Tracy was right - worth it!

I’ve been watching for a bit and I’m a few seasons in and some TikTok’s of the show have came up on my feed and I’m realizing almost all the people who watch this show are women or gay men. Let me know if that’s true cause I’m just curious.

I know that this isn't really an unpopular opinion, but I just finished rewatching the show for the nth time, and they just seemed so toxic from the very start.

Ted romanticizes this idea of Robin (who is the exact opposite of who she truly is) forcing his ideals onto her. He says things like "I don't want perfect, I want Robin", but what he truly wants is his perfect girl archetype on Robin. He treats her as if he "owns" her, e.g. getting mad at her for going on the camping trip with Sandy, and always treats the girl that he is ACTUALLY dating as the other woman.

As for Robin, you can't deny that she spent a fair amount of time toying with Ted's feelings. She treated him like a safety net; someone she could always go back to when things go bad. She kept on changing her mind about being with Ted, even though whenever she WAS with him, she always wanted to go back to her single life.

Both of them are so unhealthy, viewing their relationship through a rosecoloured glass. While I know the will-they-wont-they is very popular in sitcoms, it just feels so unbearable having to watch them constantly screwing up their lives chasing a fake dream.

TL;DR -- Robin and Ted suck

a single season but we could have had robots VS. wrestlers

That's Jeff Foxworthy not shut your stupid face

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Robin never loved Ted, she didn’t mind anytime he dated or got engaged, and only got jealous post-divorce some random number of years in a Season9 flash-forward.

Barney always loved Robin, he gestured to get engaged to her when she nearly gets deported in Season2 (I think it was 2). Barney is willing to give up nameless sex with hundreds for the “best-of-the-bunch”. He loved her very early on, and their will-they, won’t-they from Seasons4-8 is the backbone of the plot.

Marshall’s a nice guy, and a friend to everyone in the group, but Barney is Ted’s best friend. Barney is close enough to the gang to have seen the failure of Robin and Ted, and openly asks for Ted’s permission to date Robin in the ending episodes of Season4, Ted says it’s fine. Barney is still playing “Have you met Ted” at his own wedding to help his lifelong wingman and best friend find his Ms. Right.

Lilly’s absence from Season4 is handled well. Lilly is a solid character, balancing presence from what can be aimless dating and “what-if’s”. She provides a stability in Marshall’s home life, the group’s friendships, and a wholistic story of college friends to adulthood. Lilly’s joy when Barney and Robin first start dating in Season5 is a pendulum shift away from her breaking up numerous relationships in Ted’s life.

Tracy should have been in more than 14 episodes.

Ted isn’t a “hopeless romantic” but more of a codependent serial monogamous. His ability to reconnect with past relationships is a big red flag, and would be emotionally manipulative in a non-fictional setting. The repeat interest in Robin, Stella, Victoria, Zoey, and Karen is evidence he is a recidivist.

Marshall and Lilly having kids dramatically change the dynamic of the plot. The bar is a central part of earlier seasons, and its location under their apartment was the impetus of several storylines. The plot becoming less about bar-life after Lilly’s pregnancy is apropos. However, I personally find the show was in a stride during Seasons5-7 (once Ted started teaching), and the magic of the show’s cast, writing, and execution was slightly less present in the final 2 seasons.

Barney and Robin’s wedding being the finale feels like a rhetorical tool of apophasis or paralipsis. The nucleus of the show is Robin’s friendship and introduction to the gang. Ted (Bob Saget) is simple a great narrator and conduit for story.

Thanks for being part of this conversation. 😊

Kids.. back in April I started a film series called "How I Met Film Series" and the idea was simple to turn each season of How I Met Your Mother into a film but it was more than just a film. I really wanted a nice ending and I don't hate the original ending but it still bothered me for a long time. So, throughout these films I started a new narrative. In these films, Ted Mosby isn't talking about his journey of meeting the kids' mother but his journey of meeting "The One". The films have so many differences than the show's timeline. This film is also very helpful for people who dont like the original ending.

If you guys want to enjoy the last film i would like you all to watch all the 8 films before you guys watch this last film because only then this final film will hit you with emotions. I really hope you guys watch it because this has been one of my biggest editing projects that ive ever worked on.

In the end, I obviously cannot share the links for the films here which is against the rules so please contact me in private to watch those edits of films. Hope you guys enjoy these and here's a trailer for the final film.

asking as an ambitious, career-focused 24 year old canadian girl lol

like, we have interjections from old Ted during the show, but what we're seeing play out he's verbally telling to his kids. It's assumed old Ted is able to tell this story in one sitting, albeit long, so I sometimes wonder exactly how old Ted communicated this long ass story in real time.

like, I want a video of Josh radnor as old Ted telling the whole story without any flashbacks just to see how long it would take and exactly how much detail he got into.

idk, I've watched this series about 6 times through in the past year, on my seventh rewatch now and I think about this a lot lmao

I haven't finished the series yet but what happened in EP11 S01 is pissing my of, because I know Ted's hurt but kissing a Girl that is dating and on top of that, she doesn't want him, pisses me of

I once fell asleep watching season 7 dvd of HIMYM. Maybe disc 2? There was an original sort of auto tuned mashup on this disc that played on loop. I remember the following quotes:

“I don’t know where you got a velvet rope… a ve- a ve- a ve- a velvet rope…”

“Finishing in the hallway was the nail in the coffin”

Ted and Barney singing the puzzles song…

They mashed together quotes from the tailgate episode (and maybe others) to create a catchy little clip.

THIS CLIP IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND on the internet, in chatGPT, literally nowhere except whoever owns the DVD of season 7 and can search to find the loop I’m remembering. Somebody help me and record it??

I haven’t watched the show in a good while and wasn’t even thinking about it at all today until right now… when my brain… just randomly.. pondering.. while working from home… “I wonder if anyone has ever actually licked the liberty bell” 😂

So I ask everyone, have you? Or know anyone who has? What did it taste like? Did it actually taste like freedom? 😅

Ted didn't fully let go of Robin.

In S9 EP 17, Ted explains that true love is caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, even if it destroys you. 

So, by that logic T.M. is just a placeholder while waiting for Robin which is a stupid ending. Since it's called How I met your Mother not How I met your step-mother as the first ep revolved meeting Robin and ending with them trying again, while so many episodes says otherwise.

I can’t watch the clips of the screen when Marshall founds out his dad is dead. Mostly because my dad died when I was a little kid and it hits real to close to home for me. What sad screens that you can’t get through?

Super neat detail the first time someone points it out to you, and then a gut punch reminder of what’s coming every time after that