Spoiled Brat / Live-Action TV

• The Andy Griffith Show features one in the episode "Opie and the Spoiled Kid", wherein Opie befriends a very selfish, wealthy, and spoiled boy named Arnold, who is so bratty that he makes Angelica Pickles look like an angel. He is a tantrum thrower (this behavior nearly rubs off on Opie until he finds out that tantrums don't work on Andy) rides his bike on the sidewalks, bumping and knocking people over in the process, and smack-talks Andy and Barney when they catch him and impound his bike. This reaches its zenith when he brings his father (who is a bit of a pushover) to the police station, hoping that he'll get his bike back. It's during this that Arnold outright implies that he'll let his own father go to jail if it means he'll get his bike back. This winds up being the wrong thing to say, as his father finally decides he's had enough, declares that he's going to sell the bike, and takes a kicking and screaming Arnold to the "good ol'-fashioned woodshed" out back.
• Arrested Development: Lindsay Bluth is a full-grown version of this. She pretends to care about worldly issues like poverty, but it's clear that she's just looking for attention. She is so self-centered and used to having things done for her that she has trouble taking care of her daughter and is very often (unintentionally) neglectful towards her.
  Lindsay: "Lindsay's a combative, entitled princess"?! I should hire someone to kick your ass for that!
• The Big Bang Theory:
  • Sheldon Cooper tends to utilise this trope, often getting whatever he wants, how and when he wants it, no matter how unreasonable, merely by being extremely difficult. Lampshaded in "The Terminator Decoupling" when Leonard is asked why the group is taking the train to a symposium in San Fransisco when, as Howard states, it's four times longer than flying and costs almost twice as much. Leonard simply replies that, "We had a vote. Three of us voted for airplane, Sheldon voted for train, so we're taking the train..." Ironically, his family seems to be the only people not enabling him. This is possibly a reason he's so reluctant to spend time with them, even moreso than the other characters and their respective relatives.
  • Penny also shows a deep sense of entitlement, helping herself to Leonard and Sheldon's food and Wifi (to the extent that Sheldon has been known to change the password to variants of pennyisafreeloader). Especially evident in the Season 2 episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization", in which Sheldon cuts her off for being a bad houseguest. She throws a tantrum because Sheldon won't let her use his Wifi anymore until she apologizes for touching his food ^note Which, as the bill-payer, he has every right to do. She also has a superiority complex, believing that she (a diner waitress who can't be bothered to do her job properly and has to rely on handouts to keep up with the rent) is infinitely better/cooler than all the "nerds" ^note well-educated and gainfully employed scientists who bail her out of the financial trouble she gets herself in. Said financial trouble is due to spending most of her money on frivolities, like shoes or alcohol.
  • Sometimes played for laughs with Raj, such as in the Season 6 episode "The Tenure Turbulence", where he whines about his parents not getting him seat-warmers with the BMW they bought him for his birthday.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • By her own admission, Kennedy from the seventh season is one, growing up rich and being accustomed to getting what (or whom) she wants. The audience agreed with her.
  • Cordelia Chase starts out as this, before we get hints of Hidden Depths. Through Character Development she takes major levels in badass and in kindness.
• In the Mexican sitcom El Chavo del ocho, Quiko is this full stop. Whenever he sees Chavo playing with a simple handmade toy, he runs into his apartment, takes out a flashy store-bought one, and brags about it. If Chavo asks if he can play with it, Quiko will tell him no. He rarely shares his snacks with Chavo either.
• Renee of the '90s BBC series Chef!. Her father, the nouveau riche owner of Chateau Anglais, makes Gareth take her on to work in the kitchen even though she can't even chop a carrot, and she whines, complains, and generally throws a fit any time she's expected to actually do anything.
• Stephen Colbert degenerates into this from time to time on The Colbert Report, usually when there's some cool new toy on the market and he thinks he should get it for free.
• Doctor Who: Luke Rattigan in "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky". He's actually a teenager, but due to wealth and extreme intelligence, he's been getting everything he wanted his entire life. The Doctor notes that people haven't said "no" to him in a very long time.
• Eerie, Indiana: In "Reality Takes a Holiday", the Adam Westing version of Justin Shenkarow is a rude, bratty child actor who touches his co-star Julie Condra inappropriately, tries to get his history teacher fired when she gives him a D, and verbally abuses his mother when she doesn't sell stocks as he told her to do.
• Game of Thrones:
  • In "The Wolf and the Lion", Lord Renly Baratheon reveals that his brothers consider him to be a spoiled child. When he says this, Ser Loras Tyrell (incidentally, Renly's lover) says nothing, but his facial expression suggests that he agrees. Also, Renly's opinion that the laws of succession should be blatantly broken because he thinks he'd do a better job demonstrates this. In response to Ser Loras's expression, Renly then points out that Ser Loras (whose family is richer than his) is overly-pampered as well.
    Renly: And how much did your father pay for that armour of yours?
  • Bronn accuses Tyrion of being spoiled, and from the perspective of an amoral sellsword raised in the gutter it's certainly true. You're part of the richest, most powerful family in the Seven Kingdoms, married to a beautiful Princess Classic, and due to inherit half of Westeros (albeit the colder half) — who cares if you're the No-Respect Guy, your sister hates you, and your father's always been a cunt? However, Bronn does admit that your immediate family barring your brother passively trying to kill you kind of sucks.
  • Despite being a bastard, Ramsay was raised by Roose and entrusted with the command and loyalty of Bolton personnel by his father. He was eventually legitimized by him and named his heir, but is still resentful of having been a bastard. This is subverted by Roose's poor treatment of Ramsay. In HBO's featurette "Bastards of Westeros", GRRM contrasts Ramsay being treated very poorly by Roose while Ned lovingly raised Jon as his own son, giving Ramsay a Freudian Excuse for his nature (but this wins him no sympathy points).
• Bruce Wayne from Gotham. In Season 4, Bruce turns to a life of partying, alcohol, and being a teenage playboy to cope with recent events that haunt his memory. His personality change leaves him as a spoiled, selfish brat and not the Bruce Wayne that his kindly butler and mentor, Alfred Pennyworth, once knew and loved.
• Homicide: Life on the Street:
  • McPhee Broadman from "The True Test" is a darker example. He's exhibited sociopathic tendencies since childhood and committed several times, but his mother used her status as a judge to make sure he never faced prosecution. In the episode itself, he murders another teenager for not obeying him because he "didn't know his place".
  • Drug dealer Alan Schack from "Valentine's Day" is implied to be this, given his comment that he affords his expensive-looking house because he has "very generous parents".
• In Kim's Convenience, Janet's professor Mrs. Murray doesn't bother properly disciplining her young son, which has its consequences when she brings him to the Kims' convenience store. The child runs across the store, makes a mess, and ransacks bags of chips, and Mrs. Murray doesn't bat an eye, saying that she forbids using "no" (which she dubs the "n-word") with him. She is furious and demands an apology from Mr. Kim when he flicks the boy's head in annoyance. The mother and son do not improve in the episode whatsoever, with the son still misbehaving and Mrs. Murray only getting him to calm down by offering him iPad time.
• Stingy from LazyTown is so spoiled that he believes that everything he sees belongs to him. He even has a song about it:
  This mailbox is mine / And this triagonal sign
  The blue balloon / The month of June
  They're mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
• Little House on the Prairie: Nellie and Willie Oleson, thanks to their mother's pampering. In later years, once their father's influence won out, Nancy became 1,000 times worse.
• Abby Sciuto from NCIS tends to act like this, whining and forcing others (mostly Timothy McGee) to do what she wants with no regards to rules or laws, with Gibbs enabling her and tending to blame and punish others for her mistakes (once again McGee).
• The Outer Limits (1995): In "Simon Says", Simon Banks was a bratty little boy who was completely indulged by his father Gideon, which forced his mother Elise to be the disciplinarian. Simon and Elise were killed in a car accident which was directly caused by his unruly behavior. When his mother refused to take him to the toy store as he repeatedly insisted, he had a tantrum and grabbed the steering wheel. The robot possessing Simon's memories has all of the original's worst traits in abundance but his robotic status makes him more dangerous. When "his" cousin Zoe tells him that she can't take him to the merry-go-round, he has another tantrum. Zoe is injured and Gideon's apartment is ruined in the process.
• The Price Is Right: Various showcase skits, including "The Models Babysit (model's name)" and "TPiR Nursery", where the spoiled child(ren) pout and cry for items... which of course were prizes in the showcase being bid on.
• Margaux Kramer on Punky Brewster. She even calls Punky, Allen, and Cherie, her friends, "peasants".
• Schitt's Creek: David and Alexis Rose begin the series as completely spoiled, clueless brats. Neither is a bad person per se, just used to getting whatever material thing they want. It's made clear that this is totally their parents' fault since they preferred to throw money at their children rather than invest time or energy in them. After going broke, the entire Rose family learns to be better people.
• Seinfeld:
  • The Bubble Boy from is shown to have a sense of entitlement bigger than his bubble. He threatens his own mother with violence if she doesn't give him what he wants and is just generally rude to both George and Susan when he meets them. He even picks a petty fight with George simply because George says the answer to his Trivial Pursuit question is "moops" and not "moors", which eventually results in his bubble getting popped by Susan when she tries to break up the fight.
  • This is practically every child actor's role on the show. The only exceptions are babies and teenagers.
• In A Series of Unfortunate Events, in the "Beginning" days, Count Olaf creates the illusion of this to their closest neighbor where the Baudelaires are concerned, far enough away to paint a very different picture of who they are, up to passing on the fake message that the lamb she made was too salty and that they don't want to see her; he convincingly shrugs, "Rich kids."
• Sally in Simon And The Witch is self-centred, superior, and spiteful (and has a lot of clothes in the second series). She'll go into a cafe and say — within the owner's earshot — that it's the sort of place her mother wouldn't want her to be in. (Her own preference is for a place called the Claridge where her mother takes her after shopping.) She'll knock someone's dominoes down and then say, with great sarcasm, "Oh dear, what a pity." She wants respect from everybody but gives none unless she's sucking up or wants something from them. She whines and protests when things don't go her way and goes into a tantrum when teachers try to tell her off. In the books, we actually see her snobbish mother, and it's obvious who's really at fault. There are hints that Sally actually quite likes Simon and would like to be one of the gang, but doesn't know how.
• Dakota Condor from Sonny with a Chance. Even worse, she will fire anyone on a whim if she doesn't get what she wants from the person.
• Over time, the character of A.J. Soprano from The Sopranos evolved into a fairly hilarious depiction of a lazy, entitled spoiled rich kid. He drops out of college, spends a lot of time sitting on his butt not working, does a whole lot of whining every single time his parents tell him to do anything, and never once looks like he's working towards any real future. The constant doting by his father (especially during a rough period of separation in his parents' marriage) doesn't help matters.
  • His older sister Meadow isn't much better. While she's a diligent student and is on her way to a real career, she refuses to do any work outside of school and remains financially dependent on her father well into her adult years. She also frequently mouths off to and disrespects authority figures, especially her father.
• Trelane from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Squire of Gothos" is one. Though he appears as an adult, he's actually a very young offspring of two Energy Beings. After his "fun" threatens the lives of The Enterprise crew, his angry parents arrive to discipline him.
• London Tipton from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She used to be nice, until the absence of her father among other things changed her.
• Supernanny: Numerous episodes from this series, as well as its sister show Nanny 911, shows the parents giving in to their childrens' every demand in futile attempt to prevent their tantrums:
  • The Wujcik family have so many toys that Jo says that she's in Santa's workshop. However, the boys don't take good care of their toys, dropping them from a sixty-foot height. Some toys survive the fall, but others don't. The boys aren't concerned over the ones that do break because they know their parents will fix or replace them. At one point, Bryce throws a tantrum because he wants to play with the crash mat that Carly is using when she goes down the slide despite the fact that he has numerous other toys to play with. Jo implements the Appreciation technique by giving the boys ten toys to choose from and put in their boxes before the rest get confiscated, and when the boys prove can prove they can take good care of their toys, they will get a confiscated toy back every once in a while. If they don't care of the toys they do have, then those will get confiscated.
  • Dylan, full stop. He rules the Van Acker household with his tantrums, and constantly demands junk food and diapers, which is why he's anemic and not potty-trained. Jo helps Kevin and Jessica discipline him, give him healthier foods to eat, and potty-train him.
• Lucifer from Supernatural may be suave, sophisticated, and charismatic, but in the end, numerous people, which include his own brother Gabriel and Death the Horseman, consider to him to be nothing but a child throwing a temper tantrum because his dad loved humans.
  Gabriel: Play the victim all you want. But you and me? We know the truth. Dad loved you best. More than Michael, more than me. Then he brought the new baby home and you couldn't handle it. So this is all just one big temper tantrum. Time to grow up.
  Death: I'm more powerful than you can process, and I'm enslaved to a bratty child with a temper tantrum.
• Both Lydia and Jackson from Teen Wolf come from very wealthy families who appear to give them whatever they want. In Jackson's case, this includes a brand new Porsche.
• Gareth and Davina Seacroft from The Upper Crusts are, on account of being disgustingly rich all throughout their adolescent lives. Once their parents lose all their money, they don't exactly take it well.
• Elizabeth, daughter of the Rich Bellamys, from the 1970s BBC series Upstairs Downstairs. She often has stints of protesting for social reforms for the poor and women, yet treats her "friend" and servant, Rose, like dirt. She often complains of having a horrible life, being so rich and having nothing to do, and saying how great Rose has it. Including right after the episode where Elizabeth got Rose sent to jail by accident, where she was starved and tortured, and then sent back to work like nothing happened.
• We Are Who We Are: Fraser comes off as pretty immature. For example, he petulantly slaps his mother Sarah when she doesn't slice meat for a sandwich thin enough for his taste. Given her interactions with him, it seems to be a result of her having overindulged him.

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