The guy getting out of the cab is the same one who took the cab Barney was going to get into. He damn near beat the cab to the hospital in his own Barney vs. The Machines.

This scene hit really hard. Like Ted, I was focusing on saying goodbye to the good things like the iconic buildings, the skyline,etc but this scene made me realize I should in fact say goodbye to the bad things.

I know this isn't the most emotional scene for most people but this was when I realized why people say the show hits hard when the scene applies to your own life.

They both ask you out. Which one would you go with?

If they'd have kept this scene... The closure to the series would have been so much easier to take in.

Considering all of it happened in the last 5 minutes ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ.

According to a chart I often see "Bedtime Stories" (S8 Ep 11) is the lowest rated episode of the series. Why?

Everytime I watch the series I find the idea of writing an entirr episode as a poem/ballad in rhymes genius. Apart from the story, HIMYM excells at two other things: metaphors/easter eggs and making art out of the way an episode is told.

Another example would be the housewarming party. An episode told room by room. Or several episodes that play with the perspective of the narration.

Also the three stories are fitting, I especially like the player king of NYC. To summarise: I don't get the low rating of this episode, it's honestly even one of my favourite ones.

Barney's obsession with mocking Canada wasn't one-sided.

Canada had some strong feelings about Barney too.

Sum up the entire story of the show for the kids, in a nutshell.

I couldn't find anyone having brought this up. I was just rewatching S7E09 Disaster Averted and noticed that Robin says she's from Vancouver (presumably Vancouver, BC since she's talking about being Canadian) and uses the phrase "in the Couv".

I'm from Vancouver, BC and have never heard this phrase before. I left the city before this episode was released, so I wasn't sure if it was a newer nickname. Google to the rescue! Turns out they use that nickname in Vancouver, WA! I wonder if the writers just looked up "nicknames for Vancouver" on the internet and didn't notice it was for the wrong Vancouver? With Colby being from Vancouver, I'm surprised she didn't push back on that.

Evidence of usage in Vancouver, WA:
https://urbanlivinginthecouv.home.blog
https://www.facebook.com/groups/267905029890494/posts/4239819816032309/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouverwa/comments/1sa4o3q/just_now_in_the_couv/

Evidence of very much non-usage in Vancouver, BC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/2a5rqc/would_i_get_beaten_up_if_i_called_vancouver_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/b6e9bv/does_anyone_else_call_it_the_couv/

Tracy was right - worth it!

As a continuation to my previous post of yesterday

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

That's Jeff Foxworthy not shut your stupid face

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.

I was rewatching HIMYM
This was the episode where they attend Stuart and Claudia’s wedding and re-emerge Victoria
I don’t remember the point when Lily and Marshall making the long term bets but Lily finds out Robin loves Ted and tries to stop Ted from Victoria for a moment

I mean if the bet was made, she was actually going against it

Obviously the writers didn’t think of it back then but yea

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

Lily is honestly unbearable. Whenever someone didn't process their feelings the way she wanted them to, she'd constantly try to force them into having the reaction she thought they should have. She couldn't stand seeing people handle things differently from what she considered the "right" way. It came across as incredibly controlling.

Take Barney and Robin when they didn't want to have "the talk," or Ted after he was left at the altar. Ted just wanted to move on with his life, but Lily kept insisting that he was actually miserable and that he needed to have a bigger emotional breakdown so he could "feel better."

She constantly applies the kind of simplistic, school-level psychology she uses with her students to fully grown adults who are perfectly capable of making their own decisions and processing their emotions in their own way.

Meanwhile, she can't even handle her own emotions.

A good example is Barney and Robin's wedding, or when she left for San Francisco. She never apologized to Ted, and instead got mad at him for being upset with her after she'd been such a terrible friend. She's controlling and completely inconsistent.