@@THE202 tbf Ted wanted more than just marriage, he also wanted kids. A part of me believes she didnt choose Ted cause she knew that she coudlnt fufill one of his biggest dreams
@@THE202 Hard agree. Robin and Barney had some sweet moments, sure, but most of their scenes just felt like a couple of kids playing house. The relationship never felt real to me.
I think this really highlights, that Robin only wanted to be with Ted when he was with another girl. Most of these moments Ted is with Victoria, Stella, or Tracy.
I also noticed that Robin somehow knew when Ted wasn’t serious about a girl and she didn’t even try to intervene in Ted’s love life, for example: Karen, Zoe and Jeanette. She knew those relationships were doomed.
She didn't have a mom to show her how to express her love or emotions. She was repressed all her life, so a guy who is sure of himself & what he wants was her kryptonite. She instead took the role of being there for Ted when Tracy was probably going for kemo/treatment for her illness, & needed someone to watch the kids so Ted could spend alot of time with her. The last season blitz this with the last episode, but they had a whole season to do it, I just think they wanted to milk the series too much.
When you look at the show like this it almost frames Robin as the main character. She moves to New York, finds a career she needs to progress in, makes friends she needs to learn to open up to, and most importantly, learns how to feel her feelings. Her relationship with Ted is largely about her becoming more like him. Ted loves Robin because he just does, Robin loves Ted because he teaches her that life can be better than she believes it is, and that she can be happier than she thought she could.
@@JohnSmith-bn5mi wow, it really would've been really awesome if it went: "Hey kids, have I ever told you the story of how I met your father?" And then as the story progresses, we realised that the narrator is not actually the mother of the children, but a close family friend, and is actually speaking to the children to ask for permission to date their widowed father.
You are exactly right, wxceot it doesn't ALMOST frame it that way, they made it about as obvious as possible, yet apparently MILLIONS of people totally missed it. The title was intentionally ironic. The show was always about how damaged Robin was and how Ted had to wait 25 years for her to get to the point where she could receive real love. All the girlfriends Ted went thorigh weren't part of his journey to the mother, but rather Ted constantly trying to replace Robin. ALLL the ridiculously hyperbolic accolades Ted lavished on the mother were just him trying to convince HIMSELF the mother wasn't a consolation prize. The fact that after his life together with the mother, who's supposedly THE most perfect angel to walk the earth, he decides to honor her memory with the kids by going back 9 years RIGHT to the point Ted met Robin and then spend the entire story talking about his relationship with Robin. The mother was about as much of a 2 dimensional character as you could come up with, because it was never about her.
The other thing that blows me away is how many people thought Robin and Barney were actually a thing! DEAR LORD people are gullible, or completely clueless about relationships and people.
" I am the biggest overthinking person but i don't spend a lot of time thinking 'What if' , i guess that is happiness" such a simple and amazing definition of happiness. Loved it
Lilly's lobster theory was true, Robin is only interested in things she can't have, almost every time Robin had a crush on Ted he was taken same with Barney and Patrice😂
The network didn't wait for Ted. The show runners had no choice but to set him up in the final season. If the consistency of humour in the show had remained, she would have waited a lot more. Atleast 3 more seasons in my opinion. The last season was hurried as hell.
Now see, that is true about Robin. She did want certain things first. I always felt that was explained at the one wedding when Robin said time and chemistry. Ted and her had chemistry they had poor timing. It's also why she moved out of the apartment before Marshal said anything to her. She loved Ted and knew she wasn't ready and was hurting him.
Well, Ted admitted that he made an ass of himself going after Robin bunch of times, and he was her backup plan all along while she only loved and chased Barney. Barney and Robin always belonged together.
@@satisome They didn't belong together tho. It was shown even during the wedding. Barney and Robin had different desires too. They just thought they could overcome them. Barney was needy. That doesn't mean Barney and Robin didn't love each other either. I also believe Ted, like Barney, may have been the two guys in Robin's life that may have accepted her not being able to have kids. As much as Ted wanted kids, I never once believed he'd have been upset that they went childless since she couldn't have kids. May have been different if she could and never wanted too. Ted is the first guy Robin said "I love you" too. He's now the last. :)
@JoybuzzerX No barney and Robin had similar personalities and same perspective towards life. Both never wanted kids and get along really well unlike Ted and Robin who are diametrically opposite person. In real life too the couple with same outlook and goals are called soulmates. And Robin was needy as much as Barney was and in their own weird way they were able to console each other like in the wedding all of their problems resurfacing and resolving at the end of each episodes.
@@satisome Robin and Barney had dated and broke up before because they weren't happy with each other. In the season 9, Barney says he did want kids, but wasn't going to be sad about it because Robin couldn't. Said as much to his mom. And all that Barney did for Robin, Ted did as well. It was Ted who comforted her after finding out she couldn't have kids, not Barney. Ted didn't even need to know what was wrong. He just knew he'd always be there for her.
@@shubhamkadam9568 Why? It improved Barney so much. It shows that Barney actually wanted a family. I think Barney should've ended up with Nora or smthing, but his ending is above average, instead of ending up alone he got a daughter.
I dunno about Ted and Robin but assuming she and Ted get together as per the original ending, she still had kids. Her step kids. Ted's own kids. I kinda liked the ending because it kept the premise grounded. Like not all people get an happy ending. There are struggles in everyone's lives. Some struggle a bit more than others. The original ending was very realistic. On the contrary, I cringed hard at the ending of friends. It felt like a fictional story about 6 friends. But himym, felt like real life. Because seldomly people get happy endings. Life is a rollercoaster ride with highs and lows. So the all not wanting the kids on her part, roaming the world was all bullcrap in the end.
People acting like Robin is being some kind of drama queen, totally forgetting one important detail: Robin didn't want kids, and Ted did. As someone who had a relationship end for that very reason (I didn't want kids, she did), that is a major dealbreaker no matter how in love with someone you are. But it doesn't change how in love with them you are. Its been years and my heart still breaks thinking about it. Robin made her position on this crystal clear, but then gave in to her feelings in a very human and understandable way. (My girlfriend and I stayed together for a while even after we knew it was destined to end). And so finally, years later, after both of them had experienced the lives they wanted, they got together because now their goals aligned. Ted's kids were approaching adulthood and Robin had gotten everything she wanted out of her career. It also doesn't diminish teds love for Tracy, we just didn't get to see as much of it due to the structure of the show.
The issue with that is Robin isn't portrayed as, "I love him, and it hurts, but it's for the best" she's portrayed as trying to get Ted to move on and then regretting it when he finally does. Likewise with the ending; yes, in their universe, it all makes sense; but the viewers saw the last 3 seasons dedicated to the theme, "Ted can't move forward until he moves on" and the last season doubled on that theme with showing him finally letting Robin go and finally getting everything he wanted with Tracy. Only for that to be completely reversed in the last 2 minutes saying, "I didn't really move on and I'm still going to chase her after 25 years"
This show is essentially about how a cute girl kept thinking she had a good man waiting for her only for him to move on and for her to end up filled with regret. That one sentence, about marrying when they were 40, is the mcgaiver of this show.
And we all hate the writers for making it that way. Could have gone so well with Barney and Robin getting together. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. They just HAD to make Ted and Robin run back to each other. Ted was Robin's safety net, and Ted used Tracy to fill the hole in his heart he kept wide open for Robin.
@@choryllis6646 the fact that your last line is wrong is clear enough from the deleted lunch scene. Though of course it's more convenient just to ignore it.
@Blue Spruce It's a deleted scene. It's not cannon. If they had kept it, I'd be more inclined to believe that Tracy was more than another stepping stone for Ted to be with Robin. But the way she dies so quickly and Ted and Robin leaping back into each other's arms in 5 minutes of screentime leaves a rotten taste in my mouth. I love Tracy. She was absolute perfection. Well worth waiting 9 seasons for. But she deserved better than that ending.
@@choryllis6646 Even without that it, there is that scene about extra 45 days with Tracy Ted would have given anything to have, that scene where he cries when she says about mother not visiting her daughter's wedding, that scene where Ted talks to Robin and then Tracy appears in her wedding dress and all his attention turns to her. We know that Robin and Barney divorced many years before Tracy's death, and Ted and Robin got together only six years after she had died. For me it was quite enough to believe that Ted really loved Tracy. Loving more than one person during your life is not an impossible thing, not even a rare one.
@@choryllis6646 you really think that Barney and Robin could've "gone well"? They're a terrible couple. The only reason people like them together is because Neil and Cobie are conventionally attractive and Ted is more of an everyman.
Robin may be afraid of saying "I love you", but she has an easier time saying it behind his back multiple times and she keeps falling back in love with Ted every time he's with someone else. Why is her timing always late?
@@aniketprasad3128 Ah, I see. You live in the universe where women have sex done to them as opposed to being equal willing participants. I wonder if you take any issue with Ted or Barney for "smashing" a number of women during the series.
It's human nature not to appreciate what you have until you lose it. However, it is not true in Robin's case. She could have had Ted before he started dating Victoria. She could have had him when she told him she didn't love him, which was a lie. And just before she married Barney she actually wanted Ted, who wasn't with anyone at the time, but her rejected her.
When Robin tells Ted "that's not the ending that you deserve... that's not Ted Mosby" when she tries to get him to stop marrying Stella, you can tell she only gave up Ted because she wanted him to be happy, not because she stopped loving him. That's true love, putting their needs before your own.
I do love the ending, but the reason I like it is because it shows Robin eating the worlds biggest piece of humble pie and realizing that Ted really is a unicorn and she totally self sabotaged. He ended up with the most amazing, worthy girl and in the end when Tracy was gone she finally knew how great he was, and he loved Tracy for her whole life. The deleted scenes really should have been left in
Not news for anyone, I don't think, but this whole show is the creator's homage to Love in the Time of Cholera. There are so many things that are similar between the show and novel, including the relationship dynamics between Ted and Robin. Hearing about the show from this angle makes the ending better in my opinion.
One great thing about the show is that it teaches that life can be hard, even cruel, but it gives you second chances. In 2030 Ted is 52 years old, widowed for 6 years, Robin is 50 years old, divorced for 10 years without second thoughts. Both deserve this second chance, as individuals and as a couple.
This is what people fail to understand about the finale. Is a great ending for 2 people who already Made their life and fullfilled their dreams and now are alone. As Robin said, is all about chemistry and Timing.
Exactly! The only regrettable thing is how little we got to see about Tracy, and trying to squeeze them meeting, her dying, and Ted getting with Robin into one episode. For the viewer it seems wrong. Chronologically and in terms of character development, it fits quite well.
@@junkiedropouts3186Omg, his "children" are teenagers now, they dont need a stepmother, also they love aunt Robin. She is a mature woman at the end of the show, is not the same person we saw at ted story. The whole gang grown up
Robin was as mess, she knew what she wanted to some extend but didnt knew how to give one thing up for another. i get it, I had a girlfriend that didnt wanted family or kids, and fine, our relation was finite and we knew it. We splited, I got family and kids she dosent, we see each other and she dont hit on me. The last scene pf this video is the worse, she is asking a "what if..." to a guy happy with his family. Like, if u take this scene out I am ok with the ending, but she just wanted Ted on her terms and was uncapable of be happy for him be happy without her.
I always hated that they ended up together in the end. Ted finally getting over robin was perfect, but of course they flushed Robin and Barney’s relationship down the shitter for their cliche happy ending.
That last scene should have been how they started the series. It could have been them reminiscing and the writers wouldn’t have felt a need to include a mother they’d barely feature.
Robin's actions throughout the series are both deplorable and realistic. Great guy right in front of you that you have chemistry with, and you pass it up? You deserve to die alone at that point. Like, what more do you want?
Im teary at the end. But at same time piss off ..... Robin just use her for her own happy ending. After all that. But still its ok the story would what not...... And Still the Best seatcom ever!!! Purely the Best!!!!!
Many people don’t understand feelings and reality. The reason the ending of the show works is because reality has already set in. They are grown up and their insecurities are gone. Their ego and preconceptions are gone as well. They can embrace their feelings without real life getting in the way.
I can understand not wanting to move fast in a relationship like i have cousin's that got kids with two different women and that causes some drama over custody but like marriage shouldn't be about kids or having a house together. Marriage to me is about becoming a family. Wither you want a kid or waiting for it, is your choice. Never rush into having children. Its your time to grow together, to be as one, do & go anywhere or anything together. Be happy with the achievements you make and be sad together. Marriage is a commitment where you vow to make each other happy till death do you apart. Once you learned you love someone and neither of you cannot do without one another. Thats when you should realized i want to be his/her wife or husband for the rest of my life.
In the deleted scene at the restaurant…is it me or this happened sometime around Christmas 2023 in the show? Look at the decorations on the restaurant wall near the door 🚪 when Ted is leaving.
According the interviews, this cut scene should be set around 2020 in the show timeline. Instead the cameo of Robin in IMYFather is in 2022 and she reveals similar feelings
Where was this clip from? I don't remember it in the original ending. If it were there, it might've made the ending slightly better for me. Also shoutout to the OGs who saw that MAJOR 🫡 problem bit before they did the salute. For god's sake if they didn't salute there, I would've flipped out
I’ve been a Long time Finale hater here more due to set up and timing BUT….to be fair to the creators….. 1. The earlier scene with Ted getting over Robin was important, otherwise Tracy would have felt like another gap fill. 2. I believe Ted would have stayed over Robin IF Tracy had not passed away (much like Tracy and her first). 3. The perspective of Ted recounting How he met the Mother to the Kids WAS sub- consciously to get them to accept why he could move on with Robin - this is 5 years after Tracy’s death remember - I had a friend re-marry about 4 years after the death (cancer) of his first wife so not unheard of. 4. Robin at first didn’t want then couldn’t have Kids so being with Ted earlier would never have worked - Ted needed to have a family My biggest gripe is Tracy’s death was left far too late and used as a shock twist. I would have brought the Wedding into mid-Season 8 with Ted meeting the Mother in the Finale, Season 9 would then be a contrast between Barney/Robin’s life after getting Married vs. Ted/Tracy with the slowly pending realisation to the audience that just because you met the Mother, life doesn’t not just end there.
2:00. Couldn’t have said it any better Lily. Happiness really isn’t that difficult. And the end of this Video is selfish, self centered Robin getting exactly what she deserves.
I respect those who think Barney and Robin were “the perfect couple” but think again: They were terrible together. The same issue that broke them up the first time, where the same issues that broke them up the last time: THEY WERE NOT HAPPY TOGETHER…get it? The show told you that, an entire episode told you that and most importantly, the end told you that. Barney was the way he was because his life was full of drama, trauma and Chaos (not having a father in his life and a cheating girlfriend he really loved) so was Robin, with lots of father issues and a mother that obviously neglected her…I can go on all day/night (depending on what time you’re reading this). I have rewatched this show about 10 times and the only woman that “perfect” for Barney was Nora. But he screwed it up, just like Robin did with all her relationships/situationships throughout the show. Kevin broke up with Robin, not because he didn’t love her (he adored Robin), it was because he as a family man (like most men) and he wanted a family with Robin. She simply went on with the idea of not wanting kids, not even considering adopting kids with Kevin. That was depressing because at the end she ended up with Ted (who had kids on his on) and she helped in raising Ted’s kids because Robin was Ted’s true future (and possibly last) romantic partner. This is just my take on it, based on the many time i watched it. Happy New Year!
The ending sucks because robin shouldnt have gotten her happy ending!! She played with ted and broke his heart multiple times and she also broke barney's heart ... she should have gotten her karma
No Barney and Robin getting divorce is definitely great 😂 Also mother was dead from the very beginning (you can find clips of hidden details of her death)
@@bluespruce8430 it was a great scene, and filled a lot of gaps. It shouldn't have been deleted. But I understand the decision, as Ted was still with Tracy, it makes Robin look like a bitch that makes a move on someone's husband.
Careful. Robin Sherbatsky is highly unlikable to the best men i know. No-one with righteousness would/could choose Robin and be content with that decision i think.
So Robin was Rachel from friends!? So in love with the good guy when he’s happy with someone else? Attending his wedding after saying she’s not going and was involved with one of his best friends.
Am I tripping or is the last scene not in the show???? This is the first time ive seen it wtf, which episode is this? ? I thought it ended with Ted under robins window again ?
I know a lot of people don’t like robin and ted together. I know they never quite seemed to be on the same page for more than a few episodes at a time, but idk they worked for me. I’m one of the few that thinks them getting back together after Tracy was a good move. It was always Ted and robin. Sure Tracy was great and if they hadn’t killed her off, I think then Ted and robin would’ve been bad.
It's the same as Friends. Everyone loves to hate on Ross/Ted (rightfully so), but forgets that Rachel/Robin was just as toxic and literally only ever wanted the guy when he was was about to move on and be genuinely happy. With Ross and Rachel, they were equally bad, so I didn't mind them ending up together, but it really made no sense with Ted and Robin. Ted moved on from Robin and it was supposed to stay that way, even if Tracy died
I wish they finished the Robin and Ted storyline better. I always wanted them to be together but god damn, they got there was awful. “It’s like ok, I’m ready, where is she?” That was the first line to something that could’ve ended beautifully
Robin only had feelings for ted when ted was happy with someone else
Just like kids wanting their toys back
@@kartikkrishan4622 exactly 🫡
I couldn't agree more
tipical girls
Just like Rachel from friends?
The moment when Robin regrets her decision seeing Ted happy with Tracy is so dang satisfying
Kinda sad, though her agreeing to marry Barney(FREAKING BARNEY) after dumping Ted for wanting to get married eventually was such a slap in the face
@@THE202 tbf Ted wanted more than just marriage, he also wanted kids. A part of me believes she didnt choose Ted cause she knew that she coudlnt fufill one of his biggest dreams
@@THE202 Hard agree. Robin and Barney had some sweet moments, sure, but most of their scenes just felt like a couple of kids playing house. The relationship never felt real to me.
@@Rybread1767 Exactly
@@Caches She had rejected him several times before she found out about that
I think this really highlights, that Robin only wanted to be with Ted when he was with another girl. Most of these moments Ted is with Victoria, Stella, or Tracy.
Yeah, Barney even exploited that with the whole Patrice thing to get her to marry him
Yeah, also Penny and Rachel.
I also noticed that Robin somehow knew when Ted wasn’t serious about a girl and she didn’t even try to intervene in Ted’s love life, for example: Karen, Zoe and Jeanette. She knew those relationships were doomed.
Well tracy thing only happen beavuse she's married to barney if she hasn't she should've sabotage their relationship too.
She didn't have a mom to show her how to express her love or emotions. She was repressed all her life, so a guy who is sure of himself & what he wants was her kryptonite. She instead took the role of being there for Ted when Tracy was probably going for kemo/treatment for her illness, & needed someone to watch the kids so Ted could spend alot of time with her. The last season blitz this with the last episode, but they had a whole season to do it, I just think they wanted to milk the series too much.
When you look at the show like this it almost frames Robin as the main character. She moves to New York, finds a career she needs to progress in, makes friends she needs to learn to open up to, and most importantly, learns how to feel her feelings. Her relationship with Ted is largely about her becoming more like him.
Ted loves Robin because he just does, Robin loves Ted because he teaches her that life can be better than she believes it is, and that she can be happier than she thought she could.
That's... actually an interesting take.
I'd be curious what a recut of the show would be like if it was framed more from her perspective.
@@JohnSmith-bn5mi wow, it really would've been really awesome if it went: "Hey kids, have I ever told you the story of how I met your father?" And then as the story progresses, we realised that the narrator is not actually the mother of the children, but a close family friend, and is actually speaking to the children to ask for permission to date their widowed father.
@@SirSX3 It could have been an excellent ending for the canceled spin-off series "How I met your father"
You are exactly right, wxceot it doesn't ALMOST frame it that way, they made it about as obvious as possible, yet apparently MILLIONS of people totally missed it.
The title was intentionally ironic.
The show was always about how damaged Robin was and how Ted had to wait 25 years for her to get to the point where she could receive real love.
All the girlfriends Ted went thorigh weren't part of his journey to the mother, but rather Ted constantly trying to replace Robin.
ALLL the ridiculously hyperbolic accolades Ted lavished on the mother were just him trying to convince HIMSELF the mother wasn't a consolation prize.
The fact that after his life together with the mother, who's supposedly THE most perfect angel to walk the earth, he decides to honor her memory with the kids by going back 9 years RIGHT to the point Ted met Robin and then spend the entire story talking about his relationship with Robin.
The mother was about as much of a 2 dimensional character as you could come up with, because it was never about her.
The other thing that blows me away is how many people thought Robin and Barney were actually a thing!
DEAR LORD people are gullible, or completely clueless about relationships and people.
One of the best thing about the show is there concept. Like telling past stories, imaginary stories , different person perspective etc
" I am the biggest overthinking person but i don't spend a lot of time thinking 'What if' , i guess that is happiness" such a simple and amazing definition of happiness. Loved it
Lilly's lobster theory was true, Robin is only interested in things she can't have, almost every time Robin had a crush on Ted he was taken same with Barney and Patrice😂
Lily’s lobster theory was stolen from Phoebe in friends 😂 further combining the two shows as himym being a copycat version
@@madmothertrucker18dont care. Funnier, better show.
Robin’s loss. She thought life would wait for her but it never does. I’m glad Ted didn’t wait for her.
The network didn't wait for Ted. The show runners had no choice but to set him up in the final season. If the consistency of humour in the show had remained, she would have waited a lot more.
Atleast 3 more seasons in my opinion. The last season was hurried as hell.
@@arc4055oh no, not another season, 5 would have been enough.
Now see, that is true about Robin. She did want certain things first.
I always felt that was explained at the one wedding when Robin said time and chemistry. Ted and her had chemistry they had poor timing.
It's also why she moved out of the apartment before Marshal said anything to her. She loved Ted and knew she wasn't ready and was hurting him.
Except that he did wait for her… thats the tragedy of life
this show is the reason why I have such high expectations about love
After all these years, I can’t get over the show
Was just looking for this. Perfect order of clips too, thank you
The fact that Robin gets these opinions really tells how great of a job Cobie Smulders did in bringing the written character to life lol.
She really was very good. The fact that i remember her acting, decades later goes to show she was really cooking
i like this, what sad is so many people act like ted is just following robin around and she does not want him, when she really does
Exactly. Robin gets in her own way. When she moves out she was ahead of Marshall when he said it. She loved him and wasn't ready for it in the end.
Well, Ted admitted that he made an ass of himself going after Robin bunch of times, and he was her backup plan all along while she only loved and chased Barney. Barney and Robin always belonged together.
@@satisome They didn't belong together tho. It was shown even during the wedding. Barney and Robin had different desires too. They just thought they could overcome them.
Barney was needy.
That doesn't mean Barney and Robin didn't love each other either.
I also believe Ted, like Barney, may have been the two guys in Robin's life that may have accepted her not being able to have kids.
As much as Ted wanted kids, I never once believed he'd have been upset that they went childless since she couldn't have kids.
May have been different if she could and never wanted too.
Ted is the first guy Robin said "I love you" too. He's now the last. :)
@JoybuzzerX No barney and Robin had similar personalities and same perspective towards life. Both never wanted kids and get along really well unlike Ted and Robin who are diametrically opposite person. In real life too the couple with same outlook and goals are called soulmates. And Robin was needy as much as Barney was and in their own weird way they were able to console each other like in the wedding all of their problems resurfacing and resolving at the end of each episodes.
@@satisome Robin and Barney had dated and broke up before because they weren't happy with each other.
In the season 9, Barney says he did want kids, but wasn't going to be sad about it because Robin couldn't. Said as much to his mom.
And all that Barney did for Robin, Ted did as well. It was Ted who comforted her after finding out she couldn't have kids, not Barney.
Ted didn't even need to know what was wrong. He just knew he'd always be there for her.
love how barney stacked all his battleships on top of another
Ted is the first guys robin really loved . He is the first guy she said i love you
robin was soo confused.. and yet she somehow managed to get her ending
thanks for bringing back the memories ❤ i’m one of the minority who liked that they ended up together
Another proud minority member!
Not sure that the majority don't, so much as the majority are louder. I always hated the whole Robin-Barney thing.
I hated robin and Barney too!!!!
@@shubhamkadam9568 Why? It improved Barney so much. It shows that Barney actually wanted a family. I think Barney should've ended up with Nora or smthing, but his ending is above average, instead of ending up alone he got a daughter.
@@shubhamkadam9568finally!! Me too
Not a popular thought, but i like the ending........ i like them together
the make a great couple
Ignore the haters. They make a lot of noise, but that doesn't make them the popular opinion.
I dunno about Ted and Robin but assuming she and Ted get together as per the original ending, she still had kids. Her step kids. Ted's own kids.
I kinda liked the ending because it kept the premise grounded. Like not all people get an happy ending. There are struggles in everyone's lives. Some struggle a bit more than others. The original ending was very realistic.
On the contrary, I cringed hard at the ending of friends. It felt like a fictional story about 6 friends. But himym, felt like real life. Because seldomly people get happy endings. Life is a rollercoaster ride with highs and lows. So the all not wanting the kids on her part, roaming the world was all bullcrap in the end.
Ending sucks. Tracey should've lived, Robin and Barney shouldn't have gotten divorced.
exactly ending is literally perfect
People acting like Robin is being some kind of drama queen, totally forgetting one important detail: Robin didn't want kids, and Ted did. As someone who had a relationship end for that very reason (I didn't want kids, she did), that is a major dealbreaker no matter how in love with someone you are. But it doesn't change how in love with them you are. Its been years and my heart still breaks thinking about it. Robin made her position on this crystal clear, but then gave in to her feelings in a very human and understandable way. (My girlfriend and I stayed together for a while even after we knew it was destined to end). And so finally, years later, after both of them had experienced the lives they wanted, they got together because now their goals aligned. Ted's kids were approaching adulthood and Robin had gotten everything she wanted out of her career. It also doesn't diminish teds love for Tracy, we just didn't get to see as much of it due to the structure of the show.
Major Dealbreaker
@@PaintHim Nice one: )
The issue with that is Robin isn't portrayed as, "I love him, and it hurts, but it's for the best" she's portrayed as trying to get Ted to move on and then regretting it when he finally does.
Likewise with the ending; yes, in their universe, it all makes sense; but the viewers saw the last 3 seasons dedicated to the theme, "Ted can't move forward until he moves on" and the last season doubled on that theme with showing him finally letting Robin go and finally getting everything he wanted with Tracy. Only for that to be completely reversed in the last 2 minutes saying, "I didn't really move on and I'm still going to chase her after 25 years"
hope you have kids now
That's a perfect explanation!
This show is essentially about how a cute girl kept thinking she had a good man waiting for her only for him to move on and for her to end up filled with regret.
That one sentence, about marrying when they were 40, is the mcgaiver of this show.
And we all hate the writers for making it that way. Could have gone so well with Barney and Robin getting together. But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. They just HAD to make Ted and Robin run back to each other.
Ted was Robin's safety net, and Ted used Tracy to fill the hole in his heart he kept wide open for Robin.
@@choryllis6646 the fact that your last line is wrong is clear enough from the deleted lunch scene. Though of course it's more convenient just to ignore it.
@Blue Spruce It's a deleted scene. It's not cannon. If they had kept it, I'd be more inclined to believe that Tracy was more than another stepping stone for Ted to be with Robin. But the way she dies so quickly and Ted and Robin leaping back into each other's arms in 5 minutes of screentime leaves a rotten taste in my mouth.
I love Tracy. She was absolute perfection. Well worth waiting 9 seasons for. But she deserved better than that ending.
@@choryllis6646 Even without that it, there is that scene about extra 45 days with Tracy Ted would have given anything to have, that scene where he cries when she says about mother not visiting her daughter's wedding, that scene where Ted talks to Robin and then Tracy appears in her wedding dress and all his attention turns to her. We know that Robin and Barney divorced many years before Tracy's death, and Ted and Robin got together only six years after she had died. For me it was quite enough to believe that Ted really loved Tracy. Loving more than one person during your life is not an impossible thing, not even a rare one.
@@choryllis6646 you really think that Barney and Robin could've "gone well"? They're a terrible couple. The only reason people like them together is because Neil and Cobie are conventionally attractive and Ted is more of an everyman.
Honestly if they just cut 2 scenes from the last episode I would say it’s the best sitcom finale
which two?
@@lucifantine the one where they end up together
It was the best sitcom ever. The ending was great.
@@aniketprasad3128 that and the scene where they killed off the fridged Tracey
@@sheldonliberman1139 the ending was emotional but didn’t do right by a lot of the characters
Robin may be afraid of saying "I love you", but she has an easier time saying it behind his back multiple times and she keeps falling back in love with Ted every time he's with someone else. Why is her timing always late?
Oh not only Ted, Barney too!
She is a woman
Basically she's the one who has been smashed by both guys and if there was another one, he would have smashed her too
@@aniketprasad3128 Ah, I see. You live in the universe where women have sex done to them as opposed to being equal willing participants. I wonder if you take any issue with Ted or Barney for "smashing" a number of women during the series.
It's human nature not to appreciate what you have until you lose it. However, it is not true in Robin's case. She could have had Ted before he started dating Victoria. She could have had him when she told him she didn't love him, which was a lie. And just before she married Barney she actually wanted Ted, who wasn't with anyone at the time, but her rejected her.
This is perfect
2:00 how ironic that Lily is the one that end up breaking them up
When Robin tells Ted "that's not the ending that you deserve... that's not Ted Mosby" when she tries to get him to stop marrying Stella, you can tell she only gave up Ted because she wanted him to be happy, not because she stopped loving him. That's true love, putting their needs before your own.
Yes! I had completely forgot about that moment, but she was absolutely right and that was Robin expressing her love for him.
12:18 oh she is gonna regret asking this question 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One suggestion would be to reupload with the last scene of the finale as a cap, to show the emotion Robin has when she sees Ted with the horn
I do love the ending, but the reason I like it is because it shows Robin eating the worlds biggest piece of humble pie and realizing that Ted really is a unicorn and she totally self sabotaged. He ended up with the most amazing, worthy girl and in the end when Tracy was gone she finally knew how great he was, and he loved Tracy for her whole life. The deleted scenes really should have been left in
i did make it rain
I can live with Tracy being written off as dead, but Robin doesn't deserve Ted if you ask me. so no, I'm not happy with the ending.
I would be more then happy if Victoria was replaced Robin
Nah I am glad Ted and Robin ended together
Not news for anyone, I don't think, but this whole show is the creator's homage to Love in the Time of Cholera. There are so many things that are similar between the show and novel, including the relationship dynamics between Ted and Robin. Hearing about the show from this angle makes the ending better in my opinion.
The fact they knew she liked Ted before she even said it.
Alyson Hannigan looked great in that 1st scene she's a goddess, she was 1 of my early celeb crushes, I still like her now she's a real little minx
Robin just never really knew what she really wanted. She had a safety net that she really loved and wanted that to always be there.
One great thing about the show is that it teaches that life can be hard, even cruel, but it gives you second chances.
In 2030 Ted is 52 years old, widowed for 6 years, Robin is 50 years old, divorced for 10 years without second thoughts.
Both deserve this second chance, as individuals and as a couple.
This is what people fail to understand about the finale. Is a great ending for 2 people who already Made their life and fullfilled their dreams and now are alone. As Robin said, is all about chemistry and Timing.
Exactly! The only regrettable thing is how little we got to see about Tracy, and trying to squeeze them meeting, her dying, and Ted getting with Robin into one episode. For the viewer it seems wrong. Chronologically and in terms of character development, it fits quite well.
Robin is an awful person and not a suitable stepmother, Ted should have prioritized his children
@@junkiedropouts3186Omg, his "children" are teenagers now, they dont need a stepmother, also they love aunt Robin. She is a mature woman at the end of the show, is not the same person we saw at ted story. The whole gang grown up
@@petertraicer are we watch the same thing?IF they ended after season 4, we can all agree that this is acceptable
My fav tv show ever
You can add one more scene. Final season, robin asks ted in her wedding dress why she should not be with him , while attempting to flee .
Robin was as mess, she knew what she wanted to some extend but didnt knew how to give one thing up for another. i get it, I had a girlfriend that didnt wanted family or kids, and fine, our relation was finite and we knew it. We splited, I got family and kids she dosent, we see each other and she dont hit on me. The last scene pf this video is the worse, she is asking a "what if..." to a guy happy with his family. Like, if u take this scene out I am ok with the ending, but she just wanted Ted on her terms and was uncapable of be happy for him be happy without her.
That’s actually a deleted scene
@@gabrielgamez576 I had the feelling I didnt remembered that one, thx
robin has a lot of rachel in her.
Rachel is better honestly robin is just copycat of Rachel anyways
Yep. Other than Phoebe every character is a copy of their respective friends character
I always hated that they ended up together in the end. Ted finally getting over robin was perfect, but of course they flushed Robin and Barney’s relationship down the shitter for their cliche happy ending.
I hated Robin and Barney getting together let alone getting married.
The I-love-you-inity is so much more pretios then the virginity.
6:50 is just heartbreaking. Being someone's safety net. Jesus..
That last scene should have been how they started the series. It could have been them reminiscing and the writers wouldn’t have felt a need to include a mother they’d barely feature.
Times were good when Robin was in love with Ted
After completing the show i think ted life would be much better if they don't include robin in the group
I was Team Victoria for the mom for a long time.
Robin's actions throughout the series are both deplorable and realistic. Great guy right in front of you that you have chemistry with, and you pass it up? You deserve to die alone at that point. Like, what more do you want?
Great summary of how the girls are these days and they become very desperate at 40+ and let everyone score on them for the hopes for settling down
Lilly: the woman who suggests once to Rob a liquor store and yet is the voice of reason.
she isn't
She didn’t love him. He loved her but then met his real love.
She had the worst case of attachment issues ever
I think Robin possibly did have feelings for ted but she was never in love with him
Im teary at the end.
But at same time piss off .....
Robin just use her for her own happy ending. After all that.
But still its ok the story would what not......
And Still the Best seatcom ever!!!
Purely the Best!!!!!
I know the ending is not ok, because it was bad executed but the idea was incredible.
Many people don’t understand feelings and reality. The reason the ending of the show works is because reality has already set in. They are grown up and their insecurities are gone. Their ego and preconceptions are gone as well. They can embrace their feelings without real life getting in the way.
I can understand not wanting to move fast in a relationship like i have cousin's that got kids with two different women and that causes some drama over custody but like marriage shouldn't be about kids or having a house together.
Marriage to me is about becoming a family. Wither you want a kid or waiting for it, is your choice. Never rush into having children. Its your time to grow together, to be as one, do & go anywhere or anything together. Be happy with the achievements you make and be sad together. Marriage is a commitment where you vow to make each other happy till death do you apart.
Once you learned you love someone and neither of you cannot do without one another. Thats when you should realized i want to be his/her wife or husband for the rest of my life.
In the deleted scene at the restaurant…is it me or this happened sometime around Christmas 2023 in the show? Look at the decorations on the restaurant wall near the door 🚪 when Ted is leaving.
According the interviews, this cut scene should be set around 2020 in the show timeline. Instead the cameo of Robin in IMYFather is in 2022 and she reveals similar feelings
I live that ted did the major problems at the end there. Shows she still has a chance lol
Where was this clip from? I don't remember it in the original ending. If it were there, it might've made the ending slightly better for me. Also shoutout to the OGs who saw that MAJOR 🫡 problem bit before they did the salute. For god's sake if they didn't salute there, I would've flipped out
The last scene is one of the scenes deleted from the series finale.
Robin is stunning
I’ve been a Long time Finale hater here more due to set up and timing BUT….to be fair to the creators…..
1. The earlier scene with Ted getting over Robin was important, otherwise Tracy would have felt like another gap fill.
2. I believe Ted would have stayed over Robin IF Tracy had not passed away (much like Tracy and her first).
3. The perspective of Ted recounting How he met the Mother to the Kids WAS sub- consciously to get them to accept why he could move on with Robin - this is 5 years after Tracy’s death remember - I had a friend re-marry about 4 years after the death (cancer) of his first wife so not unheard of.
4. Robin at first didn’t want then couldn’t have Kids so being with Ted earlier would never have worked - Ted needed to have a family
My biggest gripe is Tracy’s death was left far too late and used as a shock twist. I would have brought the Wedding into mid-Season 8 with Ted meeting the Mother in the Finale, Season 9 would then be a contrast between Barney/Robin’s life after getting Married vs. Ted/Tracy with the slowly pending realisation to the audience that just because you met the Mother, life doesn’t not just end there.
does anybody knows the song at 0:57 ?
I would like to know too
Can’t see her as anyone else but Maria Hill and Maria Hill 4life.
Well I always see her as Robin even in the mcu
Robin for 4ever 😆
@@vootvoot9180 What about Batman?
@@ricardoortiz4870 Bale and Kevin will forever be Batman for me :)
2:00. Couldn’t have said it any better Lily. Happiness really isn’t that difficult. And the end of this Video is selfish, self centered Robin getting exactly what she deserves.
POV: The toxicity of avoidant attachment
8:43 I was a bit confused at first because I Was sure she already moved to Japan at that point😅
She was interested in ted when he was happy with other woman.
I respect those who think Barney and Robin were “the perfect couple” but think again: They were terrible together. The same issue that broke them up the first time, where the same issues that broke them up the last time: THEY WERE NOT HAPPY TOGETHER…get it? The show told you that, an entire episode told you that and most importantly, the end told you that.
Barney was the way he was because his life was full of drama, trauma and Chaos (not having a father in his life and a cheating girlfriend he really loved) so was Robin, with lots of father issues and a mother that obviously neglected her…I can go on all day/night (depending on what time you’re reading this).
I have rewatched this show about 10 times and the only woman that “perfect” for Barney was Nora. But he screwed it up, just like Robin did with all her relationships/situationships throughout the show.
Kevin broke up with Robin, not because he didn’t love her (he adored Robin), it was because he as a family man (like most men) and he wanted a family with Robin. She simply went on with the idea of not wanting kids, not even considering adopting kids with Kevin. That was depressing because at the end she ended up with Ted (who had kids on his on) and she helped in raising Ted’s kids because Robin was Ted’s true future (and possibly last) romantic partner.
This is just my take on it, based on the many time i watched it.
Happy New Year!
Does anyone know what episode or where I can find this scene 11:29
last season.....last before episode
And finay... Ted and Robin.... together each of them... happy ending
I genuinely saw the title and thought to myself “who’s Ted?” And I’ve seen the show a few times
How?
Genuinely how?
I love you ginity 😂😂😂😂
In What episode that last scenes from video??
Does anyone know the song playing at 10:50?
I'm looking for it as well!
The ending sucks because robin shouldnt have gotten her happy ending!! She played with ted and broke his heart multiple times and she also broke barney's heart ... she should have gotten her karma
Tracey should've lived, Barney and Robin shouldn't have gotten divorced.
No Barney and Robin getting divorce is definitely great 😂
Also mother was dead from the very beginning (you can find clips of hidden details of her death)
my heartache
Man Robin really only wanted Ted to be happy when she was finally ready to stop using him as a safety net whenever she was done screwing around.
LILLY! Hey Girl... 😂😂
Robin is the shows main villain
I see this clip and still try to figure out how ted is the "bad guy" by the end for being with robin
WHAT EPISODE IS THE LAST SCENE FROM?
Series finale, deleted scene.
@@bluespruce8430 it was a great scene, and filled a lot of gaps. It shouldn't have been deleted. But I understand the decision, as Ted was still with Tracy, it makes Robin look like a bitch that makes a move on someone's husband.
It was made canonical when Sophie told robin about it when they met at the bar.
Nah 1st seasons lily was just... something else
Damn I related to Robin for a sec there... thats a lie I relate to her a lot.
Careful. Robin Sherbatsky is highly unlikable to the best men i know. No-one with righteousness would/could choose Robin and be content with that decision i think.
So Robin was Rachel from friends!? So in love with the good guy when he’s happy with someone else? Attending his wedding after saying she’s not going and was involved with one of his best friends.
Am I tripping or is the last scene not in the show???? This is the first time ive seen it wtf, which episode is this? ? I thought it ended with Ted under robins window again ?
These scene was made for the finale, but cut off from the final version. Available on YT though.
I read the 1st part of the title,saw the preview pic and I thought of Robin Wood and Ted the robot boyfriend of Joyce and I was so confused!@.@
I know a lot of people don’t like robin and ted together. I know they never quite seemed to be on the same page for more than a few episodes at a time, but idk they worked for me. I’m one of the few that thinks them getting back together after Tracy was a good move. It was always Ted and robin. Sure Tracy was great and if they hadn’t killed her off, I think then Ted and robin would’ve been bad.
It's the same as Friends. Everyone loves to hate on Ross/Ted (rightfully so), but forgets that Rachel/Robin was just as toxic and literally only ever wanted the guy when he was was about to move on and be genuinely happy. With Ross and Rachel, they were equally bad, so I didn't mind them ending up together, but it really made no sense with Ted and Robin. Ted moved on from Robin and it was supposed to stay that way, even if Tracy died
12:27 ...which episode is this scene???
this is a deleted scene
nico d robin looks amazing in that red dress!!
What is that ending clip? I just seen it
it is a deleted scene
You have no one to blame but yourself Robin. You thought Ted would wait for you but he moved on and found Tracy
I wish they finished the Robin and Ted storyline better. I always wanted them to be together but god damn, they got there was awful. “It’s like ok, I’m ready, where is she?” That was the first line to something that could’ve ended beautifully
Ted and Robin are cute together 🥺
Thats not the amazing ending that you deserve. And she was totally right
5:56
Maturing is realizing that Robin was completely toxic to Ted even if she didn't mean to
Actually, I have feelings for Robin !
Jeez louise happiness is not that hard…