# Which TV character has the most annoying family? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661 "2015-09-27T01:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/1 "2015-09-27T01:07:04Z")
The reason for this can be rational, or irrational I’m looking for something to watch and stopped on an old episode of Law & Order: SVU until I realized it featured one of Stabler’s kids. His entire family was extremely irritating and they didn’t add anything valuable to the show. They only existed to give Stabler more excuses to fly off the handle, with made him pretty exasperating in his own right, but that’s another thread. There were criminals, who appeared in one episode, who were more sympathetic and less grating than that recurring “normal” family. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/2 "2015-09-27T01:30:01Z")
Probably just me, but the entire cast of “Everybody Loves Raymond”–minus Debra (Patricia Heaton)–was annoying as hell, including Raymond. Glad it’s off the air. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/3 "2015-09-27T01:42:03Z")
Mister and Mrs. Costanza? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/4 "2015-09-27T01:44:25Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Mister and Mrs. Costanza? _Extremely_ close second. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/5 "2015-09-27T02:53:12Z")
Most fans of Dexter are very not fans of his wife Rita. His step kids and son aren’t that great for story lines either. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/6 "2015-09-27T02:58:14Z")
I have come to hate the family in “The Americans”. I sat through 2 seasons and I’m done with the show. I’ll go into detail later. It was important to say it now. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/7 "2015-09-27T03:12:42Z")
I know people are going to hate this but Modern Family. Ed O’Neal should have stayed with his first dysfunctional family. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/8 "2015-09-27T03:21:42Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Most fans of Dexter are very not fans of his wife Rita. His step kids and son aren’t that great for story lines either. If you took Dexter, removed every single scene that didn’t have him in it, and ran it like that it would improve the show a billionfold. Not that I didnt love Deb and her potty mouth. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/9 "2015-09-27T05:08:54Z")
If all the Whites and Schraders had suddenly died in one episode I would have only mourned Hank. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/10 "2015-09-27T05:27:04Z")
My vote is Michael Bluth’s family from _Arrested Development_. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/11 "2015-09-27T05:35:39Z")
Other than Endora and Aunt Clara, Samantha’s family/witch friends on _Bewitched_ were pretty annoying. Grady Fletcher from _Murder, She Wrote_ was awful too. I usually skip over episodes if he is in them. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/12 "2015-09-27T05:36:36Z")
I’m voting for a sleeper: the Petrelli family from _Heroes_ (TOS). ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/13 "2015-09-27T07:01:25Z")
Does anyone remember a CBS military drama called The Unit? It was made by the same team that brought us The Shield and I had high hopes for it. It was about a unit of Special Forces soldiers who would go on various cloak-and-dagger missions around the world. It was also about their awful, useless, drama-llama wives and all the headaches they would cause in every single person they encountered. There was exactly one episode of the show that didn’t have a “the wives do something stupid again” plot and that is my favorite episode. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/14 "2015-09-27T11:16:40Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Does anyone remember a CBS military drama called The Unit? It was made by the same team that brought us The Shield and I had high hopes for it. It was about a unit of Special Forces soldiers who would go on various cloak-and-dagger missions around the world. It was also about their awful, useless, drama-llama wives and all the headaches they would cause in every single person they encountered. > > There was exactly one episode of the show that didn’t have a “the wives do something stupid again” plot and that is my favorite episode. One of the wives is now a character, Lilly, on _The Walking Dead_. She’s the one that looks so much like Maggie it’s hard to tell them apart. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/15 "2015-09-27T18:33:14Z")
Live action: Tyrion Lannister: Jaime Lannister is the only halfway decent one. Cartoon: Does adopted count? Stan Smith and his alien Roger Smith ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/16 "2015-09-27T18:44:22Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > I’m looking for something to watch and stopped on an old episode of Law & Order: SVU until I realized it featured one of Stabler’s kids. His entire family was extremely irritating and they didn’t add anything valuable to the show. They only existed to give Stabler more excuses to fly off the handle, with made him pretty exasperating in his own right, but that’s another thread. There were criminals, who appeared in one episode, who were more sympathetic and less grating than that recurring “normal” family. Maureen was particularly irritating. Very entitled and bratty. I might have to nominate Tony Soprano. Carmela’s not terrible, though she’s pretty humorless and sanctimonious. (OK, she’s pretty terrible! Very well portrayed by Edie Falco, though.) As for Meadow and A.J…[Marlon Brando]the whining…oh, the whining[/Marlon Brando.] ---
**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:** [September 27, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/17 "2015-09-27T19:05:27Z")
Blue Bloods. That whole Reagen family should be taken out and shot. ESPECIALLY the three grandchildren. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/18 "2015-09-28T08:58:52Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Mister and Mrs. Costanza? Thread winner. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/19 "2015-09-28T13:04:01Z")
Is the Camden family from “7th Heaven” disqualified simply to give everyone else a chance to participate in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661/20 "2015-09-28T13:09:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Thread winner. How can you not love [Frank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfaO3A-m13Q)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-character-has-the-most-annoying-family/732661.md?page=2)