Tonight, NBC's latest event series, The Slap, begins its eight episode run. It features a group of astoundingly boring characters embodying Peak Caucasity who are thrown for a life-altering loop that snowballs after one fateful barbecue. The trigger? An unruly kid with laughably new-age parents who have an allergy to discipline gets slapped by a guy with pretty apparent anger issues.
It's meant to be provocative, or at least spark a new guilty pleasure hate-watch movement, but it's inspired by a very real issue in today's society: Kids who, shall we say, need a little "course correction." Now, while we'd never condone physical "discipline" against children, it got us thinking: Some of the best TV shows are filled with fantastically annoying kids. If we had to reserve Zachary Quinto's five-finger open-hander for another TV brat, who should it go to? Here are ten worthy candidates.
1. DJ Conner on Roseanne
2. Angelica on Rugrats
3. Mark Taylor on Home Improvement
4. Randall on Recess
5. Matthew on Seinfeld "The Non-Fat Yogurt"
6. Dana Brody on Homeland
7. Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch
8. Anthony on The Twilight Zone "It's a Good Life"
9. AJ Soprano on The Sopranos
10. Joffrey Baratheon on Game of Thrones
Offense: Megalomaniac homicidal sociopath
Slappable moment: Too many to list
Yea, we know Tyrion got a couple good open-palms off on his shitbrick nephew. And now he's dead. But that's not enough to warrant an exclusion from this list, word to what's left in the Stark family (and the fact that he got off relatively easy in death). At least we'll always have this.