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⌈ Secret Post #4142 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I think - luckily - the state of media changed enough between when Friends aired and when HIMYM ended that nothing can really attain the same stature. I feel like it's going to sink into the muck a lot more quickly.

Also, I think it's mostly a worse show.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, Friends is terribly outdated and problematic. HIMYM will probably be equally outdated in a few years (and the ending is terrible) but at least the narrative is pretty original with the time jumps and the unreliable narrator.

[(Anonymous)]

Quantum Leap did it better.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure about this. I'm not a huge sitcom watcher but I've seen a few episodes of Friends. I've caught a few episodes of some other very popular sitcoms. I've never seen one episode of this. I also hear quotes from lots of other sitcoms, even ones I've never seen (like B99). I don't think I've ever heard a quote from this show. I just never thought of it as to the level of Friends or anything like that.

The only thing I've heard about it is that pretty much everyone hates how the show ended.

[(Anonymous)]

But, if you've never seen it, how would you know if you heard a quote from it? Have you heard "Legen-wait for it-dary!"?

There are a couple of popular older comedy movies that I can't watch (I find the comedy stupid and boring), but they are quoted in almost everything. I can usually tell there's a joke I should be getting but don't necessarily know which movie it's from unless someone tells me. HIMYM is not that level at all, but it's also a very quotable show so it's likely you've heard a quote but didn't recognize it.

[(Anonymous)]

I liken it to something like B99. I've never seen that show but I see it quoted all the time. Like, initially, I didn't know what the quotes were from but eventually I saw them so much and they got tagged with B99 so I know what the show is and a few of the quotes. I've never had that with HIMYM.

I just don't see it being as huge as the secret makes out. There are other shows that feel like they had a bigger impact (like Modern Family). As a non-sitcom person, I am only going to hear about the ones that get a much wider audience or the quotes that are super catchy. I think that if you are someone who watched the show, it might have felt like it had a bigger impact than it actually did.

[sabotabby]

I've never been able to sit through a full episode of either.

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither but I'll admit to never being a fan of sitcoms. In my 46 years, I think I've only liked maybe 8 sitcoms.

I'm not afraid of this thing having any sort of pop culture relevance. The one that's got me spooked is Big Bang Theory because everyone talks about that thing. I just sat through 1:43 seconds of TBBT on YouTube yesterday out of morbid curiosity and it was the least funny thing I've ever watched. Plus, I had such a visceral reaction to the main character (Sheldon?) that it ruined my evening. But that show is a ratings-grabber just like Friends was. It draws people in the way Friends and Seinfeld (another horrible show) did back in the 90s. :/

[sabotabby]

I watched a scene from that once and it was like watching an 8-year-old boy declaring that girls had cooties and to stay out of his treehouse. I think I'm out of touch with the zeitgeist.

[(Anonymous)]

I refused to watch TBBT for a few seasons because I tried to watch the pilot and could not get through it.

Eventually, I was exposed to it somehow (probably someone had a rerun on the TV while I was at their house), and seasons 2 - ~5 were hilarious but it got super boring after a while. The female characters especially got worse and worse as time went on.

I would definitely be more concerned about TBBT becoming the next Friends pop culture phenomenon than HIMYM.

[kamino_neko]

seasons 2 - ~5 were hilarious but it got super boring after a while. The female characters especially got worse and worse as time went on.

Yeah, agreed...mostly...I'd say it got annoying, not boring, but aside from that, agreed. And, yeah, especially the ladies...Leonard's relationship with Priya (and derailing her to recover Leonard/Penny) was the turning point, IMO.

(OTOH, I've caught a couple more recent episodes, and it seems to have improved again...not so much as to make me want to watch regularly, but enough that if it's from season 9 onwards, I probably won't turn it off if I don't specifically want to watch something else...)

[rosehiptea]

I've never seen a full episode of any of those shows and I'm OK with that. I'm sure I'm missing some references and not getting some jokes but oh well.

I used to like sitcoms, and there are some I still like, like the new One Day at a Time, but maybe I'm just too old for the current crop of sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

it's actually a terrible show overall with terrible characters but once in a while there's a good one-liner or two that makes me smile (full disclosure: I hate it but my housemate watches it out of habit, so I've probably seen most of it).

I know too many people like Sheldon irl and watching him get a pass on his shitty behavior is rage-inducing. later seasons try to "fix" him with girlfriend and sex and apparently now marriage so idefk anymore.

fortunately, there's not a lot about it that's long-term memorable, so it won't have any pop culture relevance at all. if anything its own attempts at constantly referencing geek culture are tryhard and you can't reference a reference, so don't worry anon. the zeigtgeist will be safe. it's turned into a carbon copy het-pairoff sitcom where everyone is marriage and babies, there is nothing about it that will live on the way Seinfeld or Ellen or other 90s shows did.

[greghousesgf]

this is an awesome post

[(Anonymous)]

i don't see this happening at all? is this secret from like years ago, when the show was still running?

the closest to a running meme/inside joke i can think of is the "let's go to the mall" thing where robin is a pop star? i believe that gif of her with the maple leaf was/is sort of popular when discussing canada.

[nightscale]

Honestly I don't think it will, it's been over for a few years now and I never hear quotes from it crop up in conversations like I still do with Friends quotes(hell I quote them myself sometimes).

The show had it's heyday but I don't think it's had any lasting cultural impact outside of almost everyone hating the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, this show never was the sensation Friends was even in its height, and I hardly see any nostalgia or acclaim for it now that it's over.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I'm really missing something with How I Met Your Mother. There's a lot of stupid sitcoms I enjoy, but this is the most bafflingly stupid and un-funny one that has made the biggest hit. It's boring, the characters are boring. I don't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

How about you get you head out of your ass? The show ran for 9 seasons for a reason. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean the show isn't funny.

[greenvelvetcake]

Nah, HIMYM doesn't have the staying power Friends does. HIMYM is fading pretty quickly while Friends gets quoted on the regular (when literally anyone is moving a couch, for example.)

Plus, Friends had a way better ending. It wasn't a fantastic ending, but it wasn't complete dogshit, which gives it the edge.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have to agree with the other comments. As someone who watched both Friends and HIMYM fully, and hangs out with people who watched both shows too, the Friends quotes and references are still there but HIMYM has pretty much disappeared from our lexicon. Part of it is that awful ending that turned so many people bitter against the whole show, and part of it is that HIMYM was never as quotable and memorable as Friends.

Also the constant reruns of Friends that keep going to this day. Kind of hard to forget about something when your own TV keeps reminding you of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Besides legend"wait for it"dairy, I don't think people remember much from this show.

[(Anonymous)]

I have never heard a real person say “legen-wait for it-dairy,” but it seems like a good way to ID a douchebag.

[(Anonymous)]

Oddly, we reference it a bunch at work (as with Friends) and yet we don't use the legend-waitforit-dary phrase