Which tv characters were so bad they ruined shows for you.

[EachandEveryone]

Inspired by the article in today’s Guardian the comments are quite good as there’s so
many.

mine would be the Moon family but not Daphne.

i can’t even speak about Che

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/04/from-emily-in-friends-to-che-diaz-the-tv-characters-so-bad-that-they-ruined-shows

Carl from The Walking Dead! Irritating little swine.

Ross is the best character by miles. He has all the funniest parts- the bad tan, the sandwhich, the pants made from paste. David Schwimmer is a fantastic actor.

On Eastenders there is an extra who works on a stall in the market you also see her walking backwards and forwards in scenes , silently chatting to other extras in the cafe & pub . It's got ridiculous how much you see her .
We now play spot the extra on it .

Oooh, but I love to hate her as Soph in Peep Show!

Hope McRea in Virgin River

To be fair I can't stand most of them but dislike her the most!

Ooh I forgot Logan and all his rich pals in Gilmore Girls. They grated on me so hard I almost gave up, but then so did Rory, and on a recent rewatch, Lorelai too.

I kind of dislike the actress in everything. Not sure why. I loved her mum in One Foot in the Grave but for some unknown reason I can't take to her.

Lasagna Lynch in the recent Day of the Jackal with Eddie Redmayne. He was outstanding, she was terrible - awful acting and terrible casting. Thank goodness they killed her off at the end.

The older I get the more I sympathise with Emily. Her daughter and grand daughter are insufferable and her husband keeps rolling his eyes.

It's funny how the same character can come across so differently to different people. I find Ross, and Rachel, to be entitled, arrogant and rude. They deserve each other.

I couldn’t stand Phoebe in friends!

Any character played by Stephen Fry makes me turn off immediately. He ruins everything he is in.

I was thrilled to see that all of the old Neighbours episodes are now on YouTube. Starting from the beginning. I'm now up to what I feel was the best era 1986/87/88 and I'm shocked to see how crap Scott Robinson was. I adored him back then, thought he was the best thing ever but Jason Ds acting is pretty terrible. I still love him though. The rest are as good as I remember though, Charlene, Madge, Harold, Paul, Gail etc

Yes, she was the weak link.

I’ve just watched The Assassin (New Keeley Hawes thing on Prime) and I couldn’t bear her son, played by Freddie Highmore (the former child star) - he ruined the whole show with his crap acting.

It's funny how the actress (Lisa Kudrow) was the oldest of all back then but has aged by far the best

I was coming here to say this.

And David Spade’s character in 8 Simple Rules after John Ritter sadly died.

This “weird cousin” thing after another character leaving (for whatever reason) seems to annoy me.

Yeah, Sue was my favourite as I was a sensible and bossy child.

Michelle Keegan as the military medic.
She's dreadful in everything tbf.

Did you watch the year in the life episodes?. They weren’t good. I quite liked Logan though.

Emily in Friends, ruined every episode she was in for me.

She turned really unpleasant if I remember rightly. I think I started to feel sorry for Niles (so long ago now I can’t remember the details) but they pretty much turned her into a harridan.

She seemed like such a pointless character.

No !!!! the MY SANDWICH, Ross the divorcer, Marcel , we were on a break, Mississippily and dating a college student were all the least funny parts of friends imo. Chandler and most of the guest stars were the best bits. Infact Eddie the crazy room mate was the funniest episode of friends by far oh and the hot coffee guy - maybe Adam sandler? And Robin Williams and Billy crystal.

OMG yes. What was she for?