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Verwirklichbar t1_j95ey2n wrote

Well I think you could argue that for Barney, but fr Charlie, I think it would really be a stretch to say he was framed as a jerk. That’s because Barney had quite the character arc in the second half of the show. Charlie on the other hand was always rewarded for being the worst and even more people around him who arguably behaved better were punished by the story. They only started to break Charlie character when he behaved like a pos in real life and that from a writing perspective felt more like a petty personal insult and less like a natural arc to make him regret his former ways.

Edit: also I can promise you that nobody I knew was actually understanding any one of those characters as satirical, most just found them pretty cool, because they slept with many women

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NosDarkly t1_j95fb8o wrote

Tbh after single camera sitcoms became common, I rarely watched the laugh track stuff any more.

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