I hated Ted. Were you supposed to hate Ted?
Which wouldn’t be a problem, if the show was any good.
I remember during early seasons a friend of mine saying “I think the mother is not Robin but he’ll end up with Robin” and I said lol that would be so lame
AKA why I never ask my in-laws about their day.
Remember when the marketing team posted the reveal of the mother on social media before the episode had even aired on the West Coast, ruining the 8 years build up for like half the country?!?
Honestly, I loved that show. But this picture is still so damn true.
Great show, loved the show, would have been better without the premise.
I’d also remove the frequent transphobic jokes
Oh yeah a lot of the jokes both haven’t aged well and were bad for their time as well.
The twist should have been that the mother was indeed the stripper from season one.
The 15 minutes includes also all the jokes they told over the seasons.
It’s gonna be
Wait for it…
- Do you want the short version or the long one?
- Yes.
The story was never about getting from point A to point B. It was about every little distraction or detour in between that allowed getting to point B to have the impact that it had.
life’s a detour to death, so take your time :D
So a regular story told by somebody with ADHD
Any sitcom plot is just a shell to tell jokes And funny situations. Hearing people flip their shit about that is funny
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The ending: Nah we just pretend to change and any growth you think a person makes is just cope.
That’s true but I didn’t care for new character at the end is the mom, let’s make you like her, then haha just go for Robin.
The complete reversal of character development is what killed it for me as well. With the same ending and removing the reversal the ending is 100x better. Just let their growth mean something instead of pissing it all away.
That’s what a sitcom is about, maintaining the status quo. That’s why at the end of every episode, the world reverts back to how it was before episode started.
GoT has entered the chat
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I’m going to say something controversial:
IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.
If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.
My only exposure to GoT is from the reddit watchitfortheplot subreddit. You mean there was more to it then sex?
Game of Thrones in the early seasons had interesting intrigues and there were a lot of options for who could be the next king or queen. Plus it had a way of making you care about a character before they were killed off. Yes I’m still salty about Oberyn Martell.
Then the politics and intrigue became increasingly less important as it became Dany + allies vs Cersei + allies. Yes there were a lot of other issues in the later seasons such as the whole fast travel issue, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.
I was thinking of GoT when I wrote this. It’s similar, but GoT was so much worse.
The laugh track adds up to two whole seasons
You can probably say that about any show with a laugh track. I usually don’t mind it if the show has jokes. But then there are things like Big Bang Theory where they just pasted the laugh track over the dialogue in regular intervals without the jokes. I also don’t remember How I Met Your Mother being funny.
ADHD by any other name.
A name would’ve been nice.
The show is called “How I Met Your Mother”
Thanks, i’m out.
Don’t you want to find out how we all slept with your mother last night?
How about Peter?
That’s a nice name.
Robin really wasn’t a strong enough character.
As a straight, white, 45 year old man, I would have been happier if Ted had ended up with Barney
Bro I watches and I don’t even liked the ending. It was a waste of time! Seinfeld for ever, Giddy Up!
Seinfeld the paedophile? https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jerry-seinfeld-dated-a-17-year-old/
I didn’t know that, still I’m talking about the series, not the actor.
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Brought this up to a coworker of mine once, and they countered with “17 is basically just 18.” to which I replied “You’re right, adults who date “legal” teenagers are just as creepy.” He shut up after that.
Says so much about our culture that he wasn’t roasted alive for this back then.
