Well, Chris, Friends did go to Vegas, but look what happened:
If Friends can ruin Vegas and HIMYM can rock AC, there's no doubt who would be more fun in Montreal.
Now, to the more important points.
I'll grant that HIMYM is a rip-off, but is an updated, corrected, funnier version of Friends. It's more entertaining and funnier than the original.
And here's why: It's one of those rare shows, like Arrested Development, that doesn't need to fulfill any great story line to be funny. I could watch the show for years and not care if I never found out who the kids' mother is. Like the 3rd season of AD, who even knew whether Pop-Pop was in jail or not, and who even cared? Each episode was so much fun to watch that none of that stuff mattered.
Friends was way too tied to the love-lives of its central characters. Sure, HIMYM is ostensibly focused on discovering who Ted marries, but that's not focus of every single episode.
Friends was, essentially, a sit-com version of Grey's Anatomy. Because it was a sit-com, and because its characters were quirky, it produced isolated very funny moments in isolated shows. However, in the end, people are drawn to whether Rachel and Ross or Meredith and Derek are going to end up together.
HIMYM, on the other hand, is like House. You've got some really cool people dealing with really cool circumstances in very interesting self-contained episodes that may or may not push along the plot of the show as a whole.
Who'd rather watch Grey's Anatomy than House (other than Zoe and Chris?)
Just like House rocks Grey's Anatomy, HIMYM rocks Friends.
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But how do you know if people were not drawn to what would happen with Marshall and Lilly when they broke up or what would be the outcome of their wedding or just what does happen with Ted and Robin that they dont get married...Lilly and Marshall and Robin and Ted are just as central to that show as Ross and Rachel and Monica and Chandler were to theirs
Perhaps thats not why you tune in, but who is to say that thats not how others take the show.
I didnt watch Friends for its Drama, I watched it for the cool characters and circumstances they got themselves into.
And you cant tell me that Friends deals with different circumstances than HIMYM unless you can explain the differences when Monica and Co went bargain hunting for her wedding dress and when Lilly had to gain weight to fit in her dress...or when they played the game Marshall made up and when Ross made up the trivia game/They played the game show Joey was auditioning to be the host for
Id bet anything that you would be singing a different tune iff you were a 20something when Friends first aired.
I agree with a lot of what has been said here but there are some that I do not. First and largest, I do not think that these two shows are even similar enough to be compared. This argument was more or less made in the "who would you rather go to Montreal with" because the characters are so different. Really the biggest similarity is that they are both about a tightly nit group of quirky characters, but the quirks really aren't that a like. For example ted's role in the group is the straight man, which he is awesome at, but friends doesn't have anyone that fills that roll. I believe Himym parallels Two guys and a girl a lot more closely, but even with that comparison there are a lot of leaps you have to make.
I also disagree that the break up of ted and robin is less significant that ross and rachael. Robin was an integral member of the group during the entire first season without dating ted (while they were still in some way courting). There is no way the producers are going to drop her character. I know they said she lived in all these places but they never said how long or when so they could easily just write it off as happening between seasons.
Which brings me to my next point. The producers/writers aren't stupid. They have been very careful thus far to only tell us that robin isn't the children's mother. However they never go as far as to say that ted and the children's mother are married, they never say robin and ted don't get together again. They knew that they needed to leave this option open. Even when they show ted standing at the alter at his wedding he said "if i didn't stay in new york i never would have met your mother" he never says "i never would have married your mother"
I agree that the character right now seem much more one dimensional than that of friends but that is only because there is no way to do as much character development in 2 seasons as you do in 10.
I also agree that being in our 20s now we can identify with them (Himym) a lot better than we ever could with friends because we would even teen agers when friends debuted.
I am sure many people do tune in to see what happens with marshal and lily even if we don't (I mean we aren't exactly the model for our demographic, otherwise Arrested and Undeclared would still be on the air). The whole search for the mother is just plot device as a means to advance the characters, much like in spider-man three how venom and sandman were just used to advance the story of peter, mary jane, and harry (which was really a shame, they deserved better).
That being said, of course I would rather go to Montreal with the characters from Himym, all the reason of which were already discussed.
On a final note, you are doing one hell of a job here Dre. Keep it up.
chris is an idiot. i want seven subs....
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