How I Met Your Mother scenes that foreshadow and/or justify the ending (part 2 of 5) 

Hey guys. So, Part 3 got removed as you probably noticed. Unfortunately I don't know which clip(s) caused it to be taken down and I don't want to risk reuploading it so here are the scenes that originally made that part: In Season 8 Episode 21 Romeward Bound, Barney spends most of the episode trying to see the body of his wedding planner. He envies Marshall who could get away with telling her to take off her coat because he "has no stink", implying that Barney DOES have stink. He also says that Marshall wants to spend the rest of his life with Lily and only Lily, but won't admit the same for himself and Robin. Later, Barney accused Ted of claiming to know Robin better than he does. However, Ted's words to Barney are confirmed in Season 8 Episode 23 Something Old where it is Ted, not Barney, who recognises that Robin needs help. After going to help Robin, she tells Ted that she's doubting whether she or Barney are ready for marriage. As it is later revealed, neither Robin nor Barney were really ready for marriage at this point in time. In Season 8 Episode 24, Ted chooses to move to Chicago since it is the only way he feels he can move on from Robin. Therefore, Ted's eventual decision to stay in New York for a girl he had JUST MET is proof that Ted had finally moved on from Robin. It is later revealed that Robin chose to move to Japan for the exact same reason that Ted almost moved to Chicago, i.e. that she was still in love with Ted. This proves that Robin never fully moved on from Ted after their breakup. It is also interesting that although at this point in time, Robin had been saying that she was not ready for marriage, part of her still wished it was her marrying Ted, not Stella.

I always felt like Robin rejected Ted here mainly because Kevin just left her because she can't have children. She knows how big Ted's wish for children is, so she couldn't possibly be with him for the same reasons as there were with Kevin.

I hate that Barney doesnt really get happiness that lasts.

I actually liked Quinn for Barney. Robin works fine too. Its just really sad how the ending didn't give any justice to Barney. Its like he was scammed. He deserves better.

When you need a prenup, better call Saul

3:21 there was apparently a crazy sale at the Yellow Umbrella Emporium

3:05 this scene never fails to get me emotional. I cry, get goosebumps and makes me feel so good at the same time. How I Met Your Mother has this power to make me feel so hopeful...

You can see a big foreshadow there, in season 2, in the episode where Barney's brother gets married, the last scene is Barney holding his nefew and Robin and Ted dancing in the back...

Feels like I'm the only one who actually liked the ending. Most felt bad for Barney, but his kid is a blessing in disguise, Ellie proved to us that love comes in different forms, may it be romantic, friendly, or parental. Love may be such a bitch, but once a person experiences it, it changes their whole perspective on life, it gives them multiple reasons to wake up everyday and I think that's beautiful.

Unpopular opinion alert! I actually like the ending. I mean, okay, it is a little rushed and messy... but that's how real like looks like. You want to have your happy ending and then everything is messed up and you have to choose your path again. Robin loved Ted, I believe she did. She had problems, she didn't know how to express her feelings, but it's her father's fault. The story about the mother itself foreshadows the ending. It should be a story about the mother specifically, but it isn't - Ted finally had worked through Tracy's death and he recalled good memories from his 30s. Even the Barney's ending is satisfying - okay, he lost Robin, but he got a wonderful little daughter that turned out to be the only woman able to change his behaviour. So yeah, I think that this isn't a perfect enging but this it the ending made by life itself and corresponding with the characters of the show.

The last part did make sense cause he wanted those extra 45 days with her cause at that time he is narrating the story to his kids saying that he wants those extra days explaining that he truly loved her

He is telling the story to his kids. The whole thing was his story to the kids. 11 Years after she died. The last scene is him telling the kids that's what he would have done knowing what he knows now.

2:18 actually I think that at that time, Ted was right, for once in his life he understood that he can’t cling onto the idea that one day he’ll win the lottery with Robin You just can’t blame it all on timing, it’s like what that German guy said, true love can’t be obtained by one over time, if it hadn’t happened yet, chances are, it won’t, it’s just doesn’t work that way Love, the real true kind of love, happens in the moment, you just can’t force it

Ted wanting the 45 days does make sense if she was still alive because he would still want even more time with her. That's how much he loves her. However, watching the scene with the view of having lost Tracey makes it more touching. There are two ways to view it and seeing it the second way is amazing.

There’s no justifying the ending the final season is literally built around Barney and robins wedding and they literally ended it in an episode just because they had problems spending time together

Robin does not deserve Barney or Ted’s love 😭

Saying that Ted put unfair pressure on Robin in making a decision on whether or not she truly loved him is bs in my opinion. It is unreasonable for him to wait until they're both 40 before the possibility of them being together becomes real, and in the meantime he has his own life to live. It may be a lot to throw at someone, but entirely justified. If she loves him and needs to take time to make that decision it's valid to feel that way, however to expect the person who's subject to that decision to just aimlessly wait for you to make that decision is ridiculous. There is a time limit to this sort of thing, and to suggest otherwise is just plain unrealistic. That time limit varies depending on the person and situation, but here it has clearly been reached and perfectly acceptable to be addressed.

Y'all don't like Barney's ending because you only see happiness if someone's not alone (in a romantic way). His full happiness is his DAUGHTER, come on, is not so hard to understand that. He doesn't need a girlfriend or wife, joy isn't there just if you are dating or married.

Speaking of why Robin closed the door then, I think there's another reason that she already knew she can't have kids and she always knows how much Ted want kids.

At the end of the "Weekend at Barney's" episode, Barney makes a pretty solid point about how lying and deception is part of his nature and how their engagement ultimately came down to misdirection and lies as well. He made a similar defensive point about his lying nature at the rehearsal dinner. With that in mind, his wedding vow to always be honest to Robin means that he's giving up a pretty big part of his personality. That always seemed like a major hint to me that their marriage is not meant to last. You can try to change your personality like that for some time, but you can't escape your true self forever.

This is pretty briliant. Thanks for taking the time to do all this 👍

Everyone was so in love with the mother she was just a little too perfect for me with not much character development people can say what they want about robin but I liked her because of her flaws it gave us a reason to watch if Tracy had been in the show the whole time let me bake you cookies and sing to you and play guitar and line up with ted perfectly I would have shut it off and never looked back

BARNEY SHOULD HAVE MARRIED QUINN!!!!!!!!!! They were perfect together

It was the extra 45 days scene that I rewatched and the foreshadowing of the show made sense to me.

i liked barney and robin, idk, robin seems to like what she doesn’t have, like lily stated. there might be a lot of hate on robin but i actually kind of like her?? idk. she has flaws. like, a lot, and that makes her really human. but so do the rest of them- aHhHhHh mixed feelings.

Dude its clear that you like Robin ... but she is really and narcissistic perso , she wants to keep ted as a backup plan , its not beaucause of the timing but becaause we all knwow that whenever the timig is bad Robin want and need attention from anybody . She admits that she dont love TED because she really dont love him . it just dependecy

Robin did bad to Ted and Kevin. She has never compromised for any of her partner. Kevin was willing to marry her even after he knew she did something bad to him, he loved her and wanted to marry her when she revealed she is barren. However she didn't even want to discuss the idea of adoption. She later made herself sound like the victim when talking to Ted. 'He couldn't look past this'. Unattractive personality. Robin is who you befriend or date, not s girl you should marry. I wont even go into every shit she did to Ted. Too numerous to count. Eg from earlier season is that she didn't want To compromise even a little change in her home decour when Ted and her was going to move in

Tracey finally joined the stars, 'nd joined Max, her first love! So she gets happiness that lasts too, like Ted does with Robin, Barney with his daughter and Marshall with Lilly! Everyone gets happiness ♥️

You can’t make the ending work because the whole final season preceding it was about Robin-Barney and their wedding. We got to see too little of the mother, the Robin-Barney marriage and it felt like Barneys development over several years was just thrown away at the end to get the desired Robin-Ted ending. That wasn’t organic.

the thing is, that we know the setup that they would eventually end up together was always there obviously bc of the ending with the kids, the creators always knew it would end like that, i think the biggest problem fans of the show had was that after all this set up after denying for 9 years that robyn and ted would end up together it felt like a betrayal to see the mother die, specially after seeing her in the 9th season and being everything we thought she would be and actually liking her

I actually liked the ending. Show should have been “why I want to date aunt robin”. The kids are right when they say their mom is barely in it cause the whole point was to see if his kids are ok with him dating again.

5:19 Barney called Saul

5:27 Maybe she better called Saul!

12:24 Ohhh nooooo i cant handle it

Even barney called saul

The fact that there are scenes that prove the ending may have been planned from the start doesn't make the ending suck any less, it just makes the rest of the series suck more.

Were the writers just like happiness for Barney Stinson? Not a chance

The scene where Ted goes to see the Mother before they meet, I'm pretty sure that was confirmation that she was dead or about to die

I realised another scene you're missing, which is where Barney's brother James announces in coming back he is getting divorced Robin cant admit that her relationship with Barney isn't fragile

45 days thing really clears up the situation clearly. Tracy was alwas going to die.

The painting in the first scene behind ted is the same painting that Robin has in her appartment in the last scene when she comes home with the dogs

I think people tend to forget that Tracy was in love with someone before Ted too, and that person had passed away. I can understand why it's hard to see how little time we get to spend with her on screen, and yes she was perfect for Ted, she was everything he needed and wanted, but Robin didn't have to be perfect for Ted to love her, he just loved her unconditionally. It makes sense in the long run, Tracy wasn't scared to die, she was ready to. Finding Ted was like finding a reason to live life again, but when faced with death Ted was far more heartbroken than her. Robin regreted letting go of Ted, she knew he was the one for her, but she couldn't be perfect, her not being able to bare children is a real thing some women struggle with and somtimes love doesn't come as easily as a career does, but at some point a human needs love. Ted never stopped loving Robin, he just had to learn to let her go, but then he had to let Tracy go too, yes she was the mother, but she wasn't his end game, Robin was.

02:30 His eyes break my heart every time.

I do believe Robin meant it when she said she didn't love Ted, when they broke up she was fine, when she and Barney broke up she was a mess for months

Please upload part one and part three again, my life is a mess, but strangely I wanna know that the end of the series makes sense, and i need to remember all those details

I screamed like a little girl when I realized Saul was there

I still internally decided #31 is Quin

Remember the episode robin had a boyfriend with a kid, the last part of that episode, they shown the drawings of Ted's children and those drawings were Robin's favorites. The children drawn every bondings they had with Robin. Seems like she's their mommy. 🥺♥️

I will never get over how badly the writers made this show end.

scene 1. if you think that the women you're in love with doesn't love you not pursuing it perfectly reasonable some people love the chase some find it painful personally I've never pursued somebody I knew didn't have the same feelings for me cause I respect them you've just to sit there and deal with the problems even if that really hurts (barney would obviously pretend he isn't hurt) scene 2. robin literally can't bring herself to say I don't have feelings for barney perhaps she could have deeper feeling she doesn't want to admit to herself, and the marriage pact is I guess a sign that she still has feelings for ted I more so took it as her trying to make sure ted still had hope (something she knows he needs), your third point doesn't support the ending, it isn't complete bullocks you can't just label scenes which disagree with your point complete bulloks (seriously do I have to be disagreeing with one of my people), or maybe robin just doesn't love him like I'm all for different interpretations of scenes my first point was a scene interpretation that i felt made sense based on the context provided but this is like a level of mental gymnastics i didn't expect, the last point covered the same thing you said perfectly scene 3. the door has closed forever he probably knows in the back of his mind the truth that robin is in love with barney (and that's blatantly obvious if you aren't looking to just justify an ending that you only like cause it supported a bad relationship that you liked) and ted knows that soon they'll both realise the truth of each other and oh yeah that robin doesn't love him, marshall believing otherwise was i believe trying to be ending foreshadowing but that doesn't make the ending better it just shows that the creators were panicking about the ending as well scene 4. bro if people are doubting that claim I'm sorry you've managed to find someone with less art literacy than you, seriously though how does this support the ending scene 5. yes he had trust issues with quinn i don't know if watched the end of that episode but it's explicitly shown he doesn't have those same problems with robin scene 6. yeah and i kinda hate this i will probably agree with you in this scene but just a reminder of the bit in season 9 where he shows that she can trust him, oh wow you still managed to mess it up by missing the part where barney blows up the other playbook like seriously this is going from mental gymnastics to just dishonest very quick scene 7. i mean it does it just makes the speech show how much he loves her more than how much he misses her (but i don't care too much about the tract stuff like i dislike but it's not the worst thing in the world

In his ending speech the fact that Ted says "to the end of my days" instead of "to the end of OUR days" is the clearest sign that Tracy is dead. Super-romantic guy Ted probably would've wanted those extra 45 days anyways (it would've saved him from Jeanette), but the my vs. our gives away who is still living.

Barney's attorney is SAUL!!!! THIS is awesdary!

For the time travelers Ted could have just loved her enough that he found out how close their patches intersected to want extra time. In the alternate ending that is probably it. For Vesuvius, which I know isn't in this but is the other big foreshadowing for Tracy dying, it was probably that she was sick and could have died so that is why Ted reacted like that.

I think Robin is more self centered than you think. I don't think she was trying to spare his feelings by not saying 'I love you'

I could never take Robin and Ted seriously together. Ted was actually obsessed with her and it was honestly suffocating. After the second season we were all over them. She has so much more in comman with barney and even if they didnt work out. To go back with Ted just didnt make sense. The only literal reason they made them get bsck is cuz they already made the ending. However continuity wise it made no sense. Just seem so forced man.

I’m always interested. If Tracy was still alive, would he choose Robin over her? It’s kinda weird that you can still have a little feeling of love for someone, especially in the moment when you are already married to Tracy. It’s just weird

Robin did the right thing. Ted needs to move on

Honestly, Barney and Quinn not getting together felt like a bigger assassination than Barney and Robin getting divorced

Barney will always come back from his old self even after showing the character development y'all claim he has.

Im so upset that barney and quinn didnt end up together

i think the end was perfect imo

4:50 better call Saul!!! 😂😂😂

Robin only ever wanted Ted when she couldnt have him. Once she realized what she was doing to him she helped him close the door and stopped being selfish then she moved on to Barney and clung to him even though he lied and they fought all the time. Even his proposal was wack. He had cold feet the entire relationship right up until their wedding day. It was doomed to fail but killing tracy so ted and robin could be together was the absolute worst way to end the show. It was just a complete let down that it's called how I met your mother and shes there like a few episodes and then she dies and he ends up with manipulative ass robin anyway. What was the point of all these seasons and stories just to have her dead in the ending. I really couldnt stand robin at all. From episode one to the last I didnt like her. Shes super manipulative annoying and kept ted on her hook for years. That's all. Them ending up together is like hey so my wife died and I dont want to be alone will you be with me and the fact that he has kids and she wont take that from him is probably the only reason she said yes because she didnt want to be alone either. That's not the same thing as love. Or to me it's not. Him ending up with barney wouldve been a better ending lol

Barney never change, hate him for chasing after Robin

I don't buy Barney and Quinn's breakup They were happy until Barney was pressured into making the pre-up

The prenup scene is so funny lmfao 😂😂😂

Dude you let the play book out in the opening?! What were you thinking

Barny had Sal as a lawyer 😂😂😂

Disagree with the last one. Cause if you love someone you wish you could spend any extra time with them that you could because we only have this one life this way. I would anyway.

This is what happens when you have saul goodman as your lawyer

The big issue i had with the ending is that Ted and Tracy were happily married yet Ted then marrying robin after her death made it seem like either Tracy was second fiddle to Robin or that Robin was Ted's back up option.

Barney should've just said it's teds copy of the playbook, it was that easy

I have 2 questions 1) how did you source the footage of the scene? 2) what did you use to make this compilation?

I watch all of videos with subtitles it's really hard to read to different set of texts at the same time, if you could have a narrator for your text that would be great. thank it would make it easier for those that are hard of hearing.

This series broke my heart 😭

Quinn always reminded me of Hayden Panettiere

How the ell am I just finding these?? ALthough I keep telling everyone to WATCH THE EXTENDED cut of the ending. Also, the whole series starts with Ted telling their kids how he met their mother with the voice of Bob Saget, who also played a widow character on Full House. Why would you even tell this kind of story, if the mother is say in the next room?

I wish atleast in the end,just once, Robin would had said"I love you Ted Mosby"otherwise ted just appears to be a consolation prize for robin.

You are missing the scene where Robin tells Lily why she is going after Barney, "the only way to get him out of my system is to get him into my system one last time" in the episode Lobster Crawl

Robin is kind of plain, boyish, and homely. And very self centered. Why did Ted and Barney chase her so hard ?

Foreshadowing is not character development. That first scene also "foreshadowed" Ted and Robin not working out. You are making up Robin's thought processes.

I feel you missed the "For the longest time" scene in Time Travellers where the 2033 version of Ted is wearing a ring different from the one when he was with Tracy and the 2033 Barney is not wearing a ring. This indicates Robin and Ted have gotten married by this point

They don't trust each other. Call it quits

Anyone notice that Better Call Saul is the lawyer.... is this in the same universe as Breaking Bad?

So he closed the door but she didn’t.

You missed the point. He lied saying he will love "tracy" till end of his days but he didn't.. no matter how romantic tracy and Ted relationship was "Ted was and allways loved Robin" but Robin i dont really know

9:03 onwards, otherwise known as iron-clad proof of why Barney was unfit for a relationship or a marriage. Robin deserved better than that and I'm delighted that she and Ted ended up together in the end.

Quinn was the best partner for Banny

Is it Just me or is Ted too weak to get over anyone

Your hoop-jumping trying to justify that travesty of an ending truly is impressive.

Best hurt forever.

I liked the ending (yeah I said it) but I really wish Barney had stayed with Quinn

Where is part 1?

I agree with foreshadow, but I decline justification.

Oh I call bollocks myself. No, Ted doesn't put Robin under immense pressure when he asks if she loves him. He has every right to get closure and move on with his life. After he gets his "no", he lets her go and even sends her to the arms of his friend.

8:56 😆

The problem isnt that the mother dies for me at least. I think that works but him getting back with Robin doesn't. I just don't buy the idea that the whole story is really about her.

Barney should end up with a good person like Patrice, only my taugth

say word put away who cares act like that cause you need to be nice to her and she was wondering what happened again watch it

say word put away who cares act like that cause you need to be nice to her and she was wondering what happened again