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I never understood the popularity of HIMYM. it just wasn’t funny to me and the characters were annoying. Especially when there’s so much good tv on nowadays. I preferred more intellectual fare such as big bang theory
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Apr 27, 2023 23:39
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MinistryofLard posted:HYMIM starts off with the show viewing Barney as kind of a loser who thinks he's awesome but I think the viewer base missed the point pretty quick and the show and writing very clearly shifted its own perception of the character to being as cool as he thinks he is. At some point all of his creepy plans to get laid start working and the suit obsession becomes awesome. He has a straight up stormtrooper costume in his apartment and the show couldn't decide if it was cool or not. Are you sure? I remember Early Barney being "this guy's totally awesome" and the show gradually turning him into "no, he was bad all along, and is really a total loser" as time went on.
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Apr 27, 2023 23:49
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fartknocker posted:Pretty sure both those were things long before HIMYM. Yeah there's versions of the "half your age plus seven" rule going back as least as far as 1879: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#%22Half-your-age-plus-seven%22_rule Although I swear I recently saw a news article which claimed that the guy who invented the rule just died, I must be thinking of something else
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Apr 27, 2023 23:49
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HopperUK posted:It's a shame because the most interesting thing about Barney is his desperate clingy loneliness that renders him vulnerable, but NPH was too charming and the character got kind of bent around that charm. writers writing him as: Barney is dumb, barney is legendary, barney is dumb. reality is he was dumb all along. honestly i can't really recommend getting into HIMYM in 2023. its dated and everything. but i do like it, in a familiar, silly way. its comfort food haha  but yeah NPH is so charming that its definitely a case of a character hiding in his aura. also can i just say, the sheer amount of winks to the audience of him being a v. openly gay theatre kid actor is so funny. he's meant to be this chad player on the show and he is so against type its rad Lampsacus has a new favorite as of 00:11 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Apr 28, 2023 00:07
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Barney is just a amalgamation of Joey (dumb himbo ladies man) and Chandler (rich successful ambiguously gay funnyman).
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Apr 28, 2023 00:07
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HopperUK posted:It's a shame because the most interesting thing about Barney is his desperate clingy loneliness that renders him vulnerable, but NPH was too charming and the character got kind of bent around that charm. Yeah. Initially the character was "Look at this tryhard! Dressing in suits and exaggerating his claims of being a lothario to look cool and impress his mates to overcompensate for his deep deep insecurities." But then he kept getting the laughs, so the writers thought "hey, we're getting laughs every time this character describes how he tricks women into sleeping with him. Lets lean into that, and make him even more date-rapey." Also what bothers me about it is that with his campy charm, and the way that NPH played the character so light and breezily, the show hugely minimizes the horror of sexual assault and rape, (tricking women into loving you is rape). Which is a bad thing.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:26
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The writers also thought it was hilarious that he sold a woman into sexual slavery for a car.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:40
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HIMYM is really bad and I couldn't ever after multiple times trying to get through a whole episode. I'm not even like super picky I was laughing along watching Rules Of Engagement for like 3 episodes last night in Pluto.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:42
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There was one year where Nick at Nite was airing nothing but the Christmas episodes of shows for all of December. I guess HIMYM didn't have very many, so when it briefly was on Nick at Nite, they just kept airing the episode where Robin found out she couldn't have kids over and over since it was set at Christmas. Like 95% of the total amount I've ever seen of the show was just that one episode.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:47
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Shiroc posted:HIMYM...briefly was on Nick at Nite I just felt all of my bones turn to du...wait a minute is Nick at Nite still a thing??
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Apr 28, 2023 04:17
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Yes, it primarily has aired hours of Friends for years and years.
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Apr 28, 2023 04:32
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I can never tell if I'm watching How I Met Your Mother or Big Bang Theory because they're just both full of utterly unlikeable characters who stand around like a bored vaudeville act and give weak setups and punchlines and then pause for the audience to stop losing their poo poo
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Apr 28, 2023 06:01
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I remember watching Nick at Night as a kid. I knew it was my bedtime when Alfred Hitchcock Presents came on. The opening theme still makes me think of bedtime. https://youtu.be/Fmeb-f4pthA I suppose that the universality of on demand streaming makes such associations obsolete.
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Apr 28, 2023 06:15
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You can lie and say you were on an episode of are you afraid of the dark, no one's gonna check. They will check if you say you were on one of the game shows.
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Apr 28, 2023 07:02
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How I Met Your Mother cast Wayne Brady as Neil Patrick Harris' brother and that sure was something.
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Apr 28, 2023 07:09
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I love who's line is it anyway but it's really ready for a long sleep and some fresh ideas Might have been partially me binge watching episodes in the background and catching the bad parts but so often the celebrity guest features seemed to boil down to "here's an attractive lady, let's have middle aged men paw at them", and on musical numbers often using the black talent to do music largely stereotypically associated with black folks- wayne brady/aisha called it out a few times themselves over the seasons That and a few bits of transphobia and a general lack of female talent being used made watching them a bit less fun than it should have been otherwise spling-dong!
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Apr 28, 2023 10:00
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Volcott posted:You can lie and say you were on an episode of are you afraid of the dark, no one's gonna check. AYAOTD had like 20 actors total and I think they were probably mostly Canadian. (I'm exaggerating, but they did repeat the actors a lot) I am a huge AYAOTD fan. It holds up! It's actually even better now because it's got the 90s vibe to it. It is definitely not media that did not age well. And if you said you were in AYAOTD I would definitely grill you on it, and you better have an encyclopedic knowledge of at least one episode to lie your way through it. That episode with the haunted pool, holy poo poo. And I swear sometimes kids would just die like I think in that episode where there was a haunted box in a kids basement and it eats the bully, he's just dead? Or that episode where the kids move into a town and play hide and seek in the graveyard and there are these ghost stories about the gravekeeper but then big twist it's not the gravekeeper it's the kids who are dead! The computer virus episode is literally the single best piece of 90s computer TV ever made. I just get so pumped whenever anyone brings up AYAOTD.
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Apr 28, 2023 10:40
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Honestly my favorite part of AYAOTD has to be the finale because it’s exactly the kind of insane idea every kid would come up with as fanfiction or something and they did it and it works perfectly. These days the Midnight Society finding a real haunted carnival would be a season long mystery box plot and someone would die and the brothers would have dark secrets. Instead it’s maybe I can’t remember a two parter and the older brother comes back to help and it’s just a satisfying resolution to the show as a whole.
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Apr 28, 2023 11:00
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What I always wanted to know in AYAOTD was in like the first episode where the kid is haunted by the killer clown for stealing his nose, where the gently caress did he get a box of cigars to pay the clown off with? Like, I know the early 90s were a different time, poo poo, it's when I did most of my growing up, but even then I don't remember being able to just walk into the store and buy a case of cigars, not unless the cashier knew your family and knew you were getting them for your grandpa or something that you'd have to live in a small town to get away with.
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Apr 28, 2023 11:31
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exquisite tea posted:Musk Rodd
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Apr 28, 2023 11:59
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the_steve posted:What I always wanted to know in AYAOTD was in like the first episode where the kid is haunted by the killer clown for stealing his nose, where the gently caress did he get a box of cigars to pay the clown off with? We used to help run the local sailing club's bar (really not as posh as it sounds) in the early nineties. I distinctly remember swiping a few cigars at the age of 13 when my dad's back was turned, and going into the woods to smoke them with my friends. Not the best thing to start your smoking career with tbh. Anyway they probably stole/'borrowed' them.
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Apr 28, 2023 14:37
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Shiroc posted:Yes, it primarily has aired hours of Friends for years and years. I was going to joke that Friends was probably as old as I Love Lucy was at the time but look like we'd need another decade.
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Apr 28, 2023 14:46
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Rondette posted:We used to help run the local sailing club's bar (really not as posh as it sounds) in the early nineties. I distinctly remember swiping a few cigars at the age of 13 when my dad's back was turned, and going into the woods to smoke them with my friends. Not the best thing to start your smoking career with tbh. Speaking of which, the sheer volume of anti smoking ads in the 00s put out by health departments worldwide. Just targeting youth who are never ever going to smoke cigarettes anyway because vaping is just around the corner.
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Apr 28, 2023 14:55
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Australian anti-smoking ads are the real poo poo.
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Apr 28, 2023 14:58
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deoju posted:I remember watching Nick at Night as a kid. I knew it was my bedtime when Alfred Hitchcock Presents came on. The opening theme still makes me think of bedtime. For me, my bedtime was extended half and hour when they started airing Get Smart so I could watch it.
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Apr 28, 2023 15:04
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DesperateDan posted:I love who's line is it anyway but it's really ready for a long sleep and some fresh ideas
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Apr 28, 2023 15:26
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♪ We are not toys. ♪ ♪ We are not toys! ♪
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Apr 28, 2023 16:13
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I still get Welcome to Mountport stuck in my head. How can that be? Like physically, how can that be? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbF1AJPqP1M
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Apr 28, 2023 16:20
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exquisite tea posted:I still get Welcome to Mountport stuck in my head. How can that be? Like physically, how can that be? That song cracks me up, folks clearly have never been to the pacific northwest or SE Alaska, or like any fjord ever. Giant mountains just rocketing straight up out of the ocean. e: but it's also really funny, that entire improvised musical is gold from start to finish.
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Apr 28, 2023 17:10
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How I Met Your Mother had the advantage of the mystery box in the form of the mother, and I think one thing people were looking forward too is meeting her and seeing her group dynamic, as we were told how well she fit in the group and hinted at funny things they did. A lot of goodwill post ending was lost because we don’t have Ted meet her until the literal end, then she dies.
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Apr 28, 2023 18:00
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I think it's really interesting how shows who fail to stick the landing causes them to be memory holed instantly. I have no idea how you could research it, though. HIMYM GoT Lost BSG
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Apr 28, 2023 18:54
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Beachcomber posted:I think it's really interesting how shows who fail to stick the landing causes them to be memory holed instantly. I have no idea how you could research it, though. None of these are real; you just made them up
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Apr 28, 2023 18:57
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Beachcomber posted:I think it's really interesting how shows who fail to stick the landing causes them to be memory holed instantly. I have no idea how you could research it, though. Dexter Roseanne Merlin
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Apr 28, 2023 18:59
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Rome 
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Apr 28, 2023 19:08
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hawowanlawow posted:Rome The series or the empire? 
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Apr 28, 2023 19:10
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Beachcomber posted:I think it's really interesting how shows who fail to stick the landing causes them to be memory holed instantly. I have no idea how you could research it, though. On the other hand, the X-files poo poo the bed on its plot from the beginning, and people still fondly watch it.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:13
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BioEnchanted posted:The series or the empire? The spin-off has been very successful, even with the sex scandals.
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Apr 28, 2023 19:15
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Beachcomber posted:The spin-off has been very successful, even with the sex scandals. Wait which spinoff was that? Rome: Byzantium? Rome: Italy? Rome: United States Rome: France?
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Apr 28, 2023 19:21
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Byzantium wasn't a spin-off, it's a fan term for the last 2/3rds of the story.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Wait which spinoff was that? I actually meant Rome: Vatican
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