Why Is It So Hard to Watch 'How I Met Your Mother' Now?

 While some sitcoms age like fine wine,' How I Met Your mama' falls into the camp that progressed more like rubbish. 

 

 How I Met Your mama was one of the flagship sitcoms on TV during its run from 2005 to 2014, getting such a foundation of pop culture that else insignificant particulars like a unheroic marquee or words like" fabulous" are still explosively associated with the comedy. Thanks to its attractive cast of characters and its sportful use of unreliable narrators through a liar perspective, the show garnered wide sun and indeed set the root for a spin- off series nearly a decade after its homestretch. All that praise being said, How I Met Your mama has fallen into the same risks that numerous sitcoms have progressed into, making it delicate for cult to return to the series and indeed more grueling for new observers to attempt diving into the show. So, what's making such a popular sitcom so hard to watch now? A combination of unfunny jokes, narrative bends without payout, and the overall likability of the characters has declined in the times since we last saw the gang sitting around the cell at MacLaren's cantina, making the formerly cherished show a remnant of defective TV history. 

 

 How I Met Your mama's Humor Is Outdated and Offensive 

 Outdated humor from an aged sitcom is not a new disclosure for TV suckers. still, How I Met Your mama stands out for its fairly ultramodern sense that's still replete with jokes that wouldn't be respectable moment, nor should they've ever been. The laundry list of problematic jokes is expansive, in part due to the show's commitment to long- running knaveries and calls. You can start with Ranjit( Marshall Manesh), the friend group's favorite hack motorist who was frequently lowered to a monkeyshine character with inconsistencies in his ethnical background that only served to immortalize racially asleep conceptions. He was introduced as being from Bangladesh, but given an Indian name and spoke Farsi, lumping together characteristics from different groups simply to amplify the mysteriously foreign hack motorist character commonplace. That is not indeed touching the problematic Season 9 occasion," Slapsgiving 3 Slappointment In Slapmarra," that featured the generally white cast dressed up in imitated Chinese costumes and mocking accentuations. And ethnical insensitivity wasn't the extent of the show's poor choice in humor. Throughout the seasons, there were multitudinous jokes that were homophobic, slut- smirching, and generally misogynistic. Indeed if numerous of these jokes were meant to be brief commentary or standalone bits, their constant presence in the series only serves to save those problematic ways of thinking, homogenizing them rather than calling them out and correcting them. 

 

 How I Met Your mama' Has Two of the utmost Problematic Characters on television 

 And now into some indeed bigger issues. Though HIMYM's cast is truly an endearing group of misfits played by phenomenally talented actors, it also boasts two of the most problematic characters on TV Barney Stinson( Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted Mosby( Josh Radnor). While anyone who is seen indeed a regard of an occasion likely understands why the mating Barney is controversial, others may be surprised to realize that Ted could be just as bad, if not worse at times. But let's start with the big one Barney, the Playbook, and a list of rightfully angry women. 

 

 Barney is a habitual and manipulative Casanova who's played as uproarious relief to the group as they feel to forgive his blatant sexism, misogyny, and frame( if not factual) sexual assault. One of the essential aspects of his character is his intelligent dishonesty and liar to convert women to sleep with him; commodity he was so complete in that he developed a Playbook chock-full of schemes that mentally and emotionally manipulated innumerous women, and indeed his closest musketeers. He'd assume false individualities, fake his own death, pursue vulnerable women, and constantly recorded his sexual trials without their concurrence. That is right, Barney had secret cameras installed in his bedroom that he references multiple times, only for it to be played off as a joke rather than being met with outrage and suits. Though his character does demonstrate growth and change in the series, his constant backsliding into sociopathic geste and general incapability to keep it in his pants makes him feel like further of a warning sign to women, rather than the sweet kittenish joe in a friend group. Barney does make a gem appearance in Season 2 of How I Met Your Father, where his mating ways are being treated with further soberness in the form of a shock collar calibrated to zap him every time he utters commodity misogynistic. Overdue, but well justified. 

 

 And now on to Ted. Ted was supposed to be the hopeless romantic of the group, our sweet promoter whom we earnestly support in his thing of meeting the One. That is what he should have been, but over the series he himself has done effects on par with some of Barney's worst moments. He has cheated on his gal, is compulsive and pushy to numerous of his romantic interests, and is constantly removing responsibility from his own shoulders. The expression may haven't been as current when the series vented, but observers moment are surely quick to call out Ted on his" pick- me" and" nice joe" geste 

 . His conduct feel concave because of his tone- aggrandizing and lack of responsibility, always putting the blame on others rather of himself. He laments not chancing his true love, but there are 9 seasons of TV that prove that perhaps he wouldn't indeed be meritorious of someone as good as he pictures. Ted's" woe- is- me" station is only stressed more and more with each failed relationship and each bad decision he partakes in or enables in his musketeers. For someone who claims to be such a good joe, he is done his fair share of bad effects and not taken it upon himself to make it right. 

 

 The ignominious Ending of' How I Met Your mama' 

 There is one other giant in the room as to why HIMYM is so delicate to return to, as any addict that watched the notorious series homestretch is likely still holding onto some resentment for the way the show concluded. After 9 nears of figure- up and nearly a decade of character development, observers eventually got to see how Ted met Tracy McConnell( Cristin Milioti), the Mother. We got to see casts of their whirlwind love, eventually completing the family picture that had been missing an important piece since Ted first started this story with his two kiddies in their living room. Robin( Cobie Smulders) and Barney had just gotten wedded, Marshall( Jason Segel) and Lily( Alyson Hannigan) were erecting up their family, and Ted eventually got his girl. And also it was all gone. 

 

 In the ending moments of the series, Tracy is shown to pass down from a complaint; Ted is telling his children this story to connect them to their mama who was gone. And if that was not enough, Barney and Robin had disassociated and separated. Despite seasons' worth of on- screen buildup, growth for each of their characters, and the wholeness of the final season being centered around their marriage, they too didn't get a happily ever later. The narrative lucre for these series- gauging bends were thrown down just as they were given to cult. Ted's children encourage him to pursue Robin again, which he does despite times spent shifting his narrative down from his formerly gal. So important time was spent giving Barney the blessing to ameliorate himself and be with Robin, yet it all felt pointless because she still ended up with Ted in the end. suckers to this day still hold bitterness at this ending, and rightfully so. The way a series ends is not just important for giving characters a happy ending for the sake of a happy ending, but to give observers satisfaction and happiness for completing this trip alongside their characters. For as creatively written and addicting as the series is, it's hard tore-watch knowing that the ending feels pointless and the growth of numerous of the major characters feels reduced and lowered. 

 

 How I Met Your mama has some fantastic jotting, an endearing cast, and a buffet of iconic expressions and imagery. But in 2023, that might not always be enough to cover up the problematic humor and the still- infamously controversial ending.