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* Dave Chappelle came to loathe how people started showing up to his stand-up comedy exclusively to demand that he replicate skits from his TV show. This even led to a [[Creator Breakdown|nervous breakdown]], ensuring that the third season (or any after it) of ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' would never get finished. People would yell at him, "I'm Rick James, Bitch!". Took about two minutes for him to feel [[Dude, Not Funny]]. The significant [[Misaimed Fandom]] from his sizeably white audience who were there simply for the [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] and completely missing how Chappelle was satirizing and mocking such attitudes didn't help matters much, either.
* [[Eddie Murphy]] refuses to acknowledge his old ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' characters, though they are some of his most enduring legacy.
** It's probably because of a 1995 "Weekend Update" sketch in which [[David Spade]], as part of his "Hollywood Minute" segment, made a brutal [[Take That]] at Murphy's (then-)lackluster career, saying "Look, kids, a falling star! Make a wish!", that ''[[Dude, Not Funny|really]]'' [[Berserk Button|pissed Murphy off]].
** Also due to fans asking Murphy to do those sketches for them when they meet him. [[Take That, Audience!|Allegedly, he wrote the SNL sketch where Buckwheat is assassinated for this reason]].
* Both [[William Shatner]] and Leonard Nimoy (and to a lesser extent, most of the original cast; ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'' was based partially in reality, after all) had a period of Creator Backlash after ''[[Star Trek: The
** In fact, the author of ''[[I Am Not Spock]]'' not only went on to write ''I Am Spock'', but also has now officially become the original cast member with the longest on-screen association with the franchise, with his role in [[Star Trek (film)|the 2009 film]]. And Shatner is ''not'' in the film only because there was no plausible way to bring {{spoiler|Prime timeline}} Kirk [[Back
** However, there are some Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise alumni who are very much straight examples of this trope;
*** Robert Beltran (Chakotay) made disparaging comments about ''Voyager'' for years, even while the show was still running. He's often criticized the quality of the writing, the technobabble and the fact that he wasn't given a whole lot to do over the series' 7-season run. He's also expressed sincere disdain for the character of [http://www.digisys.net/users/cosmo/robert.html Chakotay during chats with fans]{{Dead link}}. It's believed that Beltran was given an [[Strangled by the Red String|out-of-nowhere]] relationship with Seven of Nine by the producers in order to shut him up long enough for the show to finish.
*** Jolene Blalock takes a similar tack with Enterprise. In fact, several members of the cast (including Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer and Blalock) joined the chorus blasting the show in media interviews in the months following the series finale, "These Are The Voyages", which was roundly criticized by reviewers and fans.
** The casts of ''[[Star Trek: The
*** The only one with real regrets about his time on ''TNG'' is [[Wil Wheaton]]: a large portion of his autobiography ''Just a Geek'' focuses on his coming to terms with his (in retrospect) ill-made decision to leave the show due to Fan Backlash and increasingly being sidelined by the show's creators. [[Creator's Pet|It probably didn't help that his character was one of the most hated on the show]], either. Nowadays, he seems to look back on his time on TNG with real nostalgia, and doesn't seem above some good-natured [[Adam Westing|ribbing]] of his old character, [[Self-Deprecation|either]].
*** Marina Sirtis felt that the worst of the Trek movies was ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Insurrection]]'', saying that she fell asleep during its premiere.
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*** Troughton did make comebacks in ''The Three Doctors'' and "The Five Doctors", and finally alongside Colin Baker in ''The Two Doctors'', and looked like he was thoroughly enjoying himself in all of them. Of course Troughton didn't ''hate'' the character—he would make himself available at conventions, and any time he and [[Jon Pertwee]] were at the same convention, the two would appear at joint panels and jokingly mock-bicker as Two and Three did in ''The Three Doctors'' and ''the Five Doctors''. Troughton also counseled Davison to stay on only 3 years, and this aided in his decision to leave the show in 1984.
** Janet Fielding has stated that she was pretty bitter towards the show when she left because she wasn't happy with how she and her fellow companions were treated. She's since gotten over it and is much more comfortable with the show now.
** Surprisingly subverted by Colin Baker, who you would think—given that he was the only actor playing the Doctor to be fired from the role, that his era was for a long time not incredibly popular with fans and that, well, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|he had to wear]] [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes|That Coat]]—would have plenty of reason to not want to have anything to do with the show again. Instead, barring some rather understandable regrets, he's always appeared quite enthusiastic about the show, being associated with the show and returning to it in some form on occasion. Baker, long before [[David Tennant]] took the trope and ran with it, was ''the'' [[Ascended Fanboy]] on ''Doctor Who'', having been a childhood fan of the show. He too has done numerous Sixth Doctor Big Finish dramas, and he (and the writers) went the extra mile to completely rehabilitate Six's reputation, leading to him being a poster boy for [[Rescued
* [[Robin Williams]] does '''not''' like being called "[[Mork and Mindy|Mork]]", or being greeted with "Nanu nanu". Even as far back as "Reality, What a Concept..." (1979) he had to let the crowd (chanting "Mork! Mork! Mork!") know that he preferred doing stand-up. On his "Live 2002" album, something similar happened, and he actually said he'd rather forget Mork. Most notably, for years he's been unwilling to say "Nanu nanu" even as a reference... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El42SfWNdrQ until recently, it seems (at around 2:18)]. Perhaps he has mellowed.
* Actor and singer Danny Smith is rumored to be annoyed at people who still think of him as [[Perky Goth|Merton Dingle]] from ''[[Big Wolf on Campus]]''. It's unknown whether it's true or if he's over it.
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* Chuck Henry will not allow his 1989 version of ''[[Now You See It]]'' to be seen in reruns, fearing that his credibility as a newscaster would be hurt if people remembered that he was a game show host at one point — consensus is, however, that Henry was a competent host. GSN does show the earlier Jack Narz version, off and on again.
* [[Harlan Ellison]] publically denounces, to this day, ''[[The Starlost]]'' which he started out on as the writer/creator. [[Executive Meddling]] ruined it.
** Ellison also wrote an entire ''book'' ranting about how [[Executive Meddling]] ruined his original script for the ''[[Star Trek: The
* Contrary to rumors, Joe Odagiri, the lead in ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'', doesn't despise his tenure as a Kamen Rider, but he tends to dodge the subject in interviews as he's been trying to make it as a serious actor. [[Milestone Celebration]] ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' has an [[Alternate Universe]] Kuuga as a major character, played by another actor (Ryota Murai, who conveniently enough is a [[Promoted Fanboy]] of ''Kuuga'').
** Likewise Shigeki Hosokawa, who played the title character in ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]'', made a blog post just after the show ended in which he talked about how badly the second half of the show was mismanaged, in particular complaining about how they got rewrites for the final episode while filming it. Like Odagiri he apparently dodges the subject of ''Hibiki'' in interviews, and though in that same blog post he said he'd be glad to come back (if someone competent were in charge), he's practically the only main cast member who didn't return in ''Decade''.
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* Robert Reed absolutely ''hated'' ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' (but not the Brady Bunch - he loved the kids), feuding with creator Sherwood Schwartz throughout the run, trying to get out of his contract and flat-out refusing to appear in the final episode because the script was so bad (had the show been renewed for a sixth season, Schwartz would have seen to it that the family would be without Mike Brady). However, he returned for the later TV movies and series (and the TV movie adaptation of Barry Williams' memoir ''Growing Up Brady'' is dedicated to Reed's memory).
* [[Margaret Cho]] has expressed regret and frustration over her short-lived sitcom ''All-American Girl'', which was ''[[In Name Only|very]]'' [[In Name Only|loosely based on her stand-up comedy]]. She was reportedly [[Executive Meddling|told]] that she had to [[Hollywood Pudgy|lose weight]], and then was told she [[All Asians Are Alike|wasn't acting Asian enough]] and was made to work with an "Asian consultant." When that didn't work, they [[Put on a Bus|got rid of most of the Asian family members]] and [[Race Lift|replaced them with white friends]]. Unsurprisingly, the show failed, and she spiraled into drug and alcohol problems as a result.
* Ashley Pharaoh, co-creator of the much-derided ''[[Bonekickers]]'', penned a "letter to my younger self" article containing sage nuggets of advice... one of which was "Do not write ''Bonekickers''".
* ''[[Castle]]'' has an [[In-Universe]] example when the title character, a novelist, got bored with his current hero (Detective Derrick Storm) and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] at the end of his last book. He then starts up a new series about Detective Nikki Heat, based on Beckett.
* James Gurney joined in the backlash against the miniseries and TV series versions of his ''[[Dinotopia]]'' books.
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