10 TV Douche-Bags Who Get Away With Everything

5. Hilary Banks- Fresh Prince Of Bel Air

Hilary Banks is a typical representation of the vain, rich, spoilt airhead we've seen on television since the dawn of time. The emergence of Paris Hilton, reality tv and trashy teenage dramas has seen a resurgence of this type to the point where one could easily swap Hilary's name for one out of virtually every show today and the characterisation would work just as well.

At some point, these characters usually receive an unceremonious fall from grace when their money, status, fame or all of the above gets swept away in the blink of an eye and forces these penniless princesses to learn the value of hard work and the struggle to get by in the real world. This never happens to Hilary

Of course there was that time where she witnessed the death of her boyfriend-cum-fiancée in an ill-fated bungee jumping accident whilst proposing to her on national television, but that was more of an unfortunate accident than damning judgement on her unashamedly frivolous lifestyle.

For the most part, Hilary gets away with her dependency on expensive shoes and her particularly mouthy butler without ever really having to experience the ordeals of hard work, humility or even rational thinking. Under normal circumstances a woman of her position would grow very tiresome to watch, but her ditzy nature and frequent lapses in intelligence are actually kinda adorable. Hilary might not be the brightest star in the heavens, but no-one ever calls her out on it because she is sweet, cares deeply for her family and is never as malicious as the rest of her archetype. Douche-bag or not, Hilary made Bel Air an entertaining place to watch and if we were thrown fistfuls of cash, we'd probably act in exactly the same way.