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I love Mandy Patinkin as an actor, and he did a good job in Homeland with the script he had. But my word, Saul Berenson was the most incompetent CIA agent I can ever imagine. Got abducted and had to be saved in every season, had an affair with a Russian agent, let a prisoner kill herself while he was interrogating her, consistently gave piss-poor advice to the President, and more. And still kept getting promoted up in every successive season of the show!
Anyone else in popular tv who can compete with this level of incompetence?
Edit: Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, etc. are deliberately written in as incompetent for comedic effect. I am looking for characters who the writers didn’t intend to be incompetent, but are anyway.