They made a joke of this once at least when robin was telling barney that Ted "ruined her for other men" then hes like "of course I wasnt here for this conversation so I couldn't really be too sure"
We get it a fair amount, there's also a similar joke where Ted isn't sure if the story is correct, because he wasn't there, and is going by what the other characters told him (these scenes are purposely unrealistic) - it would be nice if it was used more, but it's also good they didn't over do it.
This is one of the many things I love about How I Met Your Mother - I love how it's aware that if the narrator is one of the characters, he wouldn't be able to know about/remember everything for sure, so we get scenes like this that play with it.
No, it happens throughout the show. Here are some examples, I hope you don't mind; 1. He couldn't remember his online date's name, so she's called "Blah Blah" throughout her episode. 2. He was too tired at the time to remember how the goat attack went, so we are shown an over the top fight with the goat. 3. He wasn't at the apartment when Marshal and Lilly both jumped out of the window unharmed, but has to go with that, as it's what they told him. 4. The same thing happens when Robin jumps over a traffic jam with a child's bike (Stella's daughter Lucy's) - Ted admits he wasn't there, but Robin says she did this. 5. He started the goat story prematurely, because he confused his 30th birthday with his 31st. I realise a lot of these are less "Ted remembered it wrong" and more "Ted wasn't there, and most likely doesn't believe what he was told, but it's all he has, so it's in the story", but they did play with the fact that one of the characters was the narrator a fair amount.
whats funny is it really the insult to barney that insulted every fiber in his body really wasnt nothing more than saying she didnt want to hang out with him
@@omalleycaboose5937 yeah same that divorce didn't even need to happen Ted could've lived as a single dad and it still would've been like "life doesn't go the way you imagine it" crap everybody keeps making as an excuse for the bad ending
@@raspberrycrowns9494 Its more the mother being dead explains to me why he is telling the story. The only time people tell me long stories like that its about my dad who died before I was born so... I sorta just assumed the mother was dead early on in the show. So it actually was what I expected. But the idea of the show, the theme of the story, whether realistic or not, Has been around how Ted has "the one" he needs to find. The mother is "The One" or she should have been, not Robin.
Barney probably wasn't as much as a player as Ted made him out to be. Ted just told the story that way so it would seem like he deserved to end up with Robin more
The way I always saw it whenever Future Ted (or Present Ted I guess) is speaking that's what is being told to the kids and the actual episode is just the details being filled in for the audience.
I have a theory that since this is in the future that all the guest stars are just how Ted exaggerated people from the past. “So Stella was a Doctor that reminds me of Elliot from Scrubs. And she had this receptionist that looked like Britney Spears but if she was bookish.”
" If there's one thing you never do , is to call a woman fat right to her face " Honestly, Barney did a lot better at this scene than Lily 😂 Barney is big phat mood
This is the exact moment and place when Louis bought Tracy the first drink. Tracy just walked out of the bar when Ted came in... should be a big sceen here.
They must have refilmed this scene with Tracy or edited it cuz I slowed it down and can’t see her at all when Ted walks in even though she’s supposed to walk right by him.
@@session2.056 they probably hadn't thought of the whole thing with Tracy being there when they first filmed this episode. Good thing is, though, they can always explain such inconsistencies with the irreliable narrator excuse.
Ive already seen the office obviously and i also love the good place... As for Brooklyn 99 i hate it... Couldnt even finish the first episode it was unbearable for me
There is one thing I'm wondering: If Barney and Lily's subplot chronologically happened in a much later episode, what did they actually do during the events of this episode itself?
Eliana Ream actually it’s stupid octopus head... but yeah, Lily can be sassy at times but not this one for sure. Maybe because she was pregnant in this..
It really wouldn't be nine years. Even assuming *everything* in the show is part of the story (seems doubtful) we're talking 9 seasons × 24 episodes in a season × about 22 minutes per episode. That adds up to about 80 hours. So he could cover it in the course of a few days.
@@harringt100 80 hours is 2 40 hour work weeks. 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. No one is going to tell a story for 8 hours a day to their kids. Especially since the kids were school age. Even assuming it was Summer Vacation. No way teenagers would sit there for 8 straight hours each day. Even so, if you notice, the kids don't change outfits. So it's all done in 1 day. 1 eternal day inside some magic time bubble where time passes both incredibly slowly and incredibly fast at the same time, so that he's able to talk at a normal speed yet get 80 hours of the past 9 years of his life into 1 night.
The impredictability in this series and their introspective way of telling the story from each character having flashbacks between flashbacks is what made them so unique. Plus, Bob Saget's delivery is GOLD. Every time i hear his voice i think of his line "LOOK AT THIS HOUSE, LOOK AT THIS KITCHEN, LOOK AT THIS MESS, I JUST WAXED THE FLOOR" at full house.
Thats the thing about the group, they all have a tendency to tell unnecessarily long and detailed stories about their lives with B plots they weren't there for.
Why does it make more sense? It's ridiculous to count an ice cream as "we". You saved me and my baby is a lot more heartwarming and touching for a pregnant woman
I love those rare moments of Ted being an unreliable narrator, or just forgetting details of the story. It really brings up the fact that these are memories of his younger life, and they can get a little hazy some times. Kinda wish they did it more often. Still, the show still has brilliant alternative ways of telling these stories.
And that, kids, is how you do storytelling. The entire series is a story told by a character of the show, so obviously, as the character is _human,_ his memory is *subjective* (which, by definition, means _faulty_ and _exaggerated)_ . HIMYM used that perfectly. The metaphores, the obviously wrong bits, the messed up chronology, the flashbacks and the flashforwards,... No series used narration as well as HIMYM. That's why I'll always love that series... despite season 9...
4:18 whenever older Ted says “I’ll get to that”, it’s usually something big. This one wasn’t, it was just a one episode thing, it was disappointing lol
lol me my mom and brother were watching the last episode The other day, and when it was sclose to the end I look to my brother and say: "Hey u notice how it's Ted's voice now instead of what's his name🤨? Bob Saget" 😄
It’s weird because I’m pretty sure it was heavily implied that Ted was exaggerating a lot of his life but then when Barney shows up in How I Met Your Father he’s the same
It's my favorite sitcom - I've even got a sitcom planned that's inspired by it and will use the same format (the "storyteller" one), but it will be my own storylines (I'm going to check with the creators that I can do this.)
Something funny about the narrator. I love the fact that you can still sometimes hear Danny Tanner in his voice. Bob Saget was known before this from Full House. How I Met Your Mother is my favorite show of all time Full House is my second.
This is kinda proof that Ted Mosby definitely unreliable which helps the theory that Barney is actually a far less terrible person than people think and it’s Ted either deliberately or unintentionally making him out to be a bad guy so it justifies his terrible behaviour and treatment of Barney
@@wolves600 I think you did not watch the show properly. The show made it pretty clear that they were soul mates. Victoria even spelled it out. Only the main characters were in denial because they had tried dating in season 1-2 and it had failed (because of manipulation by Lily, not on its own), and they were too afraid to give it another shot. So instead of admitting this, they would keep saying things like they are incompatible.
@@wolves600 Are you kidding? Just watch the end of the show. Even his kids say that even though the story is about how he met their mother, their mother is hardly in the story and that the whole reason Ted told that story was to make his connection with Robin more obvious to his kids. But ofc, just because one person is more relevant does not mean the other is completely irrelevant.
Always fascinating how precisely Ted can remember things and situations where he wasn't even part of.
Ted ever said his friends said what happens when he's never around. He also said he's unsure of what they said sometimes.
This was cleared in the later seasons that these 5 discussed each and every detail of their lives...
Denis Rozic it’s because they told him
They made a joke of this once at least when robin was telling barney that Ted "ruined her for other men" then hes like "of course I wasnt here for this conversation so I couldn't really be too sure"
They mention in the show, they tell eachother everything.
this should happen more throughout the series..i mean being a bad narrator.
I know right the guys trying to remember things and re tell it like I can barely remember things 2 days ago
We get it a fair amount, there's also a similar joke where Ted isn't sure if the story is correct, because he wasn't there, and is going by what the other characters told him (these scenes are purposely unrealistic) - it would be nice if it was used more, but it's also good they didn't over do it.
For real, if any show can take advantage of a gag like that it's this one.
I choose the to believe most of the finale was unreliable narrator
They did enough of it. There’s also microscopic amounts of it sprinkled through most of the episodes if you look closely.
I love how Barney's default personality is basically the same as a pregnant woman to the degree where it's not even jarring until halfway through.
This is one of the many things I love about How I Met Your Mother - I love how it's aware that if the narrator is one of the characters, he wouldn't be able to know about/remember everything for sure, so we get scenes like this that play with it.
wasn´t this the only time he was wrong about something? even scenes where he wasn´t even present?
No, it happens throughout the show. Here are some examples, I hope you don't mind;
1. He couldn't remember his online date's name, so she's called "Blah Blah" throughout her episode.
2. He was too tired at the time to remember how the goat attack went, so we are shown an over the top fight with the goat.
3. He wasn't at the apartment when Marshal and Lilly both jumped out of the window unharmed, but has to go with that, as it's what they told him.
4. The same thing happens when Robin jumps over a traffic jam with a child's bike (Stella's daughter Lucy's) - Ted admits he wasn't there, but Robin says she did this.
5. He started the goat story prematurely, because he confused his 30th birthday with his 31st.
I realise a lot of these are less "Ted remembered it wrong" and more "Ted wasn't there, and most likely doesn't believe what he was told, but it's all he has, so it's in the story", but they did play with the fact that one of the characters was the narrator a fair amount.
@@MJN_SEIFER also honeys name
Yep.
@@MJN_SEIFER You can call me Blah
2:49 "I'm sorry for wasting you time"
*Continues telling the story*
Wasted far too many years on the story. They could have told it in 52 episodes, 2 calender years, and been done.
I don't think I will ever forget Bob Saget's voice. May he rest in peace.
Amen. The man was a legend with an amazing voice.
Yes, always loved his voice, from his earliest work in the early 1980s to today.
I just learned today that he narrated the show. I had no clue. I thought it was a guy who plays Ted
@magilla2282 wow me too wtf 😂😂😂
whats funny is it really the insult to barney that insulted every fiber in his body really wasnt nothing more than saying she didnt want to hang out with him
Hes sensitive like Michael Jackson. I totally get it!
@@ericcarrington1791 yeah honestly Ive been sensitive like that too, i just didn't show it
@@ericcarrington1791 Michael jackson probably isnt the best person to bring up right now
yeah barney makes loves with women not child
@@ericcarrington1791 no he hasn't! God! How can you say that?!!
Now i'm thinking robin and barney never split up and the mother never died, because ted is still an unreliable narrator.
I don't like Barney and Robins split But I do like the mother dying. Why else would he feel the need to tell the story
@@omalleycaboose5937 yeah same
that divorce didn't even need to happen
Ted could've lived as a single dad and it still would've been like "life doesn't go the way you imagine it" crap everybody keeps making as an excuse for the bad ending
@@raspberrycrowns9494 Its more the mother being dead explains to me why he is telling the story. The only time people tell me long stories like that its about my dad who died before I was born so... I sorta just assumed the mother was dead early on in the show. So it actually was what I expected. But the idea of the show, the theme of the story, whether realistic or not, Has been around how Ted has "the one" he needs to find. The mother is "The One" or she should have been, not Robin.
@@omalleycaboose5937 dude I agree
Ted has schizophrenia.
I wonder how much of what we saw onscreen in himym actually happened
Well it's a TV show, so none of it and all of it
@@seangannon6005 wow, that's meta
Barney probably wasn't as much as a player as Ted made him out to be. Ted just told the story that way so it would seem like he deserved to end up with Robin more
Genevieve Ooi that actually makes a lot of sense
The way I always saw it whenever Future Ted (or Present Ted I guess) is speaking that's what is being told to the kids and the actual episode is just the details being filled in for the audience.
I have a theory that since this is in the future that all the guest stars are just how Ted exaggerated people from the past. “So Stella was a Doctor that reminds me of Elliot from Scrubs. And she had this receptionist that looked like Britney Spears but if she was bookish.”
" If there's one thing you never do , is to call a woman fat right to her face "
Honestly, Barney did a lot better at this scene than Lily 😂 Barney is big phat mood
@Black Ninja she was
I just love how Bob Saget really sounds like Ted. Bob Saget is really underrated on this show.
I didn’t even realise it wasn’t josh radnor until tonight 😭
This is the exact moment and place when Louis bought Tracy the first drink. Tracy just walked out of the bar when Ted came in... should be a big sceen here.
They must have refilmed this scene with Tracy or edited it cuz I slowed it down and can’t see her at all when Ted walks in even though she’s supposed to walk right by him.
@@session2.056 they probably hadn't thought of the whole thing with Tracy being there when they first filmed this episode. Good thing is, though, they can always explain such inconsistencies with the irreliable narrator excuse.
Total respect for Alyson choosing to film these scenes while she was actually pregnant
Since it ended i havent found any series even close to how good himym was
Brooklyn 99
Ive already seen the office obviously and i also love the good place... As for Brooklyn 99 i hate it... Couldnt even finish the first episode it was unbearable for me
Community, although it starts pretty boring, several episodes are pure gold
Parks and Rec, that's gold. And has kind of a himym vibe on it. It's about friendship, and ridiculous things.
JP KARAS FRIENDS
There is one thing I'm wondering: If Barney and Lily's subplot chronologically happened in a much later episode, what did they actually do during the events of this episode itself?
Huh never actually thought of that 🤨😄
Now u got me thinking.... what did they do? 🤔😌
Lily said no and Barney was cool with it
Lily’s a genius any time it doesn’t come to comebacks. “Super octopus head?”
Eliana Ream actually it’s stupid octopus head... but yeah, Lily can be sassy at times but not this one for sure. Maybe because she was pregnant in this..
@@baongocnguyen9955 or maybe. MAYBE Ted made it up
"...The rest of the story should make perfect sense!"
_four seconds later_
Ok, that doesn't make sense!
4:10 Tracy goes
0:57 Neil's act was so good that I saw him as Lily eating ice-cream
I'd be so pissed off if my Dad went a whole 9 year story about how he met my mother.
Makes for a good excuse for late assignments. ;)
It really wouldn't be nine years. Even assuming *everything* in the show is part of the story (seems doubtful) we're talking 9 seasons × 24 episodes in a season × about 22 minutes per episode. That adds up to about 80 hours. So he could cover it in the course of a few days.
@@harringt100 I didn't say the story took nine years to tell.
@@harringt100 80 hours is 2 40 hour work weeks. 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. No one is going to tell a story for 8 hours a day to their kids. Especially since the kids were school age. Even assuming it was Summer Vacation. No way teenagers would sit there for 8 straight hours each day.
Even so, if you notice, the kids don't change outfits. So it's all done in 1 day. 1 eternal day inside some magic time bubble where time passes both incredibly slowly and incredibly fast at the same time, so that he's able to talk at a normal speed yet get 80 hours of the past 9 years of his life into 1 night.
The impredictability in this series and their introspective way of telling the story from each character having flashbacks between flashbacks is what made them so unique.
Plus, Bob Saget's delivery is GOLD. Every time i hear his voice i think of his line "LOOK AT THIS HOUSE, LOOK AT THIS KITCHEN, LOOK AT THIS MESS, I JUST WAXED THE FLOOR" at full house.
It is not that unique.
Coupling did that as well. In fact how I met your mother is kind of an American coupling.
Bob’s voice was so warm, rich, and expressive.
Unpredictability* lmao
Thats the thing about the group, they all have a tendency to tell unnecessarily long and detailed stories about their lives with B plots they weren't there for.
Never knew Bob Saget was the narrator voice of ted mosby. RiP
You saved me and my ice cream makes a lot more sense than you saved me and my baby.
Granted I would have the same reaction if it was me and my stuffed animal
Why does it make more sense? It's ridiculous to count an ice cream as "we". You saved me and my baby is a lot more heartwarming and touching for a pregnant woman
@@nadimabbas4093 no.
Ice cream > screaming time and money consuming brats that sound like somebody having a stroke.
Anytime.
Haha yeah
Creams before screams
@@fgdbbddhhdhdj1591 that sounds dirty
Rest in peace, Bob Saget (1956-2022).
Guys, this was 9 years ago. Let that sink in.
I miss this show
RIP Bob Saget
Such abuse of the 4th wall, i love it
Rip Bob Saget.
Must be sad living alone with 2 kids and no one to hold dearly when all you have to say are stories about how your life used to be cool :/
he did told his wife about everything .. even her wife remembers his stories .. season 9 will show u
Frenchify Technically the mother lived due to the official alternate ending
ouch
I love those rare moments of Ted being an unreliable narrator, or just forgetting details of the story. It really brings up the fact that these are memories of his younger life, and they can get a little hazy some times. Kinda wish they did it more often. Still, the show still has brilliant alternative ways of telling these stories.
RIP Bob Sagot
4:12 it moments like this that make me wonder how they produced and filmed each seasons episodes.
And that, kids, is how you do storytelling. The entire series is a story told by a character of the show, so obviously, as the character is _human,_ his memory is *subjective* (which, by definition, means _faulty_ and _exaggerated)_ . HIMYM used that perfectly. The metaphores, the obviously wrong bits, the messed up chronology, the flashbacks and the flashforwards,... No series used narration as well as HIMYM. That's why I'll always love that series... despite season 9...
"The odyssey of recollection."
It's Dad Lore: The Show. You always talk up the exploits of all the cool stuff you did you to your kids.
None of the new shows, not even the Office is so unique in that regard.
@@ronmathewjoeYou're not unique either, it doesn't prevent your parents from loving you (I hope).
@@Dante02d12 Okay that was way out of the blue 😂😂
This is another proof Ted is a storyteller. I guess probably didn't wanna hear how Ted met Tracy, but Ted had to narrate stories 8 year prior to that.
"No I haven't"
NPH 😍
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't Tracy there?
Yaa
Yeah in the last scene, she passes between Barney and Lily before Ted got there
But, well, an unreliable narrator will probably skip the fact that someone very important passed him
Thanh Hà Lê yes he said it’s the end for that story which means there was another story about how the mother was actually there when it happened
davincent98 no it was Tracy’s hot friend(the redhead also her original roommate) that was in the 200th episode or how your mother met me
*RIP BOB SAGET*
Ted: Damn Robin, don't misuse the term "literally"!
Also Ted: 3:07
He didn’t misuse it tho, he was literally in the wrong year
Thanks to this episode I have a full essay topic on narrator reliability in literature
4:18 whenever older Ted says “I’ll get to that”, it’s usually something big. This one wasn’t, it was just a one episode thing, it was disappointing lol
It was!!
Tracy is there in this episode. Ted does bring it up later.
I miss How I Met Your Mother
shady c network me too I have the complete series on DVD
Anyone notice that on the last episodes Older teds voice switched to Josh Radnors voice?????
They sound so similar
lol me my mom and brother were watching the last episode The other day, and when it was sclose to the end I look to my brother and say:
"Hey u notice how it's Ted's voice now instead of what's his name🤨? Bob Saget" 😄
The ending was recorded at the start by Josh
Cornflower blue, CORNFLOWER BLUE!!
that transition from normal to crazy is damn good
RIP Bob Saget,legend forever💔
4:08 aaaaaand Tracy appeared ! 😉
Pregnant Lilly was wonderful.
This is what makes this show so great.
0:28 4th wall break?
No, they were looking at ted, not the audience
@@yazanhussam8182 *3rd* Wall Break?
Keep pressinf that time stamp every second. Ted drops a sick chord transition
2:46 "Sorry for wasting your time" should have been the conclusion of the whole series
Lily is the cutest girl I can imagine, while being real.
This is literally the definition of “how do you know about the parts you weren’t there for?”
It’s weird because I’m pretty sure it was heavily implied that Ted was exaggerating a lot of his life but then when Barney shows up in How I Met Your Father he’s the same
0:36
Good effort, Pamela.
Its kind of funny in and of itself that he could get Barney and Lily mixed up and it still works.
2:35 "Do you wanna know how I got these suits?"
hardly patience until ted remembers the right story in this episode
The show is underrated I loved all seasons it was well written
It's my favorite sitcom - I've even got a sitcom planned that's inspired by it and will use the same format (the "storyteller" one), but it will be my own storylines (I'm going to check with the creators that I can do this.)
@@MJN_SEIFER mine too,bro! Mine too! And it was to legend wait for it Dary ! Legendary!
It's not underrated. It was a huge success and has fans all over the world.
Himym using the unreliable narrator perfectly here. They took a relatively simple story and made it hilarious by having the narrator confused
You saved us😅🍦🍦
I miss Bob Saget so much
RIP Bob, You Will Be Missed
I just got one question, how the hell the child actor remained same throughout the season?
they filmed their whole part way early in season 1. they signed a contract not to reveal the ending.
I wrote 10 page essay at university about unreliable narrator in HIMYM
The writers are geniuses.
What's funny is that Tracy would have seen Ted in the dress as she left McClairin's that night
"No I haven't." The way Barney reacts to being called sensitive 😂😂 greatest actor here.
3:07 Figuratively...
*oh damn*
the unreliable narrator makes the story twice the length of what it supposed to be :D
Something funny about the narrator. I love the fact that you can still sometimes hear Danny Tanner in his voice. Bob Saget was known before this from Full House. How I Met Your Mother is my favorite show of all time Full House is my second.
Let Kevan Brighting take over your place, young chap.
the guy at 37 seconds reminds me of David Henrie
邱死神 the kid is David henrie
That kid is David Henrie.
Barney reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris
When "Lily" says "no surprise there" about the onion rings, I thought Alyson did a great job playing Barney.
literally? ted you are letting me down
That's a thing. How does Ted know about the parts he wasn't there for
Ian gooda, you remind me of Marshall's Gouda😂
I’m surprised the video wasn’t 7000 hours long
RIP Bob
0:43 Love her entry
I'm craving a sandwich after seeing how long this video is.
Rest In Peace Mr Bob Saget
Rip bob
Am i the only one who didnt know Josh Radnor (Ted) wasnt the narrator? Apparently it was Always Bob Saget narrating this show. Crazy
Yeah, I didn't realise it was a different person at first either.
I wanna hear Teds version of when Lilly went to band camp
Feels like I'm having a stroke
420 run time 🥈
420
Lol. I don't remember.this episode.
Neither does the narrator 😂
no i haven't! lol Neil nailed that one
I absolutely love Alyson Hannigan, she is so awesome! 😎
4:20 ecsdeee
RIP Bob Saget 😢
Rip bob saget
Took me a minute to realise they were swapped.
Since Tracy knows all his stories I wonder if he did this with her. Or maybe Barney and Lily were there to tell the side of the story.
This is kinda proof that Ted Mosby definitely unreliable which helps the theory that Barney is actually a far less terrible person than people think and it’s Ted either deliberately or unintentionally making him out to be a bad guy so it justifies his terrible behaviour and treatment of Barney
Or he is a pretty shitty guy
Well maybe Ted should have stopped focusing on telling his kids random stories and just focus on telling his kids how he met their mother
Yes continue ted.. your kids want to know all this..lol
RIP unreliable narrator ( Bob Saget)
This what such a good show. Shame they botched the ending.
More like gave it the perfect ending..
@@AnimeCritical not really because half the series showed how him and Robin are not compatible
@@wolves600 I think you did not watch the show properly. The show made it pretty clear that they were soul mates. Victoria even spelled it out. Only the main characters were in denial because they had tried dating in season 1-2 and it had failed (because of manipulation by Lily, not on its own), and they were too afraid to give it another shot. So instead of admitting this, they would keep saying things like they are incompatible.
@@AnimeCritical Okay then I guess the Tracy Mosby was completely irrelevant to the story
@@wolves600 Are you kidding? Just watch the end of the show. Even his kids say that even though the story is about how he met their mother, their mother is hardly in the story and that the whole reason Ted told that story was to make his connection with Robin more obvious to his kids.
But ofc, just because one person is more relevant does not mean the other is completely irrelevant.
Rip Bob Saget