I’m not sure if this is common in other sitcoms, but one of my absolute favorite things about HIMYM is their willingness to completely shred the fabric of reality for a throwaway gag. It’s like watching a live-action cartoon.
Yeah writers didn't know when to stop and let it stay a mystery. For me the absolutely worst part of the ending wasn't that the mom died or that Ted went once again after Robin. My biggest disappointment by far was them revealing what "PLEASE" meant and showing that Barney was basically a fall guy.
AlbertOrnstein ok that’s not a good point of course, you have a good opinion, but I just can’t agree with you on the fact that finding out after all the time he said “hah please” they made please stand for something, you know. That’s just me of course. It’s kind of 50/50 but I mean I’d rather know that please was an acronym then just be left in mystery
What saddens me about this particular gag, is that they used it multiple times and ended it within a single episode, instead of slowly stretching it out for a season and a half or something. Considering that a lot of their comedy works that way and they do it surprisingly well, a shame they didn't do it with this one.
I agree, I think that would have been a great running gag! Kind of like how in My Name is Earl every single photo of him he always has his eyes closed.
One of the many things I love about this show - it plays with the fact that the narrator is a character, so you can at least imagine that the unrealistic moments are just him exaggerating (or maybe how the kids imagine it, either is fine.) Two similar things it does to allow unrealistic moments (which are actually stated in the show specifically) are have scenes where Ted admits that he can't remember exactly what happened, or scenes where he wasn't there, and only has the exaggerated version of the story one of his friends told him to go on. You can also add Ted's censorship attempts to this too.
You lose all awesome points as a hippie. So he was already awesome, then became a hippie and due to his hippieness became a loser. So when he quit being a hippie he regained his awesomeness
This scene ALWAYS cracks me up! Gotta love it! Btw, the camera hate's my guts! The camera wants to kill me. The camera wants to see me go down with the Titanic! The camera wants to burn me at the stake! Nah! The camera Adores me! Gotcha!
One of the best shows and this was awesome.. Only thing I just realized was that barnies picture as a kid didn't make sense to me. He wasn't the stensin until college
The real secret here is realizing that none of your “bad photos” are actually bad to other people. They’re just bad to you, so you can just act like you’ve never had a bad photo.
Mark Santiago there’s a reason for that. For the entire episode the perfect pose in a picture. Marshall and Barney are complete opposites in this context. By including Barney’s one bad photo at the end, would’ve been the perfect ending. It’s also the thing that the entire episode builds up to.
Mark Kaye i know. Its just poor barney, just let him have this “i never take a bad picture” shine before its gone forever, meaning at the end of the episode
Mark Santiago question for you then. Why tell a joke and forget to say the punch line. Why go fishing if you forget to catch a fish. Why go golfing and forget to keep the score. The build up to it is what it’s needed for. If you just leave the build up, then it just doesn’t make sense without the anchor.
Show was about Ted but honestly Barney was the best part. Still annoyed that if the writers weren’t going to have him end up with Robin why he didn’t end up with Quinn.
May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace.’ Numbers 6:24-26 NLT
