> All the references to the original movies are on point

How I Met Your Mother was a very popular show.

But when I watched it, I was struck by the fact that in many, many places where an ordinary sitcom would have a joke, HIMYM instead had a continuity reference. Everything about the structure of the scene would suggest that the reference had been a comical beat, and the laugh track would play, but there was not even the faintest suggestion of... a joke.

If I want to hear about things that happened in the original movies, I can watch them. Does referring to them improve Andor somehow?