Mirror, Mirror, on the wall.....

Who is the biggest hypocrite of them all?

Is the cast of 7th Heaven?

I think it is.

Smallville's Clark Kent.

I think the award for TV's biggest hypocrite would definitely have to go to Lana 'I'm so fucking perfect and I never do anything wrong' Lang. There's just not enough HAAAATE in the world.

I'd like to throw in a vote for "Shut Up," Rico from Six Feet Under. At the start of Season 3, he was ranting to David about how he wouldn't show sympathy for the parents of a guy who shot up a call center before killing himself, because if they'd been better parents, maybe he would have turned out differently.

By the end of Season 3, he's banging a stripper because he's had a falling out with Vanessa.

Every single character on Days of Our Lives could fall into this category.

ER's Kerry Weaver

(1) Publicly humilates and berates people for screwing up, then acts like her screw-ups are no big deal.

(2) Is downright fanatical with her insistence that people follow the rules, God forbid they be bent/broken, but never has any problem bending/breaking them herself, particularly to help herself.

A-frickin-men. I completely agree. Of course, to tell the truth, almost any single soap opera character can be included in this topic.

Late Kate from NCIS.

She was also so holier than thou with regard to being more mature than Tony in College and yet she was the one with the wet t-shirt contest in her past. Not to mention all the glares she shot him for eyeing up women while they were working, but she was the one drooling over the water polo team, and the doctor when they were in quarantine, and a priest (okay, before she knew he was a priest) and a few suspects.

Yeah, almost every soap character is a hypocrite, but there's a select few who aren't. Ironically enough, they are almost always the characters hated by everyone on the canvas. Case in point: my all-time favorite fictional character ever, Guiding Light's Roger Thorpe. He called anyone and everyone on their hypocrisy over being "good" people, yet he never had to call himself out because he always knew that he was an asshole and was damn proud of it.

But getting into specifics of soap characters who are hypocrites, I'd have to go with Jeffrey O'Neill on GL. He's spent the better part of the last month bitching and moaning over the fact that Edmund Winslow has been spending a lot of time with his girlfriend and her new baby, despite the fact that (at least as far as he knows) EDMUND IS HOPE'S FATHER! He constantly tells Cassie that she shouldn't be spending so much time with Edmund, so Cassie has to constantly remind him that she can't deny him time with HIS daughter! Also, Jeffrey just found out that baby Hope is indeed NOT Edmund and Cassie's surrogate baby and that Hope was stolen from another pregnant girl, yet he knowingly kept that information from Cassie because she was so happy with her new baby, never mind the fact that Michelle is ready to leave town because she can't handle the pain of losing her baby. Such a fucking asshole.

Angel on Angel. A total hypocrite from start to finish.

S1 - gives Buffy a big speech about saving souls despite one's personal feelings, then does nothing to help save Lindsey two eps later because he didn't like the guy.

S5 - takes over as CEO of Wolfram and Hart selling out all his friends in the process including turning a helpless Cordelia over to the same folks who tried to kill her several times before - this after having given Lindsey a speech about selling out for a corner office. Of course Angel did it for altruistic reasons; the wealth, power and having W&H clean up Angel's messes didn't factor in at all. Riiiight.

S5 - letting Harmony go with a job rec after she'd betrayed him but having Lorne kill Lindsey after Lindsey had helped Angel. (No, I didn't buy Lorne's "I've heard you sing" as a valid reason considering Lorne's abysmal track record.)

Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and the City". If anyone has ever watched that show, they would know she is the Double Standard Queen.

Possibly the greatest TV character ever, played by the incomparable Michael Zaslow.

Topic? CSI's Catherine Willows, hands down.

I'd like to nominate Dawson Leery for being the biggest hypocritical asshat on the planet.

I nominate GH's Sonny Corinthos as TV's biggest hypocrite.

Does this only apply to fictional characters? Because I'm sure there are plenty of real-life TV personalities whose hypocrisies make soap opera characrers look downright honest.


*cough*BillO'Reilly&HisMagicFilafel*cough*

This thread applies to everyone on tv.

Which reminds me.....Every contestant on every season of Big Brother, especially season 6.

Buffy from Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

She complains that everybody "expects her to do everything around here" while we see her standing with folded arms as everyone else is busy working. She claims that Spike is the only one watching her back despite all that Xander, for example, has done for her (e.g., saving her life several times, repairing her house for free, etc.). She threatens to have her boss killed and then expects him to act as if nothing had happened (and is shocked when she's fired, even though she's also incompetent at her job). She beats up the Shadow men when they try to give her power without her permission, but she does the same thing to countless girls around the world, and she pushes Willow to risk her soul to use her power. She mopes about being kicked out of the house even though she made the choice to leave, then she proceeds to kick an innocent person (who, unlike her, does not have superpowers) out of his own home to his possible death. She claims that she can't spend time with Xander in the hospital because she has to work on the mission and then proceeds to pawn off the work on other people. She screws up and then yells at other people for her own mistake, she lies to the group and then throws a hissy fit when they disagree with her, etc.

I'll take it a step further and declare him the greatest fictional character ever. Of any medium. No character in movies, TV, books, plays, operas, or musicals has ever moved me the way Roger Thorpe did. And that is due in no small part to Michael Zaslow's pitch perfect portrayal, because when Zas got sick and Roger was replaced, I kind of hated him. Michael Zaslow's Roger Thorpe is the single greatest fictional being to ever be realized, and I will stand by that declaration till my dying day.

Oh, so much WORD. I don't even watch the show anymore because of him. The original reason for my leave from GH was because I moved back to CA, where GL and GH share the same timeslot (and even though Roger Thorpe is dead and gone and hasn't been mentioned since, I am still GL's bitch for life), but now I have SOAPnet and I still can't watch because GH has become the Sonny Corinthos show. Plus, Maurice Bernard just grates. I honestly don't understand how so many women find him sexy.

Anyway, back on topic. Rory Gilmore, please go away. You were cute for many seasons, but once you got into Yale, you became an elitest bitch and forgot all of the values that your awesome mother ever taught you.

And going back to GH, I nominate Luke Spencer. Yeah, it sucks that the Cassidines locked up your wife and one of the sons raped her, but YOU RAPED YOUR WIFE TOO, you nuthole! So give up your damn vendetta and move on! I haven't seen GH in a while (see above), but from what I hear, Luke is still being treated like a friggin' hero, which bothers me to no end, especially since it took the man close to 15 years to feel remorse for raping Laura. And then after he acknowledged it, the rape was forgotten about once again. Good grief, at least Roger Thorpe had the decency to berate himself for 15 years over raping Holly, and even after she finally forgave him, he never let himself forget about the rape and even apologized for it ONCE AGAIN (even after spending every week since 1990 telling her that he was sorry) in his final letter written on his death bed.

I also nominate Dr. Kelso on Scrubs. He belittles everyone for tiny screwups, yet never calls himself on his own blunders. Nonetheless, I love him. But he's still a hypocrite.

I nominate Dr. Phil.

Statement number one [applied mostly to male viewers of po'nography] implies one moral and ethical belief: "That's somebody's daughter yer lookin' at!"

Statement number two [regarding his son's engagement to a Playboy bunny] reveals an opposite standard: "Go, Jay!"

WORD on Dr Phil!

He keeps saying, "You don't have to agree with me" or "You don't have to do as I say" and things like that. Yet, the ppl are there to get a magical solution to all their problems, and he's more than happy to offer one. And if the person should actually disagree with him? He will not have it. I've seen that a couple of times. If you argue with him, he'll tell you "I've tried to offer you a solution, and you're not even trying."

There's tough love and there's ego. Sometimes it's the former, sometimes the latter.

Let's throw in Dr. Phil is a fat man who wrote a diet book.

He once had two fat female guests and, while discussing their children's weight problem, he said to them, "half of the grown-ups can't control their weight, including the two of you."

I would have said, "You mean including yourself?" Or perhaps, "Who says I can't control my weight?" to expose that he was stating his own opinion of the women. But alas, the audience applauded.

Dr. Phil's audience must drink the same purple Kool-Aid Oprah's audience drinks.

Bebop, can I bow down to your post, because I concur with everything in it!

How about all of the Buffy characters from Season 7? Worst season ever for all of the characters.

A crapload of characters from DH and Lost are hypocritical, while I'm at it. I think that each and every one of them should line up and get slapped 20 times by Bree.

The O.C.'s Julie was somewhat hypocritical last season. She slapped Caleb for cheating on his dead wife, yet she was sleeping around with Jimmy behind his back. And don't get me started on how hypocritical Kandy acted towards each other.

The biggest hypocrite, even though she's real, is Britney Spears. She goes on about how she wants the tabloids to leave her alone, then she sells home videos of her and Cletus talking about sex.

Yeah, but I wouldn't count her. She's not a REAL reality star, nor is she a tv star. But this topic doesn't discriminate, so go ahead. I lost any remaining respect I had left for her after she decided to marry a guy who not only left his pregnant girlfriend (not wife, as some might think) for her, but is also bad for her image.


Topic: Everyone on Friends. Especially the women.

We need to add Nick on TBL this season, what a jerk, and hypocrite! Claims to go on the show to lose weight and get healthy and then is the world's sorest loser, and knowing they check back with you he gained it all back and some with his walk when I want to and eat whatever I want to diet.
There were people the really needed that show, why did they choose such a self centered guy I don’t know.

Bill O'reilly says, "OK, I'll let you have the last word" to a guest who disgrees with him. Then always follows what they say with a comment of his own. Bugs.

Bill Maher. All through the 2000 campaign he declared, I don't care who wins, I'm voting for Nader, I'm Olympian and above it all.

When it appeared that Bush would win, and when he finally won, he showed how desperately he cared about Gore winning.

Yeah, and how he spent episode after episode nagging David and Nate to make him a partner, and when they finally did, started whining about how much work he had to do.

Word to Dr. Phil. And there was that other "doctor" who had a short-lived show. What was her name? Oh yeah, Laura.

Not enough word. I always thought her book should be called "Do As I Say, Not As I Do," and should have one of those nightmare-inducing nude pictures of her plastered on the front.

I have to nominate Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives - when she met Tom he was seeing someone else, but she still was happy to have sex with him at work (where the girlfriend also worked). Then when Lynette's married to him she makes threats about what she'll do if he ever cheats on her and says he has a 'pattern', conveniently overlooking the fact that she was part of that 'pattern' too.

THANK YOU!

Statement number one, to a woman whose husband has cheated on her THREE times: You should try to work it out.

Statement number two, to a woman who has cheated on her husband three times: You are lucky he hasn't kicked your ass to the curb.

HATE!

My vote for TV's "Current" biggest hypocrit is Smallville's Clark "do what I say , not what I do" Kent. Boy just plucks my nerves with all of the unnecessary lying.

Justin Cognito: Word on Rico. I actually think it was a deliberate move. All his whining, homophobia, and self-righteous religious behaviour ended up with him cheating on Vanessa. I bet he isn't too quick to judge after that.

The powers that be behind "Sex and the City": how many seasons was that show on, endlessly talking about the power of the single woman, and how they don't need a man to define them, and each and every one of the ladies is settled down by the finale.

Carlos Mencia, whose main joke is that we non-Latinos make assumptions on the national origin of a Latino based on geography (NYC = Puerto Rican, etc); yet, his half-Honduran half not-Latino self calls himself what? That's right, Mexican.

The cast of "Friends" - whatever happened to "I'll be there for you..."? Your friend Joey is suffering in a half-assed sitcom... I mean, moved all the way to L. A, and none of you can even so much as call him (much less visit)?

Phil's Elmer Gantry scandal can't come soon enough! Maybe he double dates with O'Reilly.

No, he doesn't. The end of the geography routine he flat out states he was born in on Honduras, only to have a white guy ask him if that's near I think Tiajuana. Generally when he does refer to himself he says Beaner or Wetback.

The BET channel between 3:59 and 4:01 a.m. four(?) days a week. You go from seeing UnCut featuring "too hot for primetime" hip-hop videos with near-nude strippers shaking their asses, booty-poppin', bouncing on guy's laps, etc. to evangelical religious programming.

I just figure that's BET's way of saying "Dude, you're up at 4 am watching booty videos, you probably need some religion at this point."

Hypocrites? ESPN, The Travel Channel, and Bravo, for showing in some form or another Hold'Em Poker 24/7 and then occasionally throw in a 15 second commercial indicating that gambling MIGHT be addicting.

I know someone mentioned the cast of Days, but I'd like to give a special shout out to our very perfect Belle "Glittery Hoo Hoo" Black Kiriakis. Get bent. You're going to constantly rag on your best friend for having an abortion while being pregnant with a child that may or may not be your husband's? Shut it.

Uh huh. Somehow I get the feeling that 99% of the UnCut viewers quickly flip to another channel (cough)Girls Gone Wild infomercial(cough)Skinemax(ahem).

I'd have to say TV's biggest hypocrite is Clark Kent from Smallville. He can do whatever he pleases (and yells at Chloe and Lex for "mean") yet does the same thing and isn't held accountable. Then he screams at Chloe and Lex and expects them to help out with favors.

Lynette from DH told a couple that they need to communicate. It's funny, seeing how she rarely communicates with Tom. I love the girl, but still. She's a hypocrite.

Rory Gilmore. For so many reasons, but the one that comes up the most is when she berates her ex, Dean, for temporarily dropping out of school - due to LIFE issues, such as, oh, money, then proceeding to drop out of school herself approx. one year later - due to the beat-down of one guy.

This may be an obvious one, but do the TAR Weavers count? Because if they do, they surely are the biggest hypocrites ever.

All those brats from Pokemon. They preach about animal rights and then they go about enslaving animals (by beating them insto submission first) and forcing them to compete in battles for trinkets.