# "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:** 25
**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, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/481 "2014-04-03T19:28:00Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 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. Short version, they went back to that same restaurant, someone recognized Ted and somehow forced him to bring it back and he did, since he broke up with Robin. It was towards the end of S2. Here: > **[Something Blue (How I Met Your Mother)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Blue_%28How_I_Met_Your_Mother%29)** > > "Something Blue" is the 22nd and final episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on CBS on May 14, 2007. > Marshall and Lily's wedding reception is in full swing, but they cannot eat there because food is being taken right out from under them while relatives congratulating them just before they can get a bite. Lily also gets drunk and misses in her attempt to feed Marshall some cake. When they finally get to the limo to their honeymoon, whi... ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/482 "2014-04-03T19:30:53Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > 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… Of course then the problem is how is this a story about “How I Met Your Mother” where the vast majority has nothing to really do with that. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/483 "2014-04-03T19:49:53Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Of course then the problem is how is this a story about “How I Met Your Mother” where the vast majority has nothing to really do with that. I don’t see how this is a problem. The title is ‘how I met’ not ‘how I courted and lived with’ your mother The story is about all the travails he went through on his journey that led to him meeting the mother. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/484 "2014-04-03T19:51:39Z")
But its not really that either. The kids had it right. It’s really about Robin (or, if you want to expand it - the Gang and how they came together and, in the finale, drifted apart). ---
**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, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/485 "2014-04-03T20:47:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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? No, I didn’t detect that in his voice. I have it recorded, I’ll look at it (listen to it) again. I think they were trying to make him sound older, but maybe it is intended to be a Saget impression, or maybe they did dub it, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/486 "2014-04-03T20:54:29Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > 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. More than that, it reduced the Mother — ostensibly the reason this whole tale is being spun — to nothing but a plot contrivance. (Who was it here that said the show could have been called How I Met the MacGuffin?) I was not a big fan of the show and so wasn’t all that bothered by the finale one way or the other, but that decision is storytelling bad faith. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/487 "2014-04-03T21:09:20Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > More than that, it reduced the Mother — ostensibly the reason this whole tale is being spun — to nothing but a plot contrivance. Um…yeah. Haven’t we known this for 9 years now? It’s a story being told over 208 episodes, purposefully leading up to one single moment - how is that NOT a plot contrivance? It’s storytelling bad faith if the producers say that we’d get to that point after a few seasons, and they stretch it out to nine - but sticking to the show’s central conceit isn’t, in any way, bad faith. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/488 "2014-04-03T21:22:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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? > [@TriPolar](#): > > No, I didn’t detect that in his voice. I have it recorded, I’ll look at it (listen to it) again. I think they were trying to make him sound older, but maybe it is intended to be a Saget impression, or maybe they did dub it, I don’t know. [This guy](http://www.bustle.com/#/articles/19685-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-snubs-bob-saget-in-one-swift-coldhearted-move) says Saget was left out of the last episode. Relistening I don’t hear it as a Saget impression, just an attempt to make Radnor sound older. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/489 "2014-04-03T22:01:41Z")
I noticed Saget’s absence as well and was a bit disappointed by it. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/490 "2014-04-04T00:50:37Z")
[This article](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-bandwagoned-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-which-s-1556056613) by a guy who never a saw a single episode except for the finale really did a good job summing up many of my reasons for thinking it sucked. ---
**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 4, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/491 "2014-04-04T01:26:49Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > [This article](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-bandwagoned-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-which-s-1556056613) by a guy who never a saw a single episode except for the finale really did a good job summing up many of my reasons for thinking it sucked. Yup, that was certainly written by someone who had never seen the show before. Who is an article like that even for? Anyone that doesn’t watch HIMYM won’t care and everyone that does watch it will know that half of his “jokes” were explained in previous episodes. ---
**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 4, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/492 "2014-04-04T01:35:26Z")
Whoah. Weird. A guy I’m Facebook friends with just posted a review of the finale and he’d never seen another episode either. ---
**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 4, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/493 "2014-04-04T01:45:56Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > [This article](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-bandwagoned-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-which-s-1556056613) by a guy who never a saw a single episode except for the finale really did a good job summing up many of my reasons for thinking it sucked. If you watched the series and thought it sucked I can respect that. But a guy who saw nothing but the finale doesn’t have an opinion worth paying attention to. It was a wrap-up intended for people who watched the series, not as something intended to stand on it’s own. It’s light comedy, full of inside jokes, I would have thought it sucked too if I never saw the series. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/494 "2014-04-04T04:44:58Z")
My husband and I were discussing the series finale today on a long car trip, and his biggest complaint about it was that it wasn’t funny. My response was that sitcom finales often are more poignant than funny, and I can live with that, but the whole last _season_ wasn’t funny, and that ain’t right. I also did not like spending 22 episodes to build up to Robin and Barney’s wedding, and the wedding itself is over in five seconds of montage and thrown away in the next episode with a tossed-off, “We got divorced.” Talk about all build-up and no pay-off! ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/495 "2014-04-04T10:51:48Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > [This article](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-bandwagoned-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-which-s-1556056613) by a guy who never a saw a single episode except for the finale really did a good job summing up many of my reasons for thinking it sucked. While mostly a garbage article, it did have a funny line: “You are sad that this set will no longer be used for things! After this, it’s getting converted into an ice cream shop for Chuck Lorre’s new sitcom, _I Punched Her in the Face_.” ---
**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 4, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/496 "2014-04-04T13:32:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I also did not like spending 22 episodes to build up to Robin and Barney’s wedding, and the wedding itself is over in five seconds of montage and thrown away in the next episode with a tossed-off, “We got divorced.” Talk about all build-up and no pay-off! I think you just helped me put my finger on what bothered me so much about the finale (other than it not being funny.) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/497 "2014-04-04T15:25:56Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I also did not like spending 22 episodes to build up to Robin and Barney’s wedding, and the wedding itself is over in five seconds of montage and thrown away in the next episode with a tossed-off, “We got divorced.” Talk about all build-up and no pay-off! It gets worse. They had the wedding as the central question for four seasons and the main setting of the last and then the finish the marriage within 4 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/498 "2014-04-04T18:33:52Z")
> [@malaka](#): > > I’m not sure if anyone else mentioned this already: Boy is Robin going to be disappointed with Ted-sex after Barney-sex. Why? She’s already had sex with Ted after having had sex with Barney. She and Barney had a one-night-stand hookup (after her first breakup with Ted) that led to Barney & Ted’s temporary estrangement, and after Ted & Barney reconciled but before she and Barney became a couple the first time, she and Ted had a fuck-buddy relationship. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/499 "2014-04-04T19:25:32Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > I don’t see how this is a problem. > > The title is ‘how I met’ not ‘how I courted and lived with’ your mother > > The story is about all the travails he went through on his journey that led to him meeting the mother. Worse the show ended up being “How we Passed Aunt Robin Around like a Biker Chick for 20 Years Whenever We Didn’t have Anything Better” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560/500 "2014-04-04T19:54:03Z")
I finally watched the finale and I was prepared for “OMG SUX!” but I thought it was fine. But I am one of those people who has been “over” HIMYM for a while but kept watching anyway. Ted got what he wanted - kids and Robyn. Robyn got what she wanted - no kids and Ted (they’re basically adults now). As a woman in her 30s with a dog who doesn’t want kids, I’m glad to see that my TV counterpart didn’t end up alone forever. Of course she got tossed to the side for 15 years but hey…I can wait. I’m not too enthralled with Barney as a dad. I don’t like that trope of “once you see your kid you will fall in love and be a perfect parent forever and ever.” Gag. Most jarring part was seeing the cast from the first episode during the credits. Holy smokes has NPH aged - in a VERY good way! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-final-season/669560.md?page=26)