# Who's the most hated TV character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029 "2012-05-15T22:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/21 "2012-05-16T04:12:29Z")
Odd that Scrappy Doo isn’t on the list, given that he’s the [trope namer](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheScrappy). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/22 "2012-05-16T05:09:59Z")
No “love” for Horatio Caine? How soon will it be before Caruso starts saying he was _playing_ the character as a douchebag? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/23 "2012-05-16T06:46:44Z")
[Lucas Wolenczak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Wolenczak) Oh, and you list a lot of Doctor Who characters, but don’t include Mel Bush, who was also annoying when she was Violet Elizabeth Bott [Bonnie Langford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Langford) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/24 "2012-05-16T07:00:37Z")
Twiki’s the only one I even dislike up there. Only Scrappy can possibly compete with how much I hated him, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/25 "2012-05-16T07:50:11Z")
Though both Twiki and Peggy Hill are annoying enough to make watching their respective shows difficult, there is a burning white-hot furnace of unrelenting hate for the character known as Wesley Crusher. Ever since the halcyon days of the Usenet group alt.wesley.die.die.die, I have been an anti-fan of that horrible little man. What is quite amusing is that now Wil Wheaton has one of the funniest blogs on the Web. ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/26 "2012-05-16T08:03:44Z")
I voted for Twikki but yeah, Scrappy Do was the worst of all. I never thought Star Trek TNG was that great a show. I only watched it occasionally and didn’t see much of Crusher. I actually associate Wil Wheaton with Big Bang Theory. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/27 "2012-05-16T12:43:30Z")
Viki on _Small Wonder_. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/28 "2012-05-16T12:50:09Z")
Scrappy Doo, obviously, but I stopped watching _24_ mid-Season 2 entirely because Kim Bauer refused to die. Ye gods, that girl was irritating (physical hotness notwithstanding). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/29 "2012-05-16T13:24:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I had the perfect answer until I got to “supposed to be sympathetic.” Yeah, I can forget my write-in vote for Judith Harper. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/30 "2012-05-16T14:17:57Z")
I grew to hate George Costanza by the end of Seinfeld, while the other characters I merely disliked. Despised that Neelix guy on Voyager and I think I am the only one who didn’t love Lucy; I hated Lucy (the character - only hated Lucille Ball when she got the part of Mame in the movie. bad casting, bad.) ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/31 "2012-05-16T14:20:03Z")
Sookie Stackhouse on _True Blood_, and Abby Sciuto on _NCIS_. For similar reasons, actually: both are way too Pollyanna-ish, while also sometimes being judgmental in a holier-than-thou kind of way. (Sookie is a hundred times more annoying than Abby.) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/32 "2012-05-16T14:29:45Z")
People hate Claire Huxtable? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/33 "2012-05-16T14:55:27Z")
[Jenny Schecter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Schecter) was such an annoying piece of obnoxious crap who was supposed to be the audience’s gateway character but was such an annoying piece of obnoxious crap that they killer her off for the last season. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/34 "2012-05-16T15:31:49Z")
Scrappy Doo Dr. Smith on Lost in Space. Why did they put up with that guy? I would have left him on the next planet we came to. Coy and Vance ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/35 "2012-05-16T15:47:12Z")
Am I the first person who is mentioning Dr. Frank Burns from MASH? There’s a difference, to me, between: - Hated because they are a contrived character, clearly inserted for reasons outside what makes sense for the show’s story - e.g., Wesley Crusher - Hated because they are the central bad guy, e.g., JR Ewing on Dallas, who, to my knowledge (didn’t watch the show myself) folks loved to hate - Hated because they are positioned to be the douchbag counterpoint to our heroes - e.g., Frank Burns on MASH Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/36 "2012-05-16T15:48:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > No “love” for Horatio Caine? How soon will it be before Caruso starts saying he was _playing_ the character as a douchebag? Agree with Horatio as played by David Caruso. And why is Claire Huxtable even on the list? I can see Rudy being annoying perhaps. Or even the Bill Cosby character. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/37 "2012-05-16T15:50:37Z")
Since _Jules Cobb - Cougar Town_ wasn’t on the list I had to go with Wesley Crusher. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/38 "2012-05-16T15:57:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > No “love” for Horatio Caine? How soon will it be before Caruso starts saying he was _playing_ the character as a douchebag? I can’t watch that show because of him! I voted for Wesley Crusher, whilst Wil Wheaton is a damn nice fella, Wesley was a pain in the arse, who I would cheerfully have kicked until I got a cramp. Then I’d have started punching him. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/39 "2012-05-16T15:57:28Z")
OK, I finally figured out that “Deborah Barron” from Everybody Loves Raymond is supposed to be _Debra Barone_, the wife of Raymond on the show. I kept thinking that there must be a character that I’d somehow missed, a nemesis of the Barone family. It’s amazing to me that just changing the spelling caused me not to recognize the name at all. DUH! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029/40 "2012-05-16T16:08:54Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > I always thought the seventh doctor was the most hated, or perhaps that was a uk thing. Sylvester Mcoy was generally a bad comedian/clown and his assistant was Bonnie Langford, who played annoying characters in childrens television… > > My friends who are fan swore that they were brought in by the BBC to kill off the series… Sylvester McCoy is my favorite classic doctor - a good combination between darkly manipulative and goofy. Granted, I’m still working my way through the old series, but in the corse of watching them all out of order, I ran across a seventh doctor episode and promptly worked my way through every last one of his before continuing onward. I haven’t seen much Tom Baker yet, and though I’ve liked what I’ve seen, I’m wondering if he can live up to the hype. Geeks treat him like he’s the God of Who, or something. The Seventh Doctor’s assistant was (and still is, on the radio dramas) Sophie Aldred, not Bonnie ‘shoulder pads’ Langford. Ace was made of pure, concentrated awesome. Mel might be my official pick for this list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-hated-tv-character/622029.md?page=3)