48Z")
Endora at least never tried to murder Darrin. When Samantha’s father Maurice found out she’d married a mortal, he _obliterated_ Darrin, literally erasing him from existence. Only Samantha’s absolute insistence forced Maurice to bring Darrin back, and he very nearly couldn’t do it. FWIW, Samantha marrying a mortal was in her parents’ eyes akin to a princess royal marrying and living in the bush with a Tasmanian aborigine. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/162 "2015-09-14T14:37:32Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Wesley Crusher Not “despicable,” he falls under the “too perfect to like” category. ---
**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 14, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/163 "2015-09-14T17:42:59Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Endora at least never tried to murder Darrin. When Samantha’s father Maurice found out she’d married a mortal, he _obliterated_ Darrin, literally erasing him from existence. Only Samantha’s absolute insistence forced Maurice to bring Darrin back, and he very nearly couldn’t do it. > > FWIW, Samantha marrying a mortal was in her parents’ eyes akin to a princess royal marrying and living in the bush with a Tasmanian aborigine. How about Lumpy from Leave it to Beaver? He started off being a bully and then just changed into a harmless sort of douche. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/164 "2015-09-14T19:29:47Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > FWIW, Samantha marrying a mortal was in her parents’ eyes akin to a princess royal marrying and living in the bush with a Tasmanian aborigine. Understandable – witches in the _Bewitched_ universe are not merely folk-magicians or neopagans, they are (like genies in _I Dream of Jeannie,_ or the Q in _Star Trek)_ a nonhuman supernatural race, for all intents and purposes gods, with nearly-unlimited reality-altering powers, and not “mortals.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/165 "2015-09-14T21:23:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Understandable – witches in the _Bewitched_ universe are not merely folk-magicians or neopagans, they are (like genies in _I Dream of Jeannie,_ or the Q in _Star Trek)_ a nonhuman supernatural race, for all intents and purposes gods, with nearly-unlimited reality-altering powers, and not “mortals.” They’re also pretty close to descriptions of [The Fair Folk](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/166 "2015-09-14T21:31:54Z")
Claire Underwood (House of Cards) just turns my stomach. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/167 "2015-09-14T23:55:29Z")
I always felt sorry for Wil Wheaton. If someone had offered me a part as a regular character on a Star Trek show when I was a teener, you wouldn’t have been able to keep me away. I would have found it kind of upsetting when all of fandom started to hate me. Even if I could totally understand why they hated me. Fortunately, Wheaton seems to have bounced back pretty well. That being said, I never understood why the Robinson family didn’t feed Dr. Zachary Smith to the monster of the week somewhere by the end of the first season. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/168 "2015-09-18T21:14:29Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > 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 True, but He didn’t get blown up with a grenade by his squad mate, he didn’t have to take the rap like the most trustworthy member of the team and spend who knows how long in prison where they don’t take kindly to dirty cops, and he didn’t kill his wife and child before committing suicide with their bodies. He engineered a way to keep himself out of prison and would likely find some way to get by in the world. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/169 "2015-09-19T08:31:47Z")
I guess I must watch the wrong sortt of TV, because I don’t know most of these characters, so I’ll just note that King Friday XIII is kind of a self-absorbed and tryannical despot. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Boone_Fanatic)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/170 "2015-09-19T16:12:48Z")
Archie Bunker from All In The Family. Probably the biggest bigot in tv history. ---
**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 19, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/171 "2015-09-19T19:33:23Z")
> [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](#): > > Archie Bunker from All In The Family. Probably the biggest bigot in tv history. Yes, but he was a _loveable_ bigot! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/172 "2015-09-19T21:07:13Z")
I nominate the entire cast of Friends, except maybe Phoebe. A close second is that horrible brat Megan from _Drake and Josh_. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/173 "2015-09-23T05:19:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Joyce Davenport (Hill Street Blues). She was a nasty, lizardy woman who was always giving Frank Furillo grief. No, right show but wrong character. If you want to say she’s nasty because she’s a defense lawyer, well, you could fill this whole thread with lawyer characters. No, the _really_ **despicable** character from **Hill Street Blues** was Police Chief Fletcher Daniels (and he appeared in 71 of the 144 episodes so he can be considered a major character.) Actor Jon Cypher really knows how to play a smarmy, unrepentant jerk. Daniels was an a-hole in his first appearance and remained one all the way to the end. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/174 "2015-09-23T05:38:46Z")
Nobody deserved comeuppance more than Cersei Lannister. The White Walkers are going to overrun Westeros, and by now (mostly because of her) I’m kind of rooting for them. ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/175 "2015-09-23T05:48:46Z")
Helga from _Hey Arnold_ Angelica from _Rugrats_ The Gromble from _Ahh! Real Monsters_ Plankton from _Spongebob Squarepants_ Mandark from _Dexter’s Laboratory_ ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/176 "2015-09-24T07:19:14Z")
I’m guessing we don’t have many **Desperate Housewives** fans here, because no one nominated Gabrielle Solis, who has (as far as I could tell) no redeeming qualities whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/177 "2015-09-27T01:26:03Z")
Pretty much every character on Curb Your Enthusiasm. In every situation, every character is completely unreasonable and makes everything a disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498/178 "2015-09-27T04:24:42Z")
Mike/Meathead on “All In The Family” Archie is a legitmate hero–he dropped out of high school to take care of his mother/siblings. He fought in WWII and while he’s a bigot, he can learn better. There was a gay character early on who Archie got used to, he liked the son from the Jeffersons (Lionel?) and so on. Yeah, he uses “un-PC” words but he’s a product of his times and can learn better. And then there’s Meathead. A filthy hippie who won’t get a job, who refuses to obey house rules, mooches food, sits in Archie’s chair, fights with Archie over the TV and constantly belittles and insults Archie. And eventually, the character runs off with some other woman, abandoning Archie’s daughter and his son. Part of the reason Archie doesn’t seem so bad is that despite being a bigot, Archie has redeeming qualities–he’s brave, loyal, supports a family…etc. Meathead has no good qualities at all, whatsoever. Most. Vile. Character. Ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-television-character-in-history-in-your-humble-opinion/730498.md?page=8)