Accountability in Entertainment • Page 344

he was a college professor that dated a student

 

and learns that it’s not just frowned upon.

 

Does Ted Mosby ever date a student?

 

Yup. Season 5.

 

Wasn't The Mother technically his student at one point too?

 

She was in the class he thought was his the first day.

 

god i hate ted mosby

 

HIMYM one of the worst shows

 

I find the writers to be very brave. They dared to ask "what if Ross was only the bad parts"

 

I've watched some of how I met your mother and there are def funny parts but Ted is one of the worst so far and his whole deal with Robin got a bit tired suuuuper early. I feel like his behavior would make more sense if they aged him down to like early 20s. I don't mind a flawed character figuring out life stuff but sitcoms have a bad habit of making characters grow and then dumbing them down/regressing them after a while to keep plots going. Full disclosure I haven't finished the show tho

 

they should have ended the show after, like, season 3. it started very strong. it became a parody of itself by midway through and then doubled down on a parody of a parody. jason segel's joke about it in this is the end says it all.

 

and a lot of it i can’t imagine has aged well either. some sexist bullshit in there too (namely from barney). it’s also a little messed up how there’s little to no poc in a show taking place in 2000s-10s NYC. at least with friends you could say that was the 90s

 

i mean that's the case for virtually every comedy of that era. have you watched scrubs lately? every other joke is calling someone gay or pointing out turk being black constantly.

 

all that said, i’m never watching HIMYF and i thank god greta never got involved here

 

In an alternate timeline, Greta Gerwig got stuck on How I Met Your Dad for 10 seasons and Josh Radnor became an academy award nominated director

 

I’ve seen Radnor’s directorial efforts, that wouldn’t happen in any universe

 

lmao for real, liberal arts somehow made elizabeth olsen seem talentless

 

Hey, what did I do now?!

 

I consider myself a massive fan of Jason Segel and I go out of my way to see most things he does (haven't gotten to Shrinking yet though) but I have weirdly never seen an episode of HIMYM and don't really have a strong urge to. I actually forget that he was on that show weirdly, and for such a long time too

 

He was definitely the best part about himym anyways

Shrinking is incredible. Best Apple TV show I've watched so far. Preferred it over Ted Lasso tbh

 

You don't need to because that's exactly what went on with him. For one step forward, the writers would make him take two steps backwards and it kept happening right until the very last scene. Dude really had issues.

 

I watched 3 episodes of how I met your mother and bailed. Absolutely terrible.

 

I've casually watched HIMYM during the course of its run more so as background noise but wasn't too heavily invested (not sure why I stuck with it) but seeing people post in the HIMYM thread back in the AP.net days in real time as the final episode aired and those who became so emotionally invested with the characters having a hard time with how bad the series culminated into its ending.

 

I was so angry lol. Still am tbh. The show definitely worsens with age (Barney Stinson is a truly despicable human being played for laughs), but back then we were mostly willing to overlook a lot of the negative aspects of the show because we were younger and less aware, edgelord humor was a lot more prevalent in the early 2000s, and the show introduced a fairly compelling mystery at the center of its premise, which felt different and refreshing for a sitcom at the time I guess. There are still a handful of the more emotional moments that resonate because of the music and occasional life lessons that hit hard, but that ending really shit the bed and it came on the heels of some truly awful, painful final seasons (with season nine’s self indulgent wedding weekend conceit really nailing that coffin shut).

 

the weirdest thing was how revered it was on ap.net from like 2007-2009