Neil Patrick Harris is killing his teens with his Gen-Z lingo
Neil Patrick Harris.
Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesNeil Patrick Harris is entering his cringey dad era.
“Okay Tokkers. Let’s do this!” Harris, 50, endorsed his very first TikTok video, with his 13-year-old twins Gideon and Harper, on Thursday, February 22.
In the clip, Harris looked ecstatic as he made his debut on the social media platform, while his teens didn’t look so excited to be part of the moment. While the actor was expressing his excitement to the camera, he mispronounced the name of the app. Gideon corrected him in an annoyed manner while Harper grimaced.
“Yes! This is my first TikTok!” Harris exclaimed. “I’m going to have this many followers, I’m going to ramp up my rizz.”
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Gideon begged his father to “never say that again,” while Harper joked that he was “not cool.” (Rizz is short for charisma, which is popular slang for Gen-Z.)
“I’m going to be a snack!” Harris declared, clearly unaware that the term is the same as calling someone “hot,” which earned disgusted faces from his children.
Harper screamed and covered her face with her hands, while Gideon declared that he “wants to hurl already.”
Harris ignored his children’s pleas to stop and continued the video using his iconic How I met your mother slogan.
@Neil patrick harris Okay, Tokkers. Let’s do this!
“TikTok is going to be…wait for it…” he said before queuing up the music and dancing as his kids left the screen.
Before Harris could finish the line, both Gideon and Harper called for their father to stop dancing.
“It’s too lame,” Harper told her father, who replied, “You didn’t wait for it.”
However, Gideon finished the line ahead of his father. “Dari! We understand it!”
Harris ultimately looked dejected at the end of the video as he stopped dancing.
Harris and husband David Burtka welcomed Gideon and Harper via surrogate in October 2010. Four years later, the couple married in Perugia, Italy.
Since becoming fathers, Harris and Burtka, 48, have been sharing highlights of their little ones growing up, from their family’s inventive Halloween costumes to their special birthday parties.
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“She watches early episodes of me in the late 80s, early 90s, which is cute and weird,” he recalled in September 2021. “It’s cute. It is funny. I think she uses it as an opportunity to mock [me] and be able to think it is foolish.”
In October 2023, Harris celebrated a major milestone for the twins when they turned 13 How I met your mother alum penned a touching tribute to the duo on this momentous occasion.
“And they’re just teenagers,” he wrote via Instagram at the time. “Happy birthday, Harper and Gideon. You are the lights of my life. I can’t wait to see that you don’t want anything to do with me, and I promise to be with you all the time. Just wow.”