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07-20-2022, 08:31 PM
https://www.looper.com/934116/the-biggest-plot-holes-in-how-i-met-your-mother/
BY LIZ YOUNG/JULY 20, 2022 11:56 AM EDT
With a nine-season run that contains more than 200 episodes, "How I Met Your Mother" (https://www.looper.com/658777/best-running-gags-on-how-i-met-your-mother/) is among the longest-running serialized comedy shows of the century. The series follows five friends; architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), lawyer Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), news anchor Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), and suit lover Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) as an older Ted (voiced by Bob Saget) explains to his children how he met their mother.
With plenty of storylines ranging from Ted being left at the altar to Barney going from serial dater to long-term boyfriend, not every detail was ever going to line up perfectly by the end. It's hard to keep track of everything that happens between so many main characters and the side characters they get involved with over the show's run. Fans haven't always been pleased with the decisions made in the writers' room, including which couples stick it out (https://www.looper.com/831765/the-how-i-met-your-mother-couple-fans-think-should-have-stayed-together/) until the end of the show, and sometimes viewers get confused when a nugget of new information contradicts a previously established detail. Grab a gas can because the Monstrosity Sport, sadly, does not get great gas mileage, and let's go down memory lane and look at the biggest plot holes, continuity errors, inconsistent character behaviors, and other dubious elements of "How I Met Your Mother."
BY LIZ YOUNG/JULY 20, 2022 11:56 AM EDT
With a nine-season run that contains more than 200 episodes, "How I Met Your Mother" (https://www.looper.com/658777/best-running-gags-on-how-i-met-your-mother/) is among the longest-running serialized comedy shows of the century. The series follows five friends; architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), lawyer Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), news anchor Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), and suit lover Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) as an older Ted (voiced by Bob Saget) explains to his children how he met their mother.
With plenty of storylines ranging from Ted being left at the altar to Barney going from serial dater to long-term boyfriend, not every detail was ever going to line up perfectly by the end. It's hard to keep track of everything that happens between so many main characters and the side characters they get involved with over the show's run. Fans haven't always been pleased with the decisions made in the writers' room, including which couples stick it out (https://www.looper.com/831765/the-how-i-met-your-mother-couple-fans-think-should-have-stayed-together/) until the end of the show, and sometimes viewers get confused when a nugget of new information contradicts a previously established detail. Grab a gas can because the Monstrosity Sport, sadly, does not get great gas mileage, and let's go down memory lane and look at the biggest plot holes, continuity errors, inconsistent character behaviors, and other dubious elements of "How I Met Your Mother."