# What TV character would you HATE having to be around in reality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126 "2010-06-30T22:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/41 "2010-07-01T14:06:50Z")
Jessica Fletcher. I’d either end up dead or arrested for murder before long. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/42 "2010-07-01T14:12:27Z")
Paulie “Walnuts” from The Sopranos. Not only is he annoying and dumb, but I’d be scared shitless that any little thing I’d do would set him off. I met him in real life, and he really lives that character… the suits, the hair, etc… But he seemed like an incredibly nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/43 "2010-07-01T14:13:15Z")
Livia Soprano. The other characters mentioned are annoying, but Livia is actively evil. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/44 "2010-07-01T15:37:19Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > 5 minutes with Dwight Shrute and I’d kill him. I’ve worked with Dwight Shrute… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/45 "2010-07-01T15:51:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > The kid in _Twilight Zone_’s [“It’s a Good Life.”](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/It%27s_A_Good_Life.JPG) Even without his special powers, I’d still want to strangle him. It would be _good_ if you did that. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/46 "2010-07-01T16:02:32Z")
I don’t think i could take more than 10 minutes next to Three Time Substitute Teacher of the Year Peggy Hill without telling her whats what. Drinking with Dale Gribble would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/47 "2010-07-01T16:14:42Z")
Second vote for Frank Burns. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/48 "2010-07-01T16:15:54Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > On Doctor Who, the Doctor and his main Companions, even at their worst, I’d be fine with. But some of the ‘side Companions’ so to speak, would be less so. Mickey (prior to his time in Pete’s World) would be the worst. Oh, hey, you better not be hating on Rory. He died for your sins, you know. I’m totally picking Jack Bauer. Even if I wasn’t in his way for whatever reason, which would mean him torturing me, there’s a good chance I would end up as a dead bystander. ---
**Author:** ![BillDozer74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BillDozer74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillDozer74)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/49 "2010-07-01T16:17:38Z")
Dwight Schrute makes my slapping hand itch. Also, Three minutes with Hyacinth Bucket and I’d wind up in a nice white room with padded walls. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/50 "2010-07-01T16:39:48Z")
If I had to live next to [Bill Dauterive](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dauterive) I would probably kill myself. Not only is Bill whiney, needy, flilthy and more than a little creepy (probably gassy too), you can’t lash out at him because he’s just too pathetic. It would be like kicking a puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/51 "2010-07-01T16:43:10Z")
Monk would drive me round the bend, he doesn’t even TRY to help himself, and ahowing my age here both the Fonz from Happy Days; and Hawkeye from M.A.S.H. I hate it when the writers try to force you to like the main characters by giving them every virtue possible without any faults or weaknesses. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/52 "2010-07-01T17:13:37Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > I like DiNozzo. I know a few people IRL who are just like him. You know, I think I could be friends with DiNozzo; I just wouldn’t want to work with him. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/53 "2010-07-01T17:16:22Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Monk would drive me round the bend, he doesn’t even TRY to help himself, and ahowing my age here both the Fonz from Happy Days; and Hawkeye from M.A.S.H. > > I hate it when the writers try to force you to like the main characters by giving them every virtue possible without any faults or weaknesses. You think Hawkeye was without weakness or fault? You must hvae been watching a different show than me. Hawkeye was a gifted battlefield surgeon, but it was clear from the time that Winchester first appeared that the latter was better at surgery overall; and BJ was smarter and more inventive than either of them. Hawk was the best in their specific situation, but not overall. And he himself noted that he was an alcoholic and a lech; he basically hated himself. Fonzie had weaknesses too, though those were mostly comic. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/54 "2010-07-01T17:18:32Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Nancy Grace? She’s a malevolent character. Yes, but not a fictional one. And while I think she is vile, this thread is not about real persons. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/55 "2010-07-01T17:19:11Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Most of the people from _Big Bang Theory_ would be pretty horrible in real life. I’d probably cope with Sheldon in my office better than Wolowitz, as Sheldon would at least want to be left alone most of the time. I’d have slapped Wolowitz by now (or he’d be too intimidated to talk to me), Leonard would be OK to work with, and Sheldon would have been told to STFU already. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/56 "2010-07-01T18:06:46Z")
56 posts before a mention of Wesley Crusher? He should have been #1 with a _bullet_. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/57 "2010-07-01T18:08:35Z")
At least with Wesley, you’d be reasonably sure that if anything untoward happened involving energy fields, transporters, aliens, weakly godlike entities, etc you’d be rescued in some insufferable manner. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/58 "2010-07-01T18:19:17Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > At least with Wesley, you’d be reasonably sure that if anything untoward happened involving energy fields, transporters, aliens, weakly godlike entities, etc you’d be rescued in some insufferable manner. I don’t think it’d be insufferable. If Wesley saves me from being technobabbled to death by the magic energy fields on Galordon Whatever, I’m not cgoing to care how irritating he is to the viewer. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/59 "2010-07-01T18:54:49Z")
> [@maplekiwi](#): > > Ross from Friends was the first one that popped into my head, but Lucy, Barney Fife, Darren (from Bewitched) & Mrs Drysdale (Beverly Hillbillies) would be pretty bad. Darren Stevens? Sure he’s ridiculously judgmental but aren’t most people? Or maybe you just hate him because he’s married to Samantha? 😛 I’d pick Urkel. Definitely the most annoying character on TV\> ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126/60 "2010-07-01T19:10:17Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Darren Stevens? Sure he’s ridiculously judgmental but aren’t most people? Or maybe you just hate him because he’s married to Samantha? Original-Darren was usually more sinned against than sinning, at least in regards to his mother-in-law. Darren-Prime did not get half the persecution he deserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-character-would-you-hate-having-to-be-around-in-reality/545126.md?page=4)