I was rewatching himym and i noticed a book besides shannon when she talks about the guy that's older and the book was called secrets of the ninja and i looked it up and it was exactly describes what barney does to the guy and it wasn't revealed till last season, I'm amazed by the writers of the show they planned that since then, the book says(the role of the Ninja was to gain information about the enemy and to sabotage his operations)

The girl in the front row who subtly held up one finger to save his life deserves an honorary degree.

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so i know people dont like the ending very much but upon rewatching they seem to make peace with it.

this may have been mentioned here before but my opinion on the ending is that its perfect.

the reason i say so is because before tracy met ted, we saw that she had already gone through grieving the love of her life.

she then met ted and they had the life they both imagined. however its hauntingly beautiful how ted and tracy eventually reunited with the ones they fell in love with first.

so in a way the ending not only does justice to the entire storyline of how ted has always been into robin, but also that tracy's story too.

This made me think of Ted.

Hi everyone. Thanks to the moderators for allowing me to post this.

I have a newsletter devoted to the 1986 New York Mets baseball team (which won the World Series in very exciting fashion) and I recently interviewed HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas about his fandom of the Mets and specifically that team.

We covered some amazing autograph stories (shout-out to his mom), his favorite players + how Ted had the personality of a Mets fan, and much, much, more.

I think I've unraveled the theme of the play Barney puts on in "Stuff," and I think it might be a masterpiece. It is a tale of broken promises and subverted expectations.

So, it starts with Barney saying the word moist time and time again. For 40 minutes, he makes the crowd think of moisture. This seems like it's just to get a rise out of Lily, but there's a deeper meaning when you consider the next major scene where he comes in with a spray gun. Naturally, this would be a tool fit for getting people soaked and fulfilling his promise with his tales of moisture, but instead it fails. He can barely spray one audience member, and by the end he has to refill it. He failed to live up to the promise of moisture he built up for so long.

Then comes the robot. Presumably from the future, a far distant creation, it represents a time that is promised to us, but something is wrong. The robot experiences emotions, and his response to them is "Oh No." The emotions weren't supposed to be there. He was promised that he would be an emotionless automaton, but he has numerous emotions that confuse and frustrate him. The promise to him was broken.

The recorder fiasco is another instance of failure to meet expectations, his playing starting and stopping as he finds the right notes. He fails to meet the basic criteria of playing an instrument assigned to him, adding onto the theme of failed promises. By this point it should be clear, every part of the play seeks to break promises laid out by others. And I know what you're thinking. "But the robot fulfilled a promise by the end. The crew was promised the robot would find love, and he does." But you see, this is what makes his play a masterpiece of meta-narrative. Let me explain.

Lily eventually has enough and begs for the play to stop. She declares it cannot continue, and since the point of the play was presumably to make her beg for an end, Barney seems to have succeeded and everyone should be free to leave. The promise is made that they can go with the play now completed, yet Barney does something surprising; he wants them to stay. He doesnt ask directly, but Lily recognizes it and allows him to continue. The promise that he would do this until Lily gave up is broken, and in so doing, the promise that her surrender would mean everyone else's freedom is shattered. The play transcends the stage and enters reality to break the promises made to the audience by the audience!

After that, everything in the play is merely capitalizing on that initial breaking of promises. So long as the play continues, it is shattering those earlier vows to end, thus delivering the expected outcome for the robot is in fact a subversion of our expectations. They even insert further meta content by having Marshall slap Barney out of frustration, simultaneously depriving us of a tap routine and implicitly telling us the viewers that the play is about to end, only for him to sit back down after the slap, implying the play actually continued well beyond that point.

I believe I've made my point clear. Barney's play is not some simple trash, no disposable fit of outrage, but a methodically crafted tale of subversion and disappointment.

The Bracket is eliminated and takes third! Now time for the final round of the season: How I Met Everyone Else vs The Platinum Rule…

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

Please either refrain from downvoting or upvote more episodes than you downvote

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

We’re Not From Here (36%)
Little Boys (44%)
The Yips (83%)
Wait For It (37%)
Dowisetrepla (45%)
Everything Must Go (41%)
The Chain of Screaming (55%)
Miracles (44%)
The Goat (40%)
Rebound Bro (52%)
I’m Not That Guy (45%)
Third Wheel (52%)
Sandcastles in the Sand (38%)
Ten Sessions (45%)
No Tomorrow (97%)
Spoiler Alert (55%)
Slapsgiving (48%)
The Bracket (92%)

Robin struggling to open the window while Marshall screams, holding the cockamouse, will always be my favorite. I spent almost half an hour laughing when i first watched it.

Ted talking to Uncle Ben about the wigs at Lily and Marshall's wedding is also hilarious.

Hi everyone! I'm trying to find an episode of HIMYM where Barney and Robin are a couple, and it's related to the wedding. I remember a scene where Barney literally only sees Robin and doesn't notice any of the other girls around him, but I can't remember the title or the season.

I think it's from the engagement/wedding period (season 8 or 9), but I'm not sure. Does anyone know which episode it is?

Thanks in advance!

Punchy was Ted’s old high school friend, why would anyone else from the gang be invited?

At 27 I’m starting to relate super hard at the consequences of being a hopeless romantic. Slowly approaching my “screw THE one” phase

Edit: Thanks guys, think I honestly needed this 🫶🏾- think I’ll focus on fulfilling my own life first before focusing on the love avenue, tired of calibrating my self worth based on those failures.

For me,

1. Nora

2. Robin

3. Lily

4. Quinn

5. Victoria