Renting sucks. Your place is always falling apart, you have to deal with loud neighbors and your landlord usually watches you like a hawk. It can’t get any worse… or maybe it can.
What if you had a TV landlord? What if for 30 minutes once a week they came in and completely turned your life around? What would it be like to have to deal with supers who cross the landlord/tenant relationship line every opportunity they can? It would make your life crazier than a TV show. There have been many bad supers on TV, but who were the worst? Here are the 10 Worst Supers On Television.
10. Dwayne F. Schneider (“One Day At A Time”)
Am I the only person who found this guy uber creepy? He spent all his time hanging out in an apartment full of women (two of which were minors) and usually with a plunger in his hand. There was all sorts of wrong imagery going on with that show.
9. Donald Twinkacetti (“Perfect Strangers”)
Mr. Twinkacetti was a ruthless miser who cared more about making a buck than being a good guy. For awhile, he was both landlord and boss to Larry and Balki. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a clause in the lease allowing Twinkacetti to constantly refer to Balki as a “Turnip.”
8. Marsha Klein (“Spaced”)
Chain smoking and extremely lonely, Marsha feels that the word “tenants” is really French for “friends.” She can often be seen attempting to socialize with her renters Tim and Daisy. Even worse, she exchanges sex for rent with tenant Brian. Gross.
7. Mrs. Mamie Dubcek (“3rd Rock From The Sun”)
She is one of the worst landlord/supers out there. She constantly shows up at her tenants’ apartment and spews out her sexual escapades. Also, what sort of landlord doesn’t run credit checks? You can’t tell me aliens from another planet would pass a background check. Do your homework, Mrs. Dubcek.
6. Eugene (“Flight Of The Conchords”)
Eugene is often lingering in the elevator eavesdropping on Bret and Jemaine. He often interjects into conversations in which he is not welcome. He is sometimes found hiding in their shower pretending to fix things that weren’t broken. The worst part about Eugene is that it took three years for him to realize the guys weren’t paying enough rent and evicted them the same day. Apparently, no one on TV gets 30 days notice.
5. Ralph Furley (“Three’s Company”)
Why would the most homophobic man on television wear an ascot? Roper might have been just as gay-fearing, but at least he could fix a bad drain. Furley didn’t even know how to operate a plunger or wonder why a supposedly “gay” Jack would have so many women friends sleep over.
4. Nathan Bookman (“Good Times”)
Constantly threatening to evict tenants, spreading gossip, and always eating the residents’ food makes Bookman one of the worst supers on television. Living under this slumlord’s roof was definitely not “Dyn-o-mite!”
3. Thurgood Stubbs (“The PJs”)
Not only is he rude, short-tempered, lazy, and socially inept, but he walks around doing a bad Eddie Murphy impression all day. If I wanted that, I would have seen “Shrek.”
2. Franklin Delano Bickley (“Mork & Mindy”)
Bickley puts the Shazbot in the tenant/super relationship. He is unapproachable. When you finally do get the courage to approach him with maintenance problems, he won’t leave you alone and generally ends a visit by crying about his childhood. If there was ever a super screaming out for a hug, it was this guy.
1. Fred Mertz (“I Love Lucy”)
Being a land owner and a tight wad is a horrible combination. Add to this a wife who contributes to the stupidity of your own wife, and suddenly your home life becomes a living Hell. You’ll be begging to go back to living in the streets of Cuba before your lease is up.
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Posted by Bill Doty, who is curled around his boob tube.
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