Okay so both How I Met Your Mother and
Friends are set New York where the sitcom
we are going to talk about today is set
in London in the early 2000s in fact it
ran from 2000 to 2004 for four
seasons so bear with me on this one in
friends, friends always hang out on the
couch in a cafe even in the middle of
the day even though almost all of them
have jobs! "because you're all hanging
around here 11:30 on Wednesday" and the same goes for How I Met Your Mother
but instead of a cafe it's a bar and
the show we're going to talk about today is
called Coupling where six friends talk
about different aspects of sex and
relationships and their search for true
love sitting in a couch but in a bar and
some people even say on Quora that
it's a British version of friends but
with more bold language and constant use of he word f**k! "Language"
Now how I met over there has five main characters where friends and
coupling both have six now let's get one
thing very clear that there are no
characters like Chandler and Barney and nor ever will be basically they are
irreplaceable! Now first we have Steve
Taylor who is more like Ross Geller and
Ted Mosby he is always the clever and the wise guy in the room and fun fact
nobody knows what he does for living  like Chandler and Barney and also he's trying to
find the love of his life which is a
perfect transition to our next character
Susan Walker who is having on and off
relationship with Steve and also career
driven woman like Rachel and Robin who
always puts work before love then comes
Patrick Maitland who is a womanizer
like Joey & Barney and this goes
without saying but very afraid of
relationships no surprises there eh!? and
in later seasons falls in love with his
best friend like Joey for Rachel and
Barney for Robin and mostly people think
he's gay you know like Chandler!
"no-no-no-no" Which brings us to our next
character Sally Harper who never thought
she would fall for Patrick like Monica
who never thought she could fall for
Chandler but eventually they all do
don't they!? but at the same time she's
also witty mouth like Lily Aldrin!
then comes Jane Christie who's the crazy one
in the group and totally like Phoebe but
a little bit like Barney too when it
comes to shenanigans and speaking of shenanigans our last character
Jeff Murdoch who is a very goofy like
Marshall but also dumb like Joey always
the one who comes up with weird rules
Gags and catch phrases like Barney!
All three shows have mostly same narrative where they hang
out on a specific spot and talk about
their lives and stuff and all of them
has flashbacks and stories running
parallel and connected together at the
end so we can say "oh that makes sense
now!" often depicting the three women and the
three men each talking among themselves about the same events, but in entirely
different terms and that happens more in
How I Met Your Mother and coupling than
Friends! Overall friends and How I Met
Your Mother fabricates a relationship
with audience and the character where
coupling is a masterpiece of creativity
in all three of them intellectual will find
that coupling is more appropriate and
creative where Friends & himym still established itself as two of
the best shows ever because of the simple but humourous exposure of comedy
and characters.
Overall I think Coupling is way underrated and I Hope this video
will somewhat change that! so that's it
for this video break down and let us
know the thoughts and comments below and we will see you in the next one!
