Creator's Pet/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

* Averted in ''[[Father Ted]]'' with John and Mary. They appear in almost every episode of season one and are quite popular with fans but Graham Linehan used them far less as the series progressed, feeling they were a bit of an [[Overly Long Gag]] (they absolutely loathe each other and are constantly inflicting emotional and physical abuse on one another).

* In the ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' adaptation of the [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] novels, the creators added the character of Ros, a recurring prostitute whose purpose serves little more than being naked, appearing in awkward and silly "sexposition" scenes, wasting screen time, and is generally hated by all the fans, yet the creators love her so much that they feel the need to give her more screen time than more popular characters such as the Hound and invent more scenes with her.

* In the early seasons of [[Holby City]] the character of Victoria Merrick was often seen by fans as the creator's pet. She was imcompetent in the extreme, supercilious to the nurses, became addicted to drugs and generally whined every single week about how hard it was to be a junior doctor, yet still they kept her on. Even the perfectionist Anton Meyer kept forgiving her. Yet another character, who played a quite competent young female cardiologist was immediately 'sacked' by boss Anton Meyer for a much lesser crime. Fans often wondered if Merrick was his love child and this was [[Lampshaded]] in the first episode of the third series when Merrick was sent off to another department, and one character said 'There goes the theory that she's Meyer's secret love child'. Ironically, the actress who played her, Lisa Faulkner, went on to star in [[Spooks]] as an equally incompetent young spy, but was then dipped head first into a vat of hot oil. Holby City fans, who had often written stories killing off Victoria Merrick in increasingly bizarre ways, cheered (and wished they'd thought of it).

* [[America's Next Top Model]] has had a few of these from cycle to cycle, including Bianca from Cycle 9 for bullying an autistic girl, and Shannon upon her return for the All-Star Cycle due to her [[Insane Troll Logic]] and refusal to pose in underwear when she was happy to be photographed in much skimpier swimwear... because only her husband is allowed to see her in her underwear. Wait, what? But the best example might be Cycle 11's Tahlia. This is probably Tyra's fault for casting a girl on the basis of her own morbid fascination with tragic backstories: Tahlia was a burns victim and gifs of Tyra asking her how she got her scars at her first audition shows her wearing a creepy [[Slasher Smile]]. Nevertheless Tahlia received heaps of praise from all the panel for pictures that were patently horrible, constantly whined about not wanting to be in the competition to the point that the other contestants complained about her to the panel, and took screentime away from fan favourite and [[Ascended Meme]] Allison.