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'How I Met Your Mother' ends a legendary run
CNN ^ | Mon March 31, 2014 | Henry Hanks

Posted on 03/31/2014 6:20:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

(CNN) -- After 208 episodes, countless "legendarys!" and any number of pineapple incidents, slaps and slutty pumpkins, "How I Met Your Mother" comes to an end on Monday night. One thing we're absolutely certain will happen is that Ted Mosby will finally meet the future mother of his children and the nine-year-long story that future Ted has been telling the kids will be over.

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To: 50sDad
And they filmed the last scene with the two teens YEARS AGO to have it ready...so they knew where they were going, something that VERY few series today actually plan.

I wonder if they filmed only that ending or if they recorded multiple endings (like the SNL skit with Tom Brokaw pre-taping ever possible news story before he went on vacation: "Tragedy today, as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious.")

And they couldn't have telegraphed what would happen to the mother more if they had Samuel Morse handle it.

21 posted on 03/31/2014 6:56:41 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Loved this show, and great final episode. It’s just a fun story of people in their 20s and 30s. I watched most of the series on Netflix and recorded this season to watch once I caught up.

There’s really no political message whatsoever. It’s just silly fun.


22 posted on 03/31/2014 7:08:41 PM PDT by ilgipper
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23 posted on 03/31/2014 7:10:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Is that an example of the "legendary" show being discussed?
24 posted on 03/31/2014 7:23:35 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: MinorityRepublican

A legendary, wait for it, drinking game show.


25 posted on 03/31/2014 7:33:32 PM PDT by UnBubba
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think that I had the show on a couple of times because I just didn’t change the channel fast enough. Personally, I didn’t see anything that was particularly interesting or unique about it. It just, to me, appeared to be another variation on the Friends formula. Some people love it, others hate it, while my reaction was “meh.”


26 posted on 03/31/2014 7:39:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No clue what it even is.


27 posted on 03/31/2014 7:48:26 PM PDT by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I could never tell my kids the such filthy sexual vial stories about how I met their mother.


28 posted on 03/31/2014 8:31:05 PM PDT by Married with Children
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To: MinorityRepublican
Wow, hollyweird, legendary show.....

saw perhaps 5 minutes of an episode and realized that I would rather have a root canal without Novocain then watch anymore.

Then the fact that they are nothing more than hi-paid line readers, or line-reading carbon units, with little or no redeeming societal input, other than giving temporary employment to real people of value (even if their choice of vocation is to appease the aforementioned line reading carbon units).

I'll pass, thanks CNN for more useless non-news.

29 posted on 03/31/2014 9:08:14 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Bernard Marx

The funniest example in my childhood was that one where the gay guy plays the priest who gets seduced in a famous miniseries. Forgot the name and the name of the guy. When he was in his big seduction scene, I think with Rachel Ward, he was practically making the yech face. Funny.


30 posted on 03/31/2014 9:38:47 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Father Ralph in the Thornbirds. Richard chamberlain.


31 posted on 03/31/2014 9:46:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

But Ted ended up with Robyn in the end? What happened to the mother?


32 posted on 03/31/2014 10:59:14 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Mike Darancette

In 2024 she died after being sick.


33 posted on 04/01/2014 2:19:28 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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To: SMGFan

Yeah, I don’t think that a sitcom has had a more polarizing event since MASH killed off Henry Blake. Of course that happened mid-run and MASH went on to have one of the best finales ever.

The sad thing about HIMYM is that the finale had so many great individual moments, but then botched (IMHO, i know the segment of the audience who were rooting for Ted to end up with Robyn loved it) the actual ending.


34 posted on 04/01/2014 5:48:34 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: icwhatudo

Never seen it. Never wanted to.


35 posted on 04/01/2014 6:00:38 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes, Richard Chamberlain. Obviously a poor actor if he couldn’t fake straight for the scene, Lol.


36 posted on 04/01/2014 7:39:10 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Especially with Rachael Ward. If she couldn’t convert a gay, it must not be possible.


37 posted on 04/01/2014 8:07:11 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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