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How I met your mother aged extremely poorly. The ending rightfully gets a lot of flak, but the characters are just massive toxic assholes in a way that isn't really funny.
Also I'm like 90 percent some of the ways Barney convinced women to sleep with him could be classified as rape. I get the joke that Neil Patrick Harris was gay, but it's still uncomfortable to watch. Oddly enough I don't get the same feeling when I was Neil in Harold and Kumar.
On the flip side Scrubs aged surprisingly well. It has problematic moments that you'd think would get ridiculed in the modern era, but hits the emotional beats hard enough that it manages to still remain watchable. Also the joke about clowns and whores is still fucking hilarious.
I agree on HIMYM. I used to love it, but some really are awful people (particularly Lily IMO). It's not ageing well, and Barney's behaviour really is indefensible. I don't think his character would be allowed nowadays
Honestly it wouldn't have been allowed back then except for the fact that an openly gay man who could pass as straight was still a novel and funny idea.
As a sidenote Neil Patrick Harris is a million times worse in Harold and Kumar, but that somehow aged better on account of everything in those movies being comically offensive.
I was never a fan of himym when it was still airing, but everyone around me fucking loved the damn thing. I thought all the characters were insufferable.
I feel the same way about Big Bang Theory. But here we are years later and it lives successfully in syndication and has multiple spinoffs. I just don’t get it.
I liked some of the early episodes, but holy shit three spin-offs for one of the most mid sitcoms ever?
Big Bang
Young Sheldon
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (which is somehow a spin-off from YS)
Stuart Fails to Save the World
Which, fucking why? I mean I guess actors need to work too, so why not but damn...
Have you not been paying attention to the intelligence of average Americans?