Craig Thomas and Carter Bays’ CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2014 and was so popular that it even launched a spinoff series. Despite its impressive longevity, it’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner… which makes sense since there are over 200 episodes in the series. There are actually a handful of truly terrible episodes of the ensemble comedy – which stars Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, the guy who takes forever to tell his kids how he met their mother ( with the adult voice of Ted by the late Bob Saget) – so which ones do fans think is the worst, if we’re using the IMDb rating as the final word on the matter?
The answer is a bit complicated, because the series finale, “Last Forever,” is split into two parts…and part two, aptly subtitled “Part Two,” has the dubious distinction of winning the Lowest episodic IMDb rating in the series. with a dark 5.5. (“Last Forever: Part One” doesn’t fare much better with a 6.6, but I’ll get to that nonsense shortly.) So what’s going on in “Last Forever: Part Two” that has so much irritated the fans? Do any other episodes, aside from the series finale’s “Part One”, fail as badly with fans as the very end of the entire series?
The (second half) of the Last Forever double episode is the worst episode of How I Met Your Mother, according to fans.
The reason “Last Forever: Part Two” has such an incredibly low rating on IMDb – a rating close to failing, in fact – is that not only does it absolutely stink, but it throws the entire legacy of the series away just so that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas could stick to a plan he had hatched a decade earlier. Let me explain. At the end of the show’s second season, Bays and Thomas filmed a scene with Ted’s “adult” children, Penny (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Luke (David Henrie), revealing that the titular mother, who is ultimately played to perfection by Cristin Milioti in the series. ninth and final season, dies …paving the way for Ted to get back together with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the kids’ “aunt,” Robin Scherbatzky (series regular Cobie Smulders).
The idea that Robin, a hardworking career woman who rises through the ranks of broadcast journalism to become an internationally renowned news anchor, would always settle for Teda pedantic coin collector who loves to correct people is insulting enough. Add to that the fact that the entire ninth season focuses on Robin’s marriage to someone else — namely, one of Ted’s best friends, Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) — and the fact that “Last Forever: Part Two” runs through the final storyline of the series’ constant couple, Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan). , and you have an absolutely fucked up episode. So what other episodes have gotten dismal scores on IMDb?
The lowest-ranked episodes of How I Met Your Mother on IMDb
Longtime fans of “How I Met Your Mother” probably won’t be shocked by the rest of the “worst” episodes according to IMDb; Many of them are from Season 9, which is widely considered the worst season of the show, and they’re only memorable because they’re terrible. The second-place runner-up, “Bedtime Stories,” scores a 5.8 and features a pre-“Hamilton” Lin-Manuel Miranda but is also performed only in rhyme, which feels like a place filler at best and is absolutely irritating. it’s worse. The third worst episode according to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” features some highly offensive caricatures of Asian cinema — played by the show’s white actors — that are legitimately embarrassing no matter when you watch it. (There’s a reason his rating is a pathetic 6.0.)
Another Season 9 stinker, “Mom and Dad,” comes in fourth place with 6.6, probably because it features a really tricky subplot where Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) try to convince their mother Loretta Stinson (Frances Conroy) to return. with one of their two dads, while William Zabka (Yesfrom “The Karate Kid” and, ultimately, “Cobra Kai”) runs around and plays with Ted. Then we get “Last Forever: Part One”, where we are forced to sit there and watch Robin and Barney call off their wedding after watching an entire season centered around their marriage. Again, not every episode of “How I Met Your Mother” can top, say, “Slap Bet” or “How I Met Everyone,” to name a few; they don’t have to be This bad, though.
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