The
How I Met Your Mother
Shame Index
has gone on hiatus this season, but that doesn’t mean we here at Brow Beat don’t continue to have warm, conflicted feelings about the CBS sitcom. So we heartily enjoyed this commercial (
via Videogum
), touting the new Russian version of
HIMYM.
Even when it’s in a foreign language, there is something so gosh-darn comforting about this show:
One question: Why is Russian Barney so old?
Last spring,
Variety
reported
that Russia’s CTC network was close to sealing a deal to produce a localized version of
HIMYM
. The network had already had success adapting those other American sitcom gems,
Everybody Loves Raymond
and
The Nanny
.
I had planned to title this post “In Russia, mother meets you !”, but another blog already made that joke. Do you think they can get Yakov Smirnoff to play the Chris Elliott role ?
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