# TV villains you liked **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787 "2000-05-17T19:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/1 "2000-05-17T19:59:57Z")
I don’t mean reprobates like Alexis Carrington or J. R. Ewing. I mean goofy antagonists like Winchester (M_A_S\*H), Eddie Haskell (Leave It to Beaver), Siegfried (Get Smart), Maris (Frasier), and so on. The “villain” was more of an incompetent nuisance–like Inspector Fix was to Phileas Fogg in _Around the World in 80 Days_–than an enemy to be feared. Post your Fix/Eddie Haskell/Siegfried TV “villains” here. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/2 "2000-05-17T20:01:04Z")
It has to be Colonel Klink or General Burkholter. KLLLLEEEENK! HOOOOGAN! ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/3 "2000-05-17T20:22:41Z")
How about Mimi on Drew Carey…or Newman. You know… Nnnnneewwwwwwwman. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/4 "2000-05-17T20:24:44Z")
Q ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/5 "2000-05-17T20:28:02Z")
Now that I think of it, my faves all have a distinctly drag queeny air to them— Endora from “Bewitched” Dr. Smith from “Lost in Space” Natasha Fatale from “Rocky & Bullwinkle” Mrs. Drysdale from “The Beverly Hillbillies” ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/6 "2000-05-17T20:28:58Z")
What’s wrong with a villain with a dollop of nasty? I hated batman as a tot (I didn’t understand it was supposed to be campy until I saw the _original_ 1960’s movie that preceded the original series) but I certainly have to say that even as a preschooler, I thouth **Catwoman** , a leather clad babe, whose fondest hope seemed to be to get Batman in the sack, was the kind of villain we could use more of. [Others must have agreed - they brought in Yvonne Craig as Batgirl in the same leather suit] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/7 "2000-05-17T20:29:21Z")
Oh, and how can I forget my current favorite? Mary Cherry from “Popular!” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/8 "2000-05-17T20:45:17Z")
Who was that cowardly one in ‘Land of the Giants’? I liked several of the villains in ‘The Prisoner’ they were all called Two. Boss Hog, Cleetus, and Weenus in ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/9 "2000-05-17T22:04:34Z")
I personally always empathized with Chief Inspector Dreyfus (played by Herbert Lom), the superior of bumbling inspector Jacques Clouseau. If I was Jacques Clouseau’s boss, I would want to kill him too. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/10 "2000-05-17T22:15:19Z")
Magica, The Spell - Disney’s _Duck Tales_. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/11 "2000-05-17T22:31:43Z")
Major Hochstader from Hogan’s Heroes: “Vee have vays of making you talk.” “The Master”, from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The female Romulan Commander from Star Trek (the original series) Luthur, from “Homicide: Life on the Street” ---
**Author:** ![concrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@concrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/concrete)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/12 "2000-05-17T22:37:59Z")
There can only be one… **Mr. Roper** ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/13 "2000-05-17T22:41:13Z")
i second that **Q**. and might i add **cancer man** , or the CSM. ---
**Author:** ![ponch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@ponch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponch)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/14 "2000-05-17T22:50:30Z")
that late 70’s early 80’s villain, a regular on CHips, Battlestar Gallactica, Buck Rogers…etc…the guy with really bad skin, who kinda looked like Abe Lincoln…in fact he played Abe Lincoln, and of course an evil Abe Lincoln on other TV shows. I would also like to introduce myself…I’ve been a lurker, I frequented a more PG message board, but damn if I didn’t get hit by lighting, now I’m ready to come outta my shell… ---
**Author:** ![trilobite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@trilobite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trilobite)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/15 "2000-05-17T23:14:52Z")
MASH - Colonel Flag, hands down! Plus many villains from Batman, of course. Riddler, Penguin, Egghead (god, how I miss Vincent Price!) ---
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/16 "2000-05-18T00:05:42Z")
Got to second the vote for Cigarette Smoking Man. Also, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, and either Rocket Romano or Carrie Weaver from ER. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/17 "2000-05-18T00:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > **"The Master", from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.** All the Buffy villains (The Master, Spike and Drusilla, Angelus, The Mayor, Adam - wow, 5 seasons…) are great. My vote, out of all of them, though, has to go to The Mayor of Sunnydale. (Don’t ask why I keep capitalizing ‘the’…it just doesn’t look right lowercase…) Gotta love a mass murderer that’s concerned for your health. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/18 "2000-05-18T00:31:24Z")
Hi, Ponch! Welcome to the asylum. (Uh, is that Ponch, like Erik Estrada in ChiPS?) I’m partial to the dwarf (midget?), Michael Somebody, who played the over-the-top arch-villain. The premise and cast were high camp, but the evil Dr. Whomever was the standout. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/19 "2000-05-18T00:35:13Z")
I was always quite fond of the extremely grumpy dog with serious underbite in Tom and Jerry (wasn’t ‘Bonzo’, but…). Looked kind of like Winston Churchill with a hangover. A close second was Dick Dasterly in ‘Wacky Races’. Even now, Mutley’s laugh makes me smile. Third, I saw some reruns of an old black and white American show called, I think, ‘Hogan’s Hero’s’ which had some wonderfully incompetent German POW camp guards. Maybe the officer even had a catch-phrase ?? As an aside, we have the theatrical Chrisman tradition of Pantomime which always has goodies and incompetent baddies. Like cartoons, it’s supposed to be for kids but ….”Oh no it isn’t” “Oh yes it is” “Oh no it isn’t”…you have to be there. Great fun. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787/20 "2000-05-18T00:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I was always quite fond of the extremely grumpy dog with serious underbite in Tom and Jerry (wasn’t ‘Bonzo’, but…). Looked kind of like Winston Churchill with a hangover. > \*\* I believe that you are refering to ‘Spike’. The little bulldog was ‘Spike Jr.’ > [@](#): > > \*\* > A close second was Dick Dasterly in ‘Wacky Races’. Even now, Mutley’s laugh makes me smile. > \*\* Yes, Muttley’s snigger was always great. > [@](#): > > \*\* > Third, I saw some reruns of an old black and white American show called, I think, ‘Hogan’s Hero’s’ which had some wonderfully incompetent German POW camp guards. Maybe the officer even had a catch-phrase ?? > \*\* “HOOOOOGGGGAAAAANNNN!!!” Of course, Shultz had the best quote (He knew what was going on…he also knew better than to admit it, he liked living.) “I zeee NOTHING!!” Number 2. Of course, there is the great evil that is…Bester. Walter Keonig(sp?) managed to really break mold there. Bester was sly, evil and utterly cool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-villains-you-liked/19787.md?page=2)