In this episode, Marlon and Jake talk about the bad characters we’re not meant to like but do and the good characters we’re meant to like but annoy us. From Dracula to Daisy Buchanan to Oliver Twist and Bambi, the good-to-evil spectrum is vast and no character is safe from commentary. Tune in to find out which classic villain the duo unanimously hate, and which villain gives Marlon the chills and scares Jake to this day.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
King Solomon’s Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Raiders of the Lost Arc by Campbell Black
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Bambi by Felix Salten
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Characters Behaving Badly