Although, I Didn’t Really Know What a Mojito Was Until Creepy Oliver Introduced Me
Author: Stacy21 Feb
Thirteen of the Most Annoying TV Characters Ever
- Rosalind Shays - L.A. Law: I loved this show in high school and college even though, in retrospect, it was probably way too adult for me. There’s a reason everyone in American cheered when she fell down that elevator shaft!
- Oliver Trask - The O.C.: Up until this point, the award for “Most Annoying Oliver” went to Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch. I still never quite understood why the producers of one of my favorite shows ever decided to go there with Oliver and Olivehis (hee) stupid neuroses and pathological lies.
- Ray Romano - Everybody Loves Raymond: I’m not sure which was the better scene on this show…Romano’s arm getting cut off (and Neela’s reaction) by the helicopter, or the helicopter falling out of the sky and squishing him. Oh wait, wrong Romano. Well, could still work for both.
- Carlton Banks - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Maybe it was the dancing. Maybe it was his oddly-shapen body. Maybe it was because this show was on when I was in college, when I was just annoyed in general.
- Lyla Garrity - Friday Night Lights: I loved Lyla the first season of FNL, but can’t stand her now. It is unclear to me why the producers decided to take her all Jesus-freak and high-and-mighty this season, but she’s just dull as dirt. When the tent revival she has sold her soul to packs up and leaves town, she could go with ‘em and I wouldn’t mind a bit, Itellyouwhut.
- Rhonda Volmer - Big Love: Ohhhhhhh this girl drives me completely insane! She’s troubled! She’s psychotic! She’s a child of the Lord! She’s a narcissist! She deserves whatever she gets!
- Harriet Hayes - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Take the Lyla Garrity argument, and flip it. I didn’t like Harriet’s character because I felt like Aaron Sorkin kept beating me over the head with the idea that Christians can be witty and funny and…gasp…tolerant! And then…Harriet had to talk about it…every flipping episode. Um, really? Then, as soon as Sorkin et. al. realized that wasn’t working for them and started to make Harriet more normal, Jordan had her baby and the show was cancelled. Sigh.
- Matt Fielding - Melrose Place: There’s a reason poor Doug Savant is still referred to as “Big Gay Matt” - ten years after Melrose Place ended. Melrose Place premiered back in the day when it was considered edgy to have a gay character on TV. The problem was, this was the wrong kind of gay. Matt was the kind of gay who couldn’t handle a steady relationship of his own, because he was too busy trying to marry and get green cards for Russian immigrants and their cute daughters. And of course, Matt was a social worker. Really? That’s all they had?
- Kelly Taylor - Beverly Hills, 90210: Rape victim (date and stranger), drug addict, cult member, shooting target, diet pill-popper, sexual harrassee, amnesiac, successful boutique owner and cute Alpha girl! You name it, it happened to her. I think the only thing someone didn’t do to Kelly was strap her to a circle, spin her around and throw knives at her. Then again, I think Dylan may have done that during one of his weird benders toward the end.
- Serena Southerlyn - Law & Order: {heavy sigh} Yes Serena, they fired you because you’re a lesbian.
- Merle “The Pearl” Stockwell - Eight is Enough: Yeah, this is a bit old school - but for a show I absolutely loved, I couldn’t stand Merle. Maybe it was because Sacramento didn’t really have a major league baseball team, and I just didn’t buy that he drove to San Francisco or Oakland for games. I didn’t get what Susan saw in him, and thought he was an idiot for agreeing to that silly double wedding with Steve and Janet.
- George Williams - Desperate Housewives: You have to admit…if you were Bree you would have just sat there and watched him die, too.
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11 Responses for "Although, I Didn’t Really Know What a Mojito Was Until Creepy Oliver Introduced Me"
LOL Ray Romano… and that was the reason why i never watched Everybody Loves Raymond… cuz i don’t!
L.A. Law was appointment TV for me back in the late 80s/early 90s. Although I didn’t applaud when Rosalind took the shortcut to the basement, I wasn’t shedding any tears either.
There is a rumor that the complete fourth season DVD set of 90210 will contain a deleted scene in which Kelly goes through a series of calamaties… one of which is dodging knives being thrown at her.
Oooh, yeah, Carlton from Fresh Prince. Annoying!
Ok, I agree with all of them, even though I actually love the actor’s that play a few of them.
Very funny list and great TT!
For what you wrote about Ray/Dr. Romano I am LOL. As for Raymond, I watched that show for the kooky in-laws. Couldn’t stand the two mains.
I was living in England when LA Law was current, and I think we were a few months behind the US in scheduling. One evening a friend from the US was visiting and the show was on, and Ms Shays appeared and he said “She’s still alive?” and that rather gave away a huge plot development. Mind you, falling down a lift shaft was abit ITT in my opinion.
I fond that Christian in Studio 60 utterly insufferable. I couldn’t understand why Bradley Whitford, or was it Matthew Perry, was so in love with her. I wanted to slap her upside the head.
The entire cast of Desperate Housewives is annoying! Probably no one more so that the Terri Hatcher character. I suspect the writers imagine that she is being adorable when she interferes in everyone’s lives and causes chaos. Wrong! Now, she could fall down an elevator shaft any time and I’d cheer!
I’ll admit that I would have watched George Williams die. And, I agree with Nicholas about the DH cast. I do watch it, but I have a love-hate relationship with everyone in the cast except Bree. Hmmmm … am I a psycho hose beast or is Bree?
My TT is pretty stank.
Did you see I now have my own domain, too?
I think they took Lyla down the path she is just to drive home how farking great a character Tim Riggins is. Also when I think that the tent revival thing is a common escape for when things go south on the homefront, and Lyla had a horrible year last year.
I was an LA Law addict!
And the whole Merle “The Pearl” (what kind of a nickname is that for an athlete anyway??) was stupid. They only did the marriage thing because “Susan” was preggers IRL and they couldn’t have an unwed mother on that wholesome show.
My boss looks and acts a lot like George. I even call him that on my blog. *shudders*
I only know three of the shows. I know LA Law. Was Rosalind the secretary? Arnie’s secretary? I didn’t think she was annoying at all! Seventh Heaven I know and Desperate Housewives. As the first character killed off on Desperate Housewives, I don’t remember him very well but you made me spit at my laptop screen with that comment!
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Of the shows on the list that I watched, I couldn’t agree with you more. But just to pick on Harriet Hayes, I really felt that she stuck out in that cast and her religiousness with Matthew Perry’s drug addiction clearly made them about as compatible as oil and water, so they had no chemistry whatsoever.