r/howimetyourmother

So this is really non-consequential, but it has been bugging me for years now. So starting in season 6 whenever they are showing Robin in a flashback, typically to like season 1-3, they always have hair with curly shorter hair that she has later on, even though her hair was straight and much longer back then. I don't get it, especially since they get Lilly's hair right, even though it changed so much 😄

So after watching a few episodes on E! , what’s your favorite episode ?

Mine is the first episode of the Slap Bet.

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In S2E19 Lily tells the story of a time in San Fransisco when Barney visited her and told her to come back and he dropped the line "I cannot keep stealing chicks from him forever."

He's referring to in S2E2 where he is helping Marshall talk to girls and then ultimately stealing the girls from him.

Only issue is - Lily returns to NYC at the end of S2E1 and spends all of E2 in NYC with Robin and Ted looking for apartments.

Now tbf, this story is still awesome and adds the narrative that Barney was only stealing girls from Marshall to ensure that he stayed single for when Lily came back. This minor overlook by the writers doesn't "ruin the story" by any means, but its still fun to find/notice.

this is written by a fan as ted and it goes like

Well, if parallel universes exist, I can imagine billions of universes where I never saw Robin, millions where I never met her, thousands where I was never friends with her, hundreds where I never fell for her, and tens where I never ended up with her. But I couldn't imagine a single universe where Marshall wasn't on my side.-ted mosby the architect as(me)

and saddest part is that i lost my marshall and there nothing more i sad ever been than whenever i reminisce this thought .

i’m almost done with s1 of HIMYM. i love it so far but is it worth to finish because of the controversy that finale has?? am i going to be totally shocked and happy or disappointed and irritated? lol

I know this sounds fake, but I swear on my life it’s true. A year ago, I lost my pet duck, Peewee. He was an absolute genius and completely addicted to my tablet. He figured out how to use the touchscreen to scroll YouTube Shorts and even google things.But his absolute favorite thing in the world was How I Met Your Mother.

Before he passed away from a neck injury two years ago, july 22nd, 2024, he managed to watch 5 full seasons of the show with me. His favorite character was Barney Stinson. Every time Barney came on screen, Peewee would get super excited and literally peck at the screen at him. I like to think he recognized a fellow player.Aside from HIMYM, he was also weirdly addicted to playing Realmcraft and Lego Star Wars: TCS on the tablet, and he preferred Rickrolling me over listening to the Duck Song.

I didnt really like taking care of ducks or chickens because they for some reason kept dying and Peewee kinda changed my mind. My doggo Dean Winchester was jealous but eventually liked him. That duck would not stop looking things up i swear. I once caught him watching a video titled "Lore and Origins of Spooder-Man Meme" or something. There will never be another duck like Peewee. May he rest in peace.

I thought it was only fitting to do this while I can remember, because despite being 19 and all the issues i have (heart condition, memory issues) i for some reason remembered today.

That duck will be missed.

So I’m on my 8th rewatch of How I Met Your Mother, and I genuinely can’t believe how badly Seasons 7 and 8 hold up.

Season 7 in particular feels like it’s almost entirely flashbacks and callbacks. There are obviously some great episodes in there, but so much of the season feels like the show is stalling rather than actually moving the story forward. Then Season 8 starts pretty strongly, especially around the middle, but after that it becomes a real drag again.

What’s interesting to me this time around, though, is the overarching story across both seasons. It’s very clear that Ted is still in love with Robin. Even when the show is pretending that Ted has moved on, Robin keeps being this constant presence in his story.

And that’s made me view the finale differently.
But on this rewatch, it feels like they were shoving the Ted and Robin ending in our faces for years. The problem is that the show also spent so much time convincing us that Robin and Barney were the endgame, and that Ted had finally accepted that Robin wasn’t the person he was supposed to be with. Knowing how the series ends made me view a lot of these scenes very differently.

Not sure if this was obvious to everyone else, but I think I’m usually too invested in Barney and Robin that I didn’t really take in everything else happening (aka Ted)

i still don't understand the hate on ted, i feel robin shuld be the most hated charachter, the best charachter is marshel, he is nice and sweet and had an unusual childhood with his fight club brothers, i also don;t like the way that people love barney, tis kind of love fr the charachter who sems bad because, well they are bad and do bad things but its okay because they had a harsh past and they sometimes fix thier mistakes, lily and ted share the same problems i think , theyare gredy, they are not willng to give up something for the rest of the stuff, like lily and the san fransisco break up or her and the damn money spending , damn i am mad at the money spending, and ted is always looking for the perfect girl, even tough he did not go for the computer perfect girl , he always wanted robin , but in ted's eyes she is the perefect girl, he left Victoria. that with thier bad choices like ted in women and lily in finance , damn the money spending,

extra: both ted and barney are imperfect , just because barney is bad outside but kinda good inside and ted is the oppisite doesn't mean he is better, and i feel ted is closer to the avrage viewer than barney

extra extra: i am still startig season 4, so if my thoughts are so wrong and naive, thats okay, but if some motherfucker comes up all angry and shit, then that might be the reason i meet his mother , barney-style