History Film / TheWeddingBride

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A fake movie from the television series ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' where the full trailer was released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwFGE1oipc online]].
The movie managed to have 2 sequels, as seen in the 17th episode of the 7th season.
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!! This ''"movie"'' has examples of:

* TheAce: "Tony" in the movie.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The movie emphasizes Stella's struggle in her relationship with Jed and paints her as TheWoobie.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Jason Lewis is conventionally more handsome than Jason Jones.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Unlike Ted, Jed is a ridiculous ButtMonkey whose humiliations are PlayedForLaughs.
* AdaptationalCurves: Tony is taller and more muscular in the film, while Stella becomes [[StatuesqueStunner statuesque]].
* AdaptationalHeroism: Tony becomes an almost Sue-like romantic interest who mentors orphans.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Jed, as Ted is clearly TallDarkAndHandsome while Jed is, well, not.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ted becomes a SmugSnake RomanticFalseLead BigBad in the film.
* AdaptationalWimp: Jed is much more pathetic than Ted, overlapping with AdaptationalComicRelief above.
* AdaptationNameChange: Ted Mosby becomes Jed Mosely. In the sequel, Marshall becomes Narshall.
* AdaptedOut: Robin, Lilly, Marshall and Barney aren't in this film. In Season 9, The Wedding Bride 2 features Jed's sidekick ''Narshall''
* AmusingInjuries: Every injury Jed suffers. Tony and Stella even laugh at the last one.
* AscendedExtra: Tony's students were not shown in the actual series.
* AuthorAvatar: "Tony", taken to MartyStu levels.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Tony, the heroic MartyStu character, is obviously much more attractive than {{Jerkass}} Jed.
* BigBad: Jed.
* BlatantLies: Everything the trailer voice over says including "Thank God this isn't based on a true story... because Chris Kattan's character Jed Mosely is such a DOUCHEBAG!"
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Stella's answer to Tony's proposal: "Can-do's ville baby doll!".
* ButtMonkey: Jed, intentionally so.
* CardCarryingVillain: Jed Mosely.
--> ''"I'm the most powerful and corrupt architect in New York City!"''
* CatchPhrase:
** No-can-do's ville baby doll!
** Which later becomes an IronicEcho.
* CelebrityParadox: During the eponymous episode, Ted saw the film while dating his GirlOfTheWeek played by Creator/JudyGreer. Creator/MalinAkerman, who plays Movie!Stella, starred with Greer in ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'' about two years before this episode aired and will eventually co-star with Creator/JoshRadnor in ''Film/{{Happythankyoumoreplease}}'' just a few months later.
* ClicheStorm: The whole movie. Parodied in-universe with the trailer voice-over saying [[BlatantLies "utterly original"]] and [[BlatantLies "not formulaic in ANY way".]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** Do brides do something besides going to weddings?
** "You've become so focused on being a wedding bride, you forgot what follows after: [[SpoofAesop a marriage wife.]]"
* DisposableFiance: Jed Mosely. [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in the show itself, as mentioned below.
* DullSurprise: Tony.
* EarnYourHappyEnding:
** Tony "fights" for Stella.
** The show itself [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructs]] the idea of the Good!End by showing how a "Left at the Altar Situation" affects the one who was dumped.
* EvilIsHammy: Chris Kattan as Jed Mosley. Contrast with [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously Malin Akerman and Jason Lewis.]]
* EvilLaugh: Jed does this after telling Tony he'll take Tony to the wedding just to make poor Tony suffer.
* FriendToAllChildren: Tony is getting fine with the kids.
* ForcedToWatch: Jed threatens Tony to drive him to the wedding and make him watch.
* ForTheEvulz: Everything Jed does.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Stella complains to Tony about what a lousy lover Jed is. "One time, he even fell asleep in the middle of it."
* GroinAttack: Twice. Jed spills coffee on his crotch and at the end [[HumiliationConga gets kicked there]] by Tony's student after Stella leaves him at the altar.
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: The "Tony" character of the movie is a MartyStu AuthorAvatar created by Tony himself for his movie.
* HonorBeforeReason: No! Remember the code!
* HumiliationConga: Jed goes through one at the end.
* InformedAbility: How great and popular the movie supposedly is. Then again, we are seeing it from [[UnreliableNarrator Ted's]] point of view.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Stella announces to Tony she's going to marry Jed.
--> ''Stella, your happiness is the only thing I care about... except for those unprivileged children I work with for free.''
* {{Jerkass}}: Jed Mosely. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally not Ted Mosby.]]
--> ''[[LampshadeHanging "Why would Stella even marry a jerk like Jed Mosely?"]]''
* KickTheDog: Jed Mosely does nothing but this.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Jed during the wedding. ''[[GroinAttack Literally]]''.
* LaughablyEvil: How Jed is portrayed in the film, being both an obnoxious jerk and an utterly pathetic ChewToy (PlayedForLaughs, obviously).
* ManChild: Jed Mosely.
--> No! You can't do this on my wedding! DAAAAAAAAAAAADDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
* {{Padding}}: Barney’s Blog review mentions a strip club scene that occupies 84 minutes out of the movie’s 200 minute runtime, and primarily consists of Jed taking a dollar out of his wallet exactly fifty-six times.
* PetTheDog: Tony works with underprivileged children for free. Stella does volunteer work for the deaf and blind.
-->'''Jed''': [[KickTheDog They won't notice.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: A Movie Within A Show, in this case.
* RaceForYourLove: Tony at the film's climax.
* RealTrailerFakeMovie
* RonTheDeathEater: The movie is an InUniverse example.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Stella is the {{Tritagonist}} of the film.
* ShipperOnDeck: Billy. "Go after her, Master Tony!" And, well, everybody at the wedding except Jed and (maybe) his daddy.
* ShoutOut: Yep, that's the "Portuguese Love Theme" and "Prime Minister's Love Theme" from ''Film/LoveActually'' that keep playing. Go Ted, "get the shit kicked out of [you] by love".
* SmugSnake: Jed
* StayInTheKitchen: What Jed plans to do to Stella after marrying her. "I can't wait to make her give up her career."
* StylisticSuck: Not that this stops it from becoming hugely popular in-universe, to the point where one is forced to conclude that Ted is the only character with any taste at all. Of course, since he hates it so much, this could just be Ted being an UnreliableNarrator...
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Here are some blurbs from (unnamed) critics:
-->''"Groundbreaking"\\
"Utterly original"\\
"Not... formulaic... in ANY way"\\
"THANK GOD this isn't based on a TRUE STORY because man, Chris Kattan's character JED MOSELY is SUCH a DOUCHEBAG"''
* TakeThat: The entire film is a big, fat middle finger at poor [[strike:Jed]] Ted.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Invoked. Creator/MalinAkerman and Jason Lewis play their roles ([[StylisticSuck with all the intentionally cliched, bad dialogue]]) with complete seriousness and conviction.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: InUniverse example.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: No one knows the reason why Stella was willing to marry someone like Jed. This both the case within the setting of the movie itself and the only major critique most in-universe viewers have outside of the movie.
* TheWoobie: Invoked by "Stella" in the movie.

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* AdaptationalCurves: Tony is more taller and muscular in the film, while Stella becomes [[StatuesqueStunner statuesque]].

* TropeOverdosed: It's a [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within]] [[Series/HowIMetYourMother A Show]] [[RealTrailerFakeMovie that only had a trailer made]], and it has its own page!

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: At the wedding, ''everybody'' (even ''the priest'') urges Stella to dump Jed for Tony.

* {{Padding}}: Barney’s Blog review mentions a strip club scene that occupies 84 minutes out of the movie’s 200 minute runtime.

* TakeThat: The entire film is a big, fat TakeThat at poor [[strike:Jed]] Ted.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: No one knows the reason why Stella was willing to marry someone like Jed.

* BlatantLies: Everything the trailer voice over says including "Thank God this isn't based on a true story...because Chris Kattan's character Jed Mosely is such a DOUCHEBAG!"

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory

A fake movie from the television series ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' where the full trailer was released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwFGE1oipc online]]. The movie describes [[spoiler: Ted's failed relationship with Stella from the skewed point of view of her ex-boyfriend, now husband, Tony. Not only does Ted go to see this movie a few times within an episode of the show, he also at one point recites something similar to the final scene of the movie to his date while in the movie theatre.]]

* ParodySue: The "Tony" character of the movie, although in-universe he isn't supposed to be a parody, but a MartyStu AuthorAvatar created by Tony himself for his movie.

* CatchPhrase: No-can-do's ville baby doll!

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Do brides do something besides going to weddings?

* ShoutOut: Yep, that's the "Portuguese Love Theme" and "Prime Minister's Love Theme" from LoveActually that keep playing. Go Ted, "get the shit kicked out of [you] by love".

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Jason Lewis is conventionally more handsome than Jason Jones. Inverted with Jed, as Ted is clearly TallDarkAndHandsome while Jed is, well, not.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Jed. Overlaps with AdaptationalWimp below.

* AdaptationalWimp: How Ted was portrayed. PlayedForLaughs in universe.

* ParodySue: Tony is perfect in every way.

* AdaptedOut: Robin, Lilly, Marshall and Barney aren't in this film.
** In Season 9, The Wedding Bride 2 features Jed's sidekick ''Narshall''

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Tony "fights" for Stella.

* JerkAss: Jed Mosely. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Totally not Ted Mosby.]]

* [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within A Show]]

* StylisticSuck: Not that this stops it from becoming hugely popular in-universe, to the point where one is forced to conclude that Ted is the only character with any taste at all.
** Of course, since he hates it so much, this could just be Ted being an UnreliableNarrator...

* AdaptationalHeroism: Tony.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ted becomes a SmugSnake BigBad in the film.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Jason Lewis is conventionally more handsome that Jason Jones. Inverted with Jed, as Ted is clearly TallDarkAndHandsome while Jed is, well, not.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The movie emphasizes Stella's struggle in her relationship with Jed.

* CelebrityParadox: During the eponymous episode, Ted saw the film while dating his GirlOfTheWeek played by JudyGreer. Creator/MalinAkerman, who plays Movie!Stella, starred with Greer in ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'' about two years before this episode aired and will eventually co-star with Creator/JoshRadnor in ''Film/{{Happythankyoumoreplease}}'' just a few months later.