How I Met Your Mother: 10 Worst Characters Who Appeared After Season One
6. Alfred Mosby
Out of everyone on this list, Alfred Mosby actually appears the least, but even in his very brief time on the show he makes it abundantly clear that he's not a man to be liked.
The father of Ted (or so we're told; they're so unlike it's honestly open for debate), Alfred is shown to be an emotionally distant parent with no connection to his son or his ex-wife, Virginia. I mean, he doesn't even tell Ted his grandmother died.
Don't get me wrong, Virginia isn't much better, but unlike Alfred she at least gets several key appearances to grow as a character. Alfred starts sleazy and closed-off, and just gets worse in the short time we know him.
The only upside to his existence, really, is that the writers didn't keep him around for long, and once he was gone he was luckily very easy to forget. Small mercies, and all that.