That 90s Show Needs To Repeat How I Met Your Father’s Best Trick
Although it may be tempting for That 90s Show to bring back members of That 70s Show’s beloved cast, the series should steal How I Met Your Father’s best trick and wait a while before giving in to this temptation. It is never easy for a sitcom spinoff to live up to its predecessor. Even successful spinoffs like The Big Bang Theory’s Young Sheldon struggle with continuity and canon, attempting to avoid creating plot holes as they expand the fictional universe of the earlier series.
However, this is just the case for successful spinoffs. For the majority of spinoffs, recapturing the tone of the original show is too big a challenge and the new series fails to transcend its origins. This is one challenge that faces Netflix’s upcomingThat 90s Show, a reboot of the iconic That 70s Show that could benefit from stealing another recent reboot’s approach to cast cameos.
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That 90s Show will pick up a generation after That 70s Show and will focus on the misadventures of a new group of lovable youths. Similarly, 2022’s How I Met Your Father picked up where How I Met Your Mother left off and followed the personal, social, and romantic lives of a group of friends in New York City. HIMYF managed to carve out a considerable audience and even gain some modest acclaim by the end of season 1 despite a shaky start to the series, something that was helped by the show avoiding many direct nods to HIMYM early on. Keeping big cameos from old cast members under wraps until How I Met Your Father’s season 1 finale also helped the reboot establish an identity of its own—something That 90s Show will also need to pull off.
By holding off on How I Met Your Mother’s
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