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

The great Kyle MacLachlan enjoyed a spectacular guest spell in the latter years of the show. Playing The Captain, Ted’s nautically obsessed love rival, the Twin Peaks star built on his many years as a cult favourite to create a bizarre but believable character as HIMYM reached its endgame.

MacLachlan is best known as a David Lynch collaborator, but it’s a Lynchian outlier that earns his place here. Dune and the director seemed a match made in heaven - a famously weird sci fi property and an auteur with true vision.

Lynch fell victim to the studio system, who wouldn’t allow the Eraserhead director the creative control he was used to, and the final product was a limp (if occasionally interesting) box office bomb that no one involved wanted to attach their names to.

This was MacLachlan’s feature debut, and his career was in no way harmed by Dune’s failure, but the movie still stands as a totem of what can happen when an individualistic creator tries to lock horns with big money Hollywood - no one comes out looking great (except maybe Sting).