

Not that I didn’t, but being a film buff I always preferred to watch a good movie, and I did watch quite a few back then, both on the big screen and small. Most probably ’cause I had more scope for a life at the time than to spend my time watching TV.

It seemed pretty good, but I didn’t get to watch it again and wasn’t that interested back then. Then, when I was studying in Sydney, I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother, back in 2007 (a flatmate of mine was into this show). Added to this I had seen him in some forgettable roles in such big screen ventures like Starship Troopers (1997) and The Next Best Thing (2000). The likes of Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994), The Man in the Attic (1995), The Christmas Wish (1998) in 90’s and some years ago The Wedding Dress (2001) to name a few. As the years went by I happen to catch NPH in many a good, but not great, television movies. I never got a chance to watch it again, nor was I interested. (1989 – 1993), with a few of my peers who were crazy about the show. I first got to know NPH, as a teenager back in 1994, when I saw him in an episode of a show called Doogie Howser, M.D. Their perfectionist attire is, be it formal suits or casual chic, so spot on with meticulously detailed precision, that the rest of the cast (who are generally well dressed) comparatively look like shabby hobo’s (just a slight exaggeration there, the rest aren’t that bad, some of the times). They are always impeccably well dressed in neatly tailored suits to perfectly fit their lean figures. Well, they are both in their 30’s, smart, flirty, are lucky with the ladies, but most of all, they both have a great dress sense. What do Barney Stinson (character played by Neil Patrick Harris) from the situation comedy, How I Met Your Mother (2005 till date) & Neal Caffrey (character played by Matt Bomer) from the lighter genre of crime drama, White Collar (2009 till date) have in common?
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Barney became such a popular character and Harris was so convincing as a womanizer that many were surprised when the actor announced he was gay in 2006.Barney Stinson V/s Neal Caffrey : The two Best dressed men on TV today When How I Met Your Mother debuted on CBS in 2005, Harris perfectly embodied Barney Stinson, a womanizing yuppie who with his catchphrase "Suit up!" managed to smooth-talk nearly every gal in the bar. After the show ended, Harris made a cameo as a crass, sex-crazed version of himself on a drug binge in the 2004 hit film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, driving a stake through his innocent teenage image. On Doogie Howser, M.D., Harris depicted the struggles of being a medical resident and a teenager who lives with his parents, closing each episode by typing pithy diary entries on an early model computer.
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For four years in the early '90s, Neil Patrick Harris played the teenage prodigy doctor who aced the SATs at 9, graduated from Princeton at 10 (yet somehow took four full years to finish medical school) and became a doctor at 14.

When it comes to squeaky-clean characters, it's hard to top Doogie Howser.
