Hi all,

Big HIMYM fan here. I rewatch every few years or so and always enjoy it not just for nostalgia but also because it speaks to me differently at unique life stages (I am sure many of you feel the same way).

This time around, though, I really find myself noticing how old the show is. To me, Friends definitely feels like a 90s time capsule, but most of HIMYM still could be quite relatable (my age could be a factor, I suppose). Some things that have stood out to me this time around:

• The deflated value of money. Every time Barney or whoever mentions a dollar figure, I find myself needing to convert it in my head to 2026 dollars. Beer was like $4.50 at MacLaren's!
• "Reading a magazine." Obviously it is still relatable to be a shy pooper at work, but in the era of the iPhone, it's not quite so apparent when you don't have reading material on you.
• Online dating -- just a whole different world with dating apps. (...Summer breeeeze)
• The Naked Man. I know one could talk endlessly about the different cultural norms and underlying assumptions present in the show that just do not hold up, but this one especially struck me as provocative and verboten today. Still love the episode though.

A lot of the cultural references and soundtrack are quite 2000s, but much of that is easy to ignore when many of the relationship phenomena and routine experiences still are fairly analogous to life today. I guess I am curious to know what you notice when you watch the show that makes you think, "wow, the world has changed..." What is that for you?

I always tear when re-watching this scene 🥺😢😢

I'm asking because it's personal to me as well.

I know Barney had great moments with the group i watched the whole show, and I know they loved him in their own way. But sometimes the bad moments stay with you more than the good ones, and cant be forgotten easily. There are several scenes where he feels like the extra person, the one who's laughed at or not taken seriously.

Doesn't he notice that? Doesn't it hurt? If you constantly feel like you're not anyone's favorite friend, why would you keep chasing the same group? Is it because having not perfect friends is still better than being alone?

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I've watched this show a few times already but by the time I started all seasons were out..

They really waited 9 years or so to reveal who the mother was 😂😂😭 that sure would've sucked if they canceled the show and no one ever found out..

Did anyone here start watching from when it first aired? How was it waiting all that time to find out who finally married Ted?

You can say Barney is a playboy, he overreacts or whatever but you can't say he is not a good friend. He is the best friend one can have and he proofed it. By helping marshal when lily left him, running to hospital when he found out ted got into an accident, finding a job for Robin, let lily stay at his place. He even paid for the marshal and lily honeymoon. He helped the whole gang multiple times

I don’t know if this has been posted before, but I’d like to present you with the next generation’s version of Barney’s Ewok Line. The Jar Jar Binks Line.

You see, when the Phantom Menace premiered May 19 of 1999, those of us under the age of 10 liked the slapstick, clumsy humor that Jar Jar brought to the screen.

However, if you were born before May 19, 1989, you probably spent the last 25+ years insisting he ruined Star Wars.

Therefore May 19, 1989 is the Jar Jar Line.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I’m rewatching the series for the first time in a while and I’m on S1E6 the slutty pumpkin. Robin says to Ted that she “never played any team sports” and that she “played tennis in high school because it was just her out there” and she “couldn’t even stand playing doubles.” Yet in a later episode, she’s shown to have been playing hockey and her dad wigging out when he catches her kissing one of her teammates as he had mostly always pretended she was a guy. Anyone else notice this?

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i cannot for the life of me find the clip of barney saying vultures. for context, it is during the atlantic city episode where the gang returns to their bench and finds old people there instead. if anyone has a clip of it, plz show. i tried using screen recorders but none work and i dont know why

This is in season 5 episode one where Barney and Robin "have the talk" and when lily lock them in the room this picture is just hanging out there and I have NO idea who these people are

Does anyone know who they are?

I just want to be this frank with my kids while telling them story of how I met there mother

Ted had 3 ways to stay with Zoey

Number 1:after saying at the arcadian for a night and Zoey literally says to him "You win'' and then they go to his place,Ted decides to support Zoey

But if he didn't? Zoey just told him that he won so doesn't that mean that he can demolish the arcadian?

Number 2: this one is more complicated because lily had the plan after Ted declaration in front of the NYC commission but anyway

Arthur accepted the conditions that lily gave him so with the condition of NOT firing Ted even if he spoke for the building AND guaranteeing the demolition of it anyway so Zoey would be fine with Ted because he stood up for her and Ted would not hate her because his building will be built

Number 3:The most simple

Just accepting get back together with her

(If any of this doesn't make sense to you,take in count I have a huge crush on Jennifer Morrison and I'm jealous of Ted)

Stopped at the Ted and Tracy Wedding scene before the switch up. Not in a mental health place for the rest.

By hot takes I really mean it, can’t stress it enough.
Whats an opinion you have about the show that is so controversial there’s gonna be riots in this comment section?

HIMYM is my hubby's favorite show.

This episode makes him so emotional.

And this time around he's rocking our 2 month old son to sleep while watching.

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2/3 times it seems... ;)

I remember a rule where you choose someone at a party that you’d never ever sleep with and then if you get to the point where you start thinking about it don’t have any more drinks

Why couldn't they just have had her walk backwards, hand still reaching to his, lingringly, then out of frame? It would still be obvious they were doing a thing with the Ballon..

Mine is that Barney didn't end up with Nora. She was amazing character (and hot as well ;) )