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How I Met Your Mother

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A TV show criticized as extremely neurotic about dating while validating those neuroses through NPH's 'cool and suave' character making arbitrary dating rules.

Mentions (4)
"You Google something and you find these pages dedicated to individual episodes of shows with all these 'tropes' listed. I wonder who it is that actually works on this stuff. I can't imagine anyone I've ever met categorizing How I Met Your Mother or Power Rangers episodes or what have you."
TV Tropes is an amazing, depressing, Aspergian master-work. · u/CastletonGreen · ↑303 · 2023-09-27
"I saw the recent thread on Musk's 'epic bacon' and someone said 'this is legen-waitforit-dary' and i realized that not even redditors talk like that anymore (i mean they probably do but not to the same level as thanos memes that replaced it) and there's something kinda hopeful about that because it "
"I feel like this show is extremely neurotic about dating, but not in the self-deprecating way that Seinfeld was, where the main characters dumb hang-ups about relationships were seen as faults; in HIMYM it's like the writers filtered their neuroses through the NPH character who is portrayed as very "
"Much against my will I found myself watching a how I meet your mother episode. In it the gay lawyer and robin take upon smoking and everyone begins to ostracise them and act like if they were metheads."
Anti-smoking propaganda on sitcoms · u/ohjackiepantomime · ↑29 · 2022-08-11
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