Top 10 Douchiest '90s Sitcom Stars

The 1990s were good times for the sitcom, with some of the giants of the genre, such as Friends and Seinfeld, striding across the field of television history. It was also a great time for douchebag sitcom stars. We surveyed the landscape, and are here to deliver judgment on the 10 worst offenders.

10. John Stamos

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Appeared On: Full House (1988-1995)
Character: Jessie Katsopolis
Douche Credentials: Well first off all, there's the hair. Secondly, there is also the hair. And before we forget, we should probably mention the hair. Besides sporting that quavering quaff of 80s mullet well into the Clinton administration, Stamos also earns his d-bag stripes by nabbing supermodel after supermodel after supermodel. We know, we know, don't hate the player, hate the game, but somewhere around the time that Rebecca Romijn became Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Stamos slipped over the line into being an official douchebag.

9. Roseanne Barr

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Appeared On: Roseanne (1988-1997)
Character: Roseanne Conner
Douchebag Credentials: We'll be the first to admit that Roseanne was a hilarious and at-times groundbreaking show. By keeping the setting in working-class America, and using the sardonic voice Roseanne Barr had developed from years as a stand up comic, it remains a classic. That being said, Roseanne Barr is a huge douchebag. Her micromanaging of her show is legendary, as is her frequent forays in public controversy. Offenses include referring to Israel as a "Nazi State" and calling gay people "narcissistic." After TV critic Matt Roush panned her show in the pages of USA Today, she penned him a letter in the pages of Playboy, writing "You are a cocksucking pinhead, butt-rammer, fucking bitch. Fuck you, you smarmy little tight-assed prick."

8. Jonathan Silverman

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Appeared On: The Single Guy (1995-1997)
Character: Jonathan Eliot
Douchebag Credentials: One of the serious downsides of the success of Seinfeld was the endless succession of "single in the city" sitcoms that came after it. Producers apparently thought the reason we loved Seinfeld is that we liked seeing neurotic people dating in New York City, and not that, you know, it was funny. The Single Guy stands out as the worst of the bunch, and most of the blame goes to the smugly glib (or glibly smug) performance by Silverman as writer Jonathan Eliot. It was if he had read about Seinfeld a few times, but had never actually seen the show. He's since stumbled through a series of failed projects and guest spots, landing in the latest version of the Beethoven movies this spring.

7. Matt LeBlanc

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Appeared On: Friends (1994-2004)
Character: Joey Tribbiani
Douchebag Credentials:  On Friends, LeBlanc played the dimwitted but dependable oaf Joey, and Le Blanc brought a kind of sweetness to the role that helped make the show the megahit sitcom of the 1990s. Unfortunately, off-screen LeBlanc hasn't been quite as cute. In 2005, LeBlanc was forced to offer his wife a public apology for having "inappropriate contact" with a stripper while on vacation in British Columbia. The apology was most definitely not accepted, as the couple separated on January 1, 2006. Cheating on your wife with a stripper? Total douchebag behavior.

6. Joey Lawrence

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Appeared On: Blossom (1991-1995)
Character: Joey Russo
Douchebag Credentials: Let's take a moment to remember a time when any kid lacking a sense of humor could nab a quick laugh by aping Lawrence's dumb jock way of saying "Whoa." It was the Austin Power's "Yeah, baby," of the 90s, and just as terrible. Lawrence wasn't done hurting the world just yet, though. Just as Blossom was wrapping up its last Very Special Episode, Lawrence decided the world needed to hear his music, releasing his self-titled debut album Joey Lawrence. More recently, Lawrence, now going by the first name Joseph, appeared on Dancing With the Stars, albeit with a head inexplicably shaved balder than Mr. Clean's.

5. Dustin Diamond

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Appeared On: Saved By the Bell
Character: Samuel "Screech" Powers
Douchebag Credentials: For those lucky enough to not have kept up with Dustin Diamond, you may be surprised to see him, of all the cast members of Saved by the Bell, on the list. As Screech, Diamond played a gangly, awkward, and yet lovable nerd that inexplicably ran around with the A-listers of Bayside High. Diamond, however, is the exact opposite of lovable. Post-Saved by the Bell, he's appeared in a chess tutorial video in Al Jolson-style blackface, challenged a judge on Celebrity Fit Club to a fight, and appeared on Howard Stern to beg for money to save his house. Most disgustingly, however, is the sex tape that was "accidentally" leaked, Screeched, aka Saved by the Smell which shows the former child star performing, among other sexual acts, a Dirty Sanchez (for those that don't know what that is, Google it at your own risk).

4. Jenna Elfman

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Appeared On: Dharma and Greg (1997-2002)
Character: Dharma Montgomery
Douchebag  Credentials: One of the two female douchebags on the list, Elfman easily slides into the top 5. On Dharma and Greg, Elfman protrayed a "free spirit," playing the character as a mashup of hippie chick stereotypes combined with every Meg Ryan role ever. Some of that blame, of course, can be placed at the feet of the writers and producers of the show. However, Elfman, a ferverent Scientologist, deserves all of the blame for her comments in 1999, when she refused to participate in a charity for AIDS research, reasoning "AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease." No, actually AIDS is a disease, Jenna. Being a douchebag, though? That's a state of mind.

3. Bronson Pinchot

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Appeared On: Perfect Strangers (1986-1993)
Character: Balki Bartokomous
Douchebag Credentials: Perfect Strangers was primarily a vehicle for Bronson Pinchot to rip off Andy Kaufman's vastly funnier and vastly more interesting Latka Gravas from Taxi. As Balki, there was rarely a scene that Pinchot didn't manage to chew his way through. His life after Perfect Strangers is Douchebaggery 101. Pinchot appeared on the fifth season of VH1's The Surreal Life, where he slowly creeped out every single female cast member by being a pathetic old lech. His groping hug of Janice Dickinson was so over-the-line that she nearly quit the show on the spot, later saying, "I don't like this guy. This guy is a gimp motherfucker." Pinchot, for his part, told the cameras, "I believed in my heart Janice and I will hook up somehow."

2. Kelsey Grammer

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Appeared On: Frasier (1993-2004)
Character: Dr. Frasier Crane
Douchebag Credentials: While the character Grammer carried over from Cheers to the successful spin-off Frasier might be described as a stuffed shirt, or perhaps a blow hard, in real life Kelsey Grammer is 100 percent douchebag. Married three times (once to a stripper and once to a Playboy Playmate), he's battled charges of statutory rape, successfully squelched a sex tape from seeing the light of day, been arrested for drunk driving three times, and blew more coke in the 80s than Sam Kinison and Darryl Strawberry combined. Despite a decade of hard partying, when he suffered a heart attack in 2008, he publicly blamed it on Fox for canceling his terrible new sitcom, Back to You. Despite all this, the registered Republican has expressed interest in running for office. He'd have a good shot -- the halls of power are filled to the brim with douchebags.

1. Paul Reiser

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Appeared On: Mad About You (1992-1999)
Character: Paul Buchman
Douchebag Credentials: Let us be honest. Up until now, we've been having some fun. While many on the list may have made some regrettable choices in their lives, who hasn't? To be human is to fall short sometimes, to be smaller and weaker than we know ourselves to be in our hearts and souls. We understand that. We don't hate any of the above celebrities. Except maybe Kelsey Grammer.

But believe us when we say: we hate Paul Reiser. He was terrible on My Two Dads, but it was as Paul Buchman on Mad About You that Paul Reiser fully bloomed into the despicable human being that he is. Perpetually smarmy without being funny, quippy without ever delivering a decent joke, and forever wearing that goddamned smug half-smile, Reiser is the yawning black hole in the sitcom universe. He is the Pandora's Box of anti-comedy, from which every crappy episode of Yes, Dear and Life According to Jim flew out of when development execs handed him his first network deal. His books, Couplehood and Babyhood, make us question whether the invention of the printing press was truly worthwhile. Christ, look at that face. It's made for punching, and nothing else.