2. Neil Flynn - The Middle/Scrubs
We've already looked at Scrubs and its slow decline over the years, a decline that Neil Flynn's character (the janitor) reflects completely. He started as an interestingly sociopathic tormentor, and then became too exaggerated to be realistic, and then lost his point entirely as a character when they gave him a love interest and bigger role in the show as a whole. The Middle is not much better. In it Flynn plays the slightly underwhelming dad who struggles to deal with his extremely weird kids and strange wife. The problem with the show, apart from it being pointedly unfunny, is that the majority of topics it covers have been done by, oh, how about......every family-based comedy ever. Although he hasn't appeared in anything too ground-breaking, Flynn has had features in good movies like Mean Girls, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and even Paul Thomas Anderson's weirdly clever Magnolia. Apart from those, you just kind of get the sense that he's a little better than, say, Zach Braff of any or the others. Don't get me wrong, he does okay as the janitor, it's just that he could be in something a lot better - a show that doesn't suck anymore, for example.