Barney was a dick, but he was very honest about the fact that he was not interested in any commitment and didn't have any great respect for the women who slept with him. That episode where he takes Lily on a tour of his place to show all the ways it's actively hostile to women is some of the best character-building in TV history.

Ted, OTOH, was basically a "nice guy" (read: incel) who just happened to have enough self-awareness to groom himself, hold a conversation, etc. without being instantly repellant to women. Hell, the entire show is literally built around his older self going on this long, drawn-out yarn to his kids that ultimately ends with, "So that's how I met your mom... anyway, she's dead now, so I'm gonna go back banging your Aunt Robin again since she was the woman I really loved this whole time."

Ellstin Limehouse from Justified. Why did people give him their money to take care of? He double-crosses literally everyone. I skip over his parts when I rewatch. Justified was such a well-written show, too, with great acting, so he sticks out like a sore thumb.

Inside Job’s theme is a banger

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Andy in The Office = I don't know what it is about him, I think it may have to do specifically with Ed Helms' performance, but he feels so forced and out of place. His humor never really felt organic in the show.

Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation. Too creepy to be sympathetic.

Alexa Davalos' character in Man in the High Castle. So bad.

Like it or not, Barney was a big part of the show's success. The fact that he was an ass, or in today's popular term, 'problematic', WAS a big part of his original appeal.

Unless of course you are in fact talking about Ted lol.

Now see, for me I think of "bad" characters as being more in the line of this:

Seven in Married With Children

Scott in 90210

Susan in Seinfeld

Basically characters that never took off or fit in with the show's tone.

Gina in Brooklyn Nine Nine. I absolutely despised that character

Thanks my brain wasn’t processing the name

Bad like a bad person or didn’t belong on the show because they made it worse?

I think they mean Barney though but agreed

This is a hot take. I get karma tanked every time this comes up. Carol - The Walking Dead

His name was Ted.

I misread the title as’The Mysterious Morons’ I’d watch a show with that title at least once.

There was also a spin-off for X-Files, called the lone gunmen, which focused on those characters. Only 1 season I believe, but worth watching.

I never said that although plenty of people do, which must quite stressful for you lol

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People are free to use whatever words they wish to provided they are not downright offensive (and I'm pretty sure somebody saying they don't get something is not in that category)

Yeah, no hierarchies of abuse in communist Russia or China.

Just found this one! Super Troopers with firefighters, it's great

A.K.A Capitalism

Tony Soprano

Funny is in the eye of the beholder, but writing and production wise Bocchi is just a better show, period.

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It's a little funny how this article is about a show being "derailed" by the 2007-8 strike, yet I think most viewers of Friday Night Lights would agree that storyline was the weakest in the show even before the strike. Sure, they may have lost the opportunity to resolve the story the way they hoped, but it's hard to see how they really would've been able to conclude it in a way that changed people's opinion of it. I don't think people were really clamoring for five more episodes of Landry being afraid he was going to prison.

I realize this article is trying to explain some of the effects of a strike and why it should be avoided, but the strike didn't lead to a "bizarre season" of FNL, just cut an already "bizarre season" short.

> The show follows a scrappy homicide detective who enlists his scrappy family of mystery writers to assist him in cracking the cases that perplex the authorities.