How I Met Your Mother

That would be a difficult task, especially in such a way that even people who know of the show would actually get the joke. The best I can come up with:

• Barney: Ducky Tie
• Marshall: Dr. Seuss hat
• Ted: Red cowboy boots
• Lily: T-shirt saying "Slap Bet Commissioner"
• Robin: Blue French Horn prop

For Marshall, shave the middle of your hair after dying it with blonde highlights.

Lily could have her awful season 3 hair, black with hideous bangs!

Marshall could have his "cursed pants."

You know, in regards to me saying we should supplementary material, here's one thing it can explain: Why is Barney into the number 83?

Because it looks like boobs and a butt.

I can never unsee that now

Thanks

New question: Any reason why would Brad oppose Marshall again by also running for New York State Supreme Court Justice? I mean, I thought they made their peace at the end of Twelve Horny Women?

Just because they weren't enemies doesn't mean they won't be competitors.

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New question: Any word yet on which ending to the series is canon (original broadcast ending or Complete Series DVD ending)?

Original broadcast is The End, the alternate ending is just that—an alternative ending which they considered and decided not to go with.

It wasn't as good as the fanmade one, (which I should have downloaded. It was better edited than the replicas) the change in soundtrack is terrible for the train scene.

edited 8th Nov '14 5:29:13 PM by occono

So basically, Tracy is canonically dead?

Yes, for six years.

I just re-watched the episode "Of Course", the one where Jennifer Lopez plays the author of the advice book Of course you're still single, take a look at yourself you dumb slut.

Was anybody else disturbed by her dating advice? Particularly where she talks about "The Power of No", where women can empower themselves by constantly saying "No" to a man who, in return, will keep pursuing her.

In the real world, this is not only bad advice, it's dangerous advice. If you tell a man "No", then the only type of man who would keep pursuing is the kind who refuses to take "No" for an answer.

It's a sitcom, you're supposed to find it funny and disturbing and completely not ever take her advice. That doesn't mean it won't happen, it just whittles down the dating pool and teaches people lessons about taking their life advice from sitcoms in the first place. Which is sadly a lesson some people need to learn.

Wait, is that why I got arrested for stealing a blue french horn from a restaurant? And why my girlfriend broke up with me when I proposed to her with a toy from a claw machine? And why another girl punched me when I proposed to her by revealing that I had only been pretending to date a girl she found really annoying?

I remember "Of Course". That was the episode after which I realized I had enough of this once-very-good sitcom. In season two, I thought it was the best American TV comedy of the decade, and perhaps ever.

Though the thing with "no" and all the awful implications escaped me. I couldn't care less about the guest star of the week though the book title (and just the title) is Actually Pretty Funny.

I was more preoccupied with how unspeakably horrible the whole gang was to Robin, how awful that dude Robin was working with was, how Marshal gushed about him for no reason, how lame Ted's idea for the super cool date was (and I had loved me some blue musical instruments and making it rain or having a two-minute date); how cheesy and not-funny his song was... Bleugh! I stopped watching after that. There are many episodes of my favourite shows that I dislike but this one was the worst. When I thought I might be missing the characters, I remembered this episode and I was cured of my nostalgia or whatever. Talk about Ruined Forever audience reaction.

After that I only checked some episodes that were supposed to have pivotal moments (my friend who kept watching would sometimes tell me about those), and I was invested enough to watch most of season 9 to see how it would all end.

Ech, despite the odds, Tracy was adorable and pretty cool and somehow managed to live up to the hype, but she was the only thing I liked about the season, and there were too little doses of her to my liking. Oh, and I guess the scene with the umbrella was really good (but Romantic Rain and Umbrella of Togetherness are my darling tropes).

But honestly, I could have wasted my time on better shows. I agree with other people that this series really could have been named Shaggy Dog Story: How I Met Your Uterus. That's all I have to say about that.

ETA: Wow, what a Wall of Text. Sorry about that. I'm probably bitter.

edited 5th Mar '15 3:16:21 PM by XFllo

You should have come back for Season 6. It might have had a disappointing Ted storyline (Zoey? Meh), but it had amazing Marshall and Barney storylines.

Thanks for the tip. I might go back to the series later if I have nothing else to watch.

edited 5th Mar '15 4:02:10 PM by XFllo

It's been a while since the show ended. It had quite good moments, funny, sweet, and sad.

This one sticks out the most for me.

God, that Barney voice breaking...

It really, really, really did.

... and then that ending.

But let's not let this devolve into that. It's been covered, I'm sure.

What are some other favorite scenes people had?

What got me into the series was the episode in season 2 where Lily moves in with Barney and Marshall and Brad bro out. It drew me in and was a delightful mix of absurd and observant.

The two-minute date was quite spectacular. I always liked Stella, possibly more than Victoria, because even though she left Ted at the altar there was a sense that Ted's influence on her life was universally positive. She hates that she hurt Ted so badly but confides that he helped her believe in falling in love again.

I think it's a testimony to Josh Radner's performance on the show that he was able to have such good chemistry with every cast member and guest star. Almost every one-off date Ted had on the show you were kind of rooting for them. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing, but he tended to dominate every scene he was in.

Up until the end, I loved the show. Which is why it got sour for me when it was over. We're not going to have a discussion on that last part. It's all been said. It really was a good show. So hard to pick out moments that stood out to me above the rest. I mean, there's the poignant ones like Marshall hearing his dad's last phone call to him all the way through. There all the hot chicks who starred or guest starred in the show. There's really just so much there. I should rewatch it, it's just difficult with knowing how it all goes. Even though we pretty much knew from the get go that that was probably how it was going to turn out.

I know we're trying to not talk about the ending but...one thing that always sticks out in my mind is Ted and Tracy first meeting. That's a scene that was being built to for years and somehow it managed to work buildup and all.

That's not The Ending. It's, like, the best part of that entire episode. The only real part worth watching. It's what comes after that we shall not talk about. They definitely managed to make The Mother worthwhile. It was surprising they'd pull that off.