How I Met Your Mother | Official 'Alternate Ending'
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Ted Mosby's wife Tracy McConnell, the titular "Mother," doesn't pass away from a terminal illness in this more upbeat version that plays on the happenstance of previous seasons.
Even the cold manner in which the show reveals Tracy's death - a mere sentence after nine seasons of building up the relationship - was criticized by fans. That's not an issue here. In this ending, the widowed Ted Mosby doesn't wind up with the now-divorced Robin Scherbatsky; partly because Ted isn't widowed, partly because Robin stays married to Neil Patrick Harris's Barney Stinson. In short, no new footage but less divorce, less death, and more closure from the narration provided by Bob Saget.
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While this ending will likely satisfy HIMYM fans that complained about the original ending, it also opens the door for criticism from people wondering how this alternate end was left on the cutting room floor. "16 days ago today we were in the HIMYM edit room, trying to decide between two very different endings," Bays explained of his decision back in April. "We only shot one script, but through edit room magic we had two possible outcomes for the series. We chose the ending we chose and we stand by it. But we loved the other version too."
If u would have made barney and Robin together here it would been better
You're right, everyone would've loved to see them together.
But sadly that is not what the creators had in mind while making this alternate ending.
@@SJ-lj5xv who gives a shit about Barney and Robin. I just care about the titular character and their fate and for me Ted and Tracy
@@SJ-lj5xv that's probably the only thing that I liked about the original ending, barney and robin break up
@@_.MAN._OF_.STEEL._ Barney should've always ended up with nora. His second time with robin was toxic.
Yellow Umbrella >>>>> Blue French Horn
I saw one comment describe perfectly why the umbrella is better. Ted stealing the blue horn was him forcing destiny, he tried forcing an item to be the object of their love. Ted finding the umbrella and eventually returning it, which leads to the conversation that starts everything between them is true destiny and made the umbrella a true object of love.
@@brantleydybas5193 Yes I read that comment too. It was the most accurate and amazing thing.
Its a little cheesy but i still like that he ends up with robin because thats who he wanted from the first episode & for a while there i thought that ship sailed
@@marquisethomas5611No no no no no, Robin doesn‘t deserve Ted, Tracy was perfect
The yellow umbrella meant to me that they both lost and yet together found the desire to love and be loved.
Tracy lost Max.
Ted lost Robin.
83 % of all HIMYM fans consider this the real ending. True story.
Agreed. I refused to accept the other shitty ending. This made sense
its always the inverse ;)
It’s gotta be more than 83%
@@jasonberczik479 I believe so too. But Barney would use 83 %.
It's the perfect percentage. Awesome as always.
This is the proper ending. Only here did i realize why it was important for ted to tell the story of how he met robin on the pilot episode, because if he hadn't met robin there wouldn't have been any wedding to meet Tracey in.
Well-said!
Idk why I didn't think of it like this!
I think it would've also made a ton more sense to kill off Robin in the end, instead of Tracey -
1)to show why she was constantly such a big part of the story.
2)to show why Barney reverted back to his old self.
Plus they could've ended the show with the group sitting in their old booth(Ted&Tracey, Marshall&Lily and Barney), Toasting to Robin.
@@shankleythebestI mean, I kinda like that idea, but that would have been bad as well, I mean you sit through Robins and Barney's wedding that literally takes up the entire season just to kill her off? That's just as bad as the divorce.
@@j-j8984 not as bad as sitting for 9 seasons only to kill the mother off
This ending sparked feelings within me that the “official” one never did.
You bet and Trust me I only saw clips not the full show
It's so sweet how he recounts the entire journey
The original ending and show overall felt like a nice dinner, a movie, some dancing, an all around fun experience. But, right as you’re telling your date goodnight, they drop you to the ground and kick out your teeth with a steel toed work boot.
@@GTA5Player1that's true. But expect for that the real ending Wasn't worse than the alternative. The only thing which was bad is that they didn't show the mother as much as they should have.
They should have made 3 or 4 episodes on how they got married, got children did and Maybe also show her last conversation with Ted.
Just tell a few experience with her.
But I understand why they didn't do that. They only talked about how he met their mother not how he spend time with her.
@@Mountainridge.16 And that's part of what makes her kinda tragic. We get one episode of her struggles through life, then she meets Ted, and next thing we know she's dead and Ted doing happily ever after with Robin. It's like she's just a way for Ted to have it all.
I think How I Met Your Mother has to be the best example of "planning an ending in advance" and "simultaneously drawing the show out for several more seasons because it's popular" and it not working out in combination.
The original ending would have fitted really well if it happened after the first few seasons. The mother dying made sense and Ted and Robin not working out because they wanted different things in life and then getting back together after all was kinda obvious too.
But then the series went on and on and the characters just kept changing so much. They kept developing, just to then be forced into an ending that was created like a decade earlier and that completely disregarded all that character development they went through.
Robin and Barney were so perfect for each other. And Ted having that awkward "letting go of Robin" epiphany just to then go back to Robin after all was just stupid.
Sometimes you just gotta admit to yourself that the stuff you've been planning for 10 years doesn't fit anymore and let go.
The issue is that the cast weren't sure if they would stay on for another season (think it was Jason Segal who was on the fence), so the showrunners started wrapping up the series throughout season 8. The problem then was that the cast DID agree to stay on, but Ted already met the 'Mother', so they stretched out S9 so it was set over a whole 3 day period. S8 & s9 both just felt extremely padded and it was really frustrating to watch, especially after following the gang over all those years
amen
This comment is true about general life things as well. Last part of your comment had me thinking about everything. That we want something for very long ( Ted and Robin ) and don't get it and we are sad, and over the time we kind of get use to with the alternative ending (Ted and Tracy) , and we start liking them more. I hope my comment makes sense to someone
Agreed. Also Cobie and Neil just had wayyyyy too much chemistry. Cobie and Josh had none - their romance scenes always felt awkward to me. That combined with the drawn out seasons really screwed the ending.
@@mooglepompom3758 More chemistry with the gay actor how about that
Tracey and Ted had more chemistry in like 5 scenes than robin and Ted in 9 seasons imo.
I also hate how the original ending made it seem like Ted didn’t have any real feelings for tracy and just told it as his love story for robin.
@@MsLivinglegend19 dude thats not what the original ending said. Watch the deleted scenes where ted tells robin he doesnt think what if because he is happy. He loved tracy more. Even the ending doesnt diminish that and secondly ted and robin did have pretty great chemistry early on. But i agree tracy had more chemistry tho
Its how I met your mother not how I fell in love with your mother
Totally!!!!
This is 100% better ending
No.
This ending is 100% better. Although I didn’t hate that they killed Tracey off, I hated that Barney and Robin broke up just so Ted and Robin can have their “happily ever after”.
Exactly, and a huge plot point in the show was Ted letting go of Robin and being just friends, so the finale didn't work even on that level alone
@@recjr7685 ted never let go he had those feelings inside off him he just kept it suppressed. also barney was never ready to be in a comitted relationship since he was the guy who used to con women into sleeping with him. but when he had a daughter himself thats when he was aware of his situation and ecide to bring a change
@@raven4131 literally the entire show was about him falling in love with and then learning to let go of Robin
@@recjr7685 but that wasnt it those awkward moments bw them showed that they couldnt let go of each other eg in the park when they were searching for locket
@@raven4131 because he was still holding on but finally let go in the end
That was the point
Literally all I ever wanted was to hear Bob Saget to say "And kids, that's how I met your mother" and I'm glad it exists even if it's not the official ending.
Exactly, like i was expecting him to say that in the end
R.I.P Bob Saget😭
Oh
Shhhhh. Yes it is. The other ending doesnt exist & we as a community will continue to reinforce that notion
I consider this to be the true ending. As much as I hate SOME of the edits George Lucas made to the Star Wars movies after the fact, I truly believe that films and television programs can be altered after the fact in a positive manner. In this case, they felt stuck with an ending they wrote and filmed back when they weren't sure they'd even get a 2nd season, let alone a 9th, so they aired it even though it flew against years of character development. And after fan backlash, they used what they had to create the ending that should have been. This is 1 of 2 canon endings, and it's a clear favorite, not simply because Ted gets a happy ending, but because it doesn't destroy years of storytelling and character building over the span of 15 minutes.
This is the best example of why producers shouldn’t always go for plot twists. They made a mistake by choosing the other ending because they wanted that shocking plot twist about the mother being dead and ruined a great sitcom by it.
Agreed!
You can’t ruin a great sitcom by an ending. I would watch this show over and over again. It’s the journey that makes anything great. I can’t remember any ending that made people go, now that I saw that ending, I now think it’s a great show.
@@RealTimePogo they literally did, they ruined Barney’s development, made robins „no“ to Ted when she said she doesn’t love him meaningless and so on. With this ending the show just doesn’t make any sense, it doesn’t fit
If you say so, then I will never watch any episodes again, I will stop listening to my bro code. Never say legen…what for it….dary. I will have to remove the pineapple drawing I have next to my bed. Thanks for this.
I now accept this as the official ending. It was just beautiful.
Yes this is much better. If this had been a streaming or cable show there wouldn't be the need to edit to fit a time slot and allow for more commercials. I'm old enough to remember there being more show time and less commercials - Friends even had supersized episodes.
I just finished the series literally 5 minutes ago and thank god this exists
Same
Ikr
same i’m so glad that this exists
Me too
this is the bad ending
The original ending works to a degree because it was hinted at so many times throughout the show. The problem was that they made such a big deal of Barney and Robin getting married that when they got divorced, the audience felt cheated. The 2 last seasons basically revolves around Barney getting his life together and they reverted all of that back to square 1 in only 2 episodes! Of course people would freak out!
He getting divorced aint a problem.. Thats is life, problem is Just the amount of screen time to reach the marriage
@@mesterorange8181 yeah. That's the problem.
@@mesterorange8181 I feel like the main problem is they spent so much time on them getting married and then 💥 they divorce
Yes omg they managed to make 22 episodes about the days before their wedding juste to say they divorced in the next episode ??
@@mesterorange8181 I think the main problem is that they never had Robin get over Ted.
"Kids i must have heard your mom's rendition of La Vie En Rose a million times over the years. Every night when she tucked you in for instance, but that performance, the first night i ever heard her sing, That one will always be my favourite"
Please, I listen to that song and cry
I read it in Ted's voice
@@MerryEveryday Future Ted you mean (Bob Saget's, the ONLY Future Ted Mosby!).
Everyone did man, its so wholesome 😍☺️🤗
Life happens fast.
This fucking line >>>>> friends
If this HAD been the ending, I would have finished the show in tears. Instead I finished it going "What the ????? NOOOOO". I felt like the writers gave us the finger. Or, the old cliche of it was all a dream ending. I even said to my girlfriend - it needs to end with him talking to her under the umbrella, perfect ending.
Right? Even just watching this had me in manly tears. Because, god, this is a much better ending. Makes you believe in love.
This should have bene the ending, but what it shows more than anything is how wonderful an actress Cristin Milioti is! She had more chemistry with Ted in one short scene than he ever had with Robin in nine seasons. Such an underrated actress, and she was the perfect choice for the Mother.
Barney and robin stayed together, ted and Tracy stayed together. Perfect.
Actually Barney and Robin didn't stay together in this ending... 😢
(This ending starts exactly at 13:45 in the original last episode right then the mother takes the picture, try it over again and you'll see)
@@Momo-iq6uu no we're pretending Barney and Robin also stayed together
@@christam5162 Ok sure thing! It's much better that way actually :')
@@christam5162Oh no, if Barney and Robin stayed together, Barney would never have a chance to be a father. :(
On minute 1:25 Ted says “things fall apart and things get put back together” while showing Barney and Robin, hinting that they got back together after the divorce, so yes, this was the perfect ending
If this ending had aired HIMYM would've been considered one of the greatest sitcoms of all time rather than a footnote in television history.
Very well said
i think it is one of the best sitcoms ever
To be fair, even with a bad ending, it's still talked about a ton, even now.
I still see GIFs from HIMYM on social media all the time, I still see people reference it, and I still consider it one of the best, and most creative, sitcoms ever.
it's still a top 5 of all time. I can think of only a couple sitcoms that remained as popular as HIMYM over the years. Friends, Seinfeld, The office, MAYBE the big bang theory.
Exactly!! You hardly ever hear it mentioned now. Before this disastrous ending it was always lumped in with the likes of Friends and Seinfield. Now, you still hear about Friends and Seinfield, but never HIMYM unless someone wants to bring up an example of a disastrous tv ending. Most people I know personally can't even rewatch the series because of that ending. It's sad...it would have went down as the successor to Friends.
This is totally the ending the show deserved.
I mean, Bob Saget finally pronouncing the show’s name. Ted finally meeting the love of his life. Even the music at the end makes total sense.
Because you cannot just destroy every characters’ growth in the last episodes… You cannot just throw that sad ending and then let the happy music and the credits roll.
I understand if they wanted to make the final more cruel and “real”, if you want, but it’s just too rushy.
Even if it was predictable or simple, this show deserved this ending, a happy ending, because it was just that, a show. A show about love and finding that special person.
There was no need to make things this way just to be different.
For me, that’s how this show really ended.
I didn't really care for Tracy as the mother. I think it should've been Victoria, Tracy to me felt so rushed at the end and forced.
@@wfl19 no one would have been mad if we’d seen more of tracey. But even though this whole thing was about her they still made her side character like
100%. This is the canon ending in my head.
He did actually say those words long before. Though it was a switcharoo😅
not just all that but the fact that they give a summary of the importance of the whole show
I remember first watching HIMYM and throughout the entire series I got a little exhausted waiting for mother to appear.
however, when I saw Tracy for the first time I got completely smashed by how perfect she is. I just wish there were more of them, more scenes, more moments with their kids - so we could have seen how they built their family. the very idea itself of making whole season around one wedding is great, but it’s like at some point they’ve forgotten the plots name. it’s the mother who should have been the main character in the last season. by the time show had ended we already got all the information about main five people we needed. we’d seen all grow ups and character building. we needed Tracy to become the main character. it’s just my opinion, let it pass by
Couldn’t agree more! I have just finished watching HIMYM today and I usually think that the scene at the wedding was way too long…like I have watched 8 seasons to see who is the mother but saw her in only 3 episodes. Tracy is a lovable character and would be fit well in the friend group. I wish I could see more her scenes.
My thought on that is that he's telling the story to his children, and they already know their parents' story from their own lives. He has no need to remind them of those times they had with their mother because they lived them.
Agreed. Even if they would’ve did like 1 to 2 years of their life represented in each episode of S9, that would’ve been better than spreading it out over a weekend! I also don’t think the writers anticipated Tracey being such a beloved character in the short time she was introduced.
I really dont like to find faults at this show because its the best show ever for me
I only dislike two things, barney and robin being together and splitting suddenly
And tracy not getting more screen time but the whole show was about robin at the end
Ahhh either way, i see alot of poeple hating this 🤣🤣 I might be that 17% who's satisfied!! Ahaa i love this show so much
5th time rewatching it right now !!!
How I Met Your Father should have been Tracey's perspective and not the trash it is.
This is my first time seeing the “true ending” and I’m tearing up. Tracy deserved better
Took me years to finally rewatch HIMYM after that awful ending, and when I did I only watched it until the second to last episode. To this day I don't know what the writers were thinking, but I'm glad this exists
I only watch until after the wedding and leave out the divorce scene when I rewatch the show.
@@mercury3030 it's what I do too tbh
but in this ending they are still divorced. So it's not satisfying.
@@NinaCudic no they never said they were divorced in this ending
@@Mcaleboi the alternative ending is just the last few minutes of the episode. Everything else in the finale is the same. So they divorced. But I guess they gave Swarkles fans some hope with that line "things fall apart, things get put back together" while Robin and Barney are looking at each other.
Don't even need this cutting out the dying. Just cut out the last 60 seconds where he goes after Robin and you have a great ending.
But also dont fuck over Barney.
And leave an open ending, asking the kids what they think they should do now, and the kids tell HIM that he should get back out there, and do what he wants, and if that’s to find someone else to spend his time with that’s fine, but in the end it’s his choice.
@@woolypuffin392 Meh. Barney was funny as fuck, but he was kind of an asshole. It feels kind of right that he got fucked over, since he was fucking over tons and tons of women for years.
@@summoner1451 b-b-but he changed tho
@@thecandyman7807😊
I just rewatched the series for the upteenth time. I still can't endure the ending. I really don't mind Tracy dying at all. It makes sense, given the circumstance. And I love the little loving moments between Ted and Tracy that make it all too obvious she doesn't make it. But Robin and Barney shouldn't have gotten divorced, and Barney shouldn't have had his backslide, undoing seasons of development. I expected an ending akin to episodes like The Lucky Penny, where Ted mourns the loss of his wife, but leaves a lesson for his children. Something about how love is always worth it even when we know we'll lose it, one way or another. Lily says that Ted is a person with more emotional endurance than she has ever known. That's absolutely true, and was the lesson they could have ended on. Being vulnerable, open, and willing to get your heart broken time and again was the lesson of the whole show. Even the heartbreak of losing the love of your life. It could have ended on a note of tragic optimism. Instead, we got a cliche ending that was predicted years ago, and we were explicitly told would not happen. We got the FRIENDS ending. And it just didn't work.
The character development of Barney was killing the character. He is to a large extent a tragic hero. He uses nd loses women. He may hate it but it's the only way he knows how to live. And tbh, he still reaches some level of maturity when his daughter was born... But Barney and Robin were never supposed to work... I didn't want Barney getting matched with any lady anyway but if he had to, I woulda gone with Nora... The fact he couldn't even keep her was further proof that Barney wasn't supposed to get matched with any lady in the show
@@0LLy796 True, but why waste an entire season on a freaking wedding if you are gonna blow it off in a sec
@@0LLy796 i do agree but they could've explained the divorce better , if you see the last season they did plant the seeds for them not working out and i agree with him not being with robin but the back slide really hurt the character , regressing to his old ways really wasn't the solution and as far as solution goes breaking up Robin and barney was the worst outcome for robin , separate from friends she was alone at the end i do think that she could've ended up with barney to stay in new York as it would have been her sacrafice to work on their relationship making an equal exchange and hence making the show a 100 times better
I disagree. As someone who has been divorced, Robin and Barney never really made any sense to me. Also, it's very common for people to fall back to their old ways after a break-up. Happens all the time. But it had been said several times that Barney wanted to be a father... even his mother questioned him about being with Robin if he couldn't be a dad (yes, I know he could in other ways). So although he did a backslide... which happens all the time... he also changed for the good after his daughter was born and recites exactly what he said that he could NEVER say to a woman.
I don't remember anyone saying that the ending wasn't going to happen like this. Maybe they just didn't want to spoil it, but it's very obvious that the aired ending was the original idea. I thought it worked really well. The truth is that most people don't just have a single true love in their lives. Tracy had two. Ted had two. I've had two. Many people have. would
@@billybatson7852 Ahh someone that finally gets it. Almost everything I see here is about the ending doesn`t work, bla bla bla. YES IT WORKS, and it makes sense. Every season Ted is someway in love with Robin, or shows signs of it. And it's hinted in early seasons that the mother is dead. Fall back for Barney fits. Robin and Barney doesn`t fit. Robin didn`t want children, and couldn`t have children. But she could be with Ted in the end because he already got his children, and she wouldn`t hold him back from his dreams. Even tho it was a kinda obviouse ending, is`s actually good writing. As someone mentioned, they wanted Ted to go back to dating other women, that would be an empty ending, like a "all that shit for nothing" feeling.
I wish the alternate ending was more widely available besides the DVD so that more people can experience the show this way this ending is so much better.
The way I rewatch HIMYM now is watch the entire fisrt 8 seasons, watch the how your mother met me episode, the one where Robin and Barney get married, then straight to this.
That´s my canon
That’s how we’re supposed to watch it lol. I can rewatch any Barney and Robin scene and still be in awe of them. They captured real on screen chemistry and had found happiness with each other after so much misery and misunderstanding not only with them as a couple but everyone around them.
This ending along with Barney and Robin's wedding is the real ending for me. I watched this show to be entertained not pissed off for the last 8 years.
Yes! Barney and Robin work so well for each other. He wouldn't have been upset by traveling abroad with her; he was always great at entertaining himself and seeing the best in the most bizarre circumstances. He was MADE to be a "TV husband," right down to his fascination with suits.
What's more, they could have had the mother be really sick and then recover and sit next to Ted on the couch at the very end. How cathartic would that have been, and faithful to the sad clues!
@@Abigail-ny1no Yes I agree Barney was a great partner to have because he wasn't someone who expected others to be something they aren't it's why he and Robin understood each other and are very similar in that aspect of their relationship. I would have been more satisfied if they kept to who these characters were and didn't disrespect the character changes and personal growth of each character, Tracy should have lived, she was too young to be getting that sick, especially in this day and age. You have things that help with diseases and that god awful excuse of the internet going down and the whole blog thing was stupid when we have internet, cell phones and etc to occupy our time. Barney, young and old would have enjoyed traveling with the woman he loved and they both enjoy the same things in life. They are soulmates, they understood each other better and loved each other deeply/unconditionally. Traveling and the lifestyle they both wanted was never the issue. It was the creators who did not know who these characters they created were but the actors did especially Neil and Cobie who wanted them together because they understood the characters they played. Going back on that ending shows that nobody grew past it, it was an immature ending it left everyone in a bubble because each of them had to be pushed back to their season 1 selves for that ending to work, but it never did.
I would have loved to see a happily married BR who grew in their relationship after marriage. I would have loved to see Tracy more because I really loved the character, I just don't think Ted deserved any of the women who claimed to like him. there was no reason to kill off Tracy, and no reason to kill any of the developments that happened along the way. It was a lazy ending and nobody deserved that ending and that's coming from me a Ted hater.
honestly I just watched the show for the first time and feel like I wasted my time...yeah sure it had some good moments but by the final season I felt like the show was more focused on Barney and Robin, they invested so much time in their wedding and then just broke them off in the last episode??? .....it was already weird when before the Wedding Robin was all like "ted found my locket so now im going to marry him instead" I mean....WTF? i feel like the writters just wanted to force this Robin-Ted thing the whole time, but Barney's character was so popular that they had to focus more on him on the last seasons.
yes, I can't watch it again because all I remember is that ending.
@@camlost737ignore it like most of us do
In just the few episodes we knew Tracy, I completely fell in love with her character. Her and Ted were so perfect for each other. It was worth the 9 seasons to meet her and watch the whole reason for the show fall into place.
I feel like one of the many reasons why this ending makes way more sense is because it's "simple" and happy, their lives in the rest of the show is kinda messy so this feels perfect to tie it up. Also you watch a comedy/sitcom like HIMYM to feel good and escape from reality, not experience the worst form of it
Well, HIMYM was never a pure comedy/sitcom, it was brutally real in so many different parts, that the original end actually made sense.
@@RodrigoSantos-jl3pc agreed. But the "original" ending still doesn't make sense for who the characters had become etc. They threw all character development in the trash
@@beccalinnea Sometimes that happens in life. People sometimes resort back to old ways. It's realistic.
@@valerietheawkwardartist yes but for the show where they spent the last seasons on character development to then destroy it in the last episode is bad writing I think.
Indeed @@valerietheawkwardartist it is realistic but not everything realistic is worth watching, most because real life is pointless. No stranger would want to watch your or my life's story. Movies, including series, are art, and art is to deliver emotions and meanings.
I been a fan for almost a decade, why am I just finding this now?
I just discovered this and I feel so many emotions. I used to rewatch episodes all the time, but after the ending came out I couldn't bring myself to. Barney was my favorite character and I was so proud of his character development. To have it all thrown away, and Ted excitedly go after Robin making Tracy seem like a cheap afterthought... The way it was done just felt so rushed and nonsensical. I'm so glad this exists. Thank you for posting; it's cheesy but I feel like I can finally let go of my anger at the original ending.
A lot of people have big issues with the Mother dying, I have no problem with that, it actually fits in with why Ted would be telling this story in such detail.
My issue is that Ted should have stayed single after that. He went through all of this to find the perfect wife, and he did, and there wasn't another one out there.
And, of course, Barney and Robin. What a joke to spend so much time getting them married, for it to end after a couple of episodes. They were also perfect for each other, and should have stayed together.
It's actually infuriating how much the writers messed this ending up, after doing all the hard work to get there.
i see it makes sense of her dying but i didn't want her to die. and they didn't even show us any part of her leaving, just that ted said she died. We were emotional about it and i wished they let us cry about it instead of forcing that crazy ending to our faces
Barney and Robin got married and literally one episode after divorced so it was'nt even few episodes :/
why should he tho? if he had a chance to be happy again with robin then of course he should go for it, i’d rather see him happy with robin than miserable alone. tbh i’ll always see it this way, tracy was and will always be ted’s soulmate but robin is the love of his life
Ikr!
Tbh I really liked Ted and Robin but I agree and that would be really good
I'm still of the opinion that it's correct that Tracey died. They gave us a lot of hints in the later seasons that it was gonna happen and it also explains why Ted is telling the story in the first place. However the Robin and Barney divorce and Ted going back to Robin is what I hated about the ending so for that reason I'd consider this one the proper ending. (Plus I would rather leave Tracey alive because she's too god damn loveable)
I agree with everything here. Tracey having died was perfect, but Barney/Robin divorce + Ted getting back together with Robin was terrible. I'd have preferred for HIMYM to end with Ted asking "permission" of his kids NOT to date Robin . . . but to finally get back out there and search for someone else to spend the rest of his life with. Its a lot more of an open ending, but I honestly prefer it!!
I understand the Tracy dying bit since they’ve littered the series with clues of her fate, but they could have still ended it this way by editing in such a way that the dying reveal is placed earlier before this last scene. It would have been a bit sad, but at least this last sequence woulda left us smiling.
And definitely no ending up with Robin bullshit.
@@ednalim2871 Robin ending was trash, I agree. What do you think of my proposed ending?
@@ednalim2871 the clues were just there because the writers knew it was going to happen, the clues being there don't make the ending any better because "it was supposed to happen" in my eyes tbh
Agree everything you said
The biggest issue to me with the original ending wasnt what happened. It was the way it was told. Sure, the events were "realistic". But the way it was told wasnt realistic based on the other 8.75 seasons. The guy drags on about every little story, including extreme detail about Barney and Robins wedding , but then is quickly like "yea but they broke up" afterwards.
Also Ted and Robin ending up together made sense for a while in the show, but everything he did to move on from her leading up to the wedding gets completely undercut if he just ends up with her anyway.
And from a practical writing perspective- you shouldn't write an ending that basically tells the viewer they wasted their time watching the last two seasons cus none of that character development was real.
FRRRR
OH MY GOD!!! the music at the end alone makes it so much better than the ending that aired. I'm watching this for the first time today after completing the series 10 years ago the joy it filled me with, watching everyone so young as the credits rolled and the happy music, it just filled my heart with joy...
What do you mean by 10 years ago?? Didn't the show end sometime last year?
@@AmanGuptajiThe show ended in 2014 we are just late dude lol
Was I the only one that noticed Marshall paying Lily the bet that they did years ago? 0:09
I saw that, but what's the bet again? That Ted wouldn't get married?
@@Mynostrumlily bet marshall that ted and Robin wouldn't end up together
@@conesler1506 Right! Thank you it's been years since I watch HIMYM
This is the real ending, now I can finally move on with my life ❤️
No you won't... You're gonna rewatch the show over and over again like any other fans
@@ivanarcheous4731 that is true but i will only watch this ending lol
This WORKS! This I consider to be the real ending. The other one felt like one of those cheap shots overzealous producers want to throw out there just to be "different!"
I've watched HIMYM for like the 3rd or 4th time which the last time was yesterday. I liked this alternate ending more than the original :(
They wanted to get the “shock” factor, instead of an actual good ending
Yep this is just like what happened with GOT the writers stubbornly refused to do the endings that fans wanted/predicted just to be jerks and not care if it ruins the show.
The other ending wasn’t got made because of the shock factor, it was because they filmed it at the end of season 2 back in 2006 and they wanted the kids to be in it. So no matter how the story progressed, they wanted that ending with the kids.
That's actually the very opposite of what happened. The Mother being deceased was the original concept by the creators. The overzealous producers are the ones who commissioned this alternate "happy ending" after filming was complete. That's most likely why the dialogue was so dull... they just threw it together and didn't care as much.
The biggest problem is: When you re-watch the show you can clearly see that mother was gonna die, it was planted here and there. That maked it so that when you watched it again there were scenes that really make you understand the scene more. But with Barney and Robin's relationship, they made them perfect for each other, they developed their characters. Both Barney and Robin sacrificed a lot just to be with each other, it took years for them to see each other in the truest sense and they realized they were the ones for each other. That's why when people say "Ending is realistic" don't make sense. It's not realistic at all, it destroys the believability of the show because the whole show said something else just to say something else in the last minute. Whole show showed us Barney grew up, he found love again, he knew Robin was the one and slowly got his heart fixed, He endured a lot for her, she actually was through whole show the only woman Barney truly fell in love with and they made that clear. Robin, loved Barney deep down, although she was suspicious at first slowly but surely realized how much he loved her, she saw him as someone he never let anyone else see: Someone vulnerable. And in the end they were like "Aight, we need a divorce because of my blog". There's theories that make much sense than this. They could've simply showed us Barney wanted kids, Robin didn't and they broke up over that. At least it would be realistic that way but no they broke up for a dumb reason and gave up their whole character arc just because.
They did film the scene about how the show originally ended in the first season. Look at the kids, they are still as young as they were when the series started. So the ending was planned way, way in advance. And yes, there were those hints but as the show went on the characters developed in a way that made the original ending bad. The whole wedding season basically destroyed the original ending. At that point they should've realized their original idea didn't work anymore but that's where you find out if the writers are good or extraordinary. Extraordinary writers let go of an original idea even if it wasn't a bad idea.
This is a waaaaaaayyyyy better ending! It’s a happy ending that honors the characters.
As someone who is spiritually connected to Ted, this is the ending i needed. This is the ending he deserves. After all the wrong women he had been with, esp after the insane chemistry with Tracy in a mere few episodes, he deserved to spend forever with her. And Bob Saget’s ( may he RIP) “and that kids is how i met your mother” just goes so hard as an ending. The perfect wholesome ending to a sitcom i adore so much🥹
As someone spiritually connected to Tracy, I do believe this is the ending both deserved. With all that both Ted and Tracy went though, they should spend the rest of their lives together ❤️
This is why i hate the show, the god damn ending. The director just killled Barney's character development over the previous 8 seasons and make him become the player again.... For somehow, i hate Robin too. Everybody devoted so many things for her, and she put her career on top all of that, giving up her friendship and even her marriage. She did not sacrify for once.
And Ted was such a stubborn "simp". Finally, he got his "the one" and still ended up with Robin although MANY MANY MANY moments in the show pointed out that he was ready to let Robin go (like the beach scene right before Barneys wedding). This part pissed me off so hard. It makes Tracy no longer "the one" and she was just like someone who happened to be Ted's wife and died so he could return to Robin again.
One of the best show ever yet has the worst ending
100%
I finished the show last weekend, and had my heart yanked out, and what I realized is that basically, they were right back to the pilot.
That's one of the things I loved about this show, how consistent they were with the theme and inside jokes and totally random things that didn't seem like much at the time but then, BAM, there it is again and now it makes so much sense!
Yeah, that's what's so brilliant about the finale. There's a beautiful parallelism where it ends in a very similar way to how it started.
In 2014, I hated the official ending. 10 years later, now that I'm 10 years older and 10 years more experienced, I have just re-watched it, I understand it more and have come to peace with it. I prefer this ending more but I'm okay with the other one as well. Anyway, this show will always be one of my favourites forever❤
Just finished watching for the 5th time, and that's just right! This show has my ❤️
I saw this show 7 times and I'm still crying, this has to be the best creation from a human being
I love this ending but i wish barney enters the room and interrupt ted by saying:
- kids, your father cant tell a history short and straight, so i'm going to tell the true story of how my bro met your mother, and it was legend, wait for it...
The end!
lol it wouldve been so cool
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OMG YES!
You shoulda been one of the writers
Lol, it sound pretty awesome. ❤
Whenever I watch HIMYM I pause shortly before the finale episode ends and put on the alternate ending...cause that`s the actual ending for me
I do the same I still can't believe we got that fake ending it must have been a mix up with the editing or something
This ending makes way more sense then Ted ending up with Robin. Hell ending up with Victoria if it was only one season, would make more sense.
Yeah. Victoria's whole "It's Robin" is very much a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ted's not the only one to self-sabotage, although I agree that Tracy was much better-suited.
I've fallen in love with Tracy by watching just this video and i haven't even watched the whole show. I guess that says a lot about how great of a character is. I feel like crying.
I just binge watched the whole series on Hulu, and I had no idea how it ended prior to watching. Needless to say, I was seriously, seriously disappointed. 9 seasons led to THAT? I'm adopting this version as my official ending to the series. It just makes way more sense.
I cried so much when I watched it. It may just be a TV show but I was going through some pretty serious life stuff during the time this show first aired. It became an escape. I watched the character growth and development, I applied my own issues to some the characters faces and while I may have been alone it gave me hope things would eventually be ok. I know it's just a TV show.. but when the original ending appears it was such a slap in the face. Everything that was built for the last nearly 9 years all destroyed in the last two parts.
This is the ending I needed. It's the ending the characters deserved.
This is so good and wholesome and full circle, I always cry. Perfect.
Devastating it's the "alternate ending".
Nope. Its the real ending. You just have to believe it in your heart
Not to me
Tbh this ending is better, but not because the original was bad. I just think that the original ending could have been executed better, it felt too rushed and too forced
And too fake.
Exactly!
Exactly........People's arguments for people that didn't like the ending is always like "in life there's no happy endings" and similar shit.
Who cares that the mother died, who cares about the ending idea, it's all just fine, but the execution was just so incredibly bad.
FINALLY someone I 100% agree with!
@@msacco exactly my thoughts
Yes ! This is SOOO much better than the original ending. What were the writers thinking ?
it isn't even a problem that tracy died in the original ending, it's hinted at throughout the series bc it's what was intended so early on, and I think it gives more weight to the premise of ted telling his kids this ridiculously long story. i actually think tracy dying and ted NOT ending up w robin would've really underlined the fact that ted really did find The One in the end, like the entire show was about. idk it just feels kinda cold to have 8 seasons of ted/robin will they won't they (which imo perfectly highlights how wrong they are for eachother) one whole season abt barney/robins wedding and how great they were for eachother all this time, only to backtrack on everything just to fit this sort of pre established rule of sitcoms that the will they won't they couple must end up together. himym felt like a perfect deviation from that rule and a real breath of fresh air, so having it all erased right at the end made me (and obviously a lot of other people) feel kinda cheated. on the other hand i do kinda like that what makes barney give up his hedonistic, selfish, and typically misogynistic ways was having a daughter of his own. its mentioned that he likes kids a lot in the series. I feel like it actually could've been used to make the barney/robin breakup make way more sense, barney sees this as a new thing to devote himself to and a second chance, and robin just never wanted kids. if they HAD to have barney and robin break up, that's how I would've wanted it to happen.
Really weird to hear Bob Saget's voice come out of Josh Radnor's mouth. I personally find the emotion of the original ending really moving, but I'm glad this version exists. Fans can pick whichever one they prefer, even though the plan was totally always for her to die.
I think this 1 second footage is fanmade (video taken from the original ending and audio from the alternate ending). Everything before that second is taken from the real alternate ending in DVD set: ua-cam.com/video/hJnJw9oyLYE/v-deo.html
It hit so different now that Bob Sagget is no longer with us
This ending would have been so much better if it had been Bob Saget sitting on the couch instead of Josh Radnor. After 9 years of voiceovers, he deserved to be in front of the camera.
Of course it always was the plan, I knew from the very first season that the mother died, why else would you sit down like this and tell your kids the story of how you met their mother? I mean come on.
@@-Sangral- I mean, it's not that weird, especially for as interesting of a life as the gang (supposedly) lead. Their mom could just not be home, and he was unsure of what else to do with the kids that night. We know that it didn't canonically take that long for him to tell the story.
Whenever I rewatch HIMYM I always stop before the last two episodes and watch this ending instead 🤗
this ending being on the DVD is the only reason to consider buying the complete series ..which i finally did
Just finished the series and i am living with this as an official ending
Good work , loved Ted and Tracy together and
Loved Barney and Robin together
They had more chemistry in one scene than Tedand Robin did in an entire show
Sweet Jesus this was satisfying. I can't believe I'm just seeing this after cursing the finale the past few years... made my day 🥲
Watch the Barney and Robin's wedding episode then IMMEDIATELY watch this afterwards. Skip the final episode.
This is the ending the suffices my feelings for the whole series, this is the happiness that Ted really deserves for everything he’s been through trying to find “The One”
I just finished the last episode. I’m really glad this alternate ending exists. I think the original ending was really sad and screwed up what could’ve been a good ending. Ted broke up with Robin because she didn’t want kids and was independent even if she had a lot of childhood problems. Ted wanted to have kids and be married. So it seems forced that he would come back to her with the blue French horn. Seeing Barney and Robin breaking up was upsetting because the audience spent so much time watching them chase after eachother and wanting to be together only to have it yanked away in the last episodes. Barney was also kinda independent but manipulative, telling huge lies etc but he did develop when he used his wealth to help his best friends. That’s why his ending sucked. Barney was happy and independent only to have a kid with a woman he barely knew.
Yea, I didn't like how Barney just regressed and knocked some random girl up at the end, with a tacked on fatherhood development. He and Robin could've been an iconic child-free couple 😠
And with Tracy, the "real" ending makes it seem like she was just a stepping stone or surrogate for Ted to have kids with, so he could then go back to Robin. The whole thing just... feels wrong af on several levels. They all got done dirty 🤷♀️
Now every time I rewatch the show I'm gonna stop before the ending and watch this instead
The first ending would have worked if robin stayed with Barney and, Ted didn’t end up with robin in the end
Yes I’m so agree with you. Can’t understand the last half that Robin’s behavior was be so strange.
Does anyone else like the original ending buy just wish they focused the last season on Ted and Tracy's relationship rather than the wedding
Finally!
Someone had to say it. I liked the original ending, but having the entire season focused on Barney and Robin's wedding, wasn't a clever idea, knowing the fact that they were going to break up. Instead, they should've focused on Ted and Tracy relationship, making it more "real". And a few scenes were Ted were mourning her wife's death would have been nice too.
I've just started watching himym & have decided that when I watch the last episode, I am going to watch this video instead of the end of the episode.
I may actually patch this ending onto a DVD copy of HIMYM so I can rewatch the show and this can be the ending everytime.
It’s taken me years, literal YEARS to be able to watch the show again and even then it’s hard for me because now every time a character has growth and development i can’t help but remember how the finale completely negates and destroys it. After all these years i still believe the finale was the biggest slap in the face to fans and this “alternate” ending is the only true ending for me personally.
Thoughts and a slightly alt ending:
Tbh Tracy dying actually made sense, but i actually think that Ted's intention to tell the story sucked, when Penny said that he told them to tell the story just because he still has "the hots for aunt robin"
i think it would've made more sense that Ted did mention that Tracy died, they show a flashback of the scene where Ted was reading Tracy a book, Ted reminding the kids of his last moment of their mother while walking to a somewhat grassy field, then it reveals that
Ted actually told them the story since (lets just say) that its been a decade or the 10th year anniversary of Tracy's death, and as Ted was about to put Tracy's yellow umbrella on her grave, he tells the scene of both of their first interactions- waiting for the train. Then the outro fades in
Robin and Barney- I also think that them getting a divorce made sense, it was clear that they loved each other but with every other failed relationship Robin had, they broke up because of her career.
I would've used the appearance of Barney's brother (BB since i dont know his name) at the wedding to reach out to Barney and robin that BB trusted Barney to co-parent his kids since he was having . hard time with single parenting (from his partner dyig) and say that he and his partner had a baby, but since Barney knew and loved Robin, he respected her not wanting kids and hold BB off but saying he would help if he can.
Now that obviously him and robin had divorced, a few weeks after feeling depressed (but NOT turning to banging random chicks), BB goes over t. comfort Barney only t. be surprised that Barney's apartment is all changed and homey with little aspects of his personality(ofc). Barney also prepared A room for the baby and the kids, and he was willing to fhange and be the cool "youre living with me uncle" (expecting for that to be used as a running but also comforting joke) and changed his weird bang1ng habits.
While Robin is completely happy with her new career, travelling around the world and possibly also started a dog rescue or hotel center
But idk tho
Hats off to you! This is truly the best ending ever imagined for the show.
@@prattlestar no it isn’t
The REAL end.
ive rewatched himym atleast once every year and this is the real ending for me
Same here!
Me too
The writers couldn't face the fact that the show had massively evolved from their original plans.. they crammed the other ending back into the box they first drew.
This one doesn't throw away multiple seasons of character development for the sake of a scene filmed years ago that had long since been rendered irrelevant
4:09 THE ONLY GENUINE GAZE OF HAPPINESS AND PEACE IN TED'S FACE... This is the ONLY ENDING THAT DESERVES TO EXIST
The ending we deserve! Also the ending the caracteres deserve. Period!!
The closure that I needed to officially count himym complete. The first ending sucked. I can now move on.
Josh and Cristin pairing was perfect. Kudos to the casting guys for finally getting someone that wud match ted. Seen them together makes you want to see more of them.
"It was life, stuff falls apart, things get put back together"
I needed to hear that I'm at rock bottom in my life right now 😥
A year later, I truly hope you are still fighting the good fight and aren't at the bottom anymore. I've been there, and it is suffocating, miserable, and the light doesn't get through real well. It's worth the fight, though, and getting out of rock bottom is a magnificent feeling. All the love.
Both endings have their validation I think but this one is just so much more. satisfying. Like I don't care for people who say but the other one is more realistic. I don't care for realism I care for satisfaction and this one has it.
The other one is also completely unrealistic. As if people just spontaneously forget everything they've learned over the past 10 years and revert to immature childish versions of themselves. The Barney/Robin split was poorly done and not at all believable. And what child listens to their parent talk about being in love with their honorary aunt and then enthusiastically encourages them to date after hearing way too much TMI? Encouraging parents to get out there? Sure. Encouraging them to date what basically amounts to an extended family member? NO.
@@YuniX2only reading this now (just finished another rewatch) and you know what youre right. im still bitter XD
I remember that I watched the series finale when it was first aired, and I was so furious, and here I am, after several years, and countless re-runs, I still cannot believe that they decided to go with the other crappy ending, just throwing away all the lessons, all the development of all the characters. What could have possibly went through their heads? It just beyond forced, and unnecessary, not to mention a kick in the butt to all of the fans.... Thankfully this version exists, which is the Canon for me and probably millions of fans out there too.
It is just a classier way to finish a great story.
99.8% of people who liked the original ending are the same that thought "Oh that's so sweet and totally makes sense and it doesn't destroy years of character development at all" when they saw Ross and Rachel getting back together on the end of Friends.
YESSSS...the fact that Marshall and Lily go to Rome is yet another example of this. True love CAN allow women to grow and evolve too! As well as "playboys" and Nice Guys TM. Ted actually grew as a person, unlike Ross. And I love that Marshall got another chance at a judgeship...if they're going to play at wish fulfillment for Tracy being so perfect for Ted, and Lily and Marshall, why revert to the trope that a woman pursuing her career guarantees a lonely, unhappy life full of regrets? People DO grow, and while it's not easy, I have seen such fairy-tale endings in real life, too. Much more satisfying than "woman throws away her career or lives miserably for the next dozen years until the wife of the man who wasn't a match for her dies and they can be together, because the spouse who did match her loses all character growth and stops being the guy who finds fun in every moment."
I just finished watching this show an hour ago and was so pissed at the ending. So glad this version exists. Barney and robin had more chemistry than Ted and robin ever did, and tracey being killed off was so sudden and unnecessary
watched the whole series again this year cos I was kinda heartbroken. But I skipped the last two episodes and watched this instead and cried my eyes out. I wish they would have kept this ending,
Which show am I talking about?
A group of friends with three male characters; one of them expresses in the first episode that he just wants to be married. A female character joins the group in the same episode and said male character reaches out to her semi-successfully. He keeps chasing her until he gives up, which is when the female character falls for him. They kiss, but she finds out something related to the break-up with his last relationship which stops them from becoming a couple. After a few episodes they manage to get together anyway and they stay a couple for about a season. Then they split up for a long time (except for some short-lived relapses).
Meanwhile, the womanizer of the group falls in love with the female character. At first nothing comes of it, but then - with the approval of the first male character - they get together. However, eventually they break up again and at the very end it seems that the male character has finally and for good won the heart of the woman he fell for in the first episode.
If you can't tell whether I am talking about Friends or HIMYM, then you are right - the main romantic arc of the two shows has the absolute same structure. Which is why I hate the official ending!
HIMYM sold itself as the show that began like Friends but wouldn't end like it - it promised that Ted and Robin would be no Ross and Rachel, that he needed to get over her instead of winning her over. This is what made it interesting and alluring. And then they decided to end it like Friends anyway - raising the question: Why does this lazy rip-off of a show even need to exist? Tracy, a great character, turned out to be nothing but a gimmick to be deposed as soon as she had fulfilled her role of dragging us along with the promise of a more interesting story.
I still love HIMYM, but I only watch it with the alternate ending. It's not overly inspired, but it works and doesn't make the preceding seasons feel like a big waste of time. The official finale is a bigger slap in the face for the viewers than all of Marshall's slaps combined.
This is the real ending. Just because the other ending came first doesn’t make it the “real” ending. When a singer writes a song the first version isn’t always the best one so they change to make it better. Same is true here.
Just finished watching the series thank God someone made this video
I watched the show once and loved it.
After seeing the other ending... I never dared to watch a single episode again. This other ending broke my heart and made the show miserable for me.
Thank god there is this video. Although i can never make the other ending unseen, at least it gives me hope that there are parallel universes where sometimes, life doesn't suck.
I want another alternate ending where the kid at 0:20 instead of saying, "No, what happened?" says "Don't care, boomer." Would definitely be more true to the series.
They screwed Barney over.. he was the highest paid by double, he also complained about the ending knowing that it sucked.. so they run his character development into the ground. NPH was worth every cent and we all deserved to see him evolve into a loving father and husband!!
I was today years old when I realized they had an Alternate ending, never the less it was better than the official ending? Wow
Anyone fortunate enough to have seen this scene, considers it the true ending. Let's just agree as a community, this is what you play when the show ends.
Ive been coming back to watch this ending for years. It’s perfect.
Robin had put so much twist and turns since the very beginning with Ted that I feel until the end that she never deserve Ted. Love should be easy like Ted and Tracy, people just fall into places but Robin had so many roller coaster within her and her relationship with Ted. Even Ted and Victoria had more magic and I would put them second after Tracy, than him and Robin. I’m glad Ted had a happy ending with Tracy, had beautiful kids until death took her away
When most fans agree that this is the ending that should have happened because it's very natural that Tracy is dead and that's why Tedd is telling the story to his children. Everything moves in one succinct way and Tracy is so perfect for Tedd in these brief clips with him as she lives out the remainder of her life that we forget how much of a villain Tedd kind of was throughout the whole series. Everything about this ending is so perfect that it truly is a shame that we as an audience got the other ending instead which shows just how much the writers didn't understand that characters that they themselves had written so well over the years.
I'm sorry but can i know why you said that Tedd was kind of a villan
@@mehuljain5916 Because people on the web can be crazy?
He fell in love with her when she said 'to me' and laughed at 3:40.
After reading lots of comments I have some thoughts... As a huge RobinxBarney lover I definitely consider them having a happily ever after, after they got married but I also get it when people say it's realistic for them to get divorced after three (?) years since they both weren't the biggest commitment people and enjoyed not being in a relationship. However if you watch the show closely that still doesn't really make sense because Barney literally said (in the episode where they were going to sell his apartment) he never wanted to be alone again. The characters, especially Barney (!), had so much development in the later seasons it's a crime to just throw it in the trash like in the "original" ending.
What I really don't get though are BarneyxRobin "haters" who say it's obvious they don't work out because of their first breakup; because after that they both changed- and had a lot of character development. Barney had other relationships (which he hadn't had in s5) and became a much better version of himself and they both said they were ready for commitment.
I like both Nora and Quinn as well but it was even showed Barney and Robin were soulmates when Nora's dad talks about meeting the right person.
For Ted and Tracy I guess it sort of makes sense she has passed away, even though it's very sad, because why else would Ted be so invested in his past and stories? The worst part is Ted getting back with Robin, it would've been way better if he just had stayed a single dad. Ted and Robin are great as besties but apart from that they really don't have THE chemistry like Robin and Barney/Cobie and Neil have. Honestly, I feel like Ted and Robin barely even liked eachothers personalities. Also I kind of feel like the show hadn't really found Robin's character until around s3 when they had broke up..?
+ I really don't agree when people say they like the original ending because it's realistic to real life, I mean it's fine to like that ending but it's not realistic because even though this show has a lot of deep it's still clearly a sitcom and a TV-show with LOTS of unrealistic elements. If you spend a whole season building up to a wedding you hinted about already in s6, spent the last seasons of character development for the fan favorite character (Barney) it's nothing but AWFUL writing to just throw it all in the trash in the last 2 episodes.
Thank You very much for saving the show me. That's the ending everyone wanted to see right. Perfectly fine ❤
This is so much better aaahhhh!
I am having full body chills right now. 😣
First time I get to see this after years of boycotting anything HIMYM because I was heartbroken after the finale. 😢