The Worst Episode Of How I Met Your Mother, According To IMDb

Craig Thomas and Carter Bays’ CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mom” ran for 9 seasons from 2005 to 2014, and was so fashionable that it even launched a spin-off series. Regardless of its spectacular longevity, nonetheless, it’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner … which is smart since there are over 200 episodes within the sequence. There are literally a handful of significantly horrible episodes of the ensemble comedy — which stars Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, the man who takes ceaselessly telling his children about how he met their mom (with grownup Ted voice by the late Bob Saget) — so which one do followers assume is absolutely the worst, if we’re utilizing the IMDb rating as their closing phrase on the matter?

The reply is just a little difficult, as a result of the series finale, “Last Forever,” is split into two parts … and the second half, appropriately subtitled “Half Two,” has the doubtful distinction of incomes the sequence’ lowest episodic IMDb rating with a bleak 5.5. (“Final Perpetually: Half One” does not fare significantly better with a 6.6, however I will circle again to that nonsense shortly.) So what occurs in “Final Perpetually: Half Two” that angered followers so badly? Do every other episodes, apart from “Half One” of the sequence finale, flop as badly with followers because the very finish of your complete present? 

The explanation that “Final Perpetually: Half Two” has such an unbelievably low rating on IMDb — a near-failing grade, in reality — is as a result of not solely does it completely stink, nevertheless it throws away the present’s total legacy simply so Carter Bays and Craig Thomas may stick with a plan they devised a full decade earlier. Let me clarify. On the finish of the present’s second season, Bays and Thomas filmed a scene with “grownup” Ted’s children Penny (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Luke (David Henrie) revealing that the titular mom, who’s in the end performed to perfection by Cristin Milioti within the present’s ninth and closing season, dies … paving the way in which for Ted to get again collectively along with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the children’ “aunt” Robin Scherbatzky (sequence common Cobie Smulders). 

The concept that Robin, a hardworking profession lady who works her method up the published journalism ladder to turn into an internationally famend information anchor, would nonetheless accept Ted, a pedantic coin collector who loves correcting folks, is insulting sufficient. Add in the truth that the total ninth season focuses on Robin’s wedding ceremony to another person — particularly, one among Ted’s greatest buddies Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) — and the truth that “Final Perpetually: Half Two” skates by means of the ultimate storyline for the present’s fixed couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), and you have an absolute clunker of an episode. So which different episodes earned dismal scores on IMDb?

Longtime followers of “How I Met Your Mom” most likely will not be that shocked by the remainder of the “worst” episodes in response to IMDb; lots of them are from season 9, which is broadly believed to be the present’s worst season, they usually’re solely memorable as a result of they’re horrible. The second-place finisher, “Bedtime Tales,” rocks a score of 5.8 and incorporates a pre-“Hamilton” Lin-Manuel Miranda however can also be carried out solely in rhyme, which looks like a place-filler at greatest and is completely grating at its worst. The third-worst episode in response to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” options some significantly offensive caricatures of Asian cinema — carried out by the present’s white solid — that’s legitimately embarrassing irrespective of whenever you watch it. (There is a cause its score is a pathetic 6.0.)

One other season 9 stinker, “Mother and Dad,” is available in fourth place with 6.6, most likely as a result of it incorporates a actually awkward subplot the place Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) attempt to persuade their mom Loretta Stinson (Frances Conroy) to get again along with one among their two dads, all whereas William Zabka (sure, from “The Karate Child” and, finally, “Cobra Kai”) is working round messing with Ted. Then we get “Final Perpetually: Half One,” the place we’re pressured to take a seat there and watch as Robin and Barney name off their marriage after we simply watched a complete season centered round their wedding ceremony. Once more, not each episode of “How I Met Your Mom” can attain the peak of, say, “Slap Guess” or “How I Met Everybody Else,” simply to call a number of; they do not should be this unhealthy, although.

“How I Met Your Mom” is streaming on Hulu now.

Craig Thomas and Carter Bays’ CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mom” ran for 9 seasons from 2005 to 2014, and was so fashionable that it even launched a spin-off series. Regardless of its spectacular longevity, nonetheless, it’s safe to say that not every episode is a winner … which is smart since there are over 200 episodes within the sequence. There are literally a handful of significantly horrible episodes of the ensemble comedy — which stars Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, the man who takes ceaselessly telling his children about how he met their mom (with grownup Ted voice by the late Bob Saget) — so which one do followers assume is absolutely the worst, if we’re utilizing the IMDb rating as their closing phrase on the matter?

The reply is just a little difficult, as a result of the series finale, “Last Forever,” is split into two parts … and the second half, appropriately subtitled “Half Two,” has the doubtful distinction of incomes the sequence’ lowest episodic IMDb rating with a bleak 5.5. (“Final Perpetually: Half One” does not fare significantly better with a 6.6, however I will circle again to that nonsense shortly.) So what occurs in “Final Perpetually: Half Two” that angered followers so badly? Do every other episodes, apart from “Half One” of the sequence finale, flop as badly with followers because the very finish of your complete present? 

The explanation that “Final Perpetually: Half Two” has such an unbelievably low rating on IMDb — a near-failing grade, in reality — is as a result of not solely does it completely stink, nevertheless it throws away the present’s total legacy simply so Carter Bays and Craig Thomas may stick with a plan they devised a full decade earlier. Let me clarify. On the finish of the present’s second season, Bays and Thomas filmed a scene with “grownup” Ted’s children Penny (Lyndsy Fonseca) and Luke (David Henrie) revealing that the titular mom, who’s in the end performed to perfection by Cristin Milioti within the present’s ninth and closing season, dies … paving the way in which for Ted to get again collectively along with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the children’ “aunt” Robin Scherbatzky (sequence common Cobie Smulders). 

The concept that Robin, a hardworking profession lady who works her method up the published journalism ladder to turn into an internationally famend information anchor, would nonetheless accept Ted, a pedantic coin collector who loves correcting folks, is insulting sufficient. Add in the truth that the total ninth season focuses on Robin’s wedding ceremony to another person — particularly, one among Ted’s greatest buddies Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) — and the truth that “Final Perpetually: Half Two” skates by means of the ultimate storyline for the present’s fixed couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), and you have an absolute clunker of an episode. So which different episodes earned dismal scores on IMDb?

Longtime followers of “How I Met Your Mom” most likely will not be that shocked by the remainder of the “worst” episodes in response to IMDb; lots of them are from season 9, which is broadly believed to be the present’s worst season, they usually’re solely memorable as a result of they’re horrible. The second-place finisher, “Bedtime Tales,” rocks a score of 5.8 and incorporates a pre-“Hamilton” Lin-Manuel Miranda however can also be carried out solely in rhyme, which looks like a place-filler at greatest and is completely grating at its worst. The third-worst episode in response to IMDb, “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” options some significantly offensive caricatures of Asian cinema — carried out by the present’s white solid — that’s legitimately embarrassing irrespective of whenever you watch it. (There is a cause its score is a pathetic 6.0.)

One other season 9 stinker, “Mother and Dad,” is available in fourth place with 6.6, most likely as a result of it incorporates a actually awkward subplot the place Barney and his brother James (Wayne Brady) attempt to persuade their mom Loretta Stinson (Frances Conroy) to get again along with one among their two dads, all whereas William Zabka (sure, from “The Karate Child” and, finally, “Cobra Kai”) is working round messing with Ted. Then we get “Final Perpetually: Half One,” the place we’re pressured to take a seat there and watch as Robin and Barney name off their marriage after we simply watched a complete season centered round their wedding ceremony. Once more, not each episode of “How I Met Your Mom” can attain the peak of, say, “Slap Guess” or “How I Met Everybody Else,” simply to call a number of; they do not should be this unhealthy, although.

“How I Met Your Mom” is streaming on Hulu now.