How I Met Your Father Repeated Another Sitcom’s Most Hated Romance
Even though New Girl fans disliked Jess’s season 4 romance with Ryan, How I Met Your Father inexplicably repeated the sitcom’s story. Perhaps because the series is a How I Met Your Mother spinoff, How I Met Your Father has not been shy about borrowing from other hit shows that came before it. The show’s season 1 finale featured a twist that effectively reversed the sad ending of Alexis and Ted’s Schitt’s Creek romance, while Leighton Meester’s How I Met Your Father role subverted her most famous part as Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf.
However, what is surprising is the fact that How I Met Your Father has also borrowed some story elements from sitcom plots that were hated by fans when they appeared on earlier shows. For example, Ryan’s short-lived romance with Jess on New Girl has frequently been cited by fans online as one of the show’s weakest storylines due to their lack of chemistry and its vague resolution. Despite this fact, Charlie and Valentina’s love story in How I Met Your Father bears a striking resemblance to the earlier widely-disliked plot.
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Ryan was a teacher who Jess dated in New Girl season 4 and, unlike the show’s less well-off regulars, he eventually was revealed to be a member of a wealthy aristocratic British family at the end of one Christmas episode. Similarly, in How I Met Your Father, characters struggle with money for the most part but Valentina’s boyfriend Charlie, like Ryan, doesn’t have to worry about this issue. That is because Charlie is slumming it in How I Met Your Father having chosen to go to New York with Valentina, despite his rich aristocratic British family threatening to cut him off if he did so. Similarly, Ryan
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