How I Met Your Mother

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've been watching HIMYM in recent months. I was never interested because some of the characters seemed terrible, but whatever. It was on at about the time that I usually turned the computer off for the night.

I'd heard that the ending was not well received, and I watched it last night. Holy cow, that was a terrible series finale. The first 57 minutes were fine and I really liked how it ended. And then the last three minutes suddenly came out of nowhere and ruined the whole thing.

I can't watch re-runs of that show because of how badly they botched the ending.

Every single episode arc except for the 'its a penis!' episode leaves me sitting there going "who !@#$ing cares? - none of this even matters..."

As you noted - all they needed to do was cut to black before the final 3 minutes and then re-run the credits.



This was all it took. But they decided early on that they'd shot those scenes when the kids were younger and they HAD to use them despite the fact that the character arcs clearly made them out of place as the show developed.

I've never seen a show set nearly a decade of good will on fire in 3 minutes like that. They could've ended the show with a homicidal maniac breaking into the house, tying up ted and making him watch his children be sodomized and it wouldn't have been orders of magnitude worse than it was.