TV characters that you found so annoying you quit watching the program?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

I gave up on Cheers because I couldn’t stand Carla!

[jberryhill]

1. Pretty much all TV News

On account of the obvious character.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. That was my first thought, too...

I had to turn off MSNBC today when they switched to live Trump...

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Ditto.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. President Trump.

(Haven't had a working TV for years. Not inclined to get one.)

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

3. Original Roseanne

I thought she was annoying decades ago, before it was the in thing.

[unc70]

4. Could not watch her from the beginning

[Nay]

83. Never could watch her, either. Then or now.

[Archae]

142. Same here.

[47of74]

171. My brother has always said the show would have tanked a lot earlier without John Goodman.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Absolutely! 🤢

[geardaddy]

149. Same here.

[PunksMom]

152. Ditto! Ugh

[bearsfootball516]

6. Nancy Botwin in Weeds.

Watched the first three seasons and was found myself being entertained less and less. Her character was so grating, whiny and never learned from her mistakes. Had to stop watching because I couldn't stand her anymore.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Never saw it! Guess I lucked out! 😂

[bdtrppr6]

15. i'd forgotten that one

same here, we watched for a while but she was completely fucking annoying. yeah, hated her.

[lapfog_1]

55. She (Mary Louise-Parker) always talks without moving her mouth

same annoying habit when she was on The West Wing.

[femmocrat]

147. Yes!

She and the character “Ainsley” were the two who drove me from The West Wing. I got tired of them real fast.

[TexasBushwhacker]

125. Elizabeth Perkins kept me watching though n/t

[LisaM]

7. Patricia Heaton in "Everybody Loves Raymond".

I think they eventually toned her down, she was so unwatchable.

Any Jump the Shark character, especially Urkel.

Susan (the Teri Hatcher character) in "Desperate Housewives".

Kramer in "Seinfeld".

And, it didn't make me stop watching, but I got to the point where I couldn't stand Monica in "Friends".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. I have never seen a single episode of the programs you referenced! 😂

[LisaM]

35. Well, "Jump the Shark" wasn't a show...

I was using it as a term for the breakout characters who are essentially grotesques. Urkel was the name of a character.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. I do know what "jump the shark" means!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

73. Heh heh.

That's funny.

[edbermac]

14. I rather liked her.

Don't care for her politics but she put up with so much from her crazy family members in ELR.

[LisaM]

31. Yes, and at first it worked. About the third season...

she started yelling at everyone about everything. I knew a lot of people who watched the show who were turned off by it. Finally, the last couple of years, they lowered her volume.

[LisaM]

38. I remember one other thing about her character I disliked....

She used sex as a weapon with the Raymond character ("If you don't do this, then sleep on the couch!" kind of stuff). And that was actually her real attitude towards it, she put it in some book she wrote. "Ladies, here's what you need to do...." crap.

[emulatorloo]

42. Agreed. Was supposed to be 'humorous' but I found that plot line disturbing

[SallyHemmings]

81. She was just brutal.

She seems unhappy and was hell bent on making everyone around her unhappy.

[forgotmylogin]

115. Every one of those characters was portrayed as awful at some point.

I think that's why ELR is so popular - people can see examples of their own family drama where you still love someone despite their toxic behavior.

Ray (the character) is pretty damn stupid a lot of the time. And Marie is borderline sociopathic. Amy's father and brother were pretty awful as well.

I think part of the joke was that they brought out the worst in Debra.

That's why I think it's classic TV - almost like All in the Family or a British show where some of the characters are awful but ultimately worthy of love and admiration, but I can only take so many episodes of ELR specifically because Ray and Debra both get on my nerves after so long.

I would not survive one week in that family.

[IrishEyes]

91. I agree. The character Debra on Everybody Loves Raymond was awful.

[The Genealogist]

106. I LOATHE that show

The only show I loathe more is Home Improvement.

[jmowreader]

138. Patricia Heaton in ANYTHING is unwatchable

[lame54]

169. Patricia Heaton is great...

Not only in Raymond
But also in The Middle

Yes she is a right wing nutjob
A rare talented one

[LisaM]

170. It wasn't her acting I was objecting to, it was her character.

They overwrote it, and she became unlikeable and, to me, unwatchable, so I stopped watching the show. The one thing that actually reflected her personal beliefs (acting like you should use sex as a tool to influence your spouse's behavior) is something I find distasteful, and which I know was how she felt herself because I heard her say it on a talk show.

I don't watch "The Middle", but a couple of times I've seen the beginning of it, and her acting seemed just fine.

[LyndaG]

178. Didn't support Trump

I'll give her credit for that.

[Aristus]

10. Non-fictional characters: NBC's 'Today'.

Before I got married, my first action after wakening in the morning every day was to turn on the TV to 'Today', which I had watched since I was a kid. It provided background noise and a kind of company while I was getting ready for work.

Starting in the mid-to-late 90's, I got fed up with so much vapid, meaningless programming, I finally gave up on watching it.

They had a news anchor, Margaret Larson, whom I liked very much, but she didn't last long. She had a rather curvy figure. After leaving the national scene, she showed up on local Seattle stations, and she had visibly lost weight. I wonder if one of the harrassing jerk-offs at NBC had told her to lose weight (for whatever reason, I don't know; she was unquestionably attractive, and more to the point, a good journalist) and that failure to do so cost her her job at 'Today'.

[LisaM]

32. I think her husband had moved to Seattle, so she came too.

I kind of remember that being the case at the time.

[greatauntoftriplets]

70. Margaret Larson is on the PBS Newshour now and then.

She's still very thin, but I think she's found her niche there.

[underpants]

98. I used to too

As a kid I saw actual world leaders being grilled by Barbara Walters or at least put to the test.

Every morning with coffee for a long time then there was the USS Abraham Lincoln W photo op with Anne Curry actually leading a USA! USA! USA! cheer. That was too much.

Oh and either before or after that was the Saving Pvt. Lynch thing. I remember sitting there watching it and then saying to my wife "They filmed this?" Later that day someone on DU posted an article from The Guardian (I think) and at the very end a British Army PR guy who'd seen most of the footage was quoted as saying that he was glad the Brits weren't involved in it. Huh? It all started unraveling in the next few days. BTW Pat Tillman sitting at Bahrahm air base saw the whole operation and commotion and wrote in his journal that it smelled like a publicity stunt.

[True Dough]

11. Take your pick...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Another one I avoided! 👍🏻

[Quemado]

16. All except Penny are annoying

But that's not why I stopped watching the show. At some point in time (don't ask me when), the show just stopped being funny.

[True Dough]

19. I could suggest when...

the premiere episode!

[LisaM]

34. I'd say that they all aged out of their characters, except....

I see their exact equivalents in Seattle every day!

I think the show has about run its course, but I did like when they all started getting girlfriends, and they had scenes that were all female.

[FakeNoose]

36. I agree - I could never watch this show!

I hated them all, found the entire show annoying.

[Ohiogal]

111. I thought I was the only one who finds this show extremely annoying.

Thank you FakeNoose

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

60. Sorry, I LOVE this show.

The last two seasons w the children thing...eh? But overall, good stuff in mho.

[Rorey]

163. Even with the kids, I like it.

Life evolves.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

164. Right. Seems to have thrown it off just a scosh...just a scosh though.

One of my all-time favorite shows for sure.

[Rorey]

166. Bob the Builder

I thought it was hilarious when Bernadette wanted to stay home and watch Bob the Builder instead of going out with Amy.

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[underpants]

95. Loved that show

Haven't seen it in a few years though. Parsons in real life appears to be a pretty regular nice guy.

[Rorey]

108. I like every character on The Big Bang Theory

I like that show. I just do. And I like Young Sheldon even more.

[peekaloo]

160. Annie Potts steals that kid's thunder in YS.

and the little sister is hilarious!

[Rorey]

162. She's the perfect meemaw.

Missy is hilarious, and just the way you'd expect her to be as Sheldon's twin. I think the entire cast is perfect. It's one of my favorite shows, along with Life In Pieces. Thursday night is "TV night" for me. I sit on my butt for three hours straight when How To Get Away With Murder is on.

[JDC]

117. Winner!

Totally agree

[True Dough]

124. Tis interesting how many responses that suggestion generated

We have a real mix of Big Bang supporters and detractors.

[geardaddy]

150. I've never watched that show.

The whole concept to me is annoying.

[Jake Stern]

179. At first BBT was funny

But I stopped watching after the first couple seasons because it stopped being funny to me.

And that Young Sheldon?

[avebury]

12. The View - I got tire of Megan McCain's

constant meltdowns.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. Yep!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

62. Constantly angry that one. face of fury.

She thinks shes hot like hasselhoff....w twice the mouth.

[blueinredohio]

88. Me too I didn't care for Jedidiah Bila but I quit watching because of Meghan

Just can't take her screeching rants.

[Rorey]

109. I still watch, but she drives me up the wall

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

[Va Lefty]

17. Hear me out on this one...Fonzie on Happy Days

The first two seasons were kind of a subdued wistful look back at coming of age in the late 50's. Much more introspective with Tom Bosley playing the Father trying to help his son mostly but his family the best way he could navigate through various teen issues . When the show went to being filmed before a live audience in season 3, the entire tenor of the show changed with Fonzie and other cast members playing to the live audience for laughs. It really started to become "The Fonzie Show". I quit watching it. Obviously I was in the minority cause the show took off in ratings with the change.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Could not stand him! 🤬

[Va Lefty]

22. Nothing against Henry Winkler. Loved him in Night Shift.

[KCDebbie]

129. Night Shift is one of my favorites - I have it on dvd!

I might watch it this week... Michael Keaton and his idea about feeding mayo to the tuna fish! Lol!

[Snellius]

46. No need to explain. It's so self-evident.

It was only in context of one of the silliest sitcoms of all time that he didn't seem so bad. Matter of fact, it was in disgust to a Fonzie episode that the term "jump the shark" was coined. No offense to fans. Just IMHO

[Glamrock]

59. Heeyyyyyyy!

Really? Fonzie was the essence of cool baby! But then again, I was pre-pubescent....

[underpants]

96. I remember watching that and at one point realized I was just watching it out of habit

Robin Williams one appearance was spectacular but it got to the point where there was 30seconds of applause each time a character appeared for the first time. I can't believe that was still on the air when I was in high school.

[Archae]

144. I dumped "Mork and Mindy" when Jonathan Winters joined the cast.

Just didn't like the character.

[forgotmylogin]

116. This is pretty much why that show defined

"Jump the Shark"

It was Fonz who actually did that in an episode. But yeah, it went from a nostalgic family comedy to the model for bland sitcoms where one peripheral character breaks out and ruins the show.

[Soxfan58]

18. George

On Seinfeld.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Never saw it! 👍🏻

[sueh]

54. Me, too! I can't stand him!

[Glamrock]

58. Me three.

He was so awful, I had to stop watching.

[John Fante]

61. Never got into Seinfeld.

It's difficult to enjoy a show in which none of the central characters are likeable.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

72. George made me laugh.

Such a ca-niver(Sp). Tsk tsk. Wasn't fond of the tall one w the curly hair.

[underpants]

101. Loved that show

A true classic.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

103. I thought so too. I was (and still am) in love w Elaine.

Came a little late to the party but I have every season on DVD.

[IrishEyes]

87. I couldn't stand a single person on Seinfeld.

My idea of hell is being sucked into Seinfeld and having to spend eternity with those horrible, sad, entitled idiots.

[bullsnarfle]

159. Correction...

EVERYONE on Seinfeld.

[sarge43]

23. Temperance Brennan, Bones

Trotting out her IQ and degrees every 10 minutes got old fast.

It didn't help that every time by standers saw a corpse, they'd scream like demented banshees.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

148. Another one I missed!

[sarge43]

161. It wasn't bad as a proceedural.

Some very interesting info about forensics, but when it went soup opera, yow.

[Itchinjim]

24. Michael on The Office

With every episode Michael became more and more cringe inducing. It became too excruciating to watch.

[gratuitous]

41. I agree

I didn't watch it during its original run, but it's on Comedy Central constantly now. I dip in for an episode every now and then, but I can't take much of Michael. They did show the episode recently called "Did I Stutter" in which one of the workers reads Michael the riot act for being such an incompetent pinhead. I liked that scene. A lot.

[underpants]

99. I had the same reaction to Ricky Gervais on the original BBC show

I'd heard a lot about so I rented a disc. I couldn't finish the third episode. I felt so embarrassed for that character.

LOVED the American "The Office". Finished watching the whole thing with my daughter a few months ago.

[lark]

26. Erkel!

My son started emulating him so the program wasn't allowed in the house anymore. His voice just annoyed the crap out of me. I only watched 1-2 shows and barely made it through any of them because I just couldn't stand that voice. I also quit watching the Nanny for the same reason, hated her annoying voice.

[beachbum bob]

27. Any reality show. Period.

[Midwestern Democrat]

28. Didn't quit watching but the Lucy Knight character on ER was probably that show's first major

misstep. I did quit watching (not deliberately but drifted away) NYPD Blue after Rick Schroeder replaced Jimmy Smits.

[doc03]

29. All the characters on the new Hawaii 5-0 and of course Trump, I have never seen

his show. Oh David Caruso in Miami CSI, worst actor alive.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

71. Have you not seen kevin James then?

Like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[Ilsa]

80. Any characters that Dean & Sam Winchester spoof

on Supernatural. Dean's reaction at the beginning is hysterical.

The trickster likes sweets, so they figured the lollipop man was him:

[Scurrilous]

30. Jesse in Breaking Bad.

His constant weeping became too much for me.

[Rorey]

165. Oh no! Don't say that about Jesse!

I enjoyed everyone on Breaking Bad. I think I watched the whole series twice, and I still pause and watch awhile while surfing.

Yeah, Jesse got a bit whiny. Skyler got on my nerves sometimes too. But I loved that series.

[mikeargo]

33. When the Flintstones introduced the Great Gazoo

I stopped watching after a while. I was six years old, but even then I knew he destroyed the chemistry between Fred and Barney.

[fmdaddio]

37. The Walking Dead

Anyone who has not died yet.

[Greybnk48]

43. Steve Harvey doing anything.

He totally rubs me the wrong way.

S.E. Cupp, Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, any of the Bush family, almost all Republican politicians.

I too quit watching Happy Days when the Fonz got too cutsy.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

67. "Whoooooooa" (Like the Fonz.)

Steve harvey makes me sick. Big trum fan that guy.

[Ron Obvious]

44. Scrappy Doo, obviously.

Apparently he was found dead in Miami. Who knew?

[lunasun]

132. Scrappy Doo added some puppy power but it was Scooby Dum that did it for me

He always has to say "Scooby, doobie, doo." and is just too stupid

UGH
Oh that poor cat in Miami can't get a good nap wow

[Louis1895]

45. Donald J. Trump (n/t)

[lastlib]

47. Howard Cosell, Monday Night Football....

John Madden, any football game he was bloviating on, Dick Vitale, any basketball game he was bloviating on. The three most annoying individuals ever in broadcasting.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. Cosell was such a douche! I recall a game when some fans held up signs the first of which read

Don Is Dandy, the next Frank Is Fabulous, the third Howard Sucks!

Cosell tried to sue the fan!

[DFW]

90. But Cosell was great in "Bananas."

Msinly because he played the same irritating character he was doing real sports events.

[unc70]

112. Even worse: Dick Vitale

Ruined a lot of NCAA basketball games

[malthaussen]

174. I'll hand that title to Brent Mussberger.

Never could understand why he got so much airtime.

-- Mal

[SCantiGOP]

183. Cosell was the only sports announcer

to defend Ali when he was banned from boxing for refusing the draft.
He was also a strong supporter of the rights of pro athletes as opposed to their owners, and for college athletes. He was the first person I remember pointing out the hypocrisy of college players making millions for their schools yet not being allowed to share in that largesse.
His personality, and probably his New York accent, turned a lot of people off, but he was a strong liberal and supporter of labor.

[jalan48]

185. John Madden. He loved glorifying those hard hits to the head-"slobber knockers" he called them.

[OilemFirchen]

49. The entire cast of "Portlandia".

Ptui.

[redstatebluegirl]

52. Lord yes I hate that show.

[lunasun]

133. Somebody I worked with years ago gave me a DVD of it and said this is funny

I wanted to go back in and ask wth? Why did you give me that crap and think I would find it funny?
Couldn't get through 1 episode but I didn't say that to them, or much of course, except I wasn't into it no thanks
Asked if they wanted the DVD back. The person said no so I donated it to a thrift shop blech

[crazycatlady]

50. The Apprentice

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

68. Yeah...There was a real creepy family on that one, and a smarmy co-corporatizer...

Wonder what ever happened to that fucking group of misfits?

[dameatball]

51. Fair Nell on Dudley Doright. Woman could just not stay away from railroad tracks.

[samnsara]

53. One Day at a Time..ALL the characters...Rosanne..ALL the characters..

...ditto Big Bang Theory

[Bradshaw3]

56. That redneck guy Johnny Carson played who wore a duck hunting cap

[Ptah]

75. What ever happened to that guy ?

[liberal N proud]

79. Floyd R Turbo?

[Bradshaw3]

105. Yeah, just kidding with the op

He's one of my favorite posters on DU.

[oswaldactedalone]

63. Jason Alexander in Seinfeld

Never watched it because of him. He had me so upset in Pretty Woman that I couldn't bring myself to watch him.

[The Blue Flower]

64. Good Times: the son who said "dyno-mite!"

Don't remember his name. He was an unfunny attention grabber.

[muntrv]

113. JJ was his name.

[dameatball]

158. Jimmy Walker. I think he actually supported Trump in 2016.

I don't remember where I saw it, but he is a Trumpy. Never liked the character either.

[ADX]

176. Jimmy Walker supposedly dated Ann Coulter...

...go figure...

[handmade34]

65. "Lucy"

even as a little one, I hated "I Love Lucy"... couldn't stand seeing a woman made fun of

[Tikki]

69. So did I; could anyone be that whiny and pathetic!!!

Tikki

[rurallib]

110. o lord me too

and my mother loved that show.

[thucythucy]

122. Didn't that show sometimes end with Lucy getting spanked

by her husband? And not in any sexy role-playing way, but as actual physical punishment for some wifely misdemeanor.

Just goes to show how "the good old days" of the 1950s weren't so great after all.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

66. Kevin James...in anything. Nancy Grace.

THE worst. And from all reports..fancies himself a primadonna on stage.
nancy...personifies angry. Knows everything.

[spooky3]

74. the character Daphne Moon in Frasier (and her bros and mother)

it wasn't the actor's fault--it was the writers' or producers' decision to have her play ditsy-cutesy for most of the show's run, then as she grew older, they made her nastier. With so many great characters and scripts in that show, her role really stuck out in a bad way (for me at least).

[RobinA]

141. I Am A Huge

Frasier fan, but I agree they turned Daphne into a bit of a pill towards the end. I could never figure that one out.

[3catwoman3]

76. I am going back a very long way.

I couldn't stand any of the I Love Lucy shows, as I don't think a woman should have to act stupid/sneaky/manipulative in order to be successful - either for her own self-worth or the types of characters she portrays. Same thing with Mama's Family.

Add in Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle.

[underpants]

104. I have never seen a complete "I Love Lucy"

Never thought it was funny at all. I came close once but bailed when I realized what I was about to do.

[TexasBushwhacker]

130. I liked the reruns when I was a kid

Before I knew better.

[Miles Archer]

77. Julia Duffy, "Stephanie," Newhart

I've know far too many people in real life who looked like her, sounded like her, had her attitude.

Could not watch her on "Newhart," as much as I enjoyed the show and the other characters.

[LyndaG]

89. Disliked Kirk

Glad he was gone after the first couple of seasons.

[liberal N proud]

78. Tim Allen

[Nay]

86. YEAH. I can't stand that douchebag either.

[IrishEyes]

82. Temperance Bones on the tv show Bones.

My roommate loved that show and wanted me to watch it with her. I liked every character except the main character who I couldn't stand. She is such an awful person that I stopped watching. The character was a genius, rich and pretty so it was okay for her to be a jerk. It is shame because it was an interesting show.

I don't really like when people get to be total jerks on tv shows because they are geniuses. There seems to be a few shows like that.

[Harker]

84. Mork from Ork

I watched the first couple episodes because they used footage of a nearby home in the establishing shots, and it was supposedly set in the town in which I lived.

I don't like frantic, manic, people. Sweaty, shouting ones annoy me, too.

[TexasBushwhacker]

131. Yeah, my dad was bipolar and Robin Williams behavior when he was ON just made me cringe

I thought he was good in dramatic roles though. I loved Awakenings and Good Will Hunting.

[Harker]

136. "Good Will Hunting", yes.

I thought he was good in that, too. I haven't seen "Awakenings, and I can barely remember "Moscow on the Hudson" or the Al Pacino remake of the Norwegian film "Insomnia", in which Williams appeared. Never a fan.

My old man was more like Ralph Kramden. Short fuse and a lot of yelling. I will never trust explosive people.

[TexasBushwhacker]

140. Moscow on the Hudson is a favorite too n/t

[RobinA]

143. If You Like

non-manic Robin Williams, check him out in that Photo lab movie, can't think of the name of it. He was the guy who developed the pictures. Creepy!!! Or not.

[TexasBushwhacker]

146. YES! One Hour Photo! n/t

[Harker]

172. That was very creepy.

Must have blocked it out.

[dawg day]

85. Castle

Usually I like Nathan Fillion, but the character was so smug... I stopped watching after a few episodes. Probably he later revealed some hidden vulnerability, but I couldn't hang on long enough to find out.

[DFW]

92. Peter Falk as Columbo

I don't know if Adam Sandler ever did TV, but if he did, then, in the immortal words of Groucho Marx, whatever it is, I'm against it.

[underpants]

94. Sandler was on SNL and dominated it for a few years and was horrible

I never "got"Sandler. Never thought anything was funny.

[Harker]

97. He seemed to think he was funny.

Coincidentally, I was just discussing with my sweetie the long line of unfunny latter day SNLers who graduated to making cinematic atrocities.

[underpants]

102. Sandler produced a bunch of the little movies

Joe Dirt
Deuce Bigalo
Ladies Man
Etc


Made very cheap so he made money off them and all his buddies got a paycheck.

[Harker]

118. Ugh.

There you go.

[DFW]

139. We don't get SNL where I am

I haven't seen it in decades.

[Funtatlaguy]

93. Everybody loved Raymond.....except me.

[mainstreetonce]

100. Regis

I could even take KathyLee.I know people won't agree,but
I cannot take even one minute of Regis.

[Rorey]

107. Megan Boone on The Blacklist

I really wanted to watch because of James Spader, but something about her acting just grated on my nerves. Maybe she improved as the show went on, but I couldn't last past the first couple of episodes.

[First Speaker]

123. She *has* improved. This past season, she was very focused and intense...

...and I actually admired her for the first time. I kinda know what you mean about her, but found the show as a whole so fascinating I gritted my teeth and watched anyway...

[muntrv]

114. Keeping Up with the Kardashians. All of them are annoying.

Wish they would go out of style.

[PunksMom]

154. Right on👍🏼

[Yavin4]

119. Masters of Sex. Virginia Johnson's teen daughter.

It was a truly great show in year one, but they had to add the annoying teen daughter and it went down hill from there.

[vercetti2021]

120. Tim the tool man Taylor

I can't stand Tim Allen. I loved the show growing up and Wilson. But now it's just plain stupid and I can't stand Allen anymore

[Freddie]

121. All In The Family

When Mike and Gloria left the show and they brought in the little girl (Archie’s niece?). A cute little kid was so out of place in that show.

[Snackshack]

126. As mentioned above.

Roseanne, I could not stand to even hear her voice. Another show from back during that era was ALF...omg.

Now it is trump. Anytime the news plays a clip of him I turn the channel or just turn off the TV.

[lunasun]

135. Trump is sort of an Alf Roseanne fusion

That same kooky hair and lumpy look mixed along with a caustic grating mouth

[klook]

127. Tara King on The Avengers

Poor thing, she couldn't help it. Nobody could hold a candle to Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel. </swoon>

[lunasun]

137. Sigh, that is so true ....

[Kablooie]

128. That horrible laugh track audience.

I can hardly bear to watch any of the old shows because the laugh track is so invasive.
I used to be immune to it but after years of not watching broadcast shows it drives me nuts now.

It's a shame because I can't enjoy again any of the old shows I used to like.

[fierywoman]

134. Samantha in the SITC episode at the fire house. Then I watched a later episode and got hooked

on the entire series. Not so much the movies.

[RobinA]

145. That Squeaky Voiced

woman on Will & Grace. I could have watched that she but for her. I even thought the character was fine, but that voice...finger nails on chalkboard.

I'm glad other people didn't like the Patricia Heaton character on Raymond. I liked that show quite a bit. The parents, the doofus brother, the most accurate portrayal of sibling rivalry this side of Frasier. But Debra...what a bucket of cold water. Shrill, humerless. Whoever wrote her hated women.

[MrScorpio]

151. Basically, anything with a whiny, know-it-all teenager.

[SummerSnow]

153. Anything with Mark and Donnie Wahlberg in it.

[Jake Stern]

182. Bu..bu.. I like Antiques Roadshow!

It would be kinda awesome to have Mark Wahlberg host an episode.

[CatMor]

155. I Love Lucy never found it or her funny ...

and Colombo was one of the most annoying characters on TV. His old coat and car wore thin after awhile and the fact he could solve a murder sometimes on just a cigarette ash.

[NBachers]

156. That whiny guy who was supposed to be a rock star in Lost - It didn't take long for Lost to implode.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

157. Sonny Corinthos - General Hospital

[Rorey]

167. Christine Hill on Dexter

Of course as one of the "bad guys" I suppose that her being annoying was to be expected.

[Va Lefty]

168. Surprised nobody has mentioned the 2nd Darrin in Bewitched

[Mopar151]

173. Kelsey Grammar

Tim (Dick) Allen, Ryan Seacrest, Nancy Grace, Steve Harvey.

[Shrek]

175. Meredith Grey on "Grey's Anatomy"

The incessant whining was just too much.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

177. Fran Drescher on "The Nanny"

Her voice just grated on me. It sounded like a vuvuzela.

[Jake Stern]

181. Agreed

Took the stereotype that Jews have that nasally, Brooklyn Yiddish accent and inflection and built a sitcom around it.

[Harker]

184. There's my new word for the day...

"Vuvuzela." Thank you.

[Jake Stern]

180. Two

First, That 70's Show. That show has the dubious distinction of being the first sitcom that made me cringe while watching. It's like taking memories of my idiot stoner high school friends and trying to make a sitcom with them.

Just don't work. Plus Ashton Kutcher is as funny as herpes.

Second, Two and a Half Men. I liked Charlie so much better than Walden Schmidt. Charlie Sheen made that show.