TV Characters We Hate

[swanflake]

whatever said:

Lauren Vaughn. Michael Vaughn's "wife" on Alias. HATE!!!!!

Today is her birthday. Melissa George, the actress.

Just an ironic little piece of trivia for you!

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I can't stand the Chief on Grey's Anatomy. McSmugly Senior and a boring character. He's just there.
Oh, and I noticed that I really don't like The OC's Sandy Cohen anymore. What happened? He used to be the coolest person on that stupid show!

[swanflake]

I watched How I Met Your Mother for the first time last night, and I don't know how the Hell that show could expect anyone to believe that Neil Patrick Harris could play a guy so charming that he can score with any woman he wants and does just that on a nightly basis. And the same thing goes for Charlie Sheen's character on Two and Half Men. I know that Sheen was a real-life ladies man back in the 80s or whenever, but he's old now and his character is always going around dressed like some retiree in Florida. And I hardly ever have even watched that show, but just like HIMYM, CBS airs so many commercials about how both of these characters are such womanizers that I feel like I sorta know the characters, and I don't buy either one.

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I know this has been mentioned, but I was just talking to a big Sex and the City fan and she said she was most like Carrie Bradshaw. I had to stop myself from gagging. I will say, at times, Carrie was a complex, somewhat sympathetic character who made mistakes. Mostly she was a self-absorbed whiny little brat. There were several moments where I just wanted to slap her. I don't know why anyone would want to be her friend.

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kris said:

I know this has been mentioned, but I was just talking to a big Sex and the City fan and she said she was most like Carrie Bradshaw. I had to stop myself from gagging. I will say, at times, Carrie was a complex, somewhat sympathetic character who made mistakes. Mostly she was a self-absorbed whiny little brat. There were several moments where I just wanted to slap her. I don't know why anyone would want to be her friend.

To attempt to steal shoes?

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spordelia said:

kris said:

I know this has been mentioned, but I was just talking to a big Sex and the City fan and she said she was most like Carrie Bradshaw. I had to stop myself from gagging. I will say, at times, Carrie was a complex, somewhat sympathetic character who made mistakes. Mostly she was a self-absorbed whiny little brat. There were several moments where I just wanted to slap her. I don't know why anyone would want to be her friend.

To attempt to steal shoes?

She did have nice shoes. Her clothes, though? Hee! She often looked like a homeless clown.

[Brookie]

spordelia said:

kris said:

I know this has been mentioned, but I was just talking to a big Sex and the City fan and she said she was most like Carrie Bradshaw. I had to stop myself from gagging. I will say, at times, Carrie was a complex, somewhat sympathetic character who made mistakes. Mostly she was a self-absorbed whiny little brat. There were several moments where I just wanted to slap her. I don't know why anyone would want to be her friend.

To attempt to steal shoes?

This bears a post from the board's Official Shoe Hag. Carrie had some GREAT shoes, and she had several pairs of stinkers too. A couple of times, she came home in her 3.5" Choos and fell asleep with her designer clothing and $500 shoes on. Who does this, please? The first thing I do is remove my shoes upon entering my home.

I wanted to slap her when she let Big go. I don't care what he did, he was the hunkiest thing going and it wrecked my show viewing!

[Laira]

Dr Temprence Brennen (Bones) from the television show Bones. What. An. Arrogent. Bitch

Is there room for me at the Bones hate table? The character is such a ridiculous Mary Sue. Oh she's so smart! But she doesn't know about pop culture (her fatal sue 'flaw') - just ignore that fact she looks like a model. She can kick ass - just ignore that she's built like a twig.

I wish FOX would wise up and realize that David Boreanaz makes the show and send Bones off on an extended book tour or recast the role.

[huntergrayson]

Aww, I like Barney on HIMYM - but if you're referring to the NPH is a flaming homosexual part, then yes. The lead, however? Annoys me to no end. This season isn't as bad, but I wanted to punch him in the face on a regular basis last year.

Please, for the love of god, no more Susan on Desperate Housewives. Okay, Teri had a "comeback" and that's great, but having her be clumsy is so beyond tired and seriously, when Eva Longoria can act circles around you? It's time to get off my TV. She's just so needy. She's like Jessica Simpson, made fictional.

[kostgard]

laira said:

Dr Temprence Brennen (Bones) from the television show Bones. What. An. Arrogent. Bitch

Is there room for me at the Bones hate table? The character is such a ridiculous Mary Sue. Oh she's so smart! But she doesn't know about pop culture (her fatal sue 'flaw') - just ignore that fact she looks like a model. She can kick ass - just ignore that she's built like a twig.

I wish FOX would wise up and realize that David Boreanaz makes the show and send Bones off on an extended book tour or recast the role.

Oh, God, has she not gotten any better? I stopped watching that show after about the first four or five episodes last season because I absolutely could NOT stand Bones. I wondered if they had "fixed" her character, but it sounds like they haven't.

And yes, she is the ultimate "Mary Sue" character: She's beautiful but doesn't know it - but boy howdy, everyone else does. She travels to a small town in the Pacific Northwest and all the men are on her like white on rice. She doesn't know anything about pop culture (her catchphrase being "I don't know what that means"), yet she's always decked out in the latest fashions. She's apparently a martial arts expert, since in the episodes I saw, she would beat up about three people per episode. Yep, she just basically ran around beating people up (including airport security personnel just doing their job) and everyone was completely cool with that even though she isn't actually a cop or anything like that.

And then the characteristics that really stuck in my craw - another of Bones' "flaws" is that she can not relate to people. She only understands the dead people she examines as part of her job. Yet, she was a best-selling novelist. No, she did not write the definitive work on forensic anthropology - she writes a series of thrillers which require crafting compelling characters with interests and motivations and interesting relationships with each other - all the stuff that Bones supposedly doesn't understand. And then the really stupid part -- because she is a best-selling author she has a buttload of money, but she has absolutely no idea how much. She just hands it all over to her accountant and lets him worry about it. I was almost praying that the guy is ripping her off.

I really wanted to like the show because I liked David Boreanaz's character, but Bones just makes me want to punch somebody so I had to give it up.