r/HIMYM

I'm currently rewatching himym now that I'm older and I can't help but groan in these later seasons when the show brings up the possibility of Ted and Robin reuniting. And by season 8 it is kinda pathetic Ted is still on this especially when ut seems Robin is completely in love with Barney.

On a post yesterday, someone mentioned Ted's ex "Blah Blah". I recalled that when I first watched HIMYM, I was in my 20s and couldn't understand how you could date someone and not remember their name.

Now that I'm Future Ted's age, I'm realizing I have several "Blah Blah"s in my past.

And then I realized this morning that I'm probably "Blah Blah" to at least some of them as well.

Just watched HIMYM for the first time. My fiancée decided to go back to the scene of "What mother would miss her daughters wedding?" I will say that this scene was way too cruel and the ending was way too cruel in the other direction. Did anyone else want the fairytale ending to this series?? I was so happy to finally see Ted end up with Tracy but to have it end like that?! Not cool!!

I remember the show by heart by somehow I forgot about most of it, because I hated the Stella storyline
But it’s really memorable, every episode is iconic and really well written
I’d argue it may be it’s golden era of the show.

1. Ted
2. Marshall
3. Barney
4. Robin
5. Lily
   Yours?

For anyone that has read the book:

• Both protagonists are in a frame story telling the story of their younger selves to two listeners.
• Both Ted and Kvothe are highly intelligent (Ted being a successful Architect, Kvothe being gifted Arcanist and just being Kvothe.)
• In both stories, the audience in the frame story AND the audience watching/ reading (us) are hoping the protagonists "snap" back into their old selves by the re-telling of the story. (Ted lost his big romantic gesture mid-20s personality and traded it in for maturity, kids, a wife after growing apart from his friends and all the events from the series.) (Kvothe lost his fighting ability, power, confidence, university, friends and his Name.)
• Denna is basically Robin (The on and off dynamic, the flighty, flaky, mysterious personality, Ted often opting to play the nice guy rather than get her back romantically.)
• Simmon and Willem = Marshall and Barney
• Lily = Fela (Friend, confidant, dating the best friend character.)
• Zoey = Devi (Transitioned from enemies to lovers and vice versa, In Devi's case, she at least wanted to sleep with Kvothe.)
• Mola = Stella (Both doctors)
• Hammond Druthers = Ambrose?
• Ted and Kvothe's intelligence and overconfidence is often what gets them into bad situations.

Idk. I thought of it last night and thought it was funny/ interesting. At the very least, the premise seems similar and the characters hold similar roles in the story. The overconfident idealistic somewhat naive protagonist, the loyal best friend, the on and off love interest, the frame story serving as a device to "unlock" the old protagonist.

Also from my reply in the other sub:

>Well, the ending is actually what inspired the thought. Ted decides to do one final "big romantic gesture" after>!the loss of his wife!< inspired by telling the story to his kids and them understanding what it was actually about and giving him permisison to finally be his old self again after all these years of repressing that side of him and being a father. The frame story of NOTW made me think maybe that was the point of the entire HIMYM series, Ted going back to his true old embarrasing self one last time that says "I love you" on a first date, to get the blue french horn for Robin because he realises that he forgot about that version of himself in the deep past, just like Kvothe. (Who will hopefully find his true name in book 3 and do whatever needs to be done to fix things also.)

I’m rewatching for the millionth time and I just realized they gave scooter two completely different names. When he shows up at lilys wedding his name is bill, but in the flashback in the “twelve horny women” episode, he says his name is Jeff. It’s kind of irritating me that they changed it for no apparent reason.