Everybody is saying it's a Friends rip-off but thru it set up frame it's also a How I Met Your Mother rip-off. I love sit-coms and i want sitcoms to success in the age of reality tv but this is just too bad to watch.
shareIt's a ripoff of the American version of Coupling which was a ripoff of the British version of coupling which was a ripoff of Friends.
It's a three way ripoff.
I'm so ugly...that's ok 'cause so are you.
You have to at least give "HIMYM" some credit for trying to give their show a slightly different framework than "Friends" by adding the "telling the story of your past to reach the conclusion" angle.
But this "100 Questions"? It just seemed like the creators couldn't come up with any new ideas, and furthermore, couldn't decide which show they wanted to copy more.
Most blatant to me, was the "hangout spot". It literally looked like they couldn't decide which show they wanted to rip-off the most, and they wound up with a bar (as in "HIMYM") that has a nearly identical couch/chair setup for their main characters as "Friends" did (like their coffee shop).
And I couldn't overlook the title and concept, which smelled a little "HIMYM"ish, too. The title itself describes the story of a girl who answers one question on her dating service every week (assuming leading up to finding the man she'll be with), and then the stories we see are flashbacks. Yeah, a little familiar...
I even had just watched a rerun of "HIMYM" on CBS right before this show aired it's first episode, and amusingly, the guy who played the fiancee getting dumped on "100 Questions" was the same guy who basically got rejected by one of the characters on "HIMYM" about 15 minutes previous to that.
I'm starting to think they shot and laugh-tracked the show so strangely, just so people might not recognize what a rip-off this show is - and it can't even do it right. Sad.
Sadly I watch too much television to enjoy this. I've watched every american sitcom from I Love Lucy on out. And all the episodes of the most popular ones. And one starts seeing the patterns. I do get that there are certain formulas, couples sitcoms (Yes, Dear, Till Death, Rules of Engagement, all the way to I love lucy) family sitcoms (According to Jim, Malcolm In The Middle, Grounded for Life, Everybody Loves Ray) Workplace Sitcoms (Newsradio, Working, Veronica's Closet even M.A.S.H. could be considered as such) the fabled singles sitcom (Friends, Coupling, HIMYM, The Class, Seinfeld). But now if you look at the TV landscape you see that the shows that have stuck around are the ones that try to combine formulas and dare to be a little different. Look at the CBS line-up Rules of Engagement (so-so) [3 couples at different stages and a single guy, so you get the couples plotlines and the singles plotlines] HIMYM (so-so) [sitcom with an all seeing unreliable narrator, one couple, 3 single people] The Big Bang Theory that's the ratings monster there now and Two and A Half men. One is the classic geek pairing with hot chicks opposites attract turned on its ear by only having one female lead, more like a successor to Frasier. And Two And A Half Men it's the odd couple with a kid and the bleak outlook of Seinfeld. They are doing pretty well. Now look at NBC The Office was totally different when it came out and now they got Parks and Rec in there as well, the docu style that Modern Family has copied. 30 Rock is also very different from the workplace sitcom formula, more like a Scrubs successor. And Community which is the workplace/school sitcoms but with oddballs and fishes out of water. People are praising Modern Family because it's being different. And this is why this cookie cutter sitcom is not going to make it.
shareAll these comparisons are making my head spin
People are so f-king obsessed with comparing everything, they even say Avatar is a rip-off of the Smirfs.
Friends was a rip-off of Three's Company and I Love Lucy.
Pearl Jam was a rip-off of Nirvana.
The Honeymooners was a rip-off of I Love Lucy.
Family Guy is a rip-off of The Simpsons
Duran Duran ripped off The Beatles....................
WHEN WILL IT EVER END?????
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I doubt its gonna end anytime soon dude.
You'll get used to it eventually. Hopefully.
Plus its spelled Smurfs not Smirfs btw.
Original ideas don't exist anymore just reworking ad reimagining of the same concepts. From Beowulf on out, everything has been a rip off.
This is why reality TV took off. It was a completely new concept at the time.
Agreed - I don't usually jump on here to complain about how one show is a rip-off of another show, as they're all inspired by one thing or another... it's just that this show seems to almost be blatant about it. Not to harp on it (even though I know I am), but it just feels like someone took "Friends" and "HIMYM", stuck them in a blender, added a dash of one-camera shooting and an oddly placed laugh track, and this is what came out.
I think I simply find this show especially offensive, because that laugh track really sounds like someone has no idea what's going on in post-production. The laugh track is hitting where I'm not even sure I heard a joke, and it simply doesn't work for this style of show. It just really feels a bit amateurish, which I think is what gives this show that last nail in the coffin...
hka-3 wrote; "Pearl Jam was a rip-off of Nirvana."
What in the hell did you just say?
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