How I Met Your Mother: 10 Simple Fixes That Would Have Saved The Ending

2. That Talk Erased

Oh, the good old talk. The framing device for How I Met Your Mother seemed to disappear as the years went on, but the kids were always there, listening to Dad's decade-spanning epic that really wasn't about their mother at all. Those poor kids. Regardless, some background is necessary. The final talk was filmed in secret during Season 2, when the kids, played by David Henrie and Lindsay Fonseca, were still, in fact, kids. This ending, therefore, of the Mother dying, and the kids accepting of it and encouraging Ted to date their Aunt Robin, has existed for seven years. This has been the plan from the beginning. But what can be easier than to simply press "delete"? This entire talk is pretty embarrassingly edited, just due to differing video formats and the rather shaky sight lines of the characters. The whole talk seems rather... forced, which seems odd for a video filmed several years ago. However, the fact that Ted's kids are encouraging him to move on from his dead wife, their mother, seems intensely implausible, even in a show full of flights of logic and fantasy. Heck, even a dance number with suits seems more plausible at this point. The deed is simple. Erase the talk. You don't need a shot with Ted and Tracy old with the kids; you just need closure and plausibility.