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 even launched a spin-off series. However, despite the impressive durability, it’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner … which makes sense since the series has over 200 episodes. In fact, there are some pretty awful episodes of the ensemble comedy — starring Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, a guy who’s forever telling his kids about how he met their mother (with Ted’s grown-up voice by the late Bob Saget) — so fans think, what is the absolute worst if we use the IMDb rating as the final word on the matter?

The answer is a bit complicated, because the finale of the series “Last Forever” is divided into two parts … and the second installment, aptly subtitled “Part Two,” has the dubious distinction of having the series’ lowest episode rating on IMDb at a dismal 5.5. (“Last Forever: Part One” isn’t much better since 6.6, but I’ll get back to that nonsense shortly.) So what’s going on in “Last Forever: Part Two” that pissed off fans so much? Are there any episodes other than “Part One” in the series finale as bad for fans as the very end of the entire show?

The reason “Last Forever: Part Two” has such an incredibly low IMDb rating — almost a failing rating, in fact — is that it not only stinks, but also throws away the entire legacy of the show so that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas can stick with the plan, which they developed as much as ten years ago. Let me explain. At the end of the series’ second season, Baez and Thomas shot a scene with Ted’s “grown-up” children Penny (Lindsey Fonseca) and Luke (David Henry), revealing that the titular mother, who would end up being perfectly played by Kristin Miliotti in the series’ ninth and final season, dies … paving the way for Ted to get back together with his girlfriend and the kids’ “aunt” Robin Szczerbatsky (series regular Cobie Smulders).

The idea that Robyn, a hard-working career woman working her way up the ladder in broadcast journalism to become a world-renowned news anchor, would settle anyway Teda pedantic coin collector who likes to correct people is offensive enough. Add to that the fact that the entire ninth season is devoted to 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” runs through the final storyline of series regular couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alysson Hannigan). , and you get an absolutely ridiculous episode. So, what other episodes got miserable IMDb scores?

Longtime How I Met Your Mother fans probably won’t be shocked by the rest of the “worst” episodes according to IMDb; many of them are from season 9, which is considered the worst season of the series, and they are memorable just because they are terrible. Runner-up “Bedtime Stories” has a 5.8 rating and features pre-Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda, but also only rhymes, coming off as place-filler at best and downright cheesy. worst of all. The third-worst episode according to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” features some very offensive caricatures of Asian cinema — performed by a white cast — that are legitimately jarring no matter when you watch it. (There’s a reason it’s rated a miserable 6.0.)

Another stinker from Season 9, “Mom and Dad,” is fourth with a 6.6, probably because it has a very awkward subplot where Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) try to convince their mother, Loretta Stinson ( Frances Conroy) to return with one of their two parents, all the while William Zabka (yesfrom “The Karate Kid” and eventually “Cobra Kai”) runs and messes with Ted. Then we get Last Forever: Part One, where we’re forced to sit and watch Robin and Barney call off their marriage after we’ve just watched an entire season devoted to their wedding. Then again, not every episode of How I Met Your Mother can reach the heights of, say, Slapshot or How I Met Everyone Else, to name a few; they shouldn’t be this bad, though.

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