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Being angry doesn't get nearly as much appreciation in the world as being happy does, apparently it's negative and unpleasant. But nonetheless, today is National Grouch Day, because someone out there has made everything into a day, so in honor of that let's rundown the best of the best in the world of being a surly cuss.

Oscar
The rumored origin of National Grouch Day, Oscar the Grouch has been a staple of Sesame Street since back in the 1850s, when the show started. Apparently producers wanted to assure kids that some people would be jerks no matter what, and/or that the homeless are hilarious. Oscar's grouch cred? The only thing in the world he likes is trash, and everything else can suck it.

Archie Bunker
Patriarch of the Bunker clan and lovable racist icon of '70s TV, Archie Bunker was surly, intolerant and pig-headed in every way. In fairness, there's only so much of Edith and Sally Struthers any single human being can handle.

Grumpy the Dwarf
The only of the seven dwarfs who seemed to fully appreciate just how awful their lives truly were. A roommate who slept all the time, another who sneezed, another who was inexplicably cheerful despite their lives of living alone in a secluded woodland shack and mining ore all day, not to mention the idiot. Grumpy just wasn't happy, but we can forgive that.

Andy Rooney
This "60 Minutes" commentator is about as old as is humanly possible and nothing, nothing doesn't get under his skin. Like the archetypal old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn, Rooney has television as a stage to vent his frustrations with any and every mundane thing that sticks in his craw. And it must be a big craw, because everything pisses this guy off.

Richard Nixon
The presidential butt of more jokes than even Bill Clinton (but maybe not Bush), Nixon always looked like someone had just peed in his corn flakes. Even when he was smiling he looked unhappy.