I also like Wo Fat too.

Big Chicken was hilarious, but mostly because I couldn't get the image of Captain Stubing out of my head.

cdrak0715 wrote:

I liked the Vashon family in the 'V' For Vashon 3-parter. I haven't seen the episodes in a very long time, so I might not feel the same way about them now, but I remember really enjoying the episodes and story.

I remember that one! It was classic.

crazyrhythm wrote:

cdrak0715 wrote: I liked the Vashon family in the 'V' For Vashon 3-parter. I haven't seen the episodes in a very long time, so I might not feel the same way about them now, but I remember really enjoying the episodes and story. I remember that one! It was classic.

Yup, it was pretty cool the way they went through the generations of a "crime family".

crazyrhythm wrote:

Wo Fat is #1 in my book, of course. I also liked Hume Cronyn as Lewis Avery Filer, an elderly master thief who gave McGarrett fits in a couple of episodes.

Hume Cronyn's villian was a delight! Very clever, especially his mastery of disguise and always being under everyone's nose. "Over 50, Steal," was always a favorite episode of mine. Well, any episode that the Governor is in, is a favorite of mine! :-)

I liked the Vaschon trilogy and its conclusion three years later.  I think that if they ever finally do a Hawaii 5-O movie they should do one based on that episode.  Too bad the Vaschons were only in a three parter.  They would have made very interesting adversaries for McGarrett.

I haven't seen most of those 60s shows so the only appearances I ever saw were from The Love Boat (and Five-O). I guess it's similar to Leslie Nielsen's career. I've heard that he used to play stern and tough characters early in his career but I never saw those appearances. (Well, maybe I saw one appearance decades later.) As with Gavin MacLeod, I associate him with the light-hearted stuff (The Naked Gun, etc.).

123home123 wrote:

I haven't seen most of those 60s shows so the only appearances I ever saw were from The Love Boat (and Five-O). I guess it's similar to Leslie Nielsen's career. I've heard that he used to play stern and tough characters early in his career but I never saw those appearances. (Well, maybe I saw one appearance decades later.) As with Gavin MacLeod, I associate him with the light-hearted stuff (The Naked Gun, etc.).

Nielsen also played a lot of villains in shows like Daniel Boone, The Fugitive, Wild, Wild West, and Cannon.  It wasn't until Police Squad that he became typecast as the bumbling hero.

I loved the Vashon family. Unfortunately I saw the trilogy after the later episode with him, the name escapes me, so a few scenes in the trilogy were spoiled for me. Still great though.

Definitely Wo Fat, Big Chicken and Honore and Dominic Vashon (Chris was too much a snot to be enjoyable)

But allow me to throw a lesser known and thoroughly despicable pair onto the discussion: Deke and Hutch from season three's "The Guarnerius Caper"

Yes they are horrible pieces of hopped-up trash who commit one of the lowest crimes on Five-0, stabbing a blind man in the back. I would not want to meet or know anyone in the real world like them, but I gotta guilty pleasure of enjoying them in this episode.

Pure whacked out quotes by them:
"Plenty more where that came from"
"Watch the world champ-een home run hitter hit the world champ-een home run"
"This is your friendly neighborhood fiddle dealer, man!"
"You'll be able to use pieces of that fiddle to pick your teeth!"
"Fat Daddy, how 'bout that pizza?"
"Hey man, what's with that iron?"

I also get a kick out of Hutch's excercise routine: do three push-ups, collapse, spit the sand out of your mouth and pop open a beer!

Like I said it's a guilty pleasure watching these slime, but they make "Guarnerius" one of my favorite episodes.