Line #18 Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E06HappilyEverAfter


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3	In the aftermath of Stella leaving Ted at the altar, the gang discusses ways of avoiding people you never want to see again in your life while hiding from Stella in a restaurant.
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6	!!This episode provides examples of:
7	* BaitAndSwitchTimeSkip: Following Ted discovering Stella's note, we transition to him and the others at the bar, where he makes this speech about how he has finally gotten past the pain and has moved on. After an awkward silence, Lily informs him that ''the wedding was yesterday''.
8	* BittersweetEnding: Ted learns that Stella moved in with Tony and is utterly betrayed, but accepts that their new family is happy together.
9	-->'''Future Ted''': And that, kids, is the perfect ending for a perfect love story. It just wasn't mine. Mine is still out there, waiting for me.
10	* CallBack:
11	** Ted remembering that Stella [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E03IHeartNJ forced him to live in New Jersey]] but decided to live in New York upon getting back with Tony is what finally causes him to snap.
12	** Ted and his family's tendency to avoid conflicts is alluded back [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E03Brunch in Season 2]].
13	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After Robin tells the gang about her difficult childhood and fraught relationship with her estranged father, Barney expresses his sympathy...for the fact that she had to grow up in Canada "with [[{{Eagleland}} America]] right there."
14	* ContinuityNod:
15	** Marshall reveals to Ted that [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E01DoIKnowYou Stella hates]] [[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]], as a reason to be upset with her.
16	* DontYouDarePityMe: Ted invokes this to his friends when they're all trying to please him.
17	* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Robin's complete name is "Robin ''Charles'' Scherbatsky".
18	* EmbarrassingNickname: Lily reveals she accidentally got her classmate Michael Sasser nicknamed "Gasser" when she blamed a fart on him her first day of high school. He ended up having to change schools.
19	* FreudianExcuse: Robin became girly and embarked on her career as a teen idol to spite her father, who wanted a son instead of her.
20	* IHaveNoSon: Robin, Sr. disowns Robin upon seeing his daughter kissing her teammate.
21	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ted was just about to give Stella TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but then suddenly sees her hugging Tony and Lucy outside the front door and notices that they make a very happy family. He then realizes that Stella actually made the right choice and is meant to be with Tony, so he leaves without saying anything. Future!Ted even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this:
22	-->'''Future Ted:''' And that, kids, was the perfect ending to a perfect love story. It just wasn't mine.
23	* ImagineSpot: Ted imagines giving Stella a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
24	* IronicEpisodeTitle: The BittersweetEnding above says it all.
25	* MooseAndMapleSyrup: The flashbacks to Robin growing up in Canada feature her heavy Canadian accent and [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan playing hockey]]. She also mentions that Canadians supposedly use hockey terms to discuss sex, like Americans do with baseball terms.
26	* PayEvilUntoEvil:
27	** The gang has been encouraging Ted to lash out on Stella and Tony.
28	** Marshall winds up revealing to the others that when Lily left him to go to San Francisco, Ted tried talking him into burning all her possessions.
29	--->'''Lily''': Seriously?! [[SarcasmMode Oh, nice, thanks, Ted...]]
30	* RageBreakingPoint: Ted finally finds his inner rage when he realizes that Stella made him move to New Jersey, [[{{Hypocrite}} while she immediately moved to Tony's apartment in New York]].
31	* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Robin had been raised by her dad as a boy until he saw her kissing a guy from her hockey team.
32	* SeriesContinuityError: Robin's flashback contradicts many of her previous backstories from previous seasons except her IdolSinger days. namely;
33	** In a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E06TheSluttyPumpkin Season 1 episode]], she said that she never played team sports. The flashback shows her playing hockey.
34	** In [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E20Miracles the Season 3 finale]], a flashback shows her as a young girl dressed in feminine clothes. This episode "established" that she was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender.
35	* TakeAThirdOption: Lampshaded.
36	-->'''Future!Ted:''' Kids, you may think that your only choice is to swallow your anger or throw it to someone's face, but there's a third option; you could just let it go.
37	* {{Tomboy}}: Robin reveals she hasn't talked to her father in three years after he forced her to be a tomboy growing up so he could pretend she was his son.
38	* WomanScorned: Becca, the female prisoner Barney had been sleeping with until another prisoner caught his eye, has apparently sworn to violently murder him when she gets released.

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