I was never a fan of himym when it was still airing, but everyone around me fucking loved the damn thing. I thought all the characters were insufferable.
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hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 5 days ago
How I met your mother aged extremely poorly. The ending rightfully gets a lot of flak, but the characters are just massive toxic assholes in a way that isn’t really funny.
Also I’m like 90 percent some of the ways Barney convinced women to sleep with him could be classified as rape. I get the joke that Neil Patrick Harris was gay, but it’s still uncomfortable to watch. Oddly enough I don’t get the same feeling when I was Neil in Harold and Kumar.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 days ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel the same way about Big Bang Theory. But here we are years later and it lives successfully in syndication and has multiple spinoffs. I just don’t get it.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I liked some of the early episodes, but holy shit three spin-offs for one of the most mid sitcoms ever?
Big Bang Young Sheldon Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (which is somehow a spin-off from YS) Stuart Fails to Save the World
Which, fucking why? I mean I guess actors need to work too, so why not but damn…
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Have you not been paying attention to the intelligence of average Americans?
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 day ago
I agree on HIMYM. I used to love it, but some really are awful people (particularly Lily IMO). It’s not ageing well, and Barney’s behaviour really is indefensible. I don’t think his character would be allowed nowadays
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Honestly it wouldn’t have been allowed back then except for the fact that an openly gay man who could pass as straight was still a novel and funny idea.
As a sidenote Neil Patrick Harris is a million times worse in Harold and Kumar, but that somehow aged better on account of everything in those movies being comically offensive.