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Analysis Reflection

After I came up with the topic of comparing and contrasting the show How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) and the show Friends, I immediately came up with an outline of topics that I wanted to talk about. That outline helped me organize my thoughts and figure out what my introduction and conclusion were going to be. I had a total of two drafts, my rough draft and then my final draft. What helps me the most when I’m editing my paper for my final draft, is by editing bits and pieces through the week and even through the day. I feel less stressed by doing that. The hardest part for me in every paper I write, is to come up with my introduction paragraph and even my thesis statement. I tend to come up with my thesis statement at the very end of my paper, because it’s always getting changed. Like I said, coming up with an outline for my rough drat and editing my paper throughout the day/week helped me get further along with my writing process. Workshop always helps, even if I don’t want to hear the criticism that my group members have to say to me. I guess the only concern I have is that I would like to be with group members that I have never been with. It’s nice to be able to read different papers and see the different writing patterns that occur with every writer. I only received feedback from one of my group members and she told me that I basically missed out on the “analysis” part to the essay. John had said the same thing. Although, at the time I thought it was okay to just compare the two shows, but after talking to both my group member and John, I realized that I needed to add more analysis to my paper. Basically, I needed to figure out the “so what” to my paper and also talk about some of the differences between the two shows. Once I had the better understanding of what my paper was lacking, I figured it wouldn’t be too terribly bad to revise my paper. I was somewhat wrong, because it took me a couple hours to figure out exactly what John wanted from me. I am hoping I revised my paper well enough and that my analysis of the two shows make my paper even stronger. What surprised me the most was that I dug deeper into the two shows and got the hang of analyzing better than I thought I would have. If I knew what analyzing meant in the first place and how to exactly incorporate it into my topic, then my writing process would have flowed right along and I don’t think I would have much to revise. If I could go back in time and change that, I would have gone straight to John and told him about my topic and made sure that I would be doing the analysis part correctly.   

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Friends vs. How I Met Your Mother

I have decided to compare and contrast the show Friends and the show How I Met Your Mother. Friends is based on a group of friends who are basically each other’s family and they share their lives with one another. HIMYM is also about a group of friends who share their lives with one another and do all sorts of things together. Ross and Rachel in the show Friends have a very complicated and up and down relationship. That’s very similar with Ted and Robin from HIMYM. Chandler and Monica in Friends end up getting married, whereas in HIMYM, Marshall and Lily are married. Then there is Joey in the show Friends and he is the odd ball out. In HIMYM, there is Barney, and Barney does his own thing and hooks up with many many woman. Phoebe in the show Friends is the only person who isn’t compared to anyone in the show HIMYM. That is one main difference between the two shows- Friends has a group of 6 friends, where HIMYM has 5 of them. In both shows they have a place that they all go to and hangout. In Friends, it’s at a coffee shop called, Central Perk. In HIMYM their place to meet up is at MacLaren’s Bar. The settings in both of the shows are in New York and in both shows, each character falls so deeply in love with New York. It’s so hard for any of them to actually leave New York and start a new life somewhere else. Another similarity in both shows is that there is one apartment that they all hangout at. In Friend’s, it’s had Monica’s apartment and in HIMYM it’s at Ted’s apartment. Another difference that I have found was that in HIMYM there is a narrator (Bob Sagot) and that narrator represents the future Ted as a father. There is no narrator in the show Friends.

*Sorry if this blog post is random and all over the place, but this is the best way of figuring out similarities and differences of each of the shows!

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Analysis topic blog

I think I’m going to analyze the show How I Met Your Mother, which stars Cobie Smulders as Robin, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney, Josh Radnor as Ted, Jason Segel as Marshall, Alyson Hannigan as Lily, Cristin Milioti as The Mother, and Bob Saget as the narrator. It all started out when Marshall and Ted were college roommates and then Marshall met Lily in college and they started dating. Ted, Marshall, and Lily were always hanging out together and they eventually moved into an apartment together right above a bar. They went to the bar a lot, and that’s where they met barney, who is always sleeping with a different girl almost every night. When Robin showed up at the bar, Lily immediately wanted to be friends with her. That’s how the five of them became a good group of friends. The show, How I Met Your Mother is basically about Ted telling his two kids about how he met their mother, but along the way he talks about a few girls that he dated until he met their mother, and one in particular, Robin. Robin was his first love, but it didn’t work out, because Ted told her he loved her right in the beginning of their relationship. This show very much resembles the show Friends in many ways. Part of me wants to compare/contrast those two shows and I might just end up doing that, but for now I’m just going to stick with talking about How I Met Your Mother. My rhetorical situation influenced my decision in analyzing this show, because part of me thinks that most college students have watched this show, mainly because it’s on Netflix and has been for a while. Netflix is every college students “go-to” when they aren’t busy. I wanted to write about a specific piece of media and I feel more comfortable writing about a TV show than my previous idea of analyzing a political debate. I also have recently watched this show and I love it so much that I may even re-watch it! 

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More options for analysis essay

I did more thinking over the past week and really thought about the TV series How I Met Your Mother. I finished watching this TV series in the beginning of this year. There are 9 seasons of this show and all of them are currently on Netflix. The shows are 20-30 minutes long each, so it’s an easy show to watch. I strongly recommend this show to everybody! This show reminds me a lot of the show called Friends, because there are 5 best friends who are constantly hanging out together up until their later years. Their names are, Ted, Robin, Barney, Marshall, and Lily. The main thing all of them do is go to their favorite bar, Maclaren’s Pub and sit at one specific table. They have “claimed” that table to be theirs and will kick anybody out who is sitting there. How I Met Your Mother is about Ted telling his two children how he met their mother. Ted thinks back to all of the memories and all of the woman he dated up until he met the kids’ mom. Many emotions are being thrown at you while you are watching this show, just like Friends. I have laughed out loud, cried, and smiled many times throughout watching HIMYM. If I decided to analyze this show, I was thinking of doing the finale episode. The finale really explains everything that has happened throughout all of the years. I would also almost have to analyze the main scenes that happened in this show to make it better understanding to my audience members who have not seen this show. I have also found some blogs on google where people have analyzed this show in great detail. This show has so many meanings to it and it relates a lot to a life of a young adult trying to grow up, find a wife/husband, start a family, and find a job that will last for a while.