You mention Mod Squad. Although he’s an acclaimed actor now (I hear), the guy who played “Linc” (Clarence Williams III) could have been replaced with a wooden post and nobody would have been able to tell the difference.
Damn.
I concede defeat. He is almost mesmerizingly awful.
Who, Emily Proctor? She was good as Ainsley Hayes on the West Wing, although I suppose the Sorkin dialog helped.
Finally, I can contribute to this thread. Because my daughter basically commands the tv (and it’s usually not worth the argument with an aspergergers girl to change channels), I can talk about tween shows.
Jerry Trainor is the best thing about iCarly, but there is plenty of good talent on vicTORIous. Also, the entire cast of How to Rock are the collective worst actor on television.
Unless you’re using one face for the Olsens, you have too many faces. 
Never watched “The West Wing,” so I can’t comment on that. But I crack up every time my daughter comes out with an EP-style “Oh, wait!” 
Of all the classic series I can think of, “Mod Squad” probably wins the Worst Ever Acting award hands down, along with certain moments in STAR TREK (and I’m a hard-core Trekkie, so I can say that without a twinge of guilt).
On “Hawaii Five-O” (the original!), I always liked Zulu as Kono, though I felt his acting skills left something to be desired. (The same might be said for most of the locals they recruited as bit players, though that may have been a cultural thing.) I was quite disappointed when I realized he’d gotten canned from the show.
Just saw a few episodes for the first time last night of The Big C. Not having ever seen Precious, I can only gauge Gabourey Sidibe’s acting based on what I watched last night, and it was utterly atrocious. She completely dismantled every scene she was in with her awful line readings. I was shocked at how bad she was.
Don’t you mean: Precious, Based On The Novel Push by Sapphire? God, I hated hearing that all the damn time. It sounds so damn pretentious. Maybe that’s what they should have called it. You don’t see Cujo, Based on the Novel Cujo by Stephen King do you?
Can I go back a few years? If so, then I nominate the girl who played Wanda (Doogie’s girlfriend) on “Doogie Howser, M. D.” If she’d been any more wooden, they’d have had to treat her for termites. The fact that her badness stands out to me so strongly this many years later must say something.
He trades them out once in a while and nobody seems to notice. (Worked on Full House.)
He was on Broadway in “Seminar” this spring. I saw it in March (when it still had Alan Rickman). He was much better in that than in anything I’ve seen him in on TV. He should do more Broadway. We got to speak with him for a while after the performance. He’s very charming and a nice guy. Later we saw him walking home, when we were walking back to our hotel. He thanked us again and told us to enjoy the rest of our trip. He seems like a genuine nice guy.
I don’t think Kat Dennings is acting badly per se, the issue I’ve noticed with her and the other actors on the show is that they are a little too aware of the studio audience and wait too long for the laughter to die down to deliver their next line. So it comes off more like a winking stage performance than a TV show. Even Stifler’s mom, who has a lot more acting experience, seems to fall into the same trap.
I would nominate David Caruso if he was still on. Soooo hammy.
And sadly, Marina Sirtis.
I sense … hostility! 
Pretty much everyone on Big Bang Theory that isn’t Leonard.
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You try and remember which line you take your sunglasses off on and which ones you put them back on during and see if you can remember to act with that much on your mind.
I neglected to check my watch, but isn’t Paul Walker due in here to do a shitty TV show for two eps before he tends to his Subway franchise?
I hate to break it to y’all, but he can’t act, bro.
(he got paid $2700 for that last bro, it’s in his contract, that’s how he eats.)
I totally disagree. I think they are all fine sitcom actors. Which I think is a much different skill than other acting. Their abilities make the show much better than the writing. IMHO of course.
You may be right about that. For whatever the reason the acting makes the show unwatchable to me. And the forced naughty humor.
Does anyone remember when he was good in NYPD Blue? I swear to god he really was good in it. Then he lost his mind.