10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget

Not unlike his onscreen counterpart, Josh Radnor lives life as something of a renaissance man. Alongside TV work, he directs, acts on stage, and has an active music career to boot. Indeed it seems he’s so indelibly linked to his most famous role that he continues to get cast as somewhat annoying, privileged men in everything he does.

Case in point: Afternoon Delight, a solid enough if entirely predictable indie movie that sees Radnor put his irritating vibes to uses good and bad. For the purposes of the story, he’s well cast as the sauceless husband of protagonist Kathryn Hahn. Their relationship has lost its spark, and his milquetoast character makes this easy to understand.

As the next step in a still-young career, though, this wasn’t the best choice. Afternoon Delight was the biggest film on Radnor’s CV to date, and sees him rehashing all the worst elements of Ted Mosby (often a problematic character in himself) only without the protection afforded to the protagonist of a sitcom.

Radnor has since shown range (if a continued lack of quality control) in Amazon’s Hunters, but as a big screen coming out party, this wasn’t the finest choice.