How I Met Your Mother: 10 Most Adorable Marshall And Lily Moments

For a show that ended in 2014, it’s sad to say that How I Met Your Mother hasn’t aged particularly well. Whilst the show is still worthy Netflix comfort viewing, like many sitcoms of the time its “Drunk Chick” patter and overtly white casting seems increasingly of an era gone by.

But behind these missteps was a show that despite inherent similarities to Seinfeld and Friends, was written with real heart and a premise that was genuinely original.

And whilst the centre of the show is obviously the hapless romantic Ted on his search for the eponymous mother, arguably the true love story of the much-loved show was that of the long-time “Couple of Couples” Marshall and Lily.

Lovable lawyer/buffoon Marshall and scheming yet well-meaning Lily are a couple so intertwined and “couply” that where Lily ends and Marshall begins is genuinely unclear.

Along the way, the pair shared several truly adorable moments whilst Ted was off not finding the one somewhere in Manhattan. They are truly the mother of all couples.

There are few similarities between How I Met Your Mother and the Oscar nominated film Inception. But one tenuous similarity is the story of how Marshall and Lily met within the story of how Ted met the eponymous Mother. A story within a story.

And like all good “how they met” stories, theirs has been crafted and rehearsed through endless retellings, to the point of it being essentially scripted line by line.

In a Wesleyan corridor Lily gravitated towards Marshall’s room to help fix her stereo, with seemingly fate being her only rationale for choosing Room 110.

Although the story is cute, it is the way the pair regale it with such a sense of fondness and cosmic inevitability that makes it quite so ‘Marshall and Lily’.

The episode ‘How I Met Everyone Else’ is the best way to learn how the infamous duo met one another.