# "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:** 24
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/461 "2014-04-03T13:17:25Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > That fan ending is absolutely lame and predictable. I love the way HIMYM ended in reality, but some people prefer delusion to reality, and to me, that’s funny. Furthermore, I think it’s rather odd to “fix” a creative work that was as well planned out and as well written as HIMYM. Not to mention that the video is blowing up everywhere with “THIS IS THE ENDING YOU DESERVE!” and such, as if we were all cheated. > > Guess what? Ted and the Mother met, and they lived happily together and had a wonderful marriage, until death did them part. That’s what we all wanted. Just because death happened to come relatively early on for one of them does not mean we were cheated out of anything. > > Then we get an hilarious scene with the kids prompting Dad to date Robin and it was touching and funny, and did nothing to cheapen the wonderful relationship Tracy and Ted had. That’s life. Your frantic need to believe that you are in some objective way “right” about this ending, and that people who didn’t like it are “wrong,” is getting tedious. It’s possible to discuss a work of fiction without being so contemptuous of the people who disagree with you. I strongly disagree, for example; I think it was the worst execution of a series finale that I’ve ever seen, and it’s not close. It means that I will not watch the show’s reruns, and that I will avoid the follow-up show. This opinion is real, and valid, as a response to a creative work - no less so (or more so) than yours. I think they failed, spectacularly. I don’t think “unpredictable” is a synonym for “good” and I don’t think planning an idea carefully in advance renders it a _de facto_ good idea. But I’m also totally OK with the idea that you do, and it would be nice if you could handle doing the same in reverse. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/462 "2014-04-03T14:34:44Z")
I was already planning on not watching the spin-off. At this point, only Lily-Marshall centric episodes, and Barney as a man whore will be tolerable. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/463 "2014-04-03T14:38:30Z")
Perhaps a dumb question, but what’s the spin-off? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/464 "2014-04-03T14:43:55Z")
How I Met Your Dad. NOT using Tracy!!! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/465 "2014-04-03T14:54:00Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > How I Met Your Dad. If you’re being serious, that sounds horrible. > [@etv78](#): > > NOT using Tracy!!! Unwatchable, even. :smack: ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/466 "2014-04-03T14:56:54Z")
Guys guys guys, calm down. It’s not a spin-off. It’s just another show about entirely different people, but with a similar conceit. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/467 "2014-04-03T15:06:14Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Guys guys guys, calm down. It’s not a spin-off. It’s just another show about entirely different people, but with a similar conceit. Oh, well in that case, I don’t preemptively hate it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/468 "2014-04-03T15:11:28Z")
Since the “spin-off” shares only a similar name, I would give it a chance. Watching HIMYM reruns will not be enjoyable after the finale (which I hated). Hard to watch episodes now about Barney & Robin being right for each other, or Ted and Robin being wrong for each other. Also - in the finale are we to believe Robin had no other serious relationships after Ted and Barney, in those 10 years or so? Did she ‘wait’ for Ted, or did she just ‘happen to be available’ when Ted was ready? either way, dumb. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/469 "2014-04-03T16:08:37Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Also - in the finale are we to believe Robin had no other serious relationships after Ted and Barney, in those 10 years or so? Did she ‘wait’ for Ted, or did she just ‘happen to be available’ when Ted was ready? either way, dumb. It seemed to be pretty well presented that Robin **couldn’t** have had a serious relationship after Barney because 1) her career and B) she was still hung up on Ted. The scene in the empty apartment revealed she’d been avoiding the group for years because it included Ted happily with someone else. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/470 "2014-04-03T16:20:09Z")
Worst series ending ever? Did you see the final Seinfield? Best series ending ever? Did you see the ending of Newhart? In my opinion, this is in the top half. If they had gotten Bob Saget to play final scenes Ted, it would have been great. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/471 "2014-04-03T17:01:19Z")
Josh Radnor’s voice as he was talking to the kids sounded a lot like Bob Saget. I wonder if that was deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/472 "2014-04-03T17:08:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Josh Radnor’s voice as he was talking to the kids sounded a lot like Bob Saget. I wonder if that was deliberate. ?? It was Bob Saget ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/473 "2014-04-03T17:10:44Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > It seemed to be pretty well presented that Robin **couldn’t** have had a serious relationship after Barney because 1) her career and B) she was still hung up on Ted. The scene in the empty apartment revealed she’d been avoiding the group for years because it included Ted happily with someone else. Yes to 1) and no to B). She might just as logically been avoiding the group because B1) she was on the road constantly and B2) it included her ex-husband. Of course Robin could’ve been charmed by Ted showing up without warning carrying a blue French horn, but her next reaction could’ve easily been “Dear God, not again.” ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/474 "2014-04-03T17:18:46Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Josh Radnor’s voice as he was talking to the kids sounded a lot like Bob Saget. I wonder if that was deliberate. > > ?? It was Bob Saget I meant during the scene in which the camera was pointed at Josh Radnor, his mouth was moving and words were, apparently, coming out of his mouth. Are you suggesting they dubbed Saget over him? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/475 "2014-04-03T17:24:25Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Also - in the finale are we to believe Robin had no other serious relationships after Ted and Barney, in those 10 years or so? Did she ‘wait’ for Ted, or did she just ‘happen to be available’ when Ted was ready? I hear she’s been seeing a guy named Louis. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/476 "2014-04-03T18:49:25Z")
Where the hell did he _get_ the blue horn? Wasn’t it already in her house? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/477 "2014-04-03T18:59:50Z")
He brought it back to the restaurant around season 4 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/478 "2014-04-03T18:59:58Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Where the hell did he _get_ the blue horn? Wasn’t it already in her house? According to the [wiki](http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_French_Horn), the last time we saw the horn was back in the restaurant Ted originally stole it from, chained to the wall. How it got back there after the second time he stole it for Robin, I don’t know. Maybe he just kept returning it. I would have liked a scene of Ted trying to buy the horn after twenty years of stealing it and bringing it back. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/479 "2014-04-03T19:18:22Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > She might just as logically been avoiding the group because B1) she was on the road constantly and B2) it included her ex-husband. That was exactly what she’s doing. She said on screen that she was avoiding them because Barney (“my ex-husband”) and Ted (“The guy I should have stayed with”) were there. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/480 "2014-04-03T19:24:53Z")
Speaking as someone who liked the Finale but didn’t love it I have thought about why it made people so angry and I think the mistake the creators made was that while the character Ted had six years to get over The Mother’s death but the audience had less than a minute. The clash in tone was way too sudden and jarring which made people angry and frustrated. In hindsight, even though they had this plan since around Season 2. When they saw how charming and perfect Tracy was, they should have scrapped the idea and went with Ted and Tracy Forever… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=25)