# Which TV husband or wife would you most NOT want for your spouse. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877 "2011-10-26T17:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 26, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/1 "2011-10-26T17:05:07Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14397250#post14397250) thread. You couldn’t get me to marry any of the Cartwrights from Bonanza. That is a death sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/2 "2011-10-26T17:11:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > You couldn’t get me to marry any of the Cartwrights from Bonanza. That is a death sentence. First thing I thought of. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/3 "2011-10-26T17:15:53Z")
Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/4 "2011-10-26T17:17:20Z")
All of the fat and lazy sports-obsessed slobs that the skinny women seem to marry on sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/5 "2011-10-26T17:22:46Z")
Al Bundy. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/6 "2011-10-26T17:30:38Z")
Lucy Ricardo. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/7 "2011-10-26T17:32:57Z")
Derek Sheppard (aka “McDreamy.”) He was technically still married to Addison, left Meredith out of the article he wrote on his clinical trial when she did equal work on it, expects her (a med student!) to get pregnant (now adopt) and have his child, and is generally an all-around douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/8 "2011-10-26T17:33:44Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Al Bundy. Heretic! Al Bundy is my personal hero. Carmela Soprano is the first that comes to mind. I’m sure if I went through my internal rerun library, I could come up with a bunch more. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/9 "2011-10-26T17:34:17Z")
^^ Totally. Same goes for Cristina’s mate. what.the.hell? ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/10 "2011-10-26T17:38:10Z")
Meridith from _Grey’s Anatomy_. Way, way too self-involved. Peggy Bundy though that’s shooting fish in a barrel. Claire from _Modern Family_. She’s an absolute buzz-kill, overreacts to the smallest thing and strikes me as being really high-maintenance. Ironically enough, I went to high school with Julie Bowen, the actress who plays her. She was a senior and I was freshman even though it was a small school, but even back then people were impressed by her performances in school plays. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/11 "2011-10-26T17:38:49Z")
Gloria Stivik. Peggy Hill. Marie Barone. And whoever George Costanza’s mom was. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/12 "2011-10-26T18:11:18Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Al Bundy. Why? Al at least stuck by his family, didn’t quit his crap job and tried his best with what he had. I can think of a lot worse husbands then him. > [@lieu](#): > > Peggy Hill That just made me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/13 "2011-10-26T18:13:41Z")
Ray Barone Tim Taylor Frasier Crane ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/14 "2011-10-26T18:15:57Z")
Lucy Ricardo. That woman is always trying to upstage her husband. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/15 "2011-10-26T18:19:09Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Frasier Crane Wow, really? I always thought it would be so cool to marry/date him, especially when I first started watching the show in high school. He’s cultured, a doctor, a Harvard/Oxford grad, has an AWESOME apartment. As for worst, I’d go with Peter Griffin as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/16 "2011-10-26T18:19:47Z")
Darrin Stephens. Such a monumental castration-anxiety prick. He’s married to a woman who can make him lord of a castle or take him on vacations to the moon but noooo, since he doesn’t have magic powers she can’t use her’s either. That’d be like marrying a classicial pianist but saying “Since I can’t read music you can’t have a piano”. I’ve always assumed the last episode of the series was Endora turning him into a hog and zapping him into the line at a slaughterhouse. When Samantha learns he’s already been made (off camera) into sausage and spare ribs she says “Mother, how could you!?” but then meets a special guest warlock (Burt Lancaster) and says “Well, I’m immortal and he’s already middle aged, not like we had that much longer together either” and flies off with him, stopping only to turn Mrs. Kravitz into a cat in front of her husband, who now knows Gladys wasn’t crazy but still likes her better as a cat. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/17 "2011-10-26T18:22:02Z")
I was thinking him, **Sampiro**! I always thought Dick York was cute but what was up with the no magic policy? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/18 "2011-10-26T18:31:02Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Why? Al at least stuck by his family, didn’t quit his crap job and tried his best with what he had. I can think of a lot worse husbands then him. In fairness, I should say I’ve only seen one or two episodes, but in those episodes Al Bundy is an unrepentant asshole who demeans his wife for being fat, daydreams about hanging her head on a wall so he can fuck coeds in front of her, and seemed in all ways to hate his wife. Sorry, but to be a worse husband in my opinion, he’d have to be shown beating her. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/19 "2011-10-26T18:34:23Z")
I always thought that Endora’s attitude towards Darrin was perfectly justified. What a prick. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/20 "2011-10-26T18:40:30Z")
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