I guess I'm alone on this, but I thought the second episode was terrific. OK, I'm going to hate the Marshall Planes, Trains, and Automobiles riff, but I understand that he didn't want to do a final season and they had to write around him doing as little work as possible.

But that final scene is everything that HIMYM is good at. It was poignant without being overbearing, and still funny (VESUVIUS!). And the offer for Barney and Robin to nibble his brother's dong is just comedy gold.

I like that we're already invested in the Mother, and she's now been onscreen for about 10 minutes. She has real chemistry with the cast.

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Posted by WG_Dawg

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Posted on 9/23/13 at 9:09 pm to Baloo

I loved the scene at the end with 1 year in the future Ted and the mother with current Ted. Just a nice, feel good scene.

And I love the mother already. She just has a quality about her that draws me in. Seems like a cool girl.

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Posted by hiltacular

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Posted on 9/23/13 at 9:21 pm to Baloo

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But that final scene is everything that HIMYM is good at. It was poignant without being overbearing, and still funny (VESUVIUS!). And the offer for Barney and Robin to nibble his brother's dong is just comedy gold.

Exactly. If you didn't like the end of this episode you should have stopped watching a long time ago.

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Posted by quail man

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Posted on 9/23/13 at 9:45 pm to Baloo

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But that final scene is everything that HIMYM is good at. It was poignant without being overbearing, and still funny (VESUVIUS!). And the offer for Barney and Robin to nibble his brother's dong is just comedy gold.

loved all of that. the marshall stuff just seemed forced and took away from the episode for me. i guess that was my biggest thing. but like i said, overall, it was a solid hour of TV.