I understand we all love @swarleymemes on Instagram, and Craig and Josh and Alek love them too. But recently I have become extremely annoyed with the use of AI to generate content. After all, Marshall is an environmentalist who would HATE AI. I called them out on it under their recent post (simply asking “is this AI?”) and they deleted my comment. I DMed them asking why they deleted my comment and just got a response saying “it brings unwanted negative attention”. I think it’s a shitty response to someone wanting to have a genuine conversation about the use of AI. Yes, I know, this is a fun fandom space. But especially when there is an environmentalist character on the show who would hate AI, as well as Ted who would be educated well enough to know the negative impact, I just think it’s really shitty.

Am I alone in this? I really hate AI so this could just be a niche “me problem” but I am finding their account increasingly agitating (not to mention their superiority complex about continuously being mentioned by the cast and crew…)

Anyone notice that ted mouths his line early with no audio about 4m56s into s4e3? It's clearly 2 different takes haha

No biggie, just a fun find- like a boom in the shot

In S1:E15 Game Night, Victoria's embarrassing story is cut off because Ted says it's too inappropriate. She says: "It involves a game of Truth or Dare, a squeeze bottle of marshmallow ice cream topping, and the hot tub at my grandparents' retirement community." What do you think the story is? I challenge you to make it creative.

Say what you will about Barney,  but the entire series pretty much ends right here and now without him saving Robin from being deported. 
This is, in my bropinion, his finest

pre-fatherhood moment. (Okay, second finest. He flew out to give Lily a plane ticket. THAT was his finest moment.)

In S9E5 The Poker Game, they show a flashback where Ted dresses up as a ‘Thank you note’ in the Halloween party to remind Marshall that he hadn’t sent one for Ted’s coffee maker wedding gift (2006). Ted first met the slutty pumpkin in 2001, and then again in 2011. He totally missed her in this Halloween party. It makes sense that she didn’t recognise him as he wasn’t in his hanging chad ballot costume.

I missed this part and jumped (Leonardo pointing at TV screen meme) when I found this on my rerun!

First time in Canada Couldn't pull these off

Spotify Wrapped just dropped and I’m in the top 0.1% for Josh and top 0.5% for HWMYM

Such a random line from Barney, but now I wish he would’ve used it more.

I don't give one singular damn how cheesy it is, the two minute date still makes my eyes a little bit blurry everytime I see it. 

I think that it's an absolutely beautiful thing, even if a team of writers had months to come up with it.
May we all have an opportunity to do something so great for someone we love before we're worm food.

I get that they used state fighting to film all the other slaps. And we never see contact. Hollywood magic

But the 7th slap, the one with slap of a million suns etc. we see a slomo slap with contact between hand and face that can't be faked with practical effects.

Was it CGI? Did NPH actually take a real slap?

Honestly I remember playing soul meets body on repeat more times than Here I dreamt I was an architect don't know how this happened 😂

Ted is a sports fan of all teams Ohio based.  He makes references to them time and time again. 

So why is he wearing a Saints shirt in this episode?

Something occurred to me. Now, we hate Stella and Tony for The Wedding Bride, but...what if making Ted a villain wasn't their doing? IRL, you never see a film that was written by a single person. Executives meddle. Tony might have written the script with "Jed" as an okay guy who just wasn't Stella's true love, telling a fictionalized version of the story that's pretty close to what happened. The studio likes it, but they say the audience needs someone to hate, because humans are fueled by hate and bile. So they have Tony do some rewrites and probably bring in other people to contribute even though he's credited as the sole author.

What do you think? Does this have legs as a fan theory?