How I Met Your Mother

"The Wedding Bride" is surprisingly a fun How I Met Your Mother episode. I actually love how Tony made a movie called "The Wedding Bride" and it portrays Ted to be a jerk. I love how this episode was about baggage. And part of Ted's baggage is this movie. I love how he meets Royce and she seems to be perfect. I love the end of this episode when she reveals all her baggage. I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Finally, an episode of How I Met Your Mother that I did not absolutely hate; it has been years since I have been able to say that. The show is still not funny, and when you are on the same night as Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory people are going to notice it, but at least I chuckled a couple of times here (mainly when Ted noticed they used his real name in the movie a couple of times.)



I have zero interest in the season finale which, judging from the title, will most likely land us the final doppleganger. That's at the top of my stupid story arcs list.

This episode was primarily about how after a certain age, everyone has emotional baggage. Ted was so worried about what his new girlfriend's baggage was that he forgot that he is carrying some himself, and that doesn't include that in the future he tells long boring stories to his kids that are supposed to be how he met their mother, but never gets to the point.



So, Ted and his girlfriend go to a movie, "The Wedding Bride", which turns out to be about Stella dumping Ted at the alter, except the movie is written to make Ted the bad guy in the whole incident. The movie is very popular, and just days after its release is the 5th highest grossing movie of all time.



What the writers completely ignore is that in real life, Ted would have been able to sue the writer and studio for major bucks. Not only was his name barely changed ("Ted" became "Jed"), but at least twice the Ted character is actually called Ted Moseby. IANAL, but it seems to me that Ted would be able to sue for invasion of privacy, libel, and being held up to public ridicule. At a trial, if the defendants were stupid enough to let it go that far, a jury would be likely to award Ted a major percentage of the movie's gross, and he would be a very rich man.



The fact that the writers did not even address the issue of Ted suing is a fatal flaw in this episode for me.

A good concept, which How I Met Your Mother always tends to bring to it's audience. An enticing concept, it's where they take the concept that really matters though. Which seems to be the problem in some cases. This was a good episode, that brought some flashes from the past regarding Stella. The continuity was also good, since last season, Ted said that in May 2010, Tony was going to make the movie: "The Wedding Bride." And look, here it is. Royce annoyed me for some reason, but she fit in nicely to this episode. The fact that everyone like a horrendous movie like the one they showed in this episode was ridiculous, which I guess was the joke. It just didn't seem believable that everyone liked that movie. Barney shined in this episode, he was probably the funniest. Marshall, Lilly, and Robin were all in the sidelines as they talk about baggage. The last scene was amazing, with everyone having their own baggage. And after winning Royce back, Ted realizes she has a whole lot of baggage, it made it seem like the whole "trying to win her back" seemed pointless which is another flaw in this episode. Sure, I can find a couple flaws, but this epsiode was entertaining which is what made this episode good.

This is a great episode, and this is the kind of episode that we are all waiting for. Funny, clever and subtle. I like it when they literally show the "baggage" and have those large prints on it, brilliant idea. This episode made a large amount of references to all the previous sessions and episodes e.g. the red cowboy boot, butterfly tattoo, the goat...etc. I like how Barney say "Kiss" when he was actually saying "Fxxk", reminds me of the episode whereby they rephrase the line from lethal weapon saying "i'm too old for this *stuff*"(he did not say stuff)...



I reakon all the best episode in this season, like Robin 101, the Playbook ...etc are written by Carter Bays and Criag Thomas. They should fire all the other writers and gave them the episodes to write.



If you are a big fan of HIMYM, you would like this episode.

This was a very funny episode of How I Met Your Mother, with an interesting storyline and an amazing amount of laughs.



The episode itself was a bit of a pointless one, but a great comedy, nevertheless. I loved the idea that a movie was made about Ted Mosby (or "Jed Mosly"). That was really funny, and the movie itself was hilarious, with the parts that we saw!



Really a great concept, and a full ten out of ten for the writes who came up with this one. Congrats, but I hope that this type and calibre of episode will be more common within the next season! Keep it up!