How dysfunctional were they? Teenage Rory (Alexis Bledel) and young mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) may have had one of the most enviable parent-child relationships in TV history. The show: Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-’07) As Tyrion might say, look at the fun we’re having! However, Cersei also takes her cousin Lancel (Eugene Simon) as a lover for a spell - until, that is, another one of her brothers, Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) discovers that Cersei and Lancel are sleeping together, at which point Tyrion forces Lancel into serving as his spy. Brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and twin sister Cersei (Lena Headey) are lovers with an illegitimate child. How dysfunctional are they? The House of Lannister is, literally, the most royally screwed family on this list. The show: Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-present) Of course, Stewie’s pathological worldview could just stem from the fact that life doesn’t get any better for the older Griffins, especially adolescent outcasts Meg (Mila Kunis) and Chris (Seth Green), and neglectful, borderline-alcoholic dad Peter (MacFarlane). He’s particularly obsessed with killing his mother Lois (Alex Borstein) and hating on Matthew McConaughey. Villainous toddler Stewie (Seth MacFarlane) repeatedly attempts world (if not family) domination through the construction and deployment of mind-control devices, fighter jets, clones, rocket launchers, and lasers. How dysfunctional are they? The dysfunction in the Griffin household arguably emanates from its youngest member upward. Not dispiriting enough? Nearly every episode ends with a chorus of voices taunting, “Everybody hates Chris!” Growing up in lower-class Brooklyn in the 1980s, Chris (Tyler James Williams, as co-creator Chris Rock’s ostensible doppleganger) can’t catch a break - not from his loud and suspicious mom Rochelle (Tichina Arnold), his cheapskate workaholic pop Julius (Terry Crews), his underhanded younger sister Tonya (Imani Hakim), or his idolized brother Drew (Tequan Richmond). How dysfunctional were they? Any show whose very title parodies the cutesy-poo shenanigans and geriatric clowning of Everybody Loves Raymond is going to offer, by default, a bleaker (if just as funny) familial outlook. The show: Everybody Hates Chris (UPN/CW, 2005-’09) Sorry Cookie, but God is definitely withholding his blessings from your brood. Gray) is so pissed at his dad that he sleeps with his ex-fiancee Anika (Grace Gealey). Gay middle son Jamal (Jussie Smollett) must contend with a homophobic father. Eldest son Andre (Trai Byers) suffers from bipolar disorder. Henson) spent 17 years in the slammer after taking the fall for her now-ex-husband’s trafficking. How dysfunctional are they? The Lyon family’s troubles read like a greatest-hits compilation of deceit and despair: Lucious (Terrence Howard) is a former drug dealer battling ALS. Spoiler alert: It was his sister-in-law Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), who also happened to be pregnant with his baby. (Larry Hagman) in Dallas’ infamous third-season cliffhanger literally everyone had a motive. That’s pretty messed up! No wonder nobody knew who shot J.R. How dysfunctional were they? It’s been said that Dallas creator David Jacobs patterned the Ewings after the mendacious Pollitt clan in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then set them up against the rival Barnes family, Romeo and Juliet–style. Not even an analrapist like Tobias (David Cross) could sort this lot out. (Jeffrey Tambor), delusional illusionist Gob (Will Arnett), narcissistic sis Lindsay (Portia de Rossi), disturbingly childlike Buster (Tony Hale), and occasionally incesutous cousins George-Michael (Michael Cera) and Maeby (Alia Shawkat). There’s drunk mom Lucille (Jessica Walter), treasonous pop George Sr. How dysfunctional are they? Michael (Jason Bateman) may be a straightforward do-gooder (most of the time), but the rest of the Bluths are so nuts that their sitcom’s opening-credits sequence is actually dedicated to disentangling their familial chaos. The show: Arrested Development (FOX/Netflix, 2003-present)
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