How I Met Your Mother Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-mhSXYQE0

I chose to analyse this small clip from How I Met Your Mother as I find it humorous and the dialogue is clearly between friends which the director and screen writers play on to make the scene comical. You can tell they are close as Lilly calls Ted 'Grandma' which you would not normally do if you would not normally do if you were not friends with them, they also have a relationship outside of the scene as Lilly also says 'we're not having this argument again' implying they already have. The scene is very comfortable and informal by how the two actors react to each other and this makes it much more entertaining and easy to watch for its target audience who would most likely just want to sit and laugh at the television. The register changes slightly as Ted becomes passionate on a certain subject and suddenly goes on to list a set of low frequency lexis that the audience wouldn't need to understand as it is not even listened to by the other character, meaning the audience would not need to be intelligent on the subject to understand. The clip is very funny and entertaining and therefore suits its purpose very well.