re: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 full season thread

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Who said the imaginary kids mean anything?

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Her article. She said the hope is kept till the wathcer has the rug pulled out by saying the kids werent real.

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Then You completely missed the point of why she brought up a "sandwich". The article is saying Robin is using "Pole Vaulting" as a metaphor for being a mother in the same way that a sandwich is a joint when future ted is talking to his kids

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Thats a dumb theroy. The writers write the sandwich metaphor to always be sandwich-whether the action is on screen or hes talking to his kids you can substitute marijuana for eating a sandwich it doesnt change anything except they were getting high instead of eating. If you substitute that she told them she cant have kids instead of her saying pole vaulting then none of the subsequent actions in the episode make any sense. At the end of the episode ted says "you dont have to tell me the real reason but Im still going to try to cheer you up anyways" and he makes the light show. Obviously he wouldnt say that if he knew she couldnt have kids.