When someone gives me some well-intentioned advice about how they manage their moods by just not allowing themselves to be depressed, this is how it sounds to me:
The video clip and the gif are from the same episode of How I Met Your Mother. Barney's attempt to defeat the cold with willpower falls hilariously flat.
I love the show for the inevitable consequences that show up when someone pulls something like this.
I also want to sit down at some point and grab out the "one or two passes are complimentary; ten are fucking obnoxious " moment where Ted and Marshall are in a gay bar and their ability to cope plummets. Also the invisible disability moment where Barney has just fucked up his legs taking a stupid dare and cannot give up his seat to about five people with visibile disabilities because he literally cannot stand. I swear I could teach a large part of a class just based on that show.
There is a lot of attention to continuity, so watching scattered, out of order, or excessively cut for commercials might result in missing important details.
Yeah, I really enjoy it. Focusing too much on the ostensible protagonist Ted makes it sound shallow. It's his friends who make it awesome.
It does fall down on a few fronts (fat jokes, trans*fail, and "lame" all happen more than once unchallenged) but on the whole even though some of the characters are really awful, the show over all works well.
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azurelunatic) wrote2012-10-21 12:49 am
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pretty accurately my reaction to the cheer up attitude
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I love the show for the inevitable consequences that show up when someone pulls something like this.
I also want to sit down at some point and grab out the "one or two passes are complimentary; ten are fucking obnoxious " moment where Ted and Marshall are in a gay bar and their ability to cope plummets. Also the invisible disability moment where Barney has just fucked up his legs taking a stupid dare and cannot give up his seat to about five people with visibile disabilities because he literally cannot stand. I swear I could teach a large part of a class just based on that show.
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It does fall down on a few fronts (fat jokes, trans*fail, and "lame" all happen more than once unchallenged) but on the whole even though some of the characters are really awful, the show over all works well.
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