Reality TV's 9 Worst Stock Characters

For more than two decades now, Americans have devoted hours each week to seeing inside the lives of total strangers, as they compete for the perfect man, showcase their talent (or lack of it), live together, work together, survive together, all in the name of reality TV. But these shows also follow a formula of stock characters who often make us squirm, from the desperate bachelorette to the angry black woman. Here are the genre's most overused, egregious, and clichéd stock characters.