"How I Met Your Mother just copied Friends a little too much in a recent episode
By stealthy
@stealthy (8181)
United States
March 19, 2009 5:12pm CST
Quite a few comparisons and similarites can be drawn between "How I Met Your Mother" and "Friends" but for the most part it has been different enough to be good. But they copied "Friends" just a little too much with the pact of two of them marrying each other at age 40 if they are still single then. This is totally and competely stolen from "Friends" and really was not necessary to the show. What do you think?
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@colaandtwinkies (129)
• United States
19 Mar 09
That's actually a very, very common trope in a lot of medias. Movies, television shows, books, even comics. 'Friends' wasn't the first to do it, and 'How I Met Your Mother' won't be the last. There are even books and movies that revolve around that as the main plot point. I believe it even has its own entry on tvtropes, it's that popular and widely used.
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@colaandtwinkies (129)
• United States
19 Mar 09
Yeah, it's done a lot. I honestly don't watch the show in question, but I haven't heard about too much trope using as far as plots go. It gets unavoidable at some point, though. As they say, there are only 10 actually original ideas.
@uicbear (1900)
• United States
20 Mar 09
I know exactly what you are talking about, but I didn't see it as that big of a deal. The reason it didn't bother me was that in the Friends episode, wasn't the entire episode revolving around their back-up spouses? I think almost the whole cast was in on it, if i remember correctly. On How I Met Your Mother the episode really was revolving around Lily breaking up Ted's relationships, and the whole back-up thing was just a tiny little blurb at the end.
There are quite a few similarities between the shows. I try not to get to caught up on it, and enjoy it.
