1. Patty Hewes (Damages)
If you haven't been watching Damages, you haven't seen this bitch-in-heels in action. She has pet dogs killed in order to win cases. Glenn Close's latest role makes her previous incarnations as Cruella DeVil and Alex Forrest look positively nice. She's altogether terrifying and we're pretty sure if Santa tried to climb down her chimney she'd have him tossed in jail for home invasion, while she was somehow working on a case that framed him for reindeer-icide.

2. Tory Foster (Battlestar Galactica)
She killed Cally. Poor, sweet, unsuspecting Cally. Plus, there's that whole seemingly-loyal-assistant-to-the-President, turned-traitor-as-fast-as-she-could thing. While some of the Cylons have been showing human emotions, ever since Tory found out that she was a toaster, she's been embracing her cold and clinical side and generally being a badass. We don't know if Cylons exchange holiday gifts or not, but if you gave her something she didn't like, she'd probably send you out the airlock.

3. Ben Linus (Lost)
This manipulative man is filled with daddy issues and is dead set on keeping people on the island, or getting them to return to the island. We're not sure if he's on the side of good, evil or just plain old-crazy, but he's not exactly a cuddly humanitarian type. He did have a distinct soft-spot for Alex, but can you imagine him wrapping Christmas presents for her? Hardly. It would be hard to wrap a machete anyway.

4. Dr. Gregory House (House)
TV's top curmudgeon was an easy pick, he's the kind of person who uses holiday gifts in order to manipulate people's feelings, and easily tosses away any sort of gift that might reveal that people actually like him. He's undeniably brilliant, but he's lacking majorly when it comes to people skills, and we doubt that he'd consider reciprocating gifts. If anything, he'd be a regifter.

5. Don Draper (Mad Men)
We're sure that he puts on that begrudging dad face on Christmas morning with the kids because Betty makes him. Though, Betty probably does all the shopping for presents anyway. He just has to show up. And we're sure his poor secretary of the moment is left working and picking out something nice for Betty... if he even remembers. There's a chance he enjoys the eggnog though.

6. Corrine and Randy (Survivor: Gabon)
It seems a bit mean-spirited to put real people on this list filled with characters who are supposed to be abhorrent, but Corrine did seem angry at the finale that her truly evil side wasn't shown, and Randy, well... he's racist, angry and likes to be alone. So we'd hate to spend the holidays with either of them. We're feeling bad for Corrine's family, who apparently love her mean side. And Randy, well, it doesn't seem like he's got family, considering he brought strangers from the internet as his "friends" to the finale. Either way, we're just glad that a) the season is over and we don't have to see them weekly, and b) we aren't stuck with either one of them for the holidays.

7. Wilhelmina Slater (Ugly Betty)
She claims to be looking for love, but mostly she's a power grubbing queen bee who used corpsicle sperm to impregnate a surrogate (in the form of a down-on-her-luck seamstress) so that she could take over half of the Meade empire, and that's only one of the scheming things that she's done this year. She does have a soft-spot, ever so occasionally, but it seems most likely that she uses Christmas as an opportunity to buy affection from people with pricey presents.

8. Sarah Connor (Terminator)
We know Sarah's got a lot on her plate. She's on the run, protecting her son from certain death. She's got some crazy people after her, and has to deal with a terminator, a teenager and resistance fighter, but she could take a break and have some fun every once and while. Right? Sing some carols and sip some hot cocoa perhaps? Skynet will still be around on Dec. 26th.

9. Charlotte King (Private Practice)
To call her cold and standoffish would be an understatement. It seems her goal in life is to keep the doctors at Oceanside Wellness in line, and she does it in the most no-nonsense way possible. Even her relationship with Cooper couldn't make her act like a real human being, instead of a robot programmed to run a hospital and take down the practice of her only "friends" and "boyfriend" by starting a rival practice. She's a peach. And while she'd probably be all Martha Stewart if she decided to celebrate the holidays, it's hard to imagine her having any friends or family to enjoy the season with.

10. ABC
We haven't forgotten the real grinches out there this holiday season, and it is in the form of TPTB over at ABC who misguidedly cancelled Dirty Sexy Money, Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone, while keeping Private Practice on the air. Morons. We hope they get a lump of coal in their stocking this holiday. If people who can't appreciate quality original television even deserve that.

Your thoughts? Other people/characters who really suck the joy out of the holiday season?