The other thread inspired me to post this. Feel free to not just give names, but to give your reasons as well.
For me it's Miss Piggy. Easily my least favourite. Almost everything about her character annoys me. I kind of liked her early on in The Muppet Show because she wasn't featured too much. So maybe she works in small doses, but as a lead she just gets annoying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FE9SLJ2Xoc
Piggy and Sam the eagle.
shareI would have thought after decades of Muppets that my choice would have changed. But my least favorite has always been Miss Piggy, hands down.
The constant self-absorption and narcissism is just too much. Any scene where she's the focus, I start to lose interest almost immediately. If the Muppets were real, no one would tolerate the never-ending barrage of her nonsense for long.
I get that she's a hyper-realized representative of celebrity self-importance, but it makes her no more appealing.
If you buy a ticket for a remake, you are the problem, not Hollywood.
All of mine are based on the recent films and new TV series... which I am enjoying on the whole, but the following are spoiling it for me...
Piggy - there's always been a good balance of her being a spoilt diva but still having a good heart and doing the right thing in the end. Since Frank Oz left she's become annoying, partly due to the writing of her character but mostly down to her voice. I also don't like how now she's suddenly able to sing properly - she used to sound awful which was kind of endearing, but the new guy's trying to make her sound good and it's taking away from the character.
Fozzy - never funny, but that was the joke. In the new series he's being used in too many lead stories, and his voice has also been off since Frank Oz left. As a character he's become too whiny and I don't find any of the stuff with his girlfriend remotely funny... my favourite episodes of the new series have been those where he's hardly in them.
Sam Eagle - again, used to like him as a supporting cast memeber but the writing of him in the new show doesn't seem right. He should be uptight and stand-offish and a stickler for rules, opposed to dating a colleague at all... not pining after Janice like an awkward schoolboy.
Deadly? Dastardly? The blue wispy dragon thing - was fine in the 2011 film (I don't remember him before that) but in this series he's become too much of a camp, posh English butler type, the character could do with being toned down a bit or being used in fewer scenes.