OK let’s go straight to the CONS
We hate the running joke on elderly people. We didn’t think it was funny. Not one shred of laughter, not even a hiccup, was elicited. It was not to say that the jokes were disrespectful, because, it is just a sitcom anyway, but the idea they were honing around old people and selling that idea to us as something funny; we didn’t buy it. We thought it was a desperate attempt at comedy. The comparison to zombies and that Mandy Patikin reference didn’t appear funny to us.
The PROS
The cliffhanger ending was just superb. We have seen HIMYM does cliffhanger endings, and even cliffhanger season enders, but not to this degree of anticipation and the feeling of being left hanging. At first, we thought that the Waldo outfit was too much. But it did work for Mosby. As the show centered around Barney and Robin’s romances, the Mosby in us still longed for that Ted Mosby moment. There hasn’t been enough Ted moment in the last few episodes of the series. Many times they showcased Marshall and Lily, Barney and Robin, actual conflicts and things that happen between the two couples. And Ted stands silently at the background, bit much like a supporting player in a show where his future self is the narrator. We’re hoping that this episode would kick it in and put the spotlight back to Ted
VERDICT: 8 out of 10 rating on the Likely to be Remembered scale
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