How I Met Your Mother - General Discussion

[JAYJAY1979]

Problem is Robin worked better on her own, or with Barney.  

Ted was actually the least developed of the characters.  

[WendyCR72]

Wow. Bob Saget dead at 65.

This shocked me. RIP.

[Spartan Girl]

9 hours ago, WendyCR72 said:

Wow. Bob Saget dead at 65.

This shocked me. RIP.

Shocked me too.

He was one of the only consistently good things on HIMYM.

[WendyCR72]

With the phenomenal success of Barbie, I was reminded that Greta Gerwig almost was the original lead in the first (failed) spinoff, How I Met Your Dad. (Of course, the title was tweaked to How I Met Your Father and did get made!)

Talk about falling upwards!

Found an article talking about that failed pilot (with some photos) here.

[ljenkins782]

Did a rewatch of the seasons I'd already seen (I bailed several seasons before the much-discussed terrible ending) and while I still enjoy most aspects of the show, the Barney womanizer stuff is so trite and tiresome.

I don't even care that his lifestyle involves no relationships and just sleeping with whoever he meets, it's the stupid lies and the way they portray the women as stupid enough to fall for them that really irks me. Besides the fact that tricking people into sleeping with you is gross on its face, I just don't think most people would fall for the more blatant bullshit. It really detracts from the rest of the show for me and ages more poorly with each passing year.