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Annoying TV characters

We all come across characters who get on our nerves. Not the ones created to irritate -- remember Steve Urkel on Family Matters? -- so much as those who offend our personal tastes. They grate on our sensibilities, sometimes so acutely (David Caruso, CSI: Miami) that they are deal-breakers. We can't even watch the show. Ultimately, it's highly subjective. So here's my countdown of annoying characters, with apologies offered in advance.

-- By Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

-- Photo gallery by Melina I. De Rose, Sun Sentinel
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<b>PLAYED BY:</b> David Caruso<br> <br> <b>THE HEAD-TILTER EXTRAORDINAIRE:</b> If the show weren't set in Miami, Caruso would probably still need to wear sunglasses all the time. Because he doesn't know how to act without putting them on at strategic moments, to punctuate his lines. Hands on hips, he delivers second-rate truisms and cop cliches with a monotone that makes him seem kind of bored. Which is how I feel watching him.

Horatio Caine, CSI: Miami

(CLIFF LIPSON, CBS / October 17, 2007)

PLAYED BY: David Caruso

THE HEAD-TILTER EXTRAORDINAIRE: If the show weren't set in Miami, Caruso would probably still need to wear sunglasses all the time. Because he doesn't know how to act without putting them on at strategic moments, to punctuate his lines. Hands on hips, he delivers second-rate truisms and cop cliches with a monotone that makes him seem kind of bored. Which is how I feel watching him.