The lead character on Bones - I hate her so much, I can’t even remember her name. Yeah, I know, she’s supposed to have Asperger’s or some such, but she’s obnoxious at best. I tried to watch the show since my husband liked it, but I never got over the snotty “genius.”
The only time I like Jean-Ralphio is when Mona Lisa is there too. They riff on each other really well. They writers did really good job giving us just enough of them. Any more would have made the show hard too watch (say, if they were in every other episode or had episodes centered around them). It looks like there’s 113 episodes (if Leslie was in all of them). Jean-Ralphio was only in 18 and Mona Lisa was in 7.
Yeah, it seemed to me that Adrian Monk had an inconsistent level of self-awareness; and he was damned annoying, and strained my credulity, on those occasions when he, a supposedly smart man, seemed to have no clue that his way of interacting with the world was at all unusual or unreasonable or a problem for those around him.
Yes, yes, yes. How do the people she works with stand her?
I nominate Rusty on Major Crimes. What a whiner.
Oh god yes. Fuckin die already!
(I repeat my unemotional and perfectly sane and rational comment from the Major Crimes thread in case the show runners read message boards in order to sample the pulse of the viewing public. I want to be sure they get the message.)
I’m pretty sure her name is Bones. I don’t remember it ever being suggested she had Asperger’s, but her schtick about not understanding any aspect of popular culture did wear thin pretty quickly.
However, not as thin as Dawn’s constant whining on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Seconded. I’d be able to take him if he was an annoying asshole, or if he had a lisp. But the fact that he has both just makes him a bit too much.
Wings-- the character Faye. She had a horrible singsongy voice that grated. Like a perpetual moan/whine. Ugh.
Wesley Crusher’s sole purpose was to steal the “most annoying” award from Deanna Troi.
Yes, the eye candy factor kept me watching longer than the show warranted!
I think her boobs did that for her. And the nose job helped. I rarely say that, but in her case…
Lwaxana Troi, from ST-TNG.
But she was supposed to be annoying.
I always wanted a scene where Fontana sotto voce threatens a suspect, who then sneers and says “I was a Green Beret. You try any rough stuff and I’ll put your head through the table.”
Monroe - Too Close for Comfort
On Bewitched, there were two annoying characters – Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur and Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay. While both were good in other roles, such as Fox as Colonel Crittenden on Hogan’s Heroes, they just plain annoyed me on Bewitched.
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The most annoying character ever on Married…with Children was “Seven” (so called because his hillbilly parents had one, two, three, four, five, seven kids) – thankfully, the fan outrage was so great that he was quickly written out of the show, although in future episodes he would occasionally appear on a milk carton.
And I agree that “recurring” should mean characters who don’t appear in every episode, although the OP apparently did mean just characters in general.
I’ll see if I can out-obscure you.
Kate Kestrel, Terrahawks.
How about Colonel Flagg from “MASH”? Yes I get the point of the character was a commentary about McCarthyism. But he was so monolithic a character, with no real sense of humor, that he dragged down every episode he appeared in. Every time I saw he was on the show, I thought “this episode won’t be any fun”.
Actually Flagg is the perfect definition of a recurring character. He appeared in a number but not a majority of episodes, the episodes were spaced out over a long stretch of time, and played a big role when he did appear.
You realise that’s still just 1, right?