This is the line that closed out the very first episode of How I Met Your Mother, which aired 10 years ago on September 19, 2005. It was quite funny... Carter said we could do eight Hanukkah specials. Visit the state elections site. Just saying. I can’t help but think that fans would have been happier to ignore a recast of the kids rather than have to watch the atrocity that was Last Forever. How I Met Your Mother's finale episode aired on March 31, 2014. They killed the mother! NINE YEARS. '", Hannigan says she has gotten better when it comes to singing, but she's "not gonna be dropping an album anytime soon.". – A long standing couple from within the group (Monica and Chandler/Lily and Marshall) get married and the wedding is officiated by the womaniser of the group (Joey/Barney). They failed to do it any real justice. And, let’s face it, this constant reprise of the Ted/Robin romance (which we thought we knew was doomed to fail) got kind of old. Backing up a bit, the finale raced through the years between Barney and Robin's wedding and present day. The show had nine seasons and two endings. Knowing that Ted’s entire tale was colored by his very current feelings for Robin, as opposed to a lingering affection for a past girlfriend, gives the entire series new meaning. 8. If it was up to Jason Segel, "HIMYM" would have a Hanukkah reunion show. As series finales go, this one will probably go down as one of the heartbreakers. WTF was going on with Robin's hair in the present day? Yes, it was nice to find out that Tracy McConnell had the same initials as our storyteller, or even had a name at all. She was gonna be the baby, but [producer] Carter Bays was like, 'Nope. 5. By the time Ted told his children the story, she had been dead for six years, victim of a “sickness,” during which Ted loved her very, very much. She continued, "They were not sure if it was a cockroach or a mouse. Seriously. A post shared by Jason Segel (@jasonsegel). (Central Perk/ McLaren’s). You don't need an excuse to vote early. As the series went on, Ted started repeating the same jokes and revisiting the same formative moments, to the point where every other episode contained the same handful of jokes. First of all that’s ageism. He is constantly whining and holding pity parties for himself, and I really don’t understand why his friends put up with it so much, for so many years. Then she got mad at Ted when it was revealed months later that he has badmouthed her in an attempt to make Marshall feel better. The finale caused a stir, with many fans feeling as though they had been cheated (this article is going to contain a lot of spoilers by the way, so if you happen not to know about the ending you might want to stop reading now). "I knew that was the case," said Hannigan. She also acted quite selfishly in that she was willing to put her own dreams of living in Italy for a year above Marshall’s when he got offered a fantastic promotion in the city. The show follows Ted Mosby telling his children how he finally met their mother after having met her on several close encounters over the years. Hypable previewed Supernatural season 15, episode 15 “Gimme Shelter,” so read on to find out more. He had two, maybe more. The hour-long “How I Met Your Mother” series finale proved the conspiracy theorists right. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Instead of maintaining the will-they-won’t-they sitcom trope, the show tried (not always successfully) to do away with this tension—because Ted and Robin didn’t, couldn’t, quite fit yet. This ending was a tribute to the fans who’d been watching for years, and for whom the bond between Ted and Robin would always mean more than the bond (no matter how nicely portrayed) between Ted and a character whose name we just learned tonight. Disney+ has announced the cast for its upcoming LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special— and includes a slew of familiar favorites! After starting strong in ratings, viewership dipped a bit, but as time went on, While running gags were what kept the show strong, the always-a-bit-off chemistry between Ted and Robin was always at its core. There is no doubt that the characters who developed and grew most over the course of the show was Barney and Robin. You know it’s true. And although we know many fans were left disappointed by How I Met Your Mother’s ending, Ted and Robin’s full-circle romance made perfect sense. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Her career as a news anchor took off quickly and she began jet-setting around the world. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. These are just some of the blatant similarities between the two shows and given the fact that How I Met Your Mother debuted a year after Friends concluded, it is inexcusable for the show to incorporate so many blatant rip offs. 7. The actress told HuffPost she'd definitely be into a "HIMYM" reunion and that Jason Segel was actually coming up with some ideas during the finale. She's had her hands full with being a mom, has a role in a new film called "Modern Love" and she's even working with Ball Park Park's Finest hot dogs, which she did admit, though she "usually" doesn't try to brag, looked so good after she cooked them over a campfire that they wouldn't even need a filter on Instagram. For everyone who thinks they know everything about "How I Met Your Mother," prepare to be lawyered. – They have a regular hang-out spot where they spend an insane amount of time. Lily became pregnant with their third child and she and Marshall finally decided to leave the old apartment. How I Met Your Mother concluded in 2014, and here's why the CBS put an end to the sitcom after season 9. And the showrunners don’t get enough credit for their quiet, understated confidence in the story they were trying to tell. When asked if the cast had any interventions that didn't make the show, Hannigan said, "We talked about needing an intervention for ourselves to stop making so many puns. And although we know many fans were left disappointed by How I Met Your Mother’s ending, Ted and Robin’s full … Each of the main cast members on "HIMYM" had a musical number except for Lily -- and it turns out there was a good reason for that. Everything I have and everything I am is yours forever.". By the time Ted told his children the story, she had been dead for six years, victim of a "sickness," during which Ted loved her very, very much. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! This Is Us season 5 is just around the corner, and if the newest trailer is anything to go by, you’ll definitely want to keep the tissues on standby! But in retrospect, however you felt about the finale, there was simply no way around it: Ted had to end up with Robin, or the series as a whole wouldn’t have made any sense. “And that’s the story of how I met… your aunt Robin.”. Because isn’t that a pretty accurate portrayal of the human brain, and how we tell stories; remembering, forgetting and altering details based on our current reality? A Ted who believed in a life that he could plan down to the last detail. And thus, the stage was set for the quirky, comedy/mystery mashup: We were set up to experience the epic love story of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), knowing full well that it was doomed to end. The Flash season 7 won’t be here until 2021 – but here’s everything you need to know about the new season in the meantime! It was a moment fans saw coming, but the nail in the mother's coffin (sorry, I had to) came after Ted revealed she died. Robin's hair. "It can't be. The Cockamouse was real. The mother, whose name we found out was Tracy McConnell, was dead at the end of the episode. This was a risky move from the beginning and not one that particularly paid off, especially when the couple went on to get divorced IN THE SAME EPISODE. It was the best, but also very much the worst. But life is cruel, as it has always been to Ted, and Tracy McConnell died. Looks like Dexter will soon be making a comeback at Showtime where a revival is officially in the works! Producers were worried Alyson Hannigan and Cristin Milioti looked too similar. Despite being rushed and underwhelming, the finale justified the entire series. Polling hours on Election Day: Varies by state/locality. There was a Playbook II, which involved "The Mannequin" and "The Jim Nacho." Over the years, the series took a lot of twists and turns (parading the various loves of Ted’s life across the screen, introducing the arguably superior Robin/Barney pairing) that made the ending hit a weird note. How I Met Your Mother premiered 10 years ago today. – There is a womaniser in the group (Joey/Barney) who goes on to have his heart broken by one of the women in the group (Rachel/Robin). To viewers, it was supposed to be a story about finding your one true love in a messy, mysterious city, filled with best burgers and stripper versions of yourself. After all, we knew the Mother was coming. How I Met Your Mother's finale episode had two parts which showed the snippets of what happened after Ted met the mother of his children, Tracy. It showed Ted's growth and proved their love wasn't centered around a wedding (though a French castle could have been nice), or one single moment. The whole nine seasons became one long tale about moving on from loss, accepting growth in pain, the reality of friends drifting apart and the negation of "one true loves." This week on Supernatural, Amara returns and are angels solving people crimes now? We know now that Ted started and ended his tale after he’d already loved and lost Tracy. In the end, the finale was an homage to the pilot, a reward to those who kept watching and, perhaps, a disappointment to those who’d given up on the show but returned to see how it all turned out. And the mess of it all, the scramble and imperfection of love and heartbreak, told from the point of view of a man whose reckoning with the concept of true love is finally upon him, is kind of beautiful. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Your vote is your voice! There was no rush because an extraordinary, happy life just got in the way. It was a story about love — true, wretched, imperfect, impermanent love, in all its forms. Ted’s whole relationship with the mother is condensed into mere minutes before she dies of something (the writers didn’t even bother to tell us what). "Jason was pitching some really funny specials, like a Hanukkah special and all these things with Carter. Here are just some of the points of similarity: – Group of friends living in Manhattan, New York City. For your voice to be heard, in most states you must register before you can vote. Ted Mosby is one of the most annoying TV characters ever. It is your right and your responsibility. "Yeah, singing has never been something that I wanted to do publicly. He then showed up outside her apartment with that blue French horn. Apparently, Lily and Marshal welcomed their third child while Ted and Barney and Robin got divorced. "They wanted to look at us next to each other to see if they were going change her hair or something because they were a little worried that we looked similar, so I had to go stand next to her and we had some people look at us together," she said. She is also quite an awful person. About halfway through the finale, folks on Twitter started to notice the hints: Robin and Barney got divorced (we'll come back to this), Robin had a too-cute run-in with Ted and his daughter on the street and she told Lily that Ted was the guy she should have married. Cristin Milioti was great, but the character was never one we could root for. Hannigan says the whole process of finding the right actress to play the mom was "very secretive" and caused some suspicion around set when trailers that would "never be locked" suddenly were. Image: PopSugar. Season 5, Episode 12 - "Girls Versus Suits" - One of the dancers looks a little too comfortable during Barney's big song about suits. That ruled. She’s too old,' and she got replaced," Hannigan said. One last "Murder Train" song for the road. Much of the mystery looming over How I Met Your Mother during its nine-year run was the identity of the Mother, but the series threw viewers another curveball at the very end by revealing that the Mother passed away six years prior to Future Ted's story. But your state may let you vote during a designated early voting period. I don’t think you’re allowed to fire her because she’s too old,'" she joked. Then there is the fact that she dumped Marshall, a guy who did nothing but love her unconditionally, to go and pursue her art. ©2020 Verizon Media. After the finale aired, I stopped by a friend's going-away party and left soon after arriving, explaining that I had to finish recapping a very confusing hour of television. If Ted and Robin had not ended up together, if Ted had ended the series finally over Robin and ready to live happily ever after with Tracy, the entire series would have felt pointless. "Last Forever" confirmed our worst fears. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Ted also welcomed a child followed by the birth of Barney's daughter. We just loved everybody.". But that wasn’t even the worst thing about the finale, that title goes to the horrific handling of the mother. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. Each state has its own rules for mail-in absentee voting. The Cockamouse was the mysterious hybrid creature that Marshall and Lily found in their apartment, and though it seems like something someone made up, like the "South Park" monster ManBearPig, it turns out this was based on a real story. Yet the story kept circling back around. How could there possibly be hope for Ted and Robin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_(How_I_Met_Your_Mother) It’s actually like a phobia. I know it sounds weird, but it has always been that way. I repeat, they killed the mother! Because, like the audience, Ted the Narrator still hadn’t fully comprehended that the woman he married and had kids with wasn’t synonymous with his happily-ever-after. He veered off on ridiculous tangents, jumped in time, and it was always just Robin, Robin, Robin. Alyson Hannigan, otherwise known as Lily Aldrin, has been busy since the show ended a little more than a year ago. 4. And in the process, the Ted of the pilot was able to keep his romantic side, but to face reality, with a little help from his children, who kindly told him what we already knew: “This is the story of how you’re totally in love with Aunt Robin.”. Fancy that!". Just as Ted told us in the pilot, the show really was all about “how I met your Aunt Robin.”, Related: Kids, this is the story of How I Met Your Mother: A farewell to the show. The show’s earlier efforts to throw us off the trail—he was telling this story to his children, Robin couldn’t have children—served their purpose, allowing the show to run on for a bit longer than it should have. ", To that, HuffPost responded, "Are you freaking kidding me?" All rights reserved. "Yes, that is based on a story that happened to [producer] Kourtney Kang in New York in an apartment she lived in," says Hannigan. Marriage had been the ultimate goal for Ted all along: Meet the right woman, get married, have kids. How I Met Your Mother was not a perfect show. Considering the premise of the show, this was just too damn long. NOW! We knew he married and had kids with her. Correction, April 3, 2014: This post originally misspelled the first name of the character Tracy McConnell. Barney's blog suffered. His endless pursuit of Robin is the cherry on top. It's okay to move on from Mom. Because the damn Ted/Robin romance, which we [thought we] knew wasn’t endgame, was supposed to end. All images courtesy of CBS unless otherwise noted. Yes, it was nice to get confirmation that we were all right. She is manipulative and constantly trying to meddle with her friends lives, to the point that it is revealed that she was the mastermind behind a number of Ted’s break-ups. It Failed To Do An Interesting Premise Justice: The idea behind the show is actually a good one – a father sits down his two children and tells them the story of how he met their mother. In an epic Halloween/ Goodbye Apartment party, she dressed up as a white latex whale and had one of the most dramatic scenes of the episodes in said outfit. But knowing that Ted and Robin was the endgame pairing all along, we needed the finale to end the way it did. Is ‘Superman and Lois’ already erasing ‘Supergirl’? Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today. They were also a hit with fans, which makes it even more annoying that the finale led them in the direction they did – we see Barney post-divorce acting the exact same way he did in the pilot, while Robin is again alone and obsessed with working. The cast talked about having an intervention for all of their puns. ", The puns all started when a guest star mentioned the magazine Cat Fancy, Hannigan added: "We started having cat puns, and we had an afternoon of punning anything about cats. Bringing you that one movie, show, book and album that you need to consume. The one episode we got this season devoted to the mother (instead of the entire season I was hoping for) focused on how she was the perfect fit for Ted, how her entire life was basically built for her to be primed to meet him. This was a mystery even the Mosby Boys could’ve solved. Anybody else? "Early on, I wanted Victoria to be the mom," Hannigan said. Visit your state election office website to find out if you can vote by mail. At the party, Robin showed up, but clearly hadn't seen the gang in months, if not years. As the main character, Ted is … – The geeky character has a boring job (Ross is a palaeontologist, Ted an architect) and they both go on to be professors later in the series. She basically wanted to find out if there was a more exciting option for her, and when she found out that there wasn’t she headed straight back to Marshall. The latest trailer for His Dark Materials season 2 teases the all new dangerous adventure that awaits Lyra after she follows her father across the bridge to a whole new world– watch it below! How someone forgot to wear their dress shoes. But as it went on I found myself getting increasingly irritated with the programme and by the time I got around to watching the finale my indifference towards it had developed into a deep-set dislike. The show then comes to a close as Ted’s children give him their blessing to go ask out their Aunt Robin. That bob was not doing anyone any favors. But, they never solved the pineapple incident. A Ted who would never imagine he’d be a widower with two kids and end up with, well, Robin. This, along with the aforementioned use of cutaways, meant that people stopped caring about who the mother was many years before it was finally revealed. 3. When someone asked how the show ended, admitting they hadn't seen an episode in years, I said, "The mother dies." – Whilst they all seem to have decent jobs, they are rarely seen to actually be at work. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. The mother, whose name we found out was Tracy McConnell, was dead at the end of the episode. 6. If you think that ending was dumb, I get it. It's been six years, they said. Hannigan says she first met the mother, Cristin Milioti, in a makeup trailer because producers wanted to see how the pair looked side by side. Because How I Met Your Mother wasn’t a story about the mother, it was about how Ted met her. Lily comes second to Ted in the annoying stakes, but it’s a close second. But knowing that Robin and Ted ultimately ended up together, HIMYM as a whole now makes perfect sense. The show became known for it’s numerous cutaway gags, and many praised the show for them, but I just found them annoying. Given it was three years down the line, but still, we spent an entire season building up to them tying the not only to have the rug pulled from under us moments later.
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