http://whatculture.com/tv/5-reasons-met-mother-just-bad-attempt-friends.php

How I Met Your Mother, or HIMYM, which first aired in 2005, has received 28 Emmy nominations, winning nine.

While season 9 is currently underway, its predecessor averaged over 8 million viewers per episode according to Nielsen ratings, so it’s fair to say the sitcom has been a great success – and still is eight years on from its inception.

However, it’s noticeable how similar the format is to another long-running and very successful sitcom – Friends.

While the latter aired their last episode in 2004, sitcoms can be planned for years prior to their eventual commission to a TV network, and with this in mind, many feel a number of ideas were certainly thought of from watching the popular series.

Writers of course will never openly admit to having copied core ideas for a show, but here are five examples of striking similarities giving evidence to potential plagiarism from the aforementioned.


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http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/internet-killed-how-i-met-your-mother/

"What once might have been the subtlest of foreshadowing is now broadcast via bullhorn," says Johnny Gall of the Internet culture that spent the last nine years over-analyzing "How I Met Your Mother." The result was "HIMYM" writers trying harder to avoid being predictable. Says Gall: "Much of the disappointing facets of the finale were a result of the writers refusing to give in to tropes (which audiences can now see coming around the corner), instead showing a somewhat true-to-life progression of events. Divorces do happen, friends drift apart, and when you sleep with thirty-one women in a single month, odds are good one of them will get pregnant." PLUS: Ted Mosby's son (https://celebrity.yahoo.com/the-insider/teds-son-met-mother-kept-224610838.html) reacts to the finale, "Friends" vs. "HIMYM," (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/01/himym_finale_for_how_i_met_your_mother_fans_of_a_certain_age_the_show_s.html) why the ending was not a cop-out (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/sorry-haters-why-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-was-actually-the-perfect-ending/article17753773), "HIMYM" was supposed to be a show about failure (http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/how-i-met-your-mother-series-finale/), "HIMYM" was a show about "selfish young whites" (http://gawker.com/what-was-how-i-met-your-mother-and-why-is-everyone-mad-1556101120) in New York, and the 5 stages of "HIMYM" grief (http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/04/01/how-i-met-your-mother-finale-stages-of-grief/).
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Sorry, I never got into watching Friends. The comedy of Barney Stintson (sp) kept me watching HIMYM.

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