TV/Movie characters that you found annoying that others thought were endearing?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: Julia Roberts: Shelby Eatenton Latcherie, Matthew Broderick: Ferris Bueller, Kate Hudson: Penny Lane. 😬

[Harold Shea]

1. Ferris Bueller

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Hell yes! 😬

[Harold Shea]

10. Angel from BTVS.

Way to "Broody".

Spike was much more fun.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Never saw it!

[mucifer]

21. Yes

[mucifer]

20. Yes!

[Coventina]

53. Another Ferris hater here. Don't get the appeal at all. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Jennifer Aniston, hands down.

Scratch that. Make all of "Friends" nauseating.

[Ocelot II]

4. This. I watched that show once and took an instant dislike to all the characters.

[Tetrachloride]

29. i thought i was the only one

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. One of the programs I'm happy to say I never watched! 🤗

[debm55]

30. I never watched Friends either. Just from the commercials, it seemed annoying.

[Tommy Carcetti]

56. Joey was mildly amusing.

And his "Moo opinion" line is something that I still reference to this day.

Everyone else on that show I didn't find particularly funny.

[csziggy]

67. I agree - but I always thought it was because I was too old for their target audience

Same for "Seinfeld" - couldn't stand the show or any of the characters. Those two shows ruined sitcoms for me - I can't watch current sitcoms anymore. Now if I watch a sitcom, it will be a British one - like "The Detectorists" or something older.

[nolabear]

90. I just posted that.

Apparently we’re not alone!

[spooky3]

6. Daphne, on Frasier (at least some of the time) nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Yes! 🤢

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. I like Daphne just fine

I hate Frasier and Niles way more. Especially Frasier.

I think we all agree Dad was the best though

[Ocelot II]

17. Frasier was an a-hole. Dad was great, Eddie the dog was the best.

[debm55]

31. Me too--watched it for Dad and Eddie.

I laughed when they were on.

[Maraya1969]

78. The plots in later seasons were so stupid. It was always someone said something

or did something that was not a big deal but they spend the rest of the show trying to hide what they said so as not to offend the person

Oh and I am watching The Old Couple - the original and Jack Lemon is getting on my nerves because he has no concept of other people's wants and needs. He plays a real jerk. Thankfully the sitcoms of today are better than those.

[MandelaObama]

88. Wow! I thought I was the only one! Totally agree

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls and Maureen Gilbert as Laura, LHOTP.

I loved the Little House books so I had zero use for the bizarre TV series adulteration of them, but the little I did see of it, those two stood out as especially intolerable.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Yep! 😬

[Niagara]

22. Her name is Melissa Gilbert.

She also ran in 2016 Michigan's 8th congressional district and she won the Democratic primary. Unfortunately she had to dropout due to health issues.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

39. I loathed her so much as Laura I blocked out her first name!

[Niagara]

50. Apparently lol 😂

[Cartoonist]

12. Vivian Vance

I love Lucy, but not her.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. I actually hated Lucy!

[Cartoonist]

14. I loved William Frawley as Fred Mertz

And Bub in My Three Sons

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Me too!

[Ocelot II]

18. Me too. I did not love Lucy. She was always shrieking.

I did like Fred and Ethel.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. A lying, conniving, self absorbed harpy!

[doc03]

24. Never thought she was funny nt

[debm55]

34. I had a thread here about I hate Lucy and I was shocked that so many posters didn't like her,

[doc03]

38. I thought she over acted with the faces and other reactions

another one was John Ritter in Three is Company.

[Maraya1969]

79. YES!

[a kennedy]

52. OMGOSH, me too, could not stand her, and wondered why everyone loved her......

She definitely was a pioneer for women being in power of their own craft tho…….

[doc03]

25. Henry Winkler as Fonzi in Happy Days. Well actually the entire cast. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. 👍🏻

[Midnight Writer]

26. Holly Golightly. I love Audrey Hepburn, but that character was too annoying.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

41. 🤢

[skypilot]

85. Hated that character and the movie.

Her blase dismissiveness of the noise complaints from her "Asian" neighbor just got under my skin. I spent the rest of the movie being annoyed as hell.

[Niagara]

27. Barney.

The purple 🦕 dinosaur.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. True that! 🤬

[Niagara]

28. Baby Grogu.

There, I said it.


I can hear all the gasping and groans already.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 😁

[vanlassie]

32. Sally Struthers. All in the Family.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

44. 😬

[Polly Hennessey]

33. Julia Roberts. Don't understand her appeal.

Tried to watch the movie she made with George Clooney, Ticket to Paradise. It was cringe-worthy and boring. Nicole Kidman gives me the same feeling. On the other hand, I could watch Sandra Bullock in any movie. Go figure?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. 🤗

[MorbidButterflyTat]

71. Julia Roberts

In a movie called "Dying Young," there's a scene where the characters are watching "Jeopardy," and when she laughs, I swear you could park a bus in her mouth. I had to rerun it just for the shock value. It's like she unhinged her jaw and just let it drop open. She could rent out that thing to a small family. (< Julia Roberts' mouth)


If anyone shares my Julia Roberts' gargantuan mouth phobia, you might get a kick out of:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/austingebbia1/i-dont-know-so-dont-ask

[TlalocW]

35. Everybody in The Breakfast Club

Everybody in the Kill Bill movies.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

46. Breakfast Club agreed! Kill Bills are favorites of mine!

[Earth-shine]

36. Counselor Troi of Star Trek:TNG

Wesley, too.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

47. 👍🏻

[csziggy]

66. Absolutely! I recently tried to rewatch Star Trek TNG and just couldn't deal with her character

So completely annoying.

Wesley was supposed to be an annoying teenager, but the actor grew up to be an OK person.

[Earth-shine]

68. Wesley ... grew up to be an OK person.

I thought so for a while. Will Wheaten is a technologist who would show up on tech podcasts. He always seemed to be a good guest.

Of ST: Picard, I've only seen the first season. Will Wheaten provided commentaries. Listening to it was like listening to first-season Wesley. He was awful, trying to prove he was the biggest Picard fan. He sounded like a giddy teenager going to see Tailor Swift.

I say that ST:TNG was the greatest TV show that ever was, despite its many flaws.

I haven't yet seen Strange New Worlds, and really looking forward to it.

[Emile]

40. Tom Cruise for his weird scientology beliefs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. 🤗

[Marthe48]

49. Alf, the whole cast of Everybody Loves Raymond

Doris Roberts in any role.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. Hell yes! 🤬

[Coventina]

55. I loved her in "Remington Steele"

Couldn't understand the appeal of ELR.

They were all super annoying, except for the old guy. He was funny, but not worth watching the show for.

[Marthe48]

58. I stopped watching Remington Steele after she was added to the cast

I don't think she reminds me of anyone. She just grates on my nerves :/

[Mad_Dem_X]

64. Peter Boyle's character was the only one I liked.

[justaprogressive]

92. Peter Boyle...

because he was a real actor...RIP Peter

[Tommy Carcetti]

54. Samantha on Sex and the City.

Actually I found all the characters on that show extremely annoying, but her especially.

But a lot of people who actually enjoyed the show liked her the most?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

60. Another I avoided! 😁

[First Speaker]

57. Yoda...

...naughty of me, it is, but I wish Chewy had stepped on him...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

61. Or Jabba had eaten him!

[Earth-shine]

76. The worst Star Wars character, perhaps the worst character of all time, any movie is ...

him.

[Different Drummer]

59. An unpopular opinion, maybe, but...

Festus from Gunsmoke.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

62. Yep! Chester forever!

[Mad_Dem_X]

63. Erin from The Office (US)

She's just so silly and empty-headed. I don't find her funny at all.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

65. 👍🏻

[Mr.Bill]

69. I find the entire male cast of Big Bang Theory

to be extremely annoying. I just don't get nerd humor. And it's too bad really, because it's a really well-written, funny show. Lots of good lines and jokes.

I found just about the entire cast of Barney Miller really great. I like every one of them, all for different reasons because they had such diverse personalities. One of the great ensemble casts of all time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

70. Right on both counts!

[3catwoman3]

72. Forest Gump - good gawd how I disliked that movie.

Add me to the list of people who couldn't stand I Love Lucy or any of the spin-offs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

74. 👍🏻

[Danmel]

73. CJ Cregg's boyfriend Danny on the West Wing

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Annoyed me to no end.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

75. 😬

[Prairie_Seagull]

77. Don't ever want to see hazard county but loved Daisy Duke, what a great actress.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

80. 😁

[Torchlight]

81. Keanu Reeves in well, anything.

Worst performance ever given on screen; Keanu Reeves as Don Jon in Much Ado About Nothing-- an otherwise splendid movie.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

82. Haven't seen Much Ado, but on the whole I like Keanu!

[Archae]

83. Eunice from "Mama's Family."

Carol Burnett screeched too often, and that screech jangled my nerves.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

86. 😬

[skypilot]

84. Any character played by Zooey Deschanel.

Was going to say Ferris Bueller but you beat me to it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

87. 🤗

[nolabear]

89. The entire cast of Friends.

They weren’t quirky enough to be charming or smart enough to be witty.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

91. 🤗

[Chakaconcarne]

93. Any character on South Park