# "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:** 11
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/201 "2014-03-11T17:57:14Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > It’s nice to know that she isn’t a full blown alcoholic after all. But, now the whole Linus thing doesn’t really make any sense. Who tips a waiter $100 to make sure she always has a Sprite in her hand? What’s the point? It keeps you from having to explain why you aren’t ordering a drink with the gang. A friend of mine nursed a glass of grape juice all night at a party to make it look like she had a drink, because she wasn’t ready to tell people she was pregnant. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/202 "2014-03-11T18:04:36Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > It’s nice to know that she isn’t a full blown alcoholic after all. But, now the whole Linus thing doesn’t really make any sense. Who tips a waiter $100 to make sure she always has a Sprite in her hand? What’s the point? To make sure no one else gives her a drink. Now everyone sees her with something and she’ll not get offered a real drink. Plus it’s funny as hell to see her open the door and Linus hands her a drink. I’m enjoying this season, much better then the last couple. They are also pulling things together which is nice. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/203 "2014-03-11T18:12:46Z")
I thought last night’s eppy was pretty good as has been this season. Now I see that giving Linus $100 would keep her in Sprite a whole lot longer than it would gin and tonic, plus she’d have an excuse not to let the others buy her a drink while she is uncertain about her condition. It seemed a bit odd that the Captain was so forgiving of being punched in the nose and showed no physical mark. His fiancee was pretty hot, though. The bit about Robin’s dad having the same exact bizarre behavior was a bit over the top- I could see one thing being similar but not the four or five that they went through. Also- why would Lily and Marshall converse in Italian in private? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/204 "2014-03-11T18:19:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I thought last night’s eppy was pretty good as has been this season. Now I see that giving Linus $100 would keep her in Sprite a whole lot longer than it would gin and tonic, plus she’d have an excuse not to let the others buy her a drink while she is uncertain about her condition. The $100 wasn’t to pay for them, it was a tip up front. If you were watching under the impression it was alcohol, you’d just assume the bill was being charged to the room. > [@](#): > > Also- why would Lily and Marshall converse in Italian in private? Because it’s not funny in English. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/205 "2014-03-11T18:25:59Z")
Just thought of this, did Lily have a taste of the expensive scotch? Did she not have a single drink the entire season (other than future Lily at the bar her son walks in on)? I’m sure the writers are good enough to keep it straight but I just want to double-check. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/206 "2014-03-11T18:27:31Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > To make sure no one else gives her a drink. Now everyone sees her with something and she’ll not get offered a real drink. Plus it’s funny as hell to see her open the door and Linus hands her a drink. I thought $100 was a hell of a deal. Still is but more for the service than the booze now. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > It seemed a bit odd that the Captain was so forgiving of being punched in the nose and showed no physical mark. His fiancee was pretty hot, though. The bit about Robin’s dad having the same exact bizarre behavior was a bit over the top- I could see one thing being similar but not the four or five that they went through. > > Also- why would Lily and Marshall converse in Italian in private? The Captain has always been a bit odd. If Marshall had punched his boat he’d be more unforgiving. My daughter said the only time she got to practice Italian when she was in Italy was with her fellow students. She’d stumble a bit in public and whoever she was speaking to would immediately switch to English to help out. Besides this is Marshall, he’s clearly going to want to demonstrate any new knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/207 "2014-03-11T18:58:02Z")
Also, as for the Italian, that scene opens with Marshall telling Lily to not bogart the Funions. In an earlier epsiode (late last season maybe?), that was the only Italian phrase he knew. And this season is full of callbacks. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/208 "2014-03-11T19:16:19Z")
I liked last night’s episode, including the callback to Lily’s deal with Linus and Robin’s realization that Barney is just like her father. And the ridiculous way in which Ted insisted on revealing his theory that Lily visited the Captain’s house to sneak a smoke was funny. (I guessed that she was pregnant before he started that story.) Except I’d expect Ted to point out that even if Marshall’s daughter was born in Italy she could still be president. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/209 "2014-03-11T20:47:33Z")
Has everyone overlooked the obvious? Last week, in the year 2024, Ted is breaking up about a mother who won’t see her daughter’s wedding. This week it’s revealed that Lily is pregnant and will give birth to a daughter. And before anyone can say “flash forward” remember that the class reunion with older Lily, Ted and Marshall was set in 2020. Not that killing Lily wouldn’t be as bad (or worse) than killing Ted or the Mother, but it could be the gang has reunited during Lily’s life-saving operation and everyone was telling stories to pass the time. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/210 "2014-03-11T21:23:43Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Has everyone overlooked the obvious? Last week, in the year 2024, Ted is breaking up about a mother who won’t see her daughter’s wedding. > > This week it’s revealed that Lily is pregnant and will give birth to a daughter. > > And before anyone can say “flash forward” remember that the class reunion with older Lily, Ted and Marshall was set in 2020. > > Not that killing Lily wouldn’t be as bad (or worse) than killing Ted or the Mother, but it could be the gang has reunited during Lily’s life-saving operation and everyone was telling stories to pass the time. We know from flashbacks that lily lives to see old age, though she could be sick. Or my earlier theory that an as yet unborn Erickson daughter is sick got a boost (not that its particularly likely, but at least now there’s a daughter to kill). I liked the episode (mainly for the dueling jokes) but wished they’d done a better job explaining the Linus thing (a flashback to her explaining to Linus she needs a drink at all times to keep people from asking why she wasn’t drinking would’ve done the job). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/211 "2014-03-11T21:36:58Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Has everyone overlooked the obvious? Last week, in the year 2024, Ted is breaking up about a mother who won’t see her daughter’s wedding. > > This week it’s revealed that Lily is pregnant and will give birth to a daughter. > > And before anyone can say “flash forward” remember that the class reunion with older Lily, Ted and Marshall was set in 2020. > > Not that killing Lily wouldn’t be as bad (or worse) than killing Ted or the Mother, but it could be the gang has reunited during Lily’s life-saving operation and everyone was telling stories to pass the time. How is that any more obvious than the Mother dying? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/212 "2014-03-11T21:39:47Z")
Seems odd they’d bring a baby into the HIMYM-verse only to kill it, or strike it with cancer, or strike Lily with cancer. I’m interested to see how they explain this. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/213 "2014-03-11T22:19:43Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Has everyone overlooked the obvious? Last week, in the year 2024, Ted is breaking up about a mother who won’t see her daughter’s wedding. > > This week it’s revealed that Lily is pregnant and will give birth to a daughter. > > And before anyone can say “flash forward” remember that the class reunion with older Lily, Ted and Marshall was set in 2020. > > Not that killing Lily wouldn’t be as bad (or worse) than killing Ted or the Mother, but it could be the gang has reunited during Lily’s life-saving operation and everyone was telling stories to pass the time. In the Season 3 episode where Marshall and Lily write letters to each other that are to be opened when they die, Lily is shown to still be alive in 2029. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/214 "2014-03-12T01:33:07Z")
I’m now ignoring the “what kind of mother doesn’t go to her daughter’s wedding?” crap on the show because it’s either going to be a fake out (ie someone is sick but doesn’t die and it’s just drama in lieu of real development) or it’s going to be real and it’s going to make me Hulk Smash in a couple weeks. I think this episode was dragging, but not horrible. I should have figured out Lily’s pregnant, but I didn’t. It made me tear up a bit. I disliked the episode more watching it than I do looking back because I think the end redeemed it. I didn’t like that Marshall was guilting her into forgoing her dream job for HIS dream job AFTER he promised, so this resolution satisfied me. In better writers’ hands, I could have been ok with her forgoing it, but it was just so clumsy and awful by these writers this season. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/215 "2014-03-12T01:56:58Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > In the Season 3 episode where Marshall and Lily write letters to each other that are to be opened when they die, Lily is shown to still be alive in 2029. My Lord this show must have an absolutely massive timeline book! I mean obviously this season they are taking pains to have a bunch of callbacks to tie up things (and always have really), but all the flash forwards mean there are definite minefield to traverse. Really enjoyed the episode and this season so far. It’s been a great and it seems to be landing as smoothly as a plane that has Robin’s mother duct taped within it. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/216 "2014-03-12T02:36:07Z")
[Here](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/video-how-i-met-your-686668)’s an interview with Cristin Milioti on the website of The Hollywood Reporter in which she says the idea that The Mother is dead is “crazy.” ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/217 "2014-03-12T08:39:37Z")
Best episode of a beyond mediocre season. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/218 "2014-03-12T13:17:07Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Best episode of a beyond mediocre season. I agree, this season has been really uneven but this was a great episode. I absolutely loved the final scene of Lilly & Marshall talking in Italian and the reveal that their new child is a daughter they have named Daisy. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/219 "2014-03-12T16:46:28Z")
So was Marshall saying he packed the funyons meant to imply he live in New York and goes back and forth to Italy? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/220 "2014-03-12T17:03:48Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > So was Marshall saying he packed the funyons meant to imply he live in New York and goes back and forth to Italy? No, I think it was that he just packed a bunch of funyuns to have while they lived in Italy, much like people would take things like peanut butter that they would have a hard time finding in another country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=12)