Friends vs. How I Met Your Mother

Did you guys ever watch Friends? Do you guys watch How I Met Your Mother? Well as mentioned before, I looooooooove Friends. So much! How I Met Your Mother, I love too, but here is the thing though. I started watching How I Met Your Mother a few years back but I stopped because I just simply couldn't stand how much they copied Friends. Honestly, it was the same jokes, same plotting, more or less same characters and relationships. There was one point where my siblings couldn't stop talking about the show and I was about to go insane.
Not long ago, I realized that I was all out of series, and me not watching a series is like a Christian not believing in God. It just doesn't work. So I decided to give How I Met Your Mother a second chance. I adore Neil Patrick Harris so I figured that maybe I'd like it more this time. And boy was I right. I love How I Met Your Mother now. Actually, no. I love Barney! He makes the show. He's legen...wait for it...dary!

Truth be told though, I love Barney and he's the only reason I am watching this show but every now and then I keep comparing it to Friends. That is no good, because Friends is my baby.
That is however how I decided to make this post, Friends vs. How I Met Your Mother.

SIMILARITIES

1. Characters. They both have the player (Joey and Barney). They both have the whiney one (Ross and Ted). They both have the new girl that everyone can't later live without (Rachel and Robin)
2. Perfect married couple. Chandler and Monica, Marshall and Lily
3. Hangout place. They both have hang out places they go to all the time.
4. High Fives
5. New York!!

DIFFERENCES

1. Characters. There is one less in HIMYM. Joey is the sweetest person and Barney is the biggest asshole. Ross actually marries everyone while Ted just wants to marry everyone. Rachel is a spoiled girl with big dreams and a passion for fashion and Robin is a bad ass with daddy issues.

2. Perfect married couple. Chandler and Monica started off as friends and didn't fall in love until the middle of the series. Marshall and Lily had already been together for 9 years in the first season.

3. Hangout place. One is a coffee house, the other one is a bar

4. The high five was only Chandler and Monica's thing in Friends. In HIMYM everyone does a high five every now and then with each other

So that is that. Both great shows, but nothing ever beats Friends. Not even Barney. Ha ha. What do you guys think? 

Ps. There are more stuff, just google Friends vs How I Met Your Mother and look at images. A whole bunch of stuff come up.