Right Place Right Time

Season 4, Episode 22, Aired

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Ted explains to his future kids how a series of unrelated events led to a chance encounter with a former girlfriend. Barney makes the 200th notch in his bedpost. Marshall goes overboard when he discovers GNB has a department that can make him charts and graphs.moreless
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  • Tries to fill the gap 'Friends' left, but doesn't quite do the job.

    5.5
    "Mediocre"
    By pankajsaksena, Jul 07, 2011
    HIMYM is a surprise hit. Its an average show at best, but still it has got high user ratings and high viewership. I guess the reason behind this is that HIMYM started the year after 'Friends' called it a day. That great sitcom, 'Friends' gave us an addiction. It gave us a pleasant and light thing at the end of the day after a long long day. We kinda got used to it and when it made an exit we needed to find an alternative.

    HIMYM stepped in cleverly, starting just the year after Friends called it quits in 2004.

    HIMYM is an average sitcom. First of all its too much in the image of Friends with five (instead of six) friends living together; hanging out for a lot of time in a bar (instead of a coffee house); with Marshal and Lily living along with Ted just above the bar (just as Monica and Chandler just above the coffee house). So its only natural for viewers to compare with it with Friends, and its even more natural to get disappointed in HIMYM when you have something as marvelous as Friends in mind.

    Secondly, Ted, the leading actor is pathetic. He is too serious to be comic, and the show is too comic to allow Ted to be serious. Thus he hangs on confusingly between the realm of comedy and drama and he has no clue what to do with his character. The creators had to make him comic as Ross was in Friends, but they had to teach true love to their viewers!

    Thirdly, HIMYM has too many artificial characters. Barney who is said to be the soul of the show, is a very very artificial character. He is an impossible mix of a a very witty person who is also a great womanizer. Its like you have mixed Chandler and Joey!!!

    One can either be Chandler and make extremely intellegient and sarcastic jokes or you can be a dumbo and be a womanizer like Joey, but you can't be both at the same time. What they have done in HIMYM is that they have tried to mix those two characters and that makes for the artificiality of the character, though it goes hand in hand with the entire show.

    Sometimes Barney makes me sick with his excessive stress of his 'awesomeness'. A little less artificial character would do. Robin too is an artificial character and she is so unfunny, though she is so gorgeous that one overlooks her bad acting.

    The only discovery and the pleasure of the show is the couple, Marshal and Lily. They are the only two characters who can naturally be comic, who look like they are born to do comedy. Lily is particularly great and a very good actress and then Marshal follows her as the second best actor of HIMYM. I watch the show 'coz of this couple.

    I would rate the acting and the pleasantness of the characters in this order:

    1. Lily
    2. Marshal
    3. Robin
    4. Barney
    5. Ted

    I hope the creators come up with some more in the fifth season.moreless

  • Mother revealed, or is she???

    7.5
    "Good"
    By sequoa84, Jan 31, 2011
    I am rating this episode as good, but let me be clear - it was not funny at all. My ratings are a measure of the story content, the way this episode was paced, and finally some indication of closure.

    Something tells me that they've done something like this before. I don't know - I get the deja vu all the time. But still, the whole concept of what would have happened, I had done this instead of that and explaining every single detail of it is something I've seen before. Barney doing 200 women, Robin throwing up on handbags, and Marshall fooling around with charts were way too silly. I think this episode is crucial in a lot of ways. Bringing back Sarah Chalke may in a way confirm that she is the mother. Anyway, its time to end the show, and I am happy if they plan to do so soon.moreless

  • Will we finally meet the mother?

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By Canogaparkcindy, Sep 12, 2010
    This was really season finale material, I must say. Ted starts telling his kids the events that took place before meeting their mother. Saying, if I didn't do this or that, you wouldn't be born. So through the whole episode he explains what he did to lead up to that moment in which Ted was holding the yellow umbrella, and a girl walked up to him, and tapped him on the shoulder. A moment in which, if it wouldn't have happened, his kids wouldn't have been born. Is this the mother? Well Ted explains the whole thing. If Robin wouldn't have gotten food poisoning at the bagel place, and if the group hadn't of used an intervention against Marshall's charts, he wouldn't have been on the street corner. He turned left instead of right, and he cut the street to pay back a homeless man who took Marshall's charts. Ted bought them back when Marshall needed them for work. The hugging sequence was a bit unnecessary but it was still good build up. Meanwhile Barney gets ready to sleep with the 200th girl he's ever slept with. Until Robin notices a mistake on the paper, saying he's only slept with 198 women, so he hurries to sleep with an ugly girl, only to find out he was right the first time, so his 200th wasn't a model, it was an ugly muscle builder. It was an enjoyable plot and one of the reasons why Ted was on that street corner. The thing that probably shocked everyone was the ending: The girl who tapped Ted on the shoulder was Stella. Is she the mother? When you narrow it down, it pretty much seems like it. So a huge cliffhanger! That's what made this so season finale material. It was very enjoyable and light. I can't wait to see the next episode.moreless

  • marshall's charts were abosolutely awesome!

    10
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    By amazing_race, Jul 05, 2010
    I really enjoyed this episode, even though the eseries of unrealated events was really quite random and very unimportant. I felt that it took a whole episode just to explain the route he walked on tht one day.

    However, the charts that Marshall created were amazing, and they added a lot to this episode! I was laughing right thoroughout hthat, and I really enjoyed it a lot!

    I'd definitely recommend this episode, and it certainly was one amazing one! No-one knows just yet, but it could also prove to be a pivotal one in twerms of 'How He Met Their Mother'! Keep it up guysmoreless

  • Good but not as good as the rest of season 4.

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    By Hornets3, Sep 26, 2009
    Ted explains to his future children that being in the right place at the right time can have a massive impact on a person's future, and that the universe tends to have a way of pushing a person toward their destiny. He presents an example where seemingly unimportant and unrelated occurrences in Robin, Marshall and Barney's lives lead him to an unexpected encounter with Stella, which sets him on the path to meeting his children's mother. Meanwhile, Robin suffers through a bout of food poisoning, Marshall deals with an addiction to graphs and charts and Barney celebrates his 200th female conquest.moreless
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    • Marshall's ranking of Presidents by how dirty their names sound: 1. Johnson 2. Bush 3. Harding 4. Polk 5. Filmore 6. Pierce 7. LBJ 8. Hoover 9. Bush 10. Clinton

    • This episode contradicts earlier established continuity that Barney didn't become obsessed with sexual conquests until after his hippie phase working at a coffee shop, where his girlfriend was stolen from him as they were preparing to go on a Peace Corps mission.

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    • Marshall: What the hell happened to my charts?! Ted: We threw them away. That's how an intervention works. You wouldn't stop using, so we flushed your stash. Marshall: Come on, Ted! I need my charts! Just for today and then I promise I will never use charts again, I'm under a lot of pressure here, I need my charts, Jack! Ted: Oh, God. You're doing charts at work?

    • Marshall: (sees the intervention banner) What's going on? Robin: Enough with the charts. Barney: And the graphs. Ted: Really any visual representation of data. Marshall: I'm not an idiot. I know how you guys feel about my charts and my graphs. As a matter of fact, I made a chart of your reactions to my charts. (pulls out a chart) Let's take a look. It's true, since Cecilia your interest has been steadily dropping. But based on recent trends, I have also made a projection chart! And look, HUGE spike in interest coming! And this isn't some dead cat bounce. This is big sustainable growth over the long term! Barney: You're a big sustainable growth.

    • Barney: Marshall, you know how important this is to me. Do you think Lily would ever consider, I would do all the work— Marshall: I would end your life. Barney: Right.

    • Barney: Petra will be, if all goes well, wait for it, my 200th! Sorry, I couldn't wait, I'm too excited. Ted: 200th, as in 'sex with'? Barney: As in 'sex with'! I request the highest of fives! Ted: Not if I was wearing a HazMat suit.

    • Robin: It's food poisoning. I got food from this place, and three hours later I was spewing like an open hydrant. Ted: From where? Robin: Well, that's a gross question.

    • Future Ted: The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do. They'll also be the things that happen to you. Now, I'm not saying you can't take action to affect the outcome of your life. You have to take action. And you will! But never forget, that on any day, you could step out the front door, and your whole life could change forever. You see the universe has a plan kids; and that plan is always in motion. A butterfly flaps it's wings, and it starts to rain. It's a scary thought, but it's also kind of wonderful. All these little parts of the machine constantly working, making sure that you end up exactly where you're supposed to be, exactly when you're supposed to be there. The right place. At the right time.

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    • Marshall's Venn diagram, depicting the intersection of "People Who Are Breaking My Heart" and "People Who Are Shaking My Confidence Daily" to be "Cecilia", is derived from the lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 song, "Cecilia".

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