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

9. Let Marshall and Lily Be Together

To put it rather bluntly, Marshall and Lily are the best TV couple the medium has seen in a long time (sorry, Jim and Pam). Amongst their friends' constant love affairs, mix-ups, and excursions, these two have stood the test of time, but it hasn't always been easy. Lily left in the Season 1 finale for art school, and Marshall's job constantly tore at the seams of the marriage. What was left standing remained the pillar for romance in the HIMYM universe: messy, loving, and hilarious. Therefore, it becomes all the more unfortunate when the favorite pair was completely sidelined during the majority of the ninth season. To be fair, ever since Lily and Marshall had Marvin, their story-lines became increasingly boring and repetitive, but their comic timing and chemistry remained as essential to the show's formula as ever. In the ninth season, Marshall and Lily are forcibly separated and given drummed-up drama in the place of stories. The pregnancy story proved a major letdown in the episode Daisy, and Marshall's job as a judge was too easily resolved. They remain this way even through the finale, where the show continues to focus instead on the single characters' increasingly laborious romantic flirtations. Lily still seized the best running gag of the ninth season (thank you, Linus), and Marshall anchored two solid entertaining episodes, but their presence was sorely missed through the strained ninth season. Instead of focusing exclusively on Ted, Barney, and Robin, the creators should have focused on these two more; there are plenty more stories to find, and none of them involve the bogus pregnancies. Simply add more interactions between these two wonderful characters, and the ending would have been, if not all the way fixed, significantly better.