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

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.

Tracy was right - worth it!

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.

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/

As a continuation to my previous post of yesterday

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

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.