The worst episode of How I Met Your Mother, according to IMDb

The sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” from Craig Thomas and Carter Bays ran on CBS for nine seasons from 2005 to 2014, and was so popular that It even launched a spin-off series. Despite its impressive longevity, it… It’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner …which makes sense considering there are over 200 episodes in the series. There are actually a few absolutely terrible episodes of the syndicated comedy — which stars Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, a man who is forever telling his kids about how he met their mother (in the adult Ted voice of the late Bob Saget) — so which one do fans think is… Worst of all, if we’re using the IMDb rating as the final word on this?

The answer is a little complicated, because The series finale, “Last Forever”, is divided into two parts …and Part 2, appropriately subtitled “Part 2,” has the dubious distinction of having the series’ lowest IMDb rating of 5.5. (“Last Forever: Part One” doesn’t do much better with 6.6, but I’ll be back to that nonsense soon.) So what’s going on in “Last Forever: Part Two” that has fans so angry? Are there any other episodes, besides “Part One” of the series finale, that flop as badly with fans as the end of the entire show?

The reason “Last Forever: Part Two” has an incredibly low rating on IMDb — a near-failing rating, in fact — is not because it just stinks, but because it throws the entire legacy of the series away, just as Carter Bays did and Craig could. Thomas must stick to the plan he made a decade ago. Let me explain. At the end of the show’s second season, Baez and Thomas filmed a scene with Ted’s “adult” children Penny (Lindsy Fonseca) and Luke (David Henrie) revealing that the titular mother, who was eventually played to perfection by Cristin Milioti in the series’ ninth and final season , He dies … paves the way for Ted to get back together with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the kids’ “aunt” Robin Scherbatsky (series regular Cobie Smulders).

The idea that Robin, a hard-working career woman working her way up the ladder of broadcast journalism to become a world-famous news anchor, would still be acceptable Teda pedantic coin collector who likes to correct people, is insulting enough. Add to that the fact that the entire ninth season focuses on Robin’s wedding Someone else — specifically, one of Ted’s best friends Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) — and the fact that “Last Forever: Part Two” skates through the final story of the show’s perennial couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan). And you have an absolute clunker for the episode. So what other episodes got bad reviews on IMDb?

Longtime fans of How I Met Your Mother probably won’t be shocked by the rest of the “worst” episodes according to IMDb; Many of them are from Season 9, widely believed to be the worst season of the series, and are only memorable because they are awesome. Runner-up “Bedtime Stories” has a 5.8 rating and features Lin-Manuel Miranda before “Hamilton” but is also only presented in rhyme, which feels like space filler at best and downright annoying at worst. The third-worst episode according to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” features some seriously offensive caricatures of Asian cinema — played by the show’s white cast — and is legitimately embarrassing no matter when you watch it. (There’s a reason its rating is a pathetic 6.0.)

Season 9’s “Mom and Dad” comes in fourth with a 6.6, perhaps because it has a weird subplot in which Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) try to convince their mother Loretta Stinson (Frances Conroy) to come back. with one of their parents, all while William Zabka (Yesfrom “The Karate Kid” and finally “Cobra Kai”) messes with Ted. Then we get “Last Forever: Part One,” where we’re forced to sit there and watch Robin and Barney call off their marriage after we’ve just watched an entire season focused on their wedding. Again, not every episode of “How I Met Your Mother” can reach the heights of “Slap Bet” or “How I Met Each Else,” to name a few; They don’t have to be this Bad, though.

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