Sunburns and the horrors of copying
It has been a while since I made a blog post, sorry about that again. It is really hard to type while a fourth of my body is suffering from the sun's wrath. I wish my body could just hurry up the process of shedding skin already. Anyways my vacation has been worthwhile. After my visit to New York City, I went upstate to Albany, my birthplace. That is where I have gotten the sunburns and bug bites from, but that means I'm doing a bunch of outdoor activities. Which is good...I think. When I did have time to watch television, I flipped onto TBS. I saw that Men at Work was just starting and decided to watch it. I thought, "Hey, I should watch this. I haven't seen Danny Masterson in anything except for That 70's Show."
After watching the twenty minute show, I sat there for another minute in a stunned silence. I could not comprehend the horror of what the writers of Men at work had done. I will now quote what they said on the show. So far the episode's plot had something to do with Danny's character (Milo) having a crazy girlfriend.
Gibbs: Milo, how attractive is this woman?
Milo: Beautiful.
Gibbs: Yeah, I thought so. Gentlemen, what we have here is the crazy-hot paradox...see, men judge crazy only by relation of how hot the woman is.
And then Gibbs started going into the crazy-hot paradox, giving examples and all. It immediately sounded familiar...just all too familiar. I was blown away completely. They had almost completely ripped off the crazy-hot episode of How I Met Your Mother. For those poor souls that are unfamiliar to the show, go and watch it. In the third season of HIMYM, when it was about 2008 or so, they did an episode about Ted introducing his friends to a chick he met online. While everyone meets Ted's new crazy girlfriend, everyone recounts their stories of how they met everyone else. And Barney attempts to convince everybody that his new girlfriend is crazy by telling them of the crazy-hot scale. If you want to see it for yourself, here's the link.
http://youtu.be/rNfXdHJ6Knc
After watching that episode, I am never planning on watching another one again. What they did was copy a great How I met your mother episode, tweak the plot slightly, and then season it with some bad jokes. If there's one thing I hate, it's people stealing good material and turning it into something awful and unfunny. So kids remember, It's illegal to Plagiarize, so don't do it. Don't be a Dane Cook.
