How I Met Your Mother is Over

How I Met Your Mother is probably my favorite comedy television show. After Friends, of course. Now I'm not sure where I'll get my comedy from. Maybe, I'll spend more time doing other activities until the next great comedy show comes along... but maybe there won't be another Friends, or How I Met Your Mother. There will probably always be good shows, but I doubt they will be that good.

Of course, How I Met Your Mother had it's flaws. Although, I probably won't mention any of them. I just wanted to write in this post in honor of the great things that I enjoyed about the show. Even though I compare How I Met Your Mother with Friends, there are quite a few differences. I like the unique characters that both shows have. Since this is a HIMYM post, I'll just focus on those characters. Maybe in the future, I'll write about both.

I identify most with Ted and that is because he gives too much too soon. I have done that all too often in my own dating experience. Luckily, I haven't gone to the extreme of blurting out the "L" word on a first date, but I have done what I feel are some pretty stupid things. Although we have that in common, I admire that Ted doesn't have much of a problem initiating a conversation for a potential date. That is something that I have struggled with.

Barney is such a selfish and horrible character, but I see where he came from. That guy took his girl and she broke his heart. I can understand his desire to never take a chance and put his heart out there. All of the selfish and immature things that he did were just a reaction from getting his heart broken. It's something that most of us would never do but there is a small part of us that wants to. A part of us that wants to just give up on the hope of a relationship and become a selfish heartbreaker. But there is another part that convinces most of us not to go that route. I guess we could call that part of us, the part that keeps hope, the "Ted."

Robyn, Marshall, and Lily are also great characters but I think I just want to limit this post to Ted, and Barney. And of course, I want to talk about Ted and Robyn. Ted and Robyn were always meant to be. That's what it seemed like from the start, and that's the way they ended the series. Of course, for most of the series I had just accepted that they weren't going to be together, and it just felt wrong. The way the ended it with Ted basically asking permission from his kids to date Robyn after his wife being gone for six years, all made sense. Everything came together. Well, everything except for the fact that Ted included a lot of crude detail in stories that he was telling his children.