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

Craig Thomas and Carter Bays’ CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2014 and was so popular that it has even launched a spin-off series. Despite its impressive longevity It’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner …which makes sense since the series has over 200 episodes. There are actually a handful of truly terrible episodes of the ensemble comedy – which stars Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, the guy who spends ages telling his kids how he met their mother (in the grown-up Ted voice of the late Bob Saget) – So which one do fans consider to be the absolute worst if we use the IMDb rankings as the final word on the subject?

The answer is a bit complicated because The series finale “Last Forever” is divided into two parts …and the second part, appropriately subtitled “Part Two,” has the dubious distinction of achieving the series’ lowest episodic IMDb ranking with a dismal 5.5. (“Last Forever: Part One” doesn’t do much better, with a 6.6, but I’ll get back to that nonsense in a moment.) So what happens in “Last Forever: Part Two” that upset fans so much? Apart from “Part One” of the series finale, did any other episodes flop with fans as much as the end of the entire series?

The reason Last Forever: Part Two has such an incredibly low ranking on IMDb – almost a mis-rating, in fact – is because it not only absolutely stinks, but it also throws away the entire legacy of the series, just like Carter Bays and Craig Thomas was able to stick to a plan they had laid out a full decade earlier. Let me explain. At the end of the series’ second season, Bays and Thomas filmed a scene with “grown-up” Ted’s children Penny (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Luke (David Henrie), in which they reveal the titular mother, ultimately played to perfection by Cristin Milioti in the series ninth and last season, dies … and paves the way for Ted to reunite with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the children’s “aunt,” Robin Scherbatzky (series star Cobie Smulders).

The idea that Robin, a hard-working career woman working her way up as a broadcast journalist to become an internationally known news anchor, would still settle for her Teda pedantic coin collector who loves to correct people is insulting enough. In addition, the entire ninth season focuses on Robin’s wedding someone else – namely one of Ted’s best friends, Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) – and the fact that “Last Forever: Part Two” marks the final storyline for the series’ ongoing couple, Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan). ), goes through. , and you have an absolutely crazy episode. What other episodes scored poorly on IMDb?

Longtime How I Met Your Mother fans probably won’t be as shocked by the rest of the “worst” episodes according to IMDb; Many of these come from Season 9, widely considered the show’s worst season, and they’re memorable simply because they are terrible. The runner-up, “Bedtime Stories,” scores a 5.8 rating and features a pre-“Hamilton” Lin-Manuel Miranda, but is also only delivered in rhyme, which feels like space filler at best and is absolutely nerve-wracking is the worst. The third worst episode according to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra” features some seriously offensive caricatures of Asian cinema – performed by the show’s white cast – that is legitimately embarrassing no matter when you watch it. (There’s a reason the rating is a pathetic 6.0.)

Another Season 9 stinker, “Mom and Dad,” comes in fourth place with a 6.6, probably because it contains a really unpleasant subplot involving Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) trying to get their mother, Loretta Stinson ( Frances Conroy) to come back along with one of her two fathers, while William Zabka (Yesfrom “The Karate Kid” and finally “Cobra Kai”) runs around and plays with Ted. Then comes “Last Forever: Part One,” where we’re forced to sit and watch as Robin and Barney call off their marriage after just watching an entire season focused solely on their wedding. Again, not every episode of “How I Met Your Mother” can reach the heights of, say, “Slap Bet” or “How I Met Everyone Else,” to name a few; They don’t have to be The bad though.

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