TV Characters Who Just Don't Give A Damn

Sure we've seen the Bro Code pioneer's softer side plenty throughout How I Met Your Mother, from Barney's quest to find his father to the bitter breakup that created the womanizing Barney we know from a shiftless hippie.

Still, few manage to match Barney's level of awesome, even when he gleefully ignores the advice or wishes of his closest friends in the name of a good time. If it weren't for our love of NPH, we'd have ditched Barney long ago.

Charlie Sheen as an emotionless bachelor with precious disregard for family? Surely, you can't be serious.

As one of the few examples on our list to actually break out into reality (or is it the other way around?), Charlie Harper usually can't be bothered to give a f$%k about the dilemmas of his brother, maid, or even his nephew. Of course, perhaps due to overdose on Tiger Blood, we can't wait to see his funeral handled by the upcoming premiere, as Ashton Kutcher takes the lead for the winning-est season yet.

Because who needs to worry about the safety of the country when we can focus on getting revenge for minor slights or avoiding working on issues of easily treatable cancers? 

As much as we love Archer's Jon Benjamin and his omni-present work ethic, it's hard to forget the absurdly watchable transgressions of Sterling Archer, and envy his excursions into the D-D-D-D-DANGER ZONE!

Perhaps the only doctor to lecture you on your health while puffing away on his omni-present cigarette, Battlestar Galactica's Doc Cottle is a man all his own.

He might be allied with the Colonials, but no amount of rank or species prevents the good doctor from doing his job to the best of his ability, even with a rather gruff bedside manner. He'll be with you right after this next cigarette.

On the one hand, you have a sweet and saccharine side to Futurama's Bender, who learns plenty of life lessons on love, friendship and mortality through his relationship with his meatbag pal, Fry. Of course, on more than one occasion he's actually sold Fry's blood.

Still, soulful as Bender Bending Rodriguez's servers might be, there's nothing that can't be undone with appealing to his legendary love of booze, hookerbots and shiny metal asses.

You've got to admit, there's a great deal of craft to The Office's Creed Bratton. The character has not only managed to work his way up from homelessness to the prestigious position of "Quabity Ashwitz" (Quality Assurance Manager) at Dunder-Mifflin, but has also managed to maintain that position for over eight years despite gross incompetence, unethical behavior and borderline senility.

The depth of Doctor Venture's moral depravity truly knows no bounds. While we often forget that Rusty remains an astoundingly intelligent super-scientist, he still can't be bothered to question the sickness of watching a child touring the facility brutally murdered or see flaw with haphazardly cloning the remains for his parents.

Of course, Rusty loves his own sons Hank and Dean in his own way, but never lets a few dead bodies (or children) get in the way of an incoming paycheck.

At a certain point in his life, Frank Reynolds just stopped caring, to the delight and improvement of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans everywhere. So, despite whatever savvy it took for the character to make his seemingly unending fortune in the first place, his requisites obviously didn't include abstaining from drugs, alcohol or engaging in the most violently depraved, amoral and perverted behavior that makes his vindictive children seem saintlike.

Between 30 Rock's Jack Donaghy and Tracy Jordan, we're hard-pressed to decide just who performs better with an "I could care less about this bullsh*t" attitude.

And yet, as lifelong New Yorkers, we have to admit our impression with the increasingly crazed exploits of Tracy Jordan and Tracy Morgan himself, rather than fictional, and exceedingly republican Bostonite Jack Donaghy.

Angel: Is this your big strategy for gettin' the ring back?

Spike: I had a plan.

Angel: You, a plan?

Spike: A good plan, smart plan, carefully laid out. But, I got bored.

Nothing more perfectly sums up the breakout character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who's shown us his sensitive side on multiple occasions, but always manages to return to the devil-may-care attitude that keeps the character so intrinsically intriguing.