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Bobby's the Best

Bobby's the Best

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I'm in the early episodes of Season 11, and the emergence of Dandy Dandridge. My god I can't stand that old man. The way he'd always call Cliff "Kid"...how he'd always hit Cliff's soft spot simply by mentioning Digger's name...how he was nothing more than a angry old foul mouthed drunk...man oh man he was annoying!!

I'll go to my grave saying that Dandy was the most aggravating character on "Dallas". I know that some of you might disagree with me, so let's leave it up for discussion....IS Dandy the most annoying character in the history of "Dallas"? Or do you feel someone else was even MORE annoying? Plead your case.
 
Barbara Fan

Barbara Fan

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Asides from The fake Ellie imposter of S7 and the dreadful insipid, wishy washy, Miss Ellie with the meringue set / teflon hair do and robotic performance form Dreary Reed its

April Stevens for me - Always wonder how she got so cliquey with Katzman, Hagman and co, simpering, couldnt act and no rapport with Pat D. One to FWD at a rate of knots, went from Tramp to Saint in less than 2 seasons

Also couldnt stand James, Michelle, Cally , Angelica, Grace, Tommy McKay, Rose, Laurel Ellis - and I couldnt name you anyone new in final season but they all get a mention too.
Its Dallas the dire years now!
 
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DallasFanForever

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Dandy would definitely be very high on my list. I found him very annoying but #1 for me is a tie between James and Vanessa
 
Snarky Oracle!

Snarky Oracle!

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Oh, any of JR's mistresses. (Not that I had a problem with them, but Sue Ellen aficionados generally do).

For me, Charlie Wade was horrible when they were trying to make her "sweet" and the actress was far too simperingly self-conscious to be convincing. Once she turned into a spoiled bitch, I bought it.

I didn't mind April until they turned her gold-digging self into a shrill goody-goody in order to shoe-horn her into a place at Southfork. (Let Bobby marry Afton instead!)

Andrew Stephens' character. He had all of JR's slime without any of the charisma.

Tommy McKay was only brought into DALLAS to minimize the mystery of Roger Grimes concurrently going on on DYNASTY.

I was okay with James but questioned his casting.

They never knew what they wanted to do with George Kennedy, other than have him on DALLAS.
 
pete lashmar

pete lashmar

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Tough one this - I have to be 100% honest and say my number 1 is Afton Cooper. Mainly because when she first appeared she didn't have any redeeming features and then became a self righteous 2 faced cow. As a character I can see she was important, but her morals were very one sided. Also, I have to fast forward everytime she wails out a song...oh the pain, the pain!

Laren would be no.2 -excruciating to watch - no depth at all and fast forward every scene she is in.

Michelle Stevens - I just hated her whole persona, again, not 1 redeeming feature, just a greedy woman who was all take take take.

Tommy - where do your start, just a horrible character that was written into the show for really no purpose at all.
 
Top Jimmy

Top Jimmy

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Bobby's the Best said:
I'm in the early episodes of Season 11, and the emergence of Dandy Dandridge. My god I can't stand that old man. The way he'd always call Cliff "Kid"...how he'd always hit Cliff's soft spot simply by mentioning Digger's name...how he was nothing more than a angry old foul mouthed drunk...man oh man he was annoying!!

I'll go to my grave saying that Dandy was the most aggravating character on "Dallas". I know that some of you might disagree with me, so let's leave it up for discussion....IS Dandy the most annoying character in the history of "Dallas"? Or do you feel someone else was even MORE annoying? Plead your case.
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Top Jimmy

Top Jimmy

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I would say Dandy was the most irritating short-term character. He had no redeemable qualities and watching him once was enough. I don't think I've ever watched his batch of episodes more than once. It's hard to choose just one, but there were several season-long or long-term characters that were more annoying such as Jenna and Charlie, Angelica Nero (belonged in Dynasty, not Dallas), Peedur Richards, April in her spiteful mode towards Bobby for not sleeping with her sooner, and Michelle (as we did not have enough greedy, bitchy sisters visit Dallas). There were other dire characters such as Clint Ogden, Alex Barton and Laurel who were either boring or badly portrayed, but luckily they did not last long.
 
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DallasFanForever

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I have to add Patricia Shepherd to the list. Terrific actress but found the character very annoying. Also pretty much anything to do with Haileyville. Cally’s brothers, the sheriff with his 15 feet wide eyes, the other inmates on the road gang, the guards, the guy working the front desk in the hotel, Cally herself, and pretty much the entire town, sorry
 
Lastkidpicked

Lastkidpicked

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Bobby's the Best said:
I know that some of you might disagree with me, so let's leave it up for discussion....IS Dandy the most annoying character in the history of "Dallas"? Or do you feel someone else was even MORE annoying? Plead your case.
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Yes, Dandy was very annoying and I understand that he was supposed to make Cliff realize, "Oh! Is THIS how others saw Digger? I might have been wrong about the Barnes-Ewing feud all these years?"

And Bert Remsen is actually a pretty good actor.
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The writers must have told him to play it over the top so we could imagine the antics of Digger Barnes in the same light.
We get it, writers! Dandy is supposed to resemble Digger. We don't need a ton of bricks to fall on our heads to make the connection.

Dial him back a bit.
 
Monzo

Monzo

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My hatred of certain characters has changed over time. I remember I couldn't stand characters like Dandy, Jamie or Vanessa when I watched Dallas for the first time. Years later, older, more relaxed, because I know the entire show, I realized Jamie and Vanessa, even Dandy aren't that bad, while others like Jenna or Mandy have lost steam.
 
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Jimmy Todd

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I liked what the character of Dandy brought to show regarding Cliff. It made him do some introspection regarding Digger and the Barnes-Ewing feud and culminated in that lovely scene between him and Miss Ellie.
The character I liked the least was Callie. Even her voice annoyed me.
 
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