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The gang tries to kick the smoking habit. Meanwhile, Robin deals with her new co-anchor at Channel 1, who's clearly given up on the job.
  • The worst episode ever of all TV series from America!

    1.0
    "Abysmal"
    I can't believe in such a bad episode!
    For seasons I hadn't seen the people in there so sold and lost! This episode falls in the storyline without any parachute to support it, there is no way in the past for they being smoking at all. Season after season they have lost the main idea and soul of the show. I couldn't even laught, couldn't seen any funny with that thing, and for sure we had a bad created character to work with Robin. Too many spots to work on it, but, we receive this.
    What can we expect for now? I can't imagine what can be done to fix such a horrible idea.
    They earn lots of money doing this, and they do bad! Let's believe that with this episode they have earned some money to pay best writers!moreless
  • The gang becomes addicted to smoking.

    8.5
    "Great"
    "Last Cigarette Ever" is a fun How I Met Your Mother episode. I love how the gang gets addicted to smoking and they all try to quit. First of all, it's no surprise that Robin smokes. I think it was mentioned before this episode that she smokes. It's not realistic how the whole gang smokes, but it doesn't matter as I love how this episode is trying to prove a point. I love how Marshall gives into the peer pressure to smoke at work. I love how Lily can still smell the smoke on him even after he showers. I love how you think she'll get mad at him for smoking, but she just starts smoking too. I love how Ted and Barney feel left out, so they smoke too. I love how Marshall's boss has a heart attack and that's when they all decide to quit smoking. I give this episode a 8.5/10.moreless
  • Sm0oking, really?

    7.5
    "Good"
    This episode had yet another very awful storyline. The smoking is turning into a real cliche on many shows, and I am not enjoying episodes about it, in any TV show.

    The episode did have some decent moments, but unlike the previous episode, it was not full of great laughs, and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much.

    Marshall and his job were interesting to see, and that evil boss was interesting, but overall, storyline needs a whole lotta work if it wants to reach a decent level.

    I wouldn't reommend this one, as it is one of the worst episodes of the show, in my opinion. Decent, but not creative.moreless
  • Perhaps only a former smoker can relate to this witty and honest story.

    9.0
    "Superb"
    I think you need to be a former smoker, one who has gone through the hell of nicotine withdrawal, to relate to this episode. I have been through it, and I thought this episode was a realistic account of that experience.

    The repeated "What?" response from Ted's future children when they learned that Aunts Lily and Robin and Uncles Marshall and Barney -- not to mention Ted -- had once been smokers was an honest one, given the way that most modern young people seem to be far more repulsed by smoking than my generation was -- and that is a good thing. There was far too much ambiguity about the risks of smoking when I was growing up, and many of my contemporaries got sucked into a nicotine addiction at very early ages.

    It was honest, also, the way the characters backslid, as people often do when trying to give up smoking. In my experience, it usually takes something big to get a smoker's attention and make him/her give it up for good, and it's different for everyone. The story made that clear with Lily and Marshall giving up smoking in connection with becoming parents -- and Ted giving it up two weeks after he started dating "your mother."

    He "never looked back," future Ted told his kids. And I've known some people who were like that. But not many.

    I, for example, have been cigarette-free for more than four years, and I have looked back plenty of times. But I have resisted temptation because of my own "something big."

    Loved Lily's smoking voice!moreless
  • WTF. Worst episode ever. Don't tell me my favourite show has just jumped the shark. Nooooooo

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    "Terrible"
    How about introducing a new story arc after five years that just doesn't fit in. How about it having no previous references in the past 5 years. How about it being a complete waste of an episode. How about the writers must be being paid by the tobacco companies. Even the actors struggled with this. So after five years we find out that they are all smokers. Whats next they all wake up on a spaceship heading for Mars and we find that they have been dreaming the last 5 years. Time to find a new favourite show. I hear good things about The Big Bang Theory.moreless
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    • The stock footage of Ted's kids saying "What?" is from the Pilot episode, shot in a different room and with different costumes than all other stock footage of Ted's kids.

    • The gang uses a Tim Horton's coffee can as an ashtray about halfway through the episode, and the Tim Horton's name is clearly shown in the trademark gold oval on the front of the can. Near the end of the episode, the gang is back on the roof, and the "Tim Horton's" has been removed from the gold oval.

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    • Lily: That Don guy, what a tool. Robin: No, he actually apologized after. Lily: No, when he stood up those briefs were pretty revealing. You should date that guy. Robin: Yeah, not in this lifetime. Old Ted: They were dating within three months.

    • Ted: Dude, if you don't stop tapping your foot, it's coming off! Marshall: Oh, Ted, I'm so sorry. Maybe I should move it closer to your ass!

    • Marshall: Hey! Lily: You smoked. Marshall: Yes, I smoked! And it was my third of the day! You know what that means? I'm a smoker now! It's all over! I even bought a pack on the way home, and a lighter, and a Vikings lamp which has nothing to do with anything but I saw it in the window and I liked it. Lily: Damn it, Marshall! We already have four Vikings lamps, and smoking kills!

    • Robin: If I can't get my best friends to watch my show, who's gonna watch? Marshall: Lots of people. You got bed ridden insomniacs, bums waiting outside of department stores, people waiting in ERs where you can't change the channel because the TV's in a little cage. Lily: Oh! Do you have any stalkers? Robin: Yeah. But even Leonard won't watch my show.

    • Barney: Arthur Hobbs hating Marshall, that's no big deal, he hates everybody. It's the people he doesn't know are the ones he cuts loose, like what's-his-face. Marshall: He fired what's-his-face, Ted! And what's-his-face was invaluble! Ted: Look, I understand why you're upset, but it's not worth killing yourself over. Barney: Yeah. Wait until you get laid off, then kill yourself. Like what's-his-face. Although I guess now it's more like where's-his-face.

    • Lily: Barney, could you not bite your nails so loud?! Barney: I'm not biting my nails, I'm trying to suck the leftover nicotine out of my fingertips!

    • Lily: (trying to get Robin to quit smoking) You can sleep with Marshall. Marshall: Oh, baby, no! Lily: Gotta take one for the team, baby. Robin: I don't want to sleep with Marshall. Marshall: Sure. Lily: Right.

    • Barney: (while smoking) I'm proud of you guys! I have heard how difficult it is for smokers like yourself to quit, and on behalf of non-smokers everywhere, I salute you, and I am here to help. So hand in your cigarettes, and I will get rid of them one at a time. Lily: (raspy-voiced) You're quitting, dollface. I know I don't normally call you dollface, but it kinda works in this voice. Dollface.

    • Barney: I am not a smoker. I only smoke in certain situations: post-coital, when I'm with Germans—sometimes those two overlap—coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day The Mets are mathematically eliminated every year, and, of course—wait for it 'cause Lord knows I have—pregnancy scares. Ted: Why are you smoking right now? Barney: I'm always pre-coital, Ted.

    • Robin: I can't quit right now, not before the biggest interview of my life. It's too stressful. Barney: It's too stressful!

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    • The Italian title is "L'ultima sigaretta", meaning "Last Cigarette".

    • International Airdates: Australia: April 22, 2010 on Channel 7; United Kingdom: August 5, 2010 on E4; India: October 14, 2010 on Star World; Czech Republic: December 21, 2010 on Prima COOL; Germany: February 2, 2011 on ProSieben; Slovakia: November 23, 2011 on JOJ Plus

    • Music: "Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk" by Rufus Wainwright (played when Future Ted was talking about when the gang had their last cigarette)

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