63 - How I Met Your Mother (feat. David Armstrong)
David Armstrong (Omni BiLateral PANic) sits the lads down to tell them the fraught and incredibly lengthy story of the hit CBS sitcom: How I Met Your Mother. Topics include the infamous ending, the deck shenanigans of Josh Radnor, and the slow death of the American multi-cam sitcom. And don't forget to read A.J.’s HIMYM Spec Script/Nightmare - “Have Ya Met Ted?”
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Omni BiLateral PANic is a podcast where three Bi-coastal, Bisexual+, Bi-products of the 90's ride the Highways and Bi-ways through some niche pop culture and take every detour possible!
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014): Available on Hulu / Amazon / Apple TV
Season One, Episode One: Pilot
Season Two, Episode Nine: Slap Bet
Season Eight, Episode Twenty: The Time-Travelers
Season Nine, Episode Sixteen: How Your Mother Met Me
Season Nine, Episode 23/24: Last Forever
“TV Summer School: How to Create and Run a Successful Sitcom”, E! Online (August 6, 2007)
How I Met Your Dad Pilot, 20th Century Fox Television (2004)
How I Met Your Mother Alternate Ending, 20th Century Fox Television/CBS (2014)
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Comments (7)
It's been a MILLION years since I watched the finale of HIMYM but... I didn't hate it? I think it made a lot of sense that she was dead given how he talks about her. He talks about her like she's not around anymore. Inthought it was fine.
She's dead???
I don't even remember the Ted yellowface from that episode, but I think the larger issue with shows like HIMYM re: Asian representation is just Asian erasure or absence of Asians as significant characters. NYC is 12% Asian and yet they basically don't exist in most television or movie depictions of New York.
I agree with Brian that knowing what happens to the mother actually made the 45 Days monologue way more poignant to me than it did at the time. At the time it felt like a cheap tease filtered through Ted's hopeless romantic lens, where now it feels like a father still grieving the death of the love of his life, and sharing that with his kids. One of the loves of his life, anyway...
Love AJ as Lily Also I still plan to watch How I Met Your Father cause Hilary Duff
Ah, Wesleyan University. When your least damaging influence on Hollywood is Michael Bay, you should seriously considering shutting the entire fucking thing down.
Thanks for this episode. Without it I don't think I'd have realized every time someone talked about How I Met Your Mother I was thinking of Two and a Half Men.