Throughout nine highly rated seasons of How I Met Your Mother, viewers followed Ted Mosby’s quest for love as he searched New York City high and low for his soulmate. Along the way, he pulled off some really sweet romantic gestures, but he also did some pretty awful things.
In the years since the show went off the air, HIMYM fans have come to realize that Ted isn’t that great. He’s more of a Nice Guy™ than an actual nice guy. But he wasn’t all bad. So, here are the five best and five worst things that Ted Mosby did.
10 Best: Not Giving The Locket To Robin
Robin buried a locket that her father gave her in the park and then couldn’t find it again, so Ted became determined to track it down and give it to her as a wedding gift. The search took him all over the country and, at one point, into a river.
Eventually, though, he decided not to give her the locket, and instead gave her a framed photo of the gang. This marked emotional growth for Ted, as he let go of Robin and accepted that she was marrying Barney.
9 Worst: Encouraging Victoria To Ditch Her Fiancé At The Altar
Remember when Stella left Ted at the altar? He didn’t stop moping about it for years, and continually described it as the most devastating experience of his entire life.
But then, when Victoria came back into his life and showed some semblance of cold feet about her upcoming wedding, he didn’t hesitate to encourage her to do the same and ditch her fiancé at the altar to run away with him and have another go at their already-failed relationship.
8 Best: Accepting Stella’s Decision To Leave Him At The Altar
After Ted was left at the altar, he wasn’t particularly mad, and his friends thought that was weird. When Stella came into a restaurant where they were dining to pick up takeout, they decided to follow her so that Ted could air his grievances.
Ted became particularly furious when he learned that Stella moved to New York for Tony (after refusing to do the same for him), but decided to accept her decision and keep his cool when he saw how happy Stella and Lucy were.
7 Worst: Breaking Up With Natalie By Voicemail On Her Birthday
For a guy who claims to be a hopeless romantic and believes that he deserves to find the perfect union, Ted can be pretty terrible at navigating relationships. When he broke up with Natalie, he did two things horrendously wrong.
He broke up with her on her birthday (and later did it again), and not only that, he did it by voicemail. And all her friends and family were in her apartment, listening to the message, waiting to surprise her with a party.
6 Best: Putting On A Christmas Light Show For Robin
When Robin is facing a Christmas alone in season 7’s “Symphony of Illumination,” Ted decides to cancel his trip home to Cleveland in order to give her an awesome Christmas.
She comes up to their apartment and Ted treats her to a spectacular light show set to the sounds of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.”
5 Worst: Telling Robin To Get Rid Of Her Dogs
When Robin found out that half the things in Ted’s apartment were given to him by ex-girlfriends, she politely asked him to get rid of them. And he refused to do so.
But when he found out that ex-boyfriends gave Robin her dogs — living, sentient beings, totally different from inanimate objects — he wanted her to get rid of them. And she did!
4 Best: Sitting At Tracy’s Side In The Hospital
The poorly paced final episodes of How I Met Your Mother made Ted’s relationship with Tracy feel like an afterthought, as the finale brushed over her death and hammered home that Ted’s true love was always Robin.
But Ted and Tracy were genuinely in love. What viewers see in the finale is a montage of Ted and Tracy’s sweetest moments, including Ted sitting at Tracy’s side in the hospital, reading with her.
3 Worst: Telling His Kids About Their Dead Mother To Get A Pass To Pursue Robin
At the end of nine long years, fans of a show called How I Met Your Mother finally got to see how the narrating protagonist met his kids’ mother. Fans had to sit through a lot of different morals that Ted drew from the story of how he met his wife.
And at the end of it all, the audience discovered that the titular mother was dead all along, and Ted was only telling his kids this story so that they’d give him permission to date their Aunt Robin.
2 Best: Stealing The Blue French Horn
Ted wasn't always a great human being, but he could always be counted on for a sweeping romantic gesture. This is the kind of gesture that offsets real problems until they become too much, but that’s a future problem.
The defining romantic gesture from Ted’s on-and-off relationship with Robin — and, based on its reappearance in the last scene of the series finale, the defining moment of the entire show — is Ted’s theft of the blue French horn.
1 Worst: Cheating On Victoria With Robin
When Victoria was offered a huge career opportunity in Germany, she thought the best course would be to just break up with Ted. But he convinced her to give long distance a try — only to cheat on her with Robin
It was later revealed that Victoria had already started cheating on Ted before he came clean and they broke up, but it still doesn’t excuse Ted’s own infidelity.
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June 30, 2020 at 05:30AM
