# "How I Met Your Mother" \[final season\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560 "2013-09-24T03:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/1 "2013-09-24T03:06:08Z")
Anyone else still watching? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/2 "2013-09-24T03:19:43Z")
“Lady Tedwina Slowsby” - heh. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/3 "2013-09-24T03:48:54Z")
Did anyone else watch the second episode first because they didn’t know there was going to be two episodes on tonight so they just played the first HIMYM at the top of the list on their TiVo? No? Just me? Ok. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/4 "2013-09-24T03:58:41Z")
Nope, I watched both. They were funny again - yay! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/5 "2013-09-24T04:15:28Z")
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGINTSU2AI)’s a YouTube video of Ted’s kids finally losing it after eight years of this story. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/6 "2013-09-24T09:11:09Z")
There were two episodes? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/7 "2013-09-24T10:20:20Z")
I am so relieved they’re integrating the Mother directly into the stories so we can get to know her, even though the actual meeting will likely be the end of the series. We’re circling it like a drain. Plus she was really good, even if she does look rather too much like Alyson Hannigan (In fact she kind of looks like all four main characters in _Charmed_ combined into one person). ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/8 "2013-09-24T10:49:38Z")
I didn’t expect the second episode (didn’t look at the guide closely), glad I kept watching. Note carefully that the mother is still unnamed. Can the mother meet / interact with anyone else before Ted? I suppose they could while Ted is off doing best man stuff. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/9 "2013-09-24T11:27:29Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > I didn’t expect the second episode (didn’t look at the guide closely), glad I kept watching. Note carefully that the mother is still unnamed. > > Can the mother meet / interact with anyone else before Ted? I suppose they could while Ted is off doing best man stuff. She met/interacted with Lily on the train the whole way up to Farhamton. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/10 "2013-09-24T11:34:45Z")
The mother is as cute as button. Some good moments, but as much as I like Wayne Brady the role as Barney’s brother is just too unbelievable. I like the little touches like the Minnesota accent of the airport counter lady. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/11 "2013-09-24T11:48:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > …as much as I like Wayne Brady the role as Barney’s brother is just too unbelievable. You’re leaving it a bit late to complain about that, he’s been established as his half-brother since 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/12 "2013-09-24T11:54:21Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The mother is as cute as button. Some good moments, but as much as I like Wayne Brady the role as Barney’s brother is just too unbelievable. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > You’re leaving it a bit late to complain about that, he’s been established as his half-brother since 2006. And he’s been in [checks IMDB] 5 episodes, so it was nothing new to see him. Also, he’s sung on the show before, so that’s been established. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/13 "2013-09-24T12:01:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > You’re leaving it a bit late to complain about that, he’s been established as his half-brother since 2006. I know but to me it was always just an excuse to get him on the show and was just silly, just as “The Stinson’s” episode with Barney’s make believe family was just silly. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/14 "2013-09-24T12:02:34Z")
Sitcom logic. Best not looked at too closely. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/15 "2013-09-24T12:39:04Z")
Did someone say in one of last year’s threads that this season is going to end with Barney and Robin’s wedding? At one point last night, we were 55 hours from the wedding. So are we going to spend twenty episodes on basically two days? ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/16 "2013-09-24T12:52:48Z")
That’s what I read in the paper yesterday, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/17 "2013-09-24T13:14:16Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Did someone say in one of last year’s threads that this season is going to end with Barney and Robin’s wedding? At one point last night, we were 55 hours from the wedding. So are we going to spend twenty episodes on basically two days? I really hope not, but it sure does seem that way. Ted sure is getting more annoying, not sure how the hell that happened. Barney is still as awesome as ever though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/18 "2013-09-24T13:22:21Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > In fact she kind of looks like all four main characters in _Charmed_ combined into one person I don’t see any Holly Marie Combs there. (If, however, you can direct me to any actresses who kind of look like Holly Marie Combs, I’ll start watching their shows as soon as possible.) But, yes, when I first saw Cristin Milioti on 30 ROCK, I thought she _ **was** _ Alyssa Milano; and that, yes, she can bug her eyes out for good effect like a perky Rose McGowan. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/19 "2013-09-24T13:40:02Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I don’t see any Holly Marie Combs there. (If, however, you can direct me to any actresses who kind of look like Holly Marie Combs, I’ll start watching their shows as soon as possible.) I admit she was my outlier. As for lookalikes, she’s not an actress but check out nerdy [Veronica Belmont](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2428139/). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/20 "2013-09-24T13:53:23Z")
I think she looks like a cross between Sarah Silverman and a less-neurotic Kate Micucci. I kind of like her, and that’s something, because I loathe _Once_ and that’s quite a deficit to overcome. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=2)