Worst Narrator QOTD
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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: The Worst Narrator Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 4 Comments1 Min Read

    A recent Ten Things topic involved ‘Battle Of The Planets’, one of the greatest cartoons of my lifetime.  It also referenced 7-Zark-7, the cute robot whose narration was used to gloss over sex and violence in the original source material.  He was the worst narrator ever, by design, and even as a child I remember being annoyed that Zark was clearly hiding things from us and as such, I consider him even worse than the sarcasm of Lemony Snicket or the outright lies of Future Ted Mosby, leading to today’s third-person query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) also remembers the narrator of ‘The Westing Game’, who intentionally withheld information from the readers for dramatic effect, though that worked out pretty well, asking: Who is the WORST narrator in your favorite pop culture?

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    4 Comments

    1. Vrynn on

      I love the trope of the unreliable narrator, so in that sense, for me the worst narrator is the best narrator.

      I’m going to award a tie to the protagonist-narrators of Fight Club and Mr. Robot

    3. Scott G. on

      That would be Ralphie Parker from A Christmas Story, the best Christmas movie ever made.