How I Met Your Mother
For a drollery serial publication , How I Met Your Mothermade its viewer blazon out an awful lot . The show felt up like a really long amorous comedy , with literal character and devout emotions . Just like any rom - com , there were ups and downs , with both moments of hilarity and moments of heartache .
Friends , a show thatHow I Met Your Motheris often compare to , had dramatic here and now to undersell the comedy . Still , they were never anywhere nigh as in effect asHIMYM ’s most heartrending scenes , which leave behind fans in tear even after this many years , and this many rewatches .
Updated on March 5th , 2021 by Rhys McGinley : How I Met Your Rather run for a wildly successful nine season and despite the lighthearted , oftentimes hilarious nature of the show and its fibre , it never shy away from enceinte issues or emotional resonance . The show so often remove fans to the brink of tears , whether that be through the action or consequences of the character , or life just fox hurdles in their way . The show did sadness attractively in most case , crafting a narrative that rooter were invested in and bear a bowel punch that left everyone keel , and the writer did that so many times that it is hard to throttle to just ten .
When Barney Cleans Up Rose Petals Off Robin’s Bed
" Tick Tick Tick , " the 10th episode of season seven , is pretty knockout to ascertain for fans given all the event that go down involving Barney and Robin , and the ice on that heartbreak bar add up at the very end of the sequence .
Ted returns to his apartment to find Barney bumble out wax light and throwing out rose petals that were all across Robin ’s way . Seeing Barney so distraught is gruelling enough , but on top of that , we know that he would never have tell anyone about this painful , vulnerable moment had Ted not catch him , he would have suffered in secretiveness .
When Stella left Ted at the altar
Poor Ted . He just wanted to do the right thing . Stella object to Ted inviting Robin to their wedding ceremony , so he determine to invite Stella ’s ex Tony to level the performing field of view and prove that inviting exes to your wedding is fine . But then Robin decides she should n’t be there and aim the ferry back to New York , where she sees Stella and Tony canoodling together .
Ted finds a government note and realizes he ’s been left at the Lord’s table . One by one , his friends join him and seek to soothe him . Fans did n’t really like Stellafrom the off , so no one was disappointed when she leave , but we all felt bad for Ted .
When Ted realizes he’s alone with one ticket to Robots vs. Wrestlers
On the whole , season 8 is one ofHow I Met Your Mother ’s weakest installment , but “ The Time Travelers ” is a terrific instalment … one of the show ’s best , perhaps . Ted spend the whole episode arguing with Barney and future versions of themselves over whether or not he should go to automaton vs. Wrestlers while Marshall , Lily , and Robin fence over who a drunkenness should be named after .
At the end of the installment , Barney tells him he ’s just a figment of his imagination . The Marshall , Lily , and Robin storyline happen months ago . Barney and Robin are planning their wedding , Marshall and Lily are look after their baby , and Ted is alone with one ticket to Robots vs. Wrestlers .
When Barney couldn’t forgive his dad
When Barney finally met his biologic father , he was disappointed by how game he ’d become . He used to be a roadie who toured the United States with some of the biggest rock ring in the world , sleeping around with more women than Barney himself , but now , he ’s settled down into a suburban existence with a married woman and Kid .
Barney is ostensibly disappointed by this because his dad is n’t as coolheaded as he think he was , but then he uncover why he ’s heartbroken : “ If you were going to be some lame suburban dad , why could n’t you have been that for me ? ”
When Marshall listened to his dad’s final words to him
In the episode “ Last word , ” Marshall spend his dad ’s funeral hung up on a voice mail he received from him between the last time he visualise his papa and his dad ’s decease . All throughout the sequence , Marshall remember that his dad ’s concluding words to him were simply a recommendation to watchCrocodile Dundee III .
However , he leaves the church during the service and hear to the final message , a pocket telephone dial that terminate with Marshall ’s papa sound out , “ Marshall ? Oh , it looks like I ’ve been calling you for almost five minutes . How ’s my pocket sound ? Oh , sorry about that , buddy . Um , anyway , your mamma and I had such a bang-up time seeing you . I love you . ”
When Lily opened up about the struggles of parenthood
After Marshall and Lily had a baby , it seemed as though they were adapting to parenthood pretty well on the surface . But then , in one of the show ’s darkest minute , Lily was brutally good to Ted about how she really feels : “ Sometimes I care I was n’t a mom . "
" Sometimes I want to jam a bag and leave in the middle of the night and not come back . ” She told him this because it ’s her deepest , moody secret , and she wanted him to reveal his own mystifying , darkest enigma , so she told him something that was bad than anything he could tell her .
When Ted showed how devastating Robin and Barney’s engagement was for him
When Barney reveals that he ’s been orchestrating “ The Robin , ” the final play in his Playbook , to court Robin and eventually propose to her , Ted gives the troth his blessing . But then he gets a text confirming the engagement , and he describes the emotional agony he felt in that moment to his kids with a fast - cutting collage of every exclusive minute in the serial where he got punch , kicked , or otherwise in earnest injured .
He then says that it feel like all of that pain in the neck combined and then reproduce by a million . We get a jolly clear idea of what he ’s talking about .
When Robin Finds Out She Cannot Conceive
One of the define equipment characteristic of Robin is her independence . She has never ask a man , she is career - driven , and for a lot of the show , she makes clear-cut her world-wide lack of interest in matrimony and small fry .
deplorably , the choice was taken away from Robin when she notice out in time of year seven she is infertile . Even though she thought she never want children , she still struggles with no longer having the choice to conceive - andit is grievous to see Robin dole out with this alone , as she feel that she can not lean on any of her friends at the fourth dimension .
When Ted found a heartbroken Marshall in the rain
The first time of year ofHow I Met Your Motherends with two huge uppings of the stakes . First , Ted and Robin decently get together , so Ted feels on top of the populace . Then , he returns home to find oneself Marshall sit around in the rainwater on the whole tone outside their flat building , look forlorn and hold Lily ’s engagement ring .
In a million years , the last thingHow I Met Your Motherfans were expecting was for college sweetie Marshall and Lily – perhaps the most lovely span in the world – to break up . These final moments of season 1 were still memorable eight seasons later .
When Barney & Robin Divorce, & Robin Drifts From The Group
The finale ofHow I Met Your Mothermade many controversial and heartbreaking decisions that annoyed fans , betrayed type arcs , and were just unneeded . One that arguably suit all three was the decision to divorce Barney and Robin .
When the two announced this two the mathematical group in Marshall and Lily ’s nursing home it was shocking and disconcerting . The two seemedso made for each other despite all their issues , and they were one of the rooter base ’s preferred relationships . To make matter worse , this divorce helped in seeing Robin drift from the grouping in a immense way , with Robin not even popping in for all the big moments , just some .
