# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/21 "2011-10-26T19:22:04Z")
Betty Draper. ---
**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, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/22 "2011-10-26T19:25:21Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > 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. In that case I can see your point. Though throughout the series he may have been a jerk at times he always sided with his family and wife. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/23 "2011-10-26T19:35:41Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > 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. You should watch more episodes. Peg’s much worse to Al than Al is to her. Having said that, I can think of a few episodes where Al was ready to ditch the entire family. Like the one where he took pictures of the aliens stealing his socks and planned to sell them and then disappear with his millions. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/24 "2011-10-26T19:47:50Z")
Since Peter Griffin’s been said, I’ll nominate Walter White. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/25 "2011-10-26T19:53:14Z")
I am not going say anyone that written to be unattractive, like Roseanne Connor, Peg Bundy. How about someone that most men would have found attractive. Pamela Ewing. What a drama queen she was. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/26 "2011-10-26T19:56:02Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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. that might a good topic for another thread. Series finale that we would have really like to see. This Bewitched one would be a good one. Brady Bunch never had a finale, nor did Married w/ Children ---
**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:** [October 26, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/27 "2011-10-26T20:01:33Z")
My vote goes to the shrieking harpy that is Deborah Barone. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/28 "2011-10-26T20:04:27Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > that might a good topic for another thread. Series finale that we would have really like to see. > > This Bewitched one would be a good one. > > Brady Bunch never had a finale, nor did Married w/ Children Married With Children had a series finale. ---
**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, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/29 "2011-10-26T20:05:00Z")
J.R. Ewing would be pretty crappy as well. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/30 "2011-10-26T20:10:25Z")
Knowing what I know, I wouldn’t want to have Don Draper as a husband. I hate hate hate adultery. Not sure if I could deal with what Walter White got in to, either. Homer Simpson seems pretty decent, but stupid. I’d rather be with him than Don. ---
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/31 "2011-10-26T22:16:54Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Homer Simpson seems pretty decent, but stupid. I’d rather be with him than Don. [/QUOTE] Homer might be easier to be married to but Don would be easier to be divorced from and occasionally have sex with. He’s probably always on time with alimony/child support. ---
**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, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/32 "2011-10-26T22:21:42Z")
Speaking of Drapers, Betty is someone I’d run not walk away from. Yes, she’s utterly gorgeous and January Jones would be the perfect choice for a biopic on Grace Kelly, but she(Betty not January) is incredibly cold, petty, needy, cruel and makes Dina Lohan look a Mother-of-the-Year candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/33 "2011-10-26T22:27:28Z")
Clay Morrow from Sons of Anarchy. He’s a low-life, racist, misogynistic, arrogant, asshole. Not to mention all the illegal stuff. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/34 "2011-10-26T22:27:44Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > You should watch more episodes. Peg’s much worse to Al than Al is to her. > > Having said that, I can think of a few episodes where Al was ready to ditch the entire family. Like the one where he took pictures of the aliens stealing his socks and planned to sell them and then disappear with his millions. Didn’t Peggy give (or sell) Al to Jessica Hahn, the Shoe Groupie? There he was, free of the Red Devil, and he couldn’t go through with it! Though he did shed a tear as Ms. Hahn flashed him in her lingerie, on her way out the door. The Bundys are fiercely loyal to each other, neither Peggy nor Al ever cheated on each other, and Al often went to great comical lengths defending his family. The exact-opposite exaggeration they express in talk is not to be taken seriously! …ok, I vote for that schlub who plays the King of Queens. He is everything I loathe in a man. I can’t even look at him. Schlub. Schlub. Schlub. Ick! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/35 "2011-10-26T22:33:25Z")
Phyllis (or Syphillis as we called her) from the Mary Tyler Moore show. Like chalk on a blackboard. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/36 "2011-10-26T23:04:20Z")
Another for Betty Draper. Surprised no one’s mentioned Walter White or Vic Mackey yet. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/37 "2011-10-27T00:47:52Z")
I was going to say Patricia Heaton’s character from Everybody Loves Raymond (or Patricia Heaton herself, for that matter), but Betty Draper is a better answer. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/38 "2011-10-27T00:56:54Z")
Livia Soprano Leo Johnson (“Twin Peaks”) Stan Wojciehowicz (that’s too much stupid in one body) Margaret Drysdale UT ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/39 "2011-10-27T01:33:30Z")
> [@UntouchedTakeaway](#): > > Livia Soprano > Leo Johnson (“Twin Peaks”) > Stan Wojciehowicz (that’s too much stupid in one body) > Margaret Drysdale > UT Damn, those are all excellent. Leland Palmer would be a good choice, too. Hell, just about anybody from _Twin Peaks_. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/40 "2011-10-27T01:38:34Z")
I’ll rule out all the husbands. As for wives, Peg Bundy comes to mind as a leading contender for worst. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877.md?page=3)