How I Met Your Mother

[Warning: Major spoilers for the complete run of How I Met Your Mother follow.]

If you’ve come this far with How I Met Your Mother, I bet you consider these characters your friends. I certainly…

Of all the supporting characters on this show, the one whose developmental arc means the most to me is Barney. I’m…

Back when the three-days-in-Farhampton gimmick of this season was announced, one of the reasons I got excited was…

With four half-hours of HIMYM remaining, it’s time to start paring down the season’s conflicts. This week is devoted…

Storytelling has always served as the gimmick of HIMYM’s premise. “Kids, let me tell you …” the narrator begins, and…

Do you think the HIMYM writers have a giant notebook—heck, a whole shelf of ‘em—filled with loose ends and character…

I always knew that this last season of How I Met Your Mother would be an emotional gut-punch. Years of anticipation,…

Time flies when you’re connecting all the dots, doesn’t it? That felt like the fastest episode of this season,…

When a show gets canceled in between seasons, fans tend to bemoan the fact that its creators didn’t get a chance to…

The slap bet that began in the episode “Slap Bet” (aka “Robin Sparkles”) may be the most inspired overarching…

We’ve had a good long run of weekly episodes in this last season of How I Met Your Mother. They haven’t all been…

The magician Teller has said that one of the secrets to fooling the audience is to “make the secret a lot more…

Eight seasons in, with the episodes rapidly flying by on our way to the finale, we’d all be surprised if the…

From the very beginning, How I Met Your Mother has been a sitcom where style shares top billing with characters and…

Last season I wrote about the biggest challenge HIMYM’s creative team had to overcome in bringing Barney and Robin…

I take it all back.

At the end of last week’s episode, Daphne forced the issue of Marshall’s secret judgeship by texting the news to…

Earlier this week on another site, in the comments of a review of the recent Carrie remake, someone finally asked a…

Weddings make such reliable sitcom fodder because at weddings, the minutiae of etiquette and custom collides head-on…