25 TV Characters Who Never Won an Emmy But Should Have

Welcome to the biggest snub club.

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With all the Monday morning quarterbacking after the announcement of the Emmy nominations these days, it is almost as great an honor to be considered the biggest snub as it is to take home a statue. Though our obsession with overlooked performances has blossomed thanks to the Internet, Emmy snubs are nothing new. Don't get too heartbroken for Tatiana Maslany and Nick Offerman—some of the greatest television performances of all time never earned Emmy gold. Some of television's legendary leads never got to walk up to the podium (though, in some cases, their shows ran for over a decade). Several of your favorite television spouses were forced to watch their onscreen significant other win several awards as they watched from the seats.

Since the first Emmy statues were given out in 1949, overlooking genius has been a grand tradition of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and these are the most egregious errors in their storied history of snubbery. Here are 25 TV Characters Who Never Won An Emmy But Should Have.

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25. Hal, Malcolm in the Middle (FOX)

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24. Peg Bundy, Married... With Children (FOX)

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23. Ricky Ricardo, I Love Lucy (CBS)

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22. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

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21. Dick Loudon, Newhart (CBS)

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20. President Josiah Bartlett, The West Wing (NBC)

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19. Admiral William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi)

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18. Endora, Bewitched (ABC)

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17. Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy (FX)

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16. Peggy Olson, Mad Men (AMC)

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15. Matt Dillon, Gunsmoke (CBS)

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14. Sheriff Andy Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)

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13. Dr. Gregory House, House (FOX)

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12. Ralph Kramden, The Honeymooners (CBS)

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11. Dan Connor, Roseanne (ABC)

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10. Jessica Fletcher, Murder, She Wrote (CBS)

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9. Lorelai Gilmore, The Gilmore Girls (The WB; The CW)

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8. J.R. Ewing, Dallas (CBS)

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7. Al Swearengen, Deadwood (HBO)

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6. Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation (NBC)

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5. Michael Scott, The Office (NBC)

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4. George Costanza, Seinfeld (NBC)

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3. Omar Little, The Wire (HBO)

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2. Tami Taylor, Friday Night Lights (NBC, DirecTV)

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1. Don Draper, Mad Men (AMC)

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