Barney Stinson, NOT Neil Patrick Harris. Neil Patrick Harris is awesome!
Think about it: this man hides from everyone: Ted, Robin, Lily,
Marshall, and everybody else. He lies, he cheats, he sleeps, he eats.
He’s a fucking baby with suits and other qualities. You know what’s the
most depressing part of Barney Stinson? He falls in love with his kid.
HIS KID! Not his wife or whomever he banged to produce that child. HIS
KID! Hey, that’s nice. But you know what’s nicer? LOVING THE WOMAN WHO
PRODUCED THAT CHILD! Anyway, I am rewatching How I Met Your Mother
and now I realize how painful Barney’s life is. I never want to be
this man. Ted Mosby’s a slut. Shut up. I will never be Barney or Stupid
Ted. I am slutty Ted, but only one person can call me that. Ah Hell,
everyone can call me that. Doesn’t change me and doesn’t make me think
less of myself.
When I was younger, I admired Barney. I thought suits were so cool that I tried it out. I went to a strip club with my friend Sam and we both wore suits. We pretended we were T.V. Anchors and this girl (stripper) really wanted me to go to the V.I.P. room. I didn’t go because A) I AM NOT BARNEY and B) I didn’t have the money. But then we hit a downward spiral where I go into The Madison wearing a suit trying to pick up a girl. The only women I did pick up were older woman who complimented my suitmanship skills. Fuck you, bitches. Honestly, that’s depressing. And this is why I hate The Maddie. Also for another reason but I think that’s one’s psychological. Anyway, it’s miserable watching Barney be an idiot. The brilliance of How I Met Your Mother is character development. You know what that means? People change. Walter White changes into Heisenberg. Marshall changes from weak to strong. Lily changes from cute to a cute mom. Robin changes from closed to open. Barney changes from a liar, a cheat, a scumbag to a man who finally understand what LOVE is. Ted changes from desperate, lonely, hopeless to a changed man because he marries a beautiful woman. So Married Ted becomes HAPPY. Tracy changes from a pushover to STRONG, BEAUTIFUL, INDEPENDENT, LOVING, WOMAN. She has the most rapid change because well, duh. As my friend TradeMark points out, there are no changes in Friends. She’s right! Everyone stays the same. Everyone remains archetypes of themselves. You can try to squeeze change out of the show but good luck. As Dominic’s girlfriend points out: Friends is a sitcom and sitcoms don’t have changing characters. She’s right. Seinfeld’s the same thing and (I hate to admit it) but THE MINDY PROJECT! But I think everyone on this Earth now realizes why I even watched that show. This is disappointing. COMEDIES, LISTEN UP! Be more real. Be more like dramas. I think How I Met Your Mother is the only comedic show that has shown change within its characters so they become people and not archetypes. This is important. This is what makes good writing: good characters. That and good dialogue. The only reason J.K. Rowling is famous, the only reason Jack Reacher is on film, and the only reason so many good shows and movies exist is because of good snappy dialogue. There are many different ways to write a show, movie, book, whatever but writers need to realize that when something works: it has to always work. Dark Places didn’t do so well on Netflix and I don’t know how it fared with the reading crowd, but Gillian Flynn screwed up. She knows it, I know it, and so do many others. Something clicked with Gone Girl that didn’t click with any other book she’s written. Sorry, Gillian. Same with J.K. Rowling. No other book of Jo’s has been highlighted to the same success as Harry Potter. NOTHING! And that must hurt. I think that’s why she’s going back to her roots. I mean, she never said she would never explore Harry Potter’s world again, but that Harry wouldn’t be the main character. Well, guess what? Her latest book is not about Harry, but about his son. Albus? I think. Anyway, with that out of the way I just want to write that shows are moving in a positive direction and I want this to continue. We need more shows like How I Met Your Mother; we really do. The world knows we need more real life comedies.
With writes,
-Andy Ruffett
When I was younger, I admired Barney. I thought suits were so cool that I tried it out. I went to a strip club with my friend Sam and we both wore suits. We pretended we were T.V. Anchors and this girl (stripper) really wanted me to go to the V.I.P. room. I didn’t go because A) I AM NOT BARNEY and B) I didn’t have the money. But then we hit a downward spiral where I go into The Madison wearing a suit trying to pick up a girl. The only women I did pick up were older woman who complimented my suitmanship skills. Fuck you, bitches. Honestly, that’s depressing. And this is why I hate The Maddie. Also for another reason but I think that’s one’s psychological. Anyway, it’s miserable watching Barney be an idiot. The brilliance of How I Met Your Mother is character development. You know what that means? People change. Walter White changes into Heisenberg. Marshall changes from weak to strong. Lily changes from cute to a cute mom. Robin changes from closed to open. Barney changes from a liar, a cheat, a scumbag to a man who finally understand what LOVE is. Ted changes from desperate, lonely, hopeless to a changed man because he marries a beautiful woman. So Married Ted becomes HAPPY. Tracy changes from a pushover to STRONG, BEAUTIFUL, INDEPENDENT, LOVING, WOMAN. She has the most rapid change because well, duh. As my friend TradeMark points out, there are no changes in Friends. She’s right! Everyone stays the same. Everyone remains archetypes of themselves. You can try to squeeze change out of the show but good luck. As Dominic’s girlfriend points out: Friends is a sitcom and sitcoms don’t have changing characters. She’s right. Seinfeld’s the same thing and (I hate to admit it) but THE MINDY PROJECT! But I think everyone on this Earth now realizes why I even watched that show. This is disappointing. COMEDIES, LISTEN UP! Be more real. Be more like dramas. I think How I Met Your Mother is the only comedic show that has shown change within its characters so they become people and not archetypes. This is important. This is what makes good writing: good characters. That and good dialogue. The only reason J.K. Rowling is famous, the only reason Jack Reacher is on film, and the only reason so many good shows and movies exist is because of good snappy dialogue. There are many different ways to write a show, movie, book, whatever but writers need to realize that when something works: it has to always work. Dark Places didn’t do so well on Netflix and I don’t know how it fared with the reading crowd, but Gillian Flynn screwed up. She knows it, I know it, and so do many others. Something clicked with Gone Girl that didn’t click with any other book she’s written. Sorry, Gillian. Same with J.K. Rowling. No other book of Jo’s has been highlighted to the same success as Harry Potter. NOTHING! And that must hurt. I think that’s why she’s going back to her roots. I mean, she never said she would never explore Harry Potter’s world again, but that Harry wouldn’t be the main character. Well, guess what? Her latest book is not about Harry, but about his son. Albus? I think. Anyway, with that out of the way I just want to write that shows are moving in a positive direction and I want this to continue. We need more shows like How I Met Your Mother; we really do. The world knows we need more real life comedies.
With writes,
-Andy Ruffett
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