Why Ted might be hard to identify with:  He’s whiny, he’s a stick in the mud, he’s kind of dippy. He’s drawn to Barney, who is a racist mis...

Yes, I wrote all these before the finale but I’d do it all over again because I thought the finale was brilliant, heartbreaking, honest TV...

Recently in the comments, we debated whether Ted’s upcoming discovery of the mother would show how much he had changed or merely reward a ...

We’ve talked about how meaning can be expressed through reversible imagery , such as the different uses of the window imagery in Rise of t...

This show has perhaps the most unique point of view in sitcom history. It  began during a brief period in which serialized storytelling a...

So if there are so many things wrong with Ted, why doesn’t the audience reject him right away? Well, let’s look for the moment of humanit...

Deviation : Let’s talk about all the ways that Ted breaks the rules : He’s a stick in the mud , he’s an everyman , he’s not surrounded b...

In the year 2030, an unseen narrator named Ted tells his teen kids about how he met their mother. Cut to 2005, where lovelorn architect Ted...