From incompetent spies to disastrous teachers, some fictional characters just can't seem to get the job done! Join us as we count down our picks for the characters who are hilariously terrible at their chosen professions. These workplace disasters would definitely be getting pink slips in the real world!
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00:00In the meantime, we will focus and work hard and keep our nose to the grindstone.
00:06Right?
00:08Absolutely.
00:09Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the film and television
00:13characters whose skill at their chosen professions is, to put it mildly, dubious.
00:19You idiot! You nearly drank a beaker full of sulfuric acid!
00:23Acid egg? Gee, that would have been stupid.
00:25Number 10, Rachel Green, Friends.
00:30For the record, we're not talking about Rachel's career in fashion, as she's actually quite
00:35skilled in that field. Instead, we're talking about her first job as a waitress at Central
00:39Perk.
00:40Free sample of coffee? Oh good, because where else would we get any?
00:46Oh, right.
00:48Given how much time her friends spend at the coffee shop, Rachel regularly blows off work
00:52to chat with them. She ignores people wanting to order,
00:55forgets the orders that she does take, and generally just doesn't ingratiate herself
00:59with the customers.
01:04The service industry can be tougher than many give it credit, but Rachel still doesn't
01:08seem to make much of an effort.
01:09Honey, I'm sorry they were all out of apple pie, someone just got the last piece.
01:14Number 9, Gaitok.
01:16The White Lotus.
01:18There are plenty of bad employees at this chain of luxury hotels, but Gaitok really grinds
01:22our gears. A security guard at the Koh Samui, Thailand location, Gaitok seems harmless enough
01:28at first. He's ambitious and also has a crush on fellow employee, Mook.
01:32However, between not taking her no for an answer, and his incredible incompetence at his job,
01:41Gaitok should definitely be fired. Getting distracted during a robbery is one thing,
01:46but leaving a gun out and then a guest stealing it? Get it together, man.
01:50Though his moment of courage, if you can call it that, in the finale may have been redemptive
02:02in his career at the hotel, he had to abandon his faith and morality to get there.
02:07Get my knife! Get my knife!
02:11Number 8, Johnny Utah.
02:13Point Break.
02:14He may have the most main character name ever, but Johnny Utah is a disgrace to the FBI.
02:20He's basically the poster child for what not to do when you go undercover.
02:24Sure, it's a blast, but listen, I sort of screwed my knee up yesterday.
02:28Oh yeah, yeah, I noticed you limping, but hey, don't worry about it, brah, don't worry
02:31at all, because we're not going to land on land.
02:33Oh, well fine then. I feel so much better.
02:36When infiltrating a gang of surfers turned bank robbers, you probably shouldn't form
02:41a bromance for the ages with the group's leader. You also probably shouldn't let that
02:46leader go multiple times, with the final time leading to his death instead of his arrest.
02:57Oh, and Johnny also does perhaps the dumbest thing anyone undercover can do. He tells his
03:05target, he's an FBI agent. That could so easily have gotten him killed.
03:10I know you want me so bad it's like acid in your mouth, but not this time.
03:20Adios, amigo!
03:23Number 7, Jiminy Cricket.
03:25Pinocchio.
03:26Granted, acting as someone's conscience is a pretty vague job description, but Jiminy Cricket
03:31still manages to fail at just about every turn.
03:34Maybe you and I had better have a little heart-to-heart talk.
03:38Why?
03:39Well, you want to be a real boy, don't you?
03:42Uh-huh.
03:43All right.
03:44Sit down, son.
03:45He may be assigned to keep the titular wooden boy on the right path, but Pinocchio ignores
03:49just about every piece of advice that Jiminy gives him. The Cricket's lack of persuasiveness
03:54sees Pinocchio end up turned into a donkey and swallowed by a whale.
04:03And worst of all, it's Pinocchio's misfortunes that teach him to be a better person, not
04:08anything that Jiminy said or did. Still, at least Pinocchio doesn't kill him like in
04:13the original book.
04:14Look at yourself. Smoke! Playing poo!
04:18Ow!
04:19You are coming right home with me this minute!
04:21Hey!
04:22Who's the beat?
04:23Oh, put me down!
04:25Number 6, Dee Reynolds.
04:26It's always sunny in Philadelphia.
04:28The entire gang at Paddy's are awful at their jobs, in addition to being terrible people.
04:33But Sweet Dee branches out and tries other careers more often, which is why we chose her.
04:38Well, I guess I could use this time to get my acting career off the ground.
04:41And I fully support you.
04:42You do?
04:43Absolutely. Look, the old dentist would have said,
04:45Dee, your sad little acting ship sailed a decade ago. It's pathetic.
04:49She aspires to become an actress, or a stand-up comedian. However, her acting talent is negligible,
04:55and she can't make it through a joke on stage without choking, figuratively and literally.
05:02Jesus Christ!
05:07I mean, am I right?
05:09It's great.
05:10Although nominally a waitress at the bar, Dee shows about as much interest in doing her actual job as any of the rest of the gang.
05:18So, none at all.
05:19I made all the contacts. I pushed that little monkey out, and now I'm going to be claiming him as a dependent
05:24and getting tax breaks for the next 18 years. So you talk about a scheme? How's that for a long-term scheme, bitches?
05:30Number 5, Will Schuster.
05:32Glee.
05:33Teachers in general are underpaid, but for what Mr. Schu's doing, he could use a pay cut.
05:37The counsellor to the eponymous Glee Club, Will Schuster, displays a lot of problematic behaviours you don't want in an educator.
05:45I've never been more stoked or more serious.
05:48You guys should be serious too.
05:50Don't touch me.
05:51Mr. Schu frequently lands his students in situations that range from embarrassing to downright dangerous.
05:57He even blackmails one of them.
05:58What I did then was the blackest moment of my life.
06:06You want to tell me how long you've had a drug problem?
06:08I don't even know who the chronic lady is.
06:10Will is also not the best at teaching either of his two subjects, Spanish and history.
06:14From cultural insensitivity to straight-up ignorance, the guy doesn't know his stuff.
06:19While we can't understand why they'd want to make him principal, we absolutely get Sue's ongoing animosity towards him.
06:25You have befouled the profession of teaching by accepting not only one, but two Teacher of the Year awards,
06:33despite not speaking a word of the foreign language you purport to teach.
06:36Number 4, Professor Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter franchise.
06:40Once down, folks, hear us out.
06:42As a wizard, Dumbledore is unmatched, but as a headmaster, absolutely terrible.
06:49It'd be difficult to come up with a more unsafe learning environment than Hogwarts if we tried.
06:53No, the fault is mine.
06:58I knew it was only a matter of time before Voldemort made the connection between you.
07:02Students are constantly put in mortal danger under his tenure.
07:06Several teachers he hires are either incompetent or outright hostile and discriminatory to students.
07:12Sir, it's Quidditch tomorrow.
07:14Then I suggest you take extra care, Mr. Potter.
07:18Loss of limb will not excuse you.
07:21And that's not even going into all of the ways that he messes up with Harry specifically.
07:26He basically lies to the kid and weaponises him against Voldemort.
07:30The fact that Dumbledore is still probably one of the better options available
07:34really says more about the state of the wizarding world than it does his qualifications.
07:38You've kept him alive so that he can die at the proper moment.
07:47You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter.
07:51Don't tell me now that you've grown to care for the boy.
07:54Number 3.
07:55James Bond
07:56James Bond franchise
07:57We did an entire video about why James Bond is a bad spy over on WatchMojo,
08:03but we can give you the bullet points.
08:05When enlisting someone to be a secret agent, stealth is generally the order of the day.
08:10Yet, Bond seems to disregard this central requirement for the job at every turn.
08:25He causes massive destruction on just about every mission he goes on.
08:29He sleeps with any woman that moves, including enemy agents.
08:32Plus, Bond is always captured by the bad guys.
08:35I made my own choices.
08:38You think you did?
08:40But, worst of all, he tells everyone his real name.
08:44Mr. Bond.
08:48James Bond.
08:49Sure, Bond, James Bond, makes for a great catchphrase,
08:53but an alias generally helps you stay more covert.
08:58Number 2.
08:58Stormtroopers
08:59Star Wars franchise
09:00It can be a little difficult to take the Empire seriously as a threat
09:04when their soldiers are this anette.
09:06Hey down there!
09:09Could you give us a hand with this?
09:18They're constantly bamboozled or outwitted easily by the protagonists.
09:22Plus, the Emperor's supposedly elite troops are easy work for the Star Wars equivalent
09:27of living teddy bears armed with pointed sticks.
09:43And, of course, the elephant in the room is that they have terrible aim.
09:47Sure, the heroes generally have plot armor to stop them from dying,
09:51but not even a grace?
09:53These bumbling bozos couldn't hit the broad side of a space barn.
10:03Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
10:07Who wouldn't want an adulterous murderer for a president?
10:14I'll do it justice in my eulogy.
10:17Your legacy will remain untarnished.
10:22And so will mine.
10:23Michael Hitchcock and Norm Scully
10:26Brooklyn Nine-Nine
10:27This detective duo should have retired years ago.
10:31Not to brag, but Scully and I have a combined total of 14 arrests.
10:36Would have been 20, but, well, I got 14.
10:38That's not enough arrests.
10:40Well, no one asked you.
10:41George Costanza, Seinfeld.
10:43He holds many jobs over the years, and he's bad at all of them.
10:47I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing,
10:49because if anyone had said anything to me at all
10:52when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon...
10:55You know, because I've worked in a lot of offices,
10:59and I tell you, people do that all the time.
11:03Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
11:05This Saint Nick deserves coal for his discrimination against Rudolph.
11:12Great bouncing iceberg.
11:14Now, I'm sure it'll stop as soon as he grows up, Santa.
11:17Well, let's hope so if he wants to make the sleigh team someday.
11:22Mayor Larry Vaughn, Jaws
11:23Prioritizes profits over his constituents' lives.
11:27It's a carcarid and carcarious. It's a great white.
11:30But you don't have the tooth.
11:34Look, we depend on the summer people here for our very lives.
11:37You are not going to have a summer unless you're finished.
11:39We're not only going to have to close the beach,
11:41we're going to have to hire somebody to kill the shark.
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11:57Number 1. Homer Simpson
12:00The Simpsons
12:01Springfield's dumbest resident is also perhaps its worst worker.
12:06Homer J. Simpson has worn a lot of hats during his decades on screen.
12:10Astronaut, farmer, voice actor, smuggler.
12:13The list goes on and on.
12:15Although he has shown some surprising skill in some of his careers,
12:18he generally finds some way to screw things up and either quit or be fired.
12:22This is my chance to show everyone how professional I am.
12:26Lenny, tell Mr. Burns I've gone home to work on the contest.
12:29His most consistent job is at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
12:33Although nominally the plant's safety inspector,
12:36most of Homer's workday seems to consist of sleeping at his station.
12:40There's a new guy at the plant. Maybe we ought to say hi to him.
12:43I don't know. I'm kind of doozy. I should probably go home sick.
12:48The state of Springfield's mutated wildlife
12:51and the fact that Homer is frequently substituted by inanimate objects
12:55should tell you everything you need to know about how utterly incompetent the man is.
13:00D'oh.
13:00Five minutes before critical mass.
13:02Critical what?
13:03Okay, okay. Don't panic.
13:05Whichever problem this is, I'm sure they know how to handle it.
13:09Huh?
13:11It's my problem! We're doomed!
13:14Is there a fictional screen character you'd give their two weeks' notice?
13:17Don't be afraid to tell us your picks in the comments.
13:21You're fired.
13:23Well, you didn't have to say it like that.
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