Shows you can't stand to watch?

 

I don't like any of the characters. The only one I don't dislike is Barney.

 

Lilly is a flake and a bitch.

 

Marshall is whipped. How he could stand to date someone like Lilly, much less marry her, diminishes any sympathy I may have had for him in the first place. You can't tell me he didn't date her long enough before marrying her to realize that she's a see-you-next-Tuesday. He deserves her.

 

I just dislike Lily and Marshall. The ones I really hate are Ted and Robin. Why they haven't gotten together: For as much as they "love" each other, they love drama even more.

 

Ted's the serial monogamist, the "sensitive" one who really isn't sensitive at all. He sabotages one relationship after another on his neurotic little whims and his emotional conflicts. For someone who's always on his soapbox about fate, he continues to repeat his mistakes. You'd think that well into the many seasons it's already been on, that he'd have learned something. I guess that if he tells his children enough that "HE DONE MESSED UP THIS TIME" every time he flakes out and breaks some girl's heart, that you'll feel sorry for him every time. But it's okay because she was crazy! 

 

Because Robin's got a great head on her shoulders!

 

At least Barney knows he's a player. Ted's every bit as misogynistic, but the show portrays him as the knight in shining armor to his perennial damsel in distress, Robin.

 

Robin's basically just a needy barslut who courts any man who offers, even if she's not interested in him because she needs a man in her life to feel complete, but you can always anticipate the same pattern every season: Robin and Ted or Barney hook up. There are "complex" emotions involved. They decide to not see each other "that way" anymore. Ted or Barney rebounds. Robin feels sorry for herself and storms off for the entire episode while Marshall and Lilly lament Robin's heartache, and of course Ted doesn't realize this because he's way too self-involved to notice anything that doesn't directly affect him in some way.

 

I haven't watched this show in a while, but last I heard, Barney and Robin got married or something. Bet your drinking money that there's some sort of ulterior motive, and by some mysterious inner working of "fate", the marriage will fail.

 

Then there are a few issues I have with this show fundamentally. The show's been on for how many years now? Seven or eight? And they still haven't revealed who the mother is? How many women did Ted sleep with? Keep your pants on.

 

Moreover, I take issue with this program that a recurring motif seems to be that the worst thing that can happen to you is being single, that even if your options are limited that you should seek a partner if only to say that you're in a relationship.

 

Overall, though, I have to say is the stereotypically dichotymous female roles portrayed by the show. Lilly's successful, married, and building a family, so obviously that's too positive a message for a seemingly successful woman. Let's make her a neurotic, emasculating bitch who thinks she's superior for certain people, places, or things.  On the other hand, Robin is probably one of the weakest sitcom characters I've ever seen because god forbid she take care of herself. All of Ted's girlfriends are depicted as emotionally unstable or too demanding. Barney's girlfriends are just brainless party girls for whom you can't even feel sorry about him using, because how stupid are they to fall for the sh*t that he tells them? There's not a single positive female role on this program, and then people wonder why women are nuts?

 

/Rant.