# So I finally watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453 "2012-01-24T01:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/41 "2012-01-25T20:05:12Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Well THAT’S 40 minutes of productivity down the crapper!😛 I haven’t watched it yet so I don’t know if it’s on this blooper reel (but I have watched others). I just wanted to point out one of my favorites. A scene between Marshall and Lily. Marshall accidentally swears and quickly looks at the camera and says “Sorry NBC.” Lily says “Ummm, we’re on CBS, should I even keep going or just wait for the new Marshall to get here”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/42 "2012-01-25T20:31:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I haven’t watched it yet so I don’t know if it’s on this blooper reel (but I have watched others). I just wanted to point out one of my favorites. A scene between Marshall and Lily. Marshall accidentally swears and quickly looks at the camera and says “Sorry NBC.” Lily says “Ummm, we’re on CBS, should I even keep going or just wait for the new Marshall to get here”. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rnz24Z7ukro/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gSSgiMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCFyFZ-wrue5tMlGCQFAZH2uHLVqw "How I Met Your Mother - ALL BLOOPERS - Seasons 1-5") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnz24Z7ukro) ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/43 "2012-01-25T23:15:25Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Pretty realistic characters… and dialog that I swear could have been lifted from stuff me and my friends have said (and then polished, with the mundane parts taken out). That’s exactly the reason that _The Big Bang Theory_ is my favorite sitcom since \*Taxi \*went off the air. A lot of the conversations, particularly from the first two seasons, they could have gotten from planting a bug on me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/44 "2012-01-26T02:33:56Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Well THAT’S 40 minutes of productivity down the crapper!😛 No kidding - “I’m just going to watch a few and then go do something…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/45 "2012-01-26T13:50:38Z")
SITCOM: I don’t care about realism, I want funny. I especially don’t want it to be like my life, that’s what I’m looking for distraction from. DRAMA: It has to be realistic or it takes me out of it. If it is set in an area I know, get it right (in a book but you can’t drive out of DC on I-66 for 100 miles, its not that long). If it is a locale or culture I don’t know, I want to at least feel like I’m getting some insight. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/46 "2012-01-26T16:55:51Z")
I’m torn about these “comedies” that are showing up that aren’t all that funny, and seem to be aiming more for light drama. I feel like, “Pick a genre already!” ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/47 "2012-01-26T17:43:42Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m torn about these “comedies” that are showing up that aren’t all that funny, and seem to be aiming more for light drama. I feel like, “Pick a genre already!” Until the last season or so, the drama bits of HIMYM were pretty much just there as something to hang the comedy on. Ted dates a series of woman that the audience knows he won’t end up with, Lily and Marshall have various job/relationship troubles that the audience knows they’ll resolve and Barney shows the occasional sensitive side but basically just makes sex-jokes. They’ve started trying to up the drama, and the shows suffered as a result. 30-something relationship drama and daddy issues worked in small doses in earlier seasons, but its pretty boring when it becomes the focus of the show. Hopefully they’ll ratchet it back a little. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/48 "2012-01-26T20:30:40Z")
Good point, **Simplicio**. Marshall’s dad dying has been quite the downer for the show. I really enjoy the show, but I think it’s almost done - I think it’s had a good run, and it’s lived the natural life-cycle of a sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/49 "2012-01-27T17:42:52Z")
I’ve made it to Season 3 so far on Netflix, and I think it’s a wonderful show. There’s a certain sort of innocence about it. I feel like the heart of the show is storytelling, and it does that beautifully. Since you know right from the beginning that Ted ends up with someone else, there’s a sense of immediacy and nostalgia and living-in-the-moment to the show. Also, I went to college with a Barney, right down to the giant wrestling belt and the secret heart of gold. There are so many similarities it’s uncanny. I think Lilly is a raving bitch though. She doesn’t demean Marshall like a lot of sitcom women, but she’s horrible in every other way. I hate that Marshall and Lily are supposed to be this paragon of good relationships. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/50 "2012-01-27T18:07:06Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Sad story - [Lesley Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan) (plays the really short, southern, overly gay guy in Will and Grace) spoke at my workplace last year as part of an LGBT month event. He talked about the niche that an openly gay actor like him has to accept that they’re in, even in this supposedly enlightened time we live in. HIMYM had offered him a role where he played a neighbour of Jason Segel who they wanted him to be constantly leering at and making moves on. In the episode they pitched to him he was going to ask Jason Segel for help moving a piece of furniture “because he’s such a strong young man” and gave him a beer as thanks for the work. Segel later wakes up, clearly having been drugged, with Jordan’s character implying he’s had his wicked way with him whilst he’s unconscious. > > I’ve never been a great fan of HIMYM as I found it derivative and a text book Friends wannabe clone, but being told how the writers of the show decided they wanted to portray an older, openly gay man as an automatic rapist ensured that I never wanted to watch it again (and naturally Jordan was pretty insulted that this is the role he was being asked to play, generally as a gay man and specifically as him). Ironic considering Neil Patrick Harris is a cast member, but then he’s okay because he’s playing a raging heterosexual douchebag. :rolleyes: So you’re complaining about HIMYM typecasting gays as gays but also about them making gays play heterosexual douchebags? They can’t get a break, can they? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/51 "2012-01-27T18:13:49Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > \ > > I think Lilly is a raving bitch though. She doesn’t demean Marshall like a lot of sitcom women, but she’s horrible in every other way. I hate that Marshall and Lily are supposed to be this paragon of good relationships. I thought that at first, too (and Barney confirms it at one point - “She’s pure evil. You’ve got a good one there, Marshall.”), but I’ve kind of come around to her. She’s written in the modern, “The woman is always right, and if she’s wrong, see Rule #1” fashion, but she does truly love Marshall. I watch this show too much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/52 "2012-01-27T21:13:43Z")
I’m totally with **olives**. I can’t stand Lilly. I was hoping Marshall wouldn’t take her back when she left in the earlier seasons. Plus, Allison Hannigan (sp?) always sounds like she has the worlds worst cold. “Oh, Barshall, you’re so fuddy!” ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453/53 "2012-01-27T22:12:44Z")
The premise of the story is that this is what the narrator tells his children had ;);)happened. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-watched-an-episode-of-how-i-met-your-mother/610453.md?page=2)