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But she is real and alive, in these stories. As for the latter. After falling in and out of love with Ted and Robin as a couple for nearly a decade, being genuinely unsure who to root for — especially when Tracy entered the scene — that final scene, in which Ted runs to Robin with a blue French horn, felt just a little bit like emotional whiplash.

Had Ted and Robin really earned a happily ever after? After all, was that really the story Ted had been telling his children, all these years? But in many respects television is only beginning to scratch the surface. Until the finale, when the entire premise is turned on its head.

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Watch options. Storyline Edit. Ted Mosby sits down with his kids, to tell them the story of how he met their mother. All legendary 9 seasons lead up to the moment of Ted's final encounter with "the one. A love story in reverse. Did you know Edit. Trivia All of Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie 's scenes as Ted Josh Radnor 's future children were filmed during the first season to keep them the same age throughout the series. This includes a scene for the show's eventual final episode filmed early in the second season.

Goofs Marshall, Lily, and Ted went to Wesleyan, where Ted studied to be an architect, but Wesleyan does not have an architecture program. Quotes Barney : It's gonna be legen User reviews Review. Rather than simply tell the story of Ted Mosby, a Manhattan-based architect looking for love in all the wrong places, it places his tale within the context of a much-older Ted in telling his children the story of, well, how exactly he met their mother.

Voiced by Bob Saget for some reason , Older Ted leads both his kids and the audience through the full story of how he met their mom, as well as all of the obstacles he encountered along the way. This complex framework gave the show a totally unique spin and its own mythology. Between Ted forgetting important details like an ex-girlfriend he refers to as "Blahblah" or his attempts to sanitize his past "eating a sandwich" has nothing to do sandwiches whatsoever , this is a show that requires you to watch it in order and to pay attention, or you might have trouble understanding the intricate narrative.

Ultimately, How I Met Your Mother is a show about love, and during nine seasons, the five main characters experience plenty of ups and downs in their relationships. As the main character, Ted is a hopeless romantic, and in the very first episode, he spots Robin across the room and immediately falls for her.

The two end up dating throughout the show's second season, but when they realize they want completely different things out of life, they ultimately split up and remain good friends. Afterwards, both date other people, and Ted's parade of girlfriends continually drum up suspense about which one might be "the Mother. As the most stable couple of the group, Lily and Marshall get engaged right at the start of the show, and despite a small blip where Lily leaves Marshall to attend art school in California, the two get married and have children, marking every major life milestone together.

However, the show's least likely couple ended up being one of its most important. Despite the fact that Barney Stinson spends the majority of the show operating as the world's biggest womanizer, he eventually falls in love with commitment-phobic Robin, and the two get engaged as the show moves towards its conclusion.

Robin and Barney weren't planned from the beginning, but thanks to palpable chemistry between Harris and Smulders, the writers decided to craft a storyline involving the two, and the rest was history.

Despite intense contract negotiations between CBS and the stars of How I Met Your Mother Jason Segel , for example, reportedly almost walked away from the show to pursue his successful film career , the show was ultimately renewed for a ninth and final season, which kicked off during the fall of and concluded in the spring of Throughout its entire run, HIMYM made a name for itself thanks to its unconventional choices and unusual framework, and the show seriously upped the ante for its final season, making the risky choice to center almost the entire episode season around the weekend of Robin and Barney's wedding with a few notable exceptions.

This structure was definitely a gamble, and in the end, many viewers wondered why HIMYM made such a risky choice for its final season. Despite cameos from stars like Lin-Manuel Miranda and returning turns from previous guest stars like Scrubs ' Sarah Chalke, Twin Peaks ' Kyle MacLachlan , and Once Upon a Time 's Jennifer Morrison, the uneven final season — which featured an entire episode in rhyme, as well as a totally tone-deaf conclusion to Barney and Marshall's slap bet — felt stretched out and inconsistent for most fans, and the final blow of the finale was still yet to come.

Despite an uneven final season, there was at least one standout episode during HIMYM 's swan song, and that was the sixteenth episode of the season and th episode of the show overall, "How Your Mother Met Me. After audiences officially met the Mother, played by the incredibly endearing Cristin Milioti a Broadway ingenue who would go on to star in projects like Black Mirror and Modern Love at the end of the eighth season, they clamored for more, and this episode provided all of the Mother backstory fans needed.

Finally, viewers got the chance to see the entire narrative of the show through the Mother's perspective. The second half of season 5 was set in the first five months of , focusing on Robin's relationship with Don , Marshall's mugging by a monkey, and the discovery of Ted's doppelganger. More importantly, in the spring of , Marshall and Lily decided to start a family. In typical How I Met Your Mother fashion, season 6 commenced in September, with a new installment that also began in the fall months.

This time around, it was the latter half of , which saw Ted meet Zoey after he was hired to design the new GNB building. After spending Thanksgiving with Zoey and Steve "The Blitz" Henry , the narrative got more serious heading into the new year. The timeline featured in season 6 featured the surprising death of Marshall's father and Barney meeting his own father for the first time.

Unlike previous seasons, which had events depicted in the series end in the spring months, the season 6 finale took place in September Most importantly, this was when Lily found out she was pregnant with her first child. How I Met Your Mother season 7 picked up just where the previous season left off, focused on the events of September In the months that followed, Ted reunited with Victoria while Barney began dating Nora.

Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily prepared for the birth of their child by moving to the suburbs in Long Island. By then, Barney was with Quinn, and Robin was promoted as the co-anchor at World Wide News after breaking up with her therapist boyfriend, Kevin. For a time, Ted was convinced Robin still had feelings for him. Ted was offered a job in Chicago, but he ultimately declined to relocate. After breaking up with Quinn, Barney carried out the final page of his Playbook in December to propose to Robin.

The rest of season 8 aired through May , which was fitting because most of the installment's events were set in the months leading up to Barney and Robin's wedding.