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Least likeable TV characters.

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  • #102
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Peter Griffin:Family Guy.When it boils down to it hes just a complete rip off of Homer Simpson.

    Homer stopped being funny before Peter Griffin arrived on the scene, so we needed a replacement. The sad thing is that Peter has now stopped being funny and there's nobody to replace him.


  • #103
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Replacement characters who are rushed in when a major established character leaves through either the actor playing them dying or leaving the show.One example that worked was Uncle Albert in Only Fools And Horses but a lot of time it just hastens the demise of the show or causes long term fans to switch off in droves.Doggett and Reyes on The X-Files.Robin Of Sherwood was never the same when Jason Connery replaced Michael Praed (at least among female viewers it seems).Those two guys who briefly replaced Bo And Luke in The Dukes Of Hazzard,the dark haired guy who was brought in when Michael Douglas left The Streets Of San Fransisco as well.


  • #104
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Will Bailey from West Wing!!!!

    Meant to replace Sam which is impossible- gawd I hated him


  • #105
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Peter Benton in Er. Misery


  • #106
    obriendj
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭obriendj


    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Replacement characters who are rushed in when a major established character leaves through either the actor playing them dying or leaving the show.One example that worked was Uncle Albert in Only Fools And Horses but a lot of time it just hastens the demise of the show or causes long term fans to switch off in droves.Doggett and Reyes on The X-Files.Robin Of Sherwood was never the same when Jason Connery replaced Michael Praed (at least among female viewers it seems).Those two guys who briefly replaced Bo And Luke in The Dukes Of Hazzard,the dark haired guy who was brought in when Michael Douglas left The Streets Of San Fransisco as well.

    Dont forget Pippa from Home and Away


  • #107
    Euphoria Intensifies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Euphoria Intensifies


    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Replacement characters who are rushed in when a major established character leaves through either the actor playing them dying or leaving the show.One example that worked was Uncle Albert in Only Fools And Horses but a lot of time it just hastens the demise of the show or causes long term fans to switch off in droves.Doggett and Reyes on The X-Files.Robin Of Sherwood was never the same when Jason Connery replaced Michael Praed (at least among female viewers it seems).Those two guys who briefly replaced Bo And Luke in The Dukes Of Hazzard,the dark haired guy who was brought in when Michael Douglas left The Streets Of San Fransisco as well.
    Experiencing this with The Office (US) at the minute. Robert California is an absolutely terrible character, not one bit funny. Also Catherine Tate's character in The Office, Nellie Bertram, is awful too. Think it will be a long time before I finish this show, it's becoming such a slog to watch.


  • #108
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,207 ✭✭✭maximoose


    The last two seasons are a bit of a chore yeah, some funny moments but pretty bad as a whole.


  • #109
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    wprathead wrote: »
    Will Bailey from West Wing!!!!

    Meant to replace Sam which is impossible- gawd I hated him

    I liked Will in Season 4 but he got rewitten in later eisodes and became less likeable. Especially during the campaign.


  • #110
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    castletownman wrote: »
    Cannot believe no-one has mentioned Simon from Coronation Street.

    No wonder his father Peter took to the bottle.

    He was an adorable kid but is becoming an obnoxious teenager.


  • #111
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #112
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    obriendj wrote: »
    Dont forget Pippa from Home and Away


    Christ,I forgot about that.They changed the actress playing her almost immedietly after the storyline with her husband drowning in the canoe accident.I remember literaly it was the original actress in one episode and then the following episode had a different actress with no explanation.I remember the new Pippa was crying over a photo of her and Tom ,which you often saw previously in the series with old Pippa.Only now the same photo had new Pippas head awkwardly superimposed onto it over old Pippas.Hilarious now that I think of it.


  • #113
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭rednik


    Nora Martinez from The Strain nearly as bad as Andrea from The Walking Dead.


  • #114
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    The dark haired pippa was there so long she'll always be pippa to me


  • #115
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Scrappy Doo (ruined Scooby)

    Shae from GoT (so annoying)

    Lori from Walking Dead


  • #116
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    smilerf wrote: »
    The dark haired pippa was there so long she'll always be pippa to me


    To oldies like me shes a doppelganger.Old Pippas replacement was to the early early 90s what Bobby Ewings "It was all a dream" thing in Dallas was to the 80s.And if ya need proof......:o

    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2013/11/20/90-of-nations-abandonment-issues-can-be-traced-back-to-original-pippa-leaving-home-and-away-claim-psychiatrists/


  • #117
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,281 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Skullface McGubbin wrote: »
    Marge and Lisa Simpson. Lisa's self righteousness can be irksome and I can hardly stand Marge's voice.

    Forget Marge and Lisa, what about Gil?

    http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fb/Gil-gunderson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110913104109.

    Never been remotely funny.


  • #118
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Was blonde pippa in it long. Memory is rubbish


  • #119
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,530 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Forget Marge and Lisa, what about Gil?

    http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fb/Gil-gunderson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110913104109.

    Never been remotely funny.

    when you realise who he is based on he is hilarious.


  • #120
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Forget Marge and Lisa, what about Gil?

    http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fb/Gil-gunderson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110913104109.

    Never been remotely funny.

    Gil was very good in the first episode he appeared in (also Lionel Hutz last episode) where Marge works as a real estate agent.


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  • #121
    Forest Demon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Forest Demon


    Does reality tv count? It's even worse because they are real. If it does then you can close this thread after this one as nothing beats this wagon.






    Beth from dog the bounty hunter! :mad:


  • #122
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Lady Mary in Downton Abbey. Between the sour face and the monotone voice, she's the one thing I dislike about it.


  • #123
    Bret Hart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart


    James Corden in no matter what he's in I instanely switch it off.


  • #124
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Vince from Entourage was such a dull ball of nothing. Made E look like Vic Mackey in comparison. Actually quite a lot of poorly written and annoying characters in that for the hype it gets.


  • #125
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    Pete from the league. Just comes across as a slimy bastard that always gets his way.


  • #126
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    Clareman wrote: »
    Freddie, the guy who clearly doesn't care about health and safety or any kind of cleaning who is also a convicted criminal who dashes his grandsons dreams before they even form?

    Nah, everyone on House of Cards

    What a despicable tv character. Doesn't care about health and safety. Serious tv character deal breaker obviously.
    Really?


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  • #127
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Cerci from game of thrones I hate.


  • #128
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    For those of us a bit longer in the tooth,anyone remember how in the latter years of Glenroe (mid 90s-ish onwards) they started introducing a lot of teenage characters,probably because viewer numbers were falling and they wanted to attract a younger audience?The way some of them were introduced into the show was bizarre to say the least.Mynah,the nosey old busybody who was the priests housekeeper was a long running character and there was never any indication that she had a family.Until out of the blue in one episode she had a teenage son,who was introduced in a way that indicated we were supposed to believe he was there living with her all along,just never mentioned.Then at some point later in the series all of a sudden she has a teenage daughter who we first see argueing with her about school or something.Again there was no mention of her prior to this.Son and daughter were at the center of some of the silly storylines that followed that tried to appeal to teen viewers(Biddy or someone accidentaly being given magic mushrooms was the one I remember most).


  • #129
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    Vince from Entourage was such a dull ball of nothing. Made E look like Vic Mackey in comparison. Actually quite a lot of poorly written and annoying characters in that for the hype it gets.

    Ari gold and drama are the only characters that I care about in that show. God i ****ing despise turtle.


  • #130
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Are there any examples of favourite TV programmes that had had one or more characters who made you groan whenever they appeared?For me a few would be.

    Hodges the air raid warden in Dads Army.I know he was supposed to be a foil to Mainwaring but I never could stand him and his aggressive interfering.

    The next door neighbours in Keeping Up Appearances especially Emmet,an utter pain and the guy who played him was a terrible actor.

    Mrs Doyle.(Father Ted)Just never found her funny.

    The actor who played Emmet was also in Hi-de-Hi, and just as bad.

    I can stand the church warden character in Dad's Army, Hodges. A real crawler and troublemaker (as Corporal Jones would say).


  • #131
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Katie Kiely's Hennessy boyfriend in Red Rock. He is such a wuss I can't even
    remember his name!


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  • #132
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    ricero wrote: »
    Ari gold and drama are the only characters that I care about in that show. God i ****ing despise turtle.


    I could never warm to that show as I hate every character in it including those two.I hate the way everyone prounced Dramas name Dwama,it drove me nuts hearing it.


  • #133
    arcticmonkeys
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭arcticmonkeys


    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Yeah,what the hell did she see in that gob****e?

    Also that appaling woman who joined in series two and was telling the anecdote about skipping the queue at Disneyland Paris by pretending her kid was sick.She had the most horrible grating voice as well.

    She was actually well played. I've seen her in a few BBC shows and she actually a pretty decent actress. Who really got on my nerve was the Welsh bint they brought in with the Swindon Lot who got offended by the black mans "cough" joke. She actually managed to help make David more sympathetic.


  • #134
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    arcticmonkeys wrote: »
    She was actually well played. I've seen her in a few BBC shows and she actually a pretty decent actress. Who really got on my nerve was the Welsh bint they brought in with the Swindon Lot who got offended by the black mans "cough" joke. She actually managed to help make David more sympathetic.


    Yeah,she reported him twice if I remember correctly.And then later she was complaining that they diden't have enough work to do or something.


  • #135
    Whatsisname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,667 ✭✭✭Whatsisname


    Probably been said already but Gemma Teller from SOA x1000.


  • #136
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Debbie in shameless USA annoys me


  • #137
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Wasn't too keen on Ben and Sophie the young "trendy" couple working in the hotel in I'm Alan Partridge.She in particular always came across as really stuck up and smug.


  • #138
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Laurel in arrow


  • #139
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    when you realise who he is based on he is hilarious.

    The thing is, the old (good) Simpsons always had references, but you didn't have to know what they were for it still to be funny. They started using Gil for every 'down on your luck' scenario where they used to use Hans Moleman. Gil is a good marker for when the show started going down the tubes.


  • #140
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Yeah, I never liked Gil. I would also have to say Homer - once the series went downhill - became insufferably annoying.

    Another I'm compelled to mention is Steve Smith from American Dad; he bugs the hell out of me. Also Jeff from the same show.


  • #141
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,551 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    LisaLee wrote: »
    Lori Grimes and Andrea from the Walking Dead



    And Carl too
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #142
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Meredith Grey.

    Self-centred, moany, over opinionated bitch


  • #143
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »
    Daphne's relatives in Frasier.

    +1. Embarrassing, can't watch the episodes they're in. Not mad keen on Daphne either, think it's Jane Leeves I don't really like.

    Latter day Phoebe on Friends - way to ruin a good character by turning her into an egotistical, shrieking, bitchy wagon.


  • #144
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Carmela Soprano is utterly loathsome. She was written that way. David Chase despises her.

    I didn't find her that loathsome at all. Tony has ALL her bad qualities and then some.

    Not saying you're saying this, but a frequent mantra has been that she's worse than Tony. Eh no, she really, really isn't.

    Can't agree that Chase hated her either, he most certainly depicted her sympathetically on a few occasions.
    darkdubh wrote: »
    Her sister is way more annoying,but Skyler is probably more moraly reprehensible.

    But less morally reprehensible than Walter White.


  • #145
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    obriendj wrote: »
    In fairness it was this post that mentioned him - i cant take the credit http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=94796167&postcount=72

    With regards Friends they all became unlikable. just to keep the show running. It's quite amazing that if they ended they show after 4 seasons it could have been considered an all time great. But when a show continues to run you look back at contempt at earlier episodes and find flaws.

    Also with e4 showing every episode over and over and over doesnt help.

    I've been watching it on Netflix and series' 1-5 and series' 6-10 really are like two different shows. 1-5 is absolute classic, top notch television, as uncool as that is to say.


  • #146
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    mccard wrote: »
    You can add Janice Soprano to the top of that list.

    Janice was an amazing character to watch! Her and Tony on screen together was TV gold. Aida Turturro, great actress.


  • #147
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    darkdubh wrote: »
    For those of us a bit longer in the tooth,anyone remember how in the latter years of Glenroe (mid 90s-ish onwards) they started introducing a lot of teenage characters,probably because viewer numbers were falling and they wanted to attract a younger audience?The way some of them were introduced into the show was bizarre to say the least.Mynah,the nosey old busybody who was the priests housekeeper was a long running character and there was never any indication that she had a family.Until out of the blue in one episode she had a teenage son,who was introduced in a way that indicated we were supposed to believe he was there living with her all along,just never mentioned.Then at some point later in the series all of a sudden she has a teenage daughter who we first see argueing with her about school or something.Again there was no mention of her prior to this.Son and daughter were at the center of some of the silly storylines that followed that tried to appeal to teen viewers(Biddy or someone accidentaly being given magic mushrooms was the one I remember most).

    Was Mynah's son called Hoppy? :o


  • #148
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    darkdubh wrote: »
    For those of us a bit longer in the tooth,anyone remember how in the latter years of Glenroe (mid 90s-ish onwards) they started introducing a lot of teenage characters,probably because viewer numbers were falling and they wanted to attract a younger audience?The way some of them were introduced into the show was bizarre to say the least.Mynah,the nosey old busybody who was the priests housekeeper was a long running character and there was never any indication that she had a family.Until out of the blue in one episode she had a teenage son,who was introduced in a way that indicated we were supposed to believe he was there living with her all along,just never mentioned.Then at some point later in the series all of a sudden she has a teenage daughter who we first see argueing with her about school or something.Again there was no mention of her prior to this.Son and daughter were at the center of some of the silly storylines that followed that tried to appeal to teen viewers(Biddy or someone accidentaly being given magic mushrooms was the one I remember most).

    Those kids were so random! That woman was about 70 as well - how was it even feasible for her to have these children??
    To be fair, Myna wasn't as annoying as Uncle Peter, played by Cyril Cusack. Great actor, terrible character.


  • #149
    the raven 15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭the raven 15


    I don't watch this by choice.....the girlfriend watches it...

    Scott from Geordie shore....

    Watch his left arm swinging around with every word as he vents to the camera....I wanna chop his arms off and beat him to death with the soggy bit.
    I hate him and every bastid in it. Horrible people.


  • #150
    aulddub
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭aulddub


    may have been said before, Anthony, the son in the Sopranos, was a little **** and i waited in vain for him to be shot in the series.


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  • #151
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    mrsdewinter wrote: »
    Those kids were so random! That woman was about 70 as well - how was it even feasible for her to have these children??
    To be fair, Myna wasn't as annoying as Uncle Peter, played by Cyril Cusack. Great actor, terrible character.

    And don't forget that "Australian" wagon of a woman with the woefully unconvincing accent that he was going out with,or was that David Kelly?He played a similar type of character to Cusack around the same time.Edit:Sylvie was his character.


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