This is far from saying Simpsons is bad. Bite your tongue! Even the bit players are hilarious. Heck, in over 14 years on the air, we've been introduced to nearly every single citizen of "Springfield," and they're all a riot...except, of course, Lisa. She just never seems to deliver a single joke. If anything, she seems to be always looking at the frivolity happening around her, and wondering what she's doing there. That makes two of us.

This is what I would call a definitive moment, in the pomposity that is Lisa: episode #32, "Lisa's Substitute." She gets a crush on her substitute teacher, then looks at her dad and sees he isn't as smart. She then screams at the top of her lungs that dear ol' dad is a "baboon! baboon! baboon! baaaa-boon!!!" I'm not an advocate for any form of physicality when rearing a child, though the very fact that Homer didn't smack her one upside the head, is evidence he's a very intelligent, sympathetic gentleman. Not even "bratty" Bart was ever so callous. Oh, and Lisa...? That episode made you look like a chimp, so I wouldn't throw stones.

That's the whole problem with Lisa Simpson: she cannot once view herself to be flawed. The Simpson family as a whole --if not the entire populace of Springfield-- is at its best whenever they can realize their flaws, and just have fun with them. Lisa always seems to feel she is the flawless waif, constantly oppressed by all the "stupid" people around her. Simpsons storylines involving Lisa, as a result, just aren't funny: Lisa whines, Lisa complains, Lisa acts like she's the overflowing cup of endless knowledge. What does Lisa know? Beats me. She can play the saxophone and bitch. That's about it.

However; yes, fanboys, she's just barely on this list, as the tenth worst character to happen to great cartoons. There's a whole lot worse than Lisa Simpson; of that, we can be certain. Let's move on.

On to Worst Character, #9: "Stupid Cat Concepts! HO!"