No, we cannot name Cousin Oliver. He was a terrible character on not a great show. 
Where he’s far more brutal.
I’ll take this in a slightly different direction. I am watching Cheers for the first time in 20+ years, and I really dislike Carla. She is a terrible person, and rarely funny. I really think the writers got lazy with her, just giving her easy put-downs. One of the impacts of this is that Cliff, would was sometimes a very interesting character, more often just became someone for Carla to make fun of in an unfunny way.
I have heard many lines in my recent viewing that I think hold up as some of the best written lines in sit-com history, but in some ways it has also aged poorly, and Carla is one of them IMO.
I realize that, and my only defense for liking him in Happy! was that the violence was so over the top that (to me, at least) it crossed the line into farce. I’m particularly thinking of the scene where he took out the residents of a nursing home, who were all Nazis.
Anthony Dinozzo in NCIS, I recently binge watched the show and realized he is a complete arsehole, his constant sexual harassment of female coworkers, bullying of coworkers, reading their email, breaking in to their desks, stealing food etc, in any workplace I ever worked at he wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes
I love Brooklyn Nine-Nine but Charles isn’t funny. He’s massively irritating.
Any ‘little sister’. On any show that seems to need a boost, and hey! why not throw in a little sister???. Usually cruelly bereft of parents who died in a car crash, the ‘little sister’ is sent live with her older sister/cousin. Fucks up the older sister/cousin’s life, drinking/drugging/acting like an asshole - spoiling the older sister’s/cousin’s burgeoning romance. Oh, and let’s not forget, buddying up to or getting kidnapped by The Villain of the show. … How come there are no bereft little brothers who need to be shipped off to the heroine of the show? too troublesome? too uncontrollable? too dangerous?
If we’re talking about The Sopranos, I don’t think there’s any actor/character whose quality was as inversely proportional to the rest of the show, as AJ.
Two on That 70s Show: Casey Kelso and Randy
Everybods mother on all sitcoms. Especially Rosanne and George Costanza.
Kripke and Leonard’s mom on Big Bang. Kripke’s speech impediment was like nails on a chalkboard. Leonard’s mom was a heartless bitch.
Cliff Barnes on Dallas, always picking on poor old JR.
Robin on How I Met Your Mother. I get that she is supposed to be somewhat distant and tomboyish but can’t see her appeal to Ted and especially Barney.
Lisa Bonet’s character on The Cosby show. I loved her fashion but hated everything that came out of her mouth.
I agree with those that can’t stand Pauly Perrette on NCIS. And I’ve never seen the show! Just clips and commercials showed me I did not want to watch her. Her “quirky” hair made me grind my teeth. I just saw a commercial for a new sitcom she’s on and she still has those damned pigtails!
I could’ve written this myself, except for the Star Trek con part-- I’ve never been to one.
Some wag once said of the original series that, absurd “Prime Directive” notwithstanding, Kirk and the Enterprise was essentially a cosmic “Mary Worth” wandering around the galaxy and butting into the affairs of other planets at every turn. (If younger readers don’t get the “Mary Worth” reference, look it up.)
Neelix made Mary Worth seem like an introvert.
But, to make one more observation short of derailing this into a “Voyager” discussion, over time I realized that almost all of the characters are variously pompous stuffed shirts, pricks, and a-holes. Some critics and fans derided bringing in Jeri Ryan as eye candy, but apart from her smokin’-hot jumpsuited body her character had more texture and nuance than the rest of those stiffs put together. (Belanna and even Naomi Wildman excepted.)
I’ll stop now.
Debra Morgan, Dexter’s sister in Dexter.
Seriously, what did she add? She wasn’t particularly good at her job, she was unable to sense anything odd from two serial killers she was very close to, her former fianceé and her own brother, and mostly she ended up as damsel in distress at the end of a couple of seasons.
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Excellent example.
Having said that, Omar was pretty much a comic book character as well - with his ability to wander around in the same neighborhoods where he was ripping off major drug dealers, yet they could never find him to retaliate. But Omar is almost universally loved by fans of the show.
Southland on TNT
I dont remember who the characters name was but there was one character was supposed to be native American or Hispanic or both but was nothing but an 8th-grade jackass and when they had the shootout in the precinct I was hoping hed get killed… and he didn’t but he acted like it … he thought he was the “cowboy” of the bunch …
How about Craig Middlebrooks on Parks and Recreation.
He was a semi-regular character in the last two seasons and yelled every one of his lines for his entire run on the show. He was never even the tiniest bit funny.
God, yeah. I don’t know what they were going for, but it didn’t work at all.
