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Shows: How I met your Mother vs' Friends!?!?!?!?

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  • em9371
    em9371 Posts: 1,047 Member
    how i met your mother, am actually watching it right now :smile: i did love friends at the time but have seen far too many reruns now!
  • Bysshe
    Bysshe Posts: 428 Member
    Smelly cat, smeeeeellly cat, what are they feeding you? Smelly cat, smeeelllly cat, it's not your fault!

    HIMYM is pretty cool too. But Friends is my favorite show EVER!
  • GoldenGirl1979
    GoldenGirl1979 Posts: 716 Member
    friends is super duper nostalgic & takes me back to a younger, simpler time :laugh: but HIMYM is awesome & definitely relevant for the present!
  • kaetmarie
    kaetmarie Posts: 668 Member
    oooooh this is tough ... i personally love both so much!!
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    hard to compare. different shows for different times. Friends was funny when it was on (except for the Rachel/Ross yo-yo dating). Mother is funny because it plays to an updated sense of humor (except for Ted's Fracked up obsession with the "right" girl - it was Robin!!)
  • Cris725
    Cris725 Posts: 81
    HIMYM is THE BEST show ever!! I could watch it all day!
  • cynthiabrugger
    cynthiabrugger Posts: 1
    Both are great:wink: . HIMYM is definitely hilarous! Don't know how well received it would have been if it would have been out at the same time that Friends was on though.
  • Purpleflipflops
    Purpleflipflops Posts: 563 Member
    Cat funeral
    Cat funeral
    It was an awful thing
    And not entirely my fault...
    You can't even begin quoting cat songs without a ode to "Smelly Cat"!

    i don't really like HIMYM, but I LOVE Friends!
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    HIMYM is THE BEST show ever!! I could watch it all day!

    Right on Babycakes!!!!! How I met your Mother marathon is next on my agenda!!!
  • heggleston921
    heggleston921 Posts: 41 Member
    Friends is my all-time favorite show. I, too, own all 10 seasons on dvd and I always catch the re-runs.

    However, I find the question itself kind of unfair. Comparing a popular current show with one that ended 8 years ago? What gives? It seems more fair to compare two shows that are on now. An excellent show to compare HIMYM to would be Happy Endings, which I find to be completely hilarious. It is far funnier and more engaging than HIMYM, a much better current version of Friends. Brilliant writing!

    I do watch HIMYM regularly, but it's not high on my list of favorites.
  • MissSharkattack
    MissSharkattack Posts: 323 Member
    They both suck.
  • superdoof
    superdoof Posts: 9 Member
    I love both, only really discovered HIMYM at season 5, but thanks to the power of TiVo, I've noticed that they've just started from the beginning on teen tv station E4...so I get to indulge.

    Friends for me is like comfort food. It reminds me of being young (I was around 18 when it launched in the UK) I remember I worked in a bar on Friday nights, so my friend would tape it for me and bring it over on Saturday to watch before we got ready to go out :-)
  • Daysednconfused
    Daysednconfused Posts: 975 Member
    HIMYM is Legen
    wait for it
    dary!!! Its like watching my crazy friends on tv. ha!

    I love Friends too though

    LMAO! I liked Friends, but I love HIMYM!
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    I LOVE HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER!!! One of my favorite shows on TV, very well written, and HILLARIOUS. I love the characters!

    You are a woman of good taste!!!:bigsmile:
  • jimdavid
    jimdavid Posts: 5
    HIMYM hands down!!
  • pa_jorg
    pa_jorg Posts: 4,404 Member
    I wonder how its going to end?!?!?!?

    Who knows, but there is talk that when it's over there will be a How I Met Your Father version from the wife's point of view covering the same years.

    HIMYM all the way. Although I do sometimes think some of the ideas originally came from Friends.
  • angryguy77
    angryguy77 Posts: 836 Member
    HIMYM is better by far. Barny ftw
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    HIMYM is better by far. Barny ftw



    Hell yeah!!!
  • Nickstery
    Nickstery Posts: 324 Member
    Definitely a HIMYM fan!!!

    But one word trumps them all..


    BAZINGA!

    TBBT for the win!
  • SinIsIn
    SinIsIn Posts: 1,865 Member
    A more difficult one would have been ....

    How I Met Your Mother Vs. The Big Bang Theory!
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    A more difficult one would have been ....

    How I Met Your Mother Vs. The Big Bang Theory!


    Indeed babycakes...indeed! Friends is no match for HIMYM!
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    FOR JOVI!!
  • RH_Brazell
    RH_Brazell Posts: 339
    I love how i met you'r mother
  • Dilfster
    Dilfster Posts: 416 Member
    How I met your mother is better- but getting harder to watch these days.
  • adamb83
    adamb83 Posts: 719 Member
    Friends is the BEST. No show will ever beat it - except maybe Roseanne.
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    Friends is the BEST. No show will ever beat it - except maybe Roseanne.

    Friends sucks!!!!!!
  • adamb83
    adamb83 Posts: 719 Member
    Definitely a HIMYM fan!!!

    But one word trumps them all..


    BAZINGA!

    TBBT for the win!

    DEFINITELY!
  • adamb83
    adamb83 Posts: 719 Member
    Friends is the BEST. No show will ever beat it - except maybe Roseanne.

    Friends sucks!!!!!!

    Friends is ridiculously good. HIMYM is just... blah. BLAH. Maybe if Neil Patrick Harris got replaced, things could turn around.
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    HIMYM is better by far. Barny ftw

    Hell yeah!
  • mixedfeelings
    mixedfeelings Posts: 904 Member
    I love How I Met Your Mother but absolutely loathed Friends and still do, I just don't get how it got so big. Of course because it was so big I did try to watch it when it was first on but I just found it dull but I find HIMYM can be hilarious. Plus I don't mind looking at Jason Segal.
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