Beloved characters that weren't/aren't to you?

[ohiosmith]

Lucy Ricardo

Even as a kid I thought she was a thoroughly despicable person.

[hifiguy]

1. Mickey Mouse.

For some reason I always hated the gormless little twit with an undying passion, even when I was a small boy. The irritating voice, the sheer gutlessness of his character and lack of anything resembling a personality set my teeth on edge from day one.

I was, am, and always will be a Bugs Bunny and Popeye kind of guy.

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. Mickey Mouse was OK in the Sorcerer's Apprentice

[Neoma]

4. Ah, childhood memories.

[Punkingal]

6. Thank you!

I never liked him, or any of the Disney gang.

LOVE Bugs and company!

[ohiosmith]

7. Bugs is the man,...er rabbit!

[Tom Ripley]

12. My little sister and I both thought Mickey was a tool

We were also into Bugs, Popeye, Daffy, and Sylvester

[SoDesuKa]

56. Mice Are Vermin

I've sometimes wondered what the members of the Mickey Mouse Club really thought about mice. There they were, dressing up in mouse ears and pretending to be great fans of Mickey . . . but what if Mickey got loose in the studio? Betcha Roy would step on him!
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What was he doing there?
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[Chan790]

2. Elizabeth Bennet.

Unbearable unlikable whiner.

Edit: No, Jo Bennett was the character played by Kathy Bates on The Office. I liked her.

[ohiosmith]

5. Absolutely!

[femmocrat]

8. Carol Burnett.

She seems like a very nice person, but I could never stand her over-the-top skits with all the mugging and hamming it up. It used to annoy me that she always had to sing with whomever was guesting on her show. She can't sing; she yells. And that "Tarzan" yodel that everyone thinks is so hysterical is just idiotic, IMO.

I used to watch her show, but it seemed to be all about HER all the time.

I was never a big fan of Lucy either. Probably for the same reasons I don't care for Carol Burnett. Everything was overly exaggerated even her hair and makeup!

[ohiosmith]

11. Agreed!

[RZM]

9. Jim from 'The Office'

Always struck me as kind of a dick.

[ohiosmith]

14. Yep!

[Tom Ripley]

10. The Little Tramp

[ohiosmith]

23. And,...a total prick in real life.

[Tom Ripley]

13. Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael had a real drag queen aspect

[ohiosmith]

32. Totally over the top.

[Enrique]

15. Ferris Bueller

typical annoying Cubs fan.

[mucifer]

22. Ever since that movie came out when I was a kid I hated it. Also, I am a Cubs fan.

That kid was way too much spoiled brat for me.

[ChazII]

38. Glad to know that I

am not the only one who feels that way.

[ohiosmith]

33. A completely obnoxious dick wad.

[mykpart]

49. My son referred to him as

Ferris Butthole.

[frogmarch]

16. Jackie Gleason

in The Honeymooners.

I loved Art Carney, though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Jackie Gleason in anything

His variety show wasn't any better.

[frogmarch]

21. I don't think I ever

saw him in anything else, and I saw "The Honeymooners" just a few times. I liked Art Carney, and that's the only reason I watched it at all.

"To the moon, Alice!"

[ohiosmith]

24. He was great in The Hustler, and brilliant in Gigot and Soldier in the Rain.

[frogmarch]

26. I don't remember seeing any of those

movies. I might have avoided them because he was in them. If I ever have a chance to see them, I will, and I'll see if I agree with you that he's brilliant in them.

[ohiosmith]

27. Make an effort! I don't think you'll be disappointed.

[ohiosmith]

28. And, Requiem for a Heavyweight.

[frogmarch]

29. Will do. Now I am

curious!

[Wounded Bear]

43. Gleason was pretty good with Hanks in "Nothing in Common"

Quite the father/son story if anyone is interested.

Well played.

[Tom Ripley]

40. I couldn't stand The Honeymooners (except for Art Carney), but I liked almost everything else that

Gleason did;
The Reginald Van Gleason sketches, The Poor Soul, his physical comedy (incredible physical grace for a big man),
his dramatic film roles

Personally, he was a real heel when he teamed up with Anita Bryant and organized a youth decency rally in response to the Doors infamous Miami gig.

[4th law of robotics]

17. Ditto

that's who immediately came to mind when I clicked on this thread.

I don't know, something about her just grated with me.

[kwassa]

19. Mary Tyler Moore

She was so perky. I hate perky.

[mysuzuki2]

20. And don't forget, she had spunk.

Mr. Grant hated spunk.

[hifiguy]

46. Sorry, Mary Richards was delicious.

When I was 17 I wanted her to be my girlfriend and teach me about sex. Yum, yum, yum.

[ohiosmith]

58. Sorry dude! I "knew" her when she was Laura Petrie!

[kwassa]

59. and Laura didn't have sex, nosireee!

[nolabear]

25. Bambi. I was totally on Godzilla's side.

[ohiosmith]

34. Down with that! And do not get me started on Thumper!

[Lionel Mandrake]

42. Whadya mean? She was hot!

[GoCubsGo]

30. I didn't consider her to be despicable.

But, I never cared for her, and I don't get all the gushy nostalgia over her show. She was more annoying than anything. I never cared for Mickey Mouse or any of the other Disney characters, either. I'm more of a Jay Ward (Bullwinkle, etc.) and Looney Tunes fan.

[ohiosmith]

35. Despicable because she was lying, conniving and thieving.

[texanwitch]

31. I never like the Lucy show.

I quess it was the why she was treated like a little kid by Ricky.

I never really thought she was that funny.

It was the 50's.

[ohiosmith]

36. True!

[one_voice]

37. My granny kinda looked like....

Lucille Ball.

[ohiosmith]

57. She must have been a good looking lady.

[Jamaal510]

39. Charizard and Ash Ketchum from Pokemon.

Ash is an imbecile who uses Electric-type attacks from his Pikachu against Rhydons, and always gets lucky and wins in tight battles despite having bad type match ups and unevolved Pokemon. And he always acts surprised whenever Team Rocket shows up, even though they appear almost every episode. Charizard is an overrated Pokemon, and its stats in the game itself are not up to the hype it has been experiencing. I think that so many other Pokefans get an orgasm over its draconic image and how Ash's Charizard acts like a badass in the anime, but I don't see what's so special about it besides that. Its special attack and speed are average, while it is pretty frail in terms of physical defense and special defense.

I also have never really cared for Stan Marsh from South Park. The show sort of treats him as the leader out of the 4 boys, but he's not as funny as the other 3. And he's the main one who does the annoying preachy scenes at the end of almost every SP episode (the "you know, I learned something..." scenes).

[trackfan]

41. Hawkeye Pierce

I couldn't stand that character.

[Populist_Prole]

45. I didn't hate that character but it did annoy me very often

Too much "over joking". I mean he was funny enough and there was enough humor in the situation and how the cast played well off one another. He didn't have to try to inject a smartass comment into every exchange other that when he's being preachily anti-war. I found myself snorting ENOUGH!! sometimes with the forced humor.

[kurtzapril4]

52. Trying and failing....

to be Groucho Marx.

[Populist_Prole]

44. Yeah Lucy was a selfish scheming psycho in 'I Love Lucy'

I love the show but even when I was a kid I thought she overplayed the "I want to get into show business" meme. It seemed to be the most common plot angle to every episode. I was also taken the way her character was so determined to break into show business that she would do things that would absolutely torpedo Ricky's career ( and by extension, their livelihoods ) if the situations happened in real life.

[eppur_se_muova]

47. Kramer from Seinfeld.

If only he had been funny, it might have been different.

[Tabasco_Dave]

48. Daren Stevens from bewitched

Endera was right about him. Samantha was a talented witch who could have given the family A rich adventurous life but he only wanted her to be housewife and suppress her powers. He also looked like a chimpanzee. I also hated all of the Flintstones.

[mykpart]

50. Punky Brewster.

Couldn't understand how the show stayed on the air.

Doris Day. Gag!

Bob Hope. Yeah, I know he entertained the troops, but he got it all on film and exploited the hell out of it.

Danny Kaye.

[Systematic Chaos]

51. Carol Channing, target of my mockery since before I was even in Kindergarten.

OMFG but how did I piss off my parents running around the house and making fun of this the first time I heard it!

[raccoon]

55. I can't stand her either. How the heck did SHE become famous? I just find

her very annoying.

[texanwitch]

62. I forgot about her.

I didn't like her back when I was a little kid.

The voice, the voice.

[kurtzapril4]

53. Off the top of my head....

Garrison Keillor....dude, quit trying to sing. You can't. And you're smarmy and smug. And a dick.
Jerry Seinfeld and the whole cast of that stupid show. Wow, a show about a bunch of amoral people! HI-Larious!

[SoDesuKa]

54. Jerry Lewis

Yup. Professor Jerry Lewis of the University of Southern California. Never cared for any of Jerry Lewis' incarnations:

• Wacky kid in the Dean Martin movies
• Serious, dramatic Jerry Lewis; or
• The emcee of the MDA telethon

ALL of these characters were annoying. [center]


The world's least funny comedian[/center]

[blue neen]

60. Benny Hill.

My dad loved that show and would laugh himself silly...I just never got the humor there!

[Generic Brad]

61. The cast of "Friends"

Those self absorbed a-holes.

[solara]

63. I have quite a few

Jerry Lewis.. I just never got why he was such a big deal

Captain Kangaroo ..He always gave me the creeps, even when I was pretty young

Larry Hagman - Dallas

Tim Russert -Meet The Press

Mary Tyler Moore - In any of her shows

Barbara Walters - View

Oprah Winfrey - In general

[LibDemAlways]

64. Bob Hope.....I'll admit he put together shows to

entertain the troops. But, he turned those shows into tv specials and made plenty of $$ off them. I don't think he was nearly the humanitarian he was made out to be.