How I Met Your Mother – Neil Patrick Harris outshines lead Josh Radnor

When it debuted in 2005, How I Met Your Mother was an instant sitcom hit, garnering attention for the cast dynamic, timely jokes, and wonderment of how lead Josh Radnor met the mother of his future children. Those who haven't seen the show assume that the lead is Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney. A serial womanizer with a comical personality, Harris earned himself Primetime Emmy nominations for his character every year between 2007 and 2010 — in contrast, Radnor was never nominated.