A few years ago, on Friends, Joey went home with a girl who he swore he had been out with before. He had complete deja vu in her apartment and even remembered how he hurt himself on a weird plant she had. He was horrified that the girl didn't seem to remember him. Turns out, he had never been out with her. Just with her roommate. Whoops, Joe.
Flashforward a little, to an episode of Sex and the City, in which Samantha had sex with a guy she just met (I know, shocking), and realized midway through, that she had done the same thing before. He thought she was just messing around, by pretending not to know him. She freaked out, because she realized that she had been with so many guys, that she was starting to lap around again.
Flashforward to this past Monday, on How I Met Your Mother, when Ted seemed to be going through a very similar ordeal as Joey and Samantha. Which is particularly strange, because Joey and Samantha were the whores of the show. This should have happened with Barney. Anyway, I was bored by the premise of the episode immediately, because whatever, it has all been done before. But HIMYM has this tendency to take an old premise and give it all of these totally original factors to make it amazing.
Instead of just expecting us to take their words that they had been out with these people before, How I Met Your Mother shows Ted and date (Lindsay Sloane, Big Red from Bring it On) on their first date in 2002, and on their second first date in 2009, simultaneously. And it was funny. The best part was that instead of freaking out for whatever reason, Ted and date decided to relive that original date and figure out what they did wrong. It was really cute, and I think I'm going to have to give my beloved HIMYM the prize for best version of this plotline. Mazel Tov!
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