A Darling is a scene, a character, a line, whatever, that you, as the writer, are completely attached to but it doesn’t actually work.

Ted starts this episode by telling us he had three choices for Christmas: go home to Ohio to spend the holiday with his mom and her new...

This episode is funny and has cute moments, but from fifteen years in the future, a lot of it feels like it’s striking the wrong tone. In...

Ted starts doing shots of something mysterious and then remembers nothing. He wakes up with a pineapple.

A bunch of stuff from this episode comes back around: NYE, Super Bowl, Coat Check Girl...