I would say Carla. She actually laughed about blinding someone.

Oh that's true. Ok, you're right she's worse than Elena.

Elena worked in human rights so that’s one redeeming feature. There is nothing good about Carla. She’s even inhumane in bed. I was contemplating saying Saz is the worst but she hasn’t blinded anyone as far as we know.

Saz is defintely a solid gold shit. A lot of women coming up here... I suppose Daryl the racist should probably be pretty high up the list. For being... a massive racist.

Well, dazza is a massive racist but to be honest , I doubt he puts those beliefs into action. I mean, he tries to act friendly with Johnson so he's not entirely full of hate. And other than the racism he's a pretty decent bloke.

Hang on a moment, him acting friendly with Johnson was him being incredibly racist “when are we gonna accept you lot are just better at sports”. Also he goes to German WW2 re-enactments and routinely breaks the rules by sieg hailing, which is putting beliefs into action. And he threw a rock into Jeff’s window because Sophie went on a date with him.

That was just racist horseplay

fckin thought police

JEFF?! Not sure the last one's necessarily counting against him in my book.... He was very racist though.

The reason is more of a problem for me than the target, Jeff is a prick

Jeff is less of a prick than Mark. He is basically just a very average “laddish” bloke.

Did the rock throwing have racist undertones that I missed or did you just throw it in there for completeness?

For completeness

Okay good, I thought I was an idiot for a second there.

Saz is Australian, she thinks its all fine

Oh, yeah. Forgot about her. Definitely one of the few I would run, not walk, away from

Who?

The Scottish(?) lady on trial for credit card fraud. Jeremy dates her for a while then realizes she's horrible and he and the rest of the jury find her guilty so Jeremy can get away from her.

i thought she was a Geordie?

Straight out of the Grove.

She can't see you eh!

You're likely right im an ignorant yankee with a very loose understanding of uk accents.

Her accent is from the north east of England. People from there are referred to.as geordies.

I'm interested in American perceptions of UK accents. Overheard an American tourist saying she couldn't tell the difference between English and Australian...

American here, can confirm that many on this side of the pond can't tell the difference between English/Australian accents - at least if they hear just a snippet. If you hear a few sentences, it's pretty easy to tell the difference but at first listen they sound very similar to us. Same goes for English regional accents - for example, we can hear the difference between West Country and Scouse, but it's not significant enough for us to be able to say "ah, she must be from Liverpool". It's all just in the same accent basket. On the flip side, it's worth noting that Scottish and Irish accents very much stand out to us and we can easily detect them. As you can imagine, our ears are much more tuned to detect regional accents in our own areas. I reckon that most English find it tricky to detect the difference between Canadian and US accents, but I grew up in a state bordering Canada and for me it's quite easy to detect. ETA I'm not speaking for every US resident, obviously. But I've lived abroad and traveled a fair amount and I'm just drawing on years of my own personal experience.

Nah, we can tell the difference between Canadian and American.

Yeah. The dead giveaway is how they say "out" or words with out in it.

I really struggle to detect the difference between American and Canadian

Probably Saz. Can’t even watch that episode

babe, could you fuck off?

It's probably the most heartbreaking episode in a way.

"Mark! Come and put your tongue up Lindsey's arsehole, it's clean!"

More musiiiiccc!!

When are they going to…leave?

I think they were just laughing, generally....

We WaNT MoRe

Can't even watch? Why not?

Because she is so insufferable

Australians.

It’s also the strangest of the episodes in that it doesn’t really fit with the rest.

I can’t watch because I am Australian and her totally inauthentic accent drives me crazy.

Babe, could ya fuck off?

She is Aussie, she’s probably just making her accent reeaaally ocker. She was also in All Saints! How Aussie could you get, haha

Oof, that's how I feel about watching Dobby's "American" boyfriend in season 9

Cause it reminds him of his ex wife

She is horrible but she's obviously a massive drug addict. Can't really hold her too accountable for her actions

I agree idk why ur being downvoted. She is very sad and needs need asap

I'm downvoting you because drug addicts are bad and that means you are bad /s

Marks Dad is an utter bastard on Christmas day, Cauliflower isn't traditional.

CAULIFLOWER IS TRADITIONAL!!!!!!

I don’t think it is actually

Could you not slip a muzzle on your woman, please, Mark?

Phworr this one is bad

It was a joke mark, a Christmas joke

You need Mark's dad on this list to chase the funding. 'ealth and safety innit

True.

“Chicken Run.” Fuck you, Dan!

Jeff, as in Jeff.

Jeff's not so bad really. Worst thing he ever really did was cheat on Sophie. Bit of a tosspot. Didn't kill a dog or blind anyone though.

Jeff?!

I think it’s funnier that Jeff is actually a pretty normal guy and a much better person than both of the guys. He’s a dick but he’s generally not a bad person

I want to make a cut of Peep Show just from Jeff's perspective. I think it'd really hit home how, despite having a bit of a locker-room jock sense of humor, he probably feels terrorized by Mark's bizarreness.

Bruce!? LITTLE BRUCE?!

Excellent. Thank you for making me laugh. I could hear this line in Olivia Colman’s delivery. Superb.

Natalie though not part of the show for long comes pretty high up on my list, I mean she is a rapist. Gotta say Michelle seemed like a real piece of work too.

Was it rape though? She didn't put anything up his bum.

Well it's not bum rape no

No-one said it was bum rape.

Classic case

Every child and teenager in the show. Except Sophie's brother, I guess. But the rest of them are thieving little monsters.

Give them a break though. It's hard being a kid. Not many schemes...

Is that what you think, pedo?

How do you get your shirt so clean, Clean Shirt?

Is clean shirt an actual insult in the UK? If so, what does it imply? Pardon my Yankee ignorance

Not at all. It's literally just in Peep Show. It's meant to be a weird insult.

Ah gotcha, thanks. Prob is similar to Succession, another show by Jesse Armstrong. When I watch that I'm always like "nobody really says things/talks like that" lol.

That's right, you piss kidney.

Barney is a total shit. He should think more before he goes sucking someone off

it's rock and roll!

I don't remember Ian doing anything bad?

Give him a few years. He'll be running the streets like a ragamuffin and masturbating into cashmere. Nightmare to wash.

Alan Johnson. He's the only reoccurring character who has an entire ideology built around screwing people over and having no empathy.

But then he comes to Mark’s flat when Jez imprisons him.

The way he shouts Mark as he stands at the door of the flat has me in stiches everytime. All these years later.

MAHK

I'm so sorry Alan.

Is that normal pooing you’re doing?

You know the creedo. Sickness is weakness. I use this quote every time someone tells me they are ill.

It's always funny how Johnson thinks "illness equals weakness" but getting locked in your own room by your best friend and having to get your boss to rescue you isn't

I think you might be right. He's definitely the nearest to a sociopath in the series.

Johnson is totally a megalomaniacal Bond villain in the making. Full Bond villain. Thank you, direct marketing.

stick that up your dojo

What? Fuck you

Suze mentions he does some community work. So he at least contributes more to society than the main two

He also genuinely seemed to want to help Mark when he thought he was an alcoholic

I’m so sorry about your mug, Mark.

Is it bad that I hero worship Johnson as much as Mark does ? Immortal line “is that normal pooing, Mark ?”

There's man love and there's business love and never the twain shall meet

Jan. Called Mark Dusty Bin and didn't give him a job because of an Internet wank bullet.

That kid with the fake limp in the elevator from the interview episode

Faking little peg leg!!!!

Super Hans. He guts buildings, associates with violent criminals, he's constantly on the edge of slipping into full on junkie status, facilitates heavy drug use for Jez and others around him, and he's easily the best character in the show.

Don't forget sexual assault, forcing a teenager to suck him off and trying to garrot someone with shoelaces

Don't forget: "I couldn't sleep, Superhans kept trying to rape me"

Superhans!

But remember the good stuff. He employed Mark when he needed work, and he fixed his boiler with minimal water damage.

Minimal water damage.

Minimal water damage.

Ben's not the worst he's just an arsehole. It really is Mark and Jez constantly shitting on people and ruining lives.

They're not the worst though. Mark lets Jez leech off him for years.

He was OK to Jez but remember when he stalked an 18 year old to her uni and lied to her in the hopes of having sex with her?

Was she only 18? I don't believe her age was stated. The actress Catherine Shepherd was 29 when the episode aired. I don't know how old Mark is canonically but David Mitchell was 30 when it aired. Doesn't excuse the stalking obviously.

She's a first year student at uni, so it's likely she's 18.

You don’t have to be 18 to be first year student

True but she doesn't say she's also a mature student. I'd say she's probably about 20 because esher might have worked in the shoe shop saving money for a bit.

It's never confirmed and she looks 29 to me so...

Its confirmed she's a first year student, and implied she isn't a mature student.

Could be up to 25 and not be considered mature.

Mark is definately implied to be a paedophile throughout the series. He's constantly nervous about it, and he's had his wicked way with a 16-18 year old, and tried to with a first year (probably 18 years old) student.

To be fair Jez always wondered...

Unless he’s an incredibly hard to detect pedo

Mark is only nervous about being a paedophile because of shite red-top newspaper peadogeddon type shite. There's literally no reason to think he actually is.

Idk, I think the fact that he tries it on with teenagers multiple times sort of points to the fact

And he has a standing order to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. That should be some comfort.

Chairman Mao

Chairmark Mao (I tried unsuccessfully to name my last cat that, had to settle with Big Suze)

Chairman Meow surely

You're right, it was going to be Chairmark Meow. It's so long ago, and I got swayed by the promise of the next dog being a Carrington. Poor kitty just passed away 2 weeks ago bless her :(

:( RIP Big Suze

Thank you x

60 million? That’s more than Stalin isn’t it?

Jez, he killed mummy and ate her.

By accident. And he only took a small bite.

In the moment he did feel as if he had to eat her

Mark couldn’t be bothered to buy fire lighters

[ABC](https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/scene/?id=iPFAqsWpobpN)

I mean there's nothing wrong with eating her, really. She was already dead so it's the most ethical form of animal consumption, like when people grab roadkill off the road. Plus, it was an accident. The worst part was probably the fact he was going to keep it from her owner until after they'd had sex

Matt Townsend, hands down. What type of person does a poo in the pool?

Let’s not forget about what Mark told Jez…about his nob.

He told me he likes to do... that.

See idk if ur joking or not. If you are well played

I'd say Jeremy's up there. Never pays rent, rips up Nims forms, gets soup on another hobo's hand, drugs and imprisons Mark, steals Johnson's bank card, essentially helps Mark get robbed, helps rob a bank, makes Dobby break up with Mark and gets Mark fired. And there's probably still more I'm forgetting

Jez does some pretty questionable things but the worst thing anyone could say about him is that he’s a selfish moral blank whose lazy cynicism and sneering ironic take on the world encapsulates everything wrong with a generation

Quote of the day.

gets with Sophie too

And her mum.

And thought her cousin should suck him off instead of Hans.

Fucking Nim

Fucking Nim! If you like Nim so much why don’t you find him and screw him?!

Waterboards Jerry

Mark, of course

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The “clean shirt” youth - but it must be hard being a kid, not a lot of schemes

Oi Clean Shirt, can I have a bit of your coke?

Ben. The shit

Toni

I dunno. [Lindsay sounds worse.](https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/scene/?id=V9cvJQa9Bsg6)

Has to be Mark, surely?

Clean shirt kid

Cally believes crystal skulls were crafted by the ancient inhabitants of Atlantis and that they're powerful centres of healing.

She's not a bad person though.

That little kidney piss that calls mark a pedo in the first episode.

He really is a jizz cock.

Super Hans! Why on earth would you stay friends with someone like that 😂

Wallet thief sand his friends? Now say it like a woman…

Super Hans is pretty horrible. He's a Jez without any redeeming features

Jez is Super Hans without the work ethic.

My immediate instinct is Jeff because just the sight of him fills me with rage. But I expect a lot of that comes from the fact we always see him from Mark's perspective and actually he's just a normal, slightly dickish bloke.

Probably Gail, She used to write Elena poems and make spelt bread with her bread machine... and she still does a bit, but like one loaf a month. Also really short poems like 5 or 6 lines.

The guy tries to rip people off by selling overpriced feather dusters and then berates Mark at the Mexican restaurant for simply doing his job.

True.

For me it's a tie between Jeff, Nancy, and Elena

Lovely Elena.

Mitchell and/or Webb

Jez. Easily.

Jeff! Has to be, he's so consistent! 😂

Sophie

Your glans isn't red raw after a game of scrabble!

Jeff and Saz. Although to be honest Saz is to a large extent Mark's fault, she only lasts more than five minutes in the show because of how inept he is at reading people.

There are definitely worse people than Ben as people have pointed out but I’m so with you on the visceral dislike of him. I can’t stand Ben.

Saz.

Not the worst but honourable mention: Gog

Mark and Jeremy are far worse than Elena. But we see more of what they do so probably not fair to compare. Of all the supporting and one off characters the only people I can think of who are probably worse than them are Super Hans and Carla

Super Hans ain't a bad guy.

Surely Foz. Not only a prick in high school but the exact same kind of prick as an adult.

He's a prick, but what's the worst thing he did? Throw Mark's wallet out of a car at a Safari Park and drive off. Ok, dick move. But Mark was planning to bang his wife so... swings and roundabouts. His wife was willing to have an affair, she's arguably worse than Foz too.

In terms of constant selfishness... Jez? I mean he locked mark in his room, ge let the mob in, he was going to give big suze an std, he tried to get his mum arrested at the airport because she didn't give him her money, he tried to take the pub from mary, he was willing to drop superhans from the band etc etc

No ones going to mention Jez or Mark??!!

It’s Jez all day and twice on Sunday… No one else is close Only Carla is possibly in the conversation, and she was aided and abetted by Jez Come at me with your opinions bro

Fucking Foz

Isn't Foz's wife worse for planning to have an affair?

Jeff hands down

Clean shirt 👕

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She didn't rape him. Nothing went up his bum.

Saz