Barney, from How I Met Your Mother
Legendarily annoying. What began in series 1 as a joke 'Look it's Doogie Howser, an out gay person, as a total womanizer!' has now detteriorated into a lazy and uninteresting and overacted nightmare of forced and immature jokes.
Keeping on a Friends theme, Ross and Rachel were equally annoying at times. Ross was obsessive and awkward, and just didn't fit with the other five, although he could be a nice guy. Rachel was whiney and self-centred, and I can't remember a time she did something nice for someone else from her own initiative. To be honest, in the last episode, I was hoping she didn't get off the bloody plane.
Will Schuester and Rachel Berry, from Glee
When Glee began, Mr. Schue was a well-meaning guy stuck in a bad marriage who'd never quite made it and who found new purpose guiding the kids in the glee club. But no character has suffered more from Glee's whiplashing plot and overabundance of characters than Mr. Schue, who has been reduced to uttering clichés while making earnest faces: "I know you can do it!" "I'm so proud of you!" "That's not what we're about!" I wouldn't miss him. Rachel is the girl you can't stand at school. The Glee writers may have gone out of their way to make the overachieving perfectionist diva look real, but at the end of the day, she’s still the kid at the front of the classroom, furiously waving her hand in the air and shouting, “Me, me, me!”
Lady Edith Crawley, from Downton Abbey
Poor, plain Edith's parents seem convinced she'll end up an old maid. Mary's horrible to her, Sybill's the fun one, and Edith only gets whiney lines. But then she writes a letter to the freaking Turkish Ambassador to call her sister a slut and really, sad middle-sister syndrome or not, that's just unforgivable.
I think too many not real people annoy me...
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