With HIMYM drawing to a close with the season 9 premiering
very soon in every television near you (Oh sorry! Not everyone has a DTH
connection), it got me thinking about how naturally it brings about the
comparison with one of the best sitcom ever, FRIENDS. Certainly there are no
comparisons, considering the timeline differences between the two. But we,
audiences can’t live without comparing the two. It’s like comparing Messi and Maradona,
but then again, we do that and isn’t it fun? As Barney says: ‘New is always
better’, it is better when it is this awesome. Well, better or not, I leave it
to your judgement, but NPH and Hannigan’s impersonation deserve the biggest of
applauses.
First
of all, congratulations to the producers of the show, for completing 8 successful
seasons (Of course they aren’t listening…..but…just….just….OK) with the same
cast. Most importantly it was the holy-mother-of-all-that-is-good-in-heaven
relief to finally not force to personalize the mom of the two kids (whom names
we still don’t know off!) of Ted’s through his words. We have seen her buying
ticket to Farhampton. And I hope directors aren’t smiling wicked while the
audiences are having this thought. It’s already hard to digest all the twists,
especially during binge watching, that it might seem uncanny. What?? Why are
you looking at me like that?? How it is not uncanny you ask? Yes, Every day can
be legendary, meeting at the bar every single night is possible, being friends
even if you want to see your friend’s wife’s racks, hooking up with girls in
the same bar over and over again (and the bartender or the manager doesn’t mind),
hit by a bus outside a hospital (that never happens :P).
Being
the most well framed sitcom ever (with timestamps in every story), it kind of
makes sense that the anticipations are high for the final showdown. The team
has given us great laughs, sumptuous jokes, hilarious one-liners and the
aggregation of theories of which some of them really make sense. The ‘cheerleader
effect’, ‘the hot v/s crazy scale’, ‘Platinum Rule’ are as charismatic
And how
can I forget the most important and sacred of all ‘The Playbook’ and ‘The bro
code’, both written by Sir Barnaby Stinson. One is the notorious collection of
plots and the other, the code of conduct to be followed by two bros. The two
sacred books once safe in the havens of Barney’s ‘fortress of Barney-tude’ are
now at large. Playbook achieved martyrdom and Bro code soon will be obsolete
for them.
Kids have listened to his story once but the
loyal fans have vicariously lived his stories for only God-knows like zillion
times. I would call you a ‘blitz’ if
have missed any of ‘awesomness-packed’ 8 seasons of laugh-riot. The show’s worth of all the attention it has
got. It’s nice to know that this love story is going to be even better than the
previous love interests of Ted, better than his 2 minute date with
Stella…..well that’s the dream!
So now I leave you with the image
that I got somewhere from internet that quite aptly compares some characters.
