# 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:** 4
**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 27, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/61 "2011-10-27T15:03:09Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Why all the hate for Peg Bundy? Sure, she doesn’t cook or clean. But she always seems to be horny. That has to count for something! She’s really not. She just seems that way because Al never has sex with her. But toss her some loving here & there, and she gets tired of it very quickly. In the episode where Al had sex with her more than once (the one with the barbecue & Marcy’s aunt’s ashes), she was crying by the third time. And IIRC, Peg’s full list of things she won’t do - “I won’t cook, clean, iron, sew, do laundry, or parent.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/62 "2011-10-27T15:05:43Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > My vote goes to the shrieking harpy that is Deborah Barone. She has plenty to shriek about, and it’s no wonder she’s a harpy, with that crew besieging her house day and night. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/63 "2011-10-27T15:07:03Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Why all the hate for Peg Bundy? Sure, she doesn’t cook or clean. But she always seems to be horny. That has to count for something! … but I get the feeling she’s not very good at it. On topic? Jeannie Nelson. I would not want a wife who might “accidentally” turn me into an insect one day. Oh, I’m sure she would feel real bad if I was squashed by a family friend, but that wouldn’t help me much. (Samantha Stevens also has that potential, but she is much smarter and more mature than Jeannie, and so if she killed me by magic it would be deliberate.) ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/64 "2011-10-27T16:20:14Z")
Frank Burns is quite a prick and I don’t think he’s been mentioned (sorry if I miss it), so I nominate him. Whiny, sniveling, wimpy, crap doctor douche. No thanks. ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/65 "2011-10-27T16:50:34Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > And 24. 🙂 Oh, now I’m supposed to read the whole thread? I refuse to live by your rules, maaaaan! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/66 "2011-10-27T16:55:26Z")
Fran Fine- killer legs but oh that voice! Second choice- June Cleaver for letting all the neighborhood kids play with The Beaver. ---
**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 27, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/67 "2011-10-27T17:03:18Z")
Oh! and that asshole from _My Wife and Kids_. …pretty much all husbands on sticoms suck. Well, except for Tim THE TOOLMAN Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/68 "2011-10-27T17:13:03Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > (Samantha Stevens also has that potential, but she is much smarter and more mature than Jeannie, and so if she killed me by magic it would be deliberate.) Being smarter and more mature means she’ll use magic to replace you with someone taller and younger. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/69 "2011-10-27T17:18:25Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Lucy Ricardo. That woman is always trying to upstage her husband. Yeah, she was a ditz, but I wouldn’t want to be married to Ricky. He constantly quashed his wife’s hopes of being in show biz, tried to control every penny she spent, treated her like a child, and wasn’t above beating her. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/70 "2011-10-27T17:36:54Z")
Only partially mentioned in one of the posts way up-thread, but definitely both of the principal parties from _Everybody_ (except me) _Loves Raymond_. I for one most certainly no loved anything about that show – quite the contrary, the few times I got stuck watching parts of it, I could barely contain my dinner. If just watching the show is that nauseating, how must it be to actually _live_ like that? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/71 "2011-10-27T17:44:09Z")
Eliot Stabler from L&O:SVU. What a controlling, quick tempered, violent asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/72 "2011-10-27T17:46:17Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Kate Gosselin This. I’d kill that shrill self-absorbed harpy in a minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/73 "2011-10-27T18:09:37Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > And 24. 🙂 and 30. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/74 "2011-10-27T18:14:51Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > and 30. and, I think, 24. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/75 "2011-10-27T20:38:52Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > I’ll see your Janice and raise you Livia Soprano. All Janice’s nastiness, distilled into one EVIL woman. I’ll see your Livia Soprano and raise you [Livia Drusilla](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074006/)! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/76 "2011-10-27T21:14:45Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I’ll see your Livia Soprano and raise you [Livia Drusilla](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074006/)! Psst - post 60. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/77 "2011-10-27T21:17:16Z")
Edith Bunker … hated her with a seething passion. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/78 "2011-10-27T22:05:08Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Psst - post 60. 😃 :smack: .. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/79 "2011-10-27T22:42:04Z")
Nicolette Grant Henrickson- Chlove Sevigny’s character on _Big Love_- was pretty much a great argument against polygamy. Crazy, bitchy, selfish, lying, hypocritical, thieving, self-exonerating, and Utah’s leading manufacturor of surplus drama. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877/80 "2011-10-28T00:11:22Z")
Ross from friends would drive me up the wall. Either of the Steptoes (old Brit sitcom) Another vote for Arhie Bunker [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-not-want-for-your-spouse/600877.md?page=5)