I was re-watching tonight and it didn't really bother me in a serious sense, but when they're all out searching for Marshall's dream burger, they go to a few different places and buy burgers and obviously pay, then keep leaving without eating them, thus wasting money all night. Marshall's got very supportive friends 😋
shareThat episode made me scream a couple times only because Robin kept NOT taking a bite or sneaking a fry. If she was anywhere near as close to starving as she was portrayed--trying to eat at an ATM or sneaking food from the trash-- she wouldn't have left that easily. They would've had to drag her away.
One thing that did bug me was the early inconsistency with Lily's parents-- in season 2 Lily mentions "her dad wouldn't pay for that wedding" when really Lily and her dad weren't speaking, as we learned much later.
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Hahaha I thought that too - instead of sighing all over the burger happily each time she picked one up, she would have just shoved it in her mouth :P
shareor Ted being the nicest guy in the world and secretly still in love with Robin, not being able to offer her his burger while she waited for hers. Or Barney, who at the time was falling in love with her either.
shareI didn't even understand why she didn't get a burger in the first place. Weren't they all the same? It's not like she was a vegetarian and couldn't in good conscience eat beef even if she was really hungry. Was she really picky on getting one well done or something? Seemed like they wanted to keep a joke going when it made no sense.
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You mean when all the other burgers came out first and she had to wait? I didn't get it either, that just added to my frustration! ðŸ˜
shareI assumed maybe the waiter couldn't carry them all at once or if she asked for hers to be cooked longer it wasn't ready yet, which if she was that hungry didn't make sense. Or after Marshall took a bite and then they all got up to leave, why she didn't just grab someone's burger and eat while they were walking. It's like they wanted to keep the joke going when it didn't make sense.
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Yes, or eat someone else's fries!! I know why they did it the way they did but... delicious burgers. Nothing would have stopped her.
shareall the more reason for her dad not paying for the wedding, right?
shareLOL the frustration in that episode is epic. To this day I can't watch it without craving a burger from one of my favorite burger joints.
shareI've recently turned vegetarian and watching this episode was a little hard because all the burgers looked freaking amazing!!!!
shareE-l-r-w hang in there! You can get really nice veggie burgers from: http://www.lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk
There are also some really good recepies online :)
Thank you!! :) I've heard good things about the Linda McCartney range, will check it out 😀
shareOne thing that bothered me was that Ted starts yelling at a few New Jersey girls for calling themselves "New Yorkers" and goes off about the fact that he's a "true New Yorker" despite the fact that he wasn't even from New York either. He may have currently lived in New York but he was born and raised in Shaker Heights, OH and lived a majority of his life (18 years) there as opposed to NY (8). I guess it's because I'm from the Cleveland area so I have a lot of that pride. My brother went to Chicago for college and when I was visiting him several months ago, someone asked where we were from and he responded with "Well I'm from Chicago..." to which I said "You live in Chicago but you're not from Chicago."
shareAh, blind pride.
shareGood point. I love that the show was unafraid to point out the sort of assumed arrogance of the New Yorkers. Lily is the only real New Yorker of the group.
shareWasn't Barney a New Yorker as well?
shareNope. Barney is from San Francisco.
shareNo he's not. He's from Staten Island
shareWhy would you think he was from San Francisco? And to so confidentially correct someone with something so incredibly wrong, what goes through your head to do that?
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My biggest "tiny thing that bother me" is the completely wasted opportunity of Heather Mosby. Here was a chance to delve deeper into Ted's younger self without using a cheap gag crutch as well as develop an interesting character into the show. They even end the episode stating that Ted wants to get to know his sister better as he cosigns her apartment, but never show her again in the next five and a half seasons.
shareI agree with you there - we didn't even get to see if she was a good character or not because there was so little time to get to know her. I think she would have been pretty cool. It was like they were setting her up to stick around for a little while by having her move so close to Ted, but then changed their minds.
shareThat's a good one. It seemed to me the writers moved her to NYC to set up a future storyline or have her periodically pop up like Barney's brother. But then...nothing.
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Back to the Burger episode for a sec. I get the running gag was not serving Robin, but I found it odd for another reason.
Whenever I've been in a group setting for dinner the waiter without fail serves the women in the group first. So I thought it was odd that they kept not serving her. I guess Barney was right, she is perceived as a bro.
Other things that bother me are when they ret-con a character's preferences. It was established early on that Ted was a sports fan. He was desperate to see the super bowl, he knew his jargon during the basketball and baseball episodes but yet in the later seasons he was clueless. He mentions one of the teams getting new costumes and other things that makes him seem more effeminate (to the point that Don thinks he is gay).
I also thought, of all the actress' that could be cast as Robin's mother Tracey Ullman was a very strange fit. With her dodgy British accent that Robin didn't have a hint of? What the hell?
"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."
Other things that bother me are when they ret-con a character's preferences. It was established early on that Ted was a sports fan. He was desperate to see the super bowl, he knew his jargon during the basketball and baseball episodes but yet in the later seasons he was clueless. He mentions one of the teams getting new costumes and other things that makes him seem more effeminate (to the point that Don thinks he is gay).
It was established early on that Ted was a sports fan. He was desperate to see the super bowl, he knew his jargon during the basketball and baseball episodes but yet in the later seasons he was clueless. He mentions one of the teams getting new costumes and other things that makes him seem more effeminate (to the point that Don thinks he is gay).I'll have to watch the specific episodes of the later episodes, but if they really did make Ted "clueless" it is silly. They could have easily made him seem more effeminate, and kept him a sports fan (they could have had him notice the team uniforms, and the like, and still have him be a fan).
I'll have to watch the specific episodes of the later episodes, but if they really did make Ted "clueless" it is silly. They could have easily made him seem more effeminate, and kept him a sports fan (they could have had him notice the team uniforms, and the like, and still have him be a fan).
Yeah apparently someone can't be so classically sophisticated to like madrigals and be so dreadfully low bow to like sports. It's not like anyone in real life likes two things that aren't related to each other in taste.
(That's my FAVORITE book of madrigals!)
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My dad is as gay as the day is long, yet he's the furthest thing from what they made Ted when Don thought he was gay. He doesn't float, or make fancy food; he's a die hard Packers fan and knows plenty about sports, even teaching his husband about football - whereas I'm straight and have the least bit of interest in sports.
That episode in particular always struck me as the show making Ted more like JD from Scrubs than anything else; right down to him inexplicably ordering an appletini for the first time in the series.
I didn't like that Robin stopped liking laser tag, when she enjoyed it the first time with Barney in season 1. The whole wedding weekend was ridiculous.
Her death aside, I felt like the meeting itself between Ted and Tracy became too heavy handed; it became a case of everyone knowing who she was, even Ted; and gets to the point the stranger at the train station is urging him to meet her. I would have preferred more subtle serendipity after such a build up. Knowing this woman who was perfect for him was Cindy's roommate was bad enough, when Ted never followed-up to try and get Cindy to introduce her, but using the connection to hire Tracy's band to play at the wedding, combined with the circumstances of everyone else meeting her, shot to hell the idea of Ted needing to be at the right place at the right time. The only catalyst he had for timing was his move out of New York; which was apparently so unimportant he could decide at the last minute to stay and not have to worry about keeping his teaching job or anything else, all because he met someone new.
The other characters should have had glancing encounters where they never got her name, or any context of her being a good match for Ted; her first encounter with Barney was more or less good to that effect. As for Ted, Tracy should have been unable to actually attend the wedding for one reason or another; either because she was sick, or potentially leaving town herself the next day, or just because of her outing with her current boyfriend. Then, with a sub playing bass, Ted assumes the woman on stage is Cindy's perfect roommate and tries to strike up a conversation, only to strike out; then he can go to the train station feeling defeated, and that he'd thoroughly exhausted the New York dating scene - that is, until Tracy walks onto the platform, and her umbrella gets snapped by the wind and blows his way.
I didn't like them keeping Tracy on a holding pattern for most of the time Ted was banging any woman that was just barely smart enough not to fall for Barney's ploys. Her literally get out of a relationship (arguably two) right before she meets Ted and they get together, I felt undermined the meeting and their relationship. It was bad enough Ted was still hung up on Robin right up to the last second; they had to make each other rebounds for one another.
I'm still bitter they didn't tie her in as Barney's sister...
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Are you trying to tell me not every homosexual man is an effeminate gay stereotype?
I do agree the first meeting was a bit heavy handed. I haven't seen it but once or twice, but there was a moment Tracey is talking then trails off and they both seem to know immediately they are each other's soul mate. It's kind of like how he met Victoria and Robin in big dramatic fashion. at least he talked with Tracey a little first, but how many people really fall in love at first sight? It seems more like a Hollywood cliche that would have been nice to try something else.cthey could have had a nice, menaingful talk without falling in love instantly. That way may they could have avoided being rebounds and say they did just have a friendly talk, it would have broken the pattern s bit where aged instantly falls in love immediately upon seeing a girl.
That's not to say I disliked the meeting scene, but I think it could have been done better perhaps.
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It was established early on that Ted was a sports fan. He was desperate to see the super bowl, he knew his jargon during the basketball and baseball episodes but yet in the later seasons he was clueless. He mentions one of the teams getting new costumes and other things that makes him seem more effeminate (to the point that Don thinks he is gay).Okay, I've seen the episode now, and does that episode even say Ted doesn't like football? He simply turned over to watch something else (which doesn't mean he doesn't like football, he'd just rather watch something else - but I guess if you're a big fan of the sport, you'd watch it without fail) and commenting on the costumes doesn't meaning he doesn't like it (unless they're saying he should have noticed earlier, but I doubt it, as it was simply mention the costumes that made Don think he was gay, among other things - implying a straight football fan wouldn't have noticed). So how exactly did this episode imply he didn't like football at all?
I don't think any football fan would call them costumes. That sounds like a stereotypically gay fan of musicals would say to refer to outfits.
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she grew up with her father and in real life her mother has a british accent too
shareMarshall doing the robot. While his friends all cheered and laughed, I cringed and looked away.
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I understand why, but also, how nobody told 'Blah Blah' to *beep* off at the bar when she was being a complete psycho 
sharei think that was just ted exaggerating
shareI thought Robin was too quick to judge Kyle (her sister Katie's boyfriend) in "First Time in New York" mostly due to the way the episode was written. He was a douche, and Robin was right to call him one, but there wasn't really any real hints to him being one until the scene later on where Katie tells Ted that the only reason he didn't cheat on her was because he knew she'd find out. Other than clearly wanting to have sex with her (which doesn't necessarily mean that was all he was interested in, until it was later confirmed that it was) all he really did in his introduction scene was refer to Robin and Lily (and Katie indirectly) as hot, which some boys his age would assume girls and women would take as a compliment. I get that he was a douche, but they should have done more earlier on to justify Robin as thinking he was one.
I also found the B-Story of "Single Stamina" to be silly as well; the way it was stated as fact that the only way a guy could get hit on is if he went to a gay bar, as if women don't hit on guys ever. It's admittedly rarer, but girls do hit on guys, trust me I know. I have been somewhere were a woman I was not into at all was clearly hitting on me, and I just wasn't in the mood for it, I was still polite and even danced with her at times, and mean no disrespect to her, but by the end of it (and it was more than one day) I was in the same frame of mind Lily and Robin, and later Marshal and Ted were in. The only thing the episode really captured was that you (regardless of your sex and sexuality) wouldn't mind being hit on if you actually found the one doing it attractive.
I see what you mean about Robin's sister's boyfriend. She was mostly just acting like an overprotective sibling/parentlike where she just didn't want her teenage sister having sex at all. It wasn't like Robin didn't think Katie should sleep with him because he wasn't treating her right but basically that she didn't want her sister doing anything, and since she refused Kyle, problem solved I guess? It should have been "here's how you know a guy is worth sleeping with because he respects you and here's how you protect yourself" it seemed more like Robin didn't think Katie should be active at all. Plus since Katie lives far away in Canada, the "abstinence only" vibe isn't going to work as well as an actual conversation.
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ted bouncing around from knowing nothing about sports to having decent knowledge
ted not meeting love soluations girl / felt there was no resoluation there
felt the wedding bride storyline left no resolution tbh
the last season not being stretched out over a few years but rather only 3 days, would have liked the 1st episode of the last season to be the wedding and ted meeting tracy then the rest exploring their relationship
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I too think Ted never meeting or resolving Love Solution Girl is a big miss in the show. Also they never concluded Abby's (Brittney Spear) side story~but this could be because of schedule conflicts....
shareYour last point is something I always bring up when talking about the show.
When I first started watching it, I thought at least the last couple of seasons would be about Ted and "the mother"'s relation. Instead, we only got like a total of 20 minutes of their relation during the whole nine season! That was so stupid and annoying.