He realizes that he wants to give up his single status for a committed relationship like Lily and Marshall’s. They’re the imperfectly perfect couple who have only ever had sex with each other, and their healthy, happy relationship is contrasted with Ted’s rollercoaster love life and Barney’s endless series of one night stands. Despite the raunchy jokes, How I Met Your Mother is ultimately as much a romantic as Ted is.Īt the start of the show, Ted, like many of our generation, still isn’t married at 27.
While the two shows have marked similarities, at its core How I Met Your Mother departs from the cynicism of Seinfeld. George is asked if he is master of his domain, to which he replies proudly, “I won a contest,” referencing an episode from the previous season. A Seinfeld example is in the famous “Puffy Shirt” episode. The slap bet is a recurring joke that spans several years on How I Met Your Mother. Barney contributes many of the catchphrases in How I Met Your Mother, including “challenged accepted,” “lemon law” and “I only have one rule.” Marshall has “lawyered,” and Robin has her infamous “but, um,” which becomes a doomed drinking game.īoth shows are funnier if watched in order, since episodes often recall earlier ones. Seinfeld has “master of my domain,” “not that there’s anything wrong with that,” “no soup for you,” and the list goes on. Two more Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother parallels are coined phrases and running jokes. Seinfeld storylines are just as marvelously twisted as its characters inadvertently thwart one another again and again. At the end of the tangled scenario, Ted realizes that he started the whole thing by finding a lucky penny. As the episode details all the steps leading up to the missed flight, each character plays his or her part. Ted is in the airport, running late for an important flight. Take the “Lucky Penny” episode from the second season of How I Met Your Mother.
All three shows rely on overlapping storylines, but only Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother at their best weave plots together to such brilliant and hilarious effect. While the group of close friends living and dating in New York City does bring to mind Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe, Seinfeld is a fairer comparison. Ted, Marshall, and Barney sit in a coffee shop for a minute before Barney notes, “Hanging out at a coffee place isn’t nearly as fun as hanging out in a bar.” The nod to the 90s is acknowledged in an obvious Friends reference in a season two episode of How I Met Your Mother. An example is a season one installment when Lily and Marshall spend the whole half hour trapped in a bathroom, mirroring a similar Mad About You episode with Jamie and Paul in the same predicament. How I Met Your Mother, which CBS recently renewed for a ninth and final season, is in many ways a throwback to 90s TV. Seinfeld was a voice for the adults of the 90s, uniting audiences worldwide and spawning cultural references like “man hands” and “yada yada.” How I Met Your Mother is its counterpart today, partly because it relies equally on guest stars and produces lots of coined phrases, but also because it embodies the millennial generation and its modern discontent.
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