# Most irritating TV/Movie Character EVER! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875 "2003-02-09T12:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Homer\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Homer\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/21 "2003-02-09T19:29:26Z")
the worst Lisa moment is when ralph takes her to the Krusty special and he’s telling Krusty that hes going to marry her and Lisa just screams no, but if you look at her while hes saying it she inanimate and it looks so poor, plus her screams are jsut the worse, the women who does them is not very good. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/22 "2003-02-09T19:31:44Z")
Amen, **Homer J**! ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/23 "2003-02-09T19:36:04Z")
> [@](#): > > that squeaky voiced dark haired girl (name?) on the show I just knew this would come up! What is with that voice? She sounds like a 7 year old girl on helium. I can’t believe she speak like that in real life. Also, Phoebe from Friends. Her “kooky” mannerisms sometimes really get under my skin. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/24 "2003-02-09T19:39:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*I just knew this would come up! What is with that voice? She sounds like a 7 year old girl on helium. I can’t believe she speak like that in real life. \*\* I don’t think she does; or if she does it’s not NEARLY this dramatic. She’s calmed down a bit since the start of the show, but her laugh is what really irks me…it sounds as though she’s hyperventilating. ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/25 "2003-02-09T19:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*George Costanza on Sienfeld. A stupid whining loser with about as much charm as bubonic plague. > > Second choice to any other part Jason Alexander has ever played. Anyone who can screw up “Bye Bye Birdie” is kind of a black hole of talent. \*\* I think he finally redeemed himself with “Duckman”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/26 "2003-02-09T20:20:12Z")
Dr. Jonathon Smith, from _Lost in Space_ ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/27 "2003-02-09T22:12:45Z")
Chuck Norris on “Walker, Texas Ranger.” Well, maybe it’s just the whole concept of the show that annoys me. Or the fact that it exists. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/28 "2003-02-09T22:20:30Z")
Point of order: It was Jonathan _Harris_ as Doctor _Zachary_ Smith. Passed away late last year. I saw him at a convention once; he seemed like a great old guy. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/29 "2003-02-09T22:29:46Z")
I’ve gotta second, third, and fourth… URKEL, URKEL, URKEL!!! ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/30 "2003-02-09T22:48:13Z")
Lisa Simpson has become insufferable in recent years. I found Elaine on _Seinfeld_ annoying in the last few seasons. Richard Lewis forces me to reach for the mute button, every “character” he plays is a pretentious, self-righteous prick. The constant whining of Camyrn Manheim’s character on _The Practice_ drove me away from that show. The stick up her butt must be infested with termites. ---
**Author:** ![Epigramcracker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Epigramcracker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epigramcracker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/31 "2003-02-09T22:54:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*The entire cast of Will and Grace. I don’t even watch the show, but seeing the commercials for it makes me want to kill the actors. \*\* my hero!!! someone needs to skewer karan on a pike. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/32 "2003-02-09T23:35:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Murcielago \* > \*\*The stick up her butt must be infested with termites. \*\* Forgive the hijak, but I need to praise this sentence. ::bows to sentence:: ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/33 "2003-02-09T23:40:26Z")
Okay, so plenty of TV characters have been mentioned. I’d like to nominate another movie character: Upham, from _Saving Private Ryan_. Christ, I just wanted to smack that guy. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/34 "2003-02-09T23:56:11Z")
Without a doubt, John Leguizamo as Toulouse Le-Blech in _Moulin Rouge!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jberto)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/35 "2003-02-10T00:00:10Z")
Monk from _Monk_ - this character is so dull. How can he be the lead, much less a bit character, on any show? I fell asleep from boredom after the first 5 minutes of the show I watched. The entire cast of _Seinfeld_ - I never understand the appeal of self-centered egotisitical charaters with half a brain, which leads me to… Karen on _Will and Grace_. I love the show and I suppose the secondary characters on any show can/should be charicatures, but she is low, dirty, thoughtless, selfish, stuck up, materialistic, nasty, forgetful, and lazy. Did I forget perpetually hammered? The cast of _Frasier_ - this pains me because I used to love this show. Now every character is either running through the motions or is parodying themselves for laughs. Boss Hog and Sheriff whats-his-name from _Dukes of Hazzard_. Colonel Flagg from _M_A_S_H\*. The definition of a nitwit. 3 cheers to everyone who mentioned Wesley Crusher, who should have an award named after him (“This year’s Honorary Wesley Crusher Irritating Character Emmy goes to…”) ---
**Author:** ![dwmacg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwmacg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwmacg)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/36 "2003-02-10T03:34:17Z")
As far as I’m concerned, the Col. Flagg episodes were about the only ones worth watching in the later years. In fact, I’d nominate the whole cast of MASH after Trapper and Col. Blake left. Also that bratty little cousin in the last season of the Brady Bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/37 "2003-02-10T03:38:18Z")
Thanks **Terrifel** I sure screwed up on Dr. Smith’s name. And damn, I grew up watching that show too! I was almost exactly Bill Mumy’s age(see him on Babylon 5?) WAtching it in later years I saw an episode where a young man, 13 or so, was being taken by his father on a hunt, a manhood ritual for his people. I looked at the teenager and thought “I should _recognize_ who this kid is!” Finally I did. OMG, it was Kurt Russell. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/38 "2003-02-10T03:38:22Z")
Anybody played by Matthew Lillard. They’re all the same character, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/39 "2003-02-10T03:56:03Z")
David Letterman. I don’t like the guy who plays him either. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875/40 "2003-02-10T04:03:06Z")
The entire cast of self-righteous assholes on _The Practice_. The only reason _Ally McBeal_ was tolerable was because you could at least cheer whenever bad things happened to these morons. _The Practice_ actually expects viewers to like everyone. The entire cast of self-righteous assholes on _Beverly Hills 90210_. Ditto. The entire cast of self-righteous assholes on _Boston Public_. Basically, I only turn on Fox now to watch The Simpsons and “World’s Wildest Whatever”. For a while, Gilbert Gottfried was a regular on _Night Court_. For a while, I completely stopped watching _Night Court_. Whatever character Adam Sandler happened to be playing on _Saturday Night Live_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-irritating-tv-movie-character-ever/153875.md?page=3)