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How I met your mother aged extremely poorly. The ending rightfully gets a lot of flak, but the characters are just massive toxic assholes in a way that isn't really funny.
Also I'm like 90 percent some of the ways Barney convinced women to sleep with him could be classified as rape. I get the joke that Neil Patrick Harris was gay, but it's still uncomfortable to watch. Oddly enough I don't get the same feeling when I was Neil in Harold and Kumar.
On the flip side Scrubs aged surprisingly well. It has problematic moments that you'd think would get ridiculed in the modern era, but hits the emotional beats hard enough that it manages to still remain watchable. Also the joke about clowns and whores is still fucking hilarious.
I was never a fan of himym when it was still airing, but everyone around me fucking loved the damn thing. I thought all the characters were insufferable.
I feel the same way about Big Bang Theory. But here we are years later and it lives successfully in syndication and has multiple spinoffs. I just don’t get it.
Have you not been paying attention to the intelligence of average Americans?