Characters added late to a sitcom that the writers love that you hate.

[Absorb the anus burn]

The babies / children in anything... [nb]First Born in The Biederbeck Connection excepted.[/nb]

[JamesTC]

The sauna lady in The Brittas Empire Series 6.

[PowerButchi]

Lucky in King of the Hill.

[Mr Banlon]

Ted McGinley in Happy Days
Ted McGinley in Married With Children

[DrGreggles]

Ted McGinley in Happy Days
Ted McGinley in Married With Children

He has his own page on Jump The Shark.

[evilcommiedictator]

Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

What tasty bait.

[pupshaw]

Pebbles and Bam Bam

[Seagullsim]

Cassandra

Damien is worse. That ridiculous cod-Jamaican accent makes the later episodes unwatchable.

[lankyguy95]

Damien is worse. That ridiculous cod-Jamaican accent makes the later episodes unwatchable.

As far as I'm concerned those episodes don't exist.

[neveragain]

Ted McGinley in Married With Children

Jefferson is a much funnier character than Steve. Nothing against the other guy's performance, J just gets more laughs.

I also enjoyed John Thompson's baffled barman in MBB. Scruffy Ken the better character of the two there though.

[Utter Shit]

John Thompson in Men Behaving Badly

Whaaaaat he was great!

[Lungpuddle]

Whaaaaat he was great!

John Thomson is great, and his performance as Ken is great, but I don't think he fits into the show all that well, especially compared to Les.

[KennyMonster]

The babies / children in anything... [nb]First Born in The Biederbeck Connection excepted.[/nb]

The worst example of this is when the newborn child was introduced in The Omen series of films.

Yes the child did allow for a lot of slapstick and pratfalls to be introduced to the plot, but on the whole, I found those bits to be a bit gruesome rather than funny.

[neveragain]

Whoops. Pardon me.

[notjosh]

Sounds like I'm alone in thinking Zooey Deschanel in New Girl is a brilliant comic performance. Twee of course, but in a self-aware and charming fashion. I like comedy actors who build lots of unique tics and unusual rhythms into their characters (Gervais in The Office or either of the leads in Spaced are others that I like) and I think she has created a really well-defined and controlled comic persona.

[thecuriousorange]

Kier Starmer

[Jerzy Bondov]

I will defend just about any aspect of New Girl. I think it's great and has joined Seinfeld and classic The Simpsons in my 'just bang an episode on for a guaranteed good time' list. I'll happily stand with notjosh and say that Deschanel is really very good. I'll also stand up for Megan Fox, whose character (Regan) is deliberately very different from Jess and harder to warm to. I don't think it would have worked to just have New Girl without a new girl while Zooey had a baby. Regan is also really important to the way Nick's character develops over the series, which might be its strongest feature. Plus, Megan Fox had her career torpedoed for calling out Hollywood sexism, so good on New Girl for giving her something interesting to do.

[samadriel]

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Wasn't keen on that child clone they introduced in Futurama.

Ooh, good call, Cuberd is awful. Even his nose is awful! Hermes' boring son didn't help, but at least he was just boring.

[johnlogan]

Came here to post Daphne's mum in Frasier, I can't stand her! The bizarrely accented brothers are all godawful too but they're only in a few episodes (and only Simon mostly) so it's not so bad, but she stank up entire seasons.

Another vote for this. First character I thought of when I saw the title. Genuinely inscrutably bad, bringing only misery and tedium to the show, including that whole family.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Ooh, good call, Cuberd is awful. Even his nose is awful!

He was supposed to be awful though, wasn't he? He was a send up of Wesley Crusher and that sort. Plus he wasn't in that many episodes.

[Thursday]

I will defend just about any aspect of New Girl. I think it's great and has joined Seinfeld and classic The Simpsons in my 'just bang an episode on for a guaranteed good time' list. I'll happily stand with notjosh and say that Deschanel is really very good. I'll also stand up for Megan Fox, whose character (Regan) is deliberately very different from Jess and harder to warm to. I don't think it would have worked to just have New Girl without a new girl while Zooey had a baby. Regan is also really important to the way Nick's character develops over the series, which might be its strongest feature. Plus, Megan Fox had her career torpedoed for calling out Hollywood sexism, so good on New Girl for giving her something interesting to do.

Haha you fancy them. You want to kiss them!

[Jerzy Bondov]

I do yeah

[Jittlebags]

The sauna lady in The Brittas Empire Series 6.

The baby in the desk drawer. He/she was a proper tw*t.

[Mr Trumpet]

Speaking of Frasier - they gradually introduced more and more of his colleagues and they tended towards being rubbish. Bulldog was a one-note character (although the actor was pretty good), Kenny was dull, Noel was boring. Gil was great obviously.

[samadriel]

He was supposed to be awful though, wasn't he? He was a send up of Wesley Crusher and that sort. Plus he wasn't in that many episodes.

Really? God, it felt like forever. Didn't help that he was intentionally awful, I find that rarely does.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I can only remember three episodes (from the original run) off the top of my head, anyway. He certainly wasn't a character that the writers seemed to love - the main characters couldn't stand him either.

[Ignatius_S]

I can only remember three episodes (from the original run) off the top of my head, anyway. He certainly wasn't a character that the writers seemed to love - the main characters couldn't stand him either.

A few more, but you're dead right, Cubert was in far less of the show than most would think.

The writers lost confidence in what they were trying to do with Cubert and think that's why he became more like a regular kind - in an episode like Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV thought he worked relatively well.

*edit* I meant kid!

[Ignatius_S]

Speaking of Frasier - they gradually introduced more and more of his colleagues and they tended towards being rubbish. Bulldog was a one-note character (although the actor was pretty good), Kenny was dull, Noel was boring. Gil was great obviously.

Pretty sure most of those were introduced in the first season - I was watching a few episodes recently and sure that Bulldog, Gill and Noel featured. I think I would really call all recurring characters. Not a huge depth to them to be sure, but I was particularly fond of Gill and Bulldog.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I would agree that Cubert is not as entertainingly antagonistic as Mom or Zapp Brannigan.