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Old 03-14-2021, 12:37 AM   #1
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Default List your Top 5 Worst sitcom characters of all Time from 5 sitcoms you like

Here is my 5

1. Gloria from All in the Family.........too immature for her age

2. Mrs DrunkenTuck in Maude..........always drunk and disrespectful

3. Potsie on Happy Days...........Nerdy and annoying

4. Cindy on Three's Company...........Clumsy and stupid

5. Vera on Alice...............Too many words to list but NUTZO
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Tough one, but good topic!

Kelly from The Facts of Life
Newman from Seinfeld
Urkel
Robin Colcord from Cheers
Susan from Friends
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Kelly from The Facts of Life
Newman from Seinfeld
Urkel
Robin Colcord from Cheers
Susan from Friends


Yes susan was annoying
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Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks
Nurse Kealani Kellye on M*A*S*H*
Grandpa Collins on The Bob Cummings Show
Homer Bedloe on Petticoat Junction
John Burns on Taxi (Season 1)
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Ross from Friends and Mike from All in The Family are the worst characters I've seen in sitcoms. Ross is whiny and childish. Mike likes to mooch, criticize others, and feel superior to everyone else. They both bring the quality down from the shows they're in. I rarely rewatch Friends anymore because of how bad Ross is and Mike's ego trip is making it hard to watch all of All in The Family for the first time. The last episode I watched was The Games Bunkers Play and it's by far the worst Mike episode yet. Even Edith was fed up with Mike and she likes everybody. I can't think of any others who are as bad as these two.
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Urkel from Family Matters………I didn’t mind him in the first four seasons but his eventual overexposure and obsession with harassing The Winslow Family, especially Carl and Laura and his annoying, unrealistic, squealing, high pitch voice in the later seasons was too much for me and he’s the main reason I don’t watch later seasons of Family Matters. Don’t even get me started on his cheesy inventions, and his alter egos, who the hell is “Stephan Urquelle”? And the show ends with this annoying moron living in The Winslows house and being friends with them and winning over Laura after years of harassment??!!

Blanche Devereux from The Golden Girls………She was a selfish, hypocritical, harassing, self centered slut. I like how she felt uncomfortable when the dean was sexually harassing her in Season 1 but all through the show she’s harassing and chasing after men, which is often unwanted. She took numberless amounts of Rose’s, and especially Dorothy’s boyfriends. She completely disowned and was disrespectful towards her younger brother, Clayton, just because he was gay and acted as if he wasn’t human and rejected a man and made a big deal out of it just because he was wheelchair bound. She embarrassed herself at The Rusty Anchor and tried to steal the spotlight from Dorothy because she was jealous and envious of Dorothy getting all the attention from the men. Blanche babysitted her daughter Rebecca’s daughter, Aurora, and passed her off as her own just for some younger man. Blanche had her moments but some of the stuff she did throughout the show were just sick.

Terri Alden from Three’s Company………I hardly have to explain. Watch an episode of Three’s Company from Seasons 6-8. She was so boring, dull, dry, uninteresting, and pointless.

Cindy Snow from Three’s Company………I kinda like Cindy but I can only take her in small doses so I’m glad her duration as a regular was only for a season (only to be replaced by TERRI). Sometimes it was like she needed help. She tripped over everything and was clumsy and klutzy, wore wacky hairstyles that didn’t suit her sometimes, and would get in someone’s face and make dumb facial expressions and faces.

Balderman Davis from Good Times………the man was a lying, conniving, two timing weasel. He would always pester The Evans and threaten to evict them and blackmail them. But in the end he knew damn well they couldn’t afford to be evicted and forced them to stay in the ghetto even longer. He helped The Evans in no way. The only times he wouldn’t pester The Evans was when James was alive because he and James were good buddies.
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1. Ray Romano- Everybody Loves Raymond. He makes it to #1 since Ray is the main character who was on the whole show. Supporting cast is fantastic, but Ray is such a whiny baby.

2. Billy on Head of the Class- Billy Connolly is a horrible actor here, a huge downgrade from Howard Hesseman. At least he was only on one season though.

3. T.J. on Head of the Class- such a nasty and rude person. And what an insult to the true geniuses that they made someone who was in remedial several years valedictorian at the end.

4. Sam and Maggie on Diff'rent Strokes- Show is basically unwatchable after they came. Danny Cooksey especially is really annoying.

5. Lisette on Night Court- Her gasping before starting everything she says is irritating.

6. Alex on Wings- Acting of all the other regulars runs circles around Farrah Forke.

7. Reverend Tim Tom on The Middle and Pastor Jeff on Young Sheldon- I hate sacrilegious depictions of pastors.

8. Andy on According to Jim- Show would be a lot better without this creeper.

9. Steve and Barbara on Hazel- CBS was idiots getting rid of George and Dorothy for these jokers. If George and Dorothy had remained, Hazel probably would have been popular enough for a season 6.

10. Jenny Piccalo on Happy Days- She should have remained an unseen character.
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From Friends, I would have chosen Janice instead. Remember her? ("Oh! My! God!!")
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Urkel from Family Matters………I didn’t mind him in the first four seasons but his eventual overexposure and obsession with harassing The Winslow Family, especially Carl and Laura and his annoying, unrealistic, squealing, high pitch voice in the later seasons was too much for me and he’s the main reason I don’t watch later seasons of Family Matters. Don’t even get me started on his cheesy inventions, and his alter egos, who the hell is “Stephan Urquelle”? And the show ends with this annoying moron living in The Winslows house and being friends with them and winning over Laura after years of harassment??!!
Yeah, as the years went along, it got worse and worse. Had they kept him as a side player, it would have been much better. But he became the main character.
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From Friends, I would have chosen Janice instead. Remember her? ("Oh! My! God!!")
The thing about Janice is that she was supposed to irritate the other characters; that's what made her bits funny. And I personally still find this line hilarious: "I'll write you every day. ...15 Yemen Road, Yemen."
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2. Billy on Head of the Class- Billy Connolly is a horrible actor here, a huge downgrade from Howard Hesseman. At least he was only on one season though.
Another really good pick. After the first few episodes, I don't think I even watched that final season. Billy was terrible!
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Ross from Friends and Mike from All in The Family are the worst characters I've seen in sitcoms. Ross is whiny and childish. Mike likes to mooch, criticize others, and feel superior to everyone else. They both bring the quality down from the shows they're in. I rarely rewatch Friends anymore because of how bad Ross is
I don't mind Ross so much in the earlier years, but in the later years, both he and Monica became caricatures of themselves. When Ross started screaming about his sandwich, I wanted to slap the guy.
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Stealing a few from above, excellent pick on Ray Barone/Ray Romano!

Stealing with some modification, Mary Ann Mobley's version of Maggie from Diff'rent Strokes. By this point the show was on life support anyway, but Mary Ann was a bad choice to replace Dixie Carter in the Maggie role.

But the BEST pick is Ricky from Partridge Family. He was so bad they had to dump him after a few episodes. He and the bowl for his haircut were GONE! And as a parting shot, who in the world thought this kid could sing?
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Ross from Friends and Mike from All in The Family are the worst characters I've seen in sitcoms. Ross is whiny and childish. Mike likes to mooch, criticize others, and feel superior to everyone else. They both bring the quality down from the shows they're in. I rarely rewatch Friends anymore because of how bad Ross is and Mike's ego trip is making it hard to watch all of All in The Family for the first time. The last episode I watched was The Games Bunkers Play and it's by far the worst Mike episode yet. Even Edith was fed up with Mike and she likes everybody. I can't think of any others who are as bad as these two.

Chandler seemed to annoy me more
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