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Tiny things that bothered you?


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 😋

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1. From the "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns"- What are the odds that girl would still live in the same apartment TEN years later? Same with Natalie who Ted dumped on her answering machine and the girl from "Double Date" who still lived in the same apartment 7 years later. And Maggie, Ted's dream girl from college lived in the same apartment for close to ten years. These were all young women in their early 20's living in New York (not to mention a VERY nice apartment in NY). They would have moved, changed jobs, got married, run out of money, or something over that span of time. Too much of a coincidence that ALL of them stayed so long in the same apartment.

2. Barney being obsessed with Lily's boobs. He's slept with over 200 women. Many of them we can assume to be strippers with big boobs. I never understood what was so appealing about Lily's.

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I assume the appeal was the off limits, forbidden nature of lily's. But good point about no girl ever moving. It is super unlikely but the only way to justify the stories.

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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2. Barney being obsessed with Lily's boobs. He's slept with over 200 women. Many of them we can assume to be strippers with big boobs. I never understood what was so appealing about Lily's.


I get the fact that Barney be obsessed with Lily's boobs. He's somewhat of a sex maniac anyway. What I don't like is that they talk about it so shallowly, when in reality you would never talk like that about your best friend's girlfriend, let alone while she's your friend herself. That's unrealistic and shallow.

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How is it unrealistic to be shallow?

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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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Apparently, I didn't explain myself properly. I mean that, you would never talk about your friend's girlfriend that way, and I think that the show writers deal with it rather shallowly.

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I disagree with the boobs thing. It's very plausible for a guy to want to see a particular person's boobs, largely because it's been inaccessible. It's largely about the conquest, the "winning" rather than the prize.

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lilly sees barney naked in the episode where she gets paid to paint his portrait... she later asks robin what barney looks like "down there" in the episode after barney sleeps with robin for the first time

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In the episode where Lily has to eat a lot to fit into her wedding dress , she has to eat all that ridiculous amount of food because she doesn't want to pay 300$ to fix the dress but during the entire episode she eats a hell lot and in the end she and Marshall , in that hotel room which looked like a 5-Star Hotel(another point that bugged me , they could have stayed at a cheaper hotel) order that humongous amount of food which easily would have cost 300$ or even more...

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Robin was too mean to Patrice.

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DAMMIT PATRICE! DID YOU MAKE A FAKE ACCOUNT JUST TO COMPLAIN! WHO INVITED YOU TO IMDB?

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lolol LOVE THIS!!!!!

But on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again.

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Thank you sexy. I love you too. May Allah bless you with many beautiful orgasms.

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in desperation day the girl at st valentine's wedding would be christian & wouldnt have pleaded with jupiter ooo

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1. When Ted was leaving Cindy's apartment and just missed meeting the mother. I know that was kind of the point, but it still bothered me.

2. Going back and realizing how oblivious I was to the foreshadowing this show does. From Marshall's dad not being at the thanksgiving table in a flashforward to Ted wanting those extra 45 days with the Mother.

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also in one of the earlier seasons i think s2 or s3 robin implies that she knows her aunt is a lesbian, i think even says that the other woman is her "lover" but then in s8 when barney says her aunt is a lesbian robin is in denial about it and thinks that she isn't

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also in one of the earlier seasons i think s2 or s3 robin implies that she knows her aunt is a lesbian, i think even says that the other woman is her "lover" but then in s8 when barney says her aunt is a lesbian robin is in denial about it and thinks that she isn't
Yeah, that one get me too. There's a part in the first episode ("Stuff" - Season 2 Episode 16) where Lily says "they love dogs", "they" meaning lesbians or gay people in general, and Robin asks what Lily means by "they" so Lily covers up what she meant. I thought Robin's reaction meant she was offended that Lily was stereotyping all lesbians/gay people as being the same, but when I saw the next episode ("The Autumn of Break-Ups" - Season 8 Episode 5) it is made clear that Robin didn't know about her aunt's sexuality.

It's the "lover" part that makes this confusing, as you are aware. To this day, I don't know if they originally intended the joke to be what I thought it was, and forgot or Robin was never scripted to say "lover" and Colby Smulders simply got it wrong, and no one noticed until after it was too late to change it (e.g. the episode had already aired) - maybe Robin was supposed to say "friend" or "special friend" but since Colby knew the joke was that Robin didn't know that Betty (Maureen in "Autumn of Break-Ups") was her aunt's lover she could have said the word "lover" as kind of Freudian slip, since the word may have been in her mind?

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yea not sure tbh lol

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I was pretty sure I had replied to this, but apparently my reply was never posted. Oh well..

I've got a couple of good ones:

1) When Robin and Kevin meet everyday in a diner, and then decide to start dating everyone starts claping. That was so lame it's difficult to put into words.

2) Season 9 is full of moments that bothered me. For example, when Barney is mad at Ted for having held Robin's hand. I mean, the nerve on that guy! He accused Ted of breaking the Bro's Code, when he broke it first by having sex with Robin (Ted's ex) and having sex with Ted's mother (which is never really confirmed, but he imples without any remorse).

3) When Marshall comes back in season 9 after his road trip, he brought with him a lot of things from Ted's house in order to make fun of him. In that scene, Marshall is really cruel to Ted, which doesn't make sense to me. I mean, he was a really nice guy to Ted for the first 8 seasons and all of the sudden he decides to make fun of his best friend in the whole world in fron of everybody. I'll call out of character

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I have one-I think, I may be remembering Barney's words wrong but in the episode where everyone's stuck in closets (hilarious, Ted's red cowboy boots) when Ted says Heff is in the lobby Barney has his playboy robe on and says something like- we'll get there someday. The on the eppy with picking his wedding suit he said stuffed a lot of bunnies in that suit
at a playboy party.

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