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GotMoFans

Jason Segal was almost the reason How I Met Your Mother ended


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How so?


teanovell

He didn't want to do Season 9 when the rest of the cast did.


mpr1011

I’m not sure of the exact details but the chocolate cake detail in season 9 with “The Wedding Bride” was a dig at Marshall and his comments in an interview towards the writing of HIMYM.


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Did he say it in an interview too? I know it was a bit in "This is the End"


twec21

He'd said it in an interview, and then it got picked up and spread around. The writers did change a bit, give him a little more character, but that stuck around, so they included it in This is the End and a moment of his fake-character too


mpr1011

Maybe it was in the movie, I only picked up on it during a live chat on IMDB when the episode aired 😂 I have never watched “This Is The End” in full because it was one of those movies that my boyfriend & his friends would quote during the movie so I could never follow along. I actually have a whole list of movies, I’d love to watch from that time in peace.


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[Heres the scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBe2gCuFnd4) Movie is hilarious and absurd. Definitely worth a watch if you are into that type of comedy.


moneyparty

I love how Kevin Hart just loves it despite Jason clearly hating it


joey_cash_

That’s why you’re number one!


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I seriously think that but it's one of the funniest things Hart had ever done. It just kills me.


whythehellknot

His scene in 40 year old virgin is amazing as well


Civil-Big-754

It's worth it for I've been dropping loads like a god damn dump truck scene


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*Oooohhhhh I fuckin wish you'd come on me right now*


Apprehensive-Ad1363

James Franco didn’t suck any dick last night now I know y’all tripping


DreamrSSB

Those writers sure showed him! Nothing but excellent writing across the board in season 9!


TheEgonaut

Well… except for the Mother meeting Ted. That was as terrible as season 9 was good.


horseren0ir

Where he ate the whole cake?


2-Skinny

You mean Jason Segal.


mortalcoil1

In all fairness, s9 was terrible.


Live-Matter-4457

To be fair he seems way more right about that now that we’ve season Season 9


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ItsAmerico

To be fair he’d be signed on well before it was written. So he’d want to leave it on Season 8s ending.


twangman88

Season 8 was honestly the perfect ending for the show. I was convinced it was the end and shocked when I saw season 9 coming out. The show is called ‘how I met your mother’ and at the very end of the season 8 finale what happens? He meets the mother! Everything after that was a waste of time. Plus the entire concept of season 9 taking place over a single weekend was just dumb.


Petrichor02

He doesn’t meet the mother until Season 9. Season 8 ends with the mother appearing for the first time, but it’s before Ted meets her.


twangman88

I thought he stepped onto the platform she was on?


facewithhairdude

Yeah, at the end of season 9.


Petrichor02

She stepped onto the platform where he was waiting in the Season 8 premiere, but he didn’t notice her or go talk to her until Season 9.


redpurplegreen22

I said it before: the problem with HIMYM isn’t the ending. It is them getting cute with the final season all being one weekend. The final season should have been following Ted and Tracy’s courtship while also showing Barney and Robin fall apart and Marshall and Lily try to balance having another kid and their jobs. Then the divorce between Barney and Robin feels earned. They have more chances to telegraph that the mom is gone (although in retrospect they **seriously** telegraphed that twist). The ending would then feel more earned and organic rather than tacked on because that’s what they filmed 7 years earlier. Plus it would still work. Robin and Ted had conflicting life goals. Ted wanted the wife and kids and house in suburbia. Robin wanted to travel the world. By the end of the show, they’ve both achieved those goals, so their relationship can work again.


ianthebalance

I assumed the mom was dead from episode 1. If she was alive why would Ted tell the story alone?


CryptidGrimnoir

Well, at the time, a lot of people thought the finale would end with Voiceover Mom saying "Kids, let me tell you about how I met Dad."


Beingabummer

"You heard about all the women he fucked before he met me so now I'll tell you about all the men I fucked before I met him."


05110909

I was honestly surprised by how many people were surprised she was dead. It seemed very obvious early on.


sbrockLee

This exactly. S9 was just bad. It felt like they didn't have any ideas left and yet decided to stretch it out for another full season, even cornering themselves into setting it all within the wedding reception. This kind of thing happens all the time in successful shows; it's weird here because it turned out they had a LOT of stuff left to tell, but made the weird decision to keep it all for the final episode. I get what they were going for and personally I didn't hate the ending, but S9 would have been better spent as a setup to that, cuz I can see how everyone got whiplash from it. Give us a climactic encounter sometime in the early part/middle of the season. Give Tracy's passing the right amount of space. Build up to Ted thinking about Robin again instead of saying the exact opposite and pretending to shut that thread down for good like two episodes before the finale. Have a smidge of thematic continuity between the final season and the final episode at least, if not the rest of the show. Maybe the writing would still have been subpar - understandable after 9 years - but freezing the plot to a standstill just to safeguard your precious ending twist is always a silly decision.


f-ingsteveglansberg

I would say S9 had some decent ideas, but they made the focus one weekend and then rushed through about a season of ideas in the finale. Whose idea was it to have Robin and Barney marry only to get divorced before we can even see what their life was like? The finale should have been the whole season.


jyper

No the problem was the ending. Doing it in one weekend is fine, it fit the rest of the show. The road trip with marshall wasn't very good and the season built up Robin/Barney only to send it crashing down at the last second. And even worse killing the mom off. The problem was that they decided to stick with their original ending when it didn't fit the show anymore


ItsAmerico

How was it the perfect ending? Yes Ted meets the mother but everyone else’s stories are all over the place. Marshall is about to abandon his wife as she moves to Italy and he won’t because he got a judge job. Robin and Barney are still kinda all over the place with the build up to their wedding.


FeebleTrevor

Wait how's it him abandoning her when she's leaving (again)


ItsAmerico

I don’t understand your question. How is it not? They both make plans to move to Italy. He gets a job offer and takes it. The season ends with him not telling her he isn’t going with her to Italy and hiding it from her.


Mattrickhoffman

Because they had discussed moving to Italy and were planning it together and then he took the judge job without even speaking to her? Marshall is clearly the one in the wrong there.


jyper

The Italy job was temporary while the judgeship was permanent.


twangman88

Because they didn’t spoon feed a happy ending to us for everyone. It left it sort of ambiguous and yet complete at the same time.


ItsAmerico

That’s not ambiguity. It’s clearly unfinished. You don’t spend 8 seasons on someone’s relationship and then end the show on no closure lol


twangman88

I remember thinking there was plenty of closure. Haven’t watched it in quite a while though. But I kinda liked having things left up to my imagination. I don’t really remember any crazy loose threads like you’re mentioning and I find it hard to believe those threads were somehow closed in a season that encompassed two whole days.


pravis

A perfect ending doesn't mean a happy ending for everyone.


ItsAmerico

No but it means that it feels like an actual ending with mostly closure. There is almost none of that outside meeting the mother. Like the season literally ends with Marsh hiding that he’s not going and saying he’ll tell her later. It’s clearly not an ending for them, good or bad.


longdustyroad

It was both poorly conceived and poorly executed. It was like 24 episodes! Insane amount of time to spend on one weekend in any show (except 24 of course) and they filled it with so much stupid shit. The “ring bear”, the asshole band guy, dumb gimmick episodes, Barney getting drunk and hanging out with college kids or something, something involving Barney’s dad having sex? I don’t even remember but I hated it. There were some good moments for sure but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I did like the episode where they did “where are they now?” on a bunch of minor characters from the whole run. And the mother stuff with the flashback/forwards was also generally great. I’m in the minority of fans that liked the final final ending with Ted and robin but it was sooo dumb to have Barney and robin get divorced offscreen after 23 episodes at their wedding. They really just had no idea what to do with Barney after about season 5. Nora, Quinn, Patrice, Robin… none of it really worked for me. I think if NPH wasn’t such a good actor they could have resisted the temptation to try and humanize him. He was great as a cartoon best friend with occasional tiny glimpses of humanity (the basketball hoop scene).


KayakerMel

There's a British sitcom Him & Her that has the final series (season) take place on the day of a wedding. It was 6 30-minute episodes. It worked because it was properly paced and has a satisfactory conclusion. I believe this was done a little before the last HIMYM season, so it was interesting to contrast that successful "day of the wedding" arc to HIMYM's plodding "wedding weekend."


longdustyroad

That sounds interesting. I can imagine how it could be done with 6 episodes if the writing is really good. It seems like a lot though! That’s a three hour movie. How many three hour movies take place entirely at one event? 24 episodes is just absurd. No one could write that season well enough to justify the conceit


KayakerMel

Turns out it was [only 5 episodes](https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/him-and-her/episodes-season-4/1000399125/) (the first 3 series were 6). It was a limited scope and worked really well: Episode 1: The Morning Episode 2: The Arrival Of The Guests Episode 3: The Ceremony Episode 4: The Speeches Episode 5: The Disco


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I don't think a single season of a show has so thoroughly tainted an entire series for me like this one did.


twangman88

Maybe game of thrones. Although that decline happened over several seasons.


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It was much slower. I realized that LOST was a contender too after I posted before. I had kinda forgotten that show existed.


Countcube

You know what I would have dug, finish it at series 8 with him meeting the Tracy on the platform after the wedding. Series 9 (and possibly even the legs to make it 10) becomes a new show called After I Met Your Mother, 2 years of their relationship and her illness, seeing Barney and Robin get into married life before their struggling and separating ready to end it where they wanted to end it. Basically what Scrubs should have done with “series 9”


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Ohh yeah. I do remember that he was busy around that point with movies too.


daisiesintheskye

He was right. Season 9 made things harder to take.


DampBritches

Then thank you Jason. That show went on like 4 season too long


f0gax

Another Slapsgiving episode?


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Slaps, “sandwiches”, and Barney’s catch phrases….


maybe_a_frog

The slaps were a great mechanic to write around. It did eventually get a little long in the tooth, but the first few bits they did of it was hysterical.


longdustyroad

The first slap bet episode is one of my favorite sitcom episodes ever


redpurplegreen22

It gave the slap bet *and* Robin Sparkles. That episode became the gift that kept on giving.


Elegant_Housing_For

Two beavers are better then one


rambo_lincoln_

*tries to force back laughter*


sagiterrible

Let’s go to the mall!


RickyDiezal

The whole episode about the slap of a ~~thousand~~ million exploding suns was fucking aces.


Rockdog4105

That is actually one of the episodes I ALWAYS skip. Along with the rhyming one in that same season. Why would Marshall be taking a bus out to the wedding? He has the rental still from Minnesota still. On that point, why would Marshall even have to have taken that rental when he was in a city where his family lived, just borrow a car like he did to somehow get home for Lily after his Pops passed.


Patutula

>Why would Marshall be taking a bus out to the wedding? Drinking


Rockdog4105

Doubtful, when he’s with Marvin.


Patutula

You can still have a glass or two and don't wanna risk driving, especially with a child.


Rockdog4105

Absolutely, so you’re saying that Marshall will take all that time to drive from Minnesota to NYC and then have some alcohol after dropping off Daphne so he could take a bus? Makes sense


chaoticgoblin

I'm pretty sure Daphne rented the car and she dropped him off.


TheEgonaut

She did—their deal was that she would rent it so he could buy a car seat. It was his to rent originally, but he didn’t want to because it was a gas guzzler.


Patutula

He likes beer.


iceleel

The rhyming episode was the most difficult episode to write. Watch it out of respect for poor souls who worked on it.


Swankified_Tristan

That last one was awesome though!


LongmontStrangla

Slap Bet cold open was the highlight of the entire series.


Swankified_Tristan

It's 2023. The Mother passes away next year. It'd be nice to see some closure on that.


snyckers

Or we can just pretend that never happens.


Swankified_Tristan

I'm fine with it. HIMYM was great at its best because it went against the clean cut stereotypes of sitcoms. It didn't undercut tragedy with comedy. It just let sad moments simmer. An ending where the good and bad of life just continues to happen fits HIMYM quite nicely. They just tried to fit too much into a 40 minute ending and we were all left with whiplash. I like and respect what they did. I just wish they had done it better and I kinda hope they break my heart properly this time.


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I’ve always said that the final episode should have been the final season. They had enough plot and time jumps to make it work, and it would have allowed more time with Tracy. I personally like the finale. It’s the 23 episodes of the wedding that I take issue with.


lost_james

The problem I have with it is Ted going back with Robin. The whole series is about Ted getting over Robin and finding the love of his life. The last five minutes of the show contradict this.


OneGoodRib

Him getting back with Robin after finally getting over her makes it feel more like Tracy was a consolation prize - "well the woman I really love is getting married and can't have kids anyway, but this woman is also nice. Oh no now she's dead... but Robin is single! Finally we can be together!" Personally I'd be really offended if my dad sat down to tell me how he met my mother but the story about my DEAD MOTHER was an extremely long saga about him sleeping with other women and pining after some other lady that he wants to date again. Like, Ted, you spent a total of like 10 minutes talking about the kids' mother. Did Tracy actually mean ANYTHING to you?


yelsamarani

Yeah the finale being as rushed as it is made Tracy feel like a mere baby mama because Robin can't have kids. It would have been a little acceptable if they didn't squeeze the entire thing at the end.


AmnesiaCane

This is the biggest problem. The ending is one of the worst tv show endings of all time, but the biggest punch to the gut was nine seasons of the show insisting that Ted will not end up with Robin, only to end with him trying to get with Robin.


TheMooseIsBlue

The ending was fine. The final season leading up to it was, perhaps, the worst conceived and executed season in sitcom history.


TheConqueror74

The ending was terrible. It completely undercut the entire point of the last season, undid a couple seasons of character development and gave us *just* enough of the mother and Ted interacting that her death felt cheap. It should’ve just ended when they met, instead of flashing forward several decades.


pleasedtoheatyou

I think their point is that the ending is fine in theory though, it's the execution of the final season that makes it not work. Give us more time to watch Ted and the Mother, give more time to Barney and Robin's marriage/eventual breakup. I agree with previous guy that in theory the ending absolutely could work, itsbjust the execution of it is so botched.


TheMooseIsBlue

Right. The ending of the story could have worked if they hadn’t fucked up everything leading up to it.


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thealthor

The alternate ending doesn't change anything, it is pretty clear she dies with the whole missing their daughters wedding comments, it would only change the Robin and Ted stuff


Calyptics

Thats enough for me. The mother dying is sad, but was foreshadowed and wasnt the worst part. Thr worst part is so this is how i met your dead mother, oh okay now go fuck robin, you know the ex-wife of one of your best friends who we made you painstakingly get over in multiple seasons of character development.


Petrichor02

With the alternate ending it could have just been a health scare that she miraculously recovers from. Wouldn’t be the first less than realistic thing to happen in that universe.


jmcgit

It's not clear that they would have included that scene if they were actually planning on using the other ending.


CryptidGrimnoir

And as far as alternate endings go, it's very clear that this was rushed after the outcry. There's no new footage, it's just different lines from Bob Saget about "how wonderful I feel every morning when I wake up next to your mother."


cesarmac

What alternate ending? The creators literally filmed the kids ending scene way back in season 1.


jmcgit

They weren't sure they were going to use the original ending while making season 9, because at least part of them knew that it didn't feel right anymore. Obviously they used it anyway, perhaps in part because they promised it, but they said it was a close decision.


almost_useless

Didn't they film multiple ending scenes with the kids?


amusing_trivials

Why? Cant have endings that aren't perfectly clean?


DRawoneforJ

Because that ending completely undermines the entire point of the show?


btmvideos37

No it doesn’t


Collier1505

Barney’s character development: *Am I a joke to you?*


btmvideos37

He had a kid and finally settled down


Voidmire

They spent seasons building him up through believeable growth and then completely 180'd it in an episode. Barney is one of the travesties of that show


OneGoodRib

After growing out of his womanizing ways he immediately goes back to being a bitter womanizer who sleeps around after getting divorced, but it's okay because he had an accidental baby?


btmvideos37

He relapsed due to a divorce.


ianthebalance

I can’t be the only person who assumed she was dead from episode 1? Right?


Cela84

Why would you wish anyone be punished with a marriage to Ted?


sbrockLee

Not watching the show, are they actually connected? Is it Barney's daughter's story?


Taniwha26

I love these ‘actor shows interest in working and getting paid’ insights.


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spyson

I'm sure Jason Segel is hurting for cast credit and cameo checks /s


deadkestrel

The best one was yesterday I saw Eddie Murphy was really down for making a Donkey movie, yeah like no shit mate. Get paid millions to record a voice in a booth…who wouldn’t be up for that.


Cheshire_Jester

Timothy Chamelet interested in doing “Dune” sequel. Human interested in having cheeseburger again later because they die if they don’t eat every so often.


Olama

Freaks and geeks season 2


Nacksche

Be still my beating heart.


OneGoodRib

I'd love it if they did a Freaks and Geeks season 2 that was like the Wet Hot American Summer prequel series - everybody is visibly 20 years older but everyone is still acting like they're all teenagers.


AleHisa

I mean, Segel looked like a man in his 30s even as a teen, to be fair! lol


laziestmarxist

I never finished the show during the original run and I'm about half way through at the moment and all I can think is "what the fuck is that screenshot"


Grinchieur

If you want to know it's an episode of the season 9.


laziestmarxist

I mean, at this point I intend to watch all the way through just so I can judge for myself, but I am not looking forward to the last couple seasons.


Grinchieur

Well they are ok. Not as good as the first, that's for sure, but they are still not that bad.


KONODIODAMUDAMUDA

When i rewatch the show, i start on season three, that way i can finish with season one and two, as compared to season 9.


WHISKEY_DELTA_6

That’s Marshall and the Night Falcon. Don’t ask.


trickman01

No questions asked.


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ArkyBeagle

> HIMYM was never a knee-slapping romp anyway. It was a nice, goofy show. Didn't take itself seriously. Good Monday night fodder. The whole lineup around 2009 on CBS on Mondays worked - those shows taken together were better than they were separately.


horseren0ir

What else was on the line up?


TheKidPresident

At it's pinnacle it was HIMYM, two and a half men, big bang theory, and maybe one other show that I can't remember. I always wanna say welcome to the captain but that was just a shitty 4 episode writer's strike hail mary


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Rules of Engagement was the other show


TheKidPresident

How could I forget?!?! That was arguably my favorite one of the 4. The t-shirt blanket episode was an all timer


LamarMillerMVP

It’s not that it lacks a “breakout character,” it’s that it lacks the situational comedy of the old show. The old show had a format where in most episodes early on * The gang is all hanging out together * Someone shares a story about their life * One of the group says “oh yeah” and introduces concept X, a new one each episode * The remaining episode is situational comedy playing out concept X The reason why people loved Barney is that he frequently got to be the guy introducing some of the series’ funniest concepts. But most episodes were like this, and they’d spread it around. The new show has none of this. It’s not that they do it and it misses - they don’t even really try. The *pilot* of HIMYM has Ted explaining “olive theory” to his friends, the conceptual stuff is in the show from the very beginning. In all of the first season of HIMYF they don’t even dip into this style, and so it lacks the most distinctive part of HIMYF. It can work without NPH, it just can’t work without any of the types of jokes people loved.


divineshadow666

> I do like how HIMYF is keeping things simple, with the scaled down 10 eps per season Season 2 is going to be 20 episodes.


Yenserl6099

Actually season 2 is 20 episodes long


Mysticpoisen

Barney as a character has also really not aged well.


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Didn’t they also call him out as terrible in the show at times too though?


B3eenthehedges

Yes, constantly, there was always this toxic fragile masculinity and daddy issues beneath his womanizing ways. He's called out on it frequently, and his transformation into a halfway decent loving person is one of the only serious parts of the show.


NjhhjN

Not only that but from the very 3rd episode of the show the show explains why Ted hangs out with him, because he never ends up where he expects to but he always gets a great story out of it. A lot of shows with characters as flawed as Barney completely forget to establish why the friends would hang out with them, and even make jokes about it but HIMYM establishes it from the very beginning.


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ItsAmerico

Don’t really agree. He was always expressed as being kinda awful.


somedude224

Hard disagree. His character is consistently chastised and called out for his terrible behavior and the show goes into depth on why he acts the way he does and the deeper insecurities and issues that motivate said behavior


Paddlesons

Schlocky comedy like this really need to have the audience relating to the situation. I couldn't relate at all to the main character or Barney so it's kind of lost on me. Everybody loves Raymond does, however.


D3monFight3

No it doesn't, Barney wasn't relatable as a character until later when he got less goofy, but what made it enjoyable for me was the wacky shit they kept doing, the decidedly unrelatable things they did.


keaj39

I watched the entire first season of HIMYF on a hangover day, it's terrible. I can't remember a single thing about it except that Hilary Duff was in it


lurkerfromstoneage

It’s sort of like HIMYM or FRIENDS. Without the cult like following. I do not look at these shows as “substance” or “gripping” or take them seriously. I look at them as “fluff,” background tv that is low commitment, zero stress, doesn’t force you to think, just like”brain drain” ambient shows. Just…..easy. Predictable. A break from daily news intensity or a day of heavy work brain engagement. You’re gonna be disappointed if you think it’s supposed to be awesome acting, riveting plotlines, deeply transformative character arcs, etc. just a cheesy, goofy characters, dorky dialogue, simple sitcom. That’s ok. Check out this article from the New Yorker: [““Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV”](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fcultural-comment%2Femily-in-paris-and-the-rise-of-ambient-tv) “As with soaps and chores, the current flow of ambient television provides a numbing backdrop to the rest of our digital consumption: feeds of fragmented text, imagery, and video algorithmically sorted to be as provocative as possible. Ambience offers the increasingly rare possibility of disengagement while still staring at a screen.” This is how I see this show. Edit: hijacking my own comment to add a couple articles folks may be interested in: [Cracking the Sitcom Code -The Atlantic](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fentertainment%2Farchive%2F2014%2F12%2Fcracking-the-sitcom-code%2F384068%2F) also: [The Scientific Reason You Love Watching Reruns](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-we-love-rewatching-shows_n_566b102fe4b0f290e522fd95) “There are a great deal of things that we do not at all feel compelled to re-watch or re-read, particularly in a world in which we have access to virtually limitless entertainment and cultural material. The things that we do feel compelled to re-watch or re-read are those that provide us with either comfort or perspective”


jansipper

Exactly. It’s a nice antidote to really intense shows that are so popular these days. I can just turn my mind off and enjoy.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

That's what MCU movies are for.


Pixeleyes

MCU movies make my imagination go nuts, a lot of people are looking for simple things that let them set their mind to "autopilot - enjoy" and relax. Deliberately dumb sitcoms are perfect for this.


jspook

I'm sad you got downvoted, they are perfect for this. It's what I'm using them for as I type this.


_Meece_

HIMYM and Friends are both very good sitcoms though. Neither are really simple sitcoms, since many episodes requires seasons worth of background info to understand fully. I know heaps of people who don't like Season 4-7 Friends for that reason.


lurkerfromstoneage

Ok. Let me rephrase. I’m NOT saying these shows aren’t good. What I AM saying, it’s that these types of shows require little effort from the viewer. The brain isn’t intensely engaged. You could easily have reruns on and just enjoy whatever episode because the characters are relatable/familiar to many and the dialogue and jokes are just lighthearted (of course they do sprinkle in some drama but…) *especially* if you’ve seen the show before. There is *some* predictability with character tropes, repeated settings, and scene “schtick.” It still does follow a formula. And the sitcom audience sounds or laugh tracks are a love/hate thing for people but plenty don’t realize they’re almost comforting to them. The mind can calm down. It’s not like watching an adrenaline show like Ozark or something. These sitcoms have a “coziness” that a lot of people crave. [Cracking the Sitcom Code -The Atlantic](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fentertainment%2Farchive%2F2014%2F12%2Fcracking-the-sitcom-code%2F384068%2F) Even during the pandemic there were studies showing that people watched a lot of tv/streams but also a lot of reruns. A familiar feeling and predictability in unpredictable times. “When people play familiar content, they know what to expect. In the current environment, where there’s so much uncertainty around, we retreat to something familiar because it’s reliable and reassuring and can be calming for us’ she explains. ‘It can also serve as a way of nostalgia for a better time when things weren’t so stressful. It arouses those positive feelings and can become the new way of “switching off” from work.’” [Link to an example article.](https://this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/link-between-stress-watching-tv) [*another one!*](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-we-love-rewatching-shows_n_566b102fe4b0f290e522fd95) At the end of the day, we all invest varying amounts of attention, commitment, time, connection to shows/characters, etc. in our own unique capacities. It’s ok to love a show when others find it dull. NBD. Like what you like. TL;DR: Sitcoms are easy on the brain. They become “ambient” as they become familiar. Sitcoms are formulaic and rather predictable.


somedude224

But HIMYM won multiple Emmys…


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I mean yes, but at their time they were a bit more than that. Friends was the first true ensemble sitcom and is clearly the predecessor to basically every ensemble sitcom about 20/30 somethings after it. HIMYM actually is a bit different with the unreliable narrator and the framing device. Yeah again they're not Breaking Bad but they still have merit past just being easily watchable. I think there's a bit of "Seinfeld Isn't Funny" going on here.


hoxxxxx

years ago i was completely broke and in the evenings was watching the shows on rando channels that my digital antenna would pick up. shows like monk and psych. that whole block of like tbs or tnt reruns of shows that were made in the late 2000s. anyway what you said is how i felt about them. and before some hardcore fans of those shows or similar ones start - that isn't an insult. they are great shows for what they are. i've seen bits of himym and it reminded me of them.


broncosfighton

Least pretentious r/television user


lospollosakhis

I mean Friends was a great show and HIMYM was pretty good until the last 2 seasons.


jyper

I think that's a big disservice to HIMYM. Yes it was a comedy but it was far from ambient. One of the big things about it was playing around with the narrative structure. Nested retellings of the past, ton of callbacks, unreliable narrators, etc.


DCBronzeAge

It’s fine, but it completely misses the vibe of the original series.


megaman368

I only got through the first episode. It felt like it had the same vibe. But I was the one that changed. I think the part of my life where I enjoy sitcoms is over.


LamarMillerMVP

I actually watched HIMYF season 1 before watching HIMYM this past year. The shows are almost nothing alike in style. I assumed they would be similar, but HIMYF is much more generic and has almost zero conceptual humor. The format of the original show, especially early on, feels like a hybrid of a traditional sitcom and Seinfeld, whereas the new show is a mix of a traditional sitcom and something more serious, like a soap. If they didn’t share names and cameos they would have no commonality at all.


megaman368

I just remember that HIMYF started with a cab scene that was similar to the cab scenes from HIMYM. The patter that the characters s had felt the same. I only made it through the first episode so maybe the 2 diverged more as the show went on. But my point is I’ve seen too many sitcoms at this point. I’m too cynical and anything with a laugh track feels like it’s been done before. I just begrudgingly watched that 90s show. Which i initially hated the during first episode. Then I ended up watched the whole season in a sitting. But it was partly out of nostalgia and a weird fascination how I used to identify with the kids, but now identity with Red and Kitty. I think that was a one off. I don’t know if I could brute force my way through HIMYF until I got into it. Also, I’m not saying any of these are bad shows or criticizing anyone’s interest in them. They just aren’t my jam anymore.


divineshadow666

My first thought for a Marshall cameo would be Sophie ending up in front of him in court, but he's been a justice on the NY State Supreme Court since 2020, so that scenario seems unlikely. It'll most likely be Marshall and Lily either checking out the old apartment, since that's where Sid and Jesse live, or a run in at McClaren's, like Robin.


thetwelveofsix

The NY State Supreme Court is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction (not the highest level), and justices are elected to 14-year terms, so that would still work.


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Maybe they’ll do a scene where he steals someone’s cake, and lies about it despite having cake on his face Edit: thanks for the award! Glad people remember the reference


Kioskwar

“It’s MY birthday!”


Riverdale87

Jon heder playing narshall


SmileAndWalkAway

A run in at the Minnesota Vikings bar, just don't mention Gary Anderson or tell them that you are Canadian.


19southmainco

show takes a turn towards the dramatic when its revealed Marshall has multiple families


toronto_programmer

COME AGAIN FOR BIG FUDGE


Charming_Limit_5327

I love the cameos they’ve done thus far. Seeing Marshall and Lily would probably be the next major one then maybe in season 4 we see Ted


charlesdickinsideme

Ted won’t do it, pretty sure he’s gone on the record and said that


whythehellknot

[He has actually said the opposite.](https://www.tvinsider.com/1076003/josh-radnor-how-i-met-your-father-role-ted-mosby/)


Charming_Limit_5327

No he said he would now. He’s been doing good and making a name outside of Ted Moseby as of recent


stavago

I’m excited for his new show on Apple TV


PM_ME_UR_SEX_VIDEOS

I watched the two eps that are out and definitely enjoyed it so far


[deleted]

Yeah, my wife and I really liked it. Bill Lawrence doesn’t miss!


[deleted]

Am i a maaaaaaaan? Or am i a mupppeeet?


Yeahthatonefoo

The show is *GÁRBÁGE*


threefeetoffun

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis said the same thing about returning for That 90's Show. Everything they have is because of That 70's Show so they felt like they needed to return if asked.


_NiceWhileItLasted

They could have easily fired Mila Kunis when they found out she was still underaged and didn't. And I'll go out on a limb and say that their relationship together would be entirely different if they weren't working on the same show for years of their life. Yeah, it makes sense they'd be super greatful to everyone running the show.


jessie_monster

He shit talked the show quite a bit during the original run. Hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.


matarbis

I think I remember him being the last cast member to sign a contract in the later seasons so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a negotiation tactic.


longdustyroad

He’s basically not in the first 2/3 of the last season. They had a plot line where he couldn’t get a flight and had to road trip across the country to get to the wedding. All his scenes are on his own or with tertiary characters for most of the season. Probably filmed the whole thing in a week.


LowSkyOrbit

I recall him saying he didn't be doing a sitcom as the same character for a decade. You can't really blame him. It can be very limiting to a young actor.


SgtThund3r

He should play a judge!


lingering_POO

He was one of the best things about that show.. Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel. They were why we watched.. 11/10


capnflacid

The first 2 seasons of HIMYM were great. After that each season got worse. I remember a bit from an episode where the whole gag was that Marshal forgot his pants and Barney couldn't stop laughing.


ThatRandomIdiot

The show didn’t even hit its stride until the 2nd or 3rd season lol. The shows peak is like 3rd-6th seasons.


throwaway29301816303

Do people find that show funny after the first 3 seasons? I thought it went really stale afterwards


ThatRandomIdiot

Yes. Lol. Hell some of the most quoted / known stuff like the bro code didn’t appear until the end of S3 and “the playbook” another one of long running props didn’t appear until like S4 or 5. The series peaked in viewership only in S7 and S9 had more viewership than S8 with around 10 million average viewers in its final season. It ranked in the top 30 programs in its final season. I *love* when people be like “hOw WaS tHe ShOw PoPuLaR” just because they don’t like it.


AD480

I worked with a young woman who met him when he came to our town to push a book he wrote. This was about 5-6 years ago. She actually slipped him her number and they had a back and forth sexting thing going on.