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!
