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I'll admit I've only seen a handful of BBT episodes, but that appears to be the difference to me. HIMYM attempts different ways of telling stories. For instance, last week the episode told the story from Ted's POV, then Robin's, then Lilly's. Each time, stuff that seemed odd earlier made more sense because the two first people were high and drunk. The episodes of BBT that I have seen seem to just be joke set up-> punch line. It's possible I've just seen all bad episodes.

BBT has the occasional interesting episode, but their audience doesn't want anything challenging, so they keep it simple. It has some funny moments (I haven't seen all episodes either, but I've seen more than a few).

It's Two and a Half Men with Nerds. Especially now. 90% of the jokes are lame sex jokes. It's always been a very mediocre show, but they used to try to actually make fun of things like Star Wars, but they don't really anymore.

They may be IN a comic book store, but they rarely talk about the comic book store.

Missed Opportunity but it's CBS, to be expected.

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Posted by lpgreat1

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:12 am to Freauxzen

I think Big Bang gets hate now because, in my view, it has ascended to a far wider mainstream audience due to syndication. It's on TBS 24/7. My grandparents now talk about how it's the funniest show on TV when, at the time seasons 1-3 were originally airing, not a lot of casual TV viewers were that into the show.

How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer like Big Bang, Friends, Seinfeld, Raymond or any other widely syndicated show. The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.

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Posted by Baloo

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:34 am to Freauxzen

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t's Two and a Half Men with Nerds. Especially now. 90% of the jokes are lame sex jokes. It's always been a very mediocre show, but they used to try to actually make fun of things like Star Wars, but they don't really anymore.

This. BBT's nerds in no way act like actual nerds. trust me, I am one. They don't resemble me or anyone I know. The show doesn't play to nerds... it's just window dressing for bawdy humor. which is fine, and I don't hate BBT as much as most, but it's certainly not very interesting. It's fine if it's on and I think it has its moments, but its not must-watch TV or anything.

HIMYM has my favorite literary device, the unreliable narrator, so it sucks me in. That's a personal thing, though. It doesn't make it automatically "better", just more appealing to me. though I think the quality of writing is higher and the cast is superior.

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