Hard disagree.
Neelix was especially horrid on Voyager. I didn’t care for most of the other characters other than The Doctor and 7 of 9, but Neelix was a cut below the rest.
While I missed the original airings, I have been watching The Office (US) in reruns lately. It’s hard to choose the most unlikeable character when many of them are so far toward the extreme end of the unlikeability spectrum. (Todd Packer, anyone?) But dislike of a character–that’s different.
The one I just can’t bear is Erin–the receptionist after Pam went into sales. Something about her toothy smile and cheerful cluelessness. She’s clearly not the most unlikeable character but she makes me wish Dwight would pepper spray her once or twice a day.
Riley wasn’t great, but I didn’t hate him. Dawn on the other hand…
Good lord - how could I have forgotten?! YES!
Imagine TBBT without Sheldon. Just a bunch of nerds and their pretty neighbor, sitting around playing D&D and eating take-out. The show wouldn’t have survived the pilot.
So basically it would be The Big Bang Theory. Personally, I liked Sheldon, and at the same time, he annoyed the hell out of me.
BBT quickly turned into, basically, a Sheldon Cooper show. There would be no BBT, at least not a succesful BBT, without Sheldon.
Just like Family Matters turned into The Steve Urkel Show. I find both Sheldon and Urkel highly annoying.
The odd thing about Smith’s character is that for the first four episodes or so he was a true villain. After all, he’s the one who sabotaged the Jupiter II and by accident got taken along on the voyage. Then his character was rebooted or something and he was allowed to be goofy.
Yeah, Sheldon is super-annoying, and would have extremely few friends (ie. people who want to spend time with him) IRL. Still, he’s the essential freak from which the quasi-norms in the show can bounce off of.
In hindsight, I almost would have rather there had been no show, but then, I probably would have never heard of Melissa Rauch, otherwise. So, I guess I gotta take the bitter with the sweet.
Well, she was on like 6 episodes of True Blood, so you might have caught her while channel surfing.
While the show itself wasn’t great, it did introduce me to more of Lizzy Caplan than I saw in Cloverfield.
Cubert Farnsworth from Futurama
Doctor Smith got rebooted because of fan mail indicating that the highlight of the show was Dr Smith arguing with the Robot. It just grew more campy from there.
Helped by the fact that Jonathan Harris was very good at camp.
Its a shame because he was very good at menacing evil too. But it was at its heart a cheesy kids show so camp was probably better.
I watched Cheers here and there when I was a kid and I’m watching through the series now again. Interestingly, the character who I’m surprised to say I like the least is actually Norm. I feel like he doesn’t add anything to the show and frankly his character is kind of a terrible “friend.” I’m only about halfway through S4, for reference.
I think that many of the characters listed so far are actually meant to be annoying, or unlikeable. They are flawed people, whose flaws often drive the plot, or the humour. Many of them, I wouldn’t like if I met them in real life. But as characters, they are great.
Dianne from Cheers: a self proclaimed intellectual, who thinks she’s the smartest person in the room. She belittles everyone else, and and tells them of her own superiority. And then doesn’t understand why nobody likes her. She’s not as clever as she thinks she is. She constantly loses the war of words with Carla. Horrible person, but a large percentage of the jokes revolve around her being a horrible person. Remove her, and it’s not nearly such a good show. I say she’s a great character.
Good choice. He drug down every episode he was in.
I disagree that the kids are obnoxious. I think one of the notable things about the show is how QUIET they are, and how they disappear for most of the time. Look at them sitting quietly at the kids table on holidays. They never whine, interrupt, seldom throw tantrums, or are the focus of the show. They’re like ‘token kids’. I think Raymond, the big man-baby, is the biggest twat: clueless, ducking any family responsibility, hag-ridden by his mother, living ONLY for the F’ing golf game, and being generally incompetent at just about anything. (I also don’t understand how this dim bulb has a college education and gets a job as a writer. But it’s for sportsball, so I suppose a tongue bath for the athletes and lots of statistics comprise a typical column.)…what episode was ‘child services’ called in? they went to counseling with the priest and the teachers, but that was only because Debra had a well-deserved crazy outburst over her plight during a meeting with the teacher.