How I Met Your Mother - Robin's "Happy" Ending 

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Honestly that final haircut was also a massive letdown. They did her dirty.

What doesn’t make sense was the writers thinking Barney wouldn’t be okay with Robin being successful. When we all know Barney would be there supporting her till the end.

Robin and Barney’s divorce hurt A LOT. I kind of wish they’d gotten back together in the end, because Barney was the one who always saw her as a real person instead of a perfect dream girl who the main character DESERVED.

I’m honestly just amazed at how the writers managed to ruin *years* of character development for Ted, Robyn, and Barney all at once.

Imagine spending a whole season showing a couple's wedding just to have them break up within the span of 10 minutes

To me, the final moments of Robin and Barney's marriage didn't fit with either of them. Barney always admired Robin for being who she was: the independent, career driven person who wanted adventure. He didn't fantasize about her changing or wanting different things and he loved that she wasn't needy like other women he knew. I don't buy him suddenly being unhappy because they moved around the world or because Robin couldn't hang out with him and put her career first. It felt so forced.

What confused me most about the end of Robin and Barney is that Barney has been the most supportive of her career throughout the entire series. He even finished her video resume for her. Why would that same Barney be so frustrated with her having to work? It just always struck me as very out of character for him.

I hated Robin's ending. Ted with his "love at first sight" kind of story, has always loved *the idea* of Robin, and not her actual self. On the other hand, Barney fell in love with who she is, a person who loves her career and the freedom of doing anything she wants. He loved her for her and he didn't had to act like the usual Barney with her. Robin, just like Tracy, deserved better.

I'm not mad about Robin divorcing Barney, because nothing lasts forever. I'm not even mad about Tracy dying, because Ted always spoke about her with pain. I'm MAD about Ted and Robin ended up together, it made Tracy just a thing to make kids for Ted

What the writers didn’t realize is the huge disservice they gave Robin’s character. They probably thought that was every woman’s happy ending and that Robin would be happy with it but...it. Just. Doesn’t. Fit. Her. Character. Literally every season of HIMYM: Ted doesn’t belong with Robin The last episode: Ted belongs with Robin

i never watched this show, but as a woman who also doesnt want kids, I'm so sick of how every character i feel like i can actually relate to always somehow ends up with a family and doing a complete 180 as far as what they want out of life. Not wanting kids as a woman is not something that needs to be fixed lol

you know what makes me sad? how ted and robin's friendship was genuinely sweet and wholesome. even if there were those little moments where tensions between them would rise again, they got along, joked around with each other, supported each other's romantic relationships and shared a great bond. to throw all that away just for them to start dating again..... i hate it.

How to ruin a show in just three minutes : By shoving together two people for a last minute happy ending after spending years pointing out exactly WHY they're incompatible! 🤦🏾‍♀️

You're telling me robin became super successful, and yet at the end of the show she was still single, living in the same apt. Complex with her dogs..just waiting for ted to rescue her? Try again. In reality, Robin would have found other boyfriends who respected her boundaries and loved her anyway

Which woman doesn't want a man that goes from girl to girl, constantly thinking "this one's the one," and sleeping with like 87 girls and then finally settle down with "the one" and getting kids and after she dies going back to you, like you're "the one" for him? I was more like number 89.

It's also ridiculous how 'career woman' is even a term: there's no 'career man'. This needs to die in the 21st century 😂

I loved Robin with Barney. It was a relationship based on mutual interests, love and respect. It did not diminish Robin as a character or her ambition, in fact Barney respected her even more for it. The forced divorce and ending is just so out of place 😒

I absolutely hated that she ended up with Ted. Like she was a consolation prize now that he got the kids and marriage he wanted.

What was maddening about the ending was precisely what you said early on: They filmed it in advance of the entire series. they *knew* how they wanted to end it, and had literal years to guide the narrative to that conclusion in a logical and consistent way... yet they chose instead to have the characters move in opposite directions for 90% of the runtime, only to hurriedly cram everyone into their ending roles in the final few episodes.

6:55 I'm sorry.... did Lily really just say "this is how people act in relationships"???? No relationship should make you feel constantly jealous, crazy, or paranoid. Relationships are built on mutual trust and security in your partner

Are we supposed to assume that Robin is so beat down after her divorce that she just doesn't care about career progression anymore, and literally settles down for Ted? That's pretty sad.

If Robin weren't meant to be with Barney, I wish she just stayed alone, focused on her work. Not every happy endings need to have romance in it. (But I really liked the idea of two commitment-phobes dating and overcoming the fear if it.)

Saying she doesnt have female friends always confused me coz whe was literally sitting drinking with female friends during the very 1st episode lol

“We wanted to show a show where the guy wants the girl and the girl doesn’t want that” If she doesn’t want that then it shouldn’t be happening.....

My ending: Robin should have stayed with Barney and showed the independent, self reliant life partner type of relationships that exist now in the 21st Century. And Teds story should have ended with him being a single dad with his kids but having lived and experienced the life changing out of this word romance he always had wanted. Showing that life gives you not necessary what you wanted, but what you needed. Robin living her career out and also getting the approval of a man in an unconventional way. And Ted having a life changing Romance, one that produced his kids and in the end the forever love he always wanted in the form of his children.....but I’m not a writer.....

She was NOT a damsel in distress waiting for her knight in shining armour. She just needed a group of friends to support her. they did her so dirty. the ending ruined all the character development. Her not being able to have a child wouldve been a great story for her as this happens to a lot of women and it isnt seen as much in tv. the ending just makes it seem like ted knocked up the mother as a surrogate for his robin fantasy.

I just came to the realization that Ted is a romcom version of joe from "you"

I've watched the entire show 10 times and the ending did EVERYONE dirty. Ted came out as a delusional sociopath, Robin as a successful lonely dog lady who regretted all her life choices, Barney as the really creepy old baby daddy who hits on college kids at the club and Lily and Marshall as the golden couple. At this point I even think Ted killed the mom... why did she die so mysteriously only for Ted to run back to Robin? This isn't a comedy it's a suspenseful thriller, but we don't realise because the narrator is the villain and in his perspective it's kind of romantic and kind of funny

Drops everything, to spend 20mins agreeing with everything they're saying.

"I hate work and evidently you miss it." "I know, I'm a terrible mother!" "If you were a dude, you wouldn't even be thinking that." That's exactly it, right there.

I think the biggest issue with this show is that Ted always believed that Robin was "the one" even though Robin never thought Ted was "the one." Of course, in the end no one cares about what Robin wants, only that Ted is able to have the woman of his dreams AND kids even though that was never something Robin wanted.

Agree. Robin should have stayed with Barney. Ending up with Ted was contrived and forced. Awful ending to a great show.

Barney also regressed the last season for no real reason beyond Ted and Robin must be together, which was absurd. Robin and Barney's development as characters was one of the best things the show had going on.

If a guy ever tells you he loved the original ending from HIMYM (before they tried to fix it) you RUN. Obsessing over someone who keeps saying no is NOT romantic.

The Swarkles relationship easily could've been a Judah/Princess Carolyn-type of relationship. Two constantly working people with an adoptive child to take care of; Robin being the content workaholic with no signs of stopping, and Barney being the supportive trophy husband. It's all the more frustrating when you realize the show built up Barney's flexibility as a partner for Robin and vice versa, but no, let's just revert the two back to their old selves and pretend everything is okay.

This is not a love story to me. They killed off Tracy just to force motherhood and Ted on robin🤦‍♀️. Urgh how exactly did robin and Barney not last? They seemed perfect for each other

I dated a Ted. He told me he loved me after 3 dates and cried infront of me because of his emotions. He was certain I was the love of his life, his soulmate etc. and I tried to explain to him that we're too different but he refused to see it or care. I can be quite romantic myself but in many ways i'm like Robin. I kept seeing this guy for a while but when I wouldn't commit fully to him, planning our future and kids and all that after less than 2 months of knowing each other he moved on. I started talking to him again a while back after running into him outside, he flirted with me and said all kinds of things obviously still has feelings though he says he's seeing someone else now. I told him we shouldn't talk if he's seeing someone else but he's always lurking on my pages... Although he says now he's realized himself that we are too different but that he also thinks there's still hope maybe in the future... I hope not lol. Don't wanna end up like the HIMYM-final. He's a sweet guy but a bit too in love with the idea of love. People who are too in love with the idea of love doesn't really SEE you, they just romanticize you.

Sometimes I feel like Robin's character has been written by different people, or through different points of view. From a side she is actually a complex person, with true ambitions and singular desires, from the other side she is limited in her own being by the role that the writers themselves wanted to gave her in the story, which is in fact Ted's story, not her own. Because of the finale it's like her true nature is oppressed by the expectation that Ted (the writers) had on her: being the ideal girl, object of a male fantasy, who in the end becomes finally accessible. It's not even like the point is to be with her, rather than to prove that Ted can, and will, have her. Like she's a trophy rather than a person.

This ending pissed me off. Barney and Robin should have stayed together and they shouldn't have killed the mom

they should have filmed like 5 endings with the kids so that they could choose in the end... just saying would not be that costy xD

You know what, I am so tired of the excuse that “they already filmed the ending years in advance to keep it realistic.” I would MUCH rather prefer they bring back the grown kids, or even cut the kids from the end, to make a better ending. If the writers truly cared about the quality of the show, they would have done whatever it took to make a good ending.

The show also removed Robin's 'world reporting' career to move and settle her back in the city with brand new dogs to be available for Ted. With her career sidetracked/under control, she should have gone back to her ex-husband Barney who was equally robbed in the finale. I mean being a father is great but a father with a mother you don't know or care for is horrid for everyone. Barney also regressed to his old state because his growth as a character was made together with Robin and losing her made him give up on the man he had become (until he had a baby). Both men may have loved Robin but Ted remained the same character he was at the beginning of the story while Barney, until his forced regression, grew up.

I know they already filmed the ending 8 years prior, but after seeing how much character development they made in those years, they should have just filmed a new one. The blue french horn was very sweet and nostalgic and I love it when shows come full circle, but in this case, it was just so abrupt and didn't fit at all.

Robin was my favorite character and in a way felt reflected on her. I was so mad with the ending and how they basically erased her growth, personality and goals. It was sad.

They kind of did this to Lily too. Her artist dreams diassapear and she becomes another Erikson wife baby machine that she was disgusted by earlier in the series.

the issue is that they filmed the ending early, and the story drifted away from it as the years went on

i love that they wrote an ending they thought everyone would love and be satisfied by and it's just universally hated. i feel like that's the disappointment they deserve.

I think it's safe to say that we all were let down by the "How I Met Your Mother" dumpster fire of a series ending. It made the ending of "Dexter" look like "Citizen Cane".

I think what bothers me the most is that women are seen as "either/or" (a mother or a working woman.) No one ever asks men if they can have it all...

This is the same thing that irked me in The Big Bang Theory. Penny said the whole show through and in the last season even more that she doesn’t want kids and she prefers being the fun loving aunt. But in the last episode Lennard surprisingly knocked her up and she was happy. Like what? Why do shows force this idea on women that they need a child to be happy???

Robin was THE ULTIMATE male fantasy. It was so IRRITATING. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Tracy seemed as valuable to Ted as all the other women that were only in one episode

I know the reason they filmed the ending eight years early because they weren't sure how much longer the show would last and were worried the teen actors would be too old by the time they got to the finale and I get that, but why not just lean into it? Wrap the story and cut to the kids who are now clearly in their 20's. Then Tracy (The Mother) walks in all dressed up and the camera switches so we can see Ted who is dressed up too. They're about to go out to dinner because it's their anniversary, and it's revealed that it's been an annual tradition for Ted to tell their kids the story of how the two of them met on their anniversary for the past ten years ever since the first time we saw back in the first episode. Or you have the now 20-somethings joke about how it took him ten years, but Ted finally got around to the part where he and Tracy met. Turns out this has not all been happening in a single sitting, but something he's been doing once a week every week that they can all get together to do it as a way for Ted to bond with his kids. Ted laughs awkwardly and agrees they've finally reached the end of the story. The kids get up to leave; they both have other things that they need to get to. Ted agrees and we see him sitting his his chair looking melancholy. The implication is he's sad not to have the excuse to have the kids come over and tell them his stories anymore. But then they both go up to him and offer some sort of physical affection -- a hug, a shoulder pat, a kiss on the cheek, etc. -- and Luke says, "See you next Sunday?" which Penny follows with, "Oh yeah, I can't wait to hear about your and Mom's first date; I'll bet it was a disaster." And Ted laughs genuinely this time and tells them they'll have to wait to find out. Or a third alternative is you *really* lean into it. We get to the end of the story and cut back to the kids on the couch, but these are obviously not the same actors. Like they weren't even trying, these kids aren't even teenagers, they look like they're maybe nine years old. Then Ted says, "And that kids is the story of how I met your grandmother."

The ending was a pointless studio fanservice which literally nobody asked for. They legit made 1 full season to set barney n robin together and split them up in 30seconds. Abrupt changes to suit the narrative they set in the beginning of the show was why they ended up screwing up the ending.

*My ending:* Ted loses feelings for Robin and vice versa. Robin and Barney have a strong willed loving marriage, where barney supports her career (just like he always had). Ted finds the love of his life, becomes a single dad and stops trying to chase after robin all over again. The gang still hangs out at MacLaren's closer than ever where Barney and Robin are happy, Ted finally achieved his dream of finding "the one", Lily and Marshall still together, Lily with her dream job, and Marshall with his.

This is one of the main reasons I can't rewatch HIMYM the last season undid a lot of character development. Robin was a great character. I got her. Loved that she was the way she was... and then they made sure Ted got EVERYTHING HE WANTED. She got her career ... and a divorce and ... what? A sad single life until that sad sack she dumped came back to save her from the isolated tower she was locked in

Me: How I Met Your Mother ended years ago. I was disappointed in the finale but I've processed it and moved on. Also me: Oh YES, drag the writers through the dirt! They did my girl dirty, she deserved better! I'm ready to FIGHT

What part of Robin saying "I don't want kids" did the writers not get? She's now going to be a mother to Ted's kids until they leave the house.

Tbh Robin just landed into a super toxic friend group who never had her best interests in mind, she deserved a better social life all in all

Barney was the one who see eye to eye with Robin. Barney says that in a sentence : Robin is more important to him than babies, something Tad was not ready to do.

Robin and ted are like if jo march ended up regretting turning down laurie and had to be rescued by him at the last minute

The ending of HIMYM always irked me, in that Robin never wanted kids, and now she's going to be the stepmother to two teenagers, and she still retains her previous mindset. They should have let her continue to be a successful career woman, like Princess Carolyn, and not focus on her love life. 😔

I just straight up refuse to accept that as the ending- the alternative ending is the one in my mind. Tracy and Robin deserved better.

That's why I like Leslie. It's just about her going and pushing and meeting Ben along the way, but there is NEVER a "can Leslie have it all?" discussion

Robin and Barney reminds me a lot to Jackie and Hyde in That 70's Show. They pulled the same thing with them. Their relationship made sense, it was built slowly from friends to something more, realizing they were not that opposite but complementary and they both got great character developement from the relationship only for the writers to pull a shitty male fantasy of nerd gets the hot girl by regressing Hyde into a one dimensional character, breaking them up and making Jackie fall in love with Fez instead.

At the end of the show, I like how Robin grows into a person who has done all the things her younger-self wanted to and now is ready for more. It shows character growth. I do wish Robin stayed with Barney as they seemed more similar and matched better than Robin and Ted.

The show should have ended with Robin still travelling for work and being in an open marriage with Barney 💁‍♀️

That ending failed Ted, Barney and Robin, they all regressed back several seasons worth of character development.

I feel like the producers/writers expected people to want Ted and Robin like they wanted Ross and Rachel. And then Robin and Barney to be received like Rachel and Joey - a blip towards the end game. 🤷🤦

I just never got why this had to happen? Lily was already a perfect positive portrayal of a woman excited to be a mom! And it's not like Lily never had doubts! I liked Robin and Barney together, but it kinda sucks that they are both forced into being parents at the last second and that's what makes them happy. I would've lived with their divorce because... sure, fine, whatever. Shit happens. But her ending up with Ted? Completely ruined the show for me. I can't even go back and watch it like I do other sitcoms I love. Because it's ending... everything it's leading up to... was such garbage.

People are supposed to act crazy and jealous and paranoid in relationships. Good message How I Met Your Mother.

Ted was the most toxic character in the series. He was so in love with the idea of love that it clouded his judgement. The show started as being about Ted finding his wife but quickly turned into a story about friendship. I think that's why it was such a beloved show. I don't think the writers anticipated how much character development would occur within it's run. I hate that they still decided to keep that ending in and not just end it when Ted meets the mother. Instead they made into being about Ted living out his "fantasy". I pretend it ended with them meeting

Robin ending up with Barney would be the perfect ending, they grew together, got over their commitment fears and at the same time they were stil independent and dynamic and they appreciated each other for it..but noooo we just had to see that stupid blue french horn thing again and have a full circle ending blah blah

I would have soooo preferred if she was just a contended single woman

Ted is not Robin's lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. For Robin he is a lobster. In final episode she said she realised she was supposed to end up with him. I think she said it just because she realised she's always had the option to be with him, if she would want it, Ted would break up with any girl, just to be with Robin, any girl but Tracy. Tracy was Ted's lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. He wouldn't leave her for Robin. And in the finale she realised she can't be with him and he became a lobster for her. She didn't want him because she loved him, she wanted him because she couldn't have him.

I wonder how the writers feel about the ending considering that it was intended to be a happy one and the only way people defend it is by saying it’s realistic because not everyone gets a happy ending (not to mention that they really intended the blue French horn moment as a “I’m so glad she ended up with ted”)

“The writers wanted a story of a man who is in love with a girl who doesn’t want that.” Based on the ending, it seems like the creators of the show had this concept in mind because they wanted their show to be "quirky" or "not like other romances" -- not because they wanted to subvert gender stereotypes or develop unique, complex characters. It's as if the purpose of "changing up the narrative" with a character like Robin was simply to create an obstacle in Ted's path that he would ultimately overcome, making his journey more challenging and therefore more rewarding for him (and only him) in the end. I agree with others have said -- that it seems like Robin was written by multiple people with drastically different views of her; some cared about her character development, while others viewed her merely as a concept.

Robin and Ted were a really cute couple in the beginning, they had a lot of chemistry and when it came down to it the only thing keeping them apart was their different goals in life. However as the series went on their romantic chemistry lessened, Ted was developed so that his "perfect woman" would more line up with Tracy while Robin had more chemistry with Barney. What I hated was that it never felt like Ted really got over Robin. Getting over her always amounted to meeting another girl and starting a relationship with her, but that's not what getting over someone looks like. Every time he broke up with (insert love interest here) he would run back to Robin not long after. He never truly accepted that they weren't right for each other. Not until the day of her wedding to one of his best friends did he stop, and even then he didn't get over her (was moving to Chicago to get space from her and Barney), but just accepted that he couldn't have her. The show built up to Tracy like she was the endgame but when it came down to it treated her more like any one of Ted's other love interests, a detour on his way back to Robin. I've heard many people claim that Ted and Robin coming back to each other in the future after they've achieved their goals and finally grown into people who are actually compatible with each other was a good/realistic ending, but it all falls flat under the weight of the writers' horrible execution. If they did want to put them together it should have been treated as a new beginning after some time with Tracy and a more satisfying/less abrupt ending to her character. The show was literally titled How I Met Your Mother, the mother should be the conclusion! To be honest, I don't think Robin ending up with Ted in the end would have necessarily ruined her character. She was exactly at the level of success she had always said she wanted and likely was travelling less for work at that point (the like 5 dogs at the end makes that clear) and I also never really got the vibe that she would have disappeared into Ted's family/have become a mom to his kids. The kids were mostly grown up and already had a relationship with her as "Aunt Robin" and she had that relationship with them. She'd be more like "Dad's wife and our Aunt Robin" than "Mom 2.0". I don't like how it was executed in reality though since they framed it as Ted rescuing her from loneliness and had Robin pining after Ted during that Halloween party when it was abundantly clear they never should have been together at that point in their lives.

The ending has always been weird for me. Every time I rewatch the series, I’m in a different point in my life with a different perspective on how life is. I do wish Robins and Barney’s marriage would last more than 3 years but I can understand why Barney was unhappy. I see a lot of comments saying “oh he always admired how independent Robin was and then breaks up their marriage for that? That’s ridiculous!” Or “it’s just because she couldn’t have kids !!!” NO that is not why! You can still see how much he loved and admired Robin and he never asked Robin to change for his sake. But you have to remember that Barney LOVED his family and friends and having to keep moving from place to place for Robins work and him being all alone just working on his Blog, would not be satisfying for him. And if he stayed back home while Robin was working around the world, he of course would be upset he couldn’t be with his wife. There wasn’t any way this can be resolved without either Robin quitting/slowing her career OR divorce. And we all know Barney would have never let her decide that because he knows how important her career is. I truly wish they could have had their marriage last longer or at least gotten back together when they were older but I can see why that wouldn’t have worked. Like Barney said, “ if it couldn’t work out with Robin, it won’t work out with anyone” which is true. He was in love with her you guys and Robin was the only one who changed him and made him believe relationships were possible and for that not to work.... I would think the same thing. Thank god for his daughter because he finally found someone who would love him forever, unconditionally which is something he always wanted.

HIMYM ended with Robin marrying Barney and Ted marrying Tracey and that was it.

I always felt the last episode seemed like an alternate ending. Watching this also made me realize how Ted’s relationship with himself was just so toxic since episode one, he never learned to love himself, he *needed* to love someone to fill that void. Everyone’s character development got thrown out the window in those last 10 minutes.

So himym made a whole season dedicated to robin and barneys wedding then in the last two episodes got divorced and pushed into a relationship with ted

I said this on another video on this channel, the creators of the show punished any character that didn't make marriage their focus and final goal. Other shows followed that formula too, but this one bluntly stated any actions that deviated from marriage would find these characters in contempt and seek to punish them for it. Robin's happy ending, I can only imagine, involved spending time with Barney without the obligation of it ending up in a defined relationship that must lead to marriage.

"When you love someone, you don't stop" How did we miss how creepy and clueless this man is??

And that kids, is why I only accept the alternate ending as valid

We deserve HIMYM with alternate ending on Netflix.

I hope Lily gets an episode like this

it's been so long yet I'm still as furious about this ending as I was when it aired.

Sometimes it felt like she was the "cool girl" mixed with the "not like other girls" girl.

I just pretend the finale never happened. And Robin and Barney stayed together. That was the relationship I wanted to whole time and was the healthiest.

The Robin not having kids almost had me in tears. I know she didn't want them, but that choice getting taken away from her is never easy.

Honestly, every main character’s ending in HIMYM sucks except for Marshall and Lily

Honestly, I always feel that what Ted had for Robin was more of an obsession. He ignored the reality that they’re incompatible and pursued a fantasy of them being together.. I feel like being with “the right person” shouldn’t require us to leave our dream, like having kids or pursuing a career. And none of them were the case with Tracy. They have the same core value, same interest, and things were great when they were together. Also, I feel like Robin and Barney divorce just didn’t make any sense.. I love this show because they are always able to fit everything in the show together so it makes sense and feel right, but Robin and Barney divorce just doesn’t make any sense.. Love the show very much.. I deeply love and respect all the characters of the show. But the ending is just disappointing, man.. Never gonna get over it.. Still love the show though...

You know what would have been a perfect ending for Robin's story? Where she gets back together with Barney but doesn't get married and instead just stays in a relationship Barney and Robin are made for eachother

Ted and Robin made a promise that if they were both single when they turn 40 they’d get married, so it’s not completely out of character of her. I’m honestly more so disappointed that they killed off the mom after years of waiting. My perfect ending would of been Robin staying with Barney, and Ted being happily married after years of searching.

It’s actually sad how the show also threw away her relationship with Barney. It would have made a lot of sense to have a “happy ending” for both where they find balance in their life as individuals and as a couple. It makes me mad how they had to damage Barney’s character development & complexity to justify how Ted was still “the man for Robin” when he never was, just to give both characters shitty endings compared to what their personality really was. If the whole point was to prove that Barney’s “love of the life” was his daughter, they could have dissolved Robin & Barney’s marriage in a healthy way without implying that Robin will always have to choose between her career & her personal life & that Barney is a scumbag cheater who after all is just forgiven because of parenthood.

Robin's got daddy issues and so does Barney.

What do you mean she deserved better she got everything she wanted out of life, she built a successful career and got the man of her dreams after she thought she would never get the chance to be with him

I think it’s more reflective of the real truth, Robin softens in her views as time passes, the quick ending was the disservice, but that Robin would like a family around isn’t outlandish, the fact that Ted is the opposite of Robin makes them a better match, he can see things that Barney couldn’t