Friends vs How I Met Your Mother

Apparently, the two shows have been compared time and again, and if you have not seen the similarities yet, I’ve got only one thing to ask: how could you not?

· Both the shows are a group of friends who hang out regularly

· Both the shows are based in New York City

· Both the shows have a main character desperately in love with another main character

· Both the shows lengthen respective shows with on – off relationships of hopelessly in love character and his love interest

· Both the shows represent the love interest confused about the main character but ends up with him in the end

· Both the shows have a consistent couple

· Both the shows have a lot of celebrities playing characters

· Both the hopeless romantic are professors

· Both the hopeless romantics are know-it-alls and love correcting people

· Both the shows have a womanizer

This being said, many a things have been undoubtedly inspired from Friends in How I Met Your Mother, take the naked man game for instant. Joey did it first.

But here’s where How I Met Your Mother is different from Friends. HIMYM is more of emotional attachment, there is more of storytelling that leads to an end, and there are more details. HIMYM is darker, with the harsh reality that sometimes life does not always turn out the way you want it to. HIMYM is revolved around one sole story, the story of Ted meeting the mother, with stories of other characters thrown in.

Friends is wholesome, funny, with classic, unforgettable moments and characters. We can never get tired of the same joke and the same scene no matter how many times we watch it. Friends does not involve around one single story, it goes around the stories of all the characters.

So which is the better show here? I’m no one to judge, of course. Each show is unique in its own way and has its own perks. Is HIMYM inspired from Friends, yes perhaps it is. Is it a total ripoff of Friends, no that wouldn’t be entirely right.

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