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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

Hulu's regrettable How I Met Your Father

Chris Lowell and Hilary Duff in "How I Met Your Father" Patrick Wymore/Hulu

The experience of "How I Met Your Father" – and I use the word experience intentionally since, as I will explain, this is not a show one simply watches – has a lot in common with a terrible cover version of a solid pop song hitting you for the first time.

We're talking Miley Cyrus' rendition of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" awful, or wrongdoing on par with Alien Ant Farm afflicting Top 40 radio with its version of "Smooth Criminal."  You don't have to be a fan of the original versions of these songs to know that what these artists did to them qualifies as misdemeanor assault.

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