Most Annoying Narrator Ever?


Jesus Christ we get it, you can make a sexual innuendo, shut the hell up. Every other line with this guy, its like being in the 7th grade...

Lets keep a running vote, is he the most annoying narrator ever, yes or no?

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I don't know if he's the most annoying narrator ever, as the word "ever" technically encompasses the future as well, and I've not been to the future (at least in this incarnation).

Also, I have not seen all programs, games, movies, and other possible things that might have narration in them to be able to compare and make the judgment.

(I tend to AVOID narrations, I hate them - I can figure out things by myself to an extent (though not the brightest bulb in the solar system), and also, I'd rather have things SHOWN to me, rather than explained)

Having said all that, I'd like to direct your attention to the narration of a pretty excellent TV show: "Dog Whisperer".

It sounds like a very similar narrator in style and in the 'really-stupid-puns' department, although (obviously) lacking the sexual innuendo.

I wonder why these hags are even part of this TV show - it's supposed to be about revealing the MAGICIANS' TRICKS, not the skin of old 'hags of the night'.

(Just look at their faces carefully to see that they are at least nearing the age 30 or 40, and how 'experience' and 'wrinkles' is written all over their man-jawly mugs - and I did say mugs, not jugs (gosh, the narrator syndrome is contagious!))

Anyone, who has ever been to Asia, or seen enough young, fresh, pretty japanese girls, would never find these monsters pleasing to the eye in any way, shape or form (ok, some of them have relatively passable back sections, but that's it).

In any case, the narrator in "Dog Whisperer" is quite annoying, too - he HAS to make EVERY SINGLE THING he says a silly pun, or at least be based on one. "Cesar's next guinea-pig is.. an actual guinea-pig!" ..

What kind of sense does that make? It would make a passaple pun ONLY if Cesar WAS actually doing some 'testing' with animals that could be said to be 'guinea-pigs', but he wasn't testing anything, he was simply showing how it's done.

It seems like narrators in TV shows can't do their job unless they follow some kind of "pun schedule" that requires them to inject every single sentence, explanation and observation with something really groan-inducing.

So, to answer your question - I don't know about 'most annoyuing narrator ever', but he is pretty annoying, and reminds me of how annoying also some other narrators are.



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This thread is old as dirt, but it's pretty funny to read. Narrator just did his job, reading the script provided by:
Series Writing Credits
David John ... (13 episodes, 2008-2009)
Bruce Nash ... (13 episodes, 2008-2009)
Don Weiner ... (13 episodes, 2008-2009)
Blame them, not Mitch, who just booked a gig.

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The writing they gave him was pure awfulness which is funny because it wasn't this bad back in '97-98.

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lol if you're an X-Files fan you love Mitch. When they did the 5th episode without him I was completely put-off without him narrating. And that guy in the fifth episode; way over the top IMO with the sexual innuendos, Mitch's lines weren't near as bad.

As everyone else said, Mitch wasn't saying all that crap, he is a happily married man. They make him read a script, obviously.

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I agree, he's awful. It wasn't funny the first time and it's not funny the 100th time. Jeez, I get the magician doesn't talk but do we need an announcer to fill up the air time with words even if he's not saying anything?

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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