25 Great Characters on TV Shows You Hate

Help free him/her from this terrible box!

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You can't help but feel bad for these actors. If an actor does one bad movie, sure it might be a set back, but there's always the next one. If a bad TV show takes off, an actor could be trapped for a decade anchoring a CBS prime-time comedy block.

Awards season rightfully celebrate great actors on great shows, but how much harder is it to pull off a quality performance when Matt Weiner or Vince Gilligan wouldn't touch your writers room with a ten foot pole? We wanted to take a minute to salute the unsung heroes of television that hold it down as cliched writing and hackneyed plotting threaten at every turn.

Here are 25 Great Characters on TV Shows You Hate.

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Written by Brenden Gallagher (@muddycreekU

Flavor Flav, Flavor of Love

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Ivy Lynn, Smash

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Morgan Tookers, The Mindy Project

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Spence Olchin, King of Queens

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Molly Flynn, Mike and Molly

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Emily Gilchrest, 1600 Penn

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Sarah Reeves Merrin, Time of Your Life

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Cleveland Brown, The Cleveland Show

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Pauly D, Jersey Shore

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Sherlock Holmes, Elementary

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Dr. Joe Carroll, The Following

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Berta, Two and a Half Men

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Will McAvoy, The Newsroom

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Holder, The Killing

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Wilson, Home Improvement

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Rosie Pierri, Real Housewives of New Jersey

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Bryan Collins, The New Normal

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Mike Heck, The Middle

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Detective Stabler and Detective Benson, Law and Order: SVU

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Ava Alexander, Up All Night

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Ari Gold, Entourage

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Johnny "Drama" Chase, Entourage

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Max Black, Two Broke Girls

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Burt Hummel, Glee

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Lafayette Reynolds, True Blood

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