After many months, I have finally completed my current (and likely not last) rewatching of How I Met Your Mother. It's seriously amazing. And why you may ask did I decide to rewatch HIMYM? Well, in my close friend group, we each have our respective character that we relate to. It's eery how similar our group is sometimes, and funny how we use instances in the show to explain our real life times. I, of course, am the girl-Ted of the group. I am also sometimes referred to as girl-Ted every so sweetly by my BFF.
I relate to Ted a lot. And I am sure it didn't help when I read this article that just confirms that I have commonality with Ted. So, I found myself feeling both miserable and motivated about my love life, and needed some Teddy to help. He's like a spirit animal, one might say. "But wait!" you may ask yourself. "Elaborate more on this 'love life' you fail to mention." To which I will reply, I don't talk about my love life, for the same reasons I don't talk about my cat, my Ferrari, or my time as an ammeter horse racer - because no of those things actually exist!
On April 16th John Oliver referenced Ted in one of his jokes, only said Ted was so boring he didn't even have a name! And I have a coworker who insists on telling me he hates Ted Mosby every time I reference HIMYM. Maybe I'm offended because I relate a lot to Ted, and if people hate him, they might hate me too? Wait, no. It's because I love Ted Mosby as a character, and anyone with an opposite opinion can bite me!
Rewatching the show really makes me think of a comment my BFF said, about Ted actually being kind of a douche sometimes. And with that I totally agree. Because here's the reality of life - all men are douche bags sometimes. There are things that they do that drive us crazy! Mostly these things are because men don't think. It sometimes comes down to how much douche baggery can one handle. But I also don't think it's fair to count Ted's amount of douche baggery the same amount as you would a real life guy. Because let's be real - real life people don't have enough things happening in their lives to make 24 20-minutes episodes of entertainment. Sure, people may do interesting things, and live enjoyable lives, but not enough of it would be entertaining for other people to sit down and watch. So, I am sure TV shows fill character's lived with at least 4-5 times as much goings on as the average person experiences. So in reality, if Ted were a real person, he'd only experience a most 1/4 - 1/5 of everything in the show. I'm using real math, that's 83% accurate.
Some people think Ted is boring. I think Ted is adorable. I also think I'm adorable. Maybe too many people are too cynical. Or maybe I am too much of a hopeless romantic. Who knows. But I do know I like listening to all of Ted's speeches about love and the Universe and everything. I like that Ted likes to talk about wines, and poems. I like that he wants to tell people all about the interesting building facts he knows about architecture, or stops at those points of interest places. I particularly love the part in one of the last episodes where he read a huge book about Teddy Roosevelt and was just super into Teddy facts. Because Teddy Roosevelt is freaking awesome! I like how Ted can be sophisticated and thoughtful, and then watch something like Star Wars and robots versus wrestlers. But then I think it's because I relate to all of those things. If you've seen my book shelf, I have a hearty mix of some seriously deep thinking books, plus some not so deep thinking stuff. And I love Star Wars. Side note - I love the Stella watches Star Wars part, @ 4:00 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icl9uIyhSVc. But seriously, don't ever lie about not liking Star Wars. I don't care how much you care - that's an unforgivable lie! I mean, I don't know if I can like YOU, if you don't like Star Wars, but I also don't like liars.
And let's talk about hair. I just had a conversation yesterday where my cousin mentioned she likes bald guys. Sorry, I don't. I like guys with nice, expressive hair. And I know that Ted takes forever to make his hair look like he didn't do anything, but I like it. There's something about a guy with awesome hair that just makes me want to run my fingers through it. Some other great TV characters with nice hair - The Doctor (#10), Dean Winchester, Johnny Bravo (hahaha). Sam Winchester, not so much - not a fan. I like dude hair that's just long enough to have some extra character, but not so long it starts to just hand there. Sometimes I just want to tell dudes I know in real life to just not cut their hair so much. I go 7 weeks between hair cuts. ;^) And some guys start to look that just extra bit of hot, and then the get a hair cut. Boo!! Not to mention, my little brother has super short hair, but has pretty natural hair than me. That's not fair. And he's hiding those beautiful curls under a buzz cut. I don't mind trading my finicky, frizzy curls for his prettier ones. :^P
Hmmm, I feel like this is part "why I like Ted" and part "I just haven't written anything in awhile, I'm lonely, and I feel like rambling." Just a side note, in case you're losing the central theme to my essay here. Spoiler alert: I don't have one!!
Anyway, let's talk about the one thing the really irritates me to no end about Ted - his never getting over Robin! Ugg!! I swear there were so many times rewatching HIMYM that I had to speak aloud my frustration with "Robin, again?" Because really, they never were going to work. Ted had to met another woman, life out his ideal life of kids and a marriage, and then have his wife die, before he was in a place where he could have the life he really wanted, and date Robin. And okay, I get it. That was the whole intention of the show. And of course it went on for 9 years, which may have surprised them, so they had to keep up the Ted loves Robin thing or the ending wouldn't pay off - not that I think the ending paid off anyway, damn them The Mother killers! But it's less annoying after multiple watches.
I actually like to blame Robin for Ted never getting over her. That's totally fair, I know, right? I mean, she ruined Ted's relationship with Victoria by 1st being there, and then later by being Ted's friend. Yes, sure, Ted totally hooked up with Robin before breaking up with Victoria, and of course Ted refused to not be friends with Robin the second time when he and Victoria got back together. But Robin should have just gone away forever so Ted could be happy. If Ted and Victoria ended up together, he'd still have a wife and mother to his kids (most likely). And they'd all have tasty baked goods. Don't get me wrong, I like Robin as a character, and the character was acted great. I just hate seeing a character I relate to so much do shit that frustrates me because in such a situation I would probably do the same stuff and really hate myself for it. I think I hate it because I get it so much. How you get someone stuck in your head so badly that no matter how much your objective mind will tell you it's never going to work out, and you're just going to feel terrible until you realize it, subjectively you've got this person carved into the inside of your brain and you can't help but just constantly annoy your friends by being an idiot.
And I wonder if we all have a Robin. To which point I would say probably not. I think some people are lucky to where the person etched on the inside of their brain is the person they end up with. And I think some people aren't that emotionally invested (mature, messed up, whatever) to get to that point. Or maybe it's literally just people like Ted who are annoying and whiny, and amazing. Besides, it's much easier for someone like a Robin to just leave and never come back than for someone like a Ted to unstick someone from their brain when that someone won't go away. And I'm really sad that Robin and Kevin didn't work out, because I really like Kal Penn - I'd totally date him or most characters he plays. Side note: I don't know if you know this, but I'm totally on polar opposites when it comes to guys I take notice of - either gingers or dark hair. Blondes and brunettes are fine if they're fine, if you get me ;^). But something about those two extremes stand out. Maybe that's also why I like Ted the most, because Barney and Marshall are blonde and brunette.
Okay, I think I have fulfilled my "write 30 minutes" item on my daily activities check off chart. Maybe one day I'll blog about that! But seeing as how I'm failing miserably at that one - lots of missed days - I don't know if/when that will happen. I should be writing my book instead - so close! But [enter lame excuse here], so that's not happening, although I will force myself to just do it. I helps now that I don't have How I Met Your Mother to rewatch anymore ... until next time.
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