My best friend is visiting from out of town, and as we caught up with each other this week we got to talking about neighbors. Both she and her man, and me and mine have moved to new homes within the past few months, and we were discussing the neighbor, “situation.”
You can really luck out or really get burned with neighbors. Whether you’re in a house in the suburbs, a crowded apartment, or even a dorm- you sometimes really get to know your neighbors. And you can’t really pick them. Luckily, neither my friend nor I have any obnoxious neighbors. But just imagine what it would be like if some of the freak neighbors we see on TV were out here in the real world? The Horror!
So in the spirit of, “it could always be worse than what you have now,” I’ve created a “bizarro-meter” to rate some of the kookier and more odd neighbors of our favorite TV families. Some are just plain strange (Ugly Naked Guy), some are mind-numbingly annoying (Urkel), some are creepy beyond reason (Quagmire), and some are just a bit odd, but really quite benign (Wilson).
So here it is- The Bizarro-meter. Let’s hope these people never leave the TV screen and move in next door!
Who do you all think is the most annoying? Did I miss anyone (or block them out, rather?) Do any of you have horrifyingly weird neighbors?
Happy Friday!
Meri
I would love to live next door to Kramer, I think he’d be so entertaining! Stupid antics would be endless conversation.
I have both the absolute BEST neighbor on our right, and alternatly the WORST neighbor on our left. And when I say worst, just imagine your nightmare of a neighbor, multiple that by 5,000, put devil horns on him, and you’ve got my next door neighbor. Just typing that I’m so pissed right now. F’ing hate him.
Have a good night 🙂
Oh no- maybe he’ll move, right? Sorry!
You’ve heard all about our neighbor (who shall remain nameless) but when I was growing up I had a very strange neighbor lady who then decided to give me a bridal shower and invite all her lady friends who didn’t know me from adam. They all brought gifts and it was very sweet, lo bizarre. I’ll have to think harder about TV neighbors to add to your list.
hahaha, yes I’m sorry about your bizarro neighbor! At least you get the whole winter away though, right?
I was (un)fortunate enough to live next to a family just like the “Married With Children” Bundys once.
Good times.
hahaha- that hopefully at least provided some good entertainment?
As I hardly recognise ANY of those TV Neighbours I can’t comment.
But right now I do have a creepy neighbour… she sits in her kitchen by the window and WATCHES me … ALL. THE. TIME. She creeps me out… so I have had to put shade cloth in a ‘strategic’ position so I can move around in my kitchen/family room without having her staring at me!
Oh no! That is so creepy! Do you ever look back at her and see if it scares her off?
Yep I did… she just stayed there staring at me! SHE IS WEIRD. I also looked up one afternoon while preparing dinner to find her hanging onto the top of the fence so she could see me better! CREEPY.
eeek! maybe it’s time for a bigger fence hahaha
I don’t really know about your TV neighbors, but since I’ve moved to San Antonio my neighbors and their small children like to stay up all hours of the nights, I got an ice cream man rolling through at 12:30 or later in the morning. It’s a different culture here I guess but something I’ve not been able to get used to.
man, kids should be going to bed, not keeping us up, right? And who on earth is buying ice cream in the middle of the night? Well, I can think of a few people I guess, but its weird!
One of the best things about this particular ice cream truck is that it has fake bullet hole stickers all over it and for it songs it only plays the first two bars of “Fur Elise” on a never ending loop. A few other TV neighbors, Ned Flanders, the perfect neighbor who is kind, willing to give you anything and everything and you can’t stand, Boner Stabone of Growing Pains fame, the sleezy, dumb smooth talkinf neighbor, Winnie Cooper, the cutie next door and I believe I am tapped out. 🙂
Oh no- that’s like the ice cream truck out of a bad movie hahaha! I can’t believe I forgot about Boner. Even his name.. it is perfect. I sure loved Growing pains, can’t believe I forgot! Thanks!
I’ve heard tales of a six cat man who lives in my building (shall I tell him you’ll be stopping by, Meri?). Since he has tinfoil on all his windows, I can’t say for sure if this is true, but the scent outside his door on hot summer days is outer ring of hell bad.
haha, yes you can tell him I’m on my way over to confront my greatest fear… Apartment living sure can be funny. I used to live in a building across the hall from a dude who wore “Rex Kwon Do” style American flag pants and always had a bandana thing tied around his head, didn’t have salt when I asked to borrow some (?!?!) and listened to bizarro techno euro music all day and night. I smell drugs.
Please tell me he listened to the Mortal Kombat The Movie theme music. It would round out an already highly detailed mental picture I have going on. No salt? Not even from the tears shed over that career in Mixed Martial Arts Ultimate Fighting Championships that never panned out? What did he have to say for himself?
ahahaha- he might have, I am not sure. I went to get salt because I was baking a cake for someone for a party I was having at the place I was still living at, and hadn’t completely moved into the new place yet, so I had a few baking staples I left at the mansion and weren’t at the new place yet… so I thought, “I’ll meet my neighbor so I don’t have to walk to SA,” and the whole disaster began, beginning with his creepy 5 o clock shadow, continuing to the aforementioned pants, and culminating in a search resulting in a tiny silver vial of “salt,” which I did not in fact put in the cake. I’m not sure what it was, but I was scared to say no after all of the looking around and weirdness. We never spoke again, for that whole year.
Sounds like he might have hooked you up with some “bath salts”. First impression fail.
Fail, indeed…
How about Ray Barone’s neighbors – his parents! Sure, I rarely watched the show, but the episodes I’ve seen show those two just barging in all the time!
Lorelai and Rory’s neighbors, Babette and Mory, were both annoying and cool. Babette was a bit more annoying, though.
Penny, Leonard and Sheldon’s neighbor on The Big Bang Theory, is awesome! I know she’s part of the main cast, but she’s still the neighbor of a couple of the main characters. Speaking of Penny…
The Hennesy’s neighbors, the Doyles, on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (the actress who plays Penny on Big Bang was also on 8 Simple Rules). The Doyles seemed a bit in-your-face at times and annoying most of the time. I cringed every time they were in a scene.
Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World: Best. Neighbor. Ever! I still chuckle every time I even THINK about the Feeny Call. 😀
And that’s all I can think of right now. You listed some great ones. Urkel was definitely the most annoying and Wilson was definitely one of the best.
As for me, my family and I have been lucky to have some great neighbors. None were my age, but my brothers got friends out of some of them. I didn’t know annoying/unbearable neighbors until I lived in a dorm. I think one, who happened to be my suitemate, was smoking pot or something in her room. My apartment neighbors weren’t that bad; my roommate the first year in the apartment, however… (she was the one who had a problem with them while I had problems with her. And of course, she was oblivious that what she was saying and doing to me was hurting me mentally, emotionally, and maybe even psychologically.)
haha- that’s funny, I was trying to remember if Feeny was a neighbor or just the principal, and I couldn’t remember so I left him out. I haven’t heard of some of the others!
What about Babette from Gilmore Girls! She’s really kooky. Though I’d have to say that I would love to have her living next to me. Good Lord, that might say something about me?
I think kooky would be the fun part, annoying (like urkel) is where it would suck!
ha, this is true – have fun with your friend!
I love this and thinking about all those TV neighbors makes me thankful for mine! I think I might be most annoyed with Kimmie Gibler. Haha. I couldn’t take her barging in my house all the time.
That was definitely her “move,” barging in and always being too familiar and overstaying her welcome. Urgh I would lose it haha!
I thankfully have neighbors I can tolerate right now! However, a few years back I lived so close to the house next to me that we could hear everything they said. Which was usually drunken fighting and yelling at the kids. One night I saw her pacing her living room with a beer bottle in hand and then she threw it at her 7 year old son. It didn’t hit him….but still. I slinked down my couch and cried. 🙁 I found out a few weeks ago that she has since passed away. Drug overdose.
oh man, that’s really sad. It must have been really hard to be so physically close to but feel like there was nothing you could do but just be exposed to it. I’m glad you have better neighbors now!
I am fortunate enough that a good friend just moved in next door to us! Yay! We have great neighbors all around.
I used to have a mean neighbor who would get mad if you parked on the curb in front of her house or if a cat strayed into her yard. She just needed to tone it down a little, methinks.
My favorite was a rather line backer-ish Caucasian woman with an Afro who loved to walk around in shorts and no bra.
She was really sweet. I’ll just never get her insanely jiggly and unsupported boobs out of my head.
oh man, have I had the jiggly neighbors- used to live by a park and this woman would walk laps around it in a tube top, unsupported… all summer long haha! Fun to have friends to live by now!
i think fran from the nanny has a very annoying voice! i can’t stand!
It is pretty grating, but I think she is a hair less annoying than rachel ray because at least she has some redeeming qualities hahaha
I love this post! I’m not sure who I think is most annoying, but I’ve certainly had my share of bad neighbors. When I first moved into my own apt, the guy below me would pound on my floor (his ceiling) for me just WALKING around in my apt. It would scare the crap out of me. Then I moved to my new place which I love, but my neighbors were just-out-of-HS pothead/partiers who would blast music until 4am. I think eventually someone called the cops, because they no longer had parties there and have since moved. I could go on for hours with bad neighbor stories though. Perhaps a future post 😉
oh no, the worst is having neighbors who continue to be partiers when you’ve sort of… moved on a bit or grown up from the whole late teens/ early twenties thing.
YOU ARE AWESOME! I loved this. I didn’t realize how many lovable neighbors there are on TV shows.
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I’m glad you appreciated it! I had to give myself another tutorial in paintbrush just to make the graphic, so at least some people read it!
Good list, but I would’ve put Kimmie furthest to the right. There’s nothing more annoying than an idiot tween/teen who won’t go away! Lol.
I think the quality that makes a neighbor most annoying is not how weird they are, but how “present” they are, which is why kimmie, gladys kravitz, and urkel are so high up there- ALWAYS there!
I think the worst neighbors or roommates are inconsiderate ones – especially loud or whatever. Just not my scene.
I know- I could handle it in college (in fact, that was probably me…) but now I have no time for it!
Hahaha ugly naked guy!! And Quagmire! Giggidy.
“ahhh, I”ll have one roofie colada…” (quagmire)
HA! Totally agree with Rachael Ray’s voice. 😉 Eeek!
I once had a neighbor in college that blasted Michael Bolton music. SO LOUD. yuck.
hahaha- I’m reminded of an episode of Undeclared that we just watched where the one roommate keeps blaring “How Bizarre,” that 90s song, for like 3 days straight, until her roomate or suitemate loses it
Haha, I laughed most because Rachael Ray’s voice was “most annoying.” HA!! I don’t think Quagmire is THAT annoying, I mean, okay, I don’t want him to be my neighbor, especially if I have any daughters…we have okay neighbors, but we all mostly keep to ourselves. My parents’ house has the best – one of my best friend’s lives there, we grew up next to each other and became friends that way. Pretty much the most awesome thing ever.
I got a little bit mixed up at one point, I”ll admit, between “annoying” and “odd” neighbors- I don’t think some of the neighbors would be so much “annoying,” as just… well, strange. The ones who show up uninvited all of the time would surely be the most annoying though!
Quagmire would be the most annoying for me
funny on tv- creepy/ annoying if he were a real neighbor!
This post is funny and true. Before I moved into my current apartment, I stayed in a house. My neighbor was the most annoying neighbor in the world. Anytime I would pull up to my driveway he would “magically” appear out of nowhere and spend hours talking about nothing. I couldn’t wait to move to get away from him. I actually like my neighbors at my new place. Great post.
Lynn
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that is my worst neighbor nightmare- because I tend to avoid random human contact when I can haha- that’s why I blog, so I can be outgoing on my own time 🙂
I have a great neighbors, but during the summer, the cabin next door gets rented out on a weekly basis with some interesting neighborly results! Mostly it’s fine, but the freakin’ dog people who let their dogs run through my green patch are ranking high up there on your bizarro-meter. Luckily we only have to live with them for a week at a time!!
oh no- so you not only have rotating neighbors, but neighbors “on vacation” (which in my opinion means they let their freak flags fly haha) well at least its only for the summer!
Haha this is amazing, I love TV neighbors. I think Kramer would be awesome despite his stealing food and hare brained schemes. Fortunately I’ve never had strange (or even noisy) neighbors but I’ve definitely had some weird roommates in college. My least favorite being a motor mouth who literally never stopped speaking from dawn til dusk, I had to avoid my own room just to not get caught in a 4 hour conversation with her. And by “conversation” I mean being talked at. Dang, girl, put a muzzle on it!
Amanda
I had a college dorm next to this girl who would come into our room, walk over to the mirror, and commence talking about herself while looking in the mirror and preening. She would do this at any time of day, and never tried to actually talk to us unless she wanted reassurance about something (which we didn’t give, for the record). She must have been nutbags crazy, I don’t know why we didn’t lock our door…
OH don’t forget about Hyacinth Bucket from “Keeping Up Appearances” (old British comedy). She would be the absolute worst!!! If you’re not familiar, look it up on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean!
Amanda
I’ll have to look it up- haven’t seen that one. But the name is pretty impressive!
Haha this is hilarious! Luckily our neighbours are super sweet/low key people who never disturb the peace! However, in college I was definitely neighbours with a girl who liked to get it on a little too frequently…and dorm walls are very thin. Too thin. I had a pretty loud fan that semester 😉
oh no- that’s a type of neighbor I hadn’t even thought of- how awkward haha!
I have really nice neighbors (so far) but I would totally love to live next to the naked guy.
Or the guy from the sex and the city movie who samantha stares at, who is always showering or almost naked- he was hot.
DUDE, WE ARE SOUL MATES.
Rachel Ray has the absolute most annoying voice on the face of the planet. I cannot stand that woman. She makes me want to throw things violently off my deck and smash them on the second deck below and then toss lighter fluid out the window and set everything on fire.
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haha, so you agree that she would be setting the bar for “most annoying” then?