TBBT and HIMYM are two such shows which entertain the audience in a way that they start feeling special about their own lives.
What I mean to say is that when we watch these shows, we somehow manage to relate ourselves or otherwise dream of being a part of the lives of the characters of the show. I am not saying that characters in these shows have an ideal life. What I meant is that these shows work around groups of friends. And that is universally appealing to all.
I am going to compare these shows from my point of view but I've got to admit that there is a hell of a lot of similarities between the two, the biggest similarity being the core of both the shows- A small little social group bound strongly together.
In TBBT, we have a group of braniacs and a glamorous waitress, living their lives as they want to and hence producing hillarious situations. While in HIMYM, we have a perfectly normal group of people with no one being a genius- having very complex or unfortunate love lives (except for one couple). As mentioned above- TBBT creates comedy out of the uniqueness of lives that the main characters live. HIMYM on the other side builds up multidimensional emotional relationships between the characters through an immensly long storyline which in general is comical and hilarious but is balanced by little emotional touches here and there.
The story of HIMYM is nested around, while TBBT has a much more free strategy. The funny thing is that although HIMYM focusses on its story more that TBBT and that HIMYM has more episodes than TBBT, yet TBBT has come further ahead in the lives of it characters.
This only proves one point that irrespective of how enteraining HIMYM is, its storyline is ellaborated way too much and hence it has diluted the quality of the show to a considerable extent.
On the other hand despite TBBT being more funny and smart than HIMYM, it has not developed a deep enough emotional connection between the characters and the highly loyal fans of the show.
Despite pointing out the little pieces of weaknesses in both of the show it is important for me to say that both these shows are great and does what they are made to do very well, which is to cheer the audiences up and make their real lives a little more lively and enjoyble by entertaining them through cycles of emotions, romance, comedy and most importantly FRIENDSHIP.
Time for the verdict- Unlike many other great entities on the television, these two shows provide quality as well as quantity. But TBBT for me is better for being slimmer and smarter than HIMYM.
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