I still watch (and often enjoy) How I Met Your Mother but sometimes the only way I can deal with the frustrating fact that there are currently 160 episodes is by pretending that the kids got so bored with Ted Mosby’s story that they actually committed suicide around season three. The stress and devastation of the children’s suicide pact caused the Mosby’s marriage to dissolve and Ted lost touch with his friends so the last couple of seasons have transitioned from a funny sitcom to a fucked up drama about Ted slowly losing his mind as he paces around his empty house and retells the same sad stories to the ghosts that haunt him.
“I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets, and the thing is, after all these years, I still look back… with wonder.”
It seems fitting that a show that used and elevated the narrator concept of Stand By Me should end the same way, with the narrator describing what will happen to the future versions of the characters while we see visions of their current selves, whom we have come to care for. Just as the final scene fades out, the narrator’s son asks if his dad wants to play catch and we are left imaging an older version of Kevin leaving us to continue on with his life. I feel a little like I have just seen the end of How I Met Your Mother.
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dontcookbilly:
thedailywhat:
How About That of the Day: So apparently this has been going on for a while: An eagle-eyed Consumerist reader spotted an ad for the upcoming Kevin James vehicle Zookeeper superimposed into the background of a How I Met Your Mother rerun.
The original background of the 2007 episode was strikingly different.
Today: Digitally altering backgrounds in sitcoms. Tomorrow: Digitally altering foregrounds in historical footage?
[consumerist.]
Ryan Broderick, you were right
Oh shit.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnx8f3fBM31qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
How About That of the Day: So apparently this has been going on for a while: An eagle-eyed Consumerist reader spotted an ad for the upcoming Kevin James vehicle Zookeeper superimposed into the background of a How I Met Your Mother rerun.
The original background of the 2007 episode was strikingly different.
Today: Digitally altering backgrounds in sitcoms. Tomorrow: Digitally altering foregrounds in historical footage?
[consumerist.]
Ryan Broderick, you were right
Oh shit.
I like to believe that this How I Met Your Mother is a crossover with Dexter season 4.
How I Met Your Mother is definitely my favorite in production comedy. I am rewatching in anticipation of the new season set.
Legen….dary!
