How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

A fan of the show re-edited the ending.

http://www.uproxx.com/up/2014/04/a-fan-fixed-the-how-i-met-your-mother-ending-and-made-it-so-much-better

 

I literally just realized that Ted's daughter is the actress who plays John Cusack's 1980s girlfriend (the one who stabs him with a fork) in "Hot Tub Time Machine."

 

They filmed the ending portion with the kids nine years ago. I wonder how old they are now.

Something that always fascinated me. When the show started, the highest-paid "regular" was Bob Saget. I'm sure that changed quickly, but I always thought that was pretty funny.

 

Oh, it was great. But, as social media proves thousands of times a day, there are plenty of fools out there who would indeed argue otherwise.

 

So, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like ...

 

Final scene they shot was Ted and the mom under the umbrella.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/interview-josh-radnor-how-i-met-your-mother-finale.html

 

It's amazing how easily it could have been made so much better. Sometimes there's no shame in giving the audience what they want.

 

You’ve lived in this character for so many years, do you think he thought about Robin when he was with “The Mother”?
They cut a scene that Cobie [Smulders] and I shot between Ted and Robin. I thought it was a really important scene and I talked to Carter and Craig [Bays and Thomas, HIMYM's co-creators and co-showrunners] about it. I understand why they cut it, but I thought it laid in that Robin had been thinking about Ted all these years more than Ted had been thinking about Robin. But who knows?

It’s weird to speculate on something that isn’t actually real. [Laughs.] It’s an imagined story, but you also have to wonder what happened in the six years after she died and what was that like for Ted. Obviously, he’s been mulling over his past and sifting through things. And there was that comment about Robin always coming over for dinner, so they’ve clearly reestablished a contact and a deep friendship.

Can you tell me a little bit more about what happened in the cut scene?
It was a scene after they ran into each other on the street. They had lunch the next day. I don’t want to go too much into it because they obviously cut it for a reason, but I thought it was a really sweet and sad and funny scene. It also talked about Robin having a run-in with a bull in Spain. They’re so densely packed, these episodes, and they’re always long. We shot more than could be in the episode, which we always do, so some stuff has to go.

I can understand the criticisms, especially the condensing of time, but I don't think this outcome of the show is out of human character at all. People change over time. A lot. Just because 34-year-old idealistic Ted didn't see himself with Robin is hardly a reason that 52-year-old been-through-it-all Ted wouldn't.

 

None of those explanations change the fact that the ending was one of the most blatant bait-and-switch copouts in TV history.

 

I guess I just don't see it. After the "45 days" speech and the line about what mother wouldn't be at her daughter's wedding, I think it would have been harder to wind their way out of that.

 

It would've been very hard to cut that one total minute from the show (or at least half of the final season) and write a real ending instead.