10 Worst How I Met Your Mother Episodes

10. The Time Travellers

As the highest-rated episode on this list, you might be wondering what I’m talking about with this one. This episode was comical, had a nice song between multiple versions of Ted and Barney, and once again made reference to Robots vs. Wrestlers. It sounds like a good formula for a solid episode, however there’s something about it that leaves a bad taste in the mouths of many.

Audiences enjoy the wacky nature of How I Met Your Mother and can deal with the show bending reality slightly – ‘slightly’ being the optimal word. The idea of time-travel in this show already creates a premise a little too wacky to get behind, but the realisation that Ted is in fact only imagining it all doesn’t soften the blow. In fact, the thought of our main narrator and key protagonist sitting alone in the bar with only his vivid imagination to keep him company is outright depressing.

I get that this is supposed to be a low moment for Ted, realising that nobody has time for him anymore, but in such an upbeat show the audience really didn’t need an entire episode to explain that Ted is lonely. The plot doesn’t progress, and everyone is left with the bitter taste of solitude.