Sitcoms are one of the earliest forms of television programming, and continue to be the most popular today. They are defined typically as funny, half-hour programs, with limited amounts of character or plot growth. Sitcoms tend to have simpler story lines and the characters often find themselves stuck in ridiculous predicaments, but always are resolved by the end of the episode. While the characters do not have problems that carry over into more than one episode, there is often one larger theme around them.
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| How I Met Your Mother |
One of my favorite aspects of sitcoms is being able to watch an episode from any season and being able to follow the plot line and not have missed any information from previous episodes. One of my regular TV shows is “How I Met Your Mother,” a classic example of 30-minute sitcom. It follows the dating life of Ted Mosby and his four friends in New York City. While there is some minor character development with Lily and Marshall’s marriage and all of their relationship and career changes, for the most part they are static characters. The main theme is Ted’s desire to get married and have a family, and the show begins every episode with Ted narrating the plot to his future children.
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