# "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:** 2
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/21 "2013-09-24T14:37:38Z")
“If you do go to the strip club, take Ted with you. I’m worried about that kid.” - Curtis the Hotel clerk I want to go to a hotel that will give me the Kennedy Treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/22 "2013-09-24T15:01:12Z")
I want the recipe for sumbitches cookies. I’m surprised Lily (who’s a foodie and a good cook) didn’t ask for it–or did I miss that? Also, did I miss the name of the mother’s character? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/23 "2013-09-24T15:41:24Z")
> [@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? Yes, but they’ve also promised us flashbacks, flashforwards, other characters and the whole HIMYM book of time-altering plot devices. Last night’s second episode ended with Ted getting on a plane to get the locket back from Stella, four days before the episode took place. ---
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/24 "2013-09-24T15:43:03Z")
I see Marshall has gone to the gym and been looking after his hair - much, much better. He’s a handsome feller (with amazing calves) when he isn’t all schlubby looking. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/25 "2013-09-24T16:56:33Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I want the recipe for sumbitches cookies. I’m surprised Lily (who’s a foodie and a good cook) didn’t ask for it–or did I miss that? > > Also, did I miss the name of the mother’s character? Saw in a post on another message board about an interview Cristin Milioti did in which she said she didn’t know The Mother’s name. So it sounds like she won’t ever properly introduce herself as she works her way through meeting the Friends of Ted. Also, thanks to CBS for timing the two episodes correctly so that my DVR didn’t cut off anything important between the two episodes. Missing the last fifteen seconds of a show is what my DVR does best. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/26 "2013-09-24T17:15:04Z")
Slight continuity question - didn’t the first episode start with a title card that read, “55 hours before the wedding”, and then cut to Ted and Lily road tripping? Then, when Ted showed up at the Inn, I thought the title read, “54 hours before the wedding”? Could they have stopped for sightseeing, and get Lily to the train, and all arrive at the Inn in one hour? ---
**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, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/27 "2013-09-24T17:18:05Z")
(ref the mother interacting with regular characters) > [@Joey\_P](#): > > She met/interacted with Lily on the train the whole way up to Farhamton. I meant with anyone else besides Lily Brian ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/28 "2013-09-24T17:19:13Z")
While it’s not official, here’s a recipe for “Chocolate Chip-Peanut Butter-Caramel Cookies,” which is probably as close as we’ll get to “Sumbitches.” > [@](#): > > 2 cups flour > 1 tsp salt > 3/4 tsp baking soda > 1 stick unsalted butter > 1 cup sugar > 2/3 cup brown sugar, packed > 2 tsp vanilla > 2 eggs > 1 cup peanut butter (crunchy or smooth…do not use natural pb) > 2 cups chocolate chips or chunks > 1 cup chopped Kraft caramels\* > > Preheat oven to 375. > > Line cookie sheets with parchment or silpats. > > Sift (or whisk) together flour, salt and baking soda. > > Using stand mixer with paddle attachment (or hand mixer & large bowl), beat butter on medium speed for about 1 minute, until smooth. Add sugars and beat another 2 minutes, until well blended and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating for 1 minute after adding each egg. Add peanut butter and beat until blended. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients in 3 seperate portions, mixing only until each addition is incorporated. On low speed or by hand with large rubber spatula, stir in chocolate chips and chopped caramels. > > Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough onto baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. > > Bake cookies, one sheet at a time for 10-12 minutes (rotate pan halfway thru bake time). Cookies are done when brown at edges and golden on top. Remove from oven and let cool on sheet 1-2 minutes, then carefully remove cookies to baking racks to cool. Store in airtight container for up to 3 days (they won’t last that long…trust me)! > > \*I know unwrapping and chopping caramels seems time consuming, but really is worth the extra few minutes. Chop the caramels into pieces about the size of chocolate chunks/chips. > > [Blessings In The Weeds: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Caramel Cookies](http://roxinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2011/03/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-caramel.html) ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/29 "2013-09-24T18:15:30Z")
Really liked both episodes, much more than anything I’ve seen out of this show in at least two seasons. Upon reflection, I think they’d have played even better, though, without the last scene of the previous season - where we do not meet the mother, and where the actress is not described as such. Then, halfway through the first episode, when we’re all convinced that _dammit, they’re just going to string this out forever_, Lilly meets some random stranger on a train, they talk for a few seconds, and then, just out of nowhere… and that’s how Aunt Lilly met your mother. No setup; it’s just there. I’d have liked that, I think, though others probably would not have. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/30 "2013-09-24T18:56:19Z")
Some of them look too old for that stuff. Yet whatever the creepiness of the sitcom as a whole, as with ‘It’s Always Sunny’ the inventiveness and skill are dazzling. Whilst the rest of the world is bemused at Americans’ abhorrence of cousin marriage, this seemed a particularly weak instance of supposed incest [especially as sitcoms quite often include brother/sister sex jokes and paedophiliac humour] — nearest could be that Mitch was a cousin of a grandparent, which would make Barney Mitch’s first cousin twice removed, and Robin perhaps a first cousin once or twice removed. I’m guessing that would make them third cousins. A divorce for same sex marriages ?, why don’t they just split ? ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/31 "2013-09-24T19:05:12Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > A divorce for same sex marriages ?, why don’t they just split ? A)If they picked a state to get married in where it was legal, they’d have to get divorced legally as well. B)If they didn’t and they were just calling themselves married, then they’d probably say divorced instead of ‘breaking up’. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/32 "2013-09-24T19:21:11Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > A divorce for same sex marriages ?, why don’t they just split ? Because “Divorce” is what you call it when a married couple breaks up. “Dissolution of Marriage” is really only used in legal documents. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/33 "2013-09-24T19:32:30Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > A divorce for same sex marriages ?, why don’t they just split ? And also they have at least one child, so custody arrangements need to be made, possibly arrangements for child support, etc. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/34 "2013-09-24T20:12:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. Awww. I really liked _Once_. I miss the accent; took us a bit to adjust. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/35 "2013-09-24T22:20:12Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > Awww. I really liked _Once_. > I miss the accent; took us a bit to adjust. She was just in the stage version of “Once”, correct? Not the movie (which is Marketa Irglova). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/36 "2013-09-24T22:42:21Z")
At this late date I was beginning to hope the kids were adopted and they’d get Penny Marshall to play the mother. I hate Ted Mosby. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/37 "2013-09-24T23:15:24Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A)If they picked a state to get married in where it was legal, they’d have to get divorced legally as well. > B)If they didn’t and they were just calling themselves married, then they’d probably say divorced instead of ‘breaking up’. I don’t know if HIYM said where James & his husband live, but the show’s set in NYS which does have legal same-sex marriage (& was actually granting same-sex couples divorces _before_ allowing same-sex marriage). ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/38 "2013-09-24T23:23:15Z")
As a viewer from day one, I liked the new episodes, but wonder if all the time-jumping that will be taking place is going to get old and confusing after a while. And I may be mistaken - and you long-time viewers can correct me if I am - but … didn’t Alyson Hannigan look even more gorgeous than usual? ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/39 "2013-09-24T23:41:16Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > Awww. I really liked _Once_. > I miss the accent; took us a bit to adjust. Well, I also hate _Spring Awakening_ and _Rent_. I consider all three shows my internet Broadway radio station’s way of telling me “Click SKIP, stupid!” ---
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/40 "2013-09-24T23:56:21Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > At this late date I was beginning to hope the kids were adopted and they’d get Penny Marshall to play the mother. I hate Ted Mosby. I have a strange affection for him. I don’t really know why - he has about a billion mega-irritating habits. There is still something endearing about that idiot. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=3)