Her self-interest may be rational… But is HER HEART?

So are we talking about Rom Com people who were the President? Or Rom Com people who were, professionally, Michael Douglas?

What if you live in a city populated entirely by young millionaires capable of crushing the newspaper if the announcements aren't perfect?

How can they call journalists having a median income of nearly $38k "dismal" when that's above the median income for the general population?

I want to agree because I agree with your perspective…

Yeah. I think it would have posed less a problem for Ted's social life and more of a challenge for the show's writers to have to write all four characters in every episode without Ted and Robin meeting.

It could be that they needed to hit those beats just before the end because the final scene with the kids plays off of those beats and so whenever they were uncertain about renewal or actors coming back, they had to have Ted get over Robin AGAIN because the scene hinged on the story ending at the exact point that he…

I keep trying to get Fat Dog into Urban Dictionary. It's gotten bounced twice.

I think the whole point of cloning a less emotionally unstable version of him last week, coupled with his portrayal here, was to reset him back to that.

I think I get the whole pirates thing. It's a play on the "heart of a hero" comment. Basically, Harmon can keep giving Troy implied subplots through newstickers and newspaper headlines as we follow his adventures abroad. Watch it be things like "Levar Burton and friend lost in the antarctic", "Levar Burton and…

HIMYD (the new show) will be about new characters, present day, although it may be in the same world in the sense that the new characters will probably encounter Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, Barney, Ranjit, and the Mother. I also wouldn't be shocked if one of the new characters doesn't wind up in the apartment or tied…

Ah… See… Their mutual third soulmate came into the room and turned the umbrella.

"Kids, your Aunt Lily and Uncle Marshpillow were…"

The time it works on Robin doesn't count because that was from a set of three prior attempts.

Ted is the impossibly Sad Sack Sensitive Guy. That's the type who gets with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It works. (The more recent writing I've seen suggests that SSSGs and MPDGs are equally unrealistic types who fall for one another in fiction but neither really works as well on their own in reality.)

I'm going to repeat my prediction that the finale will be in 2030 with Barney dying of heart disease (callback to him getting his heart monitored), caused by years of smoking (he didn't quit until 2017). Ted was telling the extended story so the kids would see why Barney means so much to them (This is also why, aside…

#7 is way off.
Mr. Howell = Greed
Mrs. Howell = Gluttony
The Skipper= Wrath
Gilligan = Sloth

NBC: So you HAVE seen the Peter Sellers Bond film!

That probably would speak better for another 13 episode season than a full order unless NBC decided to weaponize Community against How I Met Your Dad.

Annie: "You seduced me over the internet to get me to make pancakes."