[ SECRET POST #2679 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2679 ⌋

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Comments

[fleshisyummy]

I find it so weird when people go into watching sitcoms expecting the characters to be "decent people."

The whole thing about sitcoms is that you're placing characters into rather mundane settings and situations, so most of the humor and interest has to come from the characters. If all the characters were nice people, it wouldn't be funny. We laugh because they're assholes and their behavior is absurd/inappropriate. Honestly, from what I saw of HIMYM, the characters are rather benign compared to other sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably the reason I don't like most sitcoms. But they're not all like that. I enjoy Parks and Rec pretty well, and, for the most part, all the of the characters are 'good people' (well, there's Tom. And I personally hate Chris, but whatevs). They have flaws, to be sure, and sometimes they're assholes, but not to an over the top degree.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it also comes down to the kind of jerks you like and the kind you don't. I love Al Bundy the jerk and everyone-on-Sunny the jerk. I even liked Charlie Harper the womanizing jackass. But I couldn't watch ten minutes of Barney Stinson the womanizing jackass without wanting to chuck him in front of a subway train. Maybe it was the tired old 30-something Manhattanite trope that just won't die already (there are other cities; even other boroughs if you must be wedded to NYC), but the HIMYM jerks were much jerkier than I'm used to and way too much for me. I don't think they were the worst people ever on TV, but they were definitely the least sympathetic and the most unwatchable, for me at least. Now if only the local station would stop running those promos for its syndicated run every ten minutes, I might be rid of the damn thing forever.