13 Creepiest Characters from Television Shows
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Television characters are as diverse as television show premises. But what always makes for good television is a good old-fashioned creepy character. This can either be a character accidentally, or purposefully made to unease viewers. In any case they are the characters for which lines are recited, and impressions are burned into our frontal lobes. Below is a list of the thirteen most prominent creepy characters in Television:
Alf – Alf
What need more be said by a voyeuristic garage-dweller with a strange fascination for cats? Even though it was typically laugh-tracked under the rug, one of Alf’s favorite fetishes was to barge in on a member of the Tanner Family while in a compromising situation – mostly, while they were in the bathroom. But even still, the US and much of the world was at one time mesmerized by this phallic-nosed alien to the point that merchandise bearing his likeness was ubiquitous – sold in market places as diverse as your local drugstore and Moroccan street markets. In this age of innocence, it was not uncommon for young children to sleep in a bed with not only Alf-themed sheets, but an Alf plush doll as well.
Joey Gladstone – Full House
Uncle Joey was like an asexual circus clown without the makeup and the large shoes. He would do funny voices and characters, ultimately in what seemed like an attempt to gain the trust of children.. Additionally, he lived in the attic, was occasionally employed, never dated, loved puppets, and always volunteered to babysit. If that’s not normal, what is?
T Bag – Prison Break
Most prison characters are screwed up in some way, but ‘Prison Break’s, T-Bag takes it to a whole new level. TV Guide called him, “… the creepiest character on TV.” And, when you understand this character’s back-story you understand why this is the case. As a native of the backwoods Conecuh County, Alabama, Theodore Bagwell (T Bag) was born of both incest and rape after his father sexually assaulted his Down syndrome-afflicted sister named Audrey. He was also molested by his father., to boot. This background predisposes his character’s willingness to lead the Alliance for Purity gang, and sexually prey upon younger inmates. Sorry you had to read this, but regardless, f@%&ing creepy!
Tobias Funke – Arrested Development
Aside from being a character in one of the best sitcoms of the 00’s, Tobias Funke (David Cross) is best appreciated from a distance. The reason for this is that his actions are hilarious, if they’re not directed towards you. Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) was the consummate object of Tobias’ affection, and was continually having to put up with Tobias’ homoerotic advances. Not that there is anything wrong with homoerotic advances, it just begins to get a little creepy when that person secretly snuggles with you in your sleep…and they are a “never nude”…and they are married to your sister.
Boner – Growing Pains
In the 1980s there was a popular show called, “Growing Pains”, which featured a character named, “Boner”. Subtle? In any case, this character was the best friend of Michael Seaver (Kirk Cameron), and this sex-addict was forcibly hitting on young women in virtually all of his scenes. Most people know someone like this, the guy who never grows up, and eventually becomes that weird uncle that noone lets their daughters get a ride home from soccer practice with.
Herbert – Family Guy
‘Family Guy’ is known for taking the inappropriate in American culture one step further. And Herbert (the old pedophile), is no exception. While toothless and unable to get around without the assistance of walker, this ambitious, old pedophile is consistently devising ways to put young boys in compromising situations. Sometimes this involves free back rubs, or popsicles (which are kept in the cellar). The only way this character is able to get away with the things he says is because he is animated.
Wilson – Home Improvement
“Howdy Neighbor!” It sure is interesting that Wilson always seemed to know more about the Taylor family than Tim did himself. Also, the show never revealed if Wilson was ever wearing anything other than his fishing hat.
Mel – Flight of the Conchords
Obviously this character was written to be creepy in that awkward funny kind of way, and because she is a girl no one takes offense. If Mel was a guy, most people would refer to him as “sexually aggressive”. The funniest thing about Mel’s character is that she does not stop hitting on the Conchords, even when they are together, and even when her husband is driving them all around – during which she sits in the back with Bret and Jermaine. But just like Funke (above), this type of character is best appreciated from a distance.
Mr. Belvedere – Mr. Belvedere
Here’s the basis for this show: Mr. Belvedere immigrates to the US and takes a job as the butler for an American middle class family. Anyone else see what’s wrong with this picture? Middle class … that’s right, what middle class family has a butler? It is never quite mentioned how Mr. Belvedere is compensated, but it is implied that he continues working this job out of the goodness of his heart. Also, what is not quite brought up during the life of this sitcom is the true nature of the relationship between this pencil-moustached British gentleman, and the Owens’ youngest boy, Wesley. In any case, ‘Mr. Belvedere’ was in 2001 made the official television show of NAMBLA.
Baby Sinclair – Dinosaurs
In the early 1990’s ABC featured a sitcom about a family of anthropomorphic dinosaurs including a pink baby that looked demonic. People were just waiting for this little creepy bastard’s head to start spinning and begin to start projectile vomiting all over his family. Unfortunately, this never happened. Eventually, dolls of the little dinosaur were produced, and due to the popularity of the show many children had to sleep with these things every night.
Creed – The Office
Creed has very shifty eyes, and you can’t trust anyone with shifty eyes. He always is continually stealing, buying people online and doing things typically associated with being a low-life. Furthermore, it seems Creed not only wears womens underwear, but he wears womens underwear that he stole from your sister. Yep, he’s that guy.
Balki Bartokomous – Perfect Strangers
One of the most popular sitcoms from the 1980’s was ‘Perfect Strangers’. This showed featured Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot) – from the fictional island of Mypos – living together in Chicago. The basic concept of the show was that Bartokomous was a creepy and naive immigrant, and Appleton was a neurotic misanthrope. While Bartokomos was strangely awkward during his interactions with women, it was his strange fascination for sheep and his dance of joy, that merit his placement on a definitive list of creepy television characters.
Darlene Connor – Roseanne
Don’t let this picture fool you. Behind this charming trailer trash facade, lies the and most unattractive and dysfunctional family in TV history. The creepiest of the lot, was Darlene Connor, played by actress Sara Gilbert. Extremely pale, awkward, everything-loathing; she was the epitome of the family member – the middle child – that simply does not fit in. What made viewers uneasy about her character is that, with each passing moment, she looked closer and closer to slitting everyone in the house’s throats, and setting the house ablaze.
Horace Bing – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Just look at this guy.
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On March 29th 2009, Refill Cartridges wrote:
What about Steve Erkle? He stalked an entire family.
On March 29th 2009, Damian wrote:
What about Mr. Rogers? U know, the really creepy guy that gave me goosebumps and nightmares….
On March 29th 2009, Melissa wrote:
“Uncle” Joey never lived in the attic. He originally lived in an alcove off the living room. Then when he pouted about not being part of the family, they remodeled the garage/basement (it went back and forth). Then (I’m a little fuzzy about the exact timeline on this part) Uncle Jesse remodeled the attic into an apartment for his new wife and took over the basement as a recording studio, so Joey got to sleep upstairs by the girls bedrooms.
Meanwhile, Darlene was not the creepiest Conner child. Oh, she was unhappy and didn’t quite fit in, but she couldn’t hold a candle to D.J. He spied on his sisters and neighbors while they changed; he kept a box of dismembered doll parts under his bed; in one episode, he was so abnormally fixated on his aunt and cousin she had to bar him from the house.
Someone who should have made your list is Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World. He had all the oddities of Wilson, with the added benefit of being so into the Matthews boys he followed them from junior high to high school… to college.
On March 29th 2009, Jay | Crazy Vibe wrote:
“Also, the show never revealed if Wilson was ever wearing anything other than his fishing hat.”
Not true. I saw an episode (maybe more) where Wilson was shown with Tim in his yard and we see him from head to toe. The only thing they never show is his mouth. Maybe he has on lipstick but yeah when I saw the title of this post…I figured Wilson might be on it.
Herbert from Family Guy is a certified weirdo.
On March 29th 2009, Lee wrote:
LOL…I love Herbert, but he’s so damn creepy! His voice is very amusing!
On March 30th 2009, James wrote:
Joey from Full House, did date. He dated a female comedian.
On March 30th 2009, morozco420 wrote:
That’s not a pic of Boner from Growing Pains….that was the other friend, can’t remember his name…but it’s not Boner, for sure…
On March 30th 2009, Ron wrote:
They forgot Vince the Sham Wow guy. That dude is creepy, and that is before he started punching hookers.
On March 30th 2009, Mike wrote:
@James
Not only did he date a female comedienne, but he also dated Danny’s sister in one episode, the zoo keeper.
Oddly enough, that was the only episode that featured that sister.
Continuity? Thy name is not Full House
On March 30th 2009, nutka wrote:
Re; Flight of the Conchords, the characters’ names are Bret and Jemaine (not Jermaine).
On March 30th 2009, one2love wrote:
My vote for #1 goes to Mel – Flight of the Conchords. She is a creep extraordinaire.
On March 30th 2009, Destruct wrote:
Total Fail! Not a Twin Peaks character on the whole list. Suck It!
On March 30th 2009, Tom wrote:
No Michael Emerson from Lost? Then you didn’t succeed in making a good list. Sorry, guys.
On March 30th 2009, Brady wrote:
ben from lost should top this list
On March 30th 2009, Rockwell wrote:
Perhaps a bit obscure for this list, but Hollis Green and his crew from Big Love are easily the creepiest characters I’ve ever seen on TV.
On March 30th 2009, James Hudnall wrote:
Ben from Lost, I concur. Also Schillinger from Oz and Marlow from The Wire.
On March 30th 2009, Vanitha wrote:
I think Ben Linus deserves mention.
On March 30th 2009, Josh wrote:
I think the whole McPoyle family from “It’s Always in Philadelphia” is creepy as hell.
On March 30th 2009, terafunker wrote:
I agree with Rockwell about Hollis Green from Big Love. Though, Roman and Albie Grant are both super creeps, too. I would also nominate Jenny from The L Word.
On March 30th 2009, Tvfan wrote:
I forget his name but the main character from the short-lived (but outstanding) show, “Profit” beats most folks on this list hands down.
- he climbs the corporate ladder by backstabbing and KILLING his co-workers without a shred of conscience
- At night he strips nude and sleeps in a cardboard box in his apartment that has a hole cut in the side of it where he can watch TV through. He does this because THAT’S HOW HE WAS RAISED AS A KID. Weeeeeiirrrddd…
On March 30th 2009, Scooby Doo wrote:
Where is The Creeper!?
On March 30th 2009, D. Carlson wrote:
Louie De Palma. Classic creep.
On March 30th 2009, cnp183 wrote:
hey, what about dexter morgan of showtime’s “Dexter”. he’s an extremely creepy cereal killer.
On March 30th 2009, Garg wrote:
I would’ve added the puppet-master guy from Heroes.
On March 30th 2009, Drew wrote:
what about glenn from mad men??
On March 31st 2009, Nick wrote:
I’ve seen a Home Improvement episode where they show wilson’s mouth! but the top half of his face is covered during that part, they never show his entire face from what i know though
On March 31st 2009, caine wrote:
and what aabout Jack Smatr?
On April 1st 2009, Kelly wrote:
HA T-bag…right on!
On April 1st 2009, Tara wrote:
That’s a pic of Eddie, not Boner.
On April 2nd 2009, jb wrote:
how about arthur from six feet under?
On April 2nd 2009, Liz wrote:
You obviously didn’t watch enough Full House or Home improvement.
There are several episodes where they show Wilson’s body but still manage to block out his mouth and there are other episodes where you see him in his entirety.
And as it’s been said Joey dated.
On April 3rd 2009, nicole wrote:
Umm….Hello?
Arnie from Pete and Pete!
On April 4th 2009, Sordida wrote:
Baby Sinclair’s head did spin completely around once. Which was then followed by him projectile vomiting. I recently rewatched that whole series, pretty sure that’s the episode where he turns 2.
On April 4th 2009, Xana wrote:
There are errors all over this thing. Yeah, Joey did date quite a few women, and he never lived in the attic. They showed Wilson from head to toe all the time. I never thought Darlene was creepy, but DJ was pretty weird, especially as he got older. This list seems really arbitrary.
On April 4th 2009, avisioncame wrote:
Classic group of programs here.
On April 5th 2009, whocakes wrote:
While I realize this is totally about personal opinion.. Alf was not creepy!!! he was awesome!!
Herbert should have been the first one on the list though.. hands down!
On April 7th 2009, Deskboy wrote:
Going way back here, but the freaking Dr Smith on Lost in Space creeped me out. You Generation Xers never had to see that in Black & White. Ohh!! (shudder)
On April 28th 2009, Thumbu wrote:
I think cousin Larry was infinitely creepier than Balki.
On May 5th 2009, Bill wrote:
T-Bag LOL
On May 22nd 2009, DREEM wrote:
I SAY….
#1 Mr.Bentley
#2 Sara Jessica Parker in Square Pegs
Honestly frighten me to this day.. very odd! haha
On July 20th 2009, Alan V. wrote:
What about Screech, Urkele, Berta of two and a half men, Pee Wee Herman, and Otis from Andy Griffith? Not to mention David Spade in Rules of Engagement. Then there was Don Knotts as the landlord in Three’s Company. Also there was Larry, Darryl and Darryl of Newhart. And If your adding Alf then might as well add Mr. Floppy of Unhappily Ever After and the balcony guys, Statler and Waldorf, from The Muppet Show. Not to mention Animal was creepy now that I think of it. Most shpw add creepy characters to add color to the show or to keep it alive as was the case with Flo in Alicie or arnold the pig in the Old Green Acres.
On July 20th 2009, Alan V. wrote:
Now that I think about Carla from Cheers could fit in this list as would Sydney on Melrose Place and Taylor Townsend on the O.C. There are plenty of off the wall characters that either do strange things or have no real purpose to the plot of the show or were put in to act goofy in quiet a few shows.
On July 20th 2009, Alan V. wrote:
Well since you added a character who revolved around a show in Mr. Belvedere….well then why not add Al Bundy or Lou Grant.
On October 7th 2009, Biggurl1965 wrote:
Herman Munster, his son – Eddie and his father, Grandpa were creepy characters to me when I used to watch reruns in the early 1970’s. I also can’t forget Gomez and Morticia Addams, who also had two feature length movies made about their family!
On November 8th 2009, Nick wrote:
OH MY GOD! Arnie from Pete and Pete! Yes! Wow…good one. THE STRONGEST MAN…IN THE WORLD!!!
On November 12th 2009, Mojo wrote:
Actually, Glenn Beck is the creepiest character on television.