Poll: Are you tired of How I Met Your Mother?

[Keith K]

My girlfriend loves this show but I've never understood the appeal. I admit I do get a chuckle now and then but I've never felt engaged by the characters or their lives. When I see her watch it with her headphones, it seems more like a soap opera than a comedy. It's firmly planted in the dimension of beautiful people. I don't know who cast that show, but I don't think they understand comedy.

Also.. is this show still running? (I've only seen it on Netflix). That premise must have run out of steam years ago. Shouldn't these kids be alive already? Does their mother even exist? What is this sorry loser getting at with an 8 year (or whatever) lead in? They're actually adopted?

 

[hooblabla6262]

It does give me the occasional laugh, but I have definitely grown tired of it.

At this point I'm just watching it for closure. Can't stand having a story unfinished, which is why I usually dislike televison shows where the main plot extends between seasons.

 

[Rossco64]

Meh, I'm just watching it for closure at this point. Never really understood why the show is as popular as it is and I was really surprised they got to make a second season (I've always thought the first season was awful). I really don't think it would have done well at all if it had came out at the same time as F.R.I.E.D.S as I think a lot of it's fans initially were just people wanting more episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Still like it. I don't go on about it.

Remember when we had like 1500 threads on how we hated "Big bang theory"? Guess it's HIMYM turn's...

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Yeah, I only marginally liked it in the first place because of Barney, and it was actually funny now and then. Then the series dragged on withut ever revealing the mother (or tricking us into thinking that we?d actually find out, only to realize it?s just another one of Ted?s ex-girlfriends), the gags got weaker, and literally no-one but Barney have more than slightly matured. Ted is still the hopeless romantic. Marshall and Lily have the same cheesy relationship that?s meant to be adorable but is actually irritating. Robin is still?bland, with her only defining personality traits being that she?s Canadian and pretty.

Perhaps it?s mean to compare, but I?ve always seen HIMYM as a watered-down version with Friends. (Of course, even Friends, although it?s my favourite sitcom ever, started to lose some of its spark when they dragged out the whole ?Will they won?t they? thing with Ross and Rachel, to the point where you just started thinking, ?Oh, just get together already, you already have a fucking kid, stop acting like a bunch of high school brats because you?ve matured since that beach episode and YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS BORING!?

 

[grey_space]

I'm tired of every TV show still running after they canceled Better off Ted.

I mean, really, if that show doesn't merit more seasons, none of the drivel on now does.

Thanks for bringing that up and reminding me. I am now officially depressed.


OP: yeah, enough already with that show.

 

[Falseprophet]

My girlfriend has the first seven seasons on DVD, so I watched them all about a month ago. I thought it was quite funny, even brilliant at times, up to the sixth season. Then in the 7th season, it started eating its own tail, making callbacks to its detriment (e.g., I think we would have been better off never knowing who the Slutty Pumpkin was). There are a few episodes of the last two seasons that have been as good as earlier ones, but in general you can just see the writers spinning their wheels. I can't imagine how they'll stretch this out for another season.

 

[OldKingClancy]

I like the show but to be honest these past two seasons I've not paid much attention to, hell I think I watched about three episodes of this latest season and dropped out. It's been going on far, far too long and what's worse is that they've explained how it all turns out so when something happens, like Ted falls for Robin (AGAIN) despite the fact that we know it won't ever happen, it just feels lazy and useless filler.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I've talked about being tired of How I Met Your Mother before, but this episode has just taken the cake for stupidity. Have they truly run out of ideas now for episodes? After they got the Barney/Robin thing out of the way, it just seems like everything has just been filler.

Anybody got any other thoughts on this?

Haven't watched the newest season, I'm poor and only have access to netflix. I do think that the show is starting to wear thing though - thankfully, my understanding is that the show will be over in the 8th season.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Jesus, that actually happens in this show?

Yes Barney said that Season 3 Episode 14. I can't believe how easily people forgot that. I bet if Barney said he raped a woman no one would forget it and many people would hate the character.

Assuming he wasnt joking:

Youre meant to hate Barney. Hes a broken, deluded and disgusting man. The other characters constantly remark that he is awful. Marshal screams a tonne of insults in his face on demand and all are true implying everyone thinks hes just a terrible person. He is literally so hateable. But with the face of a happy go lucky attitude and a genuine concern for the people he cares about which makes him a mixed character, occasionally does this so selfless that its eye widening and mostly being a horrific jerk with massive abandonment issues. Hes meant to be totally non functional as a person, due to constant abandonment and appointment's as a child, except if he puts on a "Bro" face and pretends everythings awesome. Thats why i like him as a well written character but would happily burn him as a person. Hes amusing and funny but deep down youre meant to know if you knew anyone like Barny you would run a mile. I thought that was the point?

 

[Clowndoe]

Wierdest thing, everyone I've ever been around when that show came up in conversation said it was the greatest thing ever. The only people in the world that I know that don't like it are a few very close friends, and my parents. To me it's just a show that about making up rules about how relationships work and some quirky conversations and characters that are just quirky, nothing that ever spoke to me.

I wouldn't take offense of this post if I was a fan since the only sitcom I liked since "Curb your Enthusiasm" was "The League", and even I'll admit that's a pretty damn low-brow show.

 

[Catfood220]

A premise like "How I Met Your Mother" should have been a ninety minute romantic comedy, at best. It should not be an eight season abomination that's still ongoing! If the framing device is to be taken at face value, these kids must spent every waking moment of their lives listening to their father talk about his friends' predictable, happy-go-lucky sex lives and relationship drama. What a terrible, boring, existence.

I always assumed that Ted had separated with his wife, snapped, kidnapped the kids and was holding them hostage. He has obviously got a gun, probably stolen it from Robin and is killing time while he waits the Police. It would explain why the kids are always sat there in rapt attention. They are not interested in his story, they are terrified because their dad is holding them hostage with a gun, it also would explain why the ask to go to the toilet he is quick to tell them no.

If the final series doesn't end with sirens and flashing lights I'm going to be disappointed.

 

[Miss Layton]

A premise like "How I Met Your Mother" should have been a ninety minute romantic comedy, at best. It should not be an eight season abomination that's still ongoing! If the framing device is to be taken at face value, these kids must spent every waking moment of their lives listening to their father talk about his friends' predictable, happy-go-lucky sex lives and relationship drama. What a terrible, boring, existence.

I always assumed that Ted had separated with his wife, snapped, kidnapped the kids and was holding them hostage. He has obviously got a gun, probably stolen it from Robin and is killing time while he waits the Police. It would explain why the kids are always sat there in rapt attention. They are not interested in his story, they are terrified because their dad is holding them hostage with a gun, it also would explain why the ask to go to the toilet he is quick to tell them no.

If the final series doesn't end with sirens and flashing lights I'm going to be disappointed.

... If it ended on that note, it would redeem the series as a comedy.

 

[Scrustle]

I don't watch the show, because I'm basically tired of all TV sitcoms. I used to watch Friends a lot back when it was still running. About the time when it was in the last few series, so it was showing repeats and new episodes at the same time at that point.

I used to be really in to Scrubs too, as well as Fraiser. Those were both after Friends, but I have also long since gotten tried of both of them. I will still watch the occasional episode of Scrubs every now and then if it's on though, but I won't go out of my way to watch it any more. Considering I barely watch TV at all now means that's an incredibly rare occurrence.

I also watched a bit of Big Bang Theory when it first started airing, but at that point I was already starting to go off TV shows, so I never really got in to it and dropped off very quickly.

From the very little I've heard about How I Met Your Mother it seems to be a modern version of Friends. Same shallow archetype characters where the comedy comes from moderately amusing cracks which only work once. Except now it's got the added vapidity of the Twitter/Facebook generation. People apparently also seem to love that womaniser character who is played by a gay actor. He's like the new Jude Law or something, who also happens to be gay.

 

[Atmos Duality]

"This show is still wildly popular? EXTEND THE STATUS QUO FOR ANOTHER SEASON!"

I wasn't an especially avid watcher (I barely watch any TV), and that's why I stopped watching entirely.

 

[Lionsfan]

I've talked about being tired of How I Met Your Mother before, but this episode has just taken the cake for stupidity. Have they truly run out of ideas now for episodes? After they got the Barney/Robin thing out of the way, it just seems like everything has just been filler.

Anybody got any other thoughts on this?

Haven't watched the newest season, I'm poor and only have access to netflix. I do think that the show is starting to wear thing though - thankfully, my understanding is that the show will be over in the 8th season.

Um.....about that.... [http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/30/cbs-confirms-how-i-met-your-mother-renewal-and-that-season-9-will-be-the-final-year]

So I hope you're ready for 20-something more episodes next year!

 

[Lionsfan]

Still like it. I don't go on about it.

Remember when we had like 1500 threads on how we hated "Big bang theory"? Guess it's HIMYM turn's...

I think this is the like the first thread about the show.

And I only posted it, because after this past week's episode, everyone I knew personally who watched it thought it was bullshit, and I was just curious about how members on here felt.