"How I Met Your Mother" is an often excellent, sometimes lazy sitcom loaded with comedic talent: the scene-stealing Neil Patrick Harris, movie star Jason Segel, the adorable and charming Alyson Hannigan and Colbie Smulders... and f**ckin' Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, both the show's central character and its most annoying. Ted is spineless, needy, and supposedly dead-set on getting married, even though his character searches for faults in the parade of beautiful guest stars he dates. He doesn't need to be punched in the face as much as chucked off the roof of his apartment.

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13. How I Met Your Mother - Ted Mosby

When How I Met Your Mother first aired in 2005, the concept was fresh and innovative: told in flashback throughout, with framing devices and callbacks making it the ultimate shaggy dog story, lead character Ted Mosby (played by Josh Radnor) would tell his kids the story of how he met their mother.

Nine years later, any vestiges of goodwill that the show -€“ and especially Ted Mosby €“- had with the audience were well and truly shredded. Ted, intended to be a lovelorn romantic on the lookout for Miss Right, had very quickly become the kind of self-obsessed indie-kid bore that you want to slap, and slap hard. As time went on (and on,€ and on, and on), Ted became first everything you disliked about twentysomething blokes, and then everything you disliked about people in general.

He€™’d treat his girlfriends like sh*t, then whine about how he could never find anyone. He’€™d mope about wanting to fall in love and get married, then go out on the pull with his weird, emotionally stunted friend Barney, treating women like pieces of meat. He would repeatedly demand love from close friend Robin, despite knowing that they weren’€™t right for each other, constantly begging for attention, neediness and insecurity oozing from every pore like flop sweat.

When we finally met The Mother, Tracy McConnell (played beautifully by Cristin Milioti) was everything that Ted had wanted his future wife to be, and more than justified the long wait for the audience to meet her. There was just one problem. By that time, Ted Mosby didn’€™t deserve her… in fact, he hadn’€™t deserved her for years.

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Ted Mosby – How I Met Your Mother

Anyone who's seen an episode of How I Met Your Mother knows how annoying Ted could be. He was an intelligent guy, had a good job and a great apartment in New York City, was surrounded by friends, and was objectively good-looking. Overall, his life was pretty good; the only thing that could have made it perfect was marrying "the one."

Mosby dated dozens of smart, beautiful, and successful women during his search, but none of them were "the one" because of his arbitrary set of rules and high standards. He sat around and moped about it before going out with his gleefully unabashed womanizing friend, and treated women like objects.

This paradox of how Ted came across as a nice guy even though he was a pretentious slimeball explains why the show used a narrator. Without that voiceover, Ted would have just come across as a whiny phony who used his desperate wish to get married as an excuse for his deplorable behavior.

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