Does anybody else watch this show? It was aired on BBC2 over here so I watched all of the first season, but when I looked it up on the net there was already a second season, so I downloaded that. And now the third season has begun!
I love this show - Barney and Marshall are absolutely hilarious, but it's also got an awesome story and that little bit of cheesiness that makes it all so charming. I really hope someone else watches this show T_T
God yes. Absolutely love HIMYM. It's legendary! Managed to pick up the 1st season DVD and watch it all in the space of two days. I don't think this show gets enough love.
I think that Barney helps make this show. I love how his apartment is so "no women allowed" themed. So I loved that episode where Lilly pretended to be his wife so Barney could get women to leave his apartment faster.
@ Bad-Beat: Nowhere near enough love lol. Have you seen the second series?? Most of it is on that stage6 website, which is where I watched it. I'm watching season 3 every week on the CBS website :D
Question : How much do you love Barney?
@ Iceman: Barney is one of the best characters ever, in anything! I just love the way he speaks and all his little things he comes up with - Lemon Law, Lebanese Girls, Foxy Boxing etc etc
My favorite episode is the bachelor party before the wedding where they go to Vegas, and Barney gets the stripper and they all walk out of the room looking like they just got F#$ked up lol.. such a great episode.
But yea I love the show, it reminds me a lot of my own friends, although I haven't been catching it lately, never get home early enough to watch it.
You should watch it on CBS' website. They show the most recent episode for a week, until the next one airs.
Barney is an awesome character but Marshall makes me laugh more. The soundtrack to the show is really good as well, I've discovered a lot of good bands by hearing them on the show.
I'm really looking forward to watching last night's episode but CBS haven't got it on their website yet! Grrr…
Anyone watch it last night???
Jesus, I had to dig deep for this one. I hope this is acceptable but: Tonight was the series finale of How I Met Your Mother and boy was it a tear jerker.
! It was just an explosion of emotions. Joy, laughter and lots and lots sadness. I usually don't like when a show takes a "reality nutshot!" route, but here, it was believable. Mostly when this is used it just makes things needlessly depressing since I want to usually escape the harsh inevitabilities of real life but with what the characters went through and where they end up, it felt right. Robin and Barney divorcing? I was okay with that. Robin leaving and laying down the harsh truth that their friendship was vanishing? Crushing, but I was okay with that too. Barney falling back into his old ways, only to be changed by a little bundle of joy? I was a mess, they nailed it. Ted finally ending up with Robin years and years later after the elusive mother comes and goes (Falling ill and dying)? Full circle. I enjoyed this show very much. I may have come into watching it late, but the writing was great, the characters were great an it ending the way it did. I have no complaints. It was a good run.
! Except for the dialogue of the kids had at the end. That seemed… unnaturally cheery. I was expecting more of a teenage reaction: where they're a bit bored, but subtly hint at how Ted still wants Robin in their own way. But hey, its all good.
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! By the time we got to the finale I was super against Ted and Robin getting back together. And honestly I felt that Tracey (The Mother) dying was just a cop out so they could go back to Ted x Robin and that upset me a lot. But I can't even lie, the scene where Barney holds his child and makes that promise to her had manly tears flowing almost instantly.
! Most of the way through it I just laughed at all the rewriting they did to completely negate the fact that they spent a whole season on Barney and Robin's wedding and them just saying, screw it. But when it got to the end where not only did the mother die way back but that Ted's _still_ in love with Robin, I was a little pissed to say the least.
! I liked the first half a lot more than the second one mostly because Alyson Hannigan is an amazing cryer. Always has been. I'm also glad they went through with the divorce. It makes sense. I'm not that glad that they went through with Tracy dying. Especially because it only took about 10 seconds. And I know it's been six years but couldn't the kids have had some sort of (sad) reaction there? Oh yeah, the scene with Barney and his daughter was pretty nice. The best part of the second half.
! All in all, the finale was way better than most if not all of the rest of the season. I wasn't even expecting that anymore.
Okay, not having seen the last couple of seasons yet
! This ending seems like such a cop out.
Especially for a character with 8 seasons of buildup, right from the very first scene. It all proves that Ted is reeeeally shit at telling stories, with him taking 180 something episodes to even finish, meanwhile telling about 160 other stories that have nothing to do with the whole thing.
I admit though I do like this shoq quite a lot and will be sad to see it end, but it is better then it ending up like Two and a Half Men.
well that was a horrible ending.
! Kids, let me tell you the story of how everything I told you doesn't matter squat because in the end I'll just undo all the growth and character development lol
This last episode made up for the train-wreck this last season has been.
I'm a huge fan of the first couple seasons, this episode slapped me in the face in the last bit. Kudos!
My investment in this kept waning from season 5 onward. So I was actually enjoying myself watching the finale due the reaction of my friends.
I laughed really hard at how they threw a lot of build up and character progression out of the window at the last moment.
How I tell my kids that I want to bang their aunt Robin again… xD
I used to enjoy HIMYM a lot until around season 5, then it slowly lost interest from me.
Then about 2 episodes into this final season I just couldn't do it anymore.
Having read about the ending, I'm glad I didn't see it to the end tbh lol.
_"_Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" - Auron
This finale was Lumberjack Dexter levels of awful.
I used to enjoy HIMYM a lot until around season 5, then it slowly lost interest from me.
Then about 2 episodes into this final season I just couldn't do it anymore.
Having read about the ending, I'm glad I didn't see it to the end tbh lol.
It was actually not that bad….if you stopped watching when he says "and that's how I met your mother". Then don't watch the last 4 minutes. I could see him hooking up with Robin anyway but the conversation with the kids (which was recorded in S2 and ignored stuff that happened afterwards) was tonally off.
Oh good. So I wasn't the only one that didn't like the ending?
! I swear, when Ted visited Robin at the end with the french horn, me, my brother, and my sister all said "no!" and left the room in three different directions.
! Why did they go through the trouble of introducing the mother, developing her….then killing her off?
! Why did we have a whole f**king season of Robin and Barney getting married, only for them to divorce literally in the same episode where they finally do get married....???
Do people remember when Robin learned to put love ahead of work during her whole thing with don(was that his name)?
Proceed to the finale!
It was actually not that bad….if you stopped watching when he says "and that's how I met your mother". Then don't watch the last 4 minutes. I could see him hooking up with Robin anyway but the conversation with the kids (which was recorded in S2 and ignored stuff that happened afterwards) was tonally off.
They stuck with an ending that would have made sense if the show had ended after 4, even 5 seasons…you know...back when anyone was actually emotionally invested in Ted and Robin...and not emotionally invested in the mother/Barney and Robin.
I also thought it was a bad move to cram in all those "what happened afterward" moments. I mean, if they didn't confine the season to one weekend, they could've….attempted to hint at all of those future developments.
That kinda sucked how all of season 9 has been building to Barney/Robin's wedding and then they get divorced, and on top of that, the Mother dying - which was really sad. Though on the plus side, they chose the perfect woman to play her, she's very good at what she does.
What do you think?
It sucked
it sucked really really hard
The very end made the whole series a big April Fool's joke
it was the worst thing I had ever seen
The last three minutes ruined everything. In fact, the whole thing felt like shit.
Let's ask the Namekians and the alien overlord what they think.
Survey saysssssssss: it sucked.
Haha you guys can't apprieciete something different! Wasn't it awesome how whole story turned basically from 'how i met your mother' to 'can i bang your aunt since mother is dead'?
Also how awesome it was that old Barney didn't change after all those changes that lead up to his wedding? Too bad that kid made him such a weakling! And we didn't even get to know 31. He should do perfect year next!
Kids.
Let me tell you the story of how I met the most outrageously terrible series finale ever. A series finale that made lumberjack Dexter look like it was the Six Feet Under finale. I could take nine years to tell you this story, but since I'm not that horrible, I'll condense it. A little.
It all started in the year 2010 when I started watching an acclaimed show starring a bunch of talented people like Neil Patrick harris, the guy from Apatow's stoner movies and Willow. I immediately fell in love with this show for its lovable characters, quirky storylines and continuity and its big romantic heart. Also it was really funny, even though it was on CBS. I got my friends hooked too and soon enough we had a bunch of episodes we always watched when we were stoned. We even had a GET PSYCHED mix when we were not stoned.
But over the years things got rough. You see, kids, some shows get kind of bad when they go on for too long. And this show was no exception. So by the time I was fully caught up, things had already gotten bumpy. But they kept bringing me back in with things like lesbian Rachel Bilson. Which is HOT. As the show kept going on, they started dragging out this annoying plot with two characters that I shall refer to as "Rachel" and "Joey", for the sake of SPOILERS. You see Rachel and Joey were going to get married. Even though it didn't make much sense. But the writers decided what the hell, let's spend FOUR seasons on working up to these two tying the knot. And over the course of these four seasons things basically turned to shit. But there were still some gems in there. Still some episodes that reminded me of the GET PSYCHED mix days. So I watched as "Ross" kept pining for Rachel, and Rachel kept forgiving Joey for being gross as fuck, hoping that things would get better.
Kids, I have to tell you about this show called 24. It was a show that covered a day every season and every episode was an hour. And every hour Jack Bauer would torture someone to save the president. But that's a story for another day. Anyway, the writers of this show thought they could do a (sort of) realtime show too. You see Rachel and Joey were FINALLY getting married, but their wedding weekend was going to take an entire season, so we could see every miserable second of the build-up to a wedding we didn't care about that had already been built up for 3 seasons. also, the writers decided to show very little of Ross' final conquest, this wonderful character they just introduced and was the axis on which this show turned, because fuck it. Joey has a comedic antic to perform, while "Monica" and "Chandler" have to fight and make up every other episode. Also Chandler wasn't in half the season because he gave up a couple seasons ago as well.
Anyway, a large portion of the final season was spent on Ross getting over Rachel. ENTIRE episodes were spent on it. But this paved the way for Ross to finally forget about her and meet someone good and be happy. So in the penultimate episode Rachel and Joey got hitched and Ross was entirely okay with it.
And kids, that brings us to the finale.
Ross met the woman of his dreams, the person he was destined (as we were told throughout the series) to live a happy live with for the rest of his live. We saw them have kids and we saw them get married. And they were happy. And so were we. But not every nine season comedy deserves a happy ending. Because as it turned out, Joey and Rachel thought their marriage was just as gross as we thought it was. So they got divorced. After spending 4 years on how they were meant to be together. FOUR YEARS. And Joey? He went back to being a caricature. But then he knocked up some girl and fell in love with the baby. At least he didn't get a horrible spin-off show. But here's the kicker, kids. After NINE seasons of looking for love and one season of meeting this perfect mother, it turns out SHE FUCKING DIES.
Boom. Series ruined.
And as we learn in the final moments of the show, Ross decides to get back with Rachel. Because they were supposed to be together all along and the Mother we were constantly told about was just a footnote in their epic romance.
And that's how I met the series finale to How I Met Your Mother, the worst thing ever.
But kids, I have two lessons to teach you.
One: Some things should not be drawn out. How I Met Your Mother could've sustained itself for a couple seasons. Making it longer dilutes the story, especially when you've shot the scenes where the mother is confirmed dead 8 years ago. Similarly, this entire post would've been funnier if I got to the point immediately. Now you're just kind of embarassed for me that I'm dragging it out for so long. And you think I'm a hack writer. Which is entirely valid.
Two: Friends was much better than HIMYM because I didn't want to strangle people when Ross and Rachel decided to get together again at the end. Because Friends was fucking awesome and HIMYM is desecrating its legacy by ripping off its characters and not even being unable to give them an appropriate ending.
Final verdict: 0 pineapples out of 10.
@Purple:
Let's ask the Namekians and the alien overlord what they think.
Survey saysssssssss: it sucked.
Namekians reactions:
I think that Piccolo liked it…
I was honestly laughing at how they basically completely did a whole season on a wedding only for it to fall apart within half an hour of the show.
But yeah the finale was really good if you enjoy completely destroying character development and love seeing a three minute ending where Ted, Robin, and the kids curbstomp the mother's grave.
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Kids.
Even the Saiyan Prince seems to be agreeing with us. That's a first.
Kids.
Let me tell you the story of how I met the most outrageously terrible series finale ever. A series finale that made lumberjack Dexter look like it was the Six Feet Under finale. I could take nine years to tell you this story, but since I'm not that horrible, I'll condense it. A little.
It all started in the year 2010 when I started watching an acclaimed show starring a bunch of talented people like Neil Patrick harris, the guy from Apatow's stoner movies and Willow. I immediately fell in love with this show for its lovable characters, quirky storylines and continuity and its big romantic heart. Also it was really funny, even though it was on CBS. I got my friends hooked too and soon enough we had a bunch of episodes we always watched when we were stoned. We even had a GET PSYCHED mix when we were not stoned.
But over the years things got rough. You see, kids, some shows get kind of bad when they go on for too long. And this show was no exception. So by the time I was fully caught up, things had already gotten bumpy. But they kept bringing me back in with things like lesbian Rachel Bilson. Which is HOT. As the show kept going on, they started dragging out this annoying plot with two characters that I shall refer to as "Rachel" and "Joey", for the sake of SPOILERS. You see Rachel and Joey were going to get married. Even though it didn't make much sense. But the writers decided what the hell, let's spend FOUR seasons on working up to these two tying the knot. And over the course of these four seasons things basically turned to shit. But there were still some gems in there. Still some episodes that reminded me of the GET PSYCHED mix days. So I watched as "Ross" kept pining for Rachel, and Rachel kept forgiving Joey for being gross as fuck, hoping that things would get better.
Kids, I have to tell you about this show called 24. It was a show that covered a day every season and every episode was an hour. And every hour Jack Bauer would torture someone to save the president. But that's a story for another day. Anyway, the writers of this show thought they could do a (sort of) realtime show too. You see Rachel and Joey were FINALLY getting married, but their wedding weekend was going to take an entire season, so we could see every miserable second of the build-up to a wedding we didn't care about that had already been built up for 3 seasons. also, the writers decided to show very little of Ross' final conquest, this wonderful character they just introduced and was the axis on which this show turned, because fuck it. Joey has a comedic antic to perform, while "Monica" and "Chandler" have to fight and make up every other episode. Also Chandler wasn't in half the season because he gave up a couple seasons ago as well.
Anyway, a large portion of the final season was spent on Ross getting over Rachel. ENTIRE episodes were spent on it. But this paved the way for Ross to finally forget about her and meet someone good and be happy. So in the penultimate episode Rachel and Joey got hitched and Ross was entirely okay with it.
And kids, that brings us to the finale.
Ross met the woman of his dreams, the person he was destined (as we were told throughout the series) to live a happy live with for the rest of his live. We saw them have kids and we saw them get married. And they were happy. And so were we. But not every nine season comedy deserves a happy ending. Because as it turned out, Joey and Rachel thought their marriage was just as gross as we thought it was. So they got divorced. After spending 4 years on how they were meant to be together. FOUR YEARS. And Joey? He went back to being a caricature. But then he knocked up some girl and fell in love with the baby. At least he didn't get a horrible spin-off show. But here's the kicker, kids. After NINE seasons of looking for love and one season of meeting this perfect mother, it turns out SHE FUCKING DIES.
Boom. Series ruined.
And as we learn in the final moments of the show, Ross decides to get back with Rachel. Because they were supposed to be together all along and the Mother we were constantly told about was just a footnote in their epic romance.
And that's how I met the series finale to How I Met Your Mother, the worst thing ever.
But kids, I have two lessons to teach you.
One: Some things should not be drawn out. How I Met Your Mother could've sustained itself for a couple seasons. Making it longer dilutes the story, especially when you've shot the scenes where the mother is confirmed dead 8 years ago. Similarly, this entire post would've been funnier if I got to the point immediately. Now you're just kind of embarassed for me that I'm dragging it out for so long. And you think I'm a hack writer. Which is entirely valid.
Two: Friends was much better than HIMYM because I didn't want to strangle people when Ross and Rachel decided to get together again at the end. Because Friends was fucking awesome and HIMYM is desecrating its legacy by ripping off its characters and not even being unable to give them an appropriate ending.
Final verdict: 0 pineapples out of 10.
Oh my God, go fuck our aunt already. Gee, Dad
Oh my God, go fuck our aunt already. Gee, Dad
Mom's long gone! What are you waiting for?
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That graph is legen… wait for it .... dary!
Kids I'm going to tell you a story about how much I love your mom but really I just want to bang your aunt. You're cool with that right
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Thank you, Meta. I laughed tears at this haha
What kills me is that those scenes with Ted's kids were filmed at the beginning of the series.
So…..the ending ideas were swirling around in their heads from the start?
Yeah apparently they told Josh Raynor (Ted) how they wanted to do the ending way back in the beginning.
Good going, guys, for not realizing what you built is completely incompatible with what you want!
@Purple:
Yeah apparently they told Josh Raynor (Ted) how they wanted to do the ending way back in the beginning.
Good going, guys, for not realizing what you built is completely incompatible with what you want!
Well they should've been honest:
I haven't watched it, but I'm going to take a risk and say that it sucked. A lot.
I WOULD fuck you aunt Robin if I could.
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But the Prince of all Saiyans does not have the patience to sit through 7 seasons of that woman's bullshit about how we're not right for each other.
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I mean she married Yamcha basically.
What made the finale so horrible for me is actually more the stuff that came before it.
Looking at the finale in a vacuum it's actually not that bad in my opinion. The scene with Barney meeting Ellie was great.
This moment of growth would have been awesome if we didn't spend 2-3 season on him growing only to throw it away again at the last moment just because.
When Ted getting together with Robin would have been fine if they didn't hammer us with season long drama resolutions that basically told us these 2 don't fit together. Etc etc, also basically pretty much what Kaiolino said.
Well they should've been honest:
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Oh and did he meet their aunt robin. Over and over and over.
@Purple:
Oh and did he meet their aunt robin. Over and over and over.
And in the end he wanted to do more than "meet". But it's cool, Ted's daughter gave him the a-okay.
…..seriously, there wasn't even a scene where Ted and his kids mourned over the mother's passing. Jesus.
What made the finale so horrible for me is actually more the stuff that came before it.
Looking at the finale in a vacuum it's actually not that bad in my opinion. The scene with Barney meeting Ellie was great.
This moment of growth would have been awesome if we didn't spend 2-3 season on him growing only to throw it away again at the last moment just because.When Ted getting together with Robin would have been fine if they didn't hammer us with season long drama resolutions that basically told us these 2 don't fit together. Etc etc, also basically pretty much what Kaiolino said.
"You know, I'm going to contemplate that Robin is right for me but resolve that I'm over her.
…ah fuck it I want some of that Canadian maple syrup."
Filming that kind of scene at the very beginning, basically confirming Robin's win in the end, and then proceed to waste nine seasons on Ted getting together and breaking up with Robin over and over again. Fuckin genius of a writer right there.
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