And there’s one slap left…
Aw, but that plot point was responsible for one of my all time favorite throw-away moments in the whole series.
When Marshal is offered the judgeship and has to give an immediate answer without talking to Lilly first, his “Do I take it? Or not? Or yes? It’s so hard to decide, I can’t make a decision.” Ha! Perfect judge.
Barney and Robin must have a fantastic (and invisible) wedding planner to allow the gang to have all their little adventures mere hours before the event.
Ted meets The Mother on the Farhampton train platform after the wedding is over. Ted has left the wedding (probably early, since there doesn’t seem to be anyone else from the wedding anywhere near him) when he meets her. At the point where she is walking up to the bench Ted is sitting on, he has every intention of going back to NYC, and then leaving that morning for Chicago.
Nothing else happens that day, so Ted can’t give Barney anything after he meets The Mother… And there is no way that he’d go through all of the trouble he did to get (or at least try to get - we still don’t know for sure where that locket is, do we?) and not make sure that the locket got to her in time for the wedding (one way or another.)
Barney’s got a guy…
As I recall, Ted is still in his wedding duds with no luggage on the train platform–which implies he snuck out somehow, leaving all his stuff and his car behind.
In the first episode of Night Court it’s established that Harry Stone was at the bottom of a long, long list of judge applicants, and that he only got an appointment because it was a holiday weekend and everyone else was out of town. Compared to that, Marshall’s appointment seems perfectly plausible.
My guess: Ted feels like a fifth wheel at the wedding; all his friends have paired off and gotten married. Meanwhile, he’s still pining for Robin. So he leaves the wedding early (perhaps before the toasts) to head for the train station and back to New York so he can finish packing for Chicago. At the LIRR platform, he meets The Mother and the rest is history.
Except some years down the road, he realizes he only married her because he was vulnerable and the marriage dissolves in bitterness and regret. There is an ugly divorce, and the scenes with the kids are followed by ones in which he refers to her angrily. This, by the way, is why the show is called “How I Met Your Mother” and not “How I Met My Wife and The Most Wonderful Woman in the World”.
Odd (but good) ep. last night. As far as I can tell, except for the actual meeting of Ted and Mom, every single outstanding plotline has been wrapped up (even ones they’ve already wrapped up*). I’m interested in what they’ll do for the last two episodes next week.
I do like how much Ted has grown up in this one (showing that he’s finally over Robin. At last.
*We just saw the “Robin gets wedding jitters because of Barney’s lies” plotline shown and wrapped in the Canadian rehearsal dinner episode. That was like 5 episodes ago. C’mon people.
Then again, Barney lies A LOT, so it may make sense that she gets worried about it again.
And yes, Ted being a good guy is way overdue (esp with all those seasons where he’s a complete douche).
Decent set up episode for the finale.
I liked last night’s episode, including the ring bear.
The wedding scene had one touch of realism, it seems every wedding I’ve been to had one girl that looked like Patrice. Nice wrap ups, the final slap finally being awarded was my favorite. Robin rocked her wedding dress, Pippa has nothing on her in the great butt department. The season on the whole has been quite well done, too bad more shows don’t take more time in such craftsmanship.
So how many actors have now played Robin’s father? It feels like there’s a new one every time the character is seen.
Lets see:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0134521/filmoseries#tt0460649
Alan Thicke "How I Met Your Mother" Sandcastles in the Sand (TV Episode 2008) - IMDb
Eric Baeden "How I Met Your Mother" Happily Ever After (TV Episode 2008) - IMDb
Ray Wise (all other episodes)
Brian
In spite of what IMDB says, Alan Thicke never played Robin’s father - he played the father in a video that “Robin Sparkles” was in (and was identified as “Alan Thicke” in dialogue).
Who is Pippa?
Last night was the first time in ages I’ve found Robin really hot. It was the exposed clavicles, I think.
Was anyone else slightly taken aback that no sooner does Barney swear always to tell Robin the truth, he says that he was just kidding about the “flower gorilla”, shortly before shooing away an animal handler holding a very large rope attached to something off-screen?
Nitpicking, I know, but still… less than 1 hour of “show time” has passed, and he’s already broken the vow.
I noticed that too, but I’ll fanwank it as being as one of Future!Ted’s man’s exaggerations, misremembrances, and outright lies-for-the-sake-of-a-joke. He’s an unreliable narrator, remember; there’s tons of events he relates that not only don’t make real-world sense, but aren’t meant to be taken as true in the framework of the show.
What bothers me more is the idea that Robin never met the Mother before that day. Are we meant to think that the Mother’s band didn’t audition for the gig? That Barney & Robin gave them the gig and negotiated payment without ever meeting them?
That’s bothered me for months. Ted should have met the Mother ere this too, since it was he who arranged for her band to get the gig.
Well, since the flower gorilla never came into the chapel, technically there was no flower gorilla. So he didn’t technically lie. But then again, it’s funnier the way it was presented, and Barney is new to this never lie to you stuff. He needs a little bit of time to get used to it.
Robin’s relatives:
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Eric Baeden wanted too much money for subsequent appearances for what is essentially a minor recurring character, so the show went to Ray Wise.
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If Barney had three groomsmen/best men, why didn’t Robin bring in her sister as the third woman on her side of the alter? Patrice makes the cut but Katie doesn’t?
Real world, I expect the answer is that the producers simply didn’t want to pay the young lady who plays Robin’s younger sister. They’ve had a LOT of guest stars this season, what with wanting to wrap up all the continuing storylines, and it could easily be that that they thought it prodigal to pay her to stand there and do nothing.
In story, I’m sure Future!Ted, asked by his children where the younger sister was, will make a fat joke about Patrice.