Much Ado About SitcomsIntroductionHow I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that has been broadcast on CBS for eleven years. The popular show follows the lives of five friends as they look to settle down in their lives and get married. The series is told from the point of view of one of the main characters, Ted, who tells his children how he met their mother. As such, Ted tells most of the story in the past tense and one of the main focuses of the series is his own love life, as he explains the courtship process he went through before finally getting married. One of Ted's love interests in the series, Robin, is another main character and one of the five friends that How I Met Your Mother revolves around. Two other characters, Marshall and Lily, are a couple early on and end up getting married midway through the series. The final main character, Barney, is a wealthy, womanizing bachelor who provides most of the series' comic relief. His promiscuous exploits with different women in New York City regularly serve as subplots within the series. How I Met Your Mother and Much Ado have several similarities. Both revolve around several couples who are all connected due to their friendship. Additionally, a key theme of the show and play is the complex nature of courtship. For this reason, courtship is the theme that this storyline will address using some of the characters from the play in roles that appeared in the series. Applying characters from How I Met Your Mother as reimaginings of several parts of Much Ado can help show that the complexities of courtship are quite similar to those expressed in the play and in the television show. Reinvented scene INT. MCLAREN'S BAR - NIGHTMcLaren's Bar is all... middle of paper... for me Marshall, you should realize that if you're angry enough to storm into the room to fight me, then you care about Lily and you two should probably get married. Also, please don't punch me in the face, that's all I have... and a lot of money, and suits... TED [interrupting Barney] Is that why you did that ?BARNEY Well yes, contrary to what you think that matters to me. you guysLILYI never thought I'd say this, but you're one of the best friends I've ever had, Barney.ConclusionThe re-imagined scene is similar to Scene I of Act II of Much Ado in to the extent that deception by one of the characters plays a role. by bringing together a couple. This brings out various issues related to the court, such as the uncertainty people experience and the issue of trust. Similar to Much Ado, the scene sees love prevailing and the whole courtship process ending with happiness for all..