Summary of The Darkest Episode of How I Met Your Mother

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How I Met Your Mother took a dark turn in its episode "The Darkest Episode." In it, Ted is faced with the reality that his friends have all moved on and he is struggling to keep up. The episode is a beautiful but hard-hitting look at the inevitability of life and how we all must move on eventually.

• 00:00:00 In "The Darkest Episode of How I Met Your Mother," Ted decides he would rather go to a more mature party than watch robots vs wrestlers with the gang. However, things eventually return to normal and the gang hangs out at McLaren's bar like usual.
• 00:05:00 In this dark episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted is forced to confront the fact that his life is changing and that his friends have moved on. Ted hallucinates a future version of himself and learns that his relationship with the girl he first met in season one didn't work out. This episode flies in the face of the comfortable feeling you get when watching a sitcom, showing just how desperate Ted is to cling to the past.
• 00:10:00 Ted is struggling with the realization that he is all alone in his present and that the past is no longer relevant. He reflects on how hard it would be to move on, and how the show How I Met Your Mother emphasizes the inevitability of life. This episode is hard to watch, but it is executed beautifully.