10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget
3. The Slammin' Salmon
A decade plus removed, it sounds like a fever dream that a troupe called “Broken Lizard” was allowed to continually make and release movies, but the mid to late noughties was a strange time. The Slammin’ Salmon gave one of the earliest named film roles to Cobie Smulders, who was by then four years into HIMYM but underutilised by the Broken Lizard boys all the same.
The Slammin’ Salmon is the movie’s titular restaurant, wherein a competition is underway for the wait staff to earn the most tips on a shift. A cash prize is the incentive for the winner, with a beatdown promised to the loser. What follows is some bro-centric hijinks, and in theory, some laughs.
Smulders is once again completely wasted, playing the down to earth Tara who can merely watch on while the five members of the troupe hog every scene, horde every so-called joke, and essentially pay themselves to goof around.
No doubt the Broken Lizard posse had a super time making this film, but such fun is not shared by the audience. Three years later, Smulders would join the MCU, a choice she probably hasn’t regretted.