5 Reasons Why How I Met Your Mother Is Just A Bad Attempt At Friends - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 11-09-2013, 03:01 AM

http://whatculture.com/tv/5-reasons-...pt-friends.php

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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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TMC · 04-02-2014, 03:59 PM

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/inte...t-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 reacts to the finale, "Friends" vs. "HIMYM," why the ending was not a cop-out, "HIMYM" was supposed to be a show about failure, "HIMYM" was a show about "selfish young whites" in New York, and the 5 stages of "HIMYM" grief.
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Pat · 04-03-2014, 03:55 AM

Sorry, I never got into watching Friends. The comedy of Barney Stintson (sp) kept me watching HIMYM.

Zoneboy · 04-03-2014, 05:13 AM

Consider the source, whatculture.

04-02-2014, 03:59 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,393	Did Internet over-analysis help ruin "HIMYM"? http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/inte...t-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 reacts to the finale, "Friends" vs. "HIMYM," why the ending was not a cop-out, "HIMYM" was supposed to be a show about failure, "HIMYM" was a show about "selfish young whites" in New York, and the 5 stages of "HIMYM" grief. Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#Xa0UIxv3cHTyyAYz.99

04-03-2014, 03:55 AM	#3
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04-03-2014, 05:13 AM	#4
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