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Top 10 Grumpy TV Characters


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alcoholic here wait a minute listen you
little yellow-bellied rat jackass I ever
find out who you are out to get off my
lawn my house welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten
grumpy characters in TV one two three
four
seven eight nine and ten for this list
we’re looking at well written well
performed and well loved TV characters
that have come to embody our own grumpy
nature’s will you hi I’m Eric I’m gonna
be Chandler’s new roommate
I’m Chandler’s new roommate we can’t
help but identify with these cranks and
that’s why we love them that’s
disgusting
number ten Martin crane Frasier dad dad
welcome to your new home yeah you look
great
don’t be a Smee I do not look great I
spent Monday on the bathroom floor you
can still see the tire marks on my face
as the patriarch of the crane clan this
man’s man possesses both a love for his
favorite reclining chair and an
incredibly stubborn personality that
often clashes with the more refined
tastes of his sons
where’s my chair Leo I took it down the
dumpster someone snagged it it’s pretty
bitching I almost kept to myself you
drew my chair away you’re happy now it’s
gone a former Seattle cop who was shot
in the line of duty Martin prefers a
cold beer and a night at McGinty’s his
favorite sports bar to a Night at the
Opera look I appreciate the offer I
would I can’t dad how do you know if you
don’t try it I didn’t have to get shot
in the hip with a 38 and I wouldn’t like
that it’s clear that Frasier and Niles
couldn’t be more different from their
unpretentious and laid-back father
resulting in a hilarious butting of
heads audiences couldn’t get enough of
perhaps you should start by telling us a
little bit about yourself miss moon well
I’m originally from Manchester England
really did you hear that dear I’m three
feet away there’s nothing wrong with my
number nine dr. Perry Cox scrubs we’re
waiting for dr. cuts hi dr. on place an
IV for me this cantankerous doctor is
one frightening attending physician
who’d make us want to have our stay at
Sacred Heart Hospital be as short as
possible
dr. Cox I got wills CT results back no
cancer so uh what should I tell him I’d
open with that not only does he have a
tendency for sarcastic comebacks and
bitter interactions with his co-workers
and subordinates my first patient today
was a snot-nosed little punk who
wouldn’t let me give him a rectal exam
unless I said pretty please first and
I’m just not big on begging strangers to
stick my hand up their body not even in
my private time he’s also got a biting
wit and short temper
that cause rants about anything from his
hatred of having his workout routine
disturbed to his disdain for Hugh
Jackman Everything Everything Everything
Everything Everything Everything after
you got everything that exists past
present and future and all discovered
and undiscovered dimensions oh and Hugh
Jackman however it’s his dedication to
his job that allowed him to rise through
the ranks of hospital staff despite his
grouchy personality
what are you doing this is my new
imaginary warning light whenever it
starts blinking a situation has 10
seconds to resolve itself before i flash
white with rage and kill someone number
8 Squidward Tentacles SpongeBob
SquarePants
pip all right mr. Cooper all right all
right mr. Krab I’ll be in my quarters
this selfish cephalopod is six limbs
worth of hot tempered sarcasm and the
perfect antagonist to the carefree and
upbeat attitude to his arch-nemesis
spongebob is a clean diet while
possessing a keen intellect and a
misguided love of art as long as it’s
portraits of himself or the pursuits of
his underappreciated talents good
evening and welcome to the first annual
Squidward Tentacles talent show
Squidward is classic grumpiness brought
to the deepest depths of Bikini Bottom
no one not even your parrot
would want to see that with his short
fuse little is needed to push him over
the edge
that plus his overall pessimistic
outlook on life mean this is one tightly
wound scrooge of the sea spongebob I
have a confession to make
your fault I’m alive
nope get rid of a Tom stone and tell all
your friends to go home
number seven mr. heckles friends hello
mr. Haeckel you’re doing it again we’re
not doing anything you’re stomping it’s
disturbing my Birds Rachel
Monica and at one point Phoebe’s cranky
downstairs neighbor is not the kind of
person you want to bother the next time
you need to borrow a cup of sugar
whether he’s banging on the ceiling with
a broom handle cuz you’re being too loud
or answering the door in a signature
bathrobe this grumpy apartment dweller
may have sensitive ears but certainly
does not have a sensitive heart you just
found this cat and we’re only looking
for the owner
um yeah uh Mikey seems to hate you are
you sure yeah it’s my cat give me my cat
just between us he might just be a
lonely guy looking to make some new
friends you are a very bad man you won’t
be a cat number six Archie Bunker all in
the family
you silly dingbat
the prototype upon which all subsequent
TV grumps are based this classic crank
became controversial due to his
inability to keep his bigoted opinions
to himself a wild is common crumbling
down the cool shot cupboard a
conservative World War two vet who’s got
something to say about anything under
the Sun Archie could have seemed like a
bad guy but the reality was he was a
hard-working family man and a product of
his time well if that’s the plentiful
fruit
yeah butting heads with his liberal
son-in-law over politics and race issues
Archie was originally designed by show
creator Norman Lear to be hated by
audiences this is only line and he lives
next door my daughter’s married in a
white guy over but his unapologetic
roughness and honesty resonated with
working-class America making him one of
televisions most remembered characters
where did you stop then you sing like a
piece of chalk and a blank for number 5
dr. Gregory House house dr. house
doesn’t like telling with patients isn’t
treating patients why we became doctors
no treating illnesses is why we became
doctors treating patients is what makes
most doctors miserable inspired by
Sherlock Holmes this grumpy doctor with
the incredibly poor bedside manner
brought new meaning to the word
curmudgeon I was expecting in my office
20 minutes ago really that’s odd because
I had no intention of being your office
20 minutes ago his quick thinking yet
seemingly detached form of medical
practice sees him paying extreme
attention to detail in order to properly
diagnose his patients I’m tired a lot
any other reason why you think you might
have chronic fatigue syndrome it’s kind
of the definition isn’t it it’s kind of
the definition of getting older
however while house may be brilliant
he’s not without his flaws there’s a
cyst in his liver looks complex gentle
micros is spontaneous bleeding it’s
benign I was rooting for a really cool
tumor step we’re stuck with this crap
bitter Moody and sardonic this complex
medical professional won the hearts of
audiences everywhere due to his
unorthodox methods and endearingly
grumbling personality well you are ugly
wow you’re an ass I have a deformity I
know that’s why you’re ugly it’s you’re
a lucky boy anywhere else in the animal
kingdom your parents would have eaten
you at birth number four
Al Bundy married with children
obviously I’m having a hell of a dream
this Chicago high school football star
has it all a loving wife a couple of
terrific kids and a successful career
that he loves yeah right did I tell you
that I hold the school record for
touchdowns in a season that’s amazing
I’m one touchdown away from breaking
that record too it’s a young man’s world
you know Al Bundy is the epitome of a
man unsatisfied with his life and family
bringing a hilarious sense of dread to
the American Dream as the memories of
his glory days are juxtaposed with his
current daily grind oh my god I’m a shoe
salesman again in some ways else the
polar opposite of ed O’Neill’s more
recent TV grump Modern Family’s Jay
Pritchett and in some ways he’s exactly
as grumpy seriously not to be the evil
stunt Deb if you put on a puffy white
shirt and declare your love for a 16
year old you’re gonna be swinging from
the flagpole and your puffy white
Underpants crude rude and incredibly
funny this deadbeat working-class grouch
is one grumpy underdog we couldn’t help
but love my record is going to hell
no one will remember me and my wife is
wearing a $200 job number three the
Grinch dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole
Christmas the Grinch hated Christmas the
whole Christmas season Tom please oh
gosh why no one quite knows the reason
the celebration of Christmas has
remained forever changed since this TV
special first aired in 1966 but I think
that the most likely reasonable may have
been that his heart
two sizes too small the embodiment of
distaste for the holiday season with a
sneering and sinister smile this furry
green grump became an emblem of greed
and menacing motives to destroy the true
meaning of Christmas
then he growled with his Grinch fingers
nervously drumming I must find some way
to keep Christmas from coming an
outsider in the town of Whoville who
only has his dog Max as a friend this
iconic dr. Seuss adaptation is a lesson
on how to care for others discover
kindness and soften the Grinch within us
all soul is full of dumb
number two Oscar the Grouch Sesame
Street what you think it’s easy for me
being a grouch who screen this infamous
Muppet has been the Grouch we’ve all
known and loved since we were big enough
to turn on our TVs I want to do what I
want to do and I’m not changing my mind
so I am stubborn f/stop reached average
temper possessing a love for living in
trash cans feasting on unappetizing
cuisine and embodying an unapologetic
sense of self-awareness to his need for
all things yucky this green guy hates
all things nice
anything dirty or dingy or dusty
anything ragged or rotten or rusty
yes I
fresh however Oscar reminds us not to
overlook those things we deemed garbage
and remains a beloved character to
children and adults a light to this very
day will you please go away leave me
alone
is that Ellie before we unveil our
number one pick here are some honorable
mentions you think this is hard I’m
passing a gallstone as we speak
that’s hard what exactly will you be
cutting and how much of it and can I
wash you do it while eating pork
cracklins who she’s a nurse I’ll Fred
I’m busy gives a mean back row huh
hey God you like me to rub this cross
your lip you know what the bank account
is now it’s going up up we got $75 Lana
that’s what we got so don’t go envying
Trixie she’s got electric stove she’s
got television said she’s got washing
machines
you’ve got financial security number one
red foreman that’s 70 show a hell is
wrong with you why are you always so
damn nervous
oh I don’t know maybe it’s because
you’ve been yelling at me for 17 years
Red’s the dad that made you terrified
when you wanted to visit your friend’s
house after school you morons just hung
vacancy signs on your asses and my foots
looking for a room this no-nonsense
patriarch prefers peace and quiet and is
unrelenting in his disdain for all
things out of the ordinary
whether he’s rolling his eyes at his
neighbors or threatening his teenage
son’s friends with physical violence you
are about to read a book that my foot
wrote it’s called on the road to in your
ass portrayed flawlessly by actor
Kurtwood Smith this disgruntled father
is as frightening as he is funny making
us all relieved to not have his foot in
our asses sleep tight and don’t let the
bedbugs put their foot in your ass do
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