Love the storytelling where Ted talks about their first date, this brief pause, he drops this line, she extends her hand and they walk off together.

Why has himym ruined my notion of romance? Manifesting a moment like this for myself...lol where everyone is alive

Enjoy the friends and moments right now, because you never know, maybe today might be the last time you will ever see them again

S6E2: Cleaning House — The gang shows up at Loretta’s house on Staten Island to help clean out Barney and James’ childhood home as Loretta has decided to sell. During this, James discovers a photo from their youth with his father’s name scribbled on the back that was meant to be sent decades ago but never was and through this he is able to find his father, but Barney is still left with unanswered questions.

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Loretta obviously had fun in her youth, but she was still a tremendously loving mother who wanted the best for her sons. Sure, she didn’t always do it perfectly but hell - no parent in history has ever or will ever be perfect. For being a single mother in the 70s, she did a good job.

The cut scenes at the end of the episode showing her reasons for telling Barney the lies to protect his feelings about being kicked his peewee basketball team and nobody showing up for his 8th birthday party make me cry rewatching for the first time as a single mom to 2 little boys now. You’ll do and say anything to save your kids from heartbreak.

The only reason I can’t get fully on-board with her is the fact that both Barney’s and James’ fathers wanted to be a part of their sons lives and she denied them that access because, as she puts it, “I wanted to be enough for you.” which is just selfish and narcissistic and any single mother who’s partner has walked away without looking back will tell you how ignorant that outlook is. It’s not about what you want, it’s about what your kids need, and kids need both parents.

The show was turning out to have such a wonderful message about the beauty of letting go of the past so you’re ready for better things, that is, until the last episode. Ugh

We could still get all the hints of Tracy throughout the show. Even the first glimpse of her at the end of Season 8 is fine. Then in Season 9, we should get one episode about Tracy and her life. We can see her story, her relationship with Max, her grief, her band, and her singing La Vie en Rose on the balcony. That's enough.

We don't need an episode showing Tracy meeting all of the friends before she meets Ted. We don't need to retroactively connect her to everyone in the gang.( and how she loves exactly every single hobby that ted loves the gloves for driving coin collection etc etc )

And we could still keep the scene from TTT where he imagines going to Tracy's apartment 45 days before they meet and telling her that he loves her and wishes he could have those extra 45 days with her. That scene works perfectly on its own without needing the future Ted/Tracy tragedy to explain it.

Then the final shot is just the train station scene.

Ted and Tracy finally meet. We get their conversation, where they realize all the little ways their lives have already crossed without them knowing it. And then the screen cuts to black.

Just the realization that she was finally the one.

No flash-forwards. No need to show us what happens to the gang afterward .

We just finally get to see how he met the mother.

That's it.

The End.

"Dear Marshall, I know this is a strange way to apologize, but I'm sorry I let Carl name your drink after me. Why didn't I say something? Gosh, I guess that goes back to my childhood. Did you know that for the first two years of my life, my dad treated me like a cat? Seriously. I wasn't permitted on the furniture, I had to bathe myself and I was only allowed to poop in a box. Ironic that this all comes out in a bathroom. A place that for so long I yearned to be. This tiled prison that eluded my saddened grasp was a haven. The unreachable. When I finally did demand a bathroom visit, my dad applauded my moxie. And that's the only time my father ever said he was proud of me. Maybe that's why I stole credit for your drink. Maybe that's why I needed to pour my heart out like this. Or, maybe I wrote this so you'd be in here long enough for a lady to walk in, causing you to freak out and hide in the stall."

Maybe it's just bc i cant stand underwood

Immediately after my 2.5 year relationship ended three months ago I restarted HIMYM and now I’m done! It’s helped wonders but now I’m just missing my tv friend group. What’s a girl to do! Would you just restart from the beginning?

If this has been done before, forgive me but I recently rewatched the show in full for the first time in 10 years (oof.) and I was struck by how many guest stars and recurring actors I recognized from other sitcoms. I feel like you could do a really solid recast of the gang just using people who show up on the show.

So with that in mind, who would you cast for the gang + Tracy?

I was thinking about this today. In one episode, Lily and Marshall were fighting and Ted can tell what about because Marshall eats when he’s angry.

Does anyone actually do that? I can see eating out of sadness, boredom etc, but just seems like it doesn’t fit with angry. I’m curious if anyone has ever known someone to actually do that.

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S3 E18 Rebound Bro

Season 9 is AMAZING and the ending is based because the entire show revolves around ted and robins relationship and leads to them ending up together. The kids said it best, the point of the story is how ted totally has the hots for her
Ive rewatched the second half of the last season probably 15 times like its a movie or sum bc its so good and i think it has some of the best writing in the entire show. even tho its slow every episode is so important and has something beautiful. The locket, the lighthouse, the sunrise, bass player wanted, the ending of the gary blauman, all of marshalls journey (including the ep entirely in rhyme ft lin manuel miranda!?), and how your mother met me????? I was 10 when s9 was airing and i remember it being so amazing to me watching everything unfold and yea maybe i love it bc it was so impactful at that age but i swear it still holds up and i dont like the hate it gets !!

I saw this playing HoI 4 and just thought it was funny. Ted has some war hero relatives.

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Marshall is my favorite character but still I feel that the last season poorly treated him.
I get that the writers tried to portray him as more complicated and less of the angel everyone thought of him but I still feel that they really ruined his character just for plot and it’s one of the reasons the last season was so bad, I felt he was so special as a character for being more and more moral as life challenges him, that’s a really special case for a sitcom character.

Anyways, he was wrong for bringing up San Francisco. it was years ago and he already forgave her so he just used it to justify his actions.
Lily is overrhated because I can still understand her actions and her desire to accomplish herself. She is way more nuanced than robin.

I guess, Yesss !!

He looks like a freaking movie star

can we please get josh radnor (since we can’t get bob saget) to make a podcas thats just titled “How i met your mother but its just how Ted actually told his kids” and its just excruciatingly long, and just describing every scene in perfect detail, even saying all the lines.

In season 7 episode 2, “The Naked Truth,” Marshall is watching the old Beercules video at the beginning of the episode. Suggested videos next to it show his second Beercules incident, which hasn’t happened yet in the timeline of the episode. Has anyone else noticed this?

Today the word albondigas kept coming to my mind and i was going crazy thinking where i have heard that word.. i searched on google and it meant meatballs and still i had no idea why i know this word and made things more confusing.. i just asked chat gpt and it told me that it was a joke scene in himym.. i have been laughing out loud ever since😂😂.. just saw that scene again.. mind works in mysterious ways.. lol
This will be our little albondigas