My vote goes hands down to Mitch Cooper. Absolutely couldn't stand the sight of the guy and all his self righteousness. I own the first 4 seasons on DVD (won't watch post Jock Ewing) and whenever Mitch's scenes come up, I fast forward right through them.
share1. Dandy Dandrich or whatever his name was. The old guy that Cliff befriended
2. Mitch Cooper
3. Mandy Winger
Honorable mention - Cliff Barnes
Al - Alicia
An - Andrew
Jo - Joseph
Be - Benjamin
"Dandy Dandrich or whatever his name was."
Harrison "Dandy" Dandridge.
Ken Kercheval(?) as Cliff Barnes was very difficult for me to watch. His mannerisms were distracting and he'd mumble most of his lines.
I could only feel pity for him because no matter what, he would always come up short (didn't like that either) next to old J.R. Ewing!
I think it added to Cliff....he was an awkward bumbler who contrasted the much more confident JR
share"Honorable mention - Cliff Barnes"
How can you watch the early seasons and not have complete sympathy for the guy? He got screwed over again and again by the Ewings, but even his own sister didn't have his back. You must be talking about the clown he became later on.
Jenna Wade and her daughter...to be fair, the daughter's acting did improve over time, but that's probably only because it had nowhere to go but up.
Formerly RIP_Matthew_Abaddon.
Jenna Wade and Mandy Winger. Both have really annoying monotone voices. Jenna was always moaning about something and always looked miserable. And Mandy Winger's
"Sue Eleen is still at Southfork" yada yada yada.
Used to drive me insane.
I would have loved to see Mandy at Southfork and see her treated badly by John Ross, she deserved that much more than poor Cally did. Cally was a hick but her heart was in the right place. Mandy Winger however was just an annoying bimbo. Casey Denault was always annoying.
Katherine Wentworth. Looks like a witch and sounds like a witch. I hated scenes with her in.
April is also annoying. When she went looking for info on the mob aka Joey Lombadi even after she was warned really irritated me. Also her jealousy over Bobby even talking to another woman.
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Jamie ewing got old and annoying REALLY FAST!
Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.
Prior to the dream season, I'd say Jenna Wade and her kid Charlie. Jenna was really just in the way of Pam and Bobby reuniting. Even though he was also in the way, I found Mark Graison a lot more tolerable and likable than Jenna. I could have lived with Pam and Mark ending up together (strangely in a way, they did if you think of the dream season as an alternate reality instead of a dream!), but Jenna and Charlie were intolerable! Once Mark "died" in late Season 7, Jenna's presence kind of stalled Bobby and Pam reuniting for a full other season until right before the dream season when they reunited before Bobby's "death". Then we had to live with a season of no Pam and Bobby due to the dream and Duffy being off the show. If Pam and Bobby reunite in early Season 7, I wonder if Duffy even leaves the show at that point, then maybe we could have had at least 3 full seasons of Pam and Bobby re-married (instead of 1) before Principal decided to leave.
After the dream season, I'd say Michelle Stevens! This chick was mondo annoying. She wasn't sexy with that tomboy haircut and those unflattering outfits and I found her voice cringeworthy to listen to. Even JR shot her down and that's saying something!
Pam hands down!! She didn't want Bobby but she also didn't want Bobby with no one else. She also complained way to much about having a baby talking about she needed a baby because of her identity. I don't know how Bobby put up with her for 6years and then remarried her.
shareI liked her in the beginning but then she got bitchy. why did she divorce him in the first place? it seemed so petty.
Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.
It was the battle over Ewing Oil between Bobby and JR that started the deterioration of Pam and Bobby's marriage. Remember that during the battle, Pam's mother Rebecca got heavily involved to try to stop JR since he had destroyed Cliff the prior season leading to Cliff's attempted suicide. Rebecca died in a plane crash when she tried to thwart one of JR's big deals. This led to Pam and Bobby's initial separation. Then during the separation, Pam and Bobby were getting back on good terms until Bobby needed the experimental drill bit from Wentworth Tool&Dye that could help Bobby's Canadian oil fields strike. Since Pam, Cliff, and Katherine were equal partners in that company, Bobby needed at least 2 votes for him getting the bit, so Katherine was 1 for, Cliff 1 against, and Pam was the swing vote. Pam basically decided her marriage on whether or not she decides that Bobby gets the bit. If she had decided against, she was actually going to stay with Bobby because she knew he would lose the battle to JR and she wanted Bobby to be free of Ewing Oil. But she voted for Bobby getting the bit because she didn't want to be responsible for him losing the battle. But because she knew he would probably win the battle and the battle caused so many problems in their marriage and Bobby would get Ewing Oil, causing even more problems in the future, she decided she couldn't stay with him. But even after all this, she still finally decided she loved Bobby too much to let him go, but then Katherine gave Bobby a false letter of Pam saying she wanted the divorce to go through, and so Bobby told Pam she could have her divorce before she could tell him she wanted to stay married.
shareMark Graison!!! Couldn't stand him.
shareYeah, me either. Wasn't a huge Bobby fan but I always wanted to see him punch the Mustache right in his face. Wasn't a fan of old buck tooth, Clayton Farlow either. Just a hot headed SOB in my opinion. Couldn't hold a candle to Jock on his best day and Jock's worst day. Whether or not Wes Parmalee was Jock or not will always be debated but in my opinion, whoever he was would've been ten times the husband to Ellie and a hundred times better for the show.
As an update to my original question and for those of you watched the new Dallas a couple years back, same question goes. To me, Cliff was far more annoying and evil in the new Dallas and the one that really got on my nerves was Elena, played by Jordana Brewster. Couldn't stand her. Oddly, I like Bobby more in this series than the original. He finally grew some balls and ruined Cliff. I didn't watch the final season because I thought the way the season before ended was a perfect time to end the show with Cliff in prison for life and the Ewings on top of the world. JR's dream. I thought they made a huge mistake doing another season and a whole season without Larry Hagman.
By the way, my two favorite characters ever on the show... Jock and JR Ewing. Bad to the Bone!!!!!!
On the new DALLAS, I'm definitely with you about Elena being annoying.
shareYou're a moron. If anyone should've ended up in jail for life, it's the Ewings. It's just mindboggling how anybody can watch this show and root for that egotistical, entitled, power-hungry family.
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