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Neil Patrick Harris is a tour de force on stage and screen. He is also hilarious and seems like a genuinely nice guy, which makes his acting that much more enjoyable. Here are the best roles Neil Patrick Harris has ever had. 

Neil Patrick Harris voiced the malicious Music Meister in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. His power was his ability to sing so high that his voice hypnotized people and made them dance. Yes, it is a ridiculous premise, but Neil Patrick Harris played the role perfectly. His years of acting in Broadway musicals led up to this point in his career, and it must be said that Neil Patrick Harris has a beautiful singing voice, even if it is being used for evil. Unfortunately he couldn’t hold up against Batman, but he remains one of the more memorable villains that Batman has faced off against.

This is the role that kick-started Neil Patrick Harris’ career. Harris played a child genius who decided that being a surgeon was way better than hanging out at the mall with friends. A little known fact is that Neil Patrick Harris didn’t even have to act for that role, he really was a child genius who knew how to replace heart valves. OK, I made that up, but Harris did a great job playing the smart role while still remaining a lovable child. It was that kind of performance that made him a household name and opened up many doors in his career.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog was an online show made by Joss Whedon. It was much funnier than most shows you’ll see on TV and gave Neil Patrick Harris another chance to showcase his singing voice. Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely hilarious as Dr. Horrible, an evil scientist who makes death rays to try and kill Captain Hammer. This is mostly because Dr. Horrible is in love with Penny, who is going out with Captain Hammer. It is a very messy love triangle involving mass acts of destruction and a lovely score.

How I Met Your Mother features Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, an extreme womanizer. This is slightly ironic cosnidering that in real life Neil Patrick Harris is gay. This does not make him any less awesome, and watching his various techniques to pick up women is truly inspiring. Out of all the roles he plays, I enjoy Neil Patrick Harris the most as the party animal type who goes out and has fun. As Barney Stinson he is also full of scathing one-liners which make How I Met Your Mother a more entertaining show.

As I said, I like Neil Patrick Harris’ party animal roles the best. There is no bigger party animal than Neil Patrick Harris being Neil Patrick Harris. Whether he is hallucinating about unicorns, getting shot at by prostitutes, or humping a car seat, Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely hilarious. Nothing compares to his performance where he talks about eating muff burgers and steals Harold’s car. This is quite possibly his best role, not because it is deep and meaningful or anything, but because it always makes me laugh. Neil Patrick Harris knows how to entertain.

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Being a nerd is no longer the social stigma that it used to be. People who can understand technology, solve complex formulas, and recite the secret identities of every villain Batman has fought are becoming more appreciated in our society, despite their social ineptitude. There is less of a negative connotation when we hear the word nerd now, we just expect to see some lovably awkward goofs. These are some of the most lovably awkward goofs to make it on prime time television.

Marshall Eriksen from How I Met Your Mother is about as lovable as they get. He is big and goofy, a master of every game he has come across, and an amateur cryptozoologist. He is also a believer in supernatural forces. When you add up all these factors, Marshall comes off as a pretty nerdy guy. It’s hard not to love a guy who tells people they’ve been “lawyer’d” after he wins an argument though. Plus he’s married to Lily Aldrin, played by Alyson Hannigan, so we all wish we were a little more like Marshall.

Dwight Schrute is a menace at Dunder Mifflin, inc. He is what I like to call a Know-It-All Nerd. He has an impressive amount of information on some extremely random topics. His areas of expertise include martial arts, Battlestar Galactica, and beets. Dwight Schrute is truly one of a kind. He likes to let it be known to everyone that he possesses this knowledge, which usually ends up with Jim showing him some humility. Dwight himself may not be the most lovable person on this list, but we sure do love his antics.

Lisa Simpson was one of the first nerds to make an appearance on TV. It is unknown how she ended up so intelligent, especially considering who her father is, but Lisa has the brainpower of at least 10 Homers. She is a model student, takes stands on issues she deems to be important, and is somewhat of a social outcast. The other residents of Springfield just can’t come to terms with Lisa’s intelligence, convictions, and desire to induce change. While she may get walked on over there, she is idolized here.

Chuck is a pretty average nerd. He works in the Nerd Herd section of Buy More fixing computers, he loves comic books, and can speak Klingon. If that isn’t an impressive nerd resume, I don’t know what is. Oh yeah, Chuck also has top secret government information stuck in his head that allows him to identify weapons and terrorists, and subsequently teaches him the kung fu he needs to put them down. Plus, anybody who gets to work with someone as hot as Sarah Walker, played by Yvonne Strahovski, is automatically awesome.

Leonard Hofstadter is an experimental physicist with an IQ of 173 and Sheldon Cooper is a theoretical physicist with an IQ of 187. Need I say more about these Big Bang Theory stars? They are both awkward in social situations, with Sheldon being the more inept of the two. It is mostly because he doesn’t really understand things like sarcasm that Sheldon comes off as a bigger nerd. Still, it is impossible to hate on two guys who hang out with their hot neighbor Penny, played by Kaley Cuoco, as often as they do. I’m a little bit jealous.

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5) Wimpy pimps

Are we really suppose to believe that guys like Neil Patrick Harris and David Spade are irresistible playboys?  Have you ever seen either one of them on any hot lists?  It’s Hollywood for crying out loud, you’d think they’d be able to find a masculine hunk with comedic timing.  I mean give a guy a chance because no amount of suspended disbelief is going to sell these guys as players.

4) No black people in major cities.

Friends set the precedent, but that was over 10 years ago.  Today even our President is black!  So yes we can find some random African Americans off the street who’d like to make $100 to stand in the background.  There shouldn’t be a show on TV that doesn’t at least show black extras.  There is no way you can walk around in public in New York, Miami or Los Angeles and not cross paths with a brotha or sista.

Seriously?  How does this get past the script supervisor?  God forbid a teen drama cast a minority along side their pretty white kids with problems.  If we can’t get cast as the basketball star, then what the hell roles can we be cast for?  The janitor?  Any series that force feeds us Caucasian superstar basketball players should automatically be dubbed fantasy.  Maybe they are hoping to inspire, like the way 24 cast the guy from the All State commercials as a black president before Obama happened.  Either way, at the very least they should make sure they cast someone over 6 feet tall.

2) The fat husband/beautiful wife

I know women say they want a guy who can make them laugh, but they never said that was the only qualification.  I’ve seen a lot of girls overlook a guys weight, but have you ever seen a drop dead gorgeous woman date — let alone marry — a poor sweaty doughboy who does nothing but give her grief?  What’s in it for her?

1) The playboys with no STD’s

I wish I could excuse this one because I seriously doubt any Hollywood writer has ever possessed a player card, but this glaring misrepresentation cannot be overlooked.  There is no way guys like Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men) and Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother) can bounce from girl to girl to girl so frequently and not slip one past the goalie or take home a nasty parting gift…or at least raise the threat level to orange.  Pimpin’ ain’t as easy as they make it out to be.

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