Blog post - D'Angelo Cronin

How I Met Your Mother has to be one of my favorite TV shows of all time. The show begins with five friends going through their daily lives living in New York City. The main narrator and actor of the show Ted Mosby explains to his kids about his ongoing relationship struggles before meeting their mother. My Marxist Analysis on this would consider all of these five friends to be the proletariats throughout the show because most of them are middle class working people.

As we see in the show there are several relationships that Ted Mosby goes through, and all of his friends set different standards on what it means to be in a monogamous relationship. As we see the only married couple in the group Lily and Marshall are the positive role models to Ted Mosby. You could almost label Lily and Marshall as the “perfect couple”. Although they do have their minor struggles which comes with being in a relationship, their love for one another remains stable throughout the entire show. Now as opposed to their other friend Barney, who is more of a serious and rebellious womanizer, goes against the monogamous ideals as the young, energetic man who always dresses to impress. Most of the time the characters in the show do not agree with Barney because of his immature acts.

The main ideology here is that Ted somewhat refuses to be a single man to one-day hope to find the woman of his dreams. Ted is on an emotional roller-coaster, which is why he remains single in several episodes. The show definitely targets the younger adults because of Ted’s constant struggle to find the right woman for him. This show can also target the older generation because of Lily and Marshal’s relationship whether its living together, to starting a family and raising children. Now on the other hand most young men idolize Barney because of his mischievous intentions to pick up women at his leisure.