How I Met Your Father - Why We Still Crave Earnest Comfort TV 

Shit thats right, he still fights the good fight, huh? God i miss this show

Lily also changed her career goal from becoming a artist to becoming a artist consultant. Basically our exceptions have to be curve but we will still achieve our goals in a certain way.

ya but before he became a judge he joined corp law again

@@namishkesavan4053 that’s right but it doesn’t mean your pregnant wife’s boot fetish will cause the family being destitute on the street. As the main income for the family you do what is needed for the good of it. Then have an exit strategy to become what you always wanted to be. In his case was to “Make a difference” not just a environmental lawyer that was his initial aspirations. But like in life things grow and spending time In ones craft can tech you that there is more to that answer. Like a unanimous decision were five votes matter and you’re the fifth.

Charlie Kelly is a better tv lawyer than Marshall.

Ditto, many people can relate to this form of escapism, and the complexity of loss.

Same with me

I do too.

While I don’t consider HIMYM to be cheesy, I do understand your point and completely relate. HIMYM for me is my number 1 go to show for escapism or to have on in the background while having dinner. I’ve watched this show dozens of times and it never gets old. It’s definitely my comfort show!

Me, too.

IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear jim

Barney only worked for me because NPH played him. I don't have confidence I would've liked him despite his problematic behavior if he was played by anyone else.

I think character development is lost on people today. Any character needs to be entirely likeable or their flaws will be seen as bad writing.It's lame. We used to have arcs with characters that were evil to their core, bad, but still main characters and people grew to see their side and they changed. We dont need every problematic character to see the light entirely in episode 1. If barney was a good boy episode 1 we wouldnt get the part explaining why he's like he is, why he has trouble with love, etc things many people deal with. (trouble with love not being misogynist XD)

Nah, sorry! It's all NPH, the only reason I can stand Barney is NPH. If you're suggesting HIMYF is missing NPH, then I would say that's possible. For me, he's made up for by Duff, who in no way plays a Barney, nor is she trying to make up for his absence. The cast is talented, there's more diversity, and they're still getting started so I don't see the point of comparing a show that finished its run with one that's just getting started, and it looks as though it's trying to correct mistakes of the previous show. And guess what? A lot of gentlemen can relate to Ted and Marshal, they're guys that are LOVED (And let's face it, Ted got around a lot too! -Despite his best efforts because he truly was looking for love- Not as much as Barney, but he did, so it's not like a guy has to be an A-hole to get girls to like him) . Also, the hate-watch culture of today is unbearable. If you're not interested, don't watch it bro! It's okay to like the original and stick to it. Find a show that you're into! Watch Sebastian Stan talk to his schwang in Pam and Tommy, or John freaking Cena dance in his underwear after having sex with the girl who has the most "out there" hair in 2022 (And laugh! That's the point, to entertain and not bore you 😁). HIMYF is very comforting overall, but if it didn't do it for you, that's okay (Hugs). Also great job showing KC instead of her kids, we genuinely can't tell who the dad is, for all we know it could be Ian.

To be honest,it was Only Neil that made me stomach Barney after a while. I love a good laugh but it became really gross and I couldn't look at his growth w/out seeing the issues the character was covered in. It became kind of relieving that he and Robin divorced . It made it really hard for them to stay together,for me.The amount of resistance to growing made a relationship for them too unrealistic,even for a sitcom.

That's true. She didn't fuck her employee until he was so obviously incompetent she had to fire him.

Yeah you are right. But a barney gets celebrated because he is a bro and the man. And a woman who does the same is considered a slut (by some people).

Sure why not

@@niahoad Oh my god shut up already. Funny how people like you say that's how it is yet can't point to even one example that shows people are okay with a male character and not a female character who acts exactly the same.

@@niahoad Maybe in 2010s that would have been the case, but now woman get celebrated if they sleep around. Just take a look at the amount of songs about that. They are just known as the cool, party girl now.

Her video chatting her son to tell him a story makes it feel less personal too.

It’s not intended to have the same impact it’s trying to do something different A different impact The son sounds like he’s an adult not a kid cuz she seems to live alone or he’s at least in college

@@heathersherwood3361 he’s probably at college or something It’s not less personal it’s just different it’s just how it’s handled these days and probably cuz of the pandemic they did it like this

@@madnessarcade7447 Maybe, I understand it not ending the same way or the main girl going through different situations.

@@madnessarcade7447 It’s just if you are telling a story to your kid doing it through video chat takes away the personal impact of it. I understand the pandemic affected things, but it feels less personal to me. That’s just my opinion though.

I agree but Season 1 had the Pineapple Incident

tbh himym catched me at the very first episode and the pineapple incident sealed the deal.

I think it's the characters that are lacking even if you don't compare them they aren't compelling and 1:1 as every other TV show characters we see on screen. They could've done more with then and I wish it were more controversial it comes off like a Twitter TV show that a realistic one or maybe it's bc I am German

Season 2 improved but still it got cancelled. It was getting interesting and many were eager to know who the father might be but these people comparing it with HIMYM ruined it's chances.

The show we deserved.

YES EXACTLY!!!

Ok this just rebranded everything about the show for me thank you.

Lmao

ME TOO! This is the spiritual Lizzie McGuire reboot.

That makes so much sense

@@iasmin8490 yeah, definitely now that I am also remembering that it seems Sophie’s son is also an adult when she is telling the story, so it is definitely not so much the aging problem. Glad he’s an adult so that it does not have the same HIMYM dynamic of a parent regaling their adolescent children with stories of their friend group’s one-night-stands. Still weird to regale your adult offspring with those stories though (and they have the son comment on that)

I agree People should give it a chance It’s very wholesome

Ya I like it so far because its' comforting, we should't compare it to the original because the original is a fully formed product. It's just figuring out what the tone is and everything. At least people are watching the show. They have a lot of avenues they can go down. Not every first season of a show is good, gotta give those shows time to breathe and develop.

@@manavdhawan3313 I'm waiting before watching it because I am afraid I'm gonna be disappointed, especially since the reviews haven't been that good. I'm kind hoping by the end of the first season they'll have found their footing and that season 2 will be great. Then I'll be able to withstand a couple weird episode. But if I watch it now and it disappoint I'll probably never watch it again. I'm kind of stubborn that way

@@johannasegard737 the reviews and ppl on the internet are exaggerating. It's the typical reaction to when something doesn't live up to something ppl considered perfect. So whatever came after was always going to get bashed. I dont think the show is AMAZING, but it's fine, ligh-hearted television and doesn't really deserve the hate it's been getting in my opinion.

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Hey as long as they can call out the BS of ALL the characters this time around then I’ll be able to enjoy this show without looking back and finding things disturbing in hindsight.

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I specially like that since we don't know the kid, ANYONE can be the father, which was a very smart decision. Also, I feel like Valentina is a Barney-type of character, so I don't feel like we are missing barney as most people say. And Charlie totally is a gender swapped Rachel Green

@ Imagine if the father turns out to be a trans man who at the point of the first episode didn't realise he's trans yet. The possibilities would be endless lmao

@@kareemmasri3934 Can you explain? I haven't wathc HIMYM and don't remember anyone not getting called out on their bs except for Ted sometimes

Glad a comment made note of this. They did it numerous times smh.

Hilarious to me that they combined the actress’s name “Francia” and the character’s name “Valentina,” and did it multiple times.

That shows how bad Valentina is

omg yes!

That would be hilarious imagine she using Barney's techniques or how uncle ted inspires her to get her true love

No no "how I met your step-mom" would be better

Himym is not timeless it has ages horribly

Unfortunately I'd have to agree. The jokes, the dialogue, relationship dynamics seem forced and often fall flat. I don't think it's the actor's faults, but Sophie and the guy who's supposed to be the main love interest have no on screen chemistry. Overall, extremely forgettable characters and plot lines. I really wanted to love this show!

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Exactly. I think the 60% from audience members are saying that most people who watched Himym who aren't turned off by the new cast are unsure of the final quality of the show. Giving it time is essential because it's a sequel of a show that people still watch to this day. Who knows this show can become the next fraiser if done right.

@@Killgore-ip2yq true

I've only laughed out loud once, 5 episodes in :( maybe we're the cynics they're referring to lol

@@HeyyJillian it's just not good writing. Five episodes in and I still know very little (and care very little) about these characters. And to top it off - it's unfunny. Diversity doesn't excuse bad writing. There's plenty of examples of both things at play - New Girl, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, etc.

Its not funny and yet due to people like us who think its not funny we’re the ones at fault because we prefer the older, funnier, not as diverse cast( not that thats a problem) over the more diverse less funny show. Like previously mentioned its possible to have funny diverse shows, however theres nothing wrong with the less diverse, not privileged cast of the better show

It tries way to hard, sounds like Twitter and the characters are bland. Is this how these writers talk with their friends? I know Barney is probelamtic but that's what made him and his growth great. Not everyone is perfect and humans are morally grey. Even as a girl I laughed at Barney's jokes idk

Exactly! They don’t have a solid cast. The og cast were great at comedy

I get what you’re saying, but this feels more real. Who really goes to the same spot everyday for 5+ years?

@@jaik923 billions of average people all around the world.

@@scaccu yea that called "home", or "work". Billions of ppl dont have the time to get drunk at the same exact bar every day of the week besides on TV...

@@jaik923 I do lol

@@jaik923 it's sitcom 101a show has a place where they all hang out. The max, cheers, the peach pit, shooters... Eric's basement

But the show condoned Ted's abusive and manipulative behavior towards women, if anything barny's whole existence was just to say Ted's behavior was okay, that he is the "good guy" cuz at least he is not as bad as Barney

Your talking in an age where villians aren't allowed to misgender people.

@@BioshadowX buddy, if you begin your sentence with a grammar mistake, your argument really doesn't shine too bright and it's simply stupid and not true 🤷

@@silverandcoldone blame auto correct on phone. And off the top of my head- Last of Us 2 Pretty Little Liars She Ra My Hero Academia Im sure I could find more if I turned to trusty friends like google, and reporting like Vice and Kotaku too

@@BioshadowX Child, are you really gonna complain that villains didn't happen to misgender people? Do you hold superhero movies to the same "Thanos shitty villain, didn't misgender Iron Man" standard? LOL.

I think what you are saying describes modern TV characters- especially male characters. They lack substance, growth, personalities everything that made them compelling. At times I think US TV shows are following twitter instead of producing good, realistic characters. Everyone's 1 dimensional, morally right, honestly there hasn't been 1 widely popular character like Barney in years. I think they should go back to making "problematic" characters again they were the most interesting

If that's the only way to make TV Shows "Interesting" then tv shows can die out, for the sake of humanity

@@Punmaster9001 wdym?

@@sara1coco What do I mean? If shitty characters like Barney are the only "interesting" part of the show, then turn off the tv and read a book. Shitty show's like this only teach people that the bad behaviors are acceptable, so guys will continue acting like trash, and women will learn it's their job to put up with it.

So far, it feels more like a romcom than a sitcom, at least in my opinion.

It's honestly too safe as a sitcom. It's not that I don't like the characters and even think they made significant improvements with the narrator being more present in the show, but I feel that Himym could be rewatchable even by today is because the situations are more relatable than HIMYF because the new show is unrealistic in making us relate to these people outside the superficial.

True. I have been wondering about that and I came to the conclusion that Older Ted could say absolutely everything he wanted because he could talk freely about "Aunt Lily" and "Aunt Robin" and "Uncle Marshall" and "Uncle Barney." But Older Sophie doesn't have that freedom. The best she could do is call them all by their names (like "See, darling, when I first met him Jesse/Sid/Charlie/Iain was [insert whatever] because when he was a little kid he [insert joke]") but she'd more naturally call the dad "your dad." She could do it with "Aunt Valentina" and "Aunt Ellen" I guess, but so far I have the impression that they're not willing to. Another issue I see is that Older Ted's narration was hilarious because they really leaned into his being an unreliable narrator and his making comments about the characters and events and his telling his kids little stories from the other characters' cast, but Older Sophie just doesn't do that at all. Final issue I see with Older Sophie: she's just not funny at all. Her one-liners are very silly and they also depict her as someone who is both very snobbish/pretentious/condescending and extremely different from the Sophie we see in the series. I personally find her very unlikable. With Older Ted you could feel Ted's personality, with a few changes that go with aging -- wiser, calmer, his sense of humour drier, but he was the same character we knew.

I think the reason why Sophie doesn't speak about her friends the way Ted was, is because she met most of them the day the story starts, she didn't know much about them at that time, they don't have history together before the story started so bassically everything that Ted has talked about in a flashback for example will just happen on screen

The characters aren't relatable and unfunny. I didn't laugh once whilst with HIMYM I even laughed at controversial Barney jokes. Honestly idk what US TV shows are doing nowadays but it's not surprising they aren't doing as well as they used to

I find it to be the opposite lol

Do really feel like how I met your mother showed realistic people? I love the show but everything was so overdrawn.

I feel the exact same. The dialogue and jokes seem very forced while in HIMYM even tho the characters were a bit over the top it still felt like watching real friends interacting and making jokes

huh? HIMYM the situations were sooo manufactured. Might need to take those rose-tinted glasses off. Every other storyline was some version of "OMG what a crazy, crazy coincidence this event happened at this exact moment and I keep running into this exact person at this exact moment in a city of 8mill+ ppl!"

@@Ray03595 Yeah because HIMYM was a cartoonish show, which is another thing this show lacks. I think the whimsical aspects are one of the main things that made HIMYM stand out and it's surprising that a sister show would throw away the core structure of the original, instead of changing something else from the millions of other elements of the original. And I think what the original comment was referring to, is that despite outlandish situations and scenarios HIMYM still had dialogues and performances that felt very natural and most conversations felt like real conversations between real people. How I met your father has the main cast become besties after one 30ish minute cab ride and then a 10 minute long mission for the lead to get her phone back from the cab driver. What the f? Literally the most ridiculous scenario I've ever seen in the pilot of an episode, and maybe if the dialogue wasn't so forced and stiff and unnatural, it could be forgiven but-. I've never met someone who talks like any of the characters in How I met your father, they don't talk like real people, it's like they're giving a scripted and rehearsed TED talk every 5 minutes, and again, maybe if they were funny it could be overlooked; the way HIMYM had some episodes with not so great dialogues but God at least the jokes were witty, clever and funny. I really hope they find better writers because I was really excited for the reboot but my God this show is just bad, so far there aren't any redeeming qualities besides a decent production design and mediocre actors who could potentially shine quite bright under a good director. I know they're not trying to replicate the original show but instead take some inspiration from it, but by changing the core and main things that make the original what it is AND also writing awfully boring and predictable bits and jokes, I just don't see a bright future for this show although I hope they prove me wrong and try to improve it.

The only comment I've fully agreed with here so far.

how does Hilary Duff's character act like a man, explain? You've said a whole bunch of stuff, but her character is very much a basic NYC white girl... Did anything actually spark this criticism beyond the main character being female?

@@tanyamoretz who else could they be talking about. If you're going to speak for the OP, then name one main female character on the show that "acts like a man". I'll wait.

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Short story- almost 90% people would not watch if there was no Barney.

Yess and that's what made his character good. We knew he was a terrible person, a godo friend and had incredibly growth (well until that ending which we erased). TV shows nowadays are so afraid of stepping over the line and having compelling characters the products are suffering.

It relies too much on technology compared to original show. An unfortunate byproduct 2000s I suppose

@@heathersherwood3361 Yea, the over reliance on tech will date the show quickly.

@@Angi3_6 definitely. Shows need to stop emphasizing it too much. Yeah dating apps are a thing but you are telling me she never had bad dates from people she met in the city!?! She’s a girl that goes out quite in a bit in New York. Meeting people organically can still happen.

@@Angi3_6 also, it all felt random. People became friends in first 2 episodes aside from people who already knew each other. I feel like that would work if it wasn’t based on the show it was.

All of which are side characters that appear less than 30 times combined. POCs in leading roles isn't forced diversity, you just aren't use to seeing non white people.

I don't like How I Met Your Father but I feel your criticisms are somewhat unrealistic. Barney didn't confront his father in season one, nor did Marshall's dad die in the first six episodes. You need to earn the sad plotlines, if HIMYF threw in a heavy plotline like that in the first season, it'd be a major turn off because you're not nearly attached enough to these characters to care. If Barney had confronted his dad (an event that also makes me quite teary) in season 1 or even season 2 I wouldn't have cared because it hadn't been earned yet. How I Met Your Father is very unenjoyable for me but I feel comparing a show with one season too heavily to a show with nine is a bit harsh. Also lily's friend Michelle is absolutely not a good example because she shows up once as a device for a joke lol. This show has so many faults but the casting isn't one of them.

Ty, I don’t see how people don’t get that

Excatly, like the whole joke was he was awful in the beginning, and that was why his development as a character was so satisfying

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This!! AND that's what made him great (rip the ending tho), I wish we'd get TV shows like that again instead over these wet towels.

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I think what makes people miss the original is just how much different the state of the world was at that point. It’s not because it’s more offensive per se, it just feels nice knowing that there was a time where sitcoms could get away with Barney’s antics and simply play it for laughs without people looking into it too much.

@@jadedjimmy Barney Stinson in today's PC climate will be "cancelled". Comedy has suffered as a result of PC Culture.

@@jadedjimmy I think ppl would still love Barney if we actually gotten a character like that on TV nowadays. Maybe a few would be offended but there's a reason people love controversial characters and why Barney = HIMYM even to this day. People are acting as MEN like him don't exist in real life and it repeatedly said he's gross. It made us love him.

How is it trying?

i agree w everything in this comment oh my god

Finally! Someone spoke the truth. Sick of this PC bullshit really

Thats how compeling her character was😥🧠🍾💥🌾

It's on hulu. Not network t.v.

Ellen and Charlie's friendship is the best

I hear what you’re saying, but I think the entire point of this video was to highlight the fact that it’s NOT a genre-bending risky show in a world where literally all of the main streaming services offer genre-bending risky stuff on the regular. Three-camera sitcoms they do not. This video is saying that’s sort of what makes the show special