HIMYF Already Addressed HIMYM’s Biggest Controversies

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Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father episode 2.

In How I Met Your Father episodes 1 and 2, the new show has already addressed several of the How I Met Your Mother controversies in a way that suggests they’ll avoid repeating them. The How I Met Your Father is long-awaited, coming 8 years after How I Met Your Mother finished. While the new series has some big shoes to fill, it also needs to work to fix some major problems from the original show.

While How I Met Your Mother developed and kept a devout following, it was not without its controversies. For many, the most memorable controversy was related to the highly divisive series finale that came after 9 seasons. However, the show was criticized for some of its choices as it aired, and more issues with the original series have become more widely acknowledged in the years since it concluded.

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In only two episodes, How I Met Your Father has at nodded to several of the issues that the original show was criticized for. These acknowledgments either take steps to directly repair the problem or at least serve to show that they recognize that it was a problematic part of How I Met Your Mother. With luck, this is a signal that How I Met Your Father will not repeat the past controversies in 2022 and beyond.

In the How I Met Your Mother season 4 episode “The Naked Man,” a man named Mitch performs a trick where he undresses while his date is distracted in the hope that they will be shocked into sex with him or have sex with him out of pity. Barney marvels at the move and Robin, Lily, Barney, and Ted all try the move themselves before the episode is over. The movie is played for laughs, but it is rooted in